Bookmark
Bookmark is a regular review of new books by Sussex authors.
Richard Follett (Reader in American History), Eric Foner and Walter Johnson
Slavery's Ghost: The problem of freedom in the age of emancipation
John Hopkins University Press, £23.50 (hardback)
ISBN: 9781421402352
The publisher says: “Slavery's Ghost explores the dire, debilitating, sometimes crushing effects of slavery on race relations in American history. In three conceptually wide-ranging and provocative essays, the authors assess the meaning of freedom for enslaved and free Americans in the decades before and after the Civil War.”
Jarod Roll (Director of the Marcus Cunliffe Centre for the Study of the American South) and Erik Gellman
Gospel of the Working Class: Labor’s southern prophets in New Deal America
University of Illinois Press, £19.99 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-0252078408
The publisher says: “In this exceptional dual biography and cultural history, Erik S. Gellman and Jarod Roll trace the influence of two southern activist preachers, one black and one white, who used their ministry to organize the working class in the 1930s and 1940s across lines of gender, race, and geography.”
Nicholas Royle (Professor of English)
Veering: A theory of literature
Edinburgh University Press, £60 (hardback)
ISBN: 9780748636549
The publisher says: “In this book, one of our most astute and imaginative contemporary literary critics offers a powerful analysis of the perceived demise of 'theory' and rise of 'creative writing' in literary and cultural studies.”
Anil Seth (Reader in Informatics), Tony Prescott and Joanna Bryson (eds)
Modelling Natural Action Selection
Cambridge University Press, £85 (hardback)
ISBN: 9781107000490
The publisher says: “Action selection is a fundamental problem in biology and ecology. Using advanced computational modelling, this book explores cutting-edge research from a wide range of fields including neuroscience, psychology and behavioural ecology.”