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.
Amer, Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures (Jun 2008)
Bitel/Lifshitz, Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe: New Perspectives (Feb 2008)
Burrus, The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (2003)
Dolan, Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy (Mar 2008)
Elias, Stir It Up: Home Economics in American Culture (May 2008)
Masten, Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York (Apr 2008)
Miller, Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers (May 2008)
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