Scholarship on WEB Du Bois's first novel, The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911), has
typically focused on questions of genre—the interplay of romance, realism, and naturalism …

Abstract Scholarship on WEB Du Bois's first novel, The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911),
has typically focused on questions of genre-the interplay of romance, realism, and …

William Faulkner continues to be an author who is widely read, studied, and admired. This
book provides a new and interdisciplinary account of Faulkner's legacy, arguing that his …

The date was Saturday, December 11, 1909. The location: Angola, the penitentiary-
plantation operated by the state of Louisiana, tucked in an elbow of the Mississippi river at …

Arkansas was a demographic frontier after the US Civil War. Despite marked agricultural
land deforestation and development after the 1870s, it remained agrarian well into the …

Over the last decade, transition studies has emerged as an intellectual field aimed at
answering the question: How do we get to a more sustainable world? Emerging from a …

Scholars have long understood the centrality that the plantation house possesses as both
institution and symbol in William Faulkner's fictional world. The earliest critical investigations …

The Fateful Lightning is the second volume of Kathleen Diffley's trilogy on Civil War
magazine fiction. While her first book of the trilogy, Where My Heart Is Turning Ever, charted …

Nella storiografia passata e recente del sistema schiavista del Sud degli Stati Uniti
dell'Ottocento, la relazione tra schiavitù e capitalismo rappresenta un tema di particolare …