Books from University of Iowa Press

King James and Letters of Homoerotic Desire
By David M. Bergeron
" King James and Letters of Homoerotic Desire presents a modern-spelling edition of seventy-five letters exchanged between Buckingham and James. Across the centuries, commentators have condemned the letters as indecent or repulsive.
Stagestruck Filmmaker: D. W. Griffith and the American Theatre
By David Mayer
In 1915, he supervised George Nicholls, a former Biograph actor who had followed Griffith to California, as Nicholls directed an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts (1881) (variously released as The Curse and The Wreck).3 In the same ...
Ledger
By Susan Wheeler
Barry. Lyndon. in. Spring. Lake,1985. Benched by the duck pond, he talks about book learning, swinging his leg on the other, back, forth: diffident in her rage. And you cannot help overhearing — her tirade, his wheedling replies.
Iowa Railroads: The Essays of Frank P. Donovan, Jr.
By Frank Pierce Donovan
The Short Line subsequently became the Sioux City , O'Neill & Western , which later was headed by his associate — Arthur S. Garretson . When the successor road went bankrupt following the panic of 1893 , Hills was appointed receiver .
Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York
By Michael V. Pisani
... hippodrama (or equestian drama), and spectacle were all represented by characters in Planché's “Camp of the Combined British Dramatic Forces” in The Camp at the Olympic (London: Olympic, 1853). Parody cited in Michael R. Booth, ...
Books & My Food: Literary Quotations and Original Recipes for Every Day in the Year
By Elisabeth Luther Cary, Annie M. Jones
Literary Quotations and Original Recipes for Every Day in the Year Elisabeth Luther Cary, Annie M. Jones. Literary Quotations and Original Recipes for Every Day in the Year Elisabeth Luther Cary and Annie M. Jones Foreword by David E.
Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a Mobile Culture
By Joe Amato
Watchfriends and Rack Screams: Works from the Final Period, 1945–48. Ed. Bernard Bador. Trans. Clayton Eshleman. Cambridge, MA: Exact Change, 1995. Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. Trans.
Strange Duets: Impresarios and Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865-1914
By Kim Marra
Havelock Ellis claimed to dismiss the idea of a male soul inside the female invert's body and pointed out that cross-dressing did not necessarily indicate sexual inversion.Yet he nevertheless asserted that in the “actively inverted ...
Kicking Ass in a Corset: Jane Austen’s 6 Principles for Living and Leading from the Inside Out
By Andrea Kayne
She is described as more talented, beautiful, and hardworking than Emma but not nearly as fortunate, as Jane is the poor, orphaned niece of Miss Bates, the poor woman who is friends with everyone in genteel society and lives ...
The Vascular Plants of Iowa: An Annotated Checklist and Natural History
By Lawrence J. Eilers, Dean M. Roosa
Peck, J. H., J. С Nekola, and D. R. Farrar. 1989. Five pteridophytes new to Iowa. Amer. Fern J. 79: 28-29. Peck, J. H., and D. M. Roosa. 1983. Bibliography of Iowa aquatic and wetland plant literature. Proc. Iowa Acad. Sei. 90: 72-77.
Gardening the Amana Way
By Lawrence L. Rettig
... ofNature in Iowa By Cornelia F. Mutel The Farm at Holstein Dip: An Iowa Boyhood By Carroll Engelhardt Forest and Shade Trees ofIowa By Peter].van der Linden and Donald R. Farrar Frontier Forts ofIowa: Indians, Traders, and Soldiers, ...
Reflecting the Audience: London Theatregoing, 1840-1880
By Jim Davis, Victor Emeljanow
... a military spectacle by Planche ́,and J. T. Haines's farce A House Divided.60 He wrote to Macready in 1848: ''I am going to take Drury Lane — the Strand — the Olympic — the Victoria — Sadler's Wells — and the Marylebone.
Places in the Making: A Cultural Geography of American Poetry
By Jim Cocola
... interests in place making help suture some of the divides across their various subject positions. To choose another set of examples just beyond the purview of this study, the subpolar meditations of John Haines's Winter News (1966), ...
Thank You for Being Concerned and Sensitive
By Jim Henry
She looks over toward Maddox and says, very impressed, "Maddox Haines, very good. A girl could do worse." Gladys shows surprise. Chartreuse stands up and dusts off her gown. "I always make it a point to tell the young that everything ...
The Phantom Unmasked: America's First Superhero
By Kevin Patrick
Paul Ryan (1949–2016), who jointly illustrated The Amazing Spider-Man comic strip during 1992–1995, drew his first story for Fantomen magazine in 2001 (Raab and Ryan, 2001) and was subsequently hired to replace George Olesen on The ...
Something Has to Happen Next
By andrew michael roberts
... The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle Michael Heffernan, Love's Answer John Wood, In Primary Light 1994 James McKean, Tree of Heaven Bin Ramke, Massacre of the Innocents Ed Roberson, Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In 1995 Ralph Burns, ...
Violet America: Regional Cosmopolitanism in U.S. Fiction
By Jason Arthur
Violet America takes on the long habit among literary historians and critics of thinking about large segments of American literary production in terms of regionalism or "local color" writing, thus marginalizing important literary works.
Writing At Risk: Interviews Uncommon Writers
By Jason Weiss
Translated by Maria Jolas and Barbara Wright. New York: Braziller, I 98 I. The Use of Speech. Translated by Barbara Wright. New York: Braziller, 1982.. Childhood. Translated by Barbara Wright. New York: Braziller, r983.
As Ding Saw Herbert Hoover
By John M. Henry, Jay N. Darling
This Iowa Heritage Collection edition includes four additional cartoons and a new introduction by Timothy Walch, acting director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, in West Branch, Iowa.
Attributed to the Harrow Painter
By Nick Twemlow
... Places Bin Ramke Matter Michelle Robinson The Life of a Hunter Vanessa Roveto bodys Robyn Schi f Revolver Robyn Schi f Worth Sarah V. Schweig Take Nothing with You Rod Smith Deed Cole Swensen The Book of a Hundred Hands Cole Swensen ...