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Penn Press’s most popular course titles include several titles of interest to scholars of literature, cultural studies, and related fields.

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The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski

Lost Letters of Medieval Life

Martha Carlin, David Crouch

Elf Queens and Holy Friars

Richard Firth Green

The Satires of Horace

Horace, A. M. Juster, Susanna Braund

Machiavelli

Mark Jurdjevic, Meredith K. Ray, Meredith K. Ray

Florentine Political Writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli

Mark Jurdjevic, Natasha Piano, John P. McCormick

Black Walden

Elise Lemire

"The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman" and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories

Christopher Looby

Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic

Peter C. Mancall

The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Robert Dale Parker

Used Books

William H. Sherman

"Ethel's Love-Life" and Other Writings

Margaret J. M. Sweat, Christopher Looby, Christopher Looby

Virgil's Eclogues

Virgil, Len Krisak, Gregson Davis

"Beowulf" and Other Old English Poems

Craig Williamson, Craig Williamson, Tom Shippey

A Feast of Creatures

Craig Williamson, Craig Williamson

Penn Press at MLA 2021

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