London Review of Books on Robert Darnton’s Latest Book
03/12/2010
A meaty review of The Devil in the Holy Water, or, The Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon appears in the latest London Review of Books. "In political… READ MORE
Category: Books
Robert Darnton Makes the Case for Three Books on C-SPAN
02/23/2010
C-Span’s Book TV recently presented video of Robert Darnton, Director of the Harvard University Library and eminent historian of the book, giving a talk at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge,… READ MORE
Wolf Hall: Another Spin on the Other Boleyn?
12/21/2009
In this essay, Frances E. Dolan compares Hillary Mantel’s novel Wolf Hall, recent winner of the Man Booker Prize, to Philippa Gregory’s popular The Other Boleyn Girl. Dolan is the… READ MORE
Welcome to Philadelphia, Anthropologists!
12/02/2009
This year, the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association takes place in Philadelphia just a few SEPTA stops away from Penn Press. As usual, Editor-in-Chief Peter Agree will be… READ MORE
Archives of American Time–Now Available
11/24/2009
Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century Lloyd Pratt 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4208-9 | $55.00 |… READ MORE
The Literary Market–Now Available
11/09/2009
The Literary Market: Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime Geoffrey Turnovsky 280 pages | 6 x 9 | none Cloth Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4195-2 | $59.95 | £39.00… READ MORE
Reading Women — Now Available in Paperback
10/20/2009
Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 Edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus. Paper… READ MORE
Penn Press Authors in The Journal of American History
09/28/2009
Four Penn Press authors received praise for their recent books in the September issue of The Journal of American History. Here's what reviewer Julia Grant wrote about Stir it Up: Home… READ MORE
China’s Higher Education Press Visits Penn Press
09/25/2009
A thoroughly unscientific sampling of University of Pennsylvania Press editors and staff revealed that although the Press boasts competent speakers in many languages, its collective fluency in Mandarin is somewhat… READ MORE
Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England–Now in Paperback
09/15/2009
Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England William H. Sherman 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 36 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4043-6 | $45.00 | £29.50 Paper 2009… READ MORE
