The Rise and Fall of Manufacturing in America's Hometown, 1890-1970
In Shoe Workers in Hannibal, Missouri, Gregg Andrews examines the history of factory laborers in a celebrated Mississippi River town. In the late 1890s, shoe manufacturing transformed Mark Twain's boyhood home from a steamboat village to a factory town. By the mid-1920s, the St. Louis-based International Shoe Company, the world's largest shoe ......
Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction
The internet has enabled new forms of literature and challenged older forms to reinvent themselves. Between Novel and Network selects texts that exemplify these digital transformations, arguing that networked communication technologies have fundamentally altered the form and content of contemporary literature. The book begins by exploring digital ......
The poet Paul Celan noted that, in his view of language, thinking and thanking are cognate, innately connected in their roots and connotations. Elements & Offerings, a new collection of poems by Dan Beachy-Quick, is a book-length poetic investigation of that hope-that to think is to learn to thank; that to thank is to learn to think. The first two ......
A Day of It, the ninth book of poems by Michael Chitwood, is a fanfare for the commonplace and the oft overlooked, both among places and people. In the spirit of Seamus Heaney, Chitwood's poetry seeks the whereabouts of the "thin places" in the everyday-an abandoned barn, a weedy roadside, even an antique sewing machine. The dwindling tobacco ......
In The Art of Looking Back, Maggie McKinley evaluates the complex nature of nostalgia in the canon of Joan Didion, a theme that has often been taken for granted, oversimplified, and misunderstood. In reassessing this fraught concept, McKinley emphasizes the productive rather than regressive or escapist qualities of nostalgia in Didion's work, ......
This project is a labor of love manifested in a lifelong father-quest. It is, simply, something I had to do. As war babies whose fathers never came home to us, we received instead a yearning for something missing but ever-present. To that, I added a burning desire to know my father. This project is about honor and sacrifice, another way to be a ......
Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
The poultry processing industry in El Dorado, Arkansas, was an economic powerhouse in the latter half of the twentieth century. It was the largest employer in the interconnected region of South Arkansas and North Louisiana surrounding El Dorado, and the fates of many related companies and farms depended on its continued financial success. We Just ......
The Making of a Distinctive Faith in the Civil War Era
Timothy D. Grundmeier's Lutheranism and American Culture examines the transformation of the nation's third-largest Protestant denomination over the course of the nineteenth century. In the antebellum era, leading voices within the church believed that the best way to become American was by modifying certain historic doctrines deemed too Catholic ......
Gas Station, Roadside, and Convenience Cuisine in the U.S. South
Get It While It's Hot brings together scholars, food writers, influencers, and even a CEO to discuss the phenomenon of eating by the side of the road. This innovative collection examines an increasingly commonplace belief across the U.S. South-that some of the best, most enjoyable food comes from places you would not expect: a gas station, the ......
