Category: Literature & Cultural Studies

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

Mellon Modern Language Initiative Grant

Fordham University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, University of California Press, University of Virginia Press, and University of Washington Press have been awarded a collaborative publishing grant of $1.16 million… READ MORE

From Paris to Pompeii–Now Available

From Paris to Pompeii: French Romanticism and the Cultural Politics of Archaeology Göran Blix 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 16 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4136-5 | $59.95… READ MORE

Exotic Nation– Now Available

Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain Barbara Fuchs 224 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4135-8 | $45.00 | £29.50… READ MORE

J. A. Leo Lemay

We at Penn Press are sad to note the loss of one of our authors, J. A. Leo Lemay, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Professor of English at the University… READ MORE

Ways of Writing–Now Available

Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England David D. Hall 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4102-0… READ MORE