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Includes twenty-four essays, including a preface, introduction, afterword, and sections containing seminal methodological pieces by such giants as Edward Said and Michel Foucault, as well as contemporary applications to Beowulf and other Old English and Germanic texts focusing on historicism, psychoanalysis, gender, textuality, and post-colonialism.

In Afflicting the Comfortable, Thomas Stafford relates tales of the responsibility of journalism and politics in coordination with scandals that have unsettled the West Virginia over the past few decades. His probing would take him from the halls of Charleston to the centre of the US's ruling elite.

Intertwines literature, agriculture, and ecology as author Jim Minick takes the reader on many journeys, allowing you to float on a pond, fly with a titmouse, gather ginseng, and grow the lowly potato. Using his background as a blueberry farmer, gardener and naturalist, Minick explores the Appalachian region.

Shows how the excesses of the Gilded Age and the latitude accorded industrialists of the time created an impact on the fragile economy of West Virginia that accounts for much of the political and economic landscape of the modern state. Gracefully written and thoroughly researched, West Virginia and the Captains of Industry is a classic work of West Virginia history.

A border county in a border state, Barbour County, West Virginia felt the full terror and tragedy of the Civil War. By examining and interpreting long-ignored documents of the times and the personal accounts of the people who were there, Clash of Loyalties offers a startling new view of America's most bitter hour.

Ths is the third and final volume of an ambitious research initiative begun in 1999 concerned with the image of the cross, showing how its very material form cuts across both the culture of a society and the boundaries of academic disciplines - history, archaeology, art history, literature, philosophy, and religion - providing vital insights into how symbols function within society.

Recounts how the work of nineteenth-century legal historians influenced the editing of Old English texts, most notably Beowulf, in ways that are still preserved in our editions. This situation has been a major contributor to the archaizing of Beowulf.

Examines the issues facing the textual transmission of Anglo-Saxon writings. Eight established scholars consider the ideas of textual identity, authorship and translation, and editorial standards and obligations. This work also features a scholarly exchange of ideas and photographs of the original Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.

In Magnetic North an aging warrior and his best friend - perhaps his only friend - ride motorcycles to Alaska, with the ultimate goal of riding to the Arctic Circle. It is a ride that mirrors their lives, a ride that causes old stories, old trials, old darkness to come, once again, through the spinning wheels of the machines they are riding.

"Cinco Becknell is the story of a homeless man with no memory. Locked in the emptiness of his mind is a secret, a past, which will either keep him alive or get him killed. This novel, based on generations of violent, local family history, is set in the underbelly of the pseudo-glitzy streets of Santa Fe, New Mexico"--

In the third and final part of the Crum Trilogy, Jesse Stone once again embarks upon his constant search for a place in the world. Full of intense violence and cutting humour, this tale is the culminating confession of a young man who has wandered from a small town in West Virginia and back again in the hopes of finding his home.