Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden–Now Available
03/25/2008
Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden Vera Schwarcz 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 44 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4100-6 | $55.00 | £36.00 A volume… READ MORE
Category: Literature & Cultural Studies
The Way of Improvement Leads Home–Now Available
03/18/2008
The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America John Fea 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 12 illus. Cloth Feb 2008… READ MORE
Beyond the Farm–Now Available
03/12/2008
Beyond the Farm: National Ambitions in Rural New England J. M. Opal 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 illus. Cloth Mar 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4062-7 | $39.95 |… READ MORE
The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky–Now in Paperback
02/27/2008
The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft Jane Johnston SchoolcraftEdited by Robert Dale Parker 312 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4… READ MORE
Jarrett Describes the 19th Century “New Negro”
02/21/2008
Boston University’s BU Today asked Penn Press author Gene Andrew Jarrett to describe the post Civil War ideal of the "new Negro." Jarrett explains: The “new Negro” was a concept… READ MORE
TLS Review of Howard’s Theater of a City
01/31/2008
A review of Jean E. Howard’s Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642 appears in the January 18th Times Literary Supplement. In the review, Duncan Salkeld praises… READ MORE
Death of Reading Greatly Exaggerated?
01/16/2008
Reading, Not So Dead After All, from The Chronicle of Higher Education, gives a snapshot of the blog battles surrounding the NEA’s "To Read or Not to Read" report.
Culture Front–Now Available
01/11/2008
Culture Front: Representing Jews in Eastern Europe Edited by Benjamin Nathans and Gabriella Safran 344 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4055-9 | $65.00 | £42.50 A… READ MORE
Fanny Kemble Makes Foreword’s Outstanding List
01/10/2008
Deirdre David’s Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life is number 6 in Foreword magazine’s annual list of Outstanding University Press Books. Critic Peter Skinner writes: David skillfully analyzes Kemble’s love-hate relationship… READ MORE
Schoolcraft Overshadowed No Longer
01/03/2008
The most recent volume of The Michigan Historical Review praises Robert Dale Parker, editor of The Sound the Stars Make Rushing through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft,… READ MORE
