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Reflections on Sentiment not only addresses current scholarly interest in feeling and affect but also provides an occasion to celebrate the career of George Starr, who, in more than fifty years of incisive scholarship and committed teaching, haselucidated the work of Daniel Defoe and the role of sentimentalism in what was once reductively termed an age of reason and realism. Due to the critique Starr spearheaded, scholars today can approach with greater assurance the complex interplay of reason and emotion, thought and sensibility, science and feeling, rationality and enthusiasm, judgment and...

Weaving together a wide array of historical sources with oral accounts gathered from fieldwork, this classic study provides a valuable overview of traditional Creek (Muskogee) religion and medicine. John R. Swanton visited the Creek Nation in the early twentieth century and learned about many important aspects of Creek religious life and medicine. Subjects covered in this book include Creek conceptions of the cosmos; religious stories; death and the afterlife; spiritual forces and beings; various rituals, including the Busk ceremony; prohibitions; the power and skills of different religious...

A Deep Brown Crucible is the third book in a fiction series exploring the deleterious effects of environmental conflicts in America. The series follows the life of a character, Mill Meacham, ostensibly a fourth-generation Forest Service employee as she battles personal and professional adversity. The plot and sub-plots of the trilogy utilize Mill as symbolic of the 21st Century Forest Service and conservation movement in the U.S., beginning life in the 1970s and challenged by almost insurmountable forces while trying to come of age and make a difference. While A Deep Brown Crucible relies...