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Featured Titles

Mysticism in Postmodernist Long Poems

Contemplation of the Divine

Joe Moffet

Piano Makers in Russia in the Nineteenth Century

Anne Swartz

Women, Gender, and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Essays in Memory of Betty Rizzo

Temma Berg, ed. and Sonia Kane, ed.

Gardens of a Chinese Emperor

Imperial Creations of the Qianlong Era, 1736-1796

Victoria M. Cha-Tsu Siu and with the posthumous assistance of Kathleen L. Lodwick

A Voluntary Exile

Chinese Christianity and Cultural Confluence since 1552

Anthony E Clark, ed.

Lehigh University Press - John Updike's Early Years

America's First Chaplain

The Life and Times of the Reverend Jacob Duché

Kevin J Dellape

Jane Austen and the Arts

Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony

Natasha Duquette , ed. and Elisabeth Lenckos, ed.

Creative Habitat Restoration

Comprehensive Planning, Implementation, and Long-Term Management

Larry Lodwick

Deciphering Poe

Subtexts, Contexts, Subversive Meanings

Alexandra Urakova, ed.

Recent Praise for LUP Books

Review of Fiddled out of Reason, by John Willilam Knapp

Review in Papers on Language & Literature

"a valuable contribution to our understanding of the hymn as a literary and cultural phenomenon."

-- Joshua Swidzinski, University of Portland

Cover of The Final Days of Egard Allan Poe. Sepia-toned portrait of Poe.

The Final Days of Edgar Allan Poe, by David F. Gaylin, has been "recommended for all readers" by Choice Reviews and was listed in their Community College Top 75 titles.

Cover of Poe and Women. Red book jacket with line drawing of a woman's head with a black cat sitting on top of her hair

Poe and Women: Recognition and Revision, Edited by Amy Branam Armiento and Travis Montgomery

Review in the Journal of Gender Studies

"This engaging collection redresses the balance of Poe studies to consider his work from the perspective of women, those in his works and those reading them. . . . [It] offers a welcome emphasis on the irrepressibility of women in his work who ‘die but do not stay dead’"

-- Sara Williams, University of Hull

Book cover, Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature

Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature, Edited by Jennifer Jahner and Ingrid Nelson

Review in the Journal of English and Germanic Philology:

Very much in the spirit of Robertson's many impacts on our field, this collection opens a range of fascinating apertures into the medieval literary world that promise to be useful, both to fellow scholars and in a variety of literature classrooms.

--Emily Houlik-Ritchey, Rice University

Book cover of New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature

New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature, Edited by Amy N. Vines and Lee Templeton

New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature not only makes a fitting tribute to a beloved scholar and teacher; it constitutes a significant contribution to the field in its own right. The essays in this beautifully presented book will be essential reading for anyone interested in late-medieval vernacular theology and its reception, both in England and beyond.

--Nicholas Watson, professor of English, Harvard University

Book cover for Placing Charlotte Smith

Placing Charlotte Smith, Edited by Elizabeth A. Dolan and Jacqueline M. Labbe

Dolan and Labbe’s wide-ranging yet cohesive collection of essays offers a comprehensive and convincing breadth that succeeds in its mission of placing Charlotte Smith. Beyond Smithian scholarship, the volume comes at a prescient time.

--Heather Heckman-McKenna University of Missouri-Columbia