Tales from Georgia's Gnat Line

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“The Showy Town of Savannah”...... 1 Dear Reader, John D. Duncan & Sandra L. Underwood Florida Explored...... 2 As a young man, Herman Melville tried teaching school but soon Thomas Peter Bennett traveled the South Seas and had several adventures. His experiences A Natural History of Cumberland Island, led him to write about islands he visited in novels like Omoo and Georgia...... 3 Typee—both of which were bestsellers. He was an early success. He Carol Ruckdeschel (new in paper) followed those works with other sea-travel adventures like Redburn “Forward My Brave Boys!”...... 4 and White-Jacket. Melville worked on a whale ship for a while and Todd Cathey & Gary Waddey (new in paper) became familiar with the tragedy of the whale ship Essex. His next Camp Oglethorpe...... 5 book would be a monumental flop. Moby-Dick failed miserably. Stephen Hoy & William Smith What had begun as a promising writing career turned sour and The Last Orator for the Millhands...... 6 sales of his books would never be enough to make a living. The last Jack Roper fifteen years of his productive life he spent working in a New York An Edgefield Planter and His orldW ...... 7 James O. Farmer Jr., editor Customs position to provide for his family. Melville thought Moby-Dick was his masterpiece. Through the Needle’s Eye...... 8 Linda Bledsoe And, it was. Moby-Dick is the novel that all other novels are measured by. It Tales from Georgia’s Gnat Line...... 9 Larry Walker is considered by many as the original—and still unsurpassed—Great American Novel. Your Autobiography...... 10 Kelly Cherry Great writing is its own reward. Great books are not measured Summoning Shades...... 11 by dollars or even use. Writers write because that is who they are and R. T. Smith what they do. The Incarnational Art of Flannery In his book Why Read Moby-Dick?, Nathaniel Philbrick says that O’Connor...... 12 Moby-Dick is “the one book that deserves to be called our American Christine Bieber Lake (new in paper) bible. As individuals trying to find our way through the darkness, When Fiction and Philosophy Meet...... 13 as citizens of a nation trying to live up to the ideals set forth in our E. Jane Doering & Ruthann K. Johansen constitution, we need, more than ever before, Moby-Dick.” Untold Stories, Unheard Voices ...... 14 Our “American bible”? “Ideals set forth in our constitution”? Jan Whitt Moby-Dick? Power and the People...... 15 On August 1, 2019, we will celebrate the 200th birthday of a Charlotte C. S. Thomas, editor writer who could not make a living on his writing in his own lifetime. Baptists in Early North America— Many people in the nineteenth-century missed Melville and Moby- Meherrin, Virginia, Volume VI...... 16 Dick. What are you missing that the world will be celebrating more Fred Anderson, editor than one hundred years from now? Baptist Theology...... 17 James Leo Garrett (new in paper) Better start reading.

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John D. Duncan, a twelfth-generation “The Showy Town Charlestonian, came to Savannah to teach history at what later became of Savannah” Armstrong State University. He and his The Story of the Architect William Jay wife have shared three passions: the John D. Duncan and restoration of their 1869 Monterey Square townhouse; the creation and Sandra L. Underwood operation of an antique print and book shop; and research and travel to document the life and work of the architect William Jay.

Sandra L. Underwood is professor emerita of Art History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, located in St. Mary’s City, the site of the founding of the Maryland colony. Retirement brought her and her husband to Savannah where they could indulge The influence and legacy of an English architect their shared interests in art and in the early nineteenth-century South architecture.

titles OF INTEREST In December 1817, the English architect William Jay arrived at the busy port of Savannah, Georgia. In the coming four and a half years, he designed several public buildings and private residences in Savannah and a few structures in Charleston, South Carolina. All of his work was remarkable; yet, soon after his departure in 1822, only vague recollections of Jay survived in Savannah, and in Charleston he was forgotten altogether. Early in the twentieth century, Jay’s work was observed by a few prominent Suffer and Grow Murder in the architectural historians, and accounts of his life and labors began to appear. But Strong State Capitol none of these offered satisfying answers to these questions: Just who was this The Life of Ella The Biography of Lt. Gertrude Clanton Col. Robert Augustus man? Where had he come from, and what of his family and friends? Why did he Thomas, 1834–1907 Alston (1832–1879) Carolyn Newton Curry Pamela Chase Hain pursue the profession of architecture, and where and how was he trained? Why Paperback | $19.00t | P508 Hardback | $35.00t | H865 did he venture to Georgia, the last of the English colonies; and why did he leave 978-0-88146-532-7 978-0-88146-430-6 after such a short period of time? And, why had his elegant work not been more noticed in the history of American architecture? This new biography of Jay describes his place in a vibrant but volatile world. The English Regency was marked by the wealth and power of empire, the accomplishments of the industrial revolution, and the emergence of a vast underclass trapped in grinding poverty. Jay’s father, the most popular preacher The Tifts of House Proud of the day, was a leader in evangelical campaigns to bring relief to the poor, to Georgia A Social History Connecticut Yankees of Atlanta foster universal literacy, and to abolish slavery. In this tumultuous environment, in King Cotton’s Interiors,1880–1919 Jay made his way. He suffered many disappointments, but he gained remarkable Court Lori Eriksen Rush John D. Fair Hardback | $45.00t | H883 achievements, not least of which was his lasting imprint on “showy Savannah.” Hardback | $35.00t | H817 978-0-88146-476-4 978-0-88146-218-0 The Old Governor’s Mansion Georgia’s First Executive Residence March 2019 | BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY James C. Turner Paperback | $16.00t | P466 6 x 9 | 464 pp. | Hardback $40.00t | 978-0-88146-689-8 | H965 | Bibliography | Index | Illustrations 978-0-88146-444-3 2 mercer university press SPRING/SUMMER 2019 New Release

Thomas Peter Bennett, a Florida native, is the author of many Florida Explored articles and books about topics now The Philadelphia Connection in Bartram’s synthesized in Florida Explored: The Tracks Philadelphia Connection in Bartram’s Tracks, which is based on his work Thomas Peter Bennett at Harvard, Florida State University, Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences, Florida Museum of Natural History, South Florida Museum, as well as his extensive travels in Bartram’s tracks.

A group biography of the most eminent American scientists of the nineteenth century This unique natural history exploration of Florida by members and correspondents of America’s first research natural history museum— titles OF INTEREST Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences—reveals the science of discovery and collection of unknown plants, animals, fossils, and artifacts of ancient peoples. The early naturalists, Thomas Say,T itian Peale, Thomas Nuttall, John James Audubon, John LeConte, John Torrey, Hardy Croom, Alvan Chapman, Asa Gray, Clarence Moore, Henry Fowler, Henry Pilsbry, Francis Harper, and others were inspired to explore Florida in the tracks of William Bartram, the A Restless Fires The Flower colonial explorer of British East and West Florida and author in 1791 of Travels. Young John Muir’s Hunter and the Thousand Mile People The godfather of the Academy, Bartram was elected to membership shortly Walk to the Gulf in William Bartram in after its founding in 1812 by his students. 1867–68 the Native American James B. Hunt Southeast The discoveries and collections—new plants and animals, fossils, and Paperback | $20.00t | P457 Matthew Jennings, 978-0-88146-393-4 editor artifacts of ancient peoples—made by Bartram and those who followed him Paperback | $19.00t | P485 created databases for research and understanding Florida’s natural heritage, 978-0-88146-483-2 current, and future ecosystems. The Flower Seeker An Epic Poem of Written in the narrative style, notes provide annotations and details for William Bartram novices and academic references for students and scholars interested in specific Philip Lee Williams Hardback | $75.00s | H807 areas such as botany, ornithology, and Florida natural history. 978-0-88146-208-1 Hardback | $55.00t | H820 978-0-88146-228-9 Paperback | $25.00t | P414 978-0-88146-221-0

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Carol Ruckdeschel first visited A Natural History Cumberland Island in the late 1960s as a research assistant at Georgia State of Cumberland University, taking up residence in the Island, Georgia early 1970s. Sea turtles were her first focus, due to their all too obvious Carol Ruckdeschel mortality, but her main interest was and is in the terrestrial ecology of the island. Ruckdeschel organized the stranding network (reporting dead or injured sea turtles), which was later taken over by the National Marine Fisheries Service. She has served as a New in paperback researcher and observer for sea turtle nesting surveys, the Smithsonian Institution, U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Ruckdeschel is author or The most comprehensive picture of the island’s flora, coauthor of numerous articles, and the fauna, geology, and ecology to date book Sea Turtles of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States. Having lived on Cumberland Island for more than forty years, Carol Ruckdeschel’s goal has been to document present conditions of the island’s flora and fauna, establishing a baseline from which to assess future changes. titles OF INTEREST Since the late 1960s, she has witnessed many changes and trends that are often overlooked by those carrying out short-term observations. This compilation of data, along with historic information, presents the most comprehensive picture of the island’s flora, fauna, geology, and ecology to date. This volume will satisfy a general interest in the ecology of Cumberland and other Georgia barrier islands. New information on individual species is presented, contributing to its value as a reference for the Southeast. Journal of a Visit to the Georgia Islands of St. “If you read only one book about Cumberland Island, this is it: Carol Catharines, Green, Ossabaw, Sapelo, Ruckdeschel’s A Natural History of Cumberland Island is a groundbreaking, St. Simons, Jekyll, landmark publication for Southern ecology, and it provides powerful new and Cumberland, with comments insights into the natural and human history of the South’s wildest island.” on the Florida islands of Amelia, —Bill Harlan, Blue Ridge Outdoors Talbot, and St. George, in 1753 Mary R. Bullard and Virginia Wood, editors Hardback | $24.95t | H384 978-0-86554-490-1

M. Todd Cathey has been a student of the Civil War for over thirty years. “Forward My Growing up in Middle Tennessee, his interest in the Civil War developed at Brave Boys!” an early age. His primary focus is the A History of the 11th Tennessee Volunteer common soldier in the Western Theater. Infantry CSA, 1861–1865 Cathey holds several advanced degrees M. Todd Cathey and Gary W. Waddey including two earned doctorates.

A lifelong resident of Nashville, Tennessee, Gary W. Waddey received a BA degree from Vanderbilt University in 1978. Shortly afterwards, he joined New in paperback Northwestern Mutual where he served as a Compliance Principal, working on numerous advisory committees and speaking at regional and national meetings until his retirement in 2011. Waddey is a frequent contributor to local historical publications. Recipient of the 2016 Dr. James I. Robertson Jr. Literary Prize for Confederate History

“Forward My Brave Boys!” tells the story of the 11th Tennessee Infantry, a unit comprised of ten companies of men raised from five Middle titles OF INTEREST Tennessee counties in the early spring of 1861. Join these soldiers as they are transformed from raw citizens into a ferocious band of fighters, eventually becoming part of General Benjamin F. Cheatham’s hard-hitting division. First sent to the Cumberland Gap as part of the Confederate defensive strategy, they were met with Unionist activity in East Tennessee, participated in early battles in Kentucky and stymied an impending Federal invasion through the Gap. As the war progressed, they habitually Combat Chaplain Jefferson Davis’s found themselves in the thickest fighting atM urfreesboro, Chickamauga, and The Life and Civil War Final Campaign Experiences of Rev. Confederate Missionary Ridge, and held the “Dead Angle” at Kennesaw Mountain. The 11th James H. McNeilly Nationalism and the took heavy casualties assaulting the Federal lines in the desperate fighting around M. Todd Cathey Fight to Arm Slaves Hardback | $35.00t | H947 Philip D. Dillard Atlanta, and broke the Union defenses at Franklin in some of the war’s most 978-0-88146-637-9 Hardback | $35.00t | H928 978-0-88146-605-8 brutal hand-to-hand combat. Follow the survivors to Nashville for Hood’s futile attempt to regain the Tennessee capital, and then continue on to Bentonville and their final surrender at Greensboro. This book takes the reader into their camps, on the march, and onto the line of battle through first-hand accounts taken from diaries, letters, and journals. Many never-before-published photographs of the soldiers, newly created battle maps, as well as an extensive biographical roster make this a valuable resource Invisible Hero A Fit Representation for historians and genealogists, and a great addition to the story of the Army of Patrick R. Cleburne of Pandemonium Bruce H. Stewart Jr. East Tennessee Tennessee and the war in the West. Hardback | $35.00t | H756 Confederate Soldiers 978-0-88146-108-4 in the Campaign for Vicksburg William D. Taylor† Hardback | $40.00t | H712 978-0-88146-034-6

Musician, educator, and author Camp Oglethorpe Stephen Hoy grew up in the shadow Macon’s Unknown Civil War Prisoner of historic Gettysburg. The U.S. Air of War Camp, 1862–1864 Force brought him south of the Mason- Dixon Line to Middle Georgia in the late Stephen Hoy and William Smith 1970s. After returning to civilian life he earned both BA and MA degrees from Mercer University. Currently he enjoys researching and writing about a variety of subjects.

An avid historian and Army veteran, William (Bill) Smith was raised in Macon, Georgia. He worked as an interpreter for the Ocmulgee National Monument where his interest in the history of Macon increased while studying the Monument’s archives. Smith currently operates a custom- A chronological account of Georgia’s little-known POW camp made furniture business and serves on the volunteer Mounted Search and seen through the eyes of Union and Confederate soldiers Rescue team in Middle Georgia. The history of Camp Oglethorpe is largely overshadowed by that of nearby Camp Sumter in Andersonville, Georgia. It exists primarily as a footnote in the telling of Civil War prison narratives. A comprehensive Titles of interest reckoning reveals a saga that brings to light Camp Oglethorpe’s decades-long role as a military training ground for Georgia’s volunteer regiments and as a venue for national agricultural fairs which drew thousands of visitors to Macon. Its proud heritage, however, attracted the attention of leaders of the Confederate government. To the chagrin of Macon’s citizens, the acreage at the foot of Seventh Street was surreptitiously repurposed for brief periods in 1862 and 1864. Although conditions at Camp Oglethorpe never approached the appalling Georgia’s Civil Last to Join War the Fight state experienced by POWs at Andersonville, its proximity to and association Conflict on the The 66th Georgia with Camp Sumter cast a specter-haunted pall over the site. As Central Georgia Home Front Infantry David Williams Daniel Cone recovered from the tangible vestiges of war, bitter memories minimized interest in Hardback | $35.00t | H942 Hardback | $29.00t | H882 restoring the property to any of its previous incarnations. The deafening sounds 978-0-88146-631-7 978-0-88146-475-7 of the rail commerce that would eventually be situated there were inadequate to drown out the distressful noise of raw silence. The story of Camp Oglethorpe is predominantly remembered by its association with the atrocities of war as reflected in prisoner-of-war narratives. Indeed, the cries of those who demand to be heard haunt its memory. Smith and Hoy tell this story not only as an admonition to the consciences of humanity, but to illuminate history and paint a more complete recollection of the encampment The World’s Largest Civil War Macon Prison The History of a at the foot of Seventh Street. The Story of Camp Confederate City Lawton Richard W. Iobst† John K. Derden Hardback | $35.00t | P400 Paperback | $25.00t | P510 978-0-88146-172-5 978-0-88146-535-8

John (Jack) Herbert Roper Sr. is Richardson Professor of American The Last Orator History Emeritus at Emory & Henry College in Appalachian Virginia. He for the Millhands holds a BA in History from the University William Jennings Bryan Dorn, 1916–2005 of South Carolina, an MA and PhD in Jack Roper History from the University of North Carolina and an MS in Economics from North Carolina State University. Roper returned to his native South Carolina in 2013 and teaches introductory courses and research seminars in Southern Studies at Coastal Carolina University.

The life and legacy of a twentieth-century U.S. Congressman titles of interest from South Carolina William Jennings Bryan Dorn was not a great man, but he was a great representative in all senses of the word (including U.S. congressman) for the middling class of millhands, small time farmers, small town businessmen, educators, and career military people who peopled his rural and small town third congressional district in the red hills of South Carolina. More, he was truly representative of the people, the Lincolnian phrase he adapted usefully to his Southside A Giant from Eufala’s Cotton Mill Georgia political service in office from 1946 to 1975 and behind the scenes from 1976 Village and Its People, The Life of U.S. to his declining years of the twenty-first century. He was the last orator for the 1890–1945 Senator Walter F. David Ernest Alsobrook George, 1878–1957 hundreds of thousands of millhands, the textile workers, and those who relied Hardback | $29.00t | H931 Jamie H. Cockfield 978-0-88146-608-9 Hardback | $45.00t | H955 on the factory floor workers, not only in his state but also in Georgia and North 978-0-88146-676-8 Carolina where the mill folk had more in common with each other inside that Western Piedmont region than they did with the population in their own states. An evangelical Baptist but not particularly a fundamentalist, Dorn insisted on a close and personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and he could speak genuinely within that spirit—though he was careful to say, “don’t emphasize Baptist…I don’t want to lose all those Methodist and Presbyterian and Episcopal folks.” Above all, Dorn responded to his own people, and they showed themselves,

Journey through Richard Brevard especially at crucial moments in 1960, 1963, and 1974 to be ready for genuine My Years Russell Jr. racial integration, genuine opportunities for women, a good and sound education James M. Cox† A Life of Consequence Hardback | $29.95t | H684 Sally Russell (to include the teaching of evolution in public schools), and withal a generosity of 978-0-86554-959-3 Hardback | $35.00 | H834 spirit not often credited them. 978-0-88146-259-3

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James O. Farmer Jr. is the June An Edgefield Rainsford Henderson Chair in Southern and Local History Emeritus at the Planter and His University of South Carolina Aiken. His World book, The Metaphysical Confederacy: James Henley Thornwell and the The 1840s Journals of Whitfield Brooks Synthesis of Southern Values, won the edited by James O. Farmer Jr. Brewer Prize.

An intimate glimpse into the complicated and privileged life of a nineteenth-century South Carolina plantation owner titles OF INTEREST An Edgefield Planter and His World opens a window on the life of an elite family and its circle in a now iconic place, during a crystalizing decade of the Antebellum era. By the time he began a new diary volume in 1840, Brooks (1790–1851) was among the richest men in a South Carolina district known for its cotton-and-slave-generated wealth. His journal reveals Brooks’s attentiveness to his plantation and farms, self-image as a paternal master, religious sensibility, Thomas R. R. Cobb Murder in the genteel but honor-bound bearing, personal and family connections, perspective The Making of a State Capitol on politics, and the effects of debilitating headaches. Southern Nationalist The Biography of Lt. William B. McCash† Col. Robert Augustus With his wife, Charleston heiress Mary Parsons Carroll, Brooks enjoyed and Paperback | $30.00t | P283 Alston (1832–1879) nurtured the social, cultural, and religious life of the village of Edgefield. While 978-0-86554-858-9 Pamela Chase Hain Hardback | $35.00t | H865 expanding his land holdings amid the vicissitudes of planter life, he promoted the 978-0-88146-430-6 developing economy of his state and region. He also participated, mostly behind the scenes, in his state’s politics, in concert with or opposition to leading public figures, some his relatives. Seeking relief from his headaches, Brooks traveled often to South Carolina’s premier Glenn Springs resort, as well as western North Carolina and Florida. While the Brookses gave priority to the futures of their five surviving children, the mercurial temperament of their first-born, future Congressman Our Good and In His Own Words Preston Smith Brooks, was a source of anxiety as well as pride. Herein lies the Faithful Servant Houston Hartsfield James Moore Holloway’s Slavery, unique dimension of this document—its insights into the relationship between a Wayne and Georgia Emancipation, and Unionism Ministry in Georgia father and the son whose archaic sense of honor would provoke perhaps the most Joel McMahon David E. Paterson, sensational instance of Antebellum intersectional violence, the caning of Senator Hardback | $35.00t | H929 editor 978-0-88146-606-5 Hardback | $35.00t | H909 Charles Sumner in 1856. 978-0-88146-545-7

A native of Virginia, Linda Bledsoe worked for thirty-three years as a Through the family nurse practitioner. Always Needle’s Eye passionate about writing, she has copublished articles in various medical A Novel journals. Bledsoe holds degrees from Linda Bledsoe Rockingham Community College (AAS), New York State University (BS in Liberal Arts), and Johns Hopkins University (MAS in Counseling Psychology). She currently resides in Stuart, Virginia, and is working to complete her second novel, along with several children’s Also available as an e-book picture books.

titles of interest “A moving novel about one child’s need for love in a hardscrabble world.” —Ron Rash, author of The Risen

Through the Needle’s Eye is told through the authentic voice of Jessie, a precocious girl raised in the Blue Ridge Foothills of Southern Appalachia after World War II. Saddled Christian Bend Burdy A Novel A Novel with an alcoholic narcissistic father and a passive mother, Jessie Karen Spears Zacharias Karen Spears Zacharias is charged with mothering her siblings as generational curses Paperback | $17.00t | P548 Paperback | $15.00t | P514 978-0-88146-623-2 978-0-88146-539-6 and poverty never cease to overwhelm her family. e-book | $12.00 | P548e e-book | $12.00 | P514e 978-0-88146-624-9 978-0-88146-556-3 As providence would have it, Granny Isabelle—a toothless, wizened humpback spitfire who spouts scriptural admonitions like spears—sets her eagle eye upon Jessie, the child neither parents nor teachers think worthwhile. Sporting a ridiculous paper bag hat, Granny Isabelle chucks clods of dirt with a garden hoe as she earnestly works every stitch of ground to produce beds of corn and green onions to be hawked at nearby markets for nickels and dimes. Through

Mother of Rain Annie Laura’s keen intuition and a special bond, she provides a haven for Jessie’s survival to help A Novel Triumph motivate the child beyond her circumstances. Karen Spears Zacharias A Novel Paperback | $17.00t | P469 Milinda Jay Smokey, a flea infested hound offers Jessie companionship, while kindU ncle 978-0-88146-448-1 Paperback | $16.00t | P539 Rudy commissions her to dance and laugh with abandon. e-book | $12.00 | P469e 978-0-88146-595-2 978-0-88146-450-4 e-book | $12.00| P539e At the end of the day, Jessie and her grandmother stand together, both 978-0-88146-600-3 yearning to find that missing puzzle piece of life, hopeful that one day this undesirable child might choose to travel amongst the heavenly host—past some glittering stars—to proceed right through the needle’s eye.

“This novel is not for the faint of heart.L inda Bledsoe has given us an unflinching look at how poverty can ravage a family. Yet I kept being reminded of James Still’s River of Earth Where the Sleeping Above during the telling. A powerful read.” —Wayne Caldwell, author of Cataloochee Souls Go Chaos A Black Mtn Novel A Black Mtn Novel Ann Hite Ann Hite Paperback | $17.00t | P513 Paperback | $17.00t | P535 July 2019 | HISTORICAL FICTION 978-0-88146-538-9 978-0-88146-584-6 6 x 9 | 280 pp. | Paperback, $17.00t | 978-0-88146-702-4 | P581 e-book | $12.00 | P513e e-book | $12.00 | P535e 978-0-88146-555-6 978-0-88146-599-0 e-book, $12.00 | 978-0-88146-703-1 | P581e New Release 69 www.mupress.org 866-895-1472 9

Larry Walker, a native of Perry, Tales from Georgia, is the founding partner of the law firm, Walker Hulbert Gray & Moore. Georgia’s Walker holds BS and JD degrees from Gnat Line the University of Georgia and served as a prominent politician for thirty-two Larry Walker years in the Georgia General Assembly and Georgia House of Representatives. His articles have appeared in JAMES magazine, Macon’s The Telegraph, and The Houston Home Journal. He is the author of Life on the Gnat Line. Also available as an e-book

“Larry Walker is my friend and a true ‘Georgia Treasure.’” —Nathan Deal, 82nd Governor of Georgia titles OF INTEREST Tales from Georgia’s Gnat Line is about the South—the Deep South; Larry Walker’s part of the world. It’s about good people, and some not so good. It’s about a part of the United States that was, and is, somewhat different from the rest. And it’s about cotton, because in many ways cotton caused Southerners to do some of the things that otherwise good people would not have done. It’s never been easy to be a Southerner—black or white. But it’s worth holding on to, and we must. Walker promises to do his part. He uses “y’all” and does it Crackers Never Put a often. It’s not just the way he speaks, but the way he thinks, y’all means everyone. A Southern Memoir Ten-Dollar Tree in Yes, the road is long and narrow. It’s wider down in the South than it used to Bill Merritt a Ten-Cent Hole Paperback | $18.00t | P529 ...and Other Stories be, and it is getting wider all the time, but there have been recent problems which 978-0-88146-572-3 Ed Grisamore Hardback | $24.00t | H822 will need to be addressed. We can’t afford to fight the Civil War again—either 978-0-88146-233-3 here in the South or elsewhere in this country. This book is about the South of the past, the present, and, if read carefully, of the future.

“Larry Walker has spent 77 years on the Gnat Line…he excels as a listener, and delights you with his endless trove of stories. His recall, humor, and drawl are priceless. He’s as down-home as a plate of your grandma’s cathead biscuits. Read his book, and you will South of the Memory’s Mist understand.” —Dink NeSmith, president, Community Newspapers, Inc. Etowah The View from The View from the the Journey “A lawyer by profession and a devout Southerner by confession, Larry Walker has forged Wrong Side Jackie K. Cooper a varied career including a successful law practice in his hometown of Perry, Georgia, of the River Paperback | $18.00t | P476 Raymond L. Atkins 978-0-88146-464-1 to legislating under the Gold Dome in Atlanta to writing a newspaper column to a love e-book | $12.00 | P476e Paperback | $18.00t | P526 978-0-88146-467-2 of field and stream. His extra-ordinary understanding and appreciation for people and 978-0-88146-565-5 place gained along the journey was evident in Life on the Gnat Line, his first book. Tales e-book | $12.00 | P526e 978-0-88146-583-9 from Georgia’s Gnat Line moves him to the next level in the company of Southern writers. —Jim Minter, journalist and former editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution April 2019 | essays 6 x 9 | 272 pp. | Hardback $27.00t | 978-0-88146-698-0 | H973 e-book $12.00 | 978-0-88146-699-7 | H973e

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Kelly Cherry is the Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Your Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities at the University of Autobiography Wisconsin-Madison. The recipient of Poems numerous honors and awards, Cherry was named the poet laureate of Kelly Cherry Virginia in 2010 and is author of more than twenty-five books of fiction and poetry.

titles of interest Poetry which takes the reader on a journey of self-introspection and self-examination

Your Autobiography takes on the large issues of war and espionage, ethics and theology, identity and family. Kelly Cherry’s travels to Russia began in 1965, where she met a Latvian and the two tried to marry but authorities Memory & The Disappearing refused to allow it. In Your Autobiography, reference to earlier wars (e.g. Complicity Act Poems Poems Vietnam, Syria) leads to Bonhoeffer’s battle with the Nazis on behalf of his Eve Hoffman Sara Pirkle Hughes Paperback | $20.00t | P567 Paperback | $16.00t | P561 church. The poet’s responses to Bonhoeffer’s statement allow a dialogue to form 978-0-88146-659-1 978-0-88146-652-2 from different points of view. That dialogue leads to a sequence about the author’s sister and various “family or domestic wars.” Now that Cherry is the only one left standing, she wishes she could bring them all back, and tries to do so in this book—her sister especially. The collection ends with Cherry’s translation of The Fortunes of Men, which examines how God, perhaps better called Lady Luck, plays her cards. A Memory of Sharps Cabaret Manaus Poems Cherry’s poetry takes the reader on a journey of self-introspection and Poems Katy Giebenhain self-examination. Her words permeate a reader’s being in multiple ways both Catharine Savage Paperback | $16.00t | P543 Brosman 978-0-88146-614-0 emotionally and intellectually. Paperback | $17.00t | P551 978-0-88146-630-0

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R. T. Smith is the author of over a Summoning dozen collections of poetry, most recently The Red Wolf and In the Shades Night Orchard: New and Selected Poems Poems. Formerly writer-in-residence R. T. Smith at Washington and Lee University, he was editor of Shenandoah for twenty- three years. Twice included in The Best American Poetry, Smith lives on Timber Ridge in Rockbridge County, Virginia.

titles of Interest Bringing to life figures from history and recollection with mischievous imagination and wry humor

Homer sends the hero of The Odyssey to interview the dead in order to discover his destiny. The poems of R. T. Smith’s Summoning Shades pursue a similar mission, bringing No Brother, Specter Mountain to life in monologues and narratives figures from history and This Storm Poems recollection, all rendered with careful attention to the idiom, Poems Jesse Graves Jack B. Bedell and William Wright customs, emotions, and ironies of their time and region. Paperback | $16.00t | P572 Paperback | $16.00t | P562 The earlier, nineteenth century figures include Mary Lincoln, Ambrose 978-0-88146-675-1 978-0-88146-653-9 Bierce, Meriwether Lewis, Federal veterans posing as casualties for photographers, women in a Winslow Homer painting, and Audubon’s assistant Joseph Mason. All are rescued from the shadows long enough to reveal their natures and often-gothic moments of crisis. The more modern figures include Lizzie Borden, Patsy Cline, and a gallery of characters summoned from small- town Southern sources—a roguish uncle, a dishonest investigator, a furious Tree Heresies Anthropocene neighbor, a zealous and dangerous preacher. The collection concludes with the Poems Blues narrator attempting to speak with his dementia-stricken mother and, in her, William Wright Poems Paperback | $18.00t | P501 John Lane seeing the mother of Odysseus, “an empty flitting shade” breaking her son’s 978-0-88146-520-4 Paperback | $17.00t | P549 heart as her image eludes his attempts to embrace her. 978-0-88146-625-6 Working from historical sources, a broad empathy, and a mischievous imagination, Smith is able to find wry dark humor and a little succor in the presence of Civil War survivors, rogue musicians, and adventurers. Whether the subjects are major players in the story of America or squabbling Appalachian farmers, Smith keeps hoping their domain will be redeemed from violence. Even damaged Mary Lincoln, incarcerated in an asylum, has a magical blue bird to guide her toward escape and revenge, and dulcimers played in familial Going Farther into Abandoned the Woods than Quarry harmony make the mountains ring. the Woods Go Poems Poems John Lane April 2019 | Poetry Seaborn Jones† Paperback | $20.00t | P428 Paperback | $15.00t | P443 978-0-88146-241-8 6 x 9 | 120 pp. | Paperback, $18.00t | 978-0-88146-700-0 | P579 978-0-88146-272-2

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Christina Bieber Lake is the Clyde S. Kilby Professor of English at Wheaton The Incarnational College where she teaches classes in Contemporary American Literature Art of Flannery and Literary Theory. All of her work O’Connor explores the importance of engaging Christina Bieber Lake the moral imagination through the reading of fiction, poetry, and other imaginative work. An award-winning and committed teacher, she is available as a consultant for institutions who would like to explore how educators can remain inspired to teach. Lake resides in Carol Stream, Illinois. New in paperback

Unafraid of the mystery of being human, art can be the place where we encounter the world anew

The Incarnational Art of Flannery O’Connor argues that O’Connor Other titles in this series designed a unique asthetic to defy the Gnostic dualisms that characterize American intellectual and spiritual life. Focusing on stories with artist figures, objets d’art, child protagonists, and embodied images, Lake describes how O’Connor’s fiction actively resists romantic theories of the imagination and religious life by highlighting the epistemological necessity of the body. Ultimately O’Connor challenges the romantic and modern notion of the artist as a fire-stealing Prometheus and replaces it with a notion of the artist as a locally Inside the Church of Writing Against committed craftsman. Flannery O’Connor God Sacrament, Language as Message Drawing upon M. M. Bakhtin’s early essays in Art and Answerability and Sacramental, and the in the Literature of Sacred in Her Fiction Flannery O’Connor Toward a Philosophy of the Act, Lake illustrates O’Connor’s conviction that art edited by Jon Peede and Joanne H. McMullen deliberately assigns the highest value of transcendental beauty to those beings Joanne H. McMullen Paperback | $25.00t | P179 Paperback | $22.95t | P380 978-0-86554-620-2 least valued by the modern world, and challenges us to do the same. 978-0-88146-138-1 The book culminates with an original reading of “Parker’s Back” that shows how in art, as in life, true knowledge comes to us through our own grotesque bodies and those of others. Unafraid of the mystery of being human, art can be the place where we encounter anew the world as more than what the intellect can unravel.

Misfits and Wingless Chickens, Marble Fauns Bayou Catholics, Religion and and Pilgrim Romance in Wayfarers Hawthorne and Constructions of O’Connor Audience and Wendy Piper Tone in O’Connor, Hardback | $35.00t | H816 Gautreaux, and Percy 978-0-88146-217-3 Lamar Nisly Hardback | $35.00t | H813 March 2019 | LITERARY CRITICISM 978-0-88146-214-2 the flannery o’connor series 6 x 9 | 164 pp. | Paperback, $30.00t | 978-0-88146-706-2 | P583 New Release 69 www.mupress.org 866-895-1472 13

E. Jane Doering is director emerita of When Fiction and the Teachers as Scholars Program at the University of Notre Dame where she Philosophy Meet taught French Language and Literature. A Conversation with Flannery O’Connor She holds degrees from Northwestern and Simone Weil University (PhD), University of Notre Dame (MA), Goucher College (ME), E. Jane Doering and Douglass College of Rutgers University Ruthann Knechel Johansen (BA), and the Sorbonne (Diplôme). Doering is author of Simone Weil and the Specter of Self-Perpetuating Force.

An interdisciplinary teacher and scholar, Ruthann Knechel Johansen is professor emerita at the University of Notre Dame and president emerita of Bethany Theological Seminary. She holds degrees from Drew University (PhD), Columbia University (MA), and Manchester College (BS). Johansen is A cross-disciplinary study of the intersecting thought of a the author of The Narrative Secret of French philosopher and American fiction writer Flannery OConnor: The Trickster As Interpreter. An innovative book, When Fiction and Philosophy Meet explores the intersection between the philosophy of Simone Weil from Paris, France, Other titles in this series and the fiction of Flannery O’Connor from the Southern state of Georgia, USA. In an era of war, of unprecedented human displacements, and of ethnic, racial, and religious fears the ideas of these two intellectuals bear on our present condition. Both women keenly desired to perceive the realities of good and evil inherent in human existence and to bring this truth to the consciousness of their contemporaries. Embracing their belief that truth is eternal but must be transposed and translated, generation after generation, in language appropriate to The Church without Between the the Church House and the each age, the authors acquaint O’Connor readers with concepts in Weil’s religious Desert Orthodoxy in Chicken Yard philosophy as seen in O’Connor’s stories. Doering and Johansen simultaneously Flannery O’Connor’s The Masks of “Dear Old Dirty Flannery O’Connor illustrate how Weil’s philosophy, when embodied in fiction, reveals the lived Southland” Jolly Kay Sharp M. K. Shaddix Hardback | $35.00t | H835 realities of the human condition across time and space. Hardback | $35.00t | H903 978-0-88146-263-0 Simone Weil and Flannery O’Connor were audacious thinkers with 978-0-88146-528-0 Flannery inquiring minds who held clear and firm religious convictions. Each applied her O’Connor understandings of enduring spiritual truths to the challenges of nihilism and The Woman, the Thinker, social oppression as seen in the spreading totalitarianism and the distressing the Visionary Ted R. Spivey† legacy of slavery throughout human history. Both Weil and O’Connor crossed Paperback | $25.00t | P161 disciplinary boundaries and influenced their respective fields with innovative 978-0-86554-557-1 ideas and artistic expressions. Taking their cues from these writers, Doering and Johansen bring these two remarkable women into a four-voiced dialogue—Simone Weil and Flannery O’Connor with Doering and Johansen—by engaging each writer in the forms of her own genre and inviting readers to enter a dialogue of courage with Weil and O’Connor in the postmodern and post-Christian world. April 2019 | LITERARY CRITICISM the flannery o’connor series 6 X 9 | 240 pp. | Hardback $35.00t | 978-0-88146-696-6 | H971 | Bibliography | Index 14 mercer university press SPRING/SUMMER 2019 New Release

An award-winning teacher, Jan Whitt is a professor of Literature and Media Untold Stories, Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of eight Unheard Voices books and numerous articles about Truman Capote and In Cold Blood film, journalism, literature, media Jan Whitt history, television, and women’s issues, including The Redemption of Narrative.

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First book-length manuscript to place In Cold Blood into the genre of crime narratives and to evaluate it as allegory

In Cold Blood remains one of the 100 greatest novels of the The Redemption Cosmic Defiance of Narrative Updike’s Kierkegaard twentieth century, a study of crime and a polemic against capital punishment that Terry Tempest and the Maples Wiliams and Her Stories is without peer. Truman Capote purportedly considered it the “first nonfiction Vision of the West David Crowe novel,” ushering in the era of New Journalism, as defined byT om Wolfe. It also Jan Whitt Hardback | $35.00t | H891 Hardback | $29.00t | H852 978-0-88146-502-0 was the catalyst for a century of crime reporting in America, and crime coverage is 978-0-88146-388-0 by definition popular, involving heightened dramatic conflict, human interest, and questions of morality. The study focuses upon the voices left out of In Cold Blood, which Capote wrote during his whirlwind race to an imaginary finish line. In addition to his lifelong quest to believe in himself and to be the center of every party, Capote was determined to compete with his friend Nelle Harper Lee and her unprecedented The Voice of Blessed Assurance success after the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) and the release of an American The Life and Art Playwright of Horton Foote the film by the same name (1962). The films Capote (2005) and Infamous (2006), Interviews with Marion Castleberry drawn from two biographies about Capote, testify to his unrelenting desire to make Horton Foote Hardback | $35.00t | H892 Gerald C. Wood and 978-0-88146-505-1 In Cold Blood his magnum opus. Until his death in 1984, he never wrote another Marion Castleberry book. Paperback | $22.00t | P454 978-0-88146-397-2

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Charlotte C. S. Thomas is a Power and the professor of Philosophy and co- director of the McDonald Center People for America’s Founding Principles at Thucydides’s History and the Mercer University. She has been on American Founding the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts at Mercer University since 1994, Charlotte C. S. Thomas, editor where she teaches Philosophy and Great Books.

Essays on the great Athenian historian Thucydides, and his Other Titles in this series influence on the founders of the American republic

Based on the 2016 A.V. Elliott Conference on Great Books and Ideas, this volume gathers ten scholarly essays on the great Athenian historian, Thucydides, and his influence on the founders of the American republic. Contributors explore Thucydides’ insights into the challenges of democratic governance, especially for a wealthy and powerful state, what they meant to the When In the Course Promise and Peril of Human Events Republics and American Founders, and why they continue to be relevant today. 1776 at Home, Abroad, Republicanism James Madison had at least four versions of Thucydides’ History in his library, and in American in the History of Memory Political Philosophy and he recommended that his ten-year-old son read them all. He advised him, Will R. Jordan, editor Will R. Jordan, editor in particular, to read Thucydides in his original language. Thomas Jefferson, in Paperback | $24.00t | P568 Paperback | $24.00t | P523 978-0-88146-660-7 978-0-88146-619-5 his retirement, writes that he spends his free time playing with his grandchildren and reading Thucydides. The characters and episodes of Thucydides’ account of Athens’ downfall to Sparta in the Peloponnesian War was important, beloved, and apparently present in their lives from childhood to old age. In this volume contributors address, from many different angles, why this was and how an understanding of Thucydides should inform our understanding of our founding. Contributors include: Clifford Orwin (University of Toronto), Karl Walling The Most Sacred Of Sympathy (U.S. Naval War College), Steven Forde (University of North Texas, retired), Freedom and Selfishness Religious Liberty in the The Moral and Political Allison Levy (St. John’s College), Ann Ward (Baylor University), Norman Fischer History of Philosophy Philosophy of Adam and America’s Founding Smith (Clark Atlanta University), Bernard Dobski (Assumption College), Devin Will R. Jordan and Charlotte C. S. Thomas, Stauffer (University of Texas), Sarah Gardner (Mercer University), and Laurie M. Charlotte C. S. Thomas, editor editors Paperback | $24.00t | P506 Johnson (Kansas State University). Charlotte C. S. Thomas (Mercer University) Paperback | $24.00t | P524 978-0-88146-529-7 978-0-88146-563-1 has written the introduction and serves as editor of this volume. No Greater Monster nor Miracle than Myself The Political Philosophy of Michel de Montaigne March 2019 | Philosophy Charlotte C. S. Thomas, The A. V. Elliott conference series editor Paperback | $24.00t | P487 6 x 9 | 216 pp. | Paperback $24.00t | 978-0-88146-695-9 | P578 978-0-88146-485-6

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Fred Anderson is the executive director emeritus of the Virginia Baptist Baptists in Early Historical Society and the Center for Baptist Heritage & Studies at the North America— University of Richmond. He is a graduate of Berry College, the University of Meherrin, Virginia West Georgia, and Peabody College Volume VI of Vanderbilt University. For thirty years edited by Fred Anderson he was a regular columnist for the Religious Herald.

O THER titles in the series A history of one of the most influential Separate Baptist congregations in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Virginia Baptists in Early North America—Meherrin, Virginia features the transcription of the records of Meherrin, an eighteenth- and early nineteenth- century Baptist church on the frontier of Virginia in rural Lunenburg County.

Baptists in Early Baptists in Early Despite its backwater location and relatively small congregation, Meherrin played North America— North America— a significant role in one of the great episodes of Baptist history in young America: Swansea, First Baptist, Massachusetts Providence the rise of Separate Baptists and their influence inV irginia. Numerous important Volume I Volume II William H. Brackney, Stanley J. Lemons, editor Separate Baptists including Samuel Harris, Jeremiah Walker, Elijah Baker, John series editor; Hardback | $60.00s | H873 Weatherford (all imprisoned for their faith), and John Williams (scribe of the with Charles K. Hartman 978-0-88146-443-6 Hardback | $60.00s | H871 Separates) figured in the Meherrin story. 978-0-88146-439-9 meherrin was a microcosm of Virginia Baptist life including evangelism, theological divisions, church discipline, the struggle for religious liberty in the time of a state church, and the role of enslaved Africans. Meherrin was a mother church for several churches in Southside Virginia and a colony from Meherrin even migrated into North Carolina where another church, also named Meherrin, was established.

Baptists in Early Baptists in Early The riginalo record book (1771–1844) is among the treasures in the library North America— North America— of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society. In addition, the volume includes an Newport, Rhode First Baptist Island, Seventh Church, Boston, essay on Meherrin’s place within the larger Virginia Baptist story by editor Fred Day Baptists Massachusetts Anderson, who served as executive director of the VBHS for thirty-eight years. Volume III Volume IV Janet Thorngate, editor Thomas R. McKibbens, Meherrin became extinct in 1844 when it divided, then dissolved, in the midst of Hardback | $60.00s | H922 editor 978-0-88146-588-4 Hardback | $60.00s | H946 the Campbellism controversy. 978-0-88146-636-2

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James Leo Garrett, a Baptist Baptist Theology theological educator for more than half A Four-Century Study a century, taught in three institutions: James Leo Garrett Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Baylor University. He is the author of numerous books and articles. Of note, he is the author of Systematic Theology (two volumes) and is co-author of Are Southern Baptists Evangelicals?. New in paperback

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A comprehensive analysis of Baptist theology Embracing in one common trajectory the major Baptist confessions of faith, the major Baptist theologians, and the principal Baptist theological movements and controversies, this book spans four centuries of Baptist doctrinal history. Baptists and A Genetic History Acknowledging first the pre-1609 roots (patristic, medieval, Reformational) Revivals of Baptist Thought William L. Pitts, Jr. With Special of Baptist theology, it examines the Arminian versus Calvinist issues that the Paperback | $35.00t | P574 Reference to General and the Particular Baptists first expressed. These issues dominated English 978-0-88146-683-6 Baptists in Britain and North America and American Baptist theology during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries William H. Brackney Paperback | $40.00s | P269 from Helwys and Smyth and from Bunyan and Kiffin to Gill, Fuller, Backus, and 978-0-86554-913-5 Boyce and were quickened by the awakenings and the missionary movement. Concurrently, the Baptist defended distinctives vis-à-vis the pedobaptist world and the unfolding of a strong Baptist confessional tradition. Thenduring the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the liberal versus evangelical issues became dominant with Hovey, Strong, Rauschenbusch, and Henry in the North and Mullins, Conner, Hobbs, and Criswell in the South even as a distinctive Baptist Landmarkism developed, the discipline of biblical In Search of the Witnesses to the theology was practiced and a structured ecumenism was pursued. Missiology New Testament Baptist Heritage Church Thirty Baptists Every both impacted Baptist theology and took it to all the continents, where it became The Baptist Story Christian Should increasingly indigenous. C. Douglas Weaver Know Paperback | $23.00s | P346 Michael E. Williams Sr. Conscious that Baptists belong to the free churches and to the believers’ 978-0-88146-105-3 Paperback | $28.00t | P519 978-0-88146-548-8 churches, a new generation of Baptist theologians at the advent of the twenty- first century was somewhat more Calvinist than Arminian and decidedly more evangelical than liberal. Turning Points in Baptist History A Festschrift in Honor of Harry Leon McBeth july 2019 | BAPTIST HISTORY Michael E. Williams Sr. THE JAMES N. GRIFFITH ENDOWED SERIES in BAPTIST STUDIES and Walter B. Shurden Paperback | $30.00t | P430 6 x 9 | 600 pp. | Paperback $40.00t | 978-0-88146-707-9 | P584 | Bibliography | Index 978-0-88146-244-9 18 mercer university press SPRING/SUMMER 2019 Bestselling Titles Still in Stock

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