University Of Pennsylvania Press Inc : 784 books
by Jenna Reinbold
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been called one of the most powerful documents in human history. Today, the mere accusation of violations of the rights outlined in this document cows political leaders and riles the international community. Yet as a nonbinding document with no mechanism...
Human Rights in Our Own Backyard
Injustice and Resistance in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Most Americans assume that the United States provides a gold standard for human rights—a 2007 survey found that 80 percent of U.S. adults believed that "the U.S. does a better job than most countries when it comes to protecting human rights." As well, discussions among scholars and public...
The Garden of Delights
Reform and Renaissance for Women in the Twelfth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
In The Garden of Delights, Fiona J. Griffiths offers the first major study of the Hortus deliciarum, a magnificently illuminated manuscript of theology, biblical history, and canon law written both by and explicitly for women at the end of the twelfth century. In so doing she provides a brilliantly...
Monastic Bodies
Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Shenoute of Atripe led the White Monastery, a community of several thousand male and female Coptic monks in Upper Egypt, between approximately 395 and 465 C.E. Shenoute's letters, sermons, and treatises—one of the most detailed bodies of writing to survive from any early monastery—provide an unparalleled...
Out of Sorts
On Typography and Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
The new history of the book has constituted a vibrant academic field in recent years, and theories of print culture have moved to the center of much scholarly discourse. One might think typography would be a basic element in the construction of these theories, yet if only we would pay careful attention...
Optiques
The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Andrea Goulet takes the study of the novel into the realm of the visual by situating it in the context of nineteenth-century scientific and philosophical discourse about the nature of sight. She argues that French realism, detective fiction, science fiction, and literature of the fantastic from 1830...
Dearest Wilding
A Memoir, with Love Letters from Theodore Dreiser
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
A candid and intimate chapter in the life of a modern woman, Yvette Eastman's vivid narrative also contributes richly to the life story of Theodore Dreiser. Dearest Wilding: A Memoir records the journey that took Yvette Szekely from an upper-middle-class scholar's home in Budapest to the intellectual...
Making New York Dominican
Small Business, Politics, and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Large-scale emigration from the Dominican Republic began in the early 1960s, with most Dominicans settling in New York City. Since then the growth of the city's Dominican population has been staggering, now accounting for around 7 percent of the total populace. How have Dominicans influenced New York...
The Complexion of Race
Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
In the 1723 Journal of a Voyage up the Gambia, an English narrator describes the native translators vital to the expedition's success as being "Black as Coal." Such a description of dark skin color was not unusual for eighteenth-century Britons—but neither was the statement that followed:...
A Road to Nowhere
The Idea of Progress and Its Critics
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Since the Enlightenment, the idea of progress has spanned right- and left-wing politics, secular and spiritual philosophy, and most every school of art or culture. The belief that humans are capable of making lasting improvements—intellectual, scientific, material, moral, and cultural—continues...
Conversion and Narrative
Reading and Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
In 1322, a Jewish doctor named Abner entered a synagogue in the Castilian city of Burgos and began to weep in prayer. Falling asleep, he dreamed of a "great man" who urged him to awaken from his slumber. Shortly thereafter, he converted to Christianity and wrote a number of works attacking...
The Conversion of Herman the Jew
Autobiography, History, and Fiction in the Twelfth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Sometime toward the middle of the twelfth century, it is supposed, an otherwise obscure figure, born a Jew in Cologne and later ordained as a priest in Cappenberg in Westphalia, wrote a Latin account of his conversion to Christianity. Known as the Opusculum, this book purportedly by "Herman,...
Esperanto and Its Rivals
The Struggle for an International Language
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
The problems of international communication and linguistic rights are recurring debates in the present-day age of globalization. But the debate truly began over a hundred years ago, when the increasingly interconnected world of the nineteenth century fostered a desire for the development of a global...
Everyday Occupations
Experiencing Militarism in South Asia and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2013
In the twenty-first century, political conflict and militarization have come to constitute a global social condition rather than a political exception. Military occupation increasingly informs the politics of both democracies and dictatorships, capitalist and formerly socialist regimes, raising questions...