Joel Chandler Harris, Folklorist

Stella Brewer Brookes's study of the life and w...

Possessions

belonging and possessing that haunt the nation ...

Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in 19th Century America

Literary Legacies, Folklore Foundations: Selfhood and Cultural Tradition in Nineteenth

In this provocative study of eight novels, Kare...

Rainy River Lives

Sally Cole is a professor of anthropology at Co...

Voices from Four Directions

Storytelling and singing continue to be a vital...

The Pollen Path

A Stanford University Press classic.

Tiresian Poetics

To reconstruct the sexual and cultural history ...

Davy Crockett’s Riproarious Shemales and Sentimental Sisters: Women’s Tall Tales from the Crockett Almanacs, 1835-1856

The legendary feats of Davy Crockett, who could...

Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination

From essays about the Salem witch trials to lit...

Uncle Remus

The dialect, lore, and flavor of black life in ...

Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination

From essays about the Salem witch trials to lit...