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The Tongking Gulf Through History--Now Available

The Tongking Gulf Through History
Edited by Nola Cooke, Li Tana, and James A. Anderson
240 pages | 6 x 9 | 27 illus.
Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4336-9 | $59.95 | £39.00
A volume in the Encounters with Asia series

This two-thousand-year history of the Tongking Gulf draws on fresh archaeological and historical insights to bridge a significant gap in studies on Southeast Asia and China.

"An informative picture of trade, economic, and political relationships throughout the Tongking Gulf over an extended period of time: approximately two thousand years. The well-researched essays each contribute fresh insights into the subject of maritime trade and premodern global connections in the region."--Erica Brindley, Pennsylvania State University

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Fall 2011 Preview

The Penn Press fall 2011 catalog is now in print and available in pdf. Click here for the pdf version (2.4 MB).

"The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries--Now Available

"The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries: Twelve Medieval French Plays in Modern English
Edited and translated by Jody Enders
496 pages | 6 x 9
Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4323-9 | $49.95 | £32.50
A volume in the Middle Ages Series

"Scurrilous, sexy, stupid, satirical, scatological, side-splitting, and probably something else beginning with 's,' Jody Enders's translation of twelve French farces is a real discovery that goes a long way to re-adjusting our perception of the Middle Ages. Enders is a great champion of comedy at its most vulgar and hilarious. She points out that however silly or banal these farces may appear to us, they nonetheless confront the real controversies of their day over the law, politics, religion, social order, or the battle of the sexes. Thoroughly grounded in her academic approach to the subject, Enders nevertheless writes with liveliness and humor and wit. She is unafraid to reference modern comedy in her translations and insists on the primacy of performance in assessing these comedies from half a millennium ago."--Terry Jones

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Anne Trubek Tricks Out Dave Cullen's Home

Anne Trubek, author of A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses, gives Dave Cullen some decorating tips to prepare his home for its future as a writer's house museum. Hopefully, Cullen's sublet won't become a memorial any time soon. The author of the best seller Columbine looks pretty healthy. Still, it's never too early to prepare for posterity. On a darker note, Cullen and Trubek look at Dylan Klebold's journal.

Thomas F. X. Noble Receives 2011 Gründler Prize

Congratulations to Thomas F. X. Noble, recipient of the 2011 Otto Gründler prize for Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians. The prize was presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies.

For three years in a row, the Medieval Institute has chosen a Penn Press author to receive the Gründler prize. In 2010, the prize went to John Van Engen for Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages. Caroline Walker Bynum won in 2009 for Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond.

Lucretia Mott's Heresy--Now Available

Lucretia Mott's Heresy: Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
Carol Faulkner
288 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus.
Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4321-5 | $45.00 | £29.50

Lucretia Mott was a central figure in the interconnected struggles for racial and sexual equality in nineteenth-century America. This biography, the first in thirty years, focuses on Mott's long and controversial public career as an abolitionist, women's rights activist, and Quaker minister.

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Becoming the People of the Talmud--Now Available

Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures
Talya Fishman
424 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus.
Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4313-0 | $65.00 | £42.50
A volume in the Jewish Culture and Contexts series

Talya Fishman explores the roles the Babylonian Talmud played in the textualization of medieval European Jewish culture. Read more . . .

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The Genius of Democracy--Now Available

The Genius of Democracy: Fictions of Gender and Citizenship in the United States, 1860-1945
Victoria Olwell
312 pages | 6 x 9
Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4324-6 | $59.95 | £39.00

Victoria Olwell shows how American fiction helped to catalyze democratic models of female genius, especially in the work of such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Mary Hunter Austin, Jessie Fauset, and Gertrude Stein.

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Sprucing Up for the Penn Press Open House Tomorrow

Tomorrow from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Penn Press welcomes the book loving community to its annual Penn Alumni Weekend open house. This year, Washington Post writter Adrian Higgins and photographer Rob Cardillo will be on hand to to discuss their new book Chanticleer, A Pleasure Garden. Open House guests will also have the opportunity to meet Of Gardens: Selected Essays author Paula Deitz.

Attendees may enter a drawing to win two tickets to a Phillies home game.

Penn Press is located at 3905 Spruce Street on the University of Pennsylvania campus in West Philadelphia.

 

 

One Family Under God--Now Available

One Family Under God: Love, Belonging, and Authority in Early Transatlantic Methodism
Anna M. Lawrence
272 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus.
Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4330-7 | $42.50 | £28.00
A volume in the Early American Studies series
 
Anna M. Lawrence combines family, gender, and religious history to chronicle the rise of Methodism in England and America during the Revolutionary period. Focusing on the transatlantic Methodist notion of family, this book speaks to historical debates over what family means and how the nuclear family model developed over the eighteenth century.

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