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Disturbing, ironic, haunting, brutal. What inner struggles led Flannery O Connor to create fiction that elicits such labels? Much of the tension that drives O Connor s writing, says Sarah Gordon, stems from the natural resistance of her imagination to the obedience expected by her male-centered church, society, and literary background.

"Flannery O Connor: The Obedient Imagination" shows us a writer whose world was steeped in male presumption regarding women and creativity. The book is filled with fresh perspectives on O Connor s Catholicism; her upbringing as a dutiful, upper-class...

The shifting meanings of sewing formed a contested space in which businesses promoted sewing machines as tools for...

This book probes the background of the ultimately unexplainable evil of our century, the deliberate and unprovoked murder of millions of European Jews--and goes on to explore German reactions to that evil. Depicting the emergence in Weimar Germany of a new type of extreme anti-Semite, of which Hitler was the paramount example, Sarah Gordon discusses a number of related questions about the role of anti-Semitism in the rise of the Nazis and draws on hitherto unexamined Gestapo files, new data on court sentences, and a variety of other sources to describe the tiny numbers of courageous...

Flannery O Connor spent most of her life in Georgia. Most of O Connor s fiction is also set in the state, in locales rich in symbolism and the ambience of southern rural and small-town life. Filled with contemporary and historical photos, this guide introduces O Connor s readers to the places where the great writer lived and worked--places whose features and details sometimes found their way into her fiction.

The guide describes such places as O Connor s childhood home in Savannah; the Governor s Mansion, Cline House, and Central State Hospital in Milledgeville; and the family farm,...

To the original Hopedale Reminiscences published in 1910 is added an excerpt from William F. Draper's 1909 memoir, Recollections of a Varied Career, and materials prepared for from the Hopedale Home School reunion in 1867.