Author: Robert B. Shaw
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Keywords: history, guide, verse, blank
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2007-04-16
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0821417576
ISBN-13: 9780821417577

Blank verse—unrhymed iambic pentameter—is familiar to many as the form of Shakespeare’s plays and Milton’s Paradise Lost. Since its first use in English in the sixteenth century, it has provided poets with a powerful and versatile metrical line, enabling the creation of some of the most memorable poems of Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Frost, Stevens, Wilbur, Nemerov, Hecht, and a host of others. A protean meter, blank verse lends itself to lyric, dramatic, narrative, and meditative modes; to epigram as well as to epic. Blank Verse is the first book since 1895 to offer a detailed study o

Author: Michelle Allen
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Keywords: victorian, london, geographies, sanitary, city, cleansing
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2008-01-22
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0821417711
ISBN-13: 9780821417713

Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London explores not only the challenges faced by reformers as they strove to clean up an increasingly filthy city but the resistance to their efforts. Beginning in the 1830s, reform-minded citizens, under the banner of sanitary improvement, plunged into London’s dark and dirty spaces and returned with the material they needed to promote public health legislation and magnificent projects of sanitary engineering. Sanitary reform, however, was not always met with unqualified enthusiasm. While some improvements, such as slum clearances, the d

Author: Brent Shannon
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Keywords: culture, britain, consumer, dress, men, coat
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-10-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0821417037
ISBN-13: 9780821417034

The English middle class in the late nineteenth century enjoyed an increase in the availability and variety of material goods. With that, the visual markers of class membership and manly behavior underwent a radical change. In "The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860-1914", Brent Shannon examines familiar novels by authors such as George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hughes, and H. G. Wells, as well as previously unexamined etiquette manuals, period advertisements, and fashion monthlies, to trace how new ideologies emerged as mass-produced clothes, sartorial ma

Author: Sam Crowl
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Keywords: era, branagh, kenneth, cineplex, shakespeare
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2005-10-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0821416677
ISBN-13: 9780821416679

SAMUEL CROWL’S Shakespeare at the Cineplex: The Kenneth Branagh Era is the first thorough exploration of the fifteen major Shakespeare films released since the surprising success of Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V (1989). Crowl presents the rich variety of these films in the "long decade" between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The productions range from Hollywood-saturated films to more modest, experimental offerings. Now available in paperback, Shakespeare at the Cineplex will be welcome reading for fans, students, and scholars of Shakespear

Author: Jennifer Rose
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Keywords: poems, hour, hometown
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2006-02-14
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0821416561
ISBN-13: 9780821416563

IN HER SECOND COLLECTION of poems, Jennifer Rose writes primarily of places and displacement. Using the postcard’s conventions of brevity, immediacy, and, in some instances, humor, these poems are greetings from destinations as disparate as Cape Cod, Kentuckiana, and Croatia. Rich in imagery, deftly crafted, and imbued with a lightness of voice, these poems are also postmarked from poetry’s more familiar provinces of love, nature, and loss. Chosen from hundreds of submissions, Hometown for an Hour is the winner of the ninth Hollis Summers Poetry Prize.

Authors:Alan M. Stevens, A. Schmidgall-Tellings,
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Keywords: dictionary, english, indonesian, comprehensive
Number of Pages: 1184
Published: 2004-08-30
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0821415840
ISBN-13: 9780821415849

The most authoritative and up-to-date resource on the Indonesian language today, A Comprehensive Indonesian-English Dictionary is an essential reference for students, tourists, business people, and scholars of Indonesian. This major new dictionary is the most modern and inclusive Indonesian-English dictionary available. The product of more than twenty years of research and documentation of the Indonesian language and culture, A Comprehensive Indonesian-English Dictionary is designed to be as user-friendly as possible. Root words, meanings, proverbs, and idioms, compounds that begin with th

Author: Jonathan Haynes
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Keywords: ris, africa, series, ohio, revised, video, films, nigerian
Number of Pages: 287
Published: 2000-08-30
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0896802116
ISBN-13: 9780896802117