Publications

Subject Areas

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Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment

The Genius of Every Place

Edited by Kevin L. Cope

Michael A. Musmanno: Lawyer, Legislator, Judge, and Showman

John S. Haller Jr.

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A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections

Selected Civil War Correspondence

Edited by Richard Upsher Smith, Jr.

Our Osage Hills

Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century

Michael Snyder AND John Joseph Mathews - Edited by Michael Snyder - Foreword by Russ Tall Chief and Harvey Payne

Gateways to Empire

Quebec and New Amsterdam to 1664

Daniel J. Weeks

The “War Scrap Book” of Matilda Joslyn Gage

Witness to Rebellion

Edited by Peter Svenson - Foreword by Sally Roesch Wagner

Erie Railway Tourist, 1854–1886

Transporting Visual Culture

Herbert Gottfried

War and Occupation in China

The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937–1938

Edited by Charles Bright and Joseph W. Ho

The Western Delaware Indian Nation, 1730–1795

Warriors and Diplomats

Richard S. Grimes

This Will Make a Man of Me

The Life and Letters of a Teenage Officer in the Civil War

James M. Scythes

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

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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.

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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

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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

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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