Southern Illinois University Press

  • A Profile of Twentieth-Century American Poetry

    Seven chronologically arranged essays—each covering roughly a decade from 1908 through 1988—plus two special-focus essays on black and female poets, an introduction by Ed Folsom, and a preface by editors…

    $32.00
  • A Readable Beowulf

    Stanley B. Greenfield, one of the world’s foremost Anglo-Saxon scholars, writes of why, after more than thirty years of study, he undertook the Herculean task of rendering Beowulf into con­temporary…

    $32.00
  • A Register of English Theatrical Documents, 2 Volume set

    This significant reference work is an unprecedented attempt to compile a chronological list of all documents related to the management and regulation of the theatres in England from the reopening…

    $92.00
  • A Southern Illinois Album

    Life on the road was anything but glamorous for Farm Security Administration photographers traveling through southern Illinois in the mid-1930s. Often their most promising subjects lived at the end of…

    $24.95
  • A Student Guide to Play Analysis

    With the skills of a playwright, the vision of a producer, and the wisdom of an experienced teacher, David Rush offers a fresh and innovative guide to interpreting drama in…

    $60.00
  • A Student Guide to Play Analysis

    With the skills of a playwright, the vision of a producer, and the wisdom of an experienced teacher, David Rush offers a fresh and innovative guide to interpreting drama in…

    $32.00
  • A Tawdry Place of Salvation

    Through these essays—which deal with Bowles’s published as well as her unpublished work—Skerl seeks to generate serious critical attention for an important but neglected female experimental writer of the mid-twentieth…

    $39.00
  • A War of Words in the Discourse of Trade

    This study by Phillip Eubanks challenges traditional accounts of metaphor and significantly expands theories of “conceptual” metaphor by examining Trade Is War metaphor as it occurs in concrete discourse.Although scholarly…

    $20.00
  • A Woman’s Story of Pioneer Illinois

    Christiana and John Tillson moved from Massachusetts to central Illinois in 1822. Upon arriving in Montgomery County near what would soon be Hillsboro, they set up a general store and…

    $19.50
  • Abraham Lincoln

    In 1890 Abraham Lincoln’s two main White House secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, published the ten-volume biography Abraham Lincoln: A History. Although the authors witnessed the daily events…

    $26.50
  • Activist Rhetorics and American Higher Education, 1885-1937

    In this study of the history of rhetoric education, Susan Kates focuses on the writing and speaking instruction developed at three academic institutions founded to serve three groups of students…

    $40.00
  • African American Literacies Unleashed

    This pioneering study of African American students in the composition classroom lays the groundwork for reversing the cycle of underachievement that plagues linguistically diverse students. African American Literacies Unleashed: Vernacular…

    $35.00