Category: Reviews

Shuger Immortal?

Debora Shuger’s Censorship and Cultural Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England  recently received supernatural praise. "Scrupulously researched, carefully written, argued, and developed, this is one of those books… READ MORE

Debunking Darwin Myths

In the March 14 Times Literary Supplement, Jim Endersby reviewed the Penn Press reissue of The Origin of Species: A Variorum Text while debunking myths about Charles Darwin’s work and… READ MORE

Chicago Tribune Reviews Jackson

In a recent Chicago Tribune review of Thomas F. Jackson’s From Civil Rights to Human Rights, Eric Arnesen writes: Jackson . . . goes farther than many historians in arguing… READ MORE

More Praise for Up South

In a recent article on scholarly books about Black Nationalism in the 60s and 70s, Multicultural Review commended Matthew Countryman’s Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia for… READ MORE

Reactions to Radical Music

This Is Our Music by Iain Anderson appears in the Noted section of the February/March Bookforum. Reviewer Douglas Mullin says, "The crooked line Anderson draws from the maverick [Cecil] Taylor…. READ MORE

Cottom’s Clever Chiasmus

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

Schoolcraft in the News

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

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