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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What
We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver wrote with
unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the
knife-edge of poverty and other deprivations. Beneath his
pared-down surfaces run disturbing, violent undercurrents.
Suggestive rather than explicit, and seeming all the more powerful
for what is left unsaid, Carver's stories were held up as exemplars
of a new school in American fiction known as minimalism or "dirty
realism," a movement whose wide influence continues to this day.
Carver's stories were brilliant in their detachment and use of the
oblique, ambiguous gesture, yet there were signs of a different
sort of sensibility at work. In books such as Cathedral and the
later tales included in the collected stories volume Where I'm
Calling From, Carver revealed himself to be a more expansive writer
than in the earlier published books, displaying Chekhovian
sympathies toward his characters and relying less on elliptical
effects. In gathering all of Carver's stories, including early
sketches and posthumously discovered works, The Library of
America's Collected Stories provides a comprehensive overview of
Carver's career as we have come to know it: the promise of Will You
Please Be Quiet, Please? and the breakthrough of What We Talk
About, on through the departures taken in Cathedral and the pathos
of the late stories. But it also prompts a fresh consideration of
Carver by presenting Beginners, an edition of the manuscript of
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love that Carver submitted to
Gordon Lish, his editor and a crucial influence on his development.
Lish's editing was so extensive that at one point Carver wrote him
an anguished letter asking him not to publish the book; now, for
the first time, readers can read both the manuscript and published
versions of the collection that established Carver as a major
American writer. Offering a fascinating window into the complex,
fraught relation between writer and editor, Beginners expands our
sense of Carver and is essential reading for anyone who cares about
his achievement. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit
cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's
literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print,
America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America
series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative
editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers,
sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium
acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Before World War I, Southern women's participation in the workforce
consisted of black women's domestic labor and white working-class
women's industrial or manufacturing work, but after the war,
Southern women flooded business offices as stenographers, typists,
clerks, and bookkeepers. This book examines their experiences in
the clerical workforce, using both traditional labor sources and
exploring the cultural institutions that evolved from these women's
work-related milieu.
Businessmen throughout the South molded this workforce to meet
their needs using both labor-saving management techniques and
exploiting social mores to enforce gender boundaries that limited
women's workplace opportunities. This study traces the social and
economic implications of Southern women's increased participation
in clerical labor after World War I. While it increased the civic
activities of white middle-class southern women, it also confined
them to a routinized days work and limited venues of occupational
achievement. Through a varied network of business women's clubs and
organizations, women struggled with their new identities as workers
and attempted to integrate their work lives with their community
and family obligations.
(Ph.D. dissertation, Emory University, 1995; revised with new
Introduction and Preface)
The two German provinces of the Roman Empire, Germania Superior and
Germania Inferior, which included modern Germany, Switzerland, the
Netherlands, and parts of France and Belgium, formed a vital link
between the Mediterranean and the North Sea. Maureen Carroll's
synthesis of past and recent archaeological research introduces
readers to the main features of the Roman Empire in these
provinces. It deals with the pre-Roman societies and their
landscapes, which were to be changed by the Romans after the
conquests of Caesar and Augustus. The book also explores the
concept of frontier and assesses the role of the German provinces
as border zones of the Empire.
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