Keep on Believin’

The Life and Music of Richie Furay

Thomas M. Kitts

“Using Furay’s life story and his successive recordings to outline the chapters of the book, Thomas Kitts engages pertinent contemporary evaluations of Furay’s artistry and also reflects critically upon those assessments in light of subsequent developments in ongoing rock and roll culture.”—Theodore Louis Trost, co-editor of Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture

Nestwork

New Material Rhetorics for Precarious Species

Jennifer Clary-Lemon

“Clary-Lemon is a rare combination: a talented theorist and a talented storyteller. Working in common with the barn swallow, the chimney swift, and the bobolink, she weaves together the ecological, the rhetorical, and the posthuman to invite us to pay attention differently to birds, to humans, to infrastructure, and to the ways we might make and care for these relations.”—Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Professor of Composition and Rhetoric, University of Wisconsin–Madison

The Stoics

A Bilingual Critical Edition

Louisa Siefert, translated by Norman R. Shapiro, with an introduction, notes, and bibliography by Adrianna M. Paliyenko

In press!
“Paliyenko and Shapiro provide readers with the opportunity to discover an underrated yet gifted nineteenth-century French poet in a bilingual edition that is powerfully supported by the introduction, notes, and bibliography. The Stoics situates itself within a vibrant movement to rediscover and reassess female writers, and the case is eloquently made for a revision of Siefert’s position in the canon.”—Rosemary Lloyd, Emerita Fellow, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge

Speculum Lapidum

A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones

Camillo Leonardi, translated with an introduction by Liliana Leopardi

In press!
In early modern Europe precious and semiprecious stones were valued not only for their beauty and rarity but also for their medical and magical properties. Lorenzo de’ Medici, Philip II of Spain, and Popes Leo X and Clement VII were all treated with expensive potions incorporating ground gems such as rubies, diamonds, and emeralds. Medical and magical/astrological lapidaries, texts describing the stones’ occult and medical qualities as well as their abilities to ward off demons and incantations, were essential resources for their use. First published in Venice in 1502, Camillo Leonardi’s Speculum Lapidum is an encyclopedic summary of all classical and medieval sources of lithotherapy.

CAA.reviews calls Brigitte Buettner’s The Mineral and the Visual a “groundbreaking study.”

CAA.reviews says of Jesús Escobar’s Habsburg Madrid: “This lavish and splendidly illustrated volume is an important addition to the literature on Spanish architecture and urbanism of the early modern era in the English-language literature.”

A double issue of Journal of General Education 70.1-2 has just published!

All back issue content for Victorian Institute Journal is now available on The Scholarly Publishing Collective, starting with Volume 1, Issue 1 from 1972. PSUP started publishing the journal in 2021 and is very excited to now make all previous issues available in one place for subscribers via The Collective.

Pacific Coast Philology is looking for humanities paper submissions written for a broad scholarly audience, essays with a clear, highly developed main thesis, essays that contextualize analysis within the relevant theoretical framework, and most importantly essays that further the discourse on the topic in an interesting and thought-provoking way. Find additional guidelines here.

The 2024 Journals price guide is live!

Aramaic Loanwords in Neo-Assyrian 911–612 B.C.

Zack Cherry

This study identifies and analyzes Aramaic loanwords occurring in Neo-Assyrian texts between 911 and 612 B.C. As two Semitic languages, Neo-Assyrian and Aramaic are sibling-descendants of a postulated common ancestor, Proto-Semitic. The work provides information about the contact between the two languages and about the people who spoke them.

Ḥesed and the New Testament

An Intertextual Categorization Study

Karen Nelson

Ḥesed (steadfast love, loyalty, devotion) denotes an important concept in the Hebrew Bible that is relevant to interpersonal relationships in every generation. In this book, Karen Nelson investigates New Testament approaches to that concept and the exegetical value of recognizing such engagement.

The Prophet

A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Kahlil Gibran, Script by A. David Lewis, and art by Justin Renterķa

“While hewing close to the original text, Lewis and Rentería fill in the prophet’s backstory through wordless flashbacks, portraying him as a young man caught up in military actions and a romantic betrayal; these narrative flourishes offer fresh angles on Gibran’s words.”—Publishers Weekly

Nuking Alaska

Notes of an Atomic Fugitive

Peter Dunlap-Shohl

“This eye-opening chronicle of the domestic perils of the Cold War will resonate for any reader apprehensive of nuclear weapons.’
—Publishers Weekly