Category: Literature & Cultural Studies

Take the Tropic of Venice Quiz

Find out how well you know Venice by taking our online quiz. Answer all five questions correctly and you could win a $50 Penn Press gift certificate. What happens in… READ MORE

Now Available–This Is Our Music

This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture Iain Anderson 264 pages | 6 x 9 | 23 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3980-6 | $39.95 |… READ MORE

CLIO Reviews Colonizing Nature

A review of Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820 appears in CLIO, a Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History, Volume 35:3. Reviewer Janet… READ MORE

Now Available–Unhuman Culture

Unhuman Culture Daniel Cottom 216 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3956-3 | $34.95 | £23.00 Through a wide-ranging study of literature, art, and… READ MORE

Now Available–Joachim du Bellay

Joachim du Bellay: "The Regrets," with "The Antiquities of Rome," Three Latin Elegies, and "The Defense and Enrichment of the French Language." A Bilingual Edition Richard Helgerson, Editor and Translator… READ MORE

Back in Print–The World of “Piers Plowman”

The World of “Piers Plowman”
Jeanne Krochalis and Edward Peters, Editors
288 pages | 5 1/2 x 8
Paper 1975 | ISBN 0-8122-1085-9 | $19.95 | £13.00
A volume in the Middle Ages Series series

Revista Hispánica Moderna

The University of Pennsylvania Press is pleased to announce the addition of Revista Hispánica Moderna to our outstanding list of scholarly journals. Founded in 1934 as Boletín del Instituto de… READ MORE