University Of Iowa Press: 221 books
Leaves of Grass, 1860
The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
In May 1860, Walt Whitman published a third edition of Leaves of Grass. His timing was compelling. Printed during a period of regional, ideological, and political divisions, written by a poet intimately concerned with the idea of a United States as “essentially the greatest poem,” this new edition...
by Wendy Harding
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
From the moment the first English-speaking explorers and settlers arrived on the North American continent, many have described its various locations and environments as empty. Indeed, much of American national history and culture is bound up with the idea that parts of the landscape are empty and...
American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War
A Critical Reassessment
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The time is right for a critical reassessment of Cold War culture both because its full cultural impact remains unprocessed and because some of the chief paradigms for understanding that culture confuse rather than clarify.
A collection of the work of some of the best cultural critics...
Postmodern/Postwar and After
Rethinking American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Within the past ten years, the field of contemporary American literary studies has changed significantly. Following the turn of the twenty-first century and mounting doubts about the continued explanatory power of the category of “postmodernism,” new organizations have emerged, book series have...
by Leigh Claire La Berge
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
As the world has been reshaped since the 1970s by economic globalization, neoliberalism, and financialization, writers and artists have addressed the problem of representing the economy with a new sense of political urgency. Anxieties over who controls capitalism have thus been translated into demands...
by Lindsey Michael Banco
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
He called the first atomic bomb “technically sweet,” yet as he watched its brilliant light explode over the New Mexico desert in 1945 in advance of the black horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he also thought of the line from the Hindu epic The Bhagavad Gita: “I am become Death, the destroyer...
Trespasses
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
A series of vividly rendered personal narratives, Trespasses: A Memoir recounts the coming of age of three generations in the rural Great Plains. In examining how class, race, and gender play out in the lives of two farm families who simultaneously love and hate the place they can’t escape, Lacy...
Dickinson in Her Own Time
A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Even before the first books of her poems were published in the 1890s, friends, neighbors, and even apparently strangers knew Emily Dickinson was a writer of remarkable verses. Featuring both well-known documents and material printed or collected here for the first time, this book offers a broad range...
Myself and Some Other Being
Wordsworth and the Life Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
As a young writer with neither profession nor money, William Wordsworth committed himself to a career as a poet, embracing what he believed was his destiny. But even the “giant Wordsworth,” as his friend and collaborator Samuel Taylor Coleridge called him, had his doubts. In Myself and Some Other...
by Annette Debo
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
In The American H.D., Annette Debo considers the significance of nation in the artistic vision and life of the modernist writer Hilda Doolittle. Her versatile career stretching from 1906 to 1961, H.D. was a major American writer who spent her adult life abroad; a poet and translator who also wrote...
London in a Box
Englishness and Theatre in Revolutionary America
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
2017 Theatre Library Association Freedley Award Finalist
If one went looking for the tipping point in the prelude to the American Revolution, it would not be the destruction of the tea in Boston Harbor, or the blockade of Boston by British warships, or even the gathering of the first Continental...
Whitman & Dickinson
A Colloquy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Whitman & Dickinson is the first collection to bring together original essays by European and North American scholars directly linking the poetry and ideas of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. The essays present intersections between these great figures across several fields of study, rehearsing...
Kitchen Sink Realisms
Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama in American Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
From 1918’s Tickless Time through Waiting for Lefty, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Prisoner of Second Avenue to 2005’s The Clean House, domestic labor has figured largely on American stages. No dramatic genre has done more than the one often dismissively...
Heart Stays Country
Meditations from the Southern Flint Hills
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Writer and photographer Gary Lantz has always felt most at home in what the Osage used to call the “heart stays” country—the southern edge of the Flint Hills tallgrass prairie in Oklahoma’s Osage County. It’s a place of grassy mounds with lots of rocks underfoot and clusters of crooked little...