Category: Literature & Cultural Studies

More than Talking Heads

02/16/2007

Two Penn Press authors and a series editor recently lent their expertize to news and documentary productions on a wide range of subjects. This Thursday, Eric Stover, author of The… READ MORE

Reading Beyond Beloved

According Gene Andrew Jarrett "not all kinds of African American culture are celebrated in February during Black History Month. Consider literature, for example." In his article Misreading authors by their… READ MORE

Dark Speech–Now Available

02/15/2007

Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland Robin Chapman Stacey 368 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3989-8 | $59.95 | £39.00 A… READ MORE

Cottom’s Clever Chiasmus

02/01/2007

A review of Daniel Cottom’s Unhuman Culture appears in the January/February 2007 Bloomsbury Review. Critic Larry T. Shillock writes: Unhuman Culture takes the categories of the person and the Other,… READ MORE

Now Available–Her Life Historical

01/31/2007

Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints’ Lives in Late Medieval England Catherine Sanok 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3986-7 | $55.00… READ MORE

Schoolcraft in the News

01/25/2007

From The Chicago Reader’s Daily Harold: Hot off the presses at the University of Pennsylvania is what might be a Midwestern blockbuster, The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the… READ MORE

“Venice” Makes ForeWord’s Big Ten

01/24/2007

ForeWord magazine lists Margaret Doody’s Tropic of Venice among the Big Ten Outstanding Books from University Presses for 2006. The ForeWord review begins by placing Doody in some impressive company:… READ MORE

Smart and Insightful Among Other Things

01/11/2007

Tilar J. Mazzeo’s Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period is "smart and insightful," says book critic Charles McGrath in his recent New York Times piece.

A Wonderful Mine

01/10/2007

This month’s Library Journal calls Tropic of Venice by scholar and novelist Margaret Doody "a wonderful mine of information for anyone with an interest in Venice, its history and customs,… READ MORE