Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages–Now Available
04/03/2012
Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages Sanping Chen 320 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth Mar 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4370-3 | $79.95 | £52.00 A volume in the Encounters… READ MORE
Category: Literature & Cultural Studies
This Month’s Podcast: A Reading from The Satires of Horace
03/30/2012
In the April Penn Press podcast, our own Sara Davis reads selections from The Satires of Horace, translated by A.M. Juster. In the Satires, the Roman philosopher and dramatic critic… READ MORE
Douglass and the Daguerreotype–a Guest Post by Marcy J. Dinius
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.
Penn Press Authors Receive National Humanities Medals
02/14/2012
Congratulations to Robert Darnton and Teofilo F. Ruiz, Penn Press authors and 2011 National Humanities Medalists. The National Endowment for the Humanities created the National Humanities Medal to honor "individuals… READ MORE
Seneca Possessed–Now in Paperback
02/09/2012
Seneca Possessed: Indians, Witchcraft, and Power in the Early American Republic Matthew Dennis 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 16 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4226-3 | $45.00 |… READ MORE
Peasant Scenes and Landscapes–Now in Paperback
02/01/2012
Peasant Scenes and Landscapes: The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market Larry Silver 392 pages | 7 x 10 | 152 illus. Paper 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2211-1… READ MORE
A New Nation of Goods–Now in Paperback
01/25/2012
A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early America David Jaffee 424 pages | 7 x 10 | 10 color, 107 b/w illus. Paper 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2200-5… READ MORE
Colonizer or Colonized–Now Available
01/24/2012
Colonizer or Colonized: The Hidden Stories of Early Modern French Culture Sara E. Melzer 344 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4363-5 | $75.00… READ MORE
Lord’s Rights and Peasants Stories–Now Available
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
Paul’s Pick of the Month, a Free Article from the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies
01/15/2012
Every month, Paul Chase in the Penn Press Journals department invites our blog readers to download a complimentary article from one of our many scholarly journals. Paul's Pick for January,… READ MORE
