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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. The 1772–1781 James Madison University ing this book.” —Benjamin Valentin, of anthropological discourse. Of Can- better understand how the American by more than seventy years, the diaries remain largely untapped by Andover Newton Theological School nibals and Kings is now an essential Revolution was viewed in Europe in thesis put forth by E. Digby Baltzell American scholars because they have “One of the most fascinating aspects text for understanding America.” the eighteenth century; how Franklin in his Puritan Boston and Quaker not been available in English transla- of Brazilian society is the unique “Wonder and Exile in the New World is a —Peter Hulme, University of Essex came to represent the perfect univer- Philadelphia. For anyone wishing to tion. Publication of this modern construction of racial identity. truly exciting scholarly contribution sal philosophe while remaining dis- come to terms with the Philadelphia scholarly edition, therefore, will While racial discrimination does with some profound insights into Of Cannibals and Kings collects the tinctively American; and how critical story, this is a ‘must-read’ book.” have a major impact on the field of exist in Brazil, it has never been the soul of Spain and Latin America. very earliest accounts of the native analyses of the American Constitu- —David R. Contosta, early American history.” grounded, as in the United States, Indeed, once I began reading this peoples of the Americas, including tion could have partly shaped some author of Suburb in the City: Chestnut —Daniel K. Richter, in institutional segregation, and, in- book, I could not put it down and selections from the descriptions of of the principles in its various French Hill, Philadelphia, 1850-1990 University of Pennsylvania deed, racial matters have played an read it in one day-long sitting. This Columbus’s first two voyages; docu- counterparts.” —Laurence Mall, 320 pages | 12 illustrations | 5.25 × 7.75 | 2001 680 pages | 1 illus./9 maps | 6.125 × 9.25 | 2005 important role in defining Brazilian is simply a mesmerizing work, which ments reflecting the initial colonial University of Illinois at isbn 978-0-271-02121-8 | cloth: $47.95 tr isbn 978-0-271-02522-3 | cloth: $84.95 sh national identity. Reginald Daniel itself provokes the very sense of won- occupation in Haiti, Venezuela, and Urbana-Champaign isbn 978-0-271-05840-5 | paper: $19.95 sh isbn 978-0-271-05813-9 | paper: $29.95 sh explores the complex construction der that the author so painstakingly Guyana; and the first ethnographic Ma× Kade German-American Research Institute 160 pages | 6 × 9 | 2012 Series of racial matters in Brazil by ground- examines.” —Roberto Goizueta, account of the Taínos by the mission- isbn 978-0-271-05381-3 | cloth: $62.95 sh ing himself in the ironic, skeptical, Boston College ary Ramón Pané. This primal anthro- and ambiguous narratives of the 240 pages | 6 × 9 | 2013 pology directly guided a rapacious great mulatto writer Joaquim Maria isbn 978-0-271-05993-8 | cloth: $69.95 sh discovery of the lands of both wild Machado de Assis.” cannibals and golden kings. —David William Foster, 152 pages | 6 illus./2 maps | 5.5 × 8.5 | 2011 Arizona State University isbn 978-0-271-03799-8 | paper: $25.95 sh wonder Latin American Originals Series 344 pages | 1 illustration | 6 × 9 | 2012 isbn 978-0-271-05246-5 | cloth: $74.95 sh and Exile in the New World

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G. Reginal Daniel Machado de assis

Multiracial Identity and the latin american originals Brazilian Novelist

2 | penn state university press 1-800-326-9180 | 3 New in Paperback New in Paperback Into Print Censorship and Conflict Licensing Loyalty Lydia Bailey William Parks A Bibliographical Limits and Legacies of the in Seventeenth-Century Printers, Patrons, and the State in A Checklist of Her Imprints The Colonial Printer in the Description of Books and Enlightenment; Essays in Honor of England Early Modern France Karen Nipps Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Pamphlets of American Jane McLeod Century Robert Darnton The Subtle Art of Division “Karen Nipps has made a substantial Verse Printed from 1610 A. Franklin Parks Edited by Charles Walton Randy Robertson “Jane McLeod’s detailed research contribution to early American Through 1820 helps us see how interest groups like bibliography and printing history Compiled by Roger E. 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This is, so far as I know, the ing influence on research on the contested, and the ‘British Index’ notes on and book references to the “This volume demonstrates to Deeply enmeshed in local and national largest checklist of any nineteenth- Enlightenment and its antecedents online will surely prove invaluable, important early American printer and glorious effect what scrupulous networks of patronage, these men—of- century American printer’s output as well as historical scholarship itself.” enabling new questions to be asked newspaper publisher William Parks, bibliography can bring to literary ten members of family dynasties—had and the only one covering such a —Greg Matthews, as well as old ones answered.” and then adds new documentary history and critical evaluation. . . . little reason to favor either free econom- long span of time. More than most RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, —Maureen Bell, SHARP News evidence to the pile. To tell the story Stoddard’s great achievement here Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage ic competition or subversive new ideas. bibliographies, it is both a work of (and that it is a good narrative is one is to encourage further scholarship “This book is a welcome entry in an ex- Challenging widespread assumptions scholarship and an incitement to of the book’s strengths) Professor on the appreciation of the poetry of “This book is a treat. It is well pro- panding scholarly conversation, and about the role of print media in subvert- more scholarship.” A. Franklin Parks has truly had to early America all over the world, and duced and edited and comes with a Robertson’s wide-angle view makes ing the monarchy, McLeod shows that —James N. Green, produce a transatlantic study. . . . not just in English.” —James Raven, very useful and comprehensive bibli- his contribution quite attractive.” the Revolution of 1789 would be a Library Company of Philadelphia Readers will be glad to get to know Times Literary Supplement ography of Darnton’s publications.” —Calvin Lane, challenge as much for printers as for the William Parks. He is an engaging and “In this study, Karen Nipps draws —Brandon High, Sixteenth Century Journal officials charged with supervising them.” interesting man, a man of vision who “This descriptive bibliography stands together a remarkable amount of Rare Books Newsletter —Jeremy D. Popkin, enlightened two colonies.” as a landmark of bibliographical Censorship profoundly affected information about the life and work scholarship related to early American The contributors to Into Print exam- University of Kentucky —James E. May, early modern writing. Censorship of Lydia R. Bailey, a job and contract imprints of verse.” ine how writers, printers, booksellers, The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century “Beautifully written, elegantly argued, printer in Philadelphia during the —R. M. 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While students of colonial American poetry will be indebted for Enlightenment. the 1600s, Britain witnessed a civil the French Revolution adds a whole their variety.” —Michael Winship, America and the Atlantic world will generations to come. Its meticulous research is judiciously assembled and Aside from the editor, the contribu- war, the judicial execution of a king, new dimension to our understanding University of Texas at Austin benefit from this book, the author framed so as to guarantee maximum tors are David A. Bell, Roger Chartier, the restoration of his son, and an of how the old regime worked. 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Her book will now isbn 978-0-271-05211-3 | cloth: $79.95 sh 832 pages | 7 x 10 | 2012 struggle for the control of language be essential to a fuller understanding Penn State Series in the History of the Book isbn 978-0-271-05221-2 | cloth: $179.95 sh 264 pages | 2 illustrations | 6 × 9 | 2011 Penn State Series in the History of the Book isbn 978-0-271-05012-6 | cloth: $49.95 sh and representation. of the prerevolutionary public sphere.” Published for the Bibliographical Society isbn 978-0-271-05072-0 | paper: $29.95 sh 288 pages | 6.125 × 9.25 | 2009 —William Doyle, of America Penn State Series in the History of the Book isbn 978-0-271-03466-9 | cloth: $75.00 sh University of Bristol isbn 978-0-271-05880-1 | paper: $29.95 sh Penn State Series in the History of the Book 312 pages | 6 × 9 | 2011 Lydia isbn 978-0-271-03768-4 | cloth: $74.95 sh Bailey E ssays in H onor of Penn State Series in the History of the Book A A R obert D arnton Checklist of BiBliogrAphicAl Her Imprints Description of karen nipps Books and pamphlets of

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4 | penn state university press Penn State Series in the History of the Book www.psupress.org | 5 New in Paperback New in Paperback New in Paperback New The House of Blackwood How Books Came to As Ever Yours Making the Archives Talk Biography of a Book Author-Publisher Relations in the America The Letters of Max Perkins and New and Selected Essays in Bibliography, Henry Lawson’s While the Billy Boils Victorian Era The Rise of the American Book Trade Elizabeth Lemmon Editing, and Book History Paul Eggert James L. W. West III David Finkelstein John Hruschka Edited by Rodger L. Tarr “The life narrative of Henry Lawson’s “Elegantly designed and illustrated, Anyone who pays attention to the Maxwell E. Perkins, famed editor of “For many years Jim West has shown 1896 novel offers a perspective for beautifully written, and full of fresh popular press knows that the new such literary luminaries as F. Scott that editing literary works is an appreciating the cultural history of material presented in a lively manner, media will soon make books obsolete. Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Zora intensely critical and humane activity his own country, and his own time. The House of Blackwood is a notable ad- But predicting the imminent demise Neale Hurston, Marjorie Kinnan that engages the full range of an editor’s In Paul Eggert’s hands, however, this dition to Victorian publishing history.” of the book is nothing new. At the be- Rawlings, and Thomas Wolfe, was a learning and abilities. The ten previ- ‘biography’ also becomes a new model —Solveig C. Robinson, ginning of the twentieth century, for man whose personal and professional ously published essays selected for this for understanding how books work, Victorian Periodicals Review example, some critics predicted that lives often intersected. Nowhere is volume have been significantly revised indeed how reviving the concept of this more evident than in his cor- so that this book is the single most au- a ‘work’ can help us apprehend a text “Finkelstein provides a tellingly fresh the electro-mechanical phonograph respondence with Elizabeth Lemmon, thoritative reference for these works. . . . in historical and discursive context. profile of the Blackwood’s list, one would soon make books obsolete. the Virginia socialite who became his Even those who have participated in his Scholars of authorship, publishing, which downplays the firm’s literary Still, despite the challenges of a cen- long-distance confidante. Despite the luminous career will be eager to read reading, and the material book will ‘stars’ (Conrad, Buchan, Forster and tury and a half of new media, books platonic nature of their relationship, the two new essays. He is one of very look to Eggert’s rigorous and sensi- so on), to emphasize instead a range remain popular, with Americans others realized the intensity of their few biblio-textual writers whose works tive methodology for guidance in of forgotten but lucrative works of purchasing more than eight million connection. The letters contained are ‘a good read.’” —T. H. Howard-Hill, recognizing what happens when a lit- non-fiction—the military histo- books each day. In How Books Came in As Ever Yours, published here for University of South Carolina, erary work encounters the real world ries, textbooks such as Edward B. to America, John Hruschka traces the development of the American book the first time, reveal an epistolary editor of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America and travels through it in unantici- Hamley’s Operations of War (1866), a pated ways. 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6 | penn state university press Penn State Series in the History of the Book 1-800-326-9180 | 7 New in Paperback New in Paperback New The Photography of Crisis First Pages Realism and the Drama of Chaim Potok A Rhetorical Conversation The Photo Essays of Weimar Germany A Poetics of Titles Reference Confronting Modernity Through the Lens Jewish Discourse in Modern Yiddish Daniel H. Magilow Giancarlo Maiorino Strategies of Representation in Balzac, of Tradition Literature Flaubert, and James Edited by Daniel Walden Jordan D. Finkin “As an introduction to the field and a “Professor Maiorino’s First Pages, H. Meili Steele bold statement of the photo-essay’s sparkling with witty aperçus, offers “In his previous work on Chaim Potok “A learned, sophisticated, and smart central significance, Magilow’s book the first systematic and genuinely In Realism and the Drama of Reference, (Conversations with Chaim Potok, Chaim book. Its exploration of the complex is a valuable piece of scholarship.” comparative study of ‘titology’ in Meili Steele brings the problem of Potok and Jewish-American Culture), Daniel interrelationship between elite —Jonathan Long, Source literature. Proceeding from the reference—how language discloses Walden has shown himself to be the go-to conversational discourse and its resource on the writer and his cultural transition and transformation in the “Daniel Magilow’s examination of new thesis that the title is ‘the seed that the world—into contemporary critical contains the tree,’ the sophisticated debates about representation. He impact. Now, in Chaim Potok: Confronting mouths, minds, and words of others text-image relations in the illustrated Edited by Daniel Walden Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition, is vital for a more nuanced under- press and the photobook not only work provides both theory and prac- explores the potential of reference Walden has once again demonstrated his standing of Yiddish, its speakers, and complicates traditional accounts tice of its fascinating topic, taking in the work of three authors in the deft understanding of the subject. Pulling its writers.” —Jeremy Dauber, of avant-garde photography and representative examples from the Re- realistic tradition: Balzac, Flaubert, CHAIM CONFRONTING MODERNITY THROUGH THE LENS OF TRADITION together an impressive array of contribu- Columbia University modern photojournalism but also naissance to the present. The reader and James. By defining realism in tors and working with some of the most allows us to situate the famous pho- will never again look at a literary title terms of linguistic practices instead of prominent Jewish American literary “A fascinating and engaging study tographers August Sander and Albert with the same innocence as before.” representational accuracy, this study POTOK scholars today, Walden presents us with a that combines rigorous linguistic Renger-Patzsch within the emerging —Theodore Ziolkowski, liberates reference from traditional vast tapestry displaying the many hues of analysis with deft literary interpre- logics of visuality, physiognomy, and Princeton University realist concerns with the empirical Potok’s narrative worlds. With essays concerning modernity and tradition, the tation. By excavating the layers of shock that would continue to haunt universe. Realism thus becomes only Though Maiorino acknowledges Torah and the Kabbalah, and myth and history, Walden’s collection stands as Talmudic, biblical, and vernacular photography throughout the twen- one kind of referential practice. that many titles are superficial the text by which all subsequent studies will now be judged.” —Derek P. Royal, discourse within modern Yiddish tieth century. This book is required and “indexical,” there exists a The analysis takes up one text by each founder and executive editor, Philip Roth Studies literature, Jordan Finkin offers a reading for all photo historians and separate and more complex class of author—Balzac’s Les Illusions perdues, compelling way of understanding scholars of modern visual culture.” titles that do much more than simply Flaubert’s L’Education sentimentale, “Daniel Walden’s Chaim Potok: Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition the unique expressive qualities of —Sabine Hake, decorate a book’s spine. To prove and James’s The Golden Bowl—and is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the crucial role played by this body of work. Through a series University of Texas at Austin this argument, Maiorino analyzes considers each with regard to four Chaim Potok’s novels in examining the clash between modernity and faith. This of persuasive readings of key figures skillfully edited work contains both critical essays and personal reflections by such as Sholem Aleykhem, I. L. The Photography of Crisis examines a wide range of examples from the problems of the realistic novel: the leading Potok experts. The novelist was a personal friend of Walden, and this Perets, and Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, narrative photography and creates modern era through high modernism creation of physical and cultural space; volume can be seen as the editor’s memorial to the late writer.” the book demonstrates the embed- a snapshot of where Germany was to postmodernism, with writings the speech of the characters and the —Alan L. Berger, Florida Atlantic University dedness of Yiddish writing in the after World War I and what it would spanning the globe from Spain and relationship of their speech to what textual origins of rabbinic Judaism become with the rise of National France to Germany and America. By the text suggests knowledge to be; the “Daniel Walden caps his distinguished career as a scholar, writer, editor, and without minimizing the original- Socialism. By reading Weimar photo examining works such as Essais, The narrator’s authority and his interven- esteemed pioneer in American Jewish literary studies with this sensitive and ity, playfulness, and ironic force of essays within their historical and Waste Land, Ulysses, and Don Quixote, tions; and the representation of the illuminating study of a side of American Jewish life not often, until recently, de- these modern writers.” literary context, Daniel Magilow First Pages proves the power of the protagonist’s experience. By mapping scribed in such lovely and moving prose as Potok’s. Walden does welcome justice —Julian Levinson, shows how German photographers title to connect the reader to the the- the representational strategies of to Potok’s originality and importance, and I highly recommend this book to all University of Michigan intervened in modernity’s key politi- matic, cultural, and literary context these three major authors in the his- interested in Jewish American and American writing generally.” cal and philosophical debates. of the writing as a whole. Much like tory of the novel, this study calls for a —Jules Chametzky, 216 pages | 2 illustrations | 6 × 9 | 2010 a façade to a building, the title page reconsideration of the ways in which isbn 978-0-271-03630-4 | cloth: $65.00 sh 200 pages | 45 illustrations | 7 × 10 | 2012 author of Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates isbn 978-0-271-05422-3 | cloth: $64.95 sh serves as the frontispiece of litera- all novels represent their worlds. and Other Jewish Writers—A Cultural Memoir ture, a sign that offers perspective 168 pages | 6 × 9 | 1988 and demands interpretation. isbn 978-0-271-06187-0 | paper: $24.95 sh “A truly fine treatment by Daniel Walden, one of the founding figures in Jewish American literary criticism, this volume brings new historical and literary 376 pages | 35 illustrations | 6 × 9 | 2008 attention to Chaim Potok. Essays draw on new biographical and manuscript a isbn 978-0-271-02996-2 | cloth: $75.95 sh rhetorical isbn 978-0-271-05874-0 | paper: $24.95 sh materials to provide fresh, critical treatments of Potok’s work during a major conversation Realism and the Drama of Reference sociocultural revaluation of mid-twentieth-century American culture. This is Jewish Discourse in an important book about a beloved and continuously read twentieth-century Modern Yiddish Literature Realism Jewish American writer.” —Gloria Cronin, editor of Saul Bellow Journal and the Drama of Reference 208 pages | 2 illustrations | 6 × 9 | 2013 strategies of representation in isbn 978-0-271-05981-5 | cloth: $59.95 sh balzac, flaubert, and james

Giancarlo Maiorino First Pages A Poetics of Titles les jordan d. finkin H. Meili Steele

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Cult of the Will Cold Modernism Modernism and Its New Edition Angels and Wild Things Poe and the Visual Arts Nervousness and German Modernity Literature, Fashion, Art Merchandise Angels The Archetypal Poetics of Maurice Barbara Cantalupo Michael Cowan Jessica Burstein The Spanish Avant-Garde and Sendak and “Barbara Cantalupo’s admirable study Material Culture, 1920–1930 Wild John Cech “Cowan deftly incorporates many “Readers who possess a passing things enlarges our sense of Poe, reminding contemporary fin-de-siècle examples familiarity with these artists, their Juli Highfill The Archetypal Poetics of “[Cech] meshes a variety of critical us that the creator of the dreadful Maurice Sendak House of Usher was also an apprecia- to argue his central contention that personalities, and their artistic “This book breaks new ground by approaches with biographical and tive critic of painting, and even of gar- attempts at control were widespread expression—which often ran un- considering the Spanish avant- autobiographical substance to progress dens and domestic decor. We are led and deemed crucial for a rapidly comfortably but purposely against garde from the standpoint of through Sendak’s work. . . . The largely to see Poe as a discriminating lover transforming German society.” orthodox modernism—will realize material culture. By focusing on the chronological organization of the book of beauty in general, and we discover —M. Deshmukh, Choice the challenge undertaken by this fascination with the commodity, it traces the emergence of Sendak’s child author. With 52 pages of endnotes archetype and maps the exploration both a greater balance and a richer “This story has been often told, but shows the Spanish avant-garde to and bibliography, the effort certainly and expansion of it. Cech consistently variety in his literary enterprise.” Cowan has found a fascinating and have been much more concerned can be considered erudite.” alludes to the historical and cultural —Richard Wilbur altogether novel way of retelling it, with the everyday than has been —W. S. Bradley, Choice influences on the artist, from family to through the lens of the turn-of-the- previously recognized. A major Although Poe’s aesthetics and inter- self, from Mickey Mouse to Judy Gar- century preoccupation with overcom- “Cold Modernism is a wonderful book— contribution to scholarship.” est in art have long drawn scholarly land, from Blake to Mozart. In Sendak, ing the condition of will impairment, insightful, erudite, and witty beyond —Jo Labanyi, attention, Barbara Cantalupo’s Poe Cech divines the child as empowered or abulia.” —Andreas Killen, words. I think it will have an enor- New York University and the Visual Arts is the first study and vulnerable, as innocent and experienced—a liberating idea.” Central European History mous impact on modernist studies.” to approach the subject comprehen- “Juli Highfill offers a coruscating —Cathryn M. Mercier, Horn Book Magazine —Douglas Mao, sively. She convincingly recreates the “Cult of the Will is a superb study that revision of the debates on dehu- Johns Hopkins University “Cech delivers a sophisticated analysis that delves into Sendak’s writing and art world in which Poe moved in the covers familiar terrain with an en- manization (and rehumanization) in pictures and the rich symbolism of his work, all for the purpose of capturing 1930s and 1940s, and her deep re- tirely new approach. Cowan provides In Cold Modernism, Jessica Burstein Spanish art and letters of the early the ‘unique Sendakian child.’ . . . Sendak, Cech claims, ‘takes adults back to their search reveals Poe’s exposure to and very fine examples of interdisciplin- explores various cultural facets of twentieth century. Her discussion [childhoods] and allows children to fully claim their own.’ This fascinating study, knowledge of a wide gallery of artists ary interpretation. His book goes far modernism, tying them into a fresh of early champions of the modern which includes a generous supply of black-and-white illustrations, a twelve-page and paintings; more important, she beyond providing a history of ‘ner- conceptual framework. Central to such as José Ortega y Gasset, Ramón inset of full-color reproductions, and a complement of notes, will give students illuminates how this engagement vousness.’ It finds the implications her analysis is the important premise Gómez de la Serna, and Guillermo of children’s literature and devotees of Sendak the chance to follow the trail.” affected his own art criticism and use of psychiatric theory in the internal that our current understanding de Torre as well as others associated —Barbara Elleman, Booklist of art in stories such as ‘Ligeia,’ ‘The structure of film, architecture, dance, with surrealism—including Luis Bu- of modernism is fundamentally Fall of the House of Usher,’ ‘Landor’s and literature.” —Daniel Purdy, ñuel and Salvador Dalí—brings new incomplete. Reacting against “hot,” Over the course of more than ninety books, in a career that spanned six Cottage,’ and many others. Poe and Penn State University kinds of subjectivity and lyricism to libidinous, and psychology-centered decades, Maurice Sendak became the most influential and, at times, the most the Visual Arts tackles an exciting modernism, Burstein asserts that “a light. Spain’s modernity is placed on controversial creator of works for children. Each of the books in his trilogy— Cult of the Will is the first comprehen- topic, and Cantalupo’s firm grasp of constellation of modernist sensibil- an international stage, where the art Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, and Outside Over There—was sive study of modernity’s preoccupa- it results in a notable contribution ity” has been left unacknowledged, of the moment answers the challenge precedent setting, dramatically expanding the boundaries of subject matter tion with willpower. From Nietzsche’s to the study of Poe and nineteenth- one that laid the essential ground- of technology and market forces— and images that have been conventionally accepted in books for younger “will to power” to the fantasy of a “tri- century American culture.” work for postmodernism. and devours itself in the process.” children. In this first comprehensive reading of Sendak’s key works, John Cech umph of the will” under Nazism, the —Matthew C. Brennan, —Roberta Quance, considers the symbolic child who was developed in Sendak’s books and who will—its pathologies and potential 336 pages | 30 illustrations | 6.75 × 9.5 | 2012 Indiana State University isbn 978-0-271-05376-9 | paper: $74.95 sh Queen’s University Belfast remained at the center of his vision. cures—was a topic of urgent debates Refiguring Modernism Series 184 pages | 28 color illus. | 7 × 10 | 7/2014 224 pages | 48 illustrations | 7 × 9.5 | 8/2014 isbn 978-0-271-06309-6 | cloth: $39.95 sh in European modernity. isbn 978-0-271-06345-4 | cloth: $79.95 sh This new edition includes a preface by the author covering Sendak’s life, work, 360 pages | 40 illustrations | 6 × 9 | 2008 Refiguring Modernism Series and cultural impact in the years since 1994. isbn 978-0-271-03206-1 | cloth: $70.95 sh 312 pages | 13 color/120 b&w illustrations | 8.5 × 11 | 2013 isbn 978-0-271-05873-3 | paper: $24.95 sh isbn 978-0-271-06064-4 | paper: $34.95 sh COLD MODERNISM

J ESSICa BuRSt EIN

10 | penn state university press 1-800-326-9180 | 11 New in Paperback New in Paperback New New in Paperback New Transcending Textuality At the Margins of the Don Juan and the Point Religion Around Avodah Rousseau on Education, Quevedo and Political Authority in the Renaissance of Honor Shakespeare Ancient Poems for Yom Kippur Freedom, and Judgment Age of Print Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque Seduction, Patriarchal Society, and Peter Iver Kaufman Michael D. Swartz and Joseph Yahalom Denise Schaeffer Ariadna García-Bryce Art of Survival Literary Tradition “Peter Iver Kaufman examines in “Michael D. Swartz and Joseph “Most of Rousseau’s readers think “This is an illuminating and beauti- Giancarlo Maiorino James Mandrell impressive detail the religious soil in Yahalom, the editors and translators that he fears complexity, ambigu- fully illustrated cross-genre study of Winner, 2004 James Russell Lowell In Don Juan and the Point of Honor, which Shakespeare’s plays flourish. of this collection, do an intelligent ity, and tension. Schaeffer presents Quevedo’s political prose, focusing on Prize, Modern Language Association James Mandrell undertakes a By offering an expert survey of an and nuanced job introducing the Rousseau as an indispensable guide the relationship between visual and systematic examination of the many immensely complex terrain, this poems, summarizing the scriptural, to confronting these unavoidable “This scholarship is clear, concise, verbal components in the spectacle questions surrounding the legendary book will serve those who want to historical, linguistic, artistic, and features of our personal and political pithy, and powerful.” of absolute power and his conflicted character. On the one hand, it might scrutinize the religious discourses hermeneutic traditions that resonate lives. Schaeffer’s interpretation of —Bibliothèque d’Humanisme identification with the republic of be argued that Don Juan threatens embedded in the plays. This book is in the Hebrew originals.” Rousseau as a teacher of judgment et Renaissance letters. Ariadna García-Bryce analyzes society, since he is supposedly an significant, then, for Shakespearean —Laurance Wieder, is unprecedented but thoroughly Quevedo’s body-centered, mystical “Giancarlo Maiorino’s new book is an agent of social anarchy. On the other scholars, for scholars of early modern Books and Culture: A Christian Review convincing. Moreover, Schaeffer conception of performative authority English non-Shakespearean drama, convinces me and will convince many important, complex, and suggestive hand, given his intriguing sexual “Swartz and Yahalom have produced a and his loss of faith in the viability of and for historians of the English others that we need Rousseau’s study that foregrounds the many accomplishments, he could be viewed clear, readable version complete with language as an instrument of value in Reformation. Its originality derives account of judgment to deepen our contexts of the picaresque. . . . The as a positive expression of life itself. excellent bibliographic aids.” an order that makes it subservient to from the author’s command of his understanding of reflective citizen- book will become a standard refer- James Mandrell shows what is at —M. Butovsky, Choice the power of the state.” ence for all students of picaresque stake in the asking of such questions special subject: no other historian of ship. This book consequently makes —Margaret R. Greer, narratives.” —Frederick de Armas, and, moreover, what is at stake in religion has examined early modern Avodah: Ancient Poems for Yom Kip- an important contribution not only Duke University University of Chicago representations and considerations of English religion with as scrupulous pur is the first major translation of to the study of Rousseau but also to Don Juan. and searching an eye to its potential one of the most important genres the study of politics.” “Ariadna García-Bryce’s Transcending “Maiorino successfully shifts the Shakespearean connections. The of the lost literature of the ancient —Jonathan Marks, Ursinus College Textuality infuses established concepts discussion of Renaissance texts in What emerges is a view of Don Juan value of the book lies in its extended synagogue. Known as the Avodah of body and text, ritual and perfor- particular and of literature in general “Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and as a positive social force in patriarchal examination of the religious pastures piyyutim, this liturgical poetry was mance, with new visions informed by from heroes of the upper or even the Judgment is a splendid book. Denise society and culture—as well as a force seemingly outside the plays’ boundar- composed by the synagogue poets the most recent readings of Quevedo’s middle classes to the ‘common people.’ Schaeffer treats an enormously operative at the level of desire as it is ies and into which the plays occasion- of fifth- to ninth-century Palestine fundamental treatises. She elegantly He accomplishes this by returning us complex question in a way that is made manifest in language. Mandrell ally wander. It’s difficult to think of and sung in the synagogues on synthesizes and deftly engages seem- to an early form of the novel and the simple, elegant, and altogether free of shows that Don Juan should not be any recent book to which Kaufman’s Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. ingly disparate lines of thought while prototype of picaresque fiction, the jargon. This book will be regularly read treated as an innocent or outmoded can be accurately or extensively Although it was suppressed by taking advantage of her well-honed Lazarillo de Tormes, taking this early by Rousseau scholars and advanced cultural artifact. Instead, he is a char- compared, an originality that will be generations of Rabbis, its ornamen- insights into the political overtones ‘novel’ as the starting point for a wide- students, but owing to the accessibility, acter whose story and vicissitudes are its chief source of value for literary tal beauty and deep exploration of of classical rhetoric and its influence ranging and stimulating discussion and really the beauty, of its prose it still significant in the context of our scholars. They will deeply profit from sacred stories ensured its popularity on Quevedo. A clearly spectacular of various tropes and images that will will inevitably find its way to a broader twenty-first-century world. what this distinguished historian of for centuries. picture of Quevedo’s political thought lead toward a greater understanding 324 pages | 4 illustrations | 6 × 9 | 1992 audience of students of philosophy religion has provided.” 400 pages | 6 × 9 | 2004 emerges from this book’s pages.” isbn 978-0-271-00781-6 | cloth: $55.95 sh and political theory at every level.” of the ways in which aesthetic and isbn 978-0-271-02357-1 | cloth: $71.95 sh isbn 978-0-271-06241-9 | paper: $39.95 sh —Richard Mallette, —Charles Victor Ganelin, socioeconomic factors figure in liter- isbn 978-0-271-05854-2 | paper: $29.95 sh —Michael Davis, Studies in Romance Literatures Series Lake Forest College Miami University ary texts.” —James Mandrell, Penn State Library of Jewish Literature Series Sarah Lawrence College Brandeis University 264 pages | 5.5 × 8.5 | 2013 176 pages | 15 illustrations | 6 × 9 | 2011 isbn 978-0-271-06181-8 | cloth: $34.95 sh 232 pages | 6 × 9 | 2013 isbn 978-0-271-03775-2 | cloth: $64.95 sh isbn 978-0-271-06209-9 | cloth: $69.95 sh 200 pages | 12 illustrations | 6 × 9 | 2003 Religion Around Series isbn 978-0-271-03776-9 | paper: $32.95 sh isbn 978-0-271-02279-6 | cloth: $60.95 sh Penn State Romance Studies Series isbn 978-0-271-05846-7 | paper: $29.95 sh Studies in Romance Literatures Series

don juan and the point o f honor

seduction, patriarchal society, and literary tradition

james mandrell religion around shakespeare

PETER IVER KAUFMAN

12 | penn state university press www.psupress.org | 13 New in Paperback New The Complete Plays of Jean The Complete Plays of Jean The Complete Plays of Jean The Complete Plays of Jean Melusine; or, The Noble Medieval Roles for Modern Racine Racine Racine Racine History of Lusignan Times Volume 1: The Fratricides Volume 2: Bajazet Volume 3: Iphigenia Volume 4: Athaliah Jean d’Arras Theater and the Battle for the French Jean Racine Jean Racine Jean Racine Jean Racine Translated and with an introduction by Republic Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox Translated into English rhymed couplets Translated into English rhymed couplets Translated into English rhymed couplets Translated into English rhymed couplets Helen Solterer with critical notes and commentary by with critical notes and commentary by with critical notes and commentary by with critical notes and commentary by “The fourteenth century comes alive Geoffrey Alan Argent Geoffrey Alan Argent Geoffrey Alan Argent Geoffrey Alan Argent “Solterer’s fascinating book explores in this superb new translation of the the power of the Middle Ages in Winner, 2011 American Book Award This is the second volume of a This is the third volume of a pro- As Voltaire famously opined, Athaliah, classic French masterpiece Melusine; the French imagination from the projected translation into English jected translation into English of all Racine’s last play, is “perhaps the or, The Noble History of Lusignan. The “The Bard, who was unknown in early twentieth century through two of all twelve of Jean Racine’s plays. twelve of Jean Racine’s plays—only greatest masterwork of the human work is packed with romance and seventeenth-century France, now world wars. She does justice to the For this new translation, Geof- the third time such a project has spirit.” Its formidable antagonists, adventure, by turns poignant and challenges Racine as the consummate full complexity and contradictions of frey Alan Argent has taken a fresh been undertaken. For this new trans- Athaliah, queen of Judah, and hilarious, and the author’s lively and tragedian even within France. The that power in an investigation that is approach: he has rendered these lation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has ren- Jehoiada, high priest of the temple inviting prose style is guaranteed to time has now come for Racine to supported by prodigious research and plays in rhymed “heroic” couplets. dered these plays in the verse form of Jerusalem, are engaged in a deadly delight fans of historical fiction as return the compliment by becoming superb writing skills. This book shows Complementing the translation are that Racine might well have used had struggle for dominion: she, fiercely well as students of all ages. This is accessible for the English-speaking how fascists, monarchists, and the the illuminating Discussion, and the he been English: namely, the “heroic” determined to maintain her throne by far the most lucid, authentic, and world through the powerful transla- Popular Front were all able to claim extensive Notes and Commentary. couplet. Argent has exploited the and exterminate the detested race of enjoyable English-language version tions of Geoffrey Alan Argent.” medieval spectacles as celebrations couplet’s compressed power and flex- David; he, no less fiercely determined of this enchanting fairy tale available —from the Foreword by Bajazet, Racine’s seventh play, first of their deeply incompatible views of ibility to produce a work of English to overthrow this heathen queen today, and I expect it to be univer- Ronald W. Tobin given in 1672, is based on events that the nation and the republic.” literature, a verse drama as gripping and enthrone the orphan Joash, the sally recognized as the definitive had taken place in the Sultan’s palace —Dorothy Kaufmann, This is the first volume of a planned in English as Racine’s is in French. scion of the house of David, whom translation for many years to come.” in Istanbul thirty years earlier. But Clark University translation into English of all twelve Athaliah believes she slew as an in- —Nancy Goldstone, the twilit, twisting passageways of the In Iphigenia, his ninth play, Racine re- of Jean Racine’s plays—a project un- fant ten years earlier. This boy repre- author of The Maid and the Queen “[Medieval Roles for Modern Times] Seraglio merely serve as a counterpart turns to Greek myth for the first time dertaken only three times in the three sents the sole hope for the survival of makes a valuable contribution to to the dim and errant moral sense of since Andromache. To Euripides’s ver- “TheMélusine of Jean d’Arras is a work hundred years since Racine’s death. For the royal race from which is to spring the increasing body of critical work the play’s four protagonists: Bajazet, sion of the tale he adds a love interest of particular importance for its fusion this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Ar- the Christ. But in this play, even God dedicated to the understanding and the Sultan’s brother; Atalide, Bajazet’s between Iphigenia and Achilles. And of historiography and fiction, a work gent has taken a fresh approach: he has is more about hate and retribution appropriation of medieval cultural secret lover; Roxane, the Sultaness, dissatisfied with the earlier resolu- whose appeal was quickly acknowl- rendered these plays in rhymed “heroic” than about love and mercy. productions by people of radically who is madly in love with Bajazet tions of the Iphigenia myth (her actual edged by the copying of numerous couplets. While Argent’s translation is different religious and political and dangles over his head the death death or her eleventh-hour rescue This is the fourth volume of a pro- late medieval manuscripts, further faithful to Racine’s text and tone, his beliefs. . . . The book is so enjoyable sentence the Sultan has ordered her to by a dea ex machina), Racine creates jected translation into English. For recognized in the early days of printed overriding intent has been to translate and well-written (many passages are implement in his absence; and Akhmet, a wholly original character, Eriphyle, this new translation, Geoffrey Alan books, and reconfirmed ever since by a work of French literature into a work so gripping they read like fiction) the wily, well-intentioned Vizier, who who, in addition to providing an in- Argent has rendered these plays in translation into many languages. . . . of English literature, substituting for that it will also be quite approach- involves them all in an imbroglio in the triguing new denouement, serves the the verse form that Racine might The new translation is an excellent Racine’s rhymed alexandrines (hex- able to a non-specialist readership. Seraglio, with disastrous consequences. dual dramatic purpose of triangulating well have used had he been English: addition to this veritable library of ameters) the English mode of rhymed It is a fascinating book, full of in- Here, Racine has presented us with his the love interest and galvanizing the namely, the “heroic” couplet. Mélusines: a long-overdue version in iambic pentameters, a verse form teresting details and insights about four most mercilessly observed, most wholesome “family values” of this play modern English that is, moreover, particularly well suited to the highly 154 pages | 5 × 8 | 2012 French society and attitudes in the subtly delineated, and most ambigu- by a jolt of supercharged passion. isbn 978-0-271-05248-9 | cloth: $49.95 sh grounded in solid scholarship.” charged urgency of Racine’s drama and early twentieth century.” ously fascinating characters. Indeed, —Samuel Rosenberg, the coiled strength of his verse. 168 pages | 5 × 8 | 2011 —Elizabeth Emery, H-France Bajazet is certainly Racine’s most isbn 978-0-271-04859-8 | cloth: $49.95 sh Indiana University 184 pages | 5 × 8 | 2010 undeservedly neglected tragedy. 304 pages | 40 illustrations | 7 × 10 | 2010 isbn 978-0-271-03731-8 | paper: $21.95 sh 264 pages | 2 maps | 6 × 9 | 2012 isbn 978-0-271-03614-4 | cloth: $80.00 sh 144 pages | 5 × 8 | 2010 isbn 978-0-271-05412-4 | cloth: $69.95 sh isbn 978-0-271-03613-7 | paper: $45.95 sh isbn 978-0-271-03744-8 | cloth: $49.95 sh

medieval roles for modern times THEATER AND THE BATTLE FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

HELEN SOLTERER

14 | penn state university press 1-800-326-9180 | 15 New in Paperback New in Paperback New in Paperback New New in Paperback The Gift of Tongues Transforming Talk Telling Tales Chaucer, Gower, and the Chaucer Unriddling the Exeter Women’s Xenoglossia in the Later The Problem with Gossip in Late Sources and Narration in Late Vernacular Rising Contemporary Approaches Riddles Middle Ages Medieval England Medieval England Poetry and the Problem of the Edited by Susanna Fein and David Raybin Patrick J. Murphy Christine F. Cooper-Rompato Susan E. Phillips Joel T. Rosenthal Populace After 1381 “Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches “This is a wonderful new study of the Lynn Arner “Cooper-Rompato demonstrates the “Susan Phillips has done us a great “Telling Tales is interesting and lively [has] a certain advantage over its Exeter Book riddles, packed full of importance of xenoglossia in the service in writing this book about reading for specialist and general “Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacu- competitors—its economy. Its eleven insight. Its greatest strength lies in saint’s life and makes a solid case medieval gossip, for not only does audiences alike. It certainly demon- lar Rising is an enthralling and essays are impressively concise its innovative readings, which draw for its relevance to hybrid genres; she extend [its] premises . . . with strates that the documents gener- thought-provoking reappraisal of the accounts of current thinking on on an impressive knowledge of the readers interested in the formation theoretical, historical, and literary ated by fairly restricted groups in interplay between literacy, poetry, issues that place Chaucer’s achieve- range of analogues and insist that of Kempe’s and Chaucer’s authorial support, and in clear and intel- medieval society (a single family, the and social relations in England ment. They seem more angled, more these riddles should be read both in subjectivities would find much of ligent prose, but she also focuses landed elite) can be deposed so as during the years immediately provisional than most performances the long folk tradition of oral riddling interest in the respective chapters.” her exploration at the site of the to reveal the history of other, more following the Peasants’ Revolt of in this scholarly genre.” and through the literary tradition —Kevin R. West, beginnings of what we recognize as broadly based social groups.” 1381. Taking as her starting point a —Roger Nicholson, Parergon that was available in late Anglo-Saxon Christianity and Literature English, the early modern world of —Sherri Olson, England. The whole study is pre- startling reappraisal of the extent “What is engaging about the essays

late Middle English, the language of Journal of English and sented in a lively style, illustrated by Tales of xenoglossia—the instan- of literacy at the time of the rising, in this collection is their analytical, Chaucer, Manning, and Dunbar, the Germanic Philology useful translations of the Old English taneous ability to read, to write, to Lynn Arner explores how the poetry speculative, sometimes contestive world of fourteenth- and fifteenth- that go some way to match the appeal speak, or to understand a foreign “Joel T. Rosenthal, a specialist if ever of Gower and Chaucer intersected turns, their proposed new directions century England.” of the subject matter.” language—have long captivated there was one, shows how meaning with the aspirations and anxieties of for Chaucer studies. . . . This entire —John Michael Crafton, —Jonathan Wilcox, audiences. The accounts of mi- and interest can be squeezed out of emergent social classes. Arner not collection, as a collection that points Christianity and Literature University of Iowa raculous language acquisition that the most unpromising sources.” only provides an engrossing account forward, is entirely welcome.” appeared in the Bible inspired similar “This is an extremely well-researched —Ad Putter, of the interplay of text, culture, and —Leonard Koff, “Positioning his study in response accounts in the Middle Ages. Though book, and the numerous helpful bib- Times Literary Supplement authority at a critical moment in Journal of English and to both popular and learned rid- medieval xenoglossic miracles have liographic and discursive footnotes English history, but also shows how Germanic Philology dling, Patrick J. Murphy brings a “Telling Tales opens with an illuminat- their origins in those biblical stories, are evidence of an astute scholarly the cultural choices made at that new theory to bear. He argues that ing introductory chapter in which “This volume admirably achieves its the medieval narratives have more mind.” —A. L. Kaufman, Choice time resonate in many modern as- the coherence of many of the Old Rosenthal carefully sets forth his goal to sketch out the scholarly suc- complex implications. In The Gift of sumptions about the role and nature English riddles is shaped by extended “Even if one is not convinced by the goals and methodology, sketches his cesses in Chaucer studies. . . . [T]he Tongues, Christine Cooper-Rompato of culture. This book is required implicit metaphors, and he calls this larger argument for the transforma- overarching interest in the socially chapters in this volume succeed in examines a wide range of sources reading for anyone interested in how shaping ‘focus.’ As he applies this tive capacity of idle talk, this study constitutive power of memory and articulating the impressive contribu- to show that claims of miraculous the social and cultural tensions of theory to individual riddles, adding is filled with fresh, provocative read- recollection, and deftly contextualiz- tions made by the current genera- language are much more important the late fourteenth century shaped depth to old solutions and offering ings that demonstrate the value of es his sources within their respective tions of Chaucer scholars and in of- to medieval religious culture than English-speaking culture.” some new ones, he both advances taking idle speech seriously.” historical moments.” fering a clear sense of the promising previously recognized and are crucial —Andrew Prescott, the study of enigmatics and makes —Karla Taylor, Speculum: —Mark C. Amodio, future that lies ahead.” to understanding late medieval Eng- King’s College, London the task of unriddling more engaging The Medieval Review (TMR) —Deanne Williams, Speculum: lish writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer A Journal of Medieval Studies 208 pages | 6 × 9 | 2013 and intriguing than ever.” A Journal of Medieval Studies and Margery Kempe. 248 pages | 6 illustrations | 6 × 9 | 2007 248 pages | 2 illustrations | 6.125 × 9.25 | 2003 isbn 978-0-271-05893-1 | cloth: $64.95 sh —Marijane Osborn, isbn 978-0-271-02994-8 | cloth: $48.95 sh isbn 978-0-271-02304-5 | cloth: $69.95 sh 280 pages | 3 illustrations | 6 × 9 | 2009 University of California, Davis 232 pages | 6 × 9 | 2010 isbn 978-0-271-02995-5 | paper: $26.95 sh isbn 978-0-271-05848-1 | paper: $29.95 sh isbn 978-0-271-03568-0 | paper: $29.95 sh isbn 978-0-271-03616-8 | cloth: $75.00 sh Lynn Arner 272 pages | 6 × 9 | 2011 isbn 978-0-271-03615-1 | paper: $44.95 sh isbn 978-0-271-04841-3 | cloth: $79.95 sh chaucer,

Christine F. Cooper-Rompato TRANSFORMING TALK Gower,

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Contemporary Approaches The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England risinG

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It con- understanding of Plato’s depiction accomplishes three significant feats: that the ‘self-deceiver’ should be the history of the Church, but also tains the text and translation from his “The book is aimed primarily at of Socrates’ subtle sense of human he provides a genealogy of the con- seen less as the condemnable an- in the history of mentalities at large. 1978 analytical edition along with an undergraduates, who should benefit motivation, thought and action, this ceptual crisis that still haunts cultural tagonist of Reason than as the per- The book is well-written and compre- introduction illuminating the poem’s greatly. Instructors will appreci- book makes a valuable contribution anthropology, demonstrates the com- petrator of the active imagination hensive on many levels.” historical and literary background and ate not only the collected sources to the large body of scholarship on plexities of the ‘Enlightenment proj- that gives rise to genuine aesthetic —Joëlle Rollo-Koster, significance. This new revised edition and excellent, modern translation, the figure of Socrates.” ect’ that developed a richer notion of experience, Singer tests his claim Canadian Journal of History contains a new preface and makes but also the introductory material. —Sara Brill, Polis humanity than post-Enlightenment with a series of brilliant arguments significant improvements to both the Noble provides a general introduc- caricatures of the autonomous cogito grounded in literary, philosophi- “Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski writes “This is a book whose subtext seems text and the bibliography. tion as well as brief essays for each suggest, and puts those complexities cal, and art studies extending from with a real sympathy for her subjects, to be: Plato is good to think with. It author’s text, context, and sources.” to work in a redefinition of moder- familiar classics—Parmigianino, who emerge as flesh-and-blood The text and a line-by-line prose is a self-standing work of philosophy —C. J. Chandler, Choice nity with a critical potential that can Tintoretto, Flaubert, and Hegel—to humans struggling to make sense translation are printed on facing pages. as much as it is a hermeneutic enter- address contemporary issues.” such moderns as Jeff Wall, Bill Viola, of a profound crisis that threatens Brault’s editing of the Oxford text in- “The new translations of these five prise. McNeill’s exploration of the —John H. Smith, Gerhard Richter, and Peter Green- to undermine their faith in the cludes corrections of the scribe’s obvi- lives and their very useful introduc- model of human self-understanding University of California, Irvine away. The Self-Deceiving Muse should clergy. No book more vividly tells the ous errors and new readings of garbled tions and notes make this work a and political engagement presented add significantly to contemporary story of the Great Schism or brings or partially obliterated words, and his prodigious achievement and an ex- in Plato’s dialogues is sophisticated, Immanuel Kant wrote that his debate on the relations between together a more fascinating set of translation achieves both elegance tremely valuable and most welcome committed, insightful, and wholly infamously academic, arid philosophy reason, aesthetics, and ethics in a characters and texts from the period. and accuracy. This new edition pays contribution to Carolingian studies.” original.” —G. R. F. Ferrari, posed three questions: What can I language thoroughly conversant I can think of no finer introduction special attention to the consistency of —Steven Fanning, The Historian University of California, Berkeley know? What can I do? What can I with recent critical theory.” to the workings of the minds of Saracen proper names. be permitted to hope for? He then Thomas F. X. Noble’s new English In this book, David McNeill illumi- —Josef Chytry, medieval people than Poets, Saints, added a fourth that he claimed would The introduction places La Chanson translations of these five impor- nates Plato’s distinctive approach to University of California, Berkeley, and Visionaries.” subsume them all: What is the human? de Roland in the context of the French tant texts are each accompanied philosophy by examining how his lit- and California College of the Arts —Laura Ackerman Smoller, This last question, he suggested, could epic tradition, Charlemagne’s Spanish by a short introduction and a note erary portrayal of Socrates manifests University of Arkansas at Little Rock be answered by a new science of man In The Self-Deceiving Muse, Alan campaign of 778, the legend of Roland, on “Essential Reading.” Offering an essential interdependence be- called anthropology. 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Singer asserts that the schism in that it provides an topics covered are the relation between if any, exerted by the text, Noble pro- how Socrates’s confrontation with question that had become too capa- self-deception, far from being irra- intelligent reading of authors who history and myth, the epic’s reflec- vides a context for each translation profound ethical questions about his cious for a single discipline and too tional, is critical to our capacity to be are often overlooked in this context. tion of prevailing social beliefs and without compromising the author’s public philosophic activity is the key unstable for the distinctions that had acute “noticers” of our experience. The illustrations are particularly well values at the time of its composition intended voice. 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