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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461725503321

Autore

Wise Benjamin E

Titolo

William Alexander Percy [[electronic resource] ] : the curious life of a Mississippi planter and sexual freethinker / / Benjamin E. Wise

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2012

ISBN

1-4696-0190-7

0-8078-6995-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Disciplina

811/.52

B

Soggetti

Poets, American - 20th century

Landowners - Mississippi - Greenville

Plantation life - Mississippi - Greenville

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: stories of belonging -- The stage of Southern history -- Childhood, remembered queerly -- Sewanee -- Southerner in Europe -- Harvard -- The senator's son -- On love, poetry, and war -- The soldier -- The native and nostalgic poet -- The Klan -- On god, sin, and the Mediterranean -- The flood and after -- Uncle Will -- Samoa, sharecropping, and race -- The autobiographer -- Epilogue: on sex, history, and trespassing.

Sommario/riassunto

In this evocative biography, Benjamin E. Wise presents the singular life of William Alexander Percy (1885-1942), a queer plantation owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi. Though Percy is best known as a conservative apologist of the southern racial order, in this telling Wise creates a complex and surprising portrait of a cultural relativist, sexual liberationist, and white supremacist.We follow Percy as he travels from Mississippi around the globe and, always, back again to the Delta. Wise's exploration brings depth and new meaning to Percy's already compelling life story--his promi



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786151803321

Autore

Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, <d. 397.>

Titolo

Hexameron, Paradise, and Cain and Abel / / Saint Ambrose ; translated by John J. Savage

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fathers of the Church, 1961

©1961

ISBN

0-8132-1142-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 457 pages)

Collana

The Fathers of the church, a new translation ; v. 42

Altri autori (Persone)

SavageJohn J

Disciplina

270 s

222/.1106

Soggetti

Sermons, Latin

Sermons, Early Christian

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. xi) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Introduction""; ""Book One The 1st day""; ""Book Two The 2nd day""; ""Book Three The 3rd day""; ""Book Four The 4th day""; ""Book Five the 5th day""; ""Book Six the 6th day""; ""Paradise""; ""Cain and Abel""; ""Index""