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Scholarly contributions to our understanding of literature originally written in another language

Jennifer Rushworth, Proust's Songbook:
Songs and Their Uses (University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Scholarly contributions to our understanding of literature originally written in another language Jennifer Rushworth, Proust's Songbook: Songs and Their Uses (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Thrilled to read in a circular email this afternoon that Jennifer Rushworth, the Reviews Editor of the Barthes Studies journal, is one of the winners of the 2025 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize for her Proust’s Songbook: Songs and their Uses (@pennpress.bsky.social):

03.12.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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EAS Miscellany interviews John Ryan Fischer about his #Fall2025 article on Sauk & Meskwaki survival strategies after the Fox Wars. Dive into the conversation here: https://bit.ly/3Y5zetr
@mcneilcenter.bsky.social @pennpress.bsky.social
#EAS #EarlyAmericanMisc

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2025 Holiday Sale - University of Pennsylvania Press Shopping for the readers, scholars, and students on your holiday gift list? Check out our wide range of books in topics from history, politics, and literature to religion, business, and... READ MORE

Did you miss out on our Cyber Monday sale? No worriesβ€”our Holiday Sale offering 40% off books and 25% off individual journal subscriptions runs through December 31!

02.12.2025 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Penn Press Book Launch: "Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century" Join us to celebrate the launch of this landmark, multi-volume project presenting an up-to-date, diverse history of Philadelphia across its many dimensions.

Join us in celebrating GREATER PHILADELPHIA: A NEW HISTORY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY at a launch event hosted by Penn Libraries this Thursday, December 4th, at 5:30 p.m. ET! bit.ly/4rA4GNZ

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I'm very grateful to the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize jury and @journalslavery.bsky.social for this recognition!

Congrats to the winner, Magdalena Moorthy Kloss, and other finalists.

brill.com/view/journal...

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The Driver’s Story – Penn Press The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve thei...

Congratulations to @randybrowne.bsky.social, whose book THE DRIVER'S STORY is a finalist for the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize, granted by @journalslavery.bsky.social! bit.ly/3Qs4ZJs

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Homepage - University of Pennsylvania Press The University of Pennsylvania Press publishes more than 100 new books a year and 22 journals. Find out more about us here.

Just a few more hours in our Cyber Monday sale! Order by midnight in your time zone & use code PENN-CYBERMONDAY25 to save 50% on available books on pennpress.org.

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Don't forget to take advantage of our Cyber Monday sale before it's too late! Today only, save 50% on available titles from pennpress.org when you enter discount code PENN-CYBERMONDAY25 during checkout.

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Homepage - University of Pennsylvania Press The University of Pennsylvania Press publishes more than 100 new books a year and 22 journals. Find out more about us here.

CYBER MONDAY SALE! Today only, use code PENN-CYBERMONDAY25 to save 50% on available titles on pennpress.org!

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The Centrality of Slavery – Penn Press How French and American colonizers created systems of enslavement in the Middle Mississippi ValleyThe Centrality of Slavery examines how French and American ...

50% off @pennpress.bsky.social books.

Go get that copy of "The Centrality of Slavery."
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This Is My Jail and many other fine titles are available at the best price of the year www.pennpress.org/978151282349...

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Today only, THE DRIVER'S STORY and many other great @pennpress.bsky.social books are on sale for 50% off. www.pennpress.org/978151282586...

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Homepage - University of Pennsylvania Press The University of Pennsylvania Press publishes more than 100 new books a year and 22 journals. Find out more about us here.

CYBER MONDAY SALE! Today only, use code PENN-CYBERMONDAY25 to save 50% on available titles on pennpress.org!

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EVENT: Author P. C. Saidalavi will discuss his new book SEEKING ALLAH'S HIERARCHY at the University of Calicut this Thursday, December 4, at 4 p.m. IST!

More info: bit.ly/4pExgw0

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JCB Reads: Casey Schmitt's The Predatory Sea. Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean | John Carter Brown Library Zoom link: https://brown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ERxVIYvZROWkIFcp8gH7Ag

On Monday, author Casey Schmitt will discuss her new book THE PREDATORY SEA in a virtual event hosted by @jcblibrary.bsky.social! Learn more & register:

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Cracked Foundations: The Precarious Wealth of Postwar Long Island A Book Talk with Michael R. Glass

Want to learn more about how debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today’s inequalities? Join author @m-r-glass.bsky.social for a virtual event hosted by @gothamcenter.bsky.social about his new book CRACKED FOUNDATIONS on Monday December 1!

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What AI’s good at β€” and what it’s not - Harvard Law School Cass Sunstein’s new book, β€˜Imperfect Oracle,’ explores the promising prospects and clear limits of AI.

Author Cass Sunstein recently discussed his new book IMPERFECT ORACLE (out now from @amphilpress.bsky.social!) at Harvard Law School. Read the event recap to learn more about how he views the promise and limits of artificial intelligence bit.ly/4rkOiki

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Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century - University of Pennsylvania Press Now available from Penn Press, a landmark book project celebrates Philadelphia’s role as the beating heart of the nation’s story, unearthing the hidden histories, points of pride, people, places, and....

From cobblestone streets to the global stage, GREATER PHILADELPHIA brings 250+ years of history to life across three volumes (with nearly 300 images!), examining the cultural, political, and economic forces that forged today’s living city. #PhillyIsGreater bit.ly/47XNQzT

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#AARSBL25 scholars: Studying ritual, occultism, or esoteric traditions? Explore Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, a leading journal on the history and theory of magic and ritual practice.

Read more of MRW here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/journ...

@aarweb.bsky.social

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#AARSBL25 attendees: interested in new and emerging religious movements? Check out one of Nova Religio’s most-read articles: β€œThe Children of Noah: Has Messianic Zionism Created a New Religion?” muse.jhu.edu/article/737561

@aarweb.bsky.social

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2025 Holiday Sale - University of Pennsylvania Press Shopping for the readers, scholars, and students on your holiday gift list? Check out our wide range of books in topics from history, politics, and literature to religion, business, and... READ MORE

Don't forget to check out our 2025 Holiday Sale! Save 40% on books and 25% on individual journal subscriptions, from now through December 31. www.pennpress.org/2025-holiday...

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Thinking in Public – Penn Press Long before we began to speak of "public intellectuals," the ideas of "the public" and "the intellectual" raised consternation among many European philosophe...

Ah, @pennpress.bsky.social has just announced their holiday sale! 40% off means that the paperback of my book on philosophy's encounter with "the public intellectual," Thinking in Public, is about $20.

100% of the historical analysis for 60% of the price.

www.pennpress.org/978081222434...

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Maps, Trees, and Labels: Three Kinds of Work for The House of Condulmer | Surprised Eel Maps Get more from Surprised Eel Maps on Patreon

For this week's post, I've written about the maps, family trees, and diagrams that I made for Alan Stahl's recent book about Renaissance Venice, "The House of Condulmer." (published by @pennpress.bsky.social

Like most of my posts, it's free, so give it a read!

www.patreon.com/posts/maps-t...

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Penn Press is excited to highlight our journals during @aarweb.bsky.social & @sblsite.bsky.social's joint meeting! Religious studies journals include:
Nova Religio
Jewish Quarterly Review
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
Journal of Ecumenical Studies
Discover more at pennpress.org/journals #AARSBL25

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We are all set up at this year's @aarweb.bsky.social & @sblsite.bsky.social joint meeting! Stop by our booth in the book exhibit to browse our latest religious studies titles, or visit our #AARSBL25 virtual exhibit store to save 40% on books with code AARSBL25: site.pennpress.org/aarsbl-2025

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Congratulations to author Bruce O'Neill, whose book UNDERGROUNDβ€”which details public and private efforts to gentrify and expand Bucharest’s subterranean Metro stationsβ€”has recently won two awards announced in conjunction with the #AAAAnthro annual meeting! bit.ly/3LZQ4Hn

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Getting closer to this online book event with the Gotham Center on 12/1! Registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/cracked-fo...

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Penn Press releases three-volume book project on Philadelphia history The three volumes β€” titled β€œThe Greater Philadelphia Region,” β€œGreater Philadelphia and the Nation,” and β€œGreater Philadelphia and the World" β€” cover subjects from the American Revolution and…

So awesome to see coverage of GREATER PHILADELPHIA from The Daily Pennsylvanian! Read their article to learn more about the origins of the project, what kinds of information you'll find in the book, and how you can join us on campus on Dec. 4th for the book launch!

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We are all set up at @americananthro.bsky.social's annual meeting in New Orleans! Stop by our distributor Ingram Academic's booth in the exhibit to browse our latest anthropology titles, or visit our #AAA2025 virtual exhibit store to save 40% with code AAA25 at checkout: site.pennpress.org/aaa-2025/

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Read our #Fall2025 #EAS journal issue on
@projectmuse.bsky.social
Link: muse.jhu.edu/issue/5...
@mcneilcenter.bsky.social
@pennpress.bsky.social

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