In Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, Jocelyn Harris argues thatJane Austen was a satirist, a celebrity-watcher,and a keen political observer.In Mansfield Park, she appears to baseFanny Price on Fanny Burney, criticizethe royal heir as unfit to rule, and exposeSusan Burney’s cruel husband throughMr. Price. In Northanger Abbey, she satirizes the young Prince of Wales as the vulgar John Thorpe; in Persuasion, she attacks both the regent’s failure to retrench, and his dangerous d...

Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives is the first collection of essays on poet and public intellectual Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825). By international scholars of eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature, these new essays survey Barbauld’s writing from early to late: her versatility as a stylist, her poetry, her books for children, her political writing, her performance as editor and reviewer. They explore themes of sociability, materiality, and affect in Barbauld’s writin...

Jane Austen distinguished herself with genius in literature, but she was immersed in all of the arts. Austen loved dancing, played the piano proficiently, meticulously transcribed piano scores, attended concerts and art exhibits, read broadly, wrote poems, sat for portraits by her sister Cassandra, and performed in theatricals. For her, art functioned as a social bond, solidifying her engagement with community and offering order. And yet Austen’s hold on readers’ imaginations owes a debt t...

Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, methodologies, and theories in the discipline, drawing on contributions from leading anthropologists around the world. As a discipline, medical anthropology provides situational analysis of health, disease, and disability to show how the experiences of medical experts, patients, and their broader communities are informed by their social and cultural contexts. Adopting ...

Southern Cultures Volume 20: Number 1 – Summer 2014Table of ContentsFront Porchby Jocelyn R. Neal“One of the challenges—and, simultaneously, deep pleasures—of studying the South is that the disciplinary walls of the academy neither contain nor constrain the work.”Rewriting ElizabethA Life Lost (and Found) in the Annals of Bryce Mental Hospitalby Lindsay Byron“Her name was never to be spoken. Even upon the lips and within the hearts...

In the Winter 2013 issue of Southern Cultures:How did we get here? Lebanese in Mississippi, Puerto Ricans in Orlando, Californians at Black Mountain, Tennesseans in Texas, and a bust of a South Carolinian that ended up in the North Carolina Museum of Art. The Winter 2013 issue tells the stories of southerners far from home, making new homes where they land.Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Ca...

The Winter 2014 Issue brings us duels and Dashboard Poets, eels and fauxvillages, a beloved television icon, interviews with liberal hero Walter Mondaleand conservative activist Jack Kershaw, Civil War battlefi eld monuments, andmore. From familiar faces and famous legends to humble commemorationsand invented histories, we explore the tensions between preservation andprogress that have forged the region as we know it.

In the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures…Blood rains. Snow falls. Bourbon makes the man. Irish Americans redefine black and white. Camp Wah-Kon-Dah glows in the embers of old memories. The great teacher Arthur Raper opens minds, hearts, and doors. And the creative spaces of geniuses await the next act.Table of ContentsFront Porch by Harry L. Watson“What happens to frontier manhood when blacks, women, and gays drink bourbon too—and white fraterni...

In the Winter 2010 issue of Southern Cultures:Hal Crowther takes on H.L. Mencken (and Rush Limbaugh, too);Southerners battle hornets, rattlesnakes, and bears—so they can pick blackberries;Cowboy Troy crosses country music with hip-hop and says his belt buckle is bling;The experts redraw the boundaries of North and South;The Home of the Double-Headed Eagle rises amidst a line of shotgun shacks;and much more.Southern Cultur...

In the Spring 2010 issue of Southern Cultures, we float down the Redneck Riviera with Harvey H. Jackson III and along Roanoke Island with Bland Simpson, we cross the border with Susan Harbage Page, we examine gender and sexuality at the Citadel with Steve Estes, and we consider our sense of place with William W. Falk and Susan Webb.Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is spon...

In the Summer 2013 issue of Southern Cultures:Dixie Bohemians and Inner Hillbillies. Poutin’ Houses and Moon Pies. The economics of slavery and the integrity of farming. The Wilmington Insurrection and Wednesday morning miracles. The Summer Issue promises more of what Southern Cultures does best: southern lives, real and imagined, re-imagined.Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. ...

In the Spring 2011 issue of Southern Cultures — The Irish Issue — Front Porch by Harry L. Watson“The authors in this special issue on Ireland and the South argue that the Irish left an outsized imprint on the cultures of the American South and forged a persistent affinity between Ireland and the South.”“A lengthening chain in the shape of memories”The Irish and Southern Culture by William R. Ferris“Irish rockers U2 are committed fans of B.B. King and w...