Lehigh University Press: 75 books
Bernhard Karlgren
Portrait of A Scholar
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
This book deals with the life and career of Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978), whose research in a great variety of fields, particularly the historical phonology of the Chinese language, laid the foundations for modern western sinology. The definition of the term 'sinology' has undergone great changes...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Complementing and extending a project begun by Lois Vines' Poe Abroad (University of Iowa Press, 1999), Poe’s Pervasive Influence includes essays on Poe’s influence abroad from Japanese author, Edogawa Rampo, to Russian author, Nikolai Gogol, and takes a wider perspective on Poe's influence by including essays on Poe's impact on American authors from Harriet Jacobs to Joyce Carol Oates.
Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America
Dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett Trial, 1799
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America: Dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett Trial, 1799 offers the first deep analysis of the most important libel trial in post-revolutionary America and an approach to understanding a much-studied revolutionary figure, Benjamin Rush, in a new light as a legal subject....
The Chinese Medical Ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu, 1872–1937
On a Cross-Cultural Frontier of Gender, Race, and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
This is the first full-length study of the medical ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu, who graduated from the medical school at the University of Michigan in 1896 and then ran dispensaries, hospitals, and nursing schools in China from the 1890s to the 1930s. Known in English-speaking countries...
Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820
A Calendar of Performances
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Theatre in Dublin,1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s becoming the manager...
Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820
A Calendar of Performances
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Theatre in Dublin,1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s becoming the manager...
Contested Commonwealths
Essays in American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
United States historian William Pencak presents thirteen of his essays, written beginning in 1976. Some deal with colonial and revolutionary crowds and communities in Massachusetts - the impressment riot of 1747, the popular uprisings of the 1760s and 1770s, and Shays' Rebellion. Others examine popular...
Engendered Death
Pennsylvania Women Who Kill
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Engendered Death: Pennsylvania Women Who Kill is an historical and interdisciplinary study of women who kill in Pennsylvania from the 18th century to the present. It is not an examination of what motivates women to kill, although the reader may deduce that from the case studies included. Instead,...
Deciphering Poe
Subtexts, Contexts, Subversive Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Founder of the detective genre and author of works on cryptography, Edgar Allan Poe possessed what Shawn Rosenheim called a “cryptographic imagination.” Not only was Poe’s work influenced by secret writing, it inspired future critics to search his texts for secret clues and that fostered new...
The Annotated We
A New Translation of Evgeny Zamiatin’s Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
The Annotated**We represents the first fully annotated translation of Evgeny Zamiatin’s classic novel in English. Generally recognized as the first modern anti-utopian novel, Zamiatin’s We has puzzled scholars and critics alike, for it is both serious and playful, full of games. Long considered...
The Lovecraftian Poe
Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
H.P. Lovecraft, one of the twentieth century’s most important writers in the genre of horror fiction, famously referred to Edgar Allan Poe as both his “model” and his “God of Fiction.” While scholars and readers of Poe’s and Lovecraft’s work have long recognized the connection between...
Women, Gender, and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Essays in Memory of Betty Rizzo
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
This edited collection, a tribute to the late noted eighteenth-century scholar Betty Rizzo, testifies to her influence as a researcher, writer, teacher, and mentor. The essays, written by a range of established and younger eighteenth-century specialists, expand on the themes important to Rizzo: the...
Queer Retrosexualities
The Politics of Reparative Return
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Queer Retrosexualities: The Politics of ReparativeReturn examines the retrospective logic that informs contemporary queer thinking; specifically the narrative return to the 1950s in post-1990s queer and LGBT culture in the United States. The term “Queer Retrosexuality” marks the intersection between...
Adalberto Ortiz
From Margin to Center
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Pablo Adalberto Ortiz Quiñones (1914–2002) was one of the most gifted writers in Ecuador and all of Latin America. Yet outside of Ecuador and amongst Afro-Hispanic literature scholars in the United States, little critical attention has been given to this pioneer whose multi-genre contributions...