Dance Opens Window to Cervantes Play for Penn Press Intern
08/08/2012
Cervantes clearly viewed dance as an important aspect of seventeenth-century Spanish culture, and Fuchs and Ilika have preserved this in the translation.
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This Week’s New Books: “The Bagnios of Algiers” and “The Great Sultana,” The Conversion of Herman the Jew, The Folkstories of Children,
08/03/2012
Now in Paperback “The Bagnios of Algiers” and “The Great Sultana”: Two Plays of Captivity Miguel de Cervantes. Edited and translated by Barbara Fuchs and Aaron J. Ilika 208 pages… READ MORE
This Month’s Podcast: John P. Spencer on Marcus Foster and American Public School Reform
08/01/2012
In the August Penn Press podcast, John P. Spencer, Associate Professor of Education at Ursinus College and author of In the Crossfire: Marcus Foster and the Troubled History of American… READ MORE
Early African American Print Culture–Now Available
Early African American Print Culture Edited by Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein 432 pages | 6 x 9 | 43 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4425-0 | $55.00… READ MORE
Positive Transformation: Selections from The Folkstories of Children
07/31/2012
"Every Thursday a man comes in and takes stories from the children. . . This man is a very weird man."–Maynard, ten-years-old. This weird man was part of a team… READ MORE
The Language of Love in the War of 1812
Recounting Perry’s move from the Lawrence to the Niagara, Tait gushed, “even after victory had perched on the standard of the enemy, awarding her favor to superior force, Captain Perry, by the gallantry of his continued perseverance, enticed her back into his arms.” Victory, in the form of the winged goddess Nike, had perched for a time on the British flag mast. But the “gallant” Perry had successfully wooed the lovely lady and won “her” feminine favor. Politicians portrayed Perry’s action as the successful suit of a godly lover, one who lured victory away from his rival and into his own embrace.
This Week’s New Books: Building Fortress Europe and American Marriage
07/27/2012
Building Fortress Europe: The Polish-Ukrainian Frontier Karolina S. Follis 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4428-1 | $69.95 | £45.50 A volume in… READ MORE
Medieval Monday: Ruth Mazo Karras on a Case of Medieval Unmarriage
07/23/2012
Those in search of simple, old fashioned models of love and marriage might be disappointed by some of the realities of medieval coupling. “Tradition is always invented,” says Karras, who reminds us that the traditional marriage that people in the twenty-first century have invented for themselves is not really that similar to the state of matrimony in the Middle Ages.
New Points of View: Selections from The Folkstories of Children
07/20/2012
The following excerpts look at the world through the eyes of a Jet, a pot, and grandfather who has a lot to say about Richard Nixon.
This Week’s New Books: In the Shadow of the Gallows, Banished, Political Gastronomy
In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity Jeannine Marie DeLombard 456 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4422-9 |… READ MORE