Timothy Russell Sweet

Children of the Wood: Thirty Years of Mountain Adventure

Summits offer breath taking views. Getting there offers you a lifetime of memories. These are some of the memories that my brother and I have earned while in pursuit of those summits. After thirty great years of adventures, trials, and personal growth we have come to realize that the true gift was ...

BLACKWATER CHRONICLE (WEST VIRGINIA & APPALACHIA)

West Virginia University English Professor Timothy Sweet edited the second volume in our West Virginia and Appalachia series. The Blackwater Chronicle by Philip Pendleton Kennedy was originally published in 1853, but this wilderness travelogue about the exploration of Canaan Valley has appeal far be...

Iron Arm: The Mechanization of Mussolini's Army, 1920-40 (Stackpole Military History Series)

A detailed study of Italy's long-ignored tank force Explores the intersection of technology, war, and society in Mussolini's Italy Second only to Germany in number of tank divisions, first to create an armored corps Though overshadowed by Germany's more famous Afrika Korps, Italian tanks formed a la...

A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in American Art History

Issues of ecology - both as they appear in the works of nature writers and in the works of literary writers for whom place and the land are central issues - have long been of interest to literary critics, and have given rise over the last two decades to the now firmly established field of ecocritici...

American Georgics: Economy and Environment in American Literature, 1580-1864

In classical terms the georgic celebrates the working landscape, cultivated to become fruitful and prosperous, in contrast to the idealized or fanciful landscapes of the pastoral. Arguing that economic considerations must become central to any understanding of the human community's engagement with t...

Witness to Reconstruction: Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894

In the wake of the Civil War, Constance Fenimore Woolson became one of the first northern observers to linger in the defeated states from Virginia to Florida. Born in New Hampshire in 1840 and raised in Ohio, she was the grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper and was gaining success as a writer when sh...

Traces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crisis of the Union (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)

"'Traces of War' has helped pry open new lines of inquiry into the literature of the Civil War."--Louis P. Masur, 'American Quarterly.

Traces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crisis of the Union

American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature

The Blackwater Chronicle: A Narrative of an Expedition into the Land of Canaan in Randolph County, Virginia