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Lehigh University Press - The Wold Turned Upside Down

The World Turned Upside Down

The State of Eighteenth-Century American Studies at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

Michael V. Kennedy, ed. and William G. Shade, ed.

Not for Filthy Lucre's Sake

Richard Saltar and the Antiproprietary Movement in East New Jersey, 1665-1707

Daniel J. Weeks

The Lost Equilibrium

International Relations in the PostSoviet Era

Bettie M. Smolansky, ed. and Oles M. Smolansky, ed.

One Woman Determined to Make a Difference

The Life of Madeleine Zabriskie Doty

Alice Duffy Rinehart, ed. and Anne Taylor Bronner, ed.

Pleasing for Our Use

David Tanneberg and the Organs of the Moravians

Carol A. Traupman-Carr, ed.

Machiavelli Redeemed

Retrieving His Humanist Perspectives on Equality, Power, and Glory

Robert A. Kocis

Separatism, the Allies, and the Mafia

The Struggle for Sicilian Independence, 1943-1948

Monte S. Finkelstein

A World of Crisis and Progress

The American YMCA in Japan, 1890-1930

Jon Thares Davidann

Revisioning the British Empire in the Eighteenth Century

Essays from Twenty-Five Years of the Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies

William G. Shade, ed.

The Life and Times of Sir Goldsworthy Gurney

Gentleman Scientist and Inventor, 1793-1875

Dale H. Porter

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