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Stanley Fish, America's Enfant Terrible
The Authorized Biography
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
One of the twentieth century’s most original and influential literary theorists, Stanley Fish is also known as a polarizing public intellectual. The truth and limitations of his reputation are explored in this biography, which details Fish’s vibrant personal life and his remarkably versatile career.
Edith Wharton on Film
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Edith Wharton (1862–1937), who lived nearly half of her life during the cinema age when she published many of her well-known works, acknowledged that she disliked the movies, characterizing them as...
D. H. Lawrence
Fifty Years on Film
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Between 1949 and 1999, the life and works of D. H. Lawrence inspired ten feature films: nine based on works of fiction and one based on biography. In D. H. Lawrence: Fifty Years on Film, Louis K. Greiff examines these films as adaptations, as cultural or historical documents, and as independent works of art.
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
This new edition of Hugh Blair’s Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, edited by Linda Ferreira-Buckley and S. Michael Halloran, answers the need for a complete, reliable text. The book seeks to...
Stage, Page, Scandals, & Vandals
William E. Burton and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
In this first modern book-length biography of native Englander William E. Burton, theatre historian David L. Rinear explores Burton’s diary, letters, published reviews, and various reminiscences to reveal the tumultuous personal and professional lives of the mid-nineteenth-century actor/manager and his role in American literary history.
The Chicago Diaries of John M. Wing 1865-1866
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
The personal—and often intimate—diaries of fledgling journalist and entrepreneur John Mansir Wing create a unique portrait of a rough-and-tumble Chicago in the first few years following the Civil War. Wing writes of a city filled with new immigrants, ex-soldiers, and the thriving merchant class making its fortunes from both before the great fire of 1871 left much of the city in ashes.
Kerouac, the Word and the Way
Prose Artist as Spiritual Quester
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Jack Kerouac, a "ragged priest of the word" according to Ben Giamo, embarked on a spiritual quest "for the ultimate meaning of existence and suffering, and the celebration of joy in the meantime." For...
The House is Made of Poetry
The Art of Ruth Stone
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Ruth Stone has always eschewed self-promotion and, in the words of Leslie Fiedler, "has never been a member of any school or clique or gaggle of mutual admirers." But her poems speak so vibrantly for her that she cannot be ignored.
The Annotated Letters of Christopher Smart
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
The only collection of all known letters of Christopher Smart provides the best psychological explanation to date of that complex and elusive eighteenth-century poet.

Stanley Fish, America's Enfant Terrible
The Authorized Biography
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
One of the twentieth century’s most original and influential literary theorists, Stanley Fish is also known as a polarizing public intellectual. The truth and limitations of his reputation are explored in this biography, which details Fish’s vibrant personal life and his remarkably versatile career.
Edith Wharton on Film
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Edith Wharton (1862–1937), who lived nearly half of her life during the cinema age when she published many of her well-known works, acknowledged that she disliked the movies, characterizing them as...
D. H. Lawrence
Fifty Years on Film
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Between 1949 and 1999, the life and works of D. H. Lawrence inspired ten feature films: nine based on works of fiction and one based on biography. In D. H. Lawrence: Fifty Years on Film, Louis K. Greiff examines these films as adaptations, as cultural or historical documents, and as independent works of art.
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
This new edition of Hugh Blair’s Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, edited by Linda Ferreira-Buckley and S. Michael Halloran, answers the need for a complete, reliable text. The book seeks to...
Stage, Page, Scandals, & Vandals
William E. Burton and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
In this first modern book-length biography of native Englander William E. Burton, theatre historian David L. Rinear explores Burton’s diary, letters, published reviews, and various reminiscences to reveal the tumultuous personal and professional lives of the mid-nineteenth-century actor/manager and his role in American literary history.
The Chicago Diaries of John M. Wing 1865-1866
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
The personal—and often intimate—diaries of fledgling journalist and entrepreneur John Mansir Wing create a unique portrait of a rough-and-tumble Chicago in the first few years following the Civil War. Wing writes of a city filled with new immigrants, ex-soldiers, and the thriving merchant class making its fortunes from both before the great fire of 1871 left much of the city in ashes.
Kerouac, the Word and the Way
Prose Artist as Spiritual Quester
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Jack Kerouac, a "ragged priest of the word" according to Ben Giamo, embarked on a spiritual quest "for the ultimate meaning of existence and suffering, and the celebration of joy in the meantime." For...
The House is Made of Poetry
The Art of Ruth Stone
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Ruth Stone has always eschewed self-promotion and, in the words of Leslie Fiedler, "has never been a member of any school or clique or gaggle of mutual admirers." But her poems speak so vibrantly for her that she cannot be ignored.
The Annotated Letters of Christopher Smart
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
The only collection of all known letters of Christopher Smart provides the best psychological explanation to date of that complex and elusive eighteenth-century poet.