University Of Virginia Press: 345 books
by Julia Prewitt Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
From Robinson Crusoe’s cave to Henry Selwyn’s hermitage, the domestic interior tells a story about "things" and their relation to character and identity. Beginning with a description of a typical middle-class interior in America today—noting how its contents echo interiors described...
We Face the Dawn
Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and the Legal Team That Dismantled Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The decisive victories in the fight for racial equality in America were not easily won, much less inevitable; they were achieved through carefully conceived strategy and the work of tireless individuals dedicated to this most urgent struggle. In We Face the Dawn, Margaret Edds tells the gripping story...
A Passion for the Past
The Odyssey of a Transatlantic Archaeologist
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Ivor Noël Hume has devoted his life to uncovering countless lives that came before him. In A Passion for the Past the world-renowned archaeologist turns to his own life, sharing with the reader a story that begins amid the bombed-out rubble of post–World War II London and ends on North Carolina’s...
Elusive Equality
Desegregation and Resegregation in Norfolk's Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
In Elusive Equality, Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford place Norfolk, Virginia, at the center of the South's school desegregation debates, tracing the crucial role that Norfolk’s African Americans played in efforts to equalize and integrate the city’s schools. The authors relate how local...
Never Ask Permission
Elisabeth Scott Bocock of Richmond, A Memoir by Mary Buford Hitz
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Some cities, through hardship or glory or a combination of both, produce extraordinary women. Richmond in the early twentieth century, dominated by its prominent families and still haunted by the ghosts of its Confederate past, produced a galaxy of such characters, including Ellen Glasgow, Mary Cooke...
by William M. Kelso
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
What was life really like for the band of adventurers who first set foot on the banks of the James River in 1607? Important as the accomplishments of these men and women were, the written records pertaining to them are scarce, ambiguous, and often conflicting. In Jamestown, the Truth Revealed, William...
The Sky of Our Manufacture
The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
The smoke-laden fog of London is one of the most vivid elements in English literature, richly suggestive and blurring boundaries between nature and society in compelling ways. In The Sky of Our Manufacture, Jesse Oak Taylor uses the many depictions of the London fog in the late nineteenth- and early...
Enlightenment Underground
Radical Germany, 1680-1720
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
By scouring manuscript collections across northern Europe, renowned German historian Martin Mulsow has uncovered an early clandestine German Enlightenment movement that was far more radical, unintended, and puzzling than previously suspected.
Between the Novel and the News
The Emergence of American Women's Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
While American literary history has long acknowledged the profound influence of journalism on canonical male writers, Sari Edelstein argues that American women writers were also influenced by a dynamic relationship with the mainstream press. From the early republic through the turn of the twentieth...
Women's Work
Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women's Novels
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Looking at contemporary novels by African American women, Courtney Thorsson finds that the work women do in these texts defines both a cultural nationalism that remains relevant and a distinct literary and aesthetic movement.
Old Fields
Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
This is a big book by a prolific, provocative and highly original author with an established following amounting to a cult. The book is wide-ranging in the extreme but concentrates mainly on photographic history and technology (particularly of the Rolleiflex), amateur "glamour"/erotic snaps,...
by Bethany Hicok
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book tells a new, globally informed story of how Elizabeth Bishop's life and art were shaped by the years she spent in Brazil (1951-1979).
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
Making the Modern Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander is one of the most important landscape architects of the twentieth century, yet despite her lasting influence, few outside the field know her name. Her work has been instrumental in the development of the late-twentieth-century design ethic, and her early years working with...
The Risen Phoenix
Black Politics in the Post–Civil War South
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Examining the careers of six black congressmen in the post-Civil War South, the author finds—contrary to much scholarly opinion—that these elected officials represented their constituents effectively while working in tandem with unelected black leaders such as Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Timothy Thomas Fortune, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington.