At Home Abroad brings attention to a little known period in the career of America's most notable humorist. It follows the writer-performer Down Under on a journey through thirty lectures in colonial Australia and New Zealand. This appealing book is a daily account of Twain's activities and is based upon his notebooks his letters, and newspaper ......
Although Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) holds an undisputed place in the pantheon of major filmmakers, mention of his name unjustly evokes images of monolithic gloom and despair. All of his pictures, including his comedies, deal seriously with faith, morality, and mortality, but audiences and critics too often neglect the extraordinary wit and ......
Through his comic strip Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) has left his signatures on American culture--Lucy's fake hold for the kickoff, Linus's security blanket, Charlie Brown's baseball team that never wins a game, and his everyman cry of ""Good Grief!""When Schulz died February 13, 2000, the eve of publication for the last Sunday strip he ......
Although his art took form in many mediums, this lush and colorful book is the first to focus on Walter Anderson's murals. Anderson's home was in Ocean Springs on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where he spent his lifetime recording the region's flora, fauna, life forces, light, and history of his native Gulf Coast. He is known today as mythmaker, ......
Women Contributors to the a.M.E. Church Review, 1884-1924
Scholarship on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century religious periodicals, particularly Black publications, remains sparse and often focuses on the theological contributions of male writers. Race Literature: Women Contributors to the "A.M.E. Church Review," 1884-1924 fills a gap by examining the prose contributions of over three dozen women ......
Return to Elkins Creek combines a series of fishing stories, descriptions of changing cultural norms, and the peculiar history of freshwater fishing gear. Beginning with subsistence fishing in very rural Mississippi at a time "when the poorest among us in the Deep South still took our water from holes in the ground and high school was considered ......
Donald C. Jackson's newest book of outdoor essays, Restless Winds: Memoirs of an Outdoorsman, takes the reader on a journey from America's Deep South out into the world. Jackson's essays explore landscapes, waters, and cultures that have defined Jackson's career and life. Hunting and fishing stories from his Mississippi farm blend with stories ......
