"Anaeis Nin's Ladders to Fire interweaves the stories of several women, each emotionally inhibited in her own way: through self-doubt, fear, guilt, moral drift, and distrust. The novel follows their i
Despite his military achievements and his association with many of the great names of American history, Godfrey Weitzel (18351884) is perhaps the least known of all the Union generals. After graduatin
In the medieval period, as in the media culture of the present, learned and popular forms of talk were intermingled everywhere. They were also highly mobile, circulating in speech, writing, and symbol
Follows CIA operative Lucius Burling from 1979 Kabul, Afghanistan to the streets of Shanghai, China months after 9/11, intertwining Burling's life with global politics and military history.
Could Marie Antoinette’s wigs get any higher? Could the anonymous women riding in hot air balloons alone with gentlemen be any more scandalous? Does an Ozark holler hold the mouth to a lost cave with
In 1919 a middle-aged Chicago advertising writer from Ohio, a failure as a businessman, husband, and father, published a small yellow book of short stories intended to “reform” American literature. Ag
Trampoline, a debut novel by Robert Gipe, is set in the coalfields of Kentucky. Its narrator is Dawn Jewell, a teenager who recounts the turbulent time when her grandmother Cora led her into a fight t
Marian Alexander Spencer was born in 1920 in the Ohio River town of Gallipolis, Ohio, one year after the Red Summer” of 1919 that saw an upsurge in race riots and lynchings. Following the example of h
Florence S. Boos’s History and Poetics in the Early Writings of William Morris, 1855–1870examines Morris’s literary development in the context of his Victorian contemporaries, probing the cross-influe
Brings together empirical studies of the internal cohesiveness of political party groups in European parliaments and the leadership behavior that leads to disciplined parties in parliament, in section
"This is not a history book. Rather it is a directory of towns, and compilation of known information about those towns. In undertaking the stud, I was amazed at the amount of legend and contradictory
Many of the stories in John J. Clayton's Radiance are specifically Jewish, either in family background or religious vision, or both. They are stories of fathers and sons, parents and children, husband
Roorbach (English, The Ohio State University) tells of his courtship and marriage to Juliet, and describes their vacations together in sublime settings across North America. He chronicles not only the
The Cleveland Indians of 1928 were a far cry from the championship team of 1920. They had begun the decade as the best team in all of baseball, but over the following eight years, their owner died, th
Before the era of fake news and anti-fascists, William S. Burroughs wrote about preparing for revolution and confronting institutionalized power. In this work, Burroughs’ parody becomes a set of
