Allegra Hyde's debut story collection, Of This New World, offers a menagerie of utopias: real, im...

For ten months of the year, the prairiechicken's drab colors allow it to disappear into the lands...

What Is Your Quest? examines the future of electronic literature in a world where tablets and e-r...

Now back in print with a new essay, this classic of Iowa history focuses on the Old Order Amish M...

35th Modern Language Association Prize for Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholars, Honorable...

For several decades following the end of the Civil War, the most popular sport in the United Stat...

The Extremities!

Since her first collection, The Keep, Emily Wilson has forged a singular voice in American poetry...

Love, Dirt

City of Clans

Brightening Glance offers a stunningly self-revealing portrait of the struggles and sacrifices, j...

Writing Through Writer's Block

Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures tells the complete story of Johnson's fascinating life, his t...

Whitman's Southern Sojourn

Southern Stages

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What Mennonite Girls Are Good for

For This and Other Cruelties

The state of Iowa is named for the Ioways, but most Iowans--and most Americans--know little about...

'Description: In popular media and scholarship, the default fan is often assumed to be white, Ang...

Superheroes have a sprawling, action packed history that predates Superman by decades and even ce...

High Ground Coward

Examines the role that language played at the turn of the nineteenth century as a marker of one's...

In this engrossing history of the Hawkeye State, Dorothy Schwieder brings her seasoned insight to...

In this first comprehensive study in English of Walt Whitman's reception in the German-speaking c...

A collection of essays which reflect upon the dramatic and not-so-dramatic shifts in Iowa's histo...

In the hot summer of 2004, David Leff floated away from the routine of daily life just as Henry D...

Horace Porter's groundbreaking study addresses Ellison's jazz background, including his essays an...

Seventy-five black and white photos pay tribute to one of America's most enduring rural icons-the...

Landforms of Iowa

By 1888, twenty years after the publication of 'Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was o...

Set mainly in a small town in Alabama, the stories here ache with the relentless longing of the p...

In Whitman East and West, fifteen prominent scholars track the surprising ways in which Whitman's...

This study of six modernist poems by six different poets demonstrates the multiple facets of mode...

Meditations on mortality, modernity, and contemporary poetry, informed by the work of a large num...

Learning how to revise may well be the most excruciating part of writing - frequently it is what ...

Early in the twentieth century, drawing upon the hundreds of letters written to his father by stu...

Devoted conservationist, environmentalist, and explorer Robert Marshall (1901-1939) was chief of ...

The first comprehensive overview of the 12,000-year human history of the Upper Mississippi River ...

Does literature need the book? With electronic texts and reading devices growing increasingly pop...

As a writer covering textiles, art, and craft, Linzee Kull McCray wondered just how deeply fiber ...

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In analyzing kitchen sink realisms, Dorothy Chansky reveals the ways that food preparation, domes...

At once passionate and dispassionate, Rachel Blau DuPlessis meticulously outlines key moments of ...

Providing a synthesis of New York's artistic and literary worlds, this book uses social and philo...

First published in 1953, Social Responsibilities of the Businessman was the first comprehensive d...

Examines late twentieth-and early twenty-first-century poetics and praxis within and against the ...

From 1843, when the first collections were made, until 1987, when an amateur botanist discovered ...