Prisoners of Congress

Philadelphia’s Quakers in Exile, 1777–1778

Norman E. Donoghue II

“Norman Donoghue’s Prisoners of Congress brings to life one of the most important and compelling events of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. It is an untold story of national significance.”—Patrick Spero, author of Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765–1776

Environment, Society, and The Compleat Angler

Marjorie Swann

“One of the earliest and most popular precursors of nature writing in English has at last received the critical attention it deserves. Marjorie Swann’s book is arguably the most complete study of The Compleat Angler ever written—and a vital corrective to outdated New Historicist interpretations. It makes an invaluable contribution to Walton studies and early modern ecocriticism.”—Todd Andrew Borlik, author of Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature: Green Pastures

Rhetoric in Debt

Kellie Sharp-Hoskins

“To those interested in affect studies, this book offers an original application of two concepts: stickiness and circulation. To those interested in debt, this study offers a close analysis of how indebted subjectivity is created through everyday assumptions and rhetorical artifacts. Rhetoric in Debt gets to the granular level, explaining not only how indebted subjectification happens but also how we might look for indebted subjectification in other places. To those interested in the rhetoric of economics, this book offers a new topic and a fresh analytical method.”—Mark Garrett Longaker, author of Rhetorical Style and Bourgeois Virtue: Capitalism and Civil Society in the British Enlightenment

The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830–1937

Edited by Stephen W. Angell, Pink Dandelion, and David Harrington Watt

“The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830–1937 is the authoritative assessment of global Quakerism from 1830 to 1937. It makes extensive use of multiple genres of primary sources and has left no stone unturned in finding a diverse range of voices to include. While other books have dealt with individual topics, this volume provides in one place an examination of the period.”—Jon R. Kershner, author of John Woolman and the Government of Christ: A Colonial Quaker's Vision for the British Atlantic World

Religion and the Arts says that Andrew R. Casper’s An Artful Relic “manages to surpass the boundaries of the immediate subject matter: it is as much a reading of the Holy Shroud as it is about seventeenth-century semiotics.””

Congratulations to Stephanie Larson, whose book What It Feels Like received an honorable mention for the Rhetoric Society of America’s 2023 Book Award!

The following article is open to read in Journal of Modern Periodical Studies: “Middlebrow Culture, Self-Mockery, and Maeve Brennan’s New Yorker Stories,” by Yen-Chi Wu.

Articles in these volumes and issues of The Cormac McCarthy Journal are open through the end of July!

Vol. 13/ Issue 1/ 2015
Vol. 14/ Issue 1/ 2016
Vol. 16/ Issue 1/ 2018
Vol. 21/ Issue 1/ 2023
Vol. 17/ Issue 2/ 2019
Vol. 20/ Issue 2/ 2022

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.

Hesi after 50 Years and 130 Years

Beginning a New Generation of Hesi Research

Edited by John R. Spencer, James W. Hardin, and Jeffrey Blakely

Tell el-Hesi is located near the modern city of Qiryat Gat in the Southern District of Israel, 23 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea. The site, which covers 35–40 acres, includes both an acropolis and a lower city. The acropolis was in use for almost two thousand years. This volume is the first in a new iteration of the Joint Archaeological Expedition to Tell el-Hesi series that builds on previously published volumes.

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