Animal Characters–Now Available
07/06/2010
Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature Bruce Thomas Boehrer 256 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth Jun 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4249-2 | $49.95 | £32.50… READ MORE
Category: Literature & Cultural Studies
A New Penn Press Podcast–Len Krisak Reads from his translation of Virgil’s Eclogues
07/01/2010
In the July 2010 Penn Press podcast, Len Krisak–winner of the Richard Wilbur Prize, the Robert Penn Warren Prize, and the Robert Frost Prize–talks about his new translation of Virgil's… READ MORE
Three “Essential” Penn Press Books in Choice Magazine
06/30/2010
Three very different Penn Press books were named "essential" in the June 2010 issue of Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries–Marisa Chappell's The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics… READ MORE
National Post Op-Ed on Darnton’s Work
06/22/2010
An op-ed piece on Robert Darnton’s research on French libel recently appeared in the National Post. Columnist Robert Fulford writes: When we chronicle the struggle for literary freedom we too… READ MORE
Accessories to Modernity–Now Available
06/16/2010
Accessories to Modernity: Fashion and the Feminine in Nineteenth-Century France Susan Hiner 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 30 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4259-1 | $47.50 | £31.00… READ MORE
Fictions of Well-Being–Now Available
06/15/2010
Fictions of Well-Being: Sickly Readers and Vernacular Medical Writing in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain Michael Solomon 200 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2010 |… READ MORE
Vernacular Voices–Now Available
06/10/2010
Vernacular Voices: Language and Identity in Medieval French Jewish Communities Kirsten A. Fudeman 240 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4250-8 | $59.95 |… READ MORE
Forthcoming Fall 2010 Books
06/01/2010
The Penn Press catalog of books for fall 2010 is now available in print and online. In the coming season Penn Press will continue to publish scholarly and general interest… READ MORE
European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean–Now Available
05/24/2010
European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean: Toward a New Philology and a Counter-Orientalism Karla Mallette 328 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4241-6 | $65.00 | £42.50… READ MORE
Spring Overstock Sale–Save 70%
04/01/2010
It's a beautiful day (at least in Philadelphia) and the perfect time for the Penn Press Spring Overstock Sale to begin. Hundreds of titles have been marked down by 70… READ MORE
