Category: Literature & Cultural Studies

Major Review Weekend

Two Penn Press authors were favorably reviewed in major publications this past weekend. Ross Douthat praised Steven P. Miller in yesterday's New York Times Sunday Book Review. Douthat wrote: …it’s… READ MORE

Sea of Silk–Now Available

Sea of Silk: A Textile Geography of Women's Work in Medieval French Literature E. Jane Burns 256 pages | 6 x 9 | 25 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4154-9… READ MORE

2009 Rosenbach Lectures begin today

For a chance to see book history in the making, reserve a seat at this year's Rosenbach Lectures. The A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography have been the basis for many… READ MORE

TLS Review of Engendering the Fall

"Engendering the Fall enriches our view of Milton, of women rights and of the literature of gender and statecraft, showing that Milton's female contemporaries saw his poetry as a stimulus… READ MORE