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Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia by University of Virginia Press 9780371740101
Booksplease Price: $22.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371740101Author University of Virginia PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint HardPress... -
Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture by Jan Lewis
Booksplease Price: $38.30A discussion of the probability (shown by DNA tests) that Thomas Jefferson was the father of his slave Sally Hemings's children. The essays reflect the deeper questions the relationship between... -
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings: An American Controversy by Annette Gordon-Reed 9780813918334
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Among all aspects... -
Nedjma by Kateb Yacine 9780813913131
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $30.95Nedjma is a masterpiece of North African writing. Its intricate plot involves four men in love with the beautiful woman whose name serves as the title of the novel. Nedjma is the central figure of... -
Interracialism and Christian Community in the Postwar South: The Story of Koinonia Farm by Tracy Elaine K'Meyer 9780813920023
Booksplease Price: $42.27A portrait of Koinonia Farm, an interracial Christian co-operative founded in 1942 by two white Baptist ministers in southwest Georgia. Based on over 50 interviews with current and former Koinonia... -
The Papers of George Washington Confederation Series, v.5;Confederation Series, v.5 by George Washington 9780813916729
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $96.84Covering the first half of 1790, this volume focuses upon Washington's continued concentration on the problems facing the new government. The president's near-fatal illness in May 1790 is described... -
The Best Read Naturalist: Nature Writins of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Michael P. Branch 9780813939520
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.28Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in American nature writing, yet until now readers have had no book devoted to this central theme in his work. The Best Read Naturalist fills... -
Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work by Linda K. Hughes 9780813918754
Booksplease Price: $77.43For much of her own century, Elizabeth Gaskell was recognized as a voice of Victorian convention - the loyal wife, good mother, and respected writer - a reputation that led to her steady decline in... -
The Modern Androgyne Imagination: A Failed Sublime by Lisa Rado 9780813919805
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23Faced with the failure of the romantic muse and the other two-sex tropes for the imagination, writers such as James Joyce, William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf became attracted to a culturally... -
The Illiberal Imagination: Class and the Rise of the U.S. Novel by Joe Shapiro 9780813940502
Booksplease Price: $97.16The Illiberal Imagination offers a synthetic, historical formalist account of how-and to what end-U.S. novels from the late eighteenth century to the mid-1850s represented economic inequality and... -
The Weaker Sex in War: Gender and Nationalism in Civil War Virginia by Kristen Brill 9780813947716
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $63.56With The Weaker Sex in War, Kristen Brill shows how white women's wartime experiences shaped Confederate political culture-and the ways in which Confederate political culture shaped their wartime... -
Do Not Separate Her from Her Garden: Anne Spencer's Ecopoetics by Carlyn Ena Ferrari 9780813948768
RRP: $92.88Booksplease Price: $81.79Anne Spencer's identity as an artist grew from her relationship to the natural world. During the New Negro Renaissance with which she is primarily associated, critics dismissed her writings on nature... -
Orienting Virtue: Civic Identity and Orientalism in Britain's Global Eighteenth Century by Bethany Williamson 9780813947600
RRP: $98.04Booksplease Price: $79.68What does it mean for a nation and its citizens to be virtuous? The term "virtue" is ubiquitous in eighteenth-century British literature, but its definition is more often assumed than... -
The Significance of Territory by Jean Gottmann 9780813904139
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $58.51The elusive nature of the concept of territory is broken down here, and the term's significance reassessed. In his analysis of Western concepts and history, Gottmann closely examines the concept of... -
Beauty: The Value of Values by Frederick Turner 9780813913575
Booksplease Price: $65.43In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Frederick Turner presents a new theory of aesthetics based on the argument that beauty is an objective reality in the universe. He identifies the... -
Reflections of Loko Miwa: A Novel by Lilas Desquiron 9780813917535
Booksplease Price: $32.59Haiti's complex social and political situation is the setting for this story of two women ordained by the spirits of Vodou to be ""marasa"" (twins) in spite of their birth into unrelated families of... -
The Golden Avant-garde: Idolatry, Commercialism and Art by Raphael Sassower 9780813919355
Booksplease Price: $51.47Since the eighteenth century, artists--especially so-called avant-garde artists--have played a conflicting role in society. Part of the reason for their complex position, argue Raphael Sassower and... -
Prodigy Houses of Virginia: Architecture and the Native Elite by Barbara Burlison Mooney 9780813926780
Booksplease Price: $51.47Border Fictions offers the first comparative analysis of multiethnic and transnational cultural representations about the United States' borders with Mexico and Canada. Blending textual analysis with... -
The Illusory Boundary: Environment and Technology in History by Martin Reuss 9780813929897
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813929897Author Martin ReussFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint University of Virginia... -
Staging Creolization: Women's Theatre and Performance frm the French Caribbean by Emily Sahakian 9780813940076
Booksplease Price: $97.16In Staging Creolization, Emily Sahakian examines seven plays by Ina Cesaire, Maryse Conde, Gerty Dambury, and Simone Schwarz-Bart that premiered in the French Caribbean or in France in the 1980s and... -
Indians in Seventeenth-century Virginia by Ben C. McCary 9780813901428
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813901428Author Ben C. McCaryFormat PaperbackPage Count 93Imprint University of Virginia... -
The Blood of Paradise by Stephen Goodwin 9780813918778
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.50Stephen Goodwin's second novel is an emblematic tale of the sixties, of a sophisticated couple going back to the land. The restlessness that compels Anna and Steadman to move from the city to a small... -
Hope Without Optimism by Terry Eagleton 9780813947280
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813947280Author Terry EagletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint University of Virginia... -
50 Poems from Emerging Writers by Mary Szybist 9780997562309
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.67Entering its eleventh year, Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of its kind, this annual... -
Fishing the Shenandoah Valley: An Angler's Guide by M. W. Smith 9780813922966
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.75The Shenandoah Valley is famous for its role in Civil War history and for its great natural beauty. But there is something else: it is a tremendous place to fish. Fishing the Shenandoah Valley: An... -
The Letters of Christina Rossetti v. 4; 1887-1894 by Christina G. Rossetti 9780813922959
RRP: $95.46Booksplease Price: $78.70Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) has come to be considered one of the major poets - not just one of the major women poets - of the Victorian era, eclipsing her famous brother. Leading critics have... -
Negotiated Authorities: Essays in Colonial, Political and Constitutional History by Jack P. Greene 9780813915173
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.67These essays, drawn from the author's work since 1964, address three themes in American history in the century preceding the 1760s: authority in colonial British America; the political and... -
Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture by Robin Blaetz 9780813920757
Booksplease Price: $103.41Representations of Joan of Arc have been used in the United States for the past 200 years, appearing in advertizing, cartoons, popular song, art, criticism and propaganda. The presence of the... -
The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series, Volume 9: 1 February-30 June 1805 by Mary A. Hackett 9780813930985
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $96.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813930985Author Mary A. HackettFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint University of Virginia... -
The Papers of James Madison v. 2; 1 August 1801-28 February 1802: Secretary of State Series by James Madison 9780813914039
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $96.84This volume covers developments in Europe that greatly affected the international position of the USA and its citizens. Letters to the Secretary of State, James Madison, from shipowners and from the... -
The Papers of George Washington v.6; 13 August-20 October, 1776;13 August-20 October, 1776 by George Washington 9780813915388
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $107.10Documents Washington's decisions and actions during the heart of the New York campaign, from late summer to early fall 1776, when his opponent, General William Howe, took the offensive and... -
Modified Rapture: Comedy in W. S. Gilbert's Savoy Operas by Alan Fischler 9780813913346
Booksplease Price: $77.43The professional success achieved by W. S. Gilbert was unique in nineteenth-century English theater: he was the first dramatist ever to be knighted for his stage works, which yielded him a fortune... -
Tennyson: The Muses' Tug of War by Daniel Albright 9780813911007
Booksplease Price: $77.43Albright contends that Tennyson's ``aesthetic goals were . . . in conflict'' and that his poetry attempts to ``unite two incompatible poetics,'' one governed by a heavenly muse, the other by an... -
Experiencing William James: Belief in a Pluralistic World by James Campbell 9780813940472
Booksplease Price: $97.55William James has long been recognized as a central figure in the American philosophic tradition, and his ideas continue to play a significant role in contemporary thinking. Yet there has never been... -
Do You Hear in the Mountains... and Other Stories by Maissa Bey 9780813940281
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $73.28This new translation brings together two of Algerian author Maissa Bey's important works for the first time in English. Do You Hear in the Mountains... is a compelling piece of autofiction in which... -
Form and Fable in American Fiction by Daniel Hoffman 9780813915258
Booksplease Price: $37.50First published in 1961, this book has survived radical changes in the study of literature. Combining the disciplines of folklore and literary criticism in his readings of works by Irving, Hawthorne,... -
Guilty Pleasures: Popular Novels and American Audiences in the Long Nineteenth Century by Hugh McIntosh 9780813941653
Booksplease Price: $30.44Guilty pleasures in one's reading habits are nothing new. Late-nineteenth-century American literary culture even championed the idea that popular novels need not be great. Best-selling novels arrived... -
Greening the City: Urban Landscapes in the Twentieth Century by Dorothee Brantz 9780813931142
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29The modern city is not only pavement and concrete. Parks, gardens, trees, and other plants are an integral part of the urban environment. Often the focal points of social movements and political... -
Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration by Edward L. Ayers 9780813927947
Booksplease Price: $33.69Crucible of the Civil War offers an illuminating portrait of the state's wartime economic, political, and social institutions. Weighing in on contentious issues within established scholarship while... -
The Barking Tree Frog and Other Curious Tales by Diane Casto Tennant 9780813928418
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.23Here's something that doesn't happen every millennium: Roughly 35 million years ago, a stray meteorite dropped out of the sky over Virginia and left an impact that helped shape one of the continent's...