Posted: November 18, 2022
The Lehigh University Press is proud to announce that Dr. Sarah Fatherly's Gentlewomen and Learned Ladies: Women and Elite Formation in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia (Lehigh University Press, 2008), is the winner of the 2010 Philip S. Klein Book Prize for the best book on Pennsylvania history. This prestigious award is given every two years by the Pennsylvania Historical Association.
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.
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
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
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
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
Wife of Bath in Afterlife: Ballads to Blake, by Betsy Bowden
Bowden delves into each case study so expansively that at the end of reading the book, the reader has been immersed in many different eighteenth-century cultural worlds. This is an immensely learned and valuable book that dares to be different and, as a result, breaks new ground.
-- Marion Turner, Jesus College, University of Oxford
Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century, Edited by Michael Snyder
Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century is a significant work. Snyder uses Mathews’ columns as a window into Mathews’ understanding of the Osage, its geology, its flora and fauna, as well as its human inhabitants.
-- Ruby Hansen Murray, Osage News
