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Clemson
University Digital Press
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Integration with Dignity
ed. Skip Eisiminger
"It is often said that history is the lengthening shadow of one man. In Clemson University's case this man was Harvey Gantt. The desegregation of Clemson University by Gantt on January 28, 1963, was characterized by 'Integration with Dignity' and is regarded by many as a signature event in American social history."
--Dr. H. Lewis Suggs, from Integration with Dignity |
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Melville's Use of "The Rebellion Record" in his Poetry
by Frank Day
"Melville drew on the [Rebellion] Record for twenty of the seventy-two poems in Battle-Pieces and for two others included in his later volume of poems...His indebtedness to the Record, moreover, is greater in one sense than is suggested by the total of twenty poems out of seventy-two, for most of the fifty-two poems not indebted to the Record are largely philosophical, eulogistic, or inscriptive. Of the lines actually describing war events and giving details of battles, an estimated eighty percent have probable sources in the Record."
--Frank Day, from the Foreword |
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Literature and Digital Technologies
ed. Karen Schiff
"In widening the scope of 'digital technologies' so far as to include the production of literary texts through different kinds of digital machines, we have arrived at the heart of the enterprise that has driven this entire endeavor: the use of technologies to promote the circulation and reading of works of literature. The ways that the technologies inflect the reading experience depend on a confluence of innumerable factors; the papers in this volume focus specifically on issues that grow out of the intersection of electronic technologies and literary study."
--Karen Schiff, from the Foreword |
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Tales of Clemson, 1936-1940
by Arthur V. Williams, M.D.
"The tales that Dr. Williams has included in this wonderful collection of Clemson stories bring back many fond memories for me. Every page is like an old friend greeting me at a class reunion. But there is more to this book than memories. It is also a remarkable record of what life was like at Clemson 60-plus years ago. In this day and age of "reality TV," here we have a delightful volume of "reality text." And as one of the "survivors" (to borrow a current TV term), I can tell you it is almost as much fun reading this text as it was living it!"
--Walter T. Cox '39, President Emeritus, Clemson University |
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Virginia Woolf's Illness
by Douglass W. Orr, M.D.
ed. Wayne K. Chapman
"Virginia Woolf's Illnesses is not written by a literary man, nor does it feign to be 'literature.' Its kinship to biography bears the virtues and defects of a trained, independent observer dedicated to inductive procedures. We have both science and art here..."
--Dr. Wayne Chapman, from the Preface |
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Psychoanalysis and the Bloomsbury Group
by Douglass W. Orr, M.D.
ed. Wayne K. Chapman
"This monograph is based on a 52-page paper read by the author, on April 21, 1978, to members of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Society in La Jolla, California. Intended for Psychoanalytic Quarterly, the paper has not been published until now even though it anticipated Orr's posthumous book, Virginia Woolf's Illnesses (2004), also available in this series."
--Wayne K. Chapman |
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Omi and the Christmas Candles:
A Tale of Nine Christmases During the Nazi Era
by Skip Eisiminger
"Once upon a time many years ago, the country of Germany lay under a spell cast by an evil sorcerer, Adolf Hitler..." Thus begins Omi and the Christmas Candles, a children's story about a family's survival during the Second World War. Distilled from several volumes of Eisiminger's notes and transcriptions of informal interviews with his wife's family, this book recalls nine remarkable Christmas celebrations. |
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Women & Clemson University
by Dr. Jerome V. Reel, Jr.
"The admission of women into the Clemson family is one of this University's great success stories. Clemson women have made Clemson strong. Without all that our women faculty, staff, students and graduates have accomplished and contributed, we can only speculate what Clemson would be today. Certainly every major transition has made Clemson a better, stronger institution, moving it from an all-male, all-white military school to a civilian, coeducational, desegregated research university that we can proudly say is among the nation's most outstanding public universities."
--James F. Barker, FAIA, President of Clemson University |
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Growing Up Cartoonist in the Baby-Boom South:
A Memoir and Cartoon Retrospective
by Kate Salley Palmer
"Kate Palmer's political cartoons are great--that is, if they are about someone else. At any rate, they justify a look into her life. Where did this free and caring and funny spirit come from? What was her family like? Were they also contrarians?...Kate Palmer is...what we in the South call 'a character.'...She calls herself a satirist, which she defines as a 'professional smartass.' Most of her subject characters would agree with that definition."
--Richard W. Riley, former governor of South Carolina, from the Foreword |
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Felix Academicus:
Tales of a Happy Academic
by Skip Eisiminger
This book is a potpourri of thirty-two essays and poems written by Skip Eisiminger between the turn of the twenty-first century and mid-2006. As the enclosed works show, Eisiminger is an academic who still looks forward to Monday mornings, even after thirty-six years of teaching in Clemson University's Department of English. The collection opens with a secular-humanist essay that was written for a contest sponsored by a religious foundation. After it was completed, however, the author learned that the final judge was a fundamentalist Christian. Needless to say, it did not win, place, or show. The book closes with some speculations on immortality, one aspect of which depends heavily on this essay! In between is a wildflower garden of sacred and profane efflorescences. |
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Legacy of a Southern Lady:
Anna Calhoun Clemson, 1817-1875
by Ann Ratliff Russell
Anna Calhoun Clemson was John C. Calhoun's favorite child. After reading Ann Russell's biography based on Anna's letters, one finds it easy to understand why. The product of a famous family and an exceptional woman, Anna was also, as Russell ably demonstrates, very much "a southern lady." Her story--her "life's journey," as Calhoun told his daughter her life would be--gives us a glimpse of an important southern family, of southern womanhood, of heartbreak and difficulty, of a nation torn apart by sectional conflict. Like Mary Chesnut's famous diary, Anna's letters, the crux of Russell's study, provide us with a rich, detailed picture of southern life, both personal and public.
--Dr. C. Alan Grubb |
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The Problem in the Middle:
Liminal Space and the Court Masque
by Gregory A. Wilson
Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones enjoyed one of the most successful theatrical collaborations of Renaissance England with their spectacular court masques. But their relationship soured over a dispute as to what was most important in the masque: the poetry of the former or the set and costume design of the latter. This book attempts to resolve the debate using a theoretical term developed by Victor Turner: liminality, a condition or status between two conditions or statuses. Dr. Gregory Wilson argues that the masque is in a perpetual state of liminality, existing in the margin between performance and an observing audience. The masque is more than historically interesting; it negotiates the space between possibility and reality. This book searches for that intervening ground and the resolution of the "problem in the middle." |
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Robert Penn Warren: Genius Loves Company
ed. Mark Royden Winchell
At least since the dawn of the Romantic era, it has been assumed that the poet lives a lonely life, isolated in his garret. Nevertheless, writers are not always hermits and misanthropes. As human beings, they crave the company of other human beings; as artists they need the stimulation of other artists....Even a selective account [such as this] of Warren's most important literary associations during such a long and active life could fill a good size book.
--Mark Royden Winchell |
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Thomas Green Clemson
edited by Alma Bennett
Thomas Green Clemson (1807–1888) was no ordinary man. He was, in fact, as unique as he was highly educated, skilled, pragmatic, visionary, and complex. To introduce us to this man, fifteen scholars and specialists of history, science, agriculture, engineering, music, art, diplomacy, law, and communications come together to address Clemson’s multifaceted life, the century and issues that helped shape him, and his ongoing influence today. The biography includes color plates of works from Clemson’s art collection. In addition to many other illustrations, which include his own paintings and musical compositions, the book features historic maps, documents, and genealogy charts of the Clemsons and Calhouns dating from the 1600s to the 1970s. |
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Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway: Invisible Presences
by Molly Hoff
In this companion book to Mrs. Dalloway, Molly Hoff illuminates much that is hidden in Virginia Woolf's celebrated and often misunderstood novel. Mrs. Dalloway is brimming with references, both overt and subtle, to other works of literature, historical events, and goings-on in Woolf's own life. Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway: Invisible Presences serves, as Hoff states in her preface, "as a kind of reference manual for commentary on individual passages that may be of interest."
It is hoped it will lead to a deep understanding of Mrs. Dalloway and Woolf's method in general. |
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