The Penn Press spring 2008 catalog announces Against the Wall, a wide-ranging series of essays, edited by Elijah Anderson, that look at the plight and prospects of young black urban men; Mapping Decline, by Colin Gordon, an illustrated history of urban decay in St. Louis; and Almost a Dynasty, by William Kashatus, about the world champion 1980 Philadelphia Phillies. Among many other notable new titles for the season are these: new editions of The Business of Sports Agents and The Academic Job Search Handbook; Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe; and Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden.
New and forthcoming titles from the Penn Press current seasonal catalog.
Bartels, Speaking of the Moor: From "Alcazar" to "Othello" (May 2008)
Forman, Tragicomic Redemptions: Global Economics and the Early Modern English Stage (Jun 2008)
Lamothe, Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography (Jun 2008)
Miller, Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers (May 2008)
Sand/van Slyke, The Countess von Rudolstadt (Mar 2008)
Schoolcraft/Parker, The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (2006)
Shamir, Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature (2005)
Watson, Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance (2006)
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