SOUTHERN ILLINOISUNIVERSITY PRESSSpring and Summer 2016

Table of ContentsBy AuthorBaron, Pembroke: A Rural, Black Community on the Illinois Dunes………………………..…...…...……...……...…….…….7

Black and Shandell, Experiments in Democracy: Interracial and Cross-Cultural Exchange

in American Theatre, 1912–1945.……………....………………………….......……………………………………………………11

Bradbury, Reimagining Popular Notions of American Intellectualism: Literacy, Education, and Class……………………13

Campbell, Citizen of a Wider Commonwealth: Ulysses S. Grant’s Postpresidential Diplomacy…………..…………………2

Cronin, An Indispensable Liberty: The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century America………….…………………12

Dinges and Leckie, A Just and Righteous Cause: Benjamin H. Grierson’s Civil War Memoir……………...……………..15

Gustaitis, Chicago Transformed: World War I and the Windy City……………………………………………....………………6

Hartley, The Dealmakers of Downstate Illinois: Paul Powell, Clyde L. Choate, John H. Stelle……………........……………9

Hatzenbuehler, Jefferson, Lincoln, and the Unfinished Work of the Nation …………………………………………………..1

Howlett and Cohan, John Dewey, America’s Peace-Minded Educator ………………………………………………………10

Johnson, Antebellum American Women’s Poetry: A Rhetoric of Sentiment…………….......……………………………..…14

Kimbrell, The Primitive Observatory ………………………………….……………….…………………………………………….4

Lindberg and Sykes, Shattered Sense of Innocence: The 1955 Murders of Three Chicago Children.…………………….15

Mattingly, Secret Habits: Catholic Literacy Education for Women in the Early Nineteenth Century…………...………….12

Meyer, Making the Heartland Quilt: A Geographical History of Settlement and Migration in

Early-Nineteenth-Century Illinois……………………….…………………………………………………………………………….15

Neel, Plato, Derrida, and Writing…………………..…………………………………………………………………………………16

Olson, Stanley Fish, America’s Enfant Terrible: The Authorized Biography………….…………………………………………..3

Ratcliffe, Anglo-American Feminist Challenges to the Rhetorical Traditions: Virginia Woolf,

Mary Daly, Adrienne Rich..……………………………………………………………………………………………………………16

Richter, No Acute Distress…………………………………..…………………………………………………………………..........5

Robinson, Southern Illinois Birds: An Annotated List and Site Guide……………………………………………………….….15

Ryan, Myers, and Jones, Rethinking Ethos: A Feminist Ecological Approach to Rhetoric………………………………….14

Schwegman, The Natural Heritage of Illinois: Essays on Its Lands, Waters, Flora, and Fauna……………………………….8

Turner and Soper, Methods and Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay…………………………………………………………….16

Ward, When the Cock Crows: A History of the Pathé Exchange…..…………………………………………………………….11

Weidner, The Green Ghost: William Burroughs and the Ecological Mind………..……………………………………………….13

Yarbrough, After Rhetoric: The Study of Discourse beyond Language and Culture………………………………………….16

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Biography……………………………………………3

Chicago………………………………………………6

Film……………………………………………………11

Illinois………………………………………...……7, 8, 9

Poetry………………………………………….…….4, 5

Rhetoric/Composition…………………………..3, 12

Theater………………………………………………11

CIVIL WAR

1Southern Illinois University Press www.siupress.com

June $19.50spPaper 978-0-8093-3490-2

176 pages, 6 x 9, 8 illustrations

Jefferson, Lincoln, and the Unfinished Work of the Nation

Ronald L. HatzenbuehlerComparing the still-relevant views of two giants of history

Although the nation changed quite a bit

between the presidential terms of Thomas

Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, these

two leaders shared common interests and

held remarkably similar opinions on im-

portant issues. In Jefferson, Lincoln, and

the Unfinished Work of the Nation, Ronald

L. Hatzenbuehler describes the views of

two of our nation’s greatest presidents

and explains how these views provide

valuable insight into modern-day debates.

In this groundbreaking new study—the

first extended examination of the ideas

of both Lincoln and Jefferson—Hatzen-

buehler provides readers with a succinct

guide to the statesmen’s opinions that still

resonate today, comparing and contrast-

ing their reasoned judgments on Amer-

ica’s republican form of government.

Each chapter is devoted to one key area

of common interest: race and slavery, the

pros and cons of political parties, state

rights versus federal authority, religion

and the presidency, presidential powers

under the Constitution, or the proper polit-

ical economy for a republic. Relying on the

pair’s own words in their letters, writings,

and speeches, Hatzenbuehler explores

similarities and differences between the

two men on contentious issues.

Jefferson and Lincoln wrestled with many

of the same ideas that intrigue and divide

Americans today. In his thought-provoking

work, Hatzenbuehler details how the two

presidents addressed these ideas, which

are essential to understanding not only

America’s history but also the continuing

influence of the past on the present.

* For an explanation of discount schedules, see inside back cover.

Also of Interest

Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler is a professor emeritus of history at Idaho State

University. Previously, he served as department chair and associate dean of the

College of Arts and Letters. He is the author of “I Tremble for My Country”: Thomas

Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry and a coauthor of Congress Declares War: Rhetoric,

Leadership, and Partisanship in the Early Republic.“Ronald Hatzenbuehler furnishes in this valuable book what no previous historian has given us: a provocative comparative study of two American giants, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. Here is comparative cultural-intellectual history at its best.”

—Richard W. Etulain, author of Lincoln and Oregon: Country Politics in the Civil War Era and coeditor of the Concise Lincoln LibraryLincoln, the Law, and

Presidential Leadership Edited by Charles M. Hubbard $34.50spCloth 978-0-8093-3454-4224 pages, 6 x 9, 9 illustrations

The National Joker: Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Satire Todd Nathan Thompson$29.50spCloth 978-0-8093-3422-3192 pages, 6 x 9, 41 illustrations

Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman

Joseph R. Fornieri $34.50sp

Cloth 978-0-8093-3329-5248 pages, 6 x 9, 20 illustrations

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April $34.50spCloth 978-0-8093-3478-0272 pages, 6 x 9, 38 illustrationsWorld of Ulysses S. Grant

CIVIL WAR

Southern Illinois University Press www.siupress.com

Citizen of a Wider CommonwealthUlysses S. Grant’s Postpresidential Diplomacy

Edwina S. CampbellHow the eighteenth president’s world travels

shaped American international relationsIn 1877 former president Ulysses S.

Grant, along with family and friends,

embarked on a two-year world tour that

took him from Liverpool to Yokohama

with stops throughout Europe and Asia.

Biographers generally treat this tour as

a pleasure trip filled with sightseeing,

shopping, wining, and dining; how-

ever, Grant’s travels constituted a dip-

lomatic mission sanctioned by the U.S.

government. In this revealing volume,

Edwina S. Campbell chronicles Grant’s

journey—the first diplomatic mission

ever undertaken by a former U.S. pres-

ident—and demonstrates how it marked

a turning point in the role of the United

States in world affairs.

Traveling commercially and on U.S.

Navy warships, Grant visited ports

throughout the British Empire, Europe,

and Asia, meeting with monarchs, min-

isters, and average citizens alike. Along

the way, he created the model for the

summitry and public diplomacy prac-

ticed by future American presidents

and articulated concepts of national

self-determination, international orga-

nization, and the peaceful settlement of

international disputes. By illuminating

the significance of Grant’s often over-

looked postpresidential travels, Citizen

of a Wider Commonwealth establishes

the eighteenth president as a key dip-

lomat whose work strongly influenced

the direction of U.S. foreign policy and

contributes substantially to the study of

American international relations.

Edwina S. Campbell is a former foreign service officer who worked on sev-

eral presidential visits and summit meetings during her years with the Department

of State. After leaving the diplomatic service, she taught American foreign policy

at the University of Virginia, was a professor of grand strategy at National Defense

University, and retired in 2014 as a professor of national security studies at Air Uni-

versity. Since 1985 she has been a frequent practitioner of public diplomacy for the

U.S. Information Agency and the Department of State. Dr. Campbell’s numerous

publications include Germany’s Past and Europe’s Future and a 1999 London De-

fence Study, The Relevance of American Power.

“Edwina Campbell examines the world tour taken by former president Ulysses S. Grant in the context of changes that occurred both globally and within the United States rather than as a sunset experience for a diminished past president somewhat down on his luck. Grant and his contemporaries realized the Civil War and the political, economic, and social changes that paralleled and followed it had empowered the United States and its place in the world. This is a very important book, not only for scholars of Grant but also for students of U.S. foreign policy, the latter part of the nineteenth century, and the evolution of the role of presidents in and out of office.”

—Kenneth B. Moss, professor emeritus, National Security Studies, National Defense University

“Bringing to her subject impeccable credentials and keen insight as a former diplomat and as a professional historian, Edwina Campbell finally sets the record straight on the importance and meaning of Ulysses S. Grant’s 1877–79 world tour. In her lucid and fast-paced book Campbell makes clear that as his country’s ‘ambassador at large’ Grant pioneered the practice of public diplomacy. He was the first—and far from the last—former U.S. president to engage with people of other countries and cultures, from common people to businessmen to national leaders. Campbell’s book both adds to the growing revisionist scholarship on Grant and confirms that those who dismiss the contributions and legacy of the eighteenth president do so at their own peril.”

—John David Smith, author of Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops

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BIOGRAPHY

March $32.50spCloth 978-0-8093-3476-6

200 pages, 6 x 9, 27 illustrations

Stanley Fish, America’s Enfant Terrible

The Authorized BiographyGary A. Olson

A revealing account of a complex and controversial public intellectualOne of the twentieth century’s most

original and influential literary theorists,

Stanley Fish is also known as a fascinat-

ingly atypical, polarizing public intellec-

tual; a loud, cigar-smoking contrarian;

and a lightning rod for both the political

right and left. The truth and the limita-

tions of this reputation are explored in

Stanley Fish, America’s Enfant Terrible

by Gary A. Olson. At once a literary

biography and a traditional life story,

this engrossing volume details Fish’s

vibrant personal life and his remarkably

versatile career.

Based on hundreds of hours of recorded

interviews with friends, enemies, col-

leagues, former students, family mem-

bers, and Fish himself, along with ma-

terial from the Stanley Fish archive,

Stanley Fish, America’s Enfant Terrible

is a clearly written narrative of the life of

an important and controversial scholar.

Southern Illinois University Press www.siupress.com

Gary A. Olson is the president of Daemen College. Previously, he was the pro-

vost and vice president for academic affairs and a professor of English at Idaho

State University. His most recent book is A Creature of Our Own Making: Reflec-

tions on Contemporary Academic Life. He also authored Justifying Belief: Stanley

Fish and the Work of Rhetoric and coedited Postmodern Sophistry: Stanley Fish and

the Critical Enterprise.

“Stanley Fish is a terrific teacher, writer, and raconteur whose brilliant jousting has transformed our thinking about language and literature. Gary Olson’s Stanley Fish: American’s Enfant Terrible is an engaging and entertaining biography that reinforces our sense of Stanley as an American original and recalls the heyday of literary theory and criticism.”

—William A. Covino, president of California State University, Los Angeles

“This book is excellent at describing how Stanley Fish’s ‘intellectual fearlessness’ played itself out in Fish’s contentious life as an academic, university administrator, and public intellectual. Fish’s attempts to achieve rapid culture change at Duke University and at the University of Illinois at Chicago through aggressive hiring of star academics is well described, and Olson’s final chapter, which probes beneath Fish’s public persona, is particularly valuable. Readers of this book will be rewarded with a richer understanding of the person behind some of the most exciting and important intellectual work produced in America during the past fifty years.”

—Michael Robertson, author of Stanley Fish on Philosophy, Politics, and Law

Stanley Fish at five years old with his two-year-old sister, Rita

POETRY

March $15.95tPaper 978-0-8093-3480-380 pages, 6 x 9Crab Orchard Series in Poetry

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The Primitive ObservatoryPoems by Gregory Kimbrell

Crab Orchard Series in Poetry—First Book Award

A humorous and unsettling collection of strange tales set in the Gilded AgeThe poems of The Primitive Observa-

tory, set roughly in the Gilded Age, take

readers into a dreamy, alluring world

where hapless travelers, doomed heirs,

and other colorful types grapple with

horrors. Within the pages of this book,

we find a group of cousins who wager

their pets in endless games of mahjong,

a village whose inhabitants all dream

the same dreams, and Maurice, who

watches Greta Garbo movies while

waiting for death in the macabre home

of his grandfather, a man suspected

of sinister hypnosis and unspeakable

crimes.

Kimbrell explores such themes as mem-

ory, class prejudice, family violence,

and greed in a flamboyant, yet mat-

ter-of-fact style to create verse that is

both amusing and unsettling. Combin-

ing prose that evokes H. P. Lovecraft,

classical mythology, and Marcel Proust

with the look and taut line of traditional

formalist verse, the poems appear on

the page as perfect rectangles, yet revel

in narrative and linguistic absurdities.

The Primitive Observatory offers a

dark and evocative experience through

the tangible grotesque. Fans of David

Lynch, Franz Kafka, Edward Gorey, and

the like will be startled, excited, and

pleased by this entertaining and dis-

turbing book of poetry.

Gregory Kimbrell’s poems have appeared in Blackbird, the Laurel Review,

and the Abaculi Project. Kimbrell is the events and programs coordinator for Vir-

ginia Commonwealth University Libraries.

Southern Illinois University Press www.siupress.com

The Advance of the Glacier

The habitants of Lesser Ransom, long acquainted with

evil, looked up from their preparations for the difficult

winter. The elder explained, The Prince of Darkness comes

riding his chariot. Of course, the experimental balloonist

heard precious little over the roaring fire that kept him

aloft in the heavens. Instead, he observed the villagers’

kneeling as one in prayer. Perhaps he thought that they

praised almighty God for the miracle of manned flight.

All around them were strewn their antique implements:

their reapers, their knives for slaughter—and on the air,

a tang of guts, pigs’ insides suspended from iron hooks

that turned in the wind. The balloonist took off his cap

and waved to the villagers, who could make nothing of

the letters in gold on the side of his basket. They knew

simply that from the earth, this infernal thing had risen

and that to the earth, it must return via a burning door.

Whatever the balloonist may have said then, as he fell,

no one understood. He became lost within the brilliant

folds of wreckage crowning a nearby hill. The villagers

crossed themselves. And when the machine had finally

grown cool, they heaped stones atop it—like, they said,

the monuments once built by their heathen forefathers

when terrible kings and warlords had been summoned

to the halls of the death god in his mantle of white fur.

Nocturne (Tremors of the Earth)

Dear shadow, electric lights burn once more

throughout this remote valley, though night

arrived hours ago. Darkness will be restored

shortly. My only photograph of my brother

fell from the bedroom mantel and woke me

from the dream in which I visited his grave.

I always wanted to believe that the dead lay

in undisturbed sleep. You, shadow, become

still, listening to the footsteps and blunders

of the fearful who retire one after the other

in their homes above you. In the plane tree,

the owl straightens its feathers, compacting

its prey into a sphere of bone and gray hair.

“The Primitive Observatory is an astonishing construct: a museum of cinematic dreamscapes that push far beyond magic realism and allegory into luminous, unclassifiable narrative. This is masterful, strange, and essential work from a new voice.”

—Joshua Poteat, author of The Regret Histories

POETRY

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March $15.95tPaper 978-0-8093-3482-7

88 pages, 6 x 9Crab Orchard Series in Poetry

No Acute DistressPoems by Jennifer Richter

Crab Orchard Series in Poetry—Editor’s Selection Bearing witness to the profound, merged

experiences of illness and motherhoodJennifer Richter’s penetrating second

collection of poems, No Acute Distress,

introduces us to the unspoken struggles

and unanticipated epiphanies of ill-

ness and motherhood, subjects rarely

explored together in contemporary

poetry. The first poem of each section

borrows from a classic joke form—one

begins, “An intractable migraine walks

into a bar”—to consider the thin line

this mother walks between the tragic

and comic: debilitating pain met with

increasingly absurd and desperate med-

ical treatments.

Richter seasons her work with irony

from the start, titling the book’s open-

ing poem, “Pleasant, healthy-appearing

adult white female in no acute distress.”

As the collection progresses, the speak-

er’s growing children bring new, wider

perspective to the poems; the heart of

the book opens up to embrace the ad-

olescents’ increasing self-sufficiency

and the body’s vibrant re-emergence

into health.

No Acute Distress offers readers fresh

language grounded in a masterful use

of form, speaking with an urgency that

acknowledges chronic pain’s cumula-

tive damage to the body and spirit, and

with an openness that allows for hope

and the inexplicable on the path to vic-

torious recovery.

Jennifer Richter’s first book, Threshold, was chosen by former U.S. poet lau-

reate Natasha Trethewey as a winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open

Competition. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford Uni-

versity, she has received an Oregon Literary Fellowship and currently teaches in

Oregon State University’s MFA program.

Southern Illinois University Press www.siupress.com

“In this powerful and enthralling collection, Jennifer Richter struggles movingly to understand the relationship between self and body. With her finely tuned ear and her often wry humor, she faces how difficult it can be not only to survive physical and emotional trauma, but to preserve ourselves through it for those we love. Her unwavering vision makes it clear why this is worth fighting for, testifying with beautiful precision to the human intimacies it makes possible.”

—Mary Szybist, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry

I’m Used to Feeling Like I’m Moving Even When I’m Still

In the ferry’s dim-lit belly we sit in seats our lives

have recently assigned: father driver, mother passenger.

Behind us, soothed by the boat’s loud drone, the baby

finally sleeps. Yellow fluorescents stripe the hood, the dash,

our laps. We squint to get a glimpse of what’s ahead; sea

spray on the windshield settles into salt. A bit of home—

damp waft of rumpled sheets—drifts in. Then fades.

Lately my body’s felt docked, as in: all aboard.

When he leans toward me, the boat’s black ramp starts

grinding down. Mothers pull their children from the rails.

Pleasant, healthy-appearing adult white female in no acute distress

Fancy seeing you here! my surgeon exclaims; his nurses roll their eyes above their masks. He

drags a stool over, checks my line, winks Hi, Smiley. My chart notes say “cooperative.” Come

here often? Three procedures, two years. One doctor. His findings are significant: put me under

and I’ll laugh at anything. What’s a girl like you doing in a place like this? He’s warming up.

He’s counting down. It only takes till 8—heavy velvet curtains rushing shut. House lights: down.

His whisper from the wings: We’ve got to stop meeting like this. Did you hear the one about the

woman whose illness made her confuse happiness and sadness? When her doctor said How are

you? she grinned, Never better. Then she wailed, Never better.

CHICAGO

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July $29.95tPaper 978-0-8093-3498-8328 pages, 6 x 9, 101 illustrations

Chicago TransformedWorld War I and the Windy City

Joseph GustaitisExploring how World War I altered Chicago

It’s been called the “war that changed

everything,” and it is difficult to think

of a historical event that had a greater

impact on the world than the First World

War. Events during the war profoundly

changed our nation, and Chi≠cago, es-

pecially, was transformed during this

period. Between 1913 and 1919, Chicago

transitioned from a nineteenth-century

city to the metropolis it is today. Despite

the importance of the war years, this

period has not been documented ad-

equately in histories of Chicago. Now,

just in time for the centennial of the war,

Joseph Gustaitis fills this gap in the

historical record with Chicago Trans-

formed: World War I and the Windy City,

covering the important wartime events,

developments, movements, and people

that helped shape Chicago.

Although its focus is Chicago, this book

provides insight into change nationwide,

as many of the effects that the First

World War had on the city also affected

the United States as a whole. Drawing

on a variety of sources and written in

an accessible style that combines eco-

nomic, cultural, and political history, Chi-

cago Transformed: World War I and the

Windy City portrays Chicago before the

war, traces the changes initiated during

the war years, and shows how these

changes still endure in the cultural, eth-

nic, and political landscape of this great

city and the nation.

Southern Illinois University Press www.siupress.com

Joseph Gustaitis, a freelance writer and editor living in Chicago, is the au-

thor of Chicago’s Greatest Year, 1893 and many articles in the popular history field.

Previously, Gustaitis worked as an editor for Collier’s Year Book and Collier’s Ency-

clopedia. He has also worked in television and won an Emmy Award for writing for

ABC-TV’s FYI program.

Also of Interest

Chicago’s Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern MetropolisJoseph Gustaitis$29.95tPaper 978-0-8093-3248-9360 pages, 6 x 9, 90 illustrations

Grant Park: The Evolution of Chicago’s Front Yard Dennis H. Cremin$34.95t Paper 978-0-8093-3250-2256 pages, 6.125 x 9.25, 50 illustrations

A Decisive Decade: An Insider’s View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s Robert B. McKersie$29.95tCloth 978-0-8093-3244-1288 pages, 6 x 9, 34 illustrations

“World War I did not live up to its billing to end all wars, but it did start several national trends, including the Great Migration, the spread of jazz, anti-German sentiments (which contributed to Prohibition and thus to organized crime), labor unrest, Mexican immigration, and the first sexual revolution. In the highly readable Chicago Transformed, Joseph Gustaitis crisply describes these trends and expertly analyzes how Chicago—a microcosm of America—was the focal point for the forces these developments unleashed. He brings to life a sorely overlooked period of Chicago history—the momentous years 1907–13.”

—Greg Borzo, author of The Chicago “L” and RAGBRAI: America’s Favorite Bicycle Ride

ILLINOIS

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August $26.50spPaper 978-0-8093-3502-2

248 pages, 6 x 9, 18 illustrations

PembrokeA Rural, Black Community

on the Illinois DunesDave Baron

A portrait of a remarkable African American town in northern Illinois and how it transformed the author

With a population of about two thou-

sand, Pembroke Township, in an iso-

lated corner of Kankakee County, Illi-

nois, is one of the largest rural, black

communities north of the Mason-Dixon

Line. It is also one of the poorest places

in the nation. Many black farmers from

the South came to this area during the

Great Migration; finding Chicago to be

overcrowded and inhospitable, they

were able to buy land at low prices in

the township just sixty-five miles south

of the city. The poor soil made it nearly

impossible to establish profitable farms,

however, and economic prosperity has

eluded the region ever since. Pembroke:

A Rural, Black Community on the Illinois

Dunes chronicles the history of this in-

imitable township and shows the au-

thor’s personal transformation through

his experiences with Pembroke and its

people. A native of nearby Kankakee,

author Dave Baron first traveled to Pem-

broke on a church service trip at age

fifteen and saw real poverty firsthand,

but he also discovered a community

possessing grace and purpose.

Based on research, interviews with resi-

dents, and the author’s own experiences

during many return trips to Pembroke,

this book—part social, cultural, legal,

environmental, and political history and

part memoir—profiles a number of the

colorful, longtime residents and con-

siders what has enabled Pembroke to

survive despite a lack of economic op-

portunities. Although Pembroke has a

reputation for violence and vice, Baron

reveals a township with a rich and var-

ied history and a vibrant culture.

Southern Illinois University Press www.siupress.com

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A New Deal for Bronzeville: Housing, Employment, and Civil Rights in Black Chicago, 1935–1955Lionel Kimble Jr.$35.00sPaper 978-0-8093-3426-1216 pages, 6 x 9, 10 illustrations

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It’s Good to Be Black Ruby Berkley Goodwin$19.95t978-0-8093-3122-2280 pages, 5 x 8

Dave Baron is a constitutional litigator for the city of Chicago with a degree

in political science and economics from the University of Notre Dame and a juris

doctor from Harvard Law School. He has been involved in a number of groups ded-

icated to improving race relations and combating poverty.

“When Americans think about black-white racial inequalities, they typically conjure images of urban settings. Dave Baron’s Pembroke shows us that these racial gaps persist in rural areas as well. His rich historical account illustrates how labor markets, housing policies, and the political arena in small-town America hold the same potential to expand or truncate African American life chances as they do in big cities. Baron’s book also documents the dedication and resilience demonstrated by residents as they struggle to improve their communities. This book is a must read for anyone interested in understanding the roots of the racial gaps that plague post–Civil Rights America.”

—Alvin B. Tillery, Jr., Northwestern University

ILLINOIS

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September $24.50spPaper 978-0-8093-3484-1240 pages, 6 x 9.25, 35 illustrations

The Natural Heritage of IllinoisEssays on Its Lands, Waters, Flora, and Fauna

John E. SchwegmanThe perfect companion for exploring the natural wonders of Illinois

The Natural Heritage of Illinois is an en-

gaging collection of ninety-four essays

on the lands, waters, plants, and ani-

mals found in Illinois. Written in lively,

accessible prose, the book discusses

how wind, water, glaciers, earthquakes,

fire, and people have shaped Illinois’

landforms, natural habitats, rivers and

streams, and the ways in which native

plants and animals, from individual spe-

cies to entire ecosystems, have thrived,

survived, or died out.

John E. Schwegman looks at the state’s

early natural history, including its pre-

historic vegetation and wildlife. He de-

scribes surviving remnants of formerly

widespread species, such as biting

horseflies so abundant they could kill

a horse and flights of passenger pi-

geons dense enough to block the sun.

He addresses issues of species decline,

the ways animals adapt to climate

change and dwindling habitats, and

the problem of invasive exotic species.

Ecosystem preservation is discussed,

including prescribed burning tech-

niques and volunteers aiding in natural

land management.

Animal and plant conservation in Illinois

is illustrated by essays that examine the

efforts to save our dwindling Prairie

Chicken population and to reintroduce

river otters, the return of nesting bald

eagles and cormorants to the state, the

discovery of armadillos in southern Illi-

nois, the pros and cons of feeding birds,

and the biological significance of frog

calls. Essays on Illinois’ native plants

cover a wide range of topics, from de-

fensive strategies to poisonous and

edible species, prairie’s dependence on

fire, how to recognize our wild roses,

orchids, prairie grasses, and more. Full

of fascinating information and expert

knowledge, this book will prove invalu-

able to scholars, students, teachers, and

casual nature lovers.

John E. Schwegman is the principal author of The Natural Divisions of

Illinois, a classification of the state’s natural lands that guides the development of

the Illinois Nature Preserves System. He established the Division of Natural Heri-

tage at the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and has served as a commis-

sioner of the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission. In 2004 he received the Con-

servationist of the Year Award from the Illinois Native Plant Society. Currently, he

serves as a consultant to the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission.

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Illinois Wines and Wineries: The Essential GuideClara Orban $22.95tPaper 978-0-8093-3344-8216 pages, 6 x 9, 150 illustrations

20 Day Trips in and aroundthe Shawnee National ForestLarry P. and Donna J. Mahan$19.95tPaper 978-0-8093-3255-7160 pages, 6.125 x 9.25, 102 illustrationsShawnee Books

The State of Southern Illinois: An Illustrated HistoryHerbert K. Russell $39.95tCloth 978-0-8093-3056-0232 pages, 8.5 x 11, 262 illus.

“These essays on Illinois plants, animals, rocks, landforms, and other natural phenomena in the state reflect the author’s lifetime of study. Many readers will feel as if they are with Schwegman in the field as they read these eloquently written vignettes of nature.”

—Robert H. Mohlenbrock, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Southern Illinois University

ILLINOIS

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May $27.50spPaper 978-0-8093-3474-2

200 pages, 6 x 9, 11 illustrations

Robert E. Hartley is the author of many books published by Southern Illinois

University Press, including Battleground 1948: Truman, Stevenson, Douglas, and

the Most Surprising Election in Illinois History and Paul Powell of Illinois: A Lifelong

Democrat. He was a journalist for Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers in Illinois from 1962

to 1979 and served as executive editor of the Toledo Blade and as publisher of the

Journal-American in Bellevue, Washington.

Southern Illinois University Press www.siupress.com

The Dealmakers of Downstate Illinois

Paul Powell, Clyde L. Choate, John H. StelleRobert E. Hartley

An unprecedented look at the groundbreaking work of three powerful southern Illinois politicians

Many people are unaware that from

1945 to 1975, downstate lawmakers

dominated the Illinois political arena.

In The Dealmakers of Downstate Illi-

nois, Robert E. Hartley details the lives

and contributions of three influential

southern Illinois politicians, Paul Pow-

ell, Clyde Choate, and John Stelle. He

describes how these “dealmakers”

were able to work with Democrats

and Republicans throughout the state

to bring jobs and facilities to their re-

gion. Using a variety of coalitions,

they maintained downstate political

strength in the face of growing Chi-

cago influence.

Hartley traces the personal histories of

Powell, Choate, and Stelle, shows how

they teamed up to advance a downstate

political agenda, and reviews their chal-

lenges and successes. Beginning with an

account of early experiences, including

the battlefield courage that earned

Choate the Medal of Honor as well as

Stelle’s World War I participation and later

entrepreneurship, the book continues with

an exploration of the groundwork for their

collaborative legislative agenda and their

roles in the growth of Southern Illinois Uni-

versity and the passage of income tax leg-

islation. Hartley reviews the importance

of Powell’s relationship with Governor

Stratton, Choate’s leadership of the 1972

Democratic National Convention and his

relationships with Governor Walker and

with Chicago interests.

The Dealmakers of Downstate Illinois is a

vivid, straightforward tale of fighting in

the legislative chambers, backstabbing

behind the scenes, and trading special

favors for votes in pursuit of not only per-

sonal gain but also the advancement of a

neglected region.

A Just Cause: The Impeachment and Removal of Governor Rod Blagojevich Bernard H. Sieracki. Foreword by Jim Edgar $32.50spCloth 978-0-8093-3463-6232 pages, 6 x 9.25, 16 illustrations

Battleground 1948: Truman, Stevenson, Douglas, and the Most Surprising Election in Illinois HistoryRobert E. Hartley$39.50spCloth 978-0-8093-3266-3264 pages, 6 x 9, 14 illustrations

The Gentleman from Illinois:Stories from Forty Years of Elective Public ServiceAlan J. Dixon$39.95tCloth 978-0-8093-3260-1384 pages, 6 x 9, 20 illustrations

Also of Interest

“Veteran journalist Hartley captures neatly the ‘do good and do well’ political culture of southern Illinois through incisive portraits of three of the region’s most colorful and effective political leaders.”

—Jim Nowlan, coauthor of Illinois Politics and Fixing Illinois

AMERICAN HISTORY

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John Dewey, America’s Peace-Minded Educator

Charles F. Howlett and Audrey CohanThe pacifist activism of one of America’s leading educational theorists

One of America’s preeminent educa-

tional philosophers and public intellectu-

als, John Dewey is perhaps best known

for his interest in the study of pragmatic

philosophy and his application of pro-

gressive ideas to the field of education.

Carrying his ideas and actions beyond

the academy, he tied his philosophy to

pacifist ideology in America after World

War I in order to achieve a democratic

world order. Although his work and life

have been well documented, his role in

the postwar peace movement has been

generally overlooked.

In America’s Peace-Minded Educator,

authors Charles F. Howlett and Audrey

Cohan take a close look at John Dewey’s

many undertakings on behalf of world

peace. Exploring his use of pragmatic

philosophy to build a consensus for

world peace, Howlett and Cohan illumi-

nate a previously neglected aspect of

his contributions to American political

and social thought and remind us of the

importance of creating a culture of peace

through educational awareness.

Charles F. Howlett, a professor of education at Molloy College, is a coedi-

tor of Antiwar Dissent and Peace Activism in World War I America: A Documentary

Reader and the author, coauthor, or coeditor of seven other books and numerous

articles.

Audrey Cohan, a professor and a former department chair of education at Mol-

loy College, is a coauthor of Beyond Core Expectations: A Schoolwide Framework

for Serving the Not-So-Common Learner and a coauthor or coeditor of six other

books and many articles.

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John Dewey and Continental Philosophy Edited by Paul Fairfield$40.00sPaper 978-0-8093-3304-2280 pages, 6 x 9

Unmodern Philosophy and Modern PhilosophyJohn Dewey. Edited and with an Introduction by Phillip Deen. Foreword by Larry A. Hickman$60.00sCloth 978-0-8093-3079-9400 pages, 6.125 x 9.25

John Dewey’s Educational Philosophy in International Perspective: A New Democracy for the Twenty-First CenturyEdited by Larry A. Hickman and Giuseppe Spadafora$55.00sCloth 978-0-8093-2911-3192 pages, 6 x 9

Also of Interest

“Although John Dewey’s reputation as a leading philosopher and educator is well established, far less is known about his participation in the quest for a peaceful world. This book helps restore the balance by providing an important, detailed, and well-researched study of Dewey’s intense, sometimes painful engagement with issues of war and peace.”

—Lawrence S. Wittner, professor of history emeritus, SUNY at Albany

THEATER

FILM

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June $40.00sPaper 978-0-8093-3468-1

312 pages, 6 x 9, 19 illustrationsTheater in the Americas

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Experiments in DemocracyInterracial and Cross-Cultural Exchange

in American Theatre, 1912–1945Edited by Cheryl Black and Jonathan Shandell

Modeling a more inclusive, democratic America through cross-cultural and interracial performances

In the first half of the twentieth century,

a number of American theatres and the-

atre artists fostered interracial collab-

oration and socialization on stage, be-

hind the scenes, and among audiences.

In an era marked by entrenched racial

segregation and inequality, these artists

used performance to bridge America’s

persistent racial divide and to bring

African American, Latino/Latina, Asian

American, Native American, and Jewish

American communities and traditions

into the nation’s broader cultural

conversation.

Focusing on questions of race, ethnicity,

gender, and sexuality on the stage in

the decades preceding the Civil Rights

era, Experiments in Democracy fills an

important gap in our understanding

of the history of the American stage—

and sheds light on these still-relevant

questions in contemporary American

society.

Cheryl Black is a professor of theatre and an administrator at the University of

Missouri. She is the author of The Women of Provincetown, 1915–1922, the presi-

dent of the American Theatre and Drama Society, and a fellow of the Mid-America

Theatre Conference.

Jonathan Shandell is an associate professor of theater arts at Arcadia Uni-

versity. His work has been published in the anthologies The Cambridge Companion

to African American Theater and Authentic Blackness–“Real” Blackness: Essays on

the Meaning of Blackness in Literature and Culture. He is the president of the Black

Theatre Association.

June $40.00sPaper 978-0-8093-3496-4

248 pages, 6 x 9, 19 illustrations

When the Cock CrowsA History of the Pathé Exchange

Richard Lewis WardThe story of an independent film and distribution company in early HollywoodInfluential during Hollywood’s si-

lent-film era, the Pathé Exchange was

a multinational film company with a

production and distribution model very

different from the self-contained units

of most major studios. When the Cock

Crows: A History of the Pathé Exchange,

by Richard Lewis Ward, tells the uncon-

ventional story of this unique company,

examining its triumphs and failures on

the margins of the Hollywood system

and its legacy in the movie business.

Ward traces the company’s turbulent

evolution from its roots as an American

distributor for its French parent studio,

through its many subsequent changes

in ownership, to its final years under

the controversial leadership of Joseph

P. Kennedy and the eventual merger of

the company’s production department

with RKO.

Film historians have largely ignored the

Pathé Exchange, despite its having pro-

duced some of the most famous early

serials (including The Perils of Pauline)

and distributed the first films of comedy

legends Harold Lloyd, Harry Langdon,

Laurel and Hardy, and Our Gang. When

the Cock Crows reveals the promise and

peril of early Hollywood and establishes

the company’s vital place in film history,

creating a more vivid picture of this era.

Richard Lewis Ward is an associate professor at the University of South

Alabama. He is the author of A History of the Hal Roach Studios, as well as numer-

ous articles about film history, particularly in the silent era.

RHETORIC

AMERICAN HISTORY

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Secret HabitsCatholic Literacy Education for Women

in the Early Nineteenth Century

Carol MattinglyThe forgotten contributions of Catholic women to literacy in early America

Literacy historians have credited the Prot-

estant mandate to read scripture, as well

as Protestant schools, for advances in

American literacy. This belief, however,

has overshadowed other important efforts

and led to an incomplete understanding of

our literacy history. In Secret Habits: Cath-

olic Literacy Education for Women in the

Early Nineteenth Century, Carol Mattingly

restores the work of Catholic nuns and sis-

ters to its rightful place in literacy studies.

Mattingly shows that despite widespread

fears and opposition, including attacks by

vaunted northeastern Protestant pioneers

of literacy, Catholic women nonetheless

became important educators of women

in many areas of America. Using a per-

formative rhetoric of good works that

emphasized civic involvement, Catholic

women were able to educate large num-

bers of women and expand opportunities

for literacy instruction.

A needed corrective to studies that have

focused solely on efforts by Protestant

educators, Mattingly’s work offers new

insights into early nineteenth-century

women’s literacy, demonstrating that lit-

eracy education was more religiously and

geographically diverse than previously

recognized.

Carol Mattingly is a professor emerita at the University of Louisville. She is

the author of Appropriate(ing) Dress: Women’s Rhetorical Style in Nineteenth-Cen-

tury America. Her writing has won the Elizabeth A. Flynn Award.

An Indispensable LibertyThe Fight for Free Speech

in Nineteenth-Century America

Edited by Mary M. CroninMost Americans today view freedom of

speech as a bedrock of all other liberties,

a defining feature of American citizen-

ship. During the nineteenth century, the

popular concept of American freedom

of speech was still being formed. In An

Indispensable Liberty: The Fight for Free

Speech in Nineteenth-Century America,

contributors examine attempts to restrict

freedom of speech and the press during

and after the Civil War.

The nine essays that make up this collec-

tion show how, despite judicial, political,

and public proclamations of support

for freedom of expression, factors like

tradition, gender stereotypes, religion,

and fear of social unrest often led to nar-

row judicial and political protection for

freedom of expression by people whose

views upset the status quo.

The volume’s contributors blend social,

cultural, and intellectual history to un-

tangle the complicated strands of nine-

teenth-century legal thought. By chron-

icling the development of modern-day

notions of free speech, this timely collec-

tion offers both a valuable exploration of

the First Amendment in nineteenth-cen-

tury America and a useful perspective on

the challenges to civil liberties today.

Mary M. Cronin is an associate professor in the Department of Journalism

and Mass Communications at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. She is a

coauthor of The Mass Media: Invention, Development, Application, and Impact and

has published numerous essays and articles.

LITERACY

BEAT STUDIES

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Reimagining Popular Notions of American Intellectualism

Literacy, Education, and ClassKelly Susan Bradbury

Redefining what it means to be an intellectual in the twenty-first centuryThe image of the lazy, media-obsessed

American, preoccupied with vanity and

consumerism, permeates popular culture

and fuels critiques of American education.

In Reimagining Popular Notions of Ameri-

can Intellectualism, Kelly Susan Bradbury

challenges this image by examining and

reimagining widespread conceptions of

American intellectualism that assume in-

tellectual activity is situated solely in elite

institutions of higher education.

Drawing on case studies as well as Brad-

bury’s own experiences with students,

Reimagining Popular Notions of Amer-

ican Intellectualism demonstrates that

Americans have engaged and do engage

in the process and exercise of intellectual

inquiry, contrary to what many people

believe. Addressing a topic often over-

looked by rhetoric, composition, and lit-

eracy studies scholars, it offers methods

for helping students reimagine what it

means to be intellectual in the twenty-first

century.

The Green GhostWilliam Burroughs and the Ecological Mind

Chad WeidnerRereading Burroughs from an ecocritical perspective

The Green Ghost, by Chad Weidner, uncov-

ers the ecological context of literary texts

by William Burroughs. Until now, much

scholarly work on Burroughs has focused on

the sensational aspects of his life and inno-

vative writing. By rereading canonical and

ignored texts while pushing the boundaries

of ecocritical theory and practice, Weidner

provides a fresh perspective on Burroughs

and suggests new theoretical and method-

ological approaches to understanding the

work of other Beat writers.

Using an ecocritical lens, Weidner explores

the toxicity in Naked Lunch, while at the

same time teasing out latent ecological

questions embedded in Burroughs’ later

works. The author’s analysis of unknown

and miniature “cut-ups,” texts that have

been disassembled and rearranged to cre-

ate new texts, provides a new understand-

ing of these cryptic forms. Weidner also

examines in detail books by Burroughs

that have been virtually ignored by critics,

exposing the deep ecology of the Beat writ-

er’s vision.

In calling attention to Burroughs’ narrative

strategies that link him to an environmental

political position, The Green Ghost reveals

the work of the Beat writer as a ripe source

for ecocritical dialogue.

Chad Weidner teaches English and film at University College Roosevelt,

Utrecht University, in the Netherlands. He has published on ecocriticism, experi-

mental aesthetics, Dadaist film, Burroughs, and other Beat writers.

Kelly Susan Bradbury teaches writing and rhetoric at the University of Colo-

rado Boulder and Front Range Community College in Longmont, Colorado. Her work

has been published in Computers and Composition, Community Literacy Journal,

Journal of Teaching Writing, and other journals and essay collections.

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May $45.00sPaper 978-0-8093-3494-0312 pages, 6 x 9, 8 illustrationsStudies in Rhetorics and Feminisms

August $40.00sPaper 978-0-8093-3500-8248 pages, 6 x 9, 12 illustrationsStudies in Rhetorics and Feminisms

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Rethinking EthosA Feminist Ecological Approach to Rhetoric

Edited by Kathleen J. Ryan, Nancy Myers, and Rebecca Jones

Using ecological thinking and feminist rhetorical theory to reimagine ethosLabels traditionally ascribed to women—

mother, angel of the house, whore, or

bitch—suggest character traits that do not

encompass the complexities of women’s

identities or empower women’s public

speaking. Rethinking Ethos redefines the

concept of ethos—classically thought of as

character or credibility—as ecological and

feminist, negotiated and renegotiated, and

implicated in shifting power dynamics.

With its rich mix of historical examples

and contemporary case studies, Re-

thinking Ethos offers a range of new per-

spectives, including queer theory, trans-

national approaches, radical feminism,

Chicana feminism, and indigenous points

of view, from which to consider a feminist

approach to ethos.

Kathleen J. Ryan is an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition and the

coordinator of the writing major at Montana State University. She is a coauthor of

GenAdmin: Theorizing WPA Identities in the Twenty-First Century.

Nancy Myers is an associate professor of English and the director of college

writing at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a coeditor of The

Writing Teacher’s Sourcebook, fourth edition.

Rebecca Jones is a University of Chattanooga Foundation associate pro-

fessor of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her coauthored

article “Counter-Coulter: A Story of Craft and Ethos” is featured in Parlor Press’s

The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals 2013.

RHETORIC

RHETORIC

Antebellum American Women’s PoetryA Rhetoric of Sentiment

Wendy Dasler JohnsonRecovering a nineteenth-century system of

women’s social commentary in poetryAt a time when a woman speaking before

a mixed-gender audience risked acquir-

ing the label “promiscuous,” thousands

of women presented their views about

social or moral issues through sentimen-

tal poetry, a blend of affect with intellect

that allowed their participation in public

debate. Bridging literary and rhetorical

histories, traditional and semiotic interpre-

tations, Antebellum American Women’s

Poetry: A Rhetoric of Sentiment considers

the logos, ethos, and pathos—aims, writ-

ing personae, and audience appeal—of

poems by African American abolitionist

Frances Watkins Harper, working-class

prophet Lydia Huntley Sigourney, and

feminist socialite Julia Ward Howe.

Antebellum American Women’s Poetry

makes a strong case for restoration of a

compelling system of persuasion through

poetry usually dismissed from studies of

rhetoric. This remarkable book will change

the way we think about women’s rhetoric

in the nineteenth century, inviting readers

to hear and respond to urgent, muffled ap-

peals for justice in our own day.

Wendy Dasler Johnson is an associate professor of English at Washing-

ton State University Vancouver whose writing and research focus on women and

cultural rhetorics. She has published articles in Rhetoric Review, South Atlantic

Review, Rhetorica, Journal of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric,

and other journals.

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A Just and Righteous Cause Benjamin H. Grierson’s Civil War MemoirEdited by Bruce J. Dinges and Shirley A. Leckie

In A Just and Righteous Cause: Benjamin H. Grierson’s Civil War Memoir, General Benjamin H. Grierson tells his story in forceful, direct, and highly engaging prose.A non–West Point officer, Grierson owed his developing career to his independent studies of the military and his connections to political figures in his home state of Illinois and later to important Union leaders. A helpful introduction gives background on the memoir and places Grierson’s career into historical context.

Bruce J. Dinges is the director of publications for the Arizona Historical Society and the editor in chief of the Journal of Arizona History.

A professor emerita at the University of Central Florida, Shirley A. Leckie is the author or a coauthor of numerous books, including Unlikely Warriors: General Benjamin H. Grierson and His Family; The Colonel’s Lady on the Western Frontier: The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson; and Their Own Frontier: Women Intellectuals Re-Visioning the American West.

Making the Heartland Quilt A Geographical History of Settlement and Migration in Early-Nineteenth-Century IllinoisDouglas K. Meyer

In Making the Heartland Quilt: A Geographical History of Settlement and Migration in Early-Nineteenth-Century Illinois, Douglas K. Meyer reconstructs the settlement patterns of thirty-three immigrant groups and confirms the emergence of discrete culture regions and regional way stations. Meyers argues that midcontinental Illinois symbolizes a historic test strip of the diverse population origins that unfolded during the Great Migration. Among the more than sixty maps and numerous tables and charts, thirty-three benchmark immigrant region maps provide cartographic diagrams of immigrant clusterings and dispersions.

Douglas K. Meyer is a retired professor of geography at Eastern Illinois University. He is a coauthor of both Common Houses in America’s Small Towns: The Atlantic Seaboard to the Mississippi Valley and A Pictorial Landscape History of Charleston, Illinois.

Shattered Sense of Innocence The 1955 Murders of Three Chicago ChildrenRichard C. Lindberg and Gloria Jean Sykes

Shattered Sense of Innocence tells the gripping story of three murdered boys and the quest to find and bring to justice their killer. The authors recount the bungled police investigation, the failures of law enforcement, and the questionable conviction of Kenneth Hansen, and present new information concerning two suspects overlooked by police for five decades. The authors deftly examine all sides of this tragic story, drawing on exclusive interviews with law enforcement agents, with horse trainers affiliated with the so-called horse mafia, and with the man convicted of the murders, Kenneth Hansen.

Richard C. Lindberg is the author of seventeen critically acclaimed volumes of history about the City of Chicago. He is a past president of both the Illinois Academy of Criminology and the Society of Midland Authors.

Gloria Jean Sykes is a documentary film producer and investigative journalist-reporter, criminal profiler, author, and radio show host. Three of her specials have won Emmy nominations. Her first feature movie, the HBO Original Cheaters, also earned an Emmy nomination.

Southern Illinois Birds An Annotated List and Site GuideW. Douglas Robinson

Designed to help bird watchers in the field and at home discover the significance of their observations, Southern Illinois Birds surveys both the published literature on southern Illinois birds and the unpublished field notes of active observers. Robinson has produced a definitive reference for ornithologists and amateur bird watchers alike, conservation and government agencies, college students in biology, and future researchers who wish to determine the status and abundance of southern Illinois birds.

W. Douglas Robinson, born and raised in southern Illinois, earned two degrees at Southern Illinois University and a PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He studies responses of birds to environmental change in North America and Panama. In addition to scientific research, he enjoys traveling the world in search of avian adventures. He is currently a professor of wildlife science at Oregon State University.

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Methods and Practice of Elizabethan SwordplayCraig Turner and Tony Soper. Foreword by Joseph Papp

Featuring period drawings and prints of swordplay, this book examines and compares the only three existing Elizabethan fencing manuals written in English before 1600: Giacomo Di Grassi’s His True Arte of Defense (1594), Vincentio Saviolo’s His Practice in Two Bookes (1595), and George Silver’s Paradoxes of Defence and Bref Instructions upon My Paradoxes of Defence (1599).More than a technical manual on swordplay, this book explores the influence of a new form of violence introduced into Elizabethan culture by the invention of the rapier. As producer Joseph Papp notes in his foreword, this is a book that “makes a difference in performance.”

Craig Turner is a professor of theater at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Tony Soper is an actor and a fight director who has handled fight roles ranging from Shakespeare to samurai.

Anglo-American Feminist Challenges to the Rhetorical Traditions Virginia Woolf, Mary Daly, Adrienne RichKrista Ratcliffe

In Anglo-American Feminist Challenges to the Rhetorical Traditions, Ratcliffe explores ways in which the rhetorical theories of Virginia Woolf, Mary Daly, and Adrienne Rich may be extrapolated from their Anglo-American feminist texts through examination of the interrelationship between what these authors write and how they write. Thus Ratcliffe shows how feminist texts about women, language, and culture may be reread from the vantage point of rhetoric to construct feminist theories of rhetoric. In extrapolating rhetorical theories from three feminist writers not generally considered rhetoricians, Ratcliffe creates a new model for examining women’s work.

Krista Ratcliffe is a professor and the head of the English Department at Purdue University. She is the author of the award-winning Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, Whiteness and the author or a coauthor of many other books and articles.

Plato, Derrida, and WritingJasper Neel

In Plato, Derrida, and Writing, Jasper Neel analyzes the field of composition studies within the epistemological and ontological debate over writing precipitated by Plato, who would have us abandon writing entirely, and continued by Derrida, who argues that all human beings are written. This book offers a three-part exploration of that debate. In the first part, a deconstructive reading of Plato’s Phaedrus, Neel shows the elaborate sleight of hand that Plato must employ as he uses writing to engage in a semblance of spoken dialogue. The second part describes Derrida’s theory of writing and presents his famous argument that “the history of truth, of the truth of truth, has always been . . . the debasement of writing, and its repression outside full speech.” The concluding section of the book juxtaposes the implications of Platonic and Derridean views of writing, warning that Derrida’s approach may lock writing inside philosophy.

Jasper Neel is a professor of English at Southern Methodist University, where he teaches writing, rhetorical theory, and literature. His books have won the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize and the James L. Kinneavy Award.

After Rhetoric The Study of Discourse beyond Language and CultureStephen R. Yarbrough

Aware that categorical thinking imposes restrictions on the ways we communicate, Stephen R. Yarbrough proposes discourse studies as an alternative to rhetoric and philosophy, both of which are structuralistic systems of inquiry. Discourse studies, Yarbrough argues, does not support the idea that languages, cultures, or conceptual schemes in general adequately describe linguistic competence. He asserts that a belief in languages and cultures “feeds a false dichotomy: either we share the same codes and conventions, achieving community but risking exclusivism, or we proliferate differences, achieving choice and freedom but risking fragmentation and incoherence.” Discourse studies, he demonstrates, works around this dichotomy.

Stephen R. Yarbrough is the Class of ’52 Distinguished Profes-sor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His books include Inventive Intercourse: From Rhetorical Conflict to the Ethical Creation of Novel Truth and Deliberate Criticism: Toward a Postmodern Humanism.

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