University of South Carolina Press is one of the oldest and most distinguished publishing houses in the American South.
Established in 1944, we currently have more than 1,200 titles available in print and digital formats and publish approximately 35 new works annually. Our editorial profile features critically acclaimed peer-reviewed books in Southern history, literary studies, African American studies, civil rights, Jewish studies, and rhetoric and communication.
University of South Carolina Press Highlights
Benevolence and Bondage
How Jonathan Edwards's theology of equality laid foundations for early American abolitionism
In this groundbreaking book, John T. Lowe reexamines Jonathan Edwards's legacy by focusing on the intersections among slavery, race, and theology. Connecting seemingly disparate aspects of Edwards's life and thought, Lowe offers a powerful new interpretation of one of America's most influential theologians.
The Empathy Paradox
How resisting empathy may lead to more thoughtful reading and better writing
Empathy has traditionally been understood as a bridge between the self and others. In composition studies, it is often used as a foundation for effective reading, allowing students to connect with authors, characters, and ideas. Now, in the era of social media apologies and self-help advice, empathy is conceptualized regularly as a tool for individual validation that promotes personal gain over relational depth. Overidentification, Rachel McCabe argues, can lead to the erasure of differences in others' lived experiences and the omission of complicating details in texts.
New Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy
Leading scholars take stock of McCarthy's final novels, illuminating the arc of his career, influence, and legacy
New Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy provides the first full-scale scholarly assessment of The Passenger and Stella Maris. While marked by McCarthy's unmistakable literary style, these novels venture into new genres and locales, focusing on mathematics and science, and showcasing his most developed and complex meditations on the nature of life and human consciousness. The essays in this volume chart unexpected paths through McCarthy's work and take up topics that include the writer's style, literary influences, and engagement with themes of quantum physics, history, capitalism, and psychiatry. Taken together these essays invite readers to question, explore, and speculate, at times in quite radical ways, about how to read McCarthy's final two novels and his work as a whole.
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