Penn State University Press: 456 books
by Martine Reid
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
The romantic and rebellious novelist George Sand, born in 1804 as Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, remains one of France’s most infamous and beloved literary figures. Thanks to a peerless translation by Gretchen van Slyke, Martine Reid’s acclaimed biography of Sand is now available in English.
Drawing...
by Amy Freund
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France challenges widely held assumptions about both the genre of portraiture and the political and cultural role of images in France at the beginning of the nineteenth century. After 1789, portraiture came to dominate French visual culture because it addressed...
The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society
Adam Smith's Response to Rousseau
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2008
Adam Smith is popularly regarded as the ideological forefather of laissez-faire capitalism, while Rousseau is seen as the passionate advocate of the life of virtue in small, harmonious communities and as a sharp critic of the ills of commercial society. But, in fact, Smith had many of the same worries...
Condorcet
Writings on the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Condorcet (1743–1794) was the last of the great eighteenth-century French philosophes and one of the most fervent américanistes of his time. A friend of Franklin, Jefferson, and Paine and a member of the American Philosophical Society, he was well informed and enthusiastic about the American Revolution....
American Trajectories
Authors and Readings, 1790–1970
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 1994
In American Trajectories Warner Berthoff argues that even in the broadest cultural and historical perspective, imaginative literature (like all the arts) is a matter of individual signatures and differences. He also puts forth that there are recognizable patterns and continuities marking off what...
Imagining the Kibbutz
Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
In Imagining the Kibbutz, Ranen Omer-Sherman explores the literary and cinematic representations of the socialist experiment that became history’s most successfully sustained communal enterprise. Inspired in part by the kibbutz movement’s recent commemoration of its centennial, this study responds...
Emilie Davis’s Civil War
The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863–1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Emilie Davis was a free African American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War. She worked as a seamstress, attended the Institute for Colored Youth, and was an active member of her community. She lived an average life in her day, but what sets her apart is that she kept a diary. Her...
I Saw Water
An Occult Novel and Other Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Ithell Colquhoun (1906–1988) is remembered today as a surrealist artist, writer, and occultist. Although her paintings hang in a number of public collections and her gothic novel Goose of Hermogenes (1961) remains in print, critical responses to her work have been severely constrained by the limited...
The Book of Peace
By Christine de Pizan
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2008
Christine de Pizan, one of the earliest known women authors, wrote the Livre de paix (Book of Peace) between 1412 and 1414, a period of severe corruption and civil unrest in her native France. The book offered Pizan a platform from which to expound her views on contemporary politics and to put forth...
Here and There
Reading Pennsylvania's Working Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
The global economy threatens the uniqueness of places, people, and experiences. In Here and There, Bill Conlogue tests the assumption that literature and local places matter less and less in a world that economists describe as “flat,” politicians believe has “globalized,” and social scientists...
The Soviet Scholar-Bureaucrat
M. N. Pokrovskii and the Society of Marxist Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 1991
Mikhail Nikolaevich bridges 19th- and 20th-century Russian culture as well as Leninism and Stalinism, and later became an instrument in Khrushchev's effort at de-Stalinization. Pokrovskii was born in Moscow in 1868. He described the years before 1905 as his time of "democratic illusions and economic...
After the Fall
The Demeter-Persephone Myth in Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
A continuation of Josephine Donovan's exploration of American women's literary traditions, begun with New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition, which treats the nineteenth-century realists, this work analyzes the writing of major women writers of the early twentieth century—Edith...
Elizabeth Bishop
Her Poetics of Loss
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 1994
Elizabeth Bishop represents a full-scale examination of Bishop's work—poetry, prose, and selected unpublished material—to reveal how personal loss becomes implicated in her vision of self as fluid and unfixed and, at the same time, how gender and sexual identity inform the experience of loss in...
The Anglican Communion at a Crossroads
The Crises of a Global Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Worldwide debates over issues of sexuality and gender have come to a head in recent years in mainline and evangelical churches, with the Anglican Communion—a worldwide network of churches that trace their practice to Canterbury and claim some 85 million members—among the most publicly visible...