The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy–Now Available
09/07/2011
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
Category: Literature & Cultural Studies
Labors Lost: Women’s Work and the Early Modern English Stage–Now Available
09/07/2011
Labors Lost: Women's Work and the Early Modern English Stage Natasha Korda 360 pages | 6 x 9 | 25 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4344-4 | $69.95 | £45.50… READ MORE
Dangerous to Know–Now in Paperback
09/06/2011
Dangerous to Know: Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic Susan Branson 200 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4088-7 | $55.00 |… READ MORE
The Bohemians–Now in Paperback
08/18/2011
The Bohemians Anne Gédéon Lafitte, Marquis de Pelleport. Translated by Vivian Folkenflik. Introduction by Robert Darnton 248 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4194-5 | $34.95 |… READ MORE
Devil in the Holy Water–Now in Paperback
08/08/2011
The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon Robert Darnton 552 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 47 illus. Cloth… READ MORE
“Beowulf” and Other Old English Poems–Now Available
07/20/2011
"Beowulf" and Other Old English Poems Edited and translated by Craig Williamson. Foreword by Tom Shippey 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4345-1… READ MORE
Penned in Prison: The Bohemians and the Bastille
07/14/2011
In this Bastille Day essay, Penn Press intern Alli Hoff considers the creative power of imprisionment. Out of the represssive, sunlight-deficient, and dehumanizing walls of the eighteenth-century Bastille emerged several… READ MORE
What You Will–Now Available
07/12/2011
What You Will: Gender, Contract, and Shakespearean Social Space Kathryn Schwarz 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 12 illus. Cloth Jul 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4327-7 | $55.00 | £36.00… READ MORE
Susan Hiner Wins Costume Society of America Award for Accessories to Modernity
06/28/2011
Congratulations to Susan Hiner. Earlier this month, the Costume Society of America awarded the 2011 Millia Davenport Publication Award to Hiner for her book Accessories to Modernity: Fashion and the… READ MORE
A Small Bench by the Side of the Road: Elise Lemire on Remembering Concord’s History of Slavery
06/15/2011
In this post, Penn Press author Elise Lemire describes a community's efforts to bring its history of slavery to light. A Small Bench by the Side of the Road Concord,… READ MORE
