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Literature and Literary Studies New Titles and Selected Backlist penn state university press New Contents ORDER INFORMATION Here and There The House of the Individuals: Reading Pennsylvania’s Working Landscapes Black Ring New Titles . .1–19 HERE and THERE We encourage ordering through your Bill Conlogue A Romance of the Seven Mountains Reading Pennsylvania’s Working Landscapes Penn State Series in the History of the Book . 4-7 local bookstore. Payment must ac- Fred Lewis Pattee company orders to Penn State Press. “The argument of Here and There is that Introduction by Julia Spicher Kasdorf Journals . 20 Use the order form at the back of this even everyday environments, like that of and notes by Joshua R. Brown Scranton—a working and peopled land- Selected Backlist. .21–23 catalogue or order online using your “Like the Appalachian writer Mary scape that is not wilderness, not the sub- credit card at www.psupress.org. Noailles Murfree, Fred Lewis Pattee lime, not the stuff of postcards and Sierra Index . 24 locates his novel in a landscape both Libraries: Club calendars—these places too, with recognizable and mysterious; like Order Form. .25 Please attach your purchase order. landscapes that have become what Frost other local-color and regionalist called ‘diminished things,’ deserve atten- Retailers: writers at the turn of the twentieth tion and care. Conlogue demonstrates Please contact century, Pattee crafts a prose that that we come to know and care about a Kathleen Scholz-Jaffe, Sales Manager BILL CONLOGUE contrasts his narrator’s standard place in part by knowing its history and Penn State University Press English with his characters’ Pennsyl- seeing how that history pertains to the 820 N. University Drive, USB 1, Suite C vanian and Appalachian dialect. At present; in part by our personal affiliations with a place; and in part through an University Park, PA 16802-1003 the same time, his heroine adds ‘New acquaintance with literary texts that highlight the crucial connections between 814-867-2224; Fax 814-863-1408 Woman’ determination, horseman- people and their places.” —Ian Marshall, Penn State Altoona E-mail: [email protected] ship, and a touch of modernity to Examination Copies: “Here and There contributes to an emerging body of ecocritical narrative scholar- regional fiction. Readers who like a To receive an examination copy of ship by offering a distinct regional perspective from an often neglected landscape, mystery—and then appreciate the one of our books, please see the one that is defined as much by agriculture as it is by industry. 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Click University at Albany, SUNY on “Subscribe” to see prices and a to the realities of land use and land thought in northeastern Pennsylvania. His intertwining of history, literature, and lived experience in a very particular place 256 pages | 1 illustration/1 map | 5.5 × 8.5 | 2012 sample issue. isbn 978-0-271-05420-9 | cloth: $31.95 sh joins a new chorus of counterstatements to the twenty-first-century mantra of To subscribe, contact: global sameness. A skillful scholar and writer and a native of the region, Conlogue Journals Department has created a model work of ‘narrative scholarship’ and ‘practical reading.’” The Johns Hopkins University Press —Scott Slovic, University of Idaho, author of Going Away to Think P.O. Box 19966 f the The global economy threatens the uniqueness of places, people, and experiences. o B Baltimore, MD 21211-0966 e l s a u c Tel: 800-548-1784 (U.S. and Canada) In Here and There, Bill Conlogue tests the assumption that literature and local o k H R i Tel: 410-516-6987 (International) places matter less and less in a world that economists describe as “flat,” politi- e n h g Fax: 410-516-3866 cians believe has “globalized,” and social scientists imagine as a “global village.” T Email: [email protected] Each chapter begins at home, journeys elsewhere, and returns to the author’s native and chosen region, northeastern Pennsylvania. Through the prisms of lit- Penn State Press participates in Proj- erature and history, the book explores tensions and conflicts within the region ect MUSE (muse.jhu.edu). Titles are created by national and global demand for its resources: fertile farmland, forest Fred Lewis Pattee also available through JSTOR’s current products, anthracite coal, and college-educated young people. Making connec- scholarship program (www.jstor.org). tions between local and global environmental issues, Here and There uses the Abbreviations: Pennsylvania watersheds of urban Lackawanna and rural Lackawaxen to high- tr: trade discount; sh: short discount light the importance of understanding and protecting the places we call home. Titles, publication dates, and prices 248 pages | 12 illustrations/2 maps | 6 × 9 | 2013 isbn 978-0-271-06080-4 | cloth: $69.95 sh announced in this catalogue are sub- isbn 978-0-271-06081-1 | paper: $29.95 sh ject to change without notice. Penn State is an affirmative action, equal opportunity University. U. Ed. LIB 14-504 www.psupress.org | 1 New in Paperback New in Paperback New Condorcet Romney The Moravian Mission Machado de Assis Wonder and Exile in the Of Cannibals and Kings Writings on the United States And Other New Works About Diaries of David Zeisberger Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian New World Primal Anthropology in the Americas Edited, translated, and with an Philadelphia 1772–1781 Novelist Alex Nava Neil L. Whitehead introduction by Guillaume Ansart G. Reginald Daniel Owen Wister Edited by Hermann Wellenreuther “It is rare to find scholarly works “As the primal text of Europe’s en- Edited by James A. Butler “The volume is a vital, genuinely and Carola Wessel “G. Reginald Daniel is a gifted sociolo- that incorporate the qualities of counter with America, Ramón Pané’s Translated by Julie T. Weber original contribution to the lit- “Romney ought to be read by anyone gist of race as well as a sensitive analyst profundity, novelty, and beauty Antiquities of the Indies is of unparal- erature on Condorcet’s political with an interest in American history, “The scholarly apparatus of the book of literary texts. His Machado de Assis: in prose. Nava’s Wonder and Exile leled importance for understand- thought—and how he applied his in the price of ‘progress,’ in comic is unsurprisingly thorough and Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian in the New World is one of these ing both the native culture of the general views on republicanism and literature, or in the timeless tension meticulous. The register of persons Novelist is a masterful treatment of As- rare finds. And this says nothing Caribbean at the time of contact and constitutionalism to the case of the between ‘old’ and ‘new’ money.” is something every book of Pennsyl- sis’s writings, contextualized in a precise of its most important achieve- the ways in which Europeans tried to United States—as well as on early —Bill Eichenberger, vania history should have. The entire racial history of Brazil as well as in its ment. Through a creative use of the make sense of it. This authoritative European responses to American Columbus Dispatch volume is beautifully produced, from intellectual and literary developments concepts of wonder and exile, this edition finally gives us a satisfactory constitutional development.” the map end papers to the informa- and traditions. This is a must-read for work opens up possibilities for a English translation and contex- “Romney is a delightfully surprising —Eileen Botting, tive footnotes. Every library worth scholars and students of Assis’s writ- new understanding of the creation tualizes Pané by placing his text and important contribution to our University of Notre Dame its Pennsylvania salt ought to own ings, Brazilian literary traditions, the of the Americas. And as if this were alongside other key documents of understanding of Owen Wister, of this book.” —Jeffrey S. Wood, sociology of race, and African Brazilians, not enough already, it also helps us the time, several of them previously “This excellent book offers easy access Philadelphia and its Main Line sub- Cumberland County History especially from the late nineteenth comprehend the religious dimen- untranslated. Most significantly, to the thinking of an important urbs, and of American literature in through the early twentieth century, a sions in the works of classic Latin the collection is introduced by Neil French philosophe, Condorcet, on the early twentieth century. Readers “David Zeisberger’s diaries are a rich period that finally saw the Brazilian American writers. I can honestly Whitehead’s magisterial survey of the early days of the United States. will be intrigued to find that Wister source for Native American and abolition of slavery.” —Laura A. Lewis, say that I highly recommend read- the politics of this founding moment With this collection, the reader can anticipates in this unfinished novel, Moravian history.

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