Nancy L. Simpson-Younger and Margaret Simon, eds. Forming Sleep: Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance. Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2020. Pp. 237. $99.95 (cloth).

Journal of British Studies ◽

10.1017/jbr.2021.83 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 60 (4) ◽

pp. 971-973

Author(s):

Janine Rivière

Keyword(s):

English Literature ◽

English Renaissance ◽

State University ◽

Penn State

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Liv Emma Thorsen, Karen A. Rader and Adam Dodd (eds), Animals on Display: The Creaturely in Museums, Zoos, and Natural History (University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2013).

Cultural History ◽

10.3366/cult.2015.0102 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 221-223

Author(s):

Tom Quick

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

State University ◽

Penn State

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Weep Not for Me: Women, Ballads, and Infanticide in Early Modern Scotland. By Deborah A. Symonds. Pp. xxii, 289. ISBN 0 271 01616 7 cloth; 0 271 01617 5 paper. University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press. 1997. UK Distribution by Eurospan Ltd., 3 Henrietta Street, London WC2E 8LU. £49.50. Pb. £17.50.

The Scottish Historical Review ◽

10.3366/shr.1999.78.1.122 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 78 (1) ◽

pp. 122-123

Author(s):

ELIZABETH EWAN

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

State University ◽

Penn State

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Press, Revolution, and Social Identities in France, 1830-1835, by Jeremy D. PopkinPress, Revolution, and Social Identities in France, 1830-1835, by Jeremy D. Popkin. University Park, Pennsylvania, Penn State University Press, 2002. x, 329 pp. $65.00 US (cloth), $22.50 US (paper).

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.39.1.147 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 147-149

Author(s):

John Merriman

Keyword(s):

Social Identities ◽

State University ◽

Penn State

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Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism: 1378-1417, by Renate Blumenfeld-KosinskiPoets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism: 1378-1417, by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski. University Park, Pennsylvania, Penn State University Press, 2006. xiii, 240pp. $45.00 US (cloth).

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.42.1.90 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 90-92

Author(s):

Joëlle Rollo-Koster

Keyword(s):

State University ◽

Penn State ◽

Great Schism

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Medicine, Religion, and Women's History - Baptism Through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire. By Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici, and Adam Warren. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2020. Pp. 152. $15.99. E-book.

The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History ◽

10.1017/tam.2021.59 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 16-18

Author(s):

Luz Hernandez-Saenz

Keyword(s):

Women's History ◽

Spanish Empire ◽

State University ◽

Penn State ◽

Women’S History

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Susan E. Gallagher. The Rule of the Rich ? Adam Smith’s Argument Against Political Power. University Park, Penn.: Penn State University Press. 1998. Pp. vii, 141. $28.50. ISBN0-271-01774-0.

Albion A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies ◽

10.1017/s0095139000071039 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 31 (3) ◽

pp. 496-497

Author(s):

Donald Winch

Keyword(s):

Political Power ◽

State University ◽

Penn State ◽

The Rich

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Katherine Elaine Bliss, Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2001), pp. xv+243, $45.00, $19.95 pb; Robert M. Buffington, Criminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico (Lincoln, NE, and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2000), pp. 229, $60.00, $25.00 pb; £30.00, £13.50 pb; Pablo Piccato, City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900–1931 (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2001), pp. x+365, $64.95, $24.95 pb; £16.95, pb.

Journal of Latin American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0022216x03257047 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

pp. 869-875

Author(s):

PATIENCE A. SCHELL

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Mexico City ◽

Gender Politics ◽

State University ◽

Penn State ◽

Duke University ◽

And Gender

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Richard Taws. The Politics of the Provisional: Art and Ephemera in Revolutionary France. College Park, Pa.: Penn State University Press, 2013. 288 pp.

Critical Inquiry ◽

10.1086/688335 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 43 (1) ◽

pp. 213-214

Author(s):

Nina L. Dubin

Keyword(s):

State University ◽

Penn State ◽

College Park

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The ‘Angel’ of English Renaissance Literature

Studies in the Renaissance ◽

10.2307/2857183 ◽

1959 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. 85-93 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Donald C. Baker

Keyword(s):

English Literature ◽

English Renaissance ◽

Renaissance Literature ◽

Merchant Of Venice ◽

Gold Coin ◽

Casual Reader ◽

The Fantastic

They have in EnglandA coin that bears the figure of an angelStampèd in gold …(Merchant of Venice II. vii. 55-57)The scholar or casual reader whose interest is drawn to Renaissance English literature discovers very early that, in the fantastic profusion of puns and punning allusions that delighted the hearts of Englishmen in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, second in frequency only to the cuckold's horns is a thin gold coin called the angel. The uses made of it range from the casual pun ‘There's a pair of angels to guide you to your lodgings’ to elaborate metaphors which mold a scene or provide the vehicle for an entire poem, as in Donne's Elegie XI, ‘The Bracelet’.

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Paul Lawrence Haber, Power from Experience: Urban Popular Movements in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2006), pp. xv+280, $55.00, hb.

Journal of Latin American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0022216x07003367 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 39 (4) ◽

pp. 899-901

Author(s):

GARETH A. JONES

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

State University ◽

Penn State ◽

Late Twentieth ◽

Popular Movements ◽

Late Twentieth Century

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