The Incarnate Text–Now Available
06/18/2009
The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England James Kearney 336 pages | 6 x 9 | 21 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4158-7 | $65.00 | £42.50 A… READ MORE
Category: Literature & Cultural Studies
Regis on Canonical Romance Writers in The New Yorker
06/16/2009
"Real Romance," a New Yorker profile of novelist Nora Roberts, quotes Penn Press author Pamela Regis. Regis writes, "The five writers who belong in any list of canonical twentieth-century romance… READ MORE
A New Penn Press Podcast–Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920
06/02/2009
In the June Penn Press Podcast, Nancy Bentley, author of Frantic Panoramas, explains why Henry James and P.T. Barnum are together in the same book. Visit the Penn Press podcast… READ MORE
Echard Wins the 2009 Labarge Prize for Printing the Middle Ages
05/29/2009
The Canadian Society of Medievalists has selected Siân Echard to receive the 2009 Margaret Wade Labarge Prize for her book, Printing the Middle Ages. The prize committee wrote: Siân Echard… READ MORE
When Broadway Was the Runway–Now Available
05/27/2009
When Broadway Was the Runway: Theater, Fashion, and American Culture Marlis Schweitzer 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 47 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4157-0 | $39.95 | £26.00… READ MORE
Frantic Panoramas–Now Available
05/19/2009
Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920 Nancy Bentley 376 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4174-7 | $59.95 | £39.00 Conducting close readings of writers… READ MORE
“Miscegenation”: Making Race in America–Now in Paperback
05/12/2009
"Miscegenation": Making Race in America Elise Lemire 216 pages | 6 x 9 | 19 illus. Cloth 2002 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3664-4 | $45.00 | £29.50 Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2064-3… READ MORE
Reading the Qur’an in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560–Now in Paperback
05/11/2009
Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560 Thomas E. Burman 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4018-4 | $59.95 | £39.00 Paper 2009… READ MORE
Bynum Wins Otto Gründler Book Prize
05/08/2009
We've just learned via twitter.com/PennPress that Caroline Walker Bynum has received the Otto Gründler Book Prize for Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond. The… READ MORE
Library Journal on Black Walden
05/05/2009
Library Journal has taken notice of Elise Lemire's new book, Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts. Here's a quote from the review in their May 1 issue…. READ MORE
