Bøger udgivet af University of South Carolina Press

Thomas W Hyde, who received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Antietam, published his portrait of the Army of the Potomac in 1894. This edition, featuring more than a dozen photographs, tells the story of an illustrious army unit and offers rare glimpses into the Northern perspective on the war and its significance in US history.

Understanding Martin Amis is a guide to the novels, short stories and non-fiction by one of Britain's most highly acclaimed and controversial authors. James Diedrick draws on personal interviews, reviews and criticism to map the distinctive features of Martin Amis's imaginative landscape.

Carson McCullers was deemed the ""find of the decade"" when she appeared on the literary scene at the age of twenty-three and is best remembered for her celebrated novels ""The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter"" and ""The Member of the Wedding."" This book provides a balanced introductory study of her major fiction and shows her as more than a lesbian novelist.

Just north of where the Savannah River flows into the Atlantic lies an idyllic stretch of beach, marsh, and forest known as Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. In the 1950s, Charles Fraser transformed this almost forgotten barrier island into one of America's premier vacation destinations and, in doing so, invented the modern resort and retirement community. In this case study of that archetypal development and the others that followed on Hilton Head Island, Michael N. Danielson explores the interplay of private power and public authority as well as the dilemma of growth in America's recreation-based communities. Danielson contends that Hilton Head offers fertile ground for evaluating the influence of private elites and public officials on largely self-contained resort and retirement communities, an increasingly important but previously unexamined component of urban growth in America. Identifying growth as the island's central political issue, Danielson submits that resorts like Hilton Head face the similar predicament - the reality that economic expansion alters the very attributes that attracted developers, residents, and vacationers to a particular locale. His case study illustrates the impact of growth on the economic and political fortunes of a geographic area and the residents living in it.

Iron Afloat is history that reads like a novel and will appeal to readers interested in the Civil War and Confederacy as well as to military and naval historians.

The novel Fitzgerald worked hardest and longest on, ""Tender Is the Night"" has nevertheless achieved less recognition than many of his other works. In this guide to the novel, Bruccoli corrects errors in the text and explains factual details missed by the contemporary reader.

Surveys Flannery O'Connor's short stories, novels, essays and letters, as well as the body of criticism that has proliferated since her death in 1964. The book illumines the religious themes and bizarre characters that make O'Connor's prose so different from that of other American writers.

A guide to the life and work of the author of ""The Remains of the Day"". It reveals Ishiguro's novels to be intricately crafted, psychologically absorbing, hauntingly evocative works that betray the author's grounding not only in the literature of Japan but also in the 20th-century British and Irish masters - Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford.

A study of the actor, director, playwright and lyricist, Alan Bennett. Peter Wolfe demonstrates that Alan Bennett's success in many spheres was no fluke, and his theatrical eminence has always been accompanied by awards and professional recognition.

A consideration of three of the most contentious ethical issues of our time - abortion, war and euthanasia - from the Muslim perspective. The volume both integrates Muslim thinking into the field of applied ethics and introduces readers to an aspect of the religion long overlooked in the West.