Books published by West Virginia University Press

Includes twenty-four essays, including a preface, introduction, afterword, and sections containing seminal methodological pieces by such giants as Edward Said and Michel Foucault, as well as contemporary applications to Beowulf and other Old English and Germanic texts focusing on historicism, psychoanalysis, gender, textuality, and post-colonialism.

In Afflicting the Comfortable, Thomas Stafford relates tales of the responsibility of journalism and politics in coordination with scandals that have unsettled the West Virginia over the past few decades. His probing would take him from the halls of Charleston to the centre of the US's ruling elite.

Intertwines literature, agriculture, and ecology as author Jim Minick takes the reader on many journeys, allowing you to float on a pond, fly with a titmouse, gather ginseng, and grow the lowly potato. Using his background as a blueberry farmer, gardener and naturalist, Minick explores the Appalachian region.

Shows how the excesses of the Gilded Age and the latitude accorded industrialists of the time created an impact on the fragile economy of West Virginia that accounts for much of the political and economic landscape of the modern state. Gracefully written and thoroughly researched, West Virginia and the Captains of Industry is a classic work of West Virginia history.

Ths is the third and final volume of an ambitious research initiative begun in 1999 concerned with the image of the cross, showing how its very material form cuts across both the culture of a society and the boundaries of academic disciplines - history, archaeology, art history, literature, philosophy, and religion - providing vital insights into how symbols function within society.

In the third and final part of the Crum Trilogy, Jesse Stone once again embarks upon his constant search for a place in the world. Full of intense violence and cutting humour, this tale is the culminating confession of a young man who has wandered from a small town in West Virginia and back again in the hopes of finding his home.