Tag: University Press of Kentucky

  • This pioneering examination of an important symbol in popular literature of the last century opens up a previously unexplored repository of attitudes toward American civilization. An important book for all those concerned with the course of American culture and literature.

  • An exploration of womanhood from an underrepresented voice in American literature, Amreekiya is simultaneously unique and relatable. Featuring an authentic array of characters, Mahmoud’s first novel is a much-needed story in a divided world.

  • Dreaming Black/Writing White: The Hagar Myth in American Cultural History University Press of Kentucky 1999-12-16 224 pages 6 x 9 photos Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8131-2143-7 Janet Gabler-Hover, Professor of English Georgia State University Winner of the SAMLA 2001 Book Award Hagar, the Old Testament Egyptian heroine who bore Abraham’s son at the behest of Sarah, was…

  • A Romance of the Republic University Press of Kentucky 2014-07-11 (Originally published in 1867) 464 pages 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8131-0928-2 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8131-4910-3 Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) Edited by: Dana D. Nelson, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee A Romance of the Republic, published in 1867, was Lydia…

  • The Plum Thicket University Press of Kentucky 1996-04-11 (Originally published in 1954) 284 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8131-1947-2 (out of print) Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8131-0859-9 Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979) Janice Holt Giles had a life before her marriage and writing career in Kentucky. Born in Altus, Arkansas, Giles spent many childhood summers visiting her grandparents there. After…

  • In 1976, Kentucky state legislator Mae Street Kidd successfully sponsored a resolution ratifying the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution. It was fitting that a black woman should initiate the state’s formal repudiation of slavery; that it was Mrs. Kidd was all the more appropriate.