Fear and Nature

Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene

Edited by Christy Tidwell and Carter Soles

“Fear and Nature expansively defines eco-horror as not only a sub-genre of literature but as a cohesive mode operating across genres and media. Whether talking about Algernon Blackwood or Algernon Swinburne, Bong Joon Ho or Junji Ito, this volume explores the rhizomatic connections that make eco-criticism something that transcends genre, and makes a convincing case for its relevance not only today but as a way of reconsidering what has come before.”—Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World

The Persian Revival

The Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture

Talinn Grigor

“The Persian Revival is an original study that builds a strong case for the transmission and deployment of knowledge across regions and cultural realms. It does so for a hitherto uncharted period and region—one that has not received adequate scholarly attention—and makes a significant contribution to the growing literature on global art and architectural histories of the long nineteenth century.”—Madhuri Desai, author of Banaras Reconstructed: Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City

The Absent Image

Lacunae in Medieval Books

Elina Gertsman

“This is an intellectually ambitious, rigorously argued, and erudite book that explores visual strategies and their theoretical underpinnings of ‘empty spaces’ in medieval manuscripts. A must-read for scholars of medieval and northern Renaissance art and intellectual history.”—Nino Zchomelidse, author of Art, Ritual, and Civic Identity in Medieval Southern Italy

Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State

Brian McCuskey

“Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State makes a compelling case for the national importance of Pennsylvania in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American social, political, and economic history. It also tells an intriguing, persuasive story that shows how Watts was an influential figure with implications far beyond the particulars of his time and place. Roger L. Williams continues his long record as one of our finest historians of higher education.”—John R. Thelin, author of Going to College in the Sixties

MK Czerwiec’s collection Menopause: A Comic Treatment won two 2021 Eisner Awards at San Diego Comic-Con last month! The book was named best anthology and Mimi Pond’s contribution, “When the Menopausal Carnival Comes to Town,” won best short story.

Architectural Histories says of Matthew Reeve’s Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole: “His prose is Daedalian in its eloquence but firmly maintains the threads of coherence sometimes abandoned by scholarly theorists, resulting in a work which is accessible and pleasing for all.”

The article “The ‘Four Nations of Indians Upon the Susquehanna’: Mid-Atlantic Murder, Diplomacy, and Political Identity, 1717–1723” is freely open and available until October!

In mid-August we welcome Leslie Waters, the new Managing Editor of the journal Hungarian Studies Review! This journal recently published their first issue with Penn State University Press.

New Title Alert!
Coming 2022—Journal for the History of Rhetoric! The journal publishes high-quality scholarship on all historic aspects of rhetoric, in all historical periods.

2022 Penn State University Press Journals pricing and ordering information is available through the Scholarly Publishing Collective! Click here for more details.

Age of Empires

The History and Administration of Judah in the 8th–2nd Centuries BCE in Light of the Storage-Jar Stamp Impressions

Oded Lipschits

This is the first attempt to consider the phenomenon stamped storage jars a whole and to develop a unified theory that would explain the function of these stamp impressions and shed new light on the history of Judah during six centuries of subjugation to the empires that ruled the region—as a vassal kingdom in the age of the Assyrian, Egyptian, and Babylonian empires and as a province under successive Babylonian, Persian, Ptolemaic, and Seleucid rule.

Cuneiform Texts from the Folios of W. G. Lambert, Part Two

Prepared for publication and edited by A. R. George and Junko Taniguchi

This book publishes 323 handcopies of cuneiform tablets found in the academic papers of W. G. Lambert (1926–2011), one of the foremost Assyriologists of the twentieth century. Prepared by A. R. George and Junko Taniguchi, it completes a two-part edition of Lambert’s previously unpublished handcopies.

Dirty Biology

The X-Rated Story of the Science of Sex

Léo Grasset, Illustrated by Colas Grasset

“The mix of giggle-inducing factoids and incisive scientific insights make this investigation of copulation well worth digging into”—Publishers Weekly

The Body Factory

From the First Prosthetics to the Augmented Human

Héloïse Chochois

“This surprisingly delightful and empathetic examination offers an exemplar in the graphic medicine genre”—Publishers Weekly