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Book 2021

The Loss of the "Trades Increase"

An Early Modern Maritime Catastrophe

Richmond Barbour

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Launched in 1609 as the greatest English merchant vessel of its era, the Trades Increase and nearly all who sailed it perished three years later on the far side of the world. This is the engrossing account of the ship's tragic expedition and global capitalism at its hour of emergence.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297744
ISBN:: 9780812297744
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2021

Knowing Fictions

Picaresque Reading in the Early Modern Hispanic World

Barbara Fuchs

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European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience grew more distant, strategies designed to convey the act of witnessing came to be a key source of textual authority. From the relación to the captivity narrative, the Hispanic imperial project relied heavily on the first-person authority of genres whose authenticity undergirded the ideological armature of national consolidation, expansion, and conquest. At the same time, increasing pressures for religious conformity in Spain, as across Europe, required subjects to bare themselves before external authorities in intimate confessions of their faith. Emerging from this charged context, the unreliable voice of the pícaro poses a rhetorical challenge to the authority of the witness, destabilizing the possibility of trustworthy representation precisely because of his or her intimate involvement in the narrative.

In Knowing Fictions, Barbara Fuchs seeks at once to rethink the category of the picaresque while firmly centering it once more in the early modern Hispanic world from which it emerged. Venturing beyond the traditional picaresque canon, Fuchs traces Mediterranean itineraries of diaspora, captivity, and imperial rivalry in a corpus of texts that employ picaresque conventions to contest narrative authority. By engaging the picaresque not just as a genre with more or less strictly defined boundaries, but as a set of literary strategies that interrogate the mechanisms of truth-telling itself, Fuchs shows how self-consciously fictional picaresque texts effectively encouraged readers to adopt a critical stance toward the truth claims implicit in the forms of authoritative discourse proliferating in Imperial Spain.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812299502
ISBN:: 9780812299502
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2020

Nuclear Country

The Origins of the Rural New Right

Catherine McNicol Stock

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In Nuclear Country, Catherine McNicol Stock explores the question of why, between 1968 and 1992, most voters in the Dakotas abandoned their distinctive ideological heritage and came to embrace the New Right. Stock focuses on how this transformation coincided with the coming of the military and national security states to the countryside.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297386
ISBN:: 9780812297386
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2020

Digging the Past

How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth-Century Agriculture

Frances E. Dolan

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Through in-depth studies of composting and soil amendment, local food, winemaking, and hedgerows, Digging the Past illuminates how the seventeenth century continues to shape both material practices and popular ways of imagining and describing what farming should be and do.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297218
ISBN:: 9780812297218
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2020

Your Whole Life

Beyond Childhood and Adulthood

James Bernard Murphy

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James Bernard Murphy challenges widely shared assumptions about personhood and its development through discrete stages, arguing they undermine our ability to see our lives as a whole. Drawing on classic and contemporary thinkers, Murphy argues that we live our whole lives as children, adolescents, and adults all at the same time.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297096
ISBN:: 9780812297096
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Cultural Theory
Subject:: Political Theory
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2020

Levinas's Politics

Justice, Mercy, Universality

Annabel Herzog

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In Levinas's Politics, Annabel Herzog argues that Levinas's Talmudic readings embody a political pragmatism which complements, revises, and challenges the ethical analyses he offers in his phenomenological works.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812296808
ISBN:: 9780812296808
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Cultural Theory
Subject:: Political Theory
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2020

Between Utopia and Realism

The Political Thought of Judith N. Shklar

Samantha Ashenden, Andreas Hess

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From her position at Harvard University's Department of Government for over thirty-five years, Judith Shklar (1928-92) taught a long list of prominent political theorists and published prolifically in the domains of modern and American political thought. She was a highly original theorist of liberalism, possessing a broad and deep knowledge of intellectual history, which informed her writing in interesting and unusual ways. Her work emerged between the "end of ideology" discussions of the 1950s and the "end of history" debate of the early 1990s. Shklar contributed significantly to social and political thought by arguing for a new, more skeptical version of liberalism that brought political theory into close contact with real-life experience.

The essays collected in Between Utopia and Realism reflect on and refract Shklar's major preoccupations throughout a lifetime of thinking and demonstrate the ways in which her work illuminates contemporary debates across political theory, international relations, and law. Contributors address Shklar's critique of Cold War liberalism, interpretation of Montaigne and its connection to her genealogy of liberal morals, lectures on political obligation, focus on cruelty, and her late reflections on exile. Others consider her role as a legal theorist, her interest in literary tropes and psychological experience, and her famed skepticism.

Between Utopia and Realism showcases Shklar's approach to addressing the intractable problems of social life. Her finely honed political skepticism emphasized the importance of diagnosing problems over proffering excessively optimistic solutions. As this collection makes clear, her thought continues to be useful in addressing cruelty, limiting injustice, and combating the cynicism of the present moment.

Contributors: Samantha Ashenden, Hannes Bajohr, James Brown, Katrina Forrester, Volker M. Heins, Andreas Hess, Samuel Moyn, Thomas Osborne, William E. Scheuerman, Quentin Skinner, Philip Spencer, Tracy B. Strong, Kamila Stullerova, Bernard Yack.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812296525
ISBN:: 9780812296525
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Cultural Theory
Subject:: Political Theory
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2019

Heroines and Local Girls

The Transnational Emergence of Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century

Pamela L. Cheek

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Over the course of the long eighteenth century, a network of some fifty women writers, working in French, English, Dutch, and German, staked out a lasting position in the European literary field. These writers were multilingual and lived for many years outside of their countries of origin, translated and borrowed from each others' works, attended literary circles and salons, and fashioned a transnational women's literature characterized by highly recognizable codes. Drawing on a literary geography of national types, women writers across Western Europe read, translated, wrote, and rewrote stories about exceptional young women, literary heroines who transcend the gendered destiny of their distinctive cultural and national contexts. These transcultural heroines struggle against the cultural constraints determining the sexualized fates of local girls.

In Heroines and Local Girls, Pamela L. Cheek explores the rise of women's writing as a distinct, transnational category in Britain and Europe between 1650 and 1810. Starting with an account of a remarkable tea party that brought together Frances Burney, Sophie von La Roche, and Marie Elisabeth de La Fite in conversation about Stéphanie de Genlis, she excavates a complex community of European and British women authors. In chapters that incorporate history, network theory, and feminist literary history, she examines the century-and-a-half literary lineage connecting Madame de Maintenon to Mary Wollstonecraft, including Charlotte Lennox and Françoise de Graffigny and their radical responses to sexual violence. Neither simply a reaction to, nor collusion with, patriarchal and national literary forms but, rather, both, women's writing offered an invitation to group membership through a literary project of self-transformation. In so doing, argues Cheek, women's writing was the first modern literary category to capitalize transnationally on the virtue of identity, anticipating the global literary marketplace's segmentation of affinity-based reading publics, and continuing to define women's writing to this day.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812296365
ISBN:: 9780812296365
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2019

The Psychology of Inequality

Rousseau's "Amour-Propre"

Michael Locke McLendon

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The Psychology of Inequality shows how amour-propre can be transformed into the demand for praise, whether or not one displays praiseworthy qualities, and demonstrates the ways in which this pathology continues to play a leading role in the psychology and politics of modern liberal democracies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812295733
ISBN:: 9780812295733
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Cultural Theory
Subject:: Political Theory
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2018

William Livingston's American Revolution

James J. Gigantino II

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William Livingston's American Revolution explores how New Jersey's first governor guided the daily operations of a revolutionary-era government and examines the complex nature of the conflict, including the limits of patriot governance and the ways in which wartime experiences affected the creation of the Constitution.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812295504
ISBN:: 9780812295504
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2018

Open Houses

Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Barbara Leckie

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Barbara Leckie's Open Houses addresses nineteenth-century documentary and print culture dedicated to convincing the reader of the wretchedness of housing of the poor and its urgent need for reform. It illustrates the ways in which "looking into" these houses animated new models for social critique in tandem with new forms for the novel.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812295177
ISBN:: 9780812295177
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2018

Shakespearean Intersections

Language, Contexts, Critical Keywords

Patricia Parker

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What does the keyword "continence" in Love's Labor's Lost reveal about geopolitical boundaries and their breaching? What can we learn from the contemporary identification of the "quince" with weddings that is crucial for A Midsummer Night's Dream? How does the evocation of Spanish-occupied "Brabant" in Othello resonate with contemporary geopolitical contexts, wordplay on "Low Countries," and fears of sexual/territorial "occupation"? How does "supposes" connote not only sexual submission in The Taming of the Shrew but also the transvestite practice of boys playing women, and what does it mean for the dramatic recognition scene in Cymbeline?

With dazzling wit and erudition, Patricia Parker explores these and other critical keywords to reveal how they provide a lens for interpreting the language, contexts, and preoccupations of Shakespeare's plays. In doing so, she probes classical and historical sources, theatrical performance practices, geopolitical interrelations, hierarchies of race, gender, and class, and the multiple significances of "preposterousness," including reversals of high and low, male and female, Latinate and vulgar, "sinister" or backward writing, and latter ends both bodily and dramatic.

Providing innovative and interdisciplinary perspectives on Shakespeare, from early to late and across dramatic genres, Parker's deeply evocative readings demonstrate how easy-to-overlook textual or semantic details reverberate within and beyond the Shakespearean text, and suggest that the boundary between language and context is an incontinent divide.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294767
ISBN:: 9780812294767
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2018

Frank Furness

Architecture in the Age of the Great Machines

George E. Thomas, Alan Hess

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A sweeping assessment of the entire career of Frank Furness that features more than one hundred illustrations, George E. Thomas's book argues that modern American architecture, in design and genealogy, is rooted in the industrial culture of Philadelphia and the office of Frank Furness.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294835
ISBN:: 9780812294835
Subject:: Architecture and Design
Subject:: Architecture
Subject:: History
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2018

God's Country

Christian Zionism in America

Samuel Goldman

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The United States is Israel's closest ally in the world. The fact is undeniable, and undeniably controversial, not least because it so often inspires conspiracy theorizing among those who refuse to believe that the special relationship serves America's strategic interests or places the United States on the right side of Israel's enduring conflict with the Palestinians. Some point to the nefarious influence of a powerful "Israel lobby" within the halls of Congress. Others detect the hand of evangelical Protestants who fervently support Israel for their own theological reasons. The underlying assumption of all such accounts is that America's support for Israel must flow from a mixture of collusion, manipulation, and ideologically driven foolishness.

Samuel Goldman proposes another explanation. The political culture of the United States, he argues, has been marked from the very beginning by a Christian theology that views the American nation as deeply implicated in the historical fate of biblical Israel. God's Country is the first book to tell the complete story of Christian Zionism in American political and religious thought from the Puritans to 9/11. It identifies three sources of American Christian support for a Jewish state: covenant, or the idea of an ongoing relationship between God and the Jewish people; prophecy, or biblical predictions of return to The Promised Land; and cultural affinity, based on shared values and similar institutions. Combining original research with insights from the work of historians of American religion, Goldman crafts a provocative narrative that chronicles Americans' attachment to the State of Israel.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294941
ISBN:: 9780812294941
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: North America
Subject:: United States of America
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2018

Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England

Rebecca Lemon

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Rebecca Lemon illuminates a previously-buried conception of addiction, as a form of devotion at once laudable, difficult, and extraordinary, that has been concealed by the persistent modern link of addiction to pathology. Surveying sixteenth-century invocations, she reveals how early moderns might consider themselves addicted to study, friendship, love, or God. However, she also uncovers their understanding of addiction as a form of compulsion that resonates with modern scientific definitions. Specifically, early modern medical tracts, legal rulings, and religious polemic stressed the dangers of addiction to alcohol in terms of disease, compulsion, and enslavement. Yet the relationship between these two understandings of addiction was not simply oppositional, for what unites these discourses is a shared emphasis on addiction as the overthrow of the will.

Etymologically, "addiction" is a verbal contract or a pledge, and even as sixteenth-century audiences actively embraced addiction to God and love, writers warned against commitment to improper forms of addiction, and the term became increasingly associated with disease and tyranny. Examining canonical texts including Doctor Faustus, Twelfth Night, Henry IV, and Othello alongside theological, medical, imaginative, and legal writings, Lemon traces the variety of early modern addictive attachments. Although contemporary notions of addiction seem to bear little resemblance to its initial meanings, Lemon argues that the early modern period's understanding of addiction is relevant to our modern conceptions of, and debates about, the phenomenon.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294811
ISBN:: 9780812294811
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2018

Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing

The American Example

Nancy Armstrong, Leonard Tennenhouse

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In the decades after U.S. independence, American novelists carried on an argument that pitted direct democracy against the representative liberalism they attributed to their British counterparts. The result was an American novel distinguished by its use of narrative tropes that generated a social system resembling today's distributed network.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294613
ISBN:: 9780812294613
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2018

The New Political Islam

Human Rights, Democracy, and Justice

Emmanuel Karagiannis

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Explains how various Islamists have endorsed human rights, democracy, and justice to gain influence and mobilize supporters

Islamist political parties and groups are on the rise throughout the Muslim world and in Muslim communities in the West. Owing largely to the threat of terrorism, political Islam is often portrayed as a monolithic movement embodying fundamentalism and theocracy, an image magnified by the rise of populism and xenophobia in the United States and Europe. Reality, however, is far more complicated. Political Islam has evolved considerably since its spectacular rise decades ago, and today it features divergent viewpoints and contributes to discrete but simultaneous developments worldwide. This is a new political Islam, more global in scope but increasingly local in action.

Emmanuel Karagiannis offers a sophisticated analysis of the different manifestations of contemporary Islamism. In a context of global economic and social changes, he finds local manifestations of Islamism are becoming both more prevalent and more diverse. Many Islamists turn to activism, still more participate formally in the democratic process, and some, in far fewer numbers, advocate violence—a wide range of political persuasions and tactics that reflects real and perceived political, cultural, and identity differences.

Synthesizing prodigious research and integrating insights from the globalization debate and the literature on social movements, The New Political Islam seeks to explain the processes and factors leading to distinctive fusions of "the global" and "the local" across the landscape of contemporary political Islam. Examining converts to Islam in Europe, nonviolent Islamists with global reach, Islamist parties in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia, and militant Shia and Sunni groups in Syria and Iraq, Karagiannis demonstrates that Islamists have embraced ideas and practices from the global marketplace and have attempted to implement them locally. He looks closely at the ways in which Islamist activists, politicians, and militants have utilized the language of human rights, democracy, and justice to gain influence and popular support and to contend for power.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294576
ISBN:: 9780812294576
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Human Rights
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2018

Compassion's Edge

Fellow-Feeling and Its Limits in Early Modern France

Katherine Ibbett

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Compassion's Edge traces the relation between compassion and toleration after France's Wars of Religion. This is not, however, a story about compassion overcoming difference but one of compassion reinforcing division. It provides a robust corrective to today's hope that fellow-feeling draws us inexorably and usefully together.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294569
ISBN:: 9780812294569
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: French Literature, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2017

A Theater of Diplomacy

International Relations and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France

Ellen R. Welch

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In A Theater of Diplomacy, Ellen R. Welch argues that theater served not merely as a decorative accompaniment to negotiations, but rather underpinned the practices of embodied representation, performance, and spectatorship that constituted the culture of diplomacy in the early modern period.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293869
ISBN:: 9780812293869
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2017

Antitheatricality and the Body Public

Lisa A. Freeman

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In an exploration of antitheatrical incidents from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, Lisa A. Freeman demonstrates that at the heart of antitheatrical disputes lies a struggle over the character of the body politic that governs a nation and the bodies public that could be said to represent that nation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293555
ISBN:: 9780812293555
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Drama, Theater
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2017

The Integrated Self

Augustine, the Bible, and Ancient Thought

Brian Stock

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The Integrated Self is a book in which Stock continues his project of reading Augustine, and one in which he moves forward in new and perhaps unexpected directions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293524
ISBN:: 9780812293524
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: Ancient Near East
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2017

Our Emily Dickinsons

American Women Poets and the Intimacies of Difference

Vivian R. Pollak

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Our Emily Dickinsons situates Dickinson's life and work within larger debates about gender, sexuality, and literary authority in America. Examining Dickinson's influence on Marianne Moore, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop and others, Vivian R. Pollak complicates the connection between authorial biography and poetry that endures.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293227
ISBN:: 9780812293227
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2017

The Great War and American Foreign Policy, 1914-24

Robert E. Hannigan

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In The Great War and American Foreign Policy, 1914-1924, Robert E. Hannigan challenges the conventional belief that the United States entered World War I only because its hand was forced and disputes the claim that Washington was subsequently driven by a desire "to make the world safe for democracy."

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293289
ISBN:: 9780812293289
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2016

Literature After Euclid

The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment

Matthew Wickman

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Literature After Euclid tells the story of the creative adaptation of geometry in Scotland during and after the long eighteenth century. Analyzing the work of Scottish literati, Matthew Wickman challenges how we perceive the Scottish Enlightenment and the modernist ethos that relegated "classical" Enlightenment to the dustbin of history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812292534
ISBN:: 9780812292534
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2016

The Socratic Turn

Knowledge of Good and Evil in an Age of Science

Dustin Sebell

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Can we come to know what is good and evil, right and wrong in our age of science? In The Socratic Turn, Dustin Sebell looks to Socrates, the founder of political philosophy, for guidance.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812292244
ISBN:: 9780812292244
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Cultural Theory
Subject:: Political Theory
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2016

Poetical Dust

Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain

Thomas A. Prendergast

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Thomas Prendergast's Poetical Dust offers a provocative and far-reaching analysis of Poets' Corner. Covering nearly a thousand years of political and literary history, the book examines the chaotic, sometimes fitful process through which Britain has consecrated its poetry and poets.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291902
ISBN:: 9780812291902
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2016

The Strangers Book

The Human of African American Literature

Lloyd Pratt

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The Strangers Book explores how a constellation of nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it meant to be a stranger.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291995
ISBN:: 9780812291995
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Other Nations and Languages
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2016

Peripheral Desires

The German Discovery of Sex

Robert Deam Tobin

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As Germany—and German-speaking Europe—became a fertile ground for homosexual subcultures in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, what factors helped construct the sexuality that emerged? Peripheral Desires examines how and why the political, scientific and literary culture of the region produced the modern vocabulary of sexuality.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291865
ISBN:: 9780812291865
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: German Literature, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2015

Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns

Valerie Traub

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What do we know about early modern sex? And how do we know it? How, when, and why does sex become history? In Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns, Valerie Traub addresses these questions and, in doing so, reorients the ways in which historians and literary critics, feminists and queer theorists approach sexuality and its history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291582
ISBN:: 9780812291582
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2015

Esperanto and Its Rivals

The Struggle for an International Language

Roberto Garvia, Roberto Garvía

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Roberto Garvía explores the history of artificial spoken or written languages and the people who fought for them. Taking the three most prominent—Volapük, Esperanto, and Ido—Garvía investigates what drove so many to invest incredible energy and time to learn and promote them.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291278
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-9127-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2015

The Roman Inquisition

Trying Galileo

Thomas F. Mayer

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With this final installment in his trilogy on the seventeenth-century Roman Inquisition, Thomas F. Mayer has provided the first comprehensive study of the legal proceedings against Galileo.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812290325
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-9032-5
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2015

Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror

Christianity, Violence, and the West

Philippe Buc

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Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror examines the ways Christian theology has shaped centuries of violence from Christianity's first centuries up to our own day, through the crusades, the French Revolution, and more recent American wars.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812290974
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-9097-4
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2015

Nationalism, Language, and Muslim Exceptionalism

Tristan James Mabry

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Drawing on fieldwork in Iraq, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines, Nationalism, Language, and Muslim Exceptionalism compares the politics of six Muslim separatist movements, locating shared language and print culture as a central factor in Muslim ethnonational identity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291018
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-9101-8
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Foreign Policy
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2015

On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy

Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards

Douglas Biow

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Arguing that the notion of individuality is central to understanding Renaissance Italy, Douglas Biow examines the ways that men of the period asserted their individuated selves, such as becoming masters of an art, creating a signature professional style or voice, or asserting themselves through a distinctive, fashionable look.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812290509
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-9050-9
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2015

Unquiet Things

Secularism in the Romantic Age

Colin Jager

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Reading works by Austen, Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley among others, Unquiet Things investigates the social and political disorders that arise within modern secular cultures. Jager demonstrates the distinctive ability of literary writing to register the uneasiness and anxiety that characterize the mood of secular modernity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812290400
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-9040-0
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2015

Fateful Transitions

How Democracies Manage Rising Powers, from the Eve of World War I to China's Ascendance

Daniel M. Kliman

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Fateful Transitions offers a new perspective on the debate about China's ascendance and the global power shift. The book examines how democratic nations have navigated the rise of other states from 1895 to the present and explains what today's leaders can learn from history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812290295
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-9029-5
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Political Science, other
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2014

The Difficult Art of Giving

Patronage, Philanthropy, and the American Literary Market

Francesca Sawaya

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The Difficult Art of Giving rethinks the economic history of American literature, demonstrating that the practices of patronage and corporate-based philanthropy shaped the literary market . Francesca Sawaya examines the importance of patronage and philanthropy on major post-bellum authors' careers and fiction.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812290035
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4630-8
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-9003-5
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2014

Goethe's Allegories of Identity

Jane K. Brown

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Goethe's Allegories of Identity shows how Goethe's literary works, as the essential middle steps between Rousseau and Freud, lay the basis for modern depth psychology. Its illuminating scholarly yet accessible readings of five major works may also serve as an introduction to readers coming to Goethe for the first time.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812209389
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4582-0
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0938-9
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: German Literature, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2014

The Roman Inquisition on the Stage of Italy, c. 1590-1640

Thomas F. Mayer

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Drawing on the Roman Inquisition's own records, diplomatic correspondence, local documents, newsletters, and other sources, Thomas F. Mayer provides an intricately detailed account of the ways the Inquisition operated to serve the papacy's long-standing political aims in Naples, Venice, and Florence between 1590 and 1640.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812209341
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4573-8
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0934-1
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2014

Corporation Nation

Robert E. Wright

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Drawing on legal and economic history, Robert E. Wright traces the development of corporate institutions in America, connecting today's financial failures to weakened internal corporate regulation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208962
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4564-6
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0896-2
Subject:: Business and Economics
Subject:: Business Management
Subject:: Business Management, other
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2014

No Use

Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security

Thomas M. Nichols

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In No Use, national security scholar Thomas M. Nichols examines the role of nuclear weapons and their prominence in U.S. security strategy, ultimately arguing that this belief in the utility of nuclear force is misguided and dangerously obsolete.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812209068
ISBN:: 9780812209068
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Military Policy
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2014

Ethnography in Today's World

Color Full Before Color Blind

Roger Sanjek

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In Ethnography in Today's World, anthropologist Roger Sanjek addresses the essential practice and purpose of ethnography in ethnically diverse settings. Drawing on decades of globe-spanning fieldwork, he examines how ethnographic fieldwork is and can be conceived, conducted, and communicated in today's interconnected world.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208764
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4545-5
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0876-4
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Anthropology
Subject:: Social Anthropology
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2013

Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture

Karen Raber

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Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture reconsiders interactions between environment, body, and consciousness found in early modern works, from More's Utopia and Shakespeare's Hamlet to husbandry manuals, anatomy texts, and horsemanship treatises.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208597
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4536-3
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0859-7
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2013

Ellis Island Nation

Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century

Robert L. Fleegler

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Examining the shift between American immigrant policy between 1924 and 1964, Ellis Island Nation traces the emergence of "contributionism," the belief that the newcomers from eastern and southern Europe contributed important cultural and economic benefits to American society.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208092
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4509-7
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0809-2
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2013

International Bohemia

Scenes of Nineteenth-Century Life

Daniel Cottom

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Daniel Cottom traces the vagabond word "bohemia" as it migrated across national borders over the course of the nineteenth century—from France to the United States, England, Italy, Spain, and Germany—and how it was transformed, contested, or rejected along the way.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208078
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4488-5
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0807-8
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: Romance Literature, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2013

The Poetics of Piracy

Emulating Spain in English Literature

Barbara Fuchs

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Amid thorny issues of translation and appropriation, imperial rivalry, the rise of commercial authorship, and anxieties about authenticity, Barbara Fuchs traces how early modern English writers borrowed Spanish literary models, triumphantly reimagining the transnational appropriation as heroic looting.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812207767
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4475-5
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0776-7
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2013

The Roman Inquisition

A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo

Thomas F. Mayer

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As Thomas F. Mayer demonstrates in this first study of the Roman Inquisition as an institution, the Inquisition underwent constant modification as it expanded. Originally aimed to eradicate Protestant heresy, it went beyond medieval antecedents by becoming a highly articulated centralized organ directly dependent on the pope.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812207644
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4473-1
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0764-4
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2013

Exquisite Mixture

The Virtues of Impurity in Early Modern England

Wolfram Schmidgen

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Exquisite Mixture examines the writing of Robert Boyle, John Locke, Daniel Defoe, and others in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain who advocated mixture as a critical element of this belief in English superiority: mixture could produce superior languages, new species, flawless ideas, and resilient civil societies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812207187
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4442-7
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0718-7
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2013

The Decadent Republic of Letters

Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley

Matthew Potolsky

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The Decadent Republic of Letters revises the longstanding view of decadence as a movement defined by escapism and sociopolitical withdrawal. The book argues that decadent writers and artists from Charles Baudelaire to Aubrey Beardsley addressed a cosmopolitan audience united by taste rather than language, geography, or national identity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812207330
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4449-6
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0733-0
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Romance Literature
Subject:: French Literature
Subject:: French Literature, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2012

Public Capitalism

The Political Authority of Corporate Executives

Christopher McMahon

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Political philosopher Christopher McMahon argues that the social authority of corporate executives is best understood as a form of political authority. Public Capitalism explores the implications of that claim and sketches a new theoretical framework for discussion of the moral and political issues faced by corporate executives.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812207262
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4444-1
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0726-2
Subject:: Business and Economics
Subject:: Political Economics
Subject:: Public Finance and Fiscal Theory
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2012

In the Shadow of the Gallows

Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity

Jeannine Marie DeLombard

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In the Shadow of the Gallows reveals how a sense of racialized culpability shaped Americans' understandings of personhood prior to the Civil War. Jeannine Marie DeLombard draws from legal, literary, and popular texts to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812206333
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4422-9
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0633-3
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literature of other Nations and Languages
Subject:: Other Nations and Languages
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2012

English Letters and Indian Literacies

Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 175-183

Hilary E. Wyss

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Focusing on boarding schools established by New England missionaries, English Letters and Indian Literacies explores the ways Native students negotiated the variety of pedagogical practices and technologies of literacy and managed those technologies for their own ends.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812206036
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4413-7
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0603-6
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2012

Shakespeare's Shrine

The Bard's Birthplace and the Invention of Stratford-upon-Avon

Julia Thomas

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As the first major study of Shakespeare's Birthplace during the nineteenth century, Shakespeare's Shrine draws on extensive archival research to describe the invention of the Birthplace in the Victorian period, when the site was purchased for the nation, extensively restored, and transformed into a major tourist attraction.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812206623
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4423-6
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0662-3
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2012

How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency

Saladin M. Ambar

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Saladin M. Ambar's innovative study is the first book to explicitly credit governors with making the presidency what it is today. This book explodes the idea that the modern presidency began after 1945, instead placing its origins squarely in the Progressive Era.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812206234
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4396-3
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0623-4
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Political Science, other
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2012

Enchantment

On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West

C. Stephen Jaeger

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This book examines charisma as the force in art, literature, and film that engages the reader's or viewer's consciousness and inspires admiration and imitation. Thirteen chapters analyze the workings of charisma and its effects, ranging from Homer to Woody Allen.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812206524
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4329-1
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0652-4
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2012

China Hand

An Autobiography

John Paton Davies, Jr., Todd S. Purdum, Bruce Cumings

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In this wry and insightful memoir, distinguished American diplomat John Paton Davies, Jr. describes his upbringing and wartime adventures in Asia, encounters with key twentieth-century figures from Mahatma Gandhi to Joseph Stalin, and how he carried on after his Foreign Service career was cut short by McCarthyism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812206319
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4401-4
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0631-9
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Political Science, other
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2012

Kafka's Jewish Languages

The Hidden Openness of Tradition

David Suchoff

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Kafka's Jewish Languages shows how Yiddish and modern Hebrew were crucial to Kafka's development as a writer. David Suchoff's examination also demonstrates the intimate relationship between Kafka's Jewish voice and his larger literary significance.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205244
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4371-0
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0524-4
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: German Literature, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2011

Family and Empire

The Fernández de Córdoba and the Spanish Realm

Yuen-Gen Liang

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This book explores how the Fernández de Córdoba family established networks of kin and clients that horizontally connected disparate imperial territories, binding together religious communities—Christians, Muslims, and Jews—and political factions—Comunero rebels and Catalan, French, and Ottoman sympathizers—into an incorporated imperial polity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204377
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4340-6
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0437-7
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2011

Radclyffe Hall

A Life in the Writing

Richard Dellamora

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Richard Dellamora offers the first full look at the entire range of Hall's published and unpublished works of fiction, poetry, and autobiography and reads through them to demonstrate how she continually played with the details of her own life to help fashion her own identity as well as to bring into existence a public lesbian culture.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204650
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4346-8
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0465-0
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2010

Theatrical Nation

Jews and Other Outlandish Englishmen in Georgian Britain

Michael Ragussis

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Focusing on such popular figures as the stage Jew, Scot, and Irishman, Michael Ragussis reveals the crucial role the theater played in developing, maintaining, and questioning the ethnic stereotypes through which the identity of the English nation was defined.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812207934
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4220-1
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0793-4
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 2010

Animal Characters

Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature

Bruce Thomas Boehrer

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Animal Characters follows five species through the literature of early modern Europe. The horse, the parrot, the cat, the turkey, and the sheep all undergo a dramatic change in character as European writers begin to develop a new interest in—and understanding of—human character in its relation to literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201369
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-4249-2
ISBN:: 978-0-8122-0136-9
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature
Subject:: Anglo-American Literature, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1985

The Russian Image of Goethe, Volume 1

Goethe in Russian Literature of the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

Andre von Gronicka, André von Gronicka

In the series Anniversary Collection

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"Gronicka gives an admirably concise, learned, and well-documented factual account of Russian literary relations to Goethe. . . . He makes use of unpublished materials and offers rich notes and an admirably complete bibliography."—Comparative Literature Studies

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512808230
ISBN:: 9781512808230
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1983

The Reluctant Patron

The United States Government and the Arts, 1943-1965

Gary O. Larson

In the series Anniversary Collection

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512803624
ISBN:: 9781512803624
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Political Science
Subject:: Political Science, other
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1979

The Legendary History of Britain in Lope Garcia de Salazar's "Libro de las bienandanzas e fortunas"

Harvey L. Sharrer

In the series Anniversary Collection

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512807219
ISBN:: 9781512807219
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1977

The Typology of the Early Codex

Eric G. Turner

In the series Anniversary Collection

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512807868
ISBN:: 9781512807868
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Classical Archaeology
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1977

The Widening Circle

Essays on the Circulation of Literature in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Paul J. Korshin

In the series Anniversary Collection

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Three distinguished authorities—Robert Darnton, Roy M. Wiles, and Bernhard Fabian—here offer informed reflections on the history of books, on literary commerce, and on the reading public in eighteenth-century England, France, and Germany.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512809435
ISBN:: 9781512809435
Subject:: Library and Information Science, Book Studies
Subject:: Publishing and Book Trade
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1977

Historia Vitae et Regni Ricardi Secundi

George B. Stow, Jr.

In the series Anniversary Collection

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512807318
ISBN:: 9781512807318
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1976

Sixteenth-Century Imprints in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania

M. A. Shaaber

In the series Anniversary Collection

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A catalogue of the C16th imprints in the University of Pennsylvania libraries, running to approximately 10,000 items.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512807240
ISBN:: 9781512807240
Subject:: Library and Information Science, Book Studies
Subject:: Library and Information Science, other
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1975

Roman Religion and Roman Empire

Five Essays

Robert E. A. Palmer

In the series Anniversary Collection

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512818352
ISBN:: 9781512818352
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Ancient History
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1975

The Family in History

Charles E. Rosenberg

In the series Anniversary Collection

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This is a book that goes beyond a mere examination of the role of the family in structuring sexual relationships, kinship relations, and child rearing practices. Here are historical examples of the family as a source of labor and capital accumulation, as a mechanism for the transmission of property, and as a means for the imposition of social control.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512806328
ISBN:: 9781512806328
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Exile History
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1974

The Love of Krishna

The Krsnakarnamrta of Lilasuka Bilvamangala

Frances Wilson

In the series Anniversary Collection

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The first critical edition in transcription with facing English translation of a medieval Sanskrit text that is known in most parts of India, especially in Bengal. The Kŗșņakarņāmŗta ("Nectar to the Ears of Krishna") is a devotional anthology of stanzas in praise of the youthful Krishna.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512808841
ISBN:: 9781512808841
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Hinduism
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1973

Cho'rti Mayan Texts

John G. Fought, Sarah S. Fought

In the series Anniversary Collection

In the series Folklore and Folklife

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The legends and folktales, religious and medical texts, agricultural and domestic customs translated and presented in this volume are crucial not only to an understanding of Mayan culture as it exists today but stand as our only clue eventually to deciphering the inscription of the ancient Mayans.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512816037
ISBN:: 9781512816037
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Anthropology
Subject:: Biological Anthropology
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1973

Tercera Parte de la Tragicomedia de Celestina

A Critical Edition

Gaspar Gómez de Toledo, Mac E. Barrick

In the series Anniversary Collection

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Carefully and judiciously edited by Barrick, the Tercera Celestina is a rare piece of Spanish prose fiction, a literary masterpiece, and a mine of linguistic and proverbial materials.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512814163
ISBN:: 9781512814163
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1973

El Primero Benavides

Lope de Vega, Arnold G. Reichenberger, Augusta Espantoso Foley

In the series Anniversary Collection

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512821024
ISBN:: 9781512821024
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1971

Indo-European and Indo-Europeans

Papers Presented at the Third Indo-European Conference at the University of Pennsylvania

George Cardona, Henry M. Hoenigswald, Alfred Senn

In the series Anniversary Collection

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Twenty-two internationally known linguists, anthropologists, and archaeologists discuss such questions as the original home of the Indo-Europeans, their migration, religiomythic beliefs, and legal customs in the most comprehensive treatment of Indo-European culture in recent times.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512801200
ISBN:: 9781512801200
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: General Linguistics
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1971

Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Bosnia

Samuel G. Armistead, Joseph H. Silverman, Biljana Sljivic-Simsic

In the series Anniversary Collection

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The Judeo-Spanish folk literature of the Sephardic Jews of Bosnia, and with it their uncommonly rich balladry, has remained largely unknown to Western scholars. Since their move to Sarajevo in the sixteenth century, Serob-Croatian has displaced their original Spanish, and the entire culture is rapidly approaching extinction. This book preserved for posterity three fundamentally important groups of these rare ballads: Kalmi Baruch's Spanski romanse; ballads collected from the readers of the Sarajevo newspaper Jevrejski Glas; and five previously unedited eighteenth-century Bosnian ballads from a manuscript in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem. Notes, abstracts in English, reproductions of the music itself, and other scholarly aids serve to make this colorful and strangely modern literature fully accessible to Hispanists, folklorists, and all students of comparative literature and Judaic culture.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512800203
ISBN:: 9781512800203
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies, general
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1971

Social Determinants of Moral Ideas

Maria Ossowska

In the series Anniversary Collection

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Maria Ossowska, leading philosopher of the Warsaw school, here sets out to show that moral ideas can be examined with scientific rigor. She proposes a sociology of morals that can be verified by observation and is philosophically based on the development of descriptive ethics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512805147
ISBN:: 9781512805147
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Ethics
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1970

Indo-European /a/

William F. Wyatt, Jr.

In the series Anniversary Collection

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An account of the development of the Indo-European vowel system in its latest stages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512809213
ISBN:: 9781512809213
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: General Linguistics
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1969

The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne

A Critical Edition

Robert J. Gates

In the series Anniversary Collection

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Central to the Arthurian-Gawain canon, this anonymous Middle English poem is here set in a complete critical edition, based on a thorough study of all four extant manuscripts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512802344
ISBN:: 9781512802344
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1969

The Political Thought of Sir Henry Vane, the Younger

Margaret A. Judson

In the series Anniversary Collection

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512809657
ISBN:: 9781512809657
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1968

Phineas Bond

A Study in Anglo-American Relations, 1786-1812

Joanne Loewe Neel

In the series Anniversary Collection

Volume 4 in this series

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Joanne Loewe Neel's biography shows Phineas Bond as a microcosm of his time. His thoughts and work, his dreams and hopes, his experiences and convictions point up the era between the two wars for American independence.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512804829
ISBN:: 9781512804829
Subject:: History
Subject:: Miscellaneous
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1968

Brito Metricus

A Mediaeval Verse Treatise on Greek and Hebrew Words

Lloyd W. Daly

In the series Anniversary Collection

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512815429
ISBN:: 9781512815429
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press

Book 1968

On Haplology in Indo-European

George Cardona

In the series Anniversary Collection

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This study investigates a problem of Sanskrit grammar, namely, the conditions underlying some peculiarities in the forms of Vedic feminine stems in -ya-. Cardona compares the form with Latin perfects of the type dixit ("said") and concludes that the traditional distinction made between major and minor processes of sound change is untenable.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512815108
ISBN:: 9781512815108
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: General Linguistics
Publisher:: University of Pennsylvania Press