University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
by George Sand
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
The first translation of The Countess von Rudolstadt in more than a century brings to contemporary readers one of George Sand's most ambitious and engaging novels, hailed by many scholars of French literature as her masterpiece. Consuelo, or the Countess von Rudolstadt, born the penniless daughter...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, from the heart-rending lament of a lone castaway to the embodied speech of the cross upon which Christ was crucified, from the anxiety of Eve,...
"The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana"
Two Plays of Captivity
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Best known today as the author of Don Quixote—one of the most beloved and widely read novels in the Western tradition—Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) was a poet and a playwright as well. After some early successes on the Madrid stage in the 1580s, his theatrical career was interrupted...
Ovid's Erotic Poems
"Amores" and "Ars Amatoria"
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
The most sophisticated and daring poetic ironist of the early Roman Empire, Publius Ovidius Naso, is perhaps best known for his oft-imitated Metamorphoses. But the Roman poet also wrote lively and lewd verse on the subjects of love, sex, marriage, and adultery—a playful parody of the earnest erotic...
Musically Speaking
A Life Through Song
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
"Music, I have come to realize, is for me a kind of golden thread running through my life. It has helped maintain my connection with the past that otherwise might have been severed by catastrophe and time. I am often asked—indeed, I often wonder myself—why it is that I should always have...
Love and Honor in the Himalayas
Coming To Know Another Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
American anthropologist Ernestine McHugh arrived in the foothills of the Annapurna mountains in Nepal, and, surrounded by terraced fields, rushing streams, and rocky paths, she began one of several sojourns among the Gurung people whose ramro hawa-pani (good wind and water) not only describes the...
Imaginary Betrayals
Subjectivity and the Discourses of Treason in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
In 1352 King Edward III had expanded the legal definition of treason to include the act of imagining the death of the king, opening up the category of "constructive" treason, in which even a subject's thoughts might become the basis for prosecution. By the sixteenth century, treason was...
Seasons of Misery
Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
The stories we tell of American beginnings typically emphasize colonial triumph in the face of adversity. But the early years of English settlement in America were characterized by catastrophe: starvation, disease, extreme violence, ruinous ignorance, and serial abandonment. Seasons of Misery offers...
In the Shadow of the Gallows
Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing...
Voice in Motion
Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Voice in Motion explores the human voice as a literary, historical, and performative motif in early modern English drama and culture, where the voice was frequently represented as struggling, even failing, to work. In a compelling and original argument, Gina Bloom demonstrates that early modern ideas...
Chechnya
From Nationalism to Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The sheer scale and brutality of the hostilities between Russia and Chechnya stand out as an exception in the mostly peaceful breakup of the Soviet Union. Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad provides a fascinating analysis of the transformation of secular nationalist resistance in a nominally Islamic...
Before Orientalism
Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-1510
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
A distinct European perspective on Asia emerged in the late Middle Ages. Early reports of a homogeneous "India" of marvels and monsters gave way to accounts written by medieval travelers that indulged readers' curiosity about far-flung landscapes and cultures without exhibiting the attitudes...
Between Cultures
Europe and Its Others in Five Exemplary Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Richard Burton. T. E. Lawrence. Louis Massignon. Chinua Achebe. Orhan Pamuk. The remarkable quintet whose stories make up Jerrold Seigel's Between Cultures are all people who, without ever seeking to exit from the ways of life into which they had been born, devoted themselves to exploring a second...
Red Matters
Native American Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Arnold Krupat, one of the most original and respected critics working in Native American studies today, offers a clear and compelling set of reasons why red—Native American culture, history, and literature—should matter to Americans more than it has to date. Although there exists a growing body...