03/26/2012
On March 26, 1890, the University of Pennsylvania Press was incorporated with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.Within a decade, the University of Pennsylvania Press imprint began to appear on scholarly publications…. READ MORE
02/20/2012
In time, Douglass became so interested in the connection between the visual arts, imagination, humanity, and progress toward liberty and justice that he wrote and delivered a set of lectures on the subject between 1861 and 1865. He began both the earlier and the later versions of his “Lecture on Pictures” with an extended consideration of the daguerreotype. After being daguerreotyped multiple times in the 1840s and 1850s, the former slave had become a man in his daguerreian portrait. His lectures suggest that if his audiences were to look at his or any other African American’s image and reflect on its likeness to their own, the daguerreotype would show them the reality of blacks’ humanity and awaken them to their own.
01/24/2012
Lords' Rights and Peasant Stories: Writing and the Formation of Tradition in the Later Middle Ages Simon Teuscher. Translated by Philip Grace 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 5… READ MORE
01/10/2012
The Jewish Book Council has chosen Talya Fishman's Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures to receive a 2011 National Jewish Book… READ MORE
12/19/2011
Kafka's Jewish Languages: The Hidden Openness of Tradition David Suchoff 304 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4371-0 | $65.00 | £42.50 A volume in the Haney… READ MORE
11/03/2011
Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered Edited by Heather Campbell Coyle 192 pages | 9 x 11 | 129 color illus. Paper 2011 | ISBN 978-0-9771644-3-1 | $45.00 | £29.50 This… READ MORE
10/28/2011
The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture Lara Langer Cohen 256 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus. Cloth Nov 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4369-7 | $59.95… READ MORE
10/20/2011
Knowing Books: The Consciousness of Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain Christina Lupton 216 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4372-7 | $55.00 | £36.00 A volume in the… READ MORE
10/03/2011
The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy Edited by Joseph R. Hacker and Adam Shear 329 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4352-9 |… READ MORE
09/27/2011
A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs Edited and translated by Craig Williamson 248 pages | 6 x 9 Paper 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1129-0 | $19.95 | £13.00 "Captivating."–Choice In A… READ MORE
