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The University of Georgia Press Upheaval in Charleston Earthquake and Murder on the Eve of Jim Crow
A gripping account of natural disaster and turbulent social change in a city known as the cradle of secession. Weaving together the emotionally charged stories of Confederate veterans and former slaves, Williams and Hoffius portray a South where whites and blacks struggle to determine how they will coexist.
£26.96
The University of Georgia Press Cornbread Nation Vol 6 The Best of Southern Food Writing Friends Fund Publication 06 Cornbread Nation Best of Southern Food Writing
The hungrily awaited sixth volume in the Cornbread Nation series tells the story of the American South - through the prism of its food and the people who grow, make, serve, and eat it. Southern food shows an open and cosmopolitan attitude toward ethnic diversity. But fully appreciating Southern food still requires fluency with the region’s history, warts and all. The essays, memoirs, poetry, and profiles in this book are informed by that fluency.
£25.16
The University of Georgia Press Walking the Wrack Line On Tidal Shifts and What Remains
Contains writing on beaches of several locations. Each chapter of this book starts with attention to an object - a shell fragment of a pelican egg, or perhaps a jellyfish - and then widens into larger concerns: the persistence of habits, desire, disappointments, the lie of the perfectly preserved, the pleasures of aversions, and, transformations.
£22.95
Bucknell University Press Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson
As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From its inception, Hawkins’s work, arising from a close relationship with Johnson that spanned over forty-five years, challenged certain adulatory views of Johnson and has continued to raise interesting critical questions about both Johnsonian biography and the genre of biography generally. Reconsidering Biography collects new essays that explore Hawkins’s biography of Johnson within its historical, political, legal, and personal contexts. More particularly, this volume considers how Hawkins’s approach to recording the Life of Johnson opens up broader questions about early modern biography and its relationship with eighteenth-century trends in aesthetics, politics, and historiography. These sophisticated and informed essays on a curious and often vexed friendship, and its literary offspring, supply a colorful and expansive view of the role of life-writing in the eighteenth-century literary imagination.
£77.00
