Revista’s New Direction
07/02/2007
Revista Hispánica Moderna has just released its first volume as a Penn Press publication. This established journal has a solid research tradition that goes back seven decades. Revista Hispánica Moderna‘s… READ MORE
Category: Literature & Cultural Studies
Bardsley’s Venomous Tongues Takes Berks Book Prize
06/25/2007
Penn Press is proud to announce that Venomous Tongues: Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England is a co-winner of the 2006 First Book Prize of the Berkshire Conference of… READ MORE
The Economist Books & Art Finds David’s Fanny Kemble “lively and thorough”
06/22/2007
The Economist’s recent review of Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life begins: A friend of Fanny Kemble once apologised for declining a visit by explaining: “I could not see so many… READ MORE
Fanny Kemble Author Event 6/27
06/21/2007
Deirdre David, author of Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life, will be at the Barnes & Noble bookstore on Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square to discuss the life of the unconventional Victorian actress… READ MORE
Watson’s Back to Nature Wins First ASLE Book Award
06/18/2007
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment gave its first Ecocriticism and Environmental Creative Writing Book Award to Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the… READ MORE
The Pilgrim and the Bee–Now Available
06/12/2007
The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England Matthew P. Brown 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN… READ MORE
Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life–Now Available
06/04/2007
Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life Deirdre David 376 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 35 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4023-8 | $39.95 | £26.00 "Fanny Kemble played… READ MORE
Ballad Collection–Now Available
05/15/2007
Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism Steve Newman 304 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 illus. Cloth… READ MORE
A Natural History of the Romance Novel–Now in Paperback
04/27/2007
A Natural History of the Romance Novel Pamela Regis 240 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Cloth 2003 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3303-2 | $24.95 | £16.50 Paper 2007 | ISBN… READ MORE
Voice in Motion–Now Available
04/06/2007
Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England Gina Bloom 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4006-1 | $59.95 |… READ MORE
