The Dirty South examines the shifting significances of the South as a constructed, fantasized region in the American psyche, particularly its frequent association with tropes of dirt that emphasize...
The Antebellum South's Love-Hate Affair with New York City
by Ritchie Devon Watson, Jr.
Series edited by Scott Romine
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CA$60.95
ISBN: 9780807179338
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: LSU Press
Focusing on the crucial period of 1820 to 1860, Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster examines the strong economic bonds between the antebellum plantation South and the burgeoning city of New York that...
In Ruin and Resilience, Daniel Spoth confronts why the environmental stories told about the U.S. South curve inevitably toward distressing plotlines. Examining more than a dozen works of postbellum...
Faulknerista collects more than twenty years of critically influential scholarship by Catherine Gunther Kodat on the writings of one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century,...
Faulknerista collects more than twenty years of critically influential scholarship by Catherine Gunther Kodat on the writings of one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century,...
Edited by Katharine A. Burnett, and Monica Carol Miller
Series edited by Scott Romine
Foreword by Charles Reagan Wilson
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CA$121.95
ISBN: 9780807177341
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: LSU Press
As a way to comment on a person?s style or taste, the word ?tacky? has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called ?tackies? who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior...
Edited by Katharine A. Burnett, and Monica Carol Miller
Series edited by Scott Romine
Foreword by Charles Reagan Wilson
Price:
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780807177891
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: LSU Press
As a way to comment on a person?s style or taste, the word ?tacky? has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called ?tackies? who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior...
Edited by Gina Caison, Lisa Hinrichsen, and Stephanie Rountree
Series edited by Scott Romine
Contributions by Alexandra Chiasson, David A. Davis, Leigh H. Edwards, Paul Fess, Sherita L. Johnson, Jennie Lightweis-Goff, Sam McCracken, Margaret T. McGehee, Jean-Luc Pierite, Jae Sharpe, and Austin Svedjan
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CA$121.95
ISBN: 9780807175798
Pub Date: December 2021
Imprint: LSU Press
Rather than a media history of the region or a history of southern media, Remediating Region: New Media and the U.S. South formulates a critical methodology for studying the continuous reinventions...
Edited by Gina Caison, Lisa Hinrichsen, and Stephanie Rountree
Series edited by Scott Romine
Contributions by Alexandra Chiasson, David A. Davis, Leigh H. Edwards, Paul Fess, Sherita L. Johnson, Jennie Lightweis-Goff, Sam McCracken, Margaret T. McGehee, Jean-Luc Pierite, Jae Sharpe, and Austin Svedjan
Price:
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780807176641
Pub Date: December 2021
Imprint: LSU Press
Rather than a media history of the region or a history of southern media, Remediating Region: New Media and the U.S. South formulates a critical methodology for studying the continuous reinventions...
Barry Hannah and the Challenges of Southern Studies
by Clare Chadd
Series edited by Scott Romine
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CA$67.95
ISBN: 9780807174937
Pub Date: July 2021
Imprint: LSU Press
Drawing from recent debates about the validity of regional studies and skepticism surrounding the efficacy of the concept of authenticity, Clare Chadd?s Postregional Fictions focuses on questions of...
Intertextuality in the Civil War Diaries of White Southern Women
by Julia Nitz
Series edited by Scott Romine
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CA$74.95
ISBN: 9780807173725
Pub Date: November 2020
Imprint: LSU Press
In Belles and Poets, Julia Nitz analyzes the Civil War diary writing of eight white women from the U.S. South, focusing specifically on how they made sense of the world around them through references...
In Southern Hyperboles: Metafigurative Strategies of Narration, Micha? Choi?ski confronts the often paradoxical and excessive elements of southern literature, focusing on dominant narrative modes and...
Contributions by Alison Arant, John Stromski, Susan Zieger, Cara Koehler, Matthew Sutton, Caleb Doan, J. Gerald Kennedy, Katharine A. Burnett, Zackary Vernon, Monica Carol Miller, Ellen Lansky, David A. Davis, Jenna Sciuto, Christopher Rieger, Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield, Robert Rea, Hannah C. Griggs, and Jennie Lightweis-Goff
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CA$74.95
ISBN: 9780807171738
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: LSU Press
Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard-drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the U.S. South....
Edited by Kirstin L. Squint, Eric Gary Anderson, Taylor Hagood, and Anthony Wilson
Series edited by Scott Romine
Contributions by Keely Byars-Nichols, William Tynes Cowan, Rain Prud'homme-Cranford, Josh-Wade Ferguson, Hannah Godwin, Peter Jay Ingrao, Joseph Kuhn, Lauren E. LaFauci, John Wharton Lowe, Rebecca Mark, Jessica Martell, Matthew E. Suazo, Matthew Sutton, Susan Thananopavarn, Mitch Therieau, and Zackary Vernon
Price:
CA$74.95
ISBN: 9780807172384
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: LSU Press
Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies expands the geographical scope of scholarship about southern swamps. Although the physical environments that form its central subjects are scattered throughout...
Mark Twain?s visions of the Mississippi River offer some of the most indelible images in American literature: Huck and Jim floating downstream on their raft, Tom Sawyer and friends becoming pirates...
Contributions by Megan Abbott, Jacob Agner, Ace Atkins, R. Bruce Brasell, Phoebe Bronstein, Gina Caison, Claire Cothren, Dominiqua Dickey, Leigh Anne Duck, Greg Herren, Bob Hodges, Suzanne Leonard, Sarah Leventer, Kristopher Mecholsky, Yajaira M. Padilla, Jacqueline Pinkowitz, Harriet Pollack, Riche Richardson, Zackary Vernon, and Randall Wilhelm
Price:
CA$81.95
ISBN: 9780807171653
Pub Date: October 2019
Imprint: LSU Press
Detecting the South in Fiction, Film, & Television, edited by Deborah E. Barker and Theresa Starkey, examines the often-overlooked and undervalued impact of the U.S. South on the origins and development...
