Books published by Pennsylvania State University Press

An analysis of the perception of the New World in Italian literature and culture of the 18th and early 19th centuries. This study begins by analysing the motivations and circumstances behind the emergence of the myth of the "noble savage".

In this study of the culture of opposition, the strategies of the Polish Communist party for remodelling national culture are examined. This is followed by a history of the rise of Solidarity, the circumstances that led to it, and why it did not happen in other communist-run countries.

A collection of essays tracing the history of the Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania, with emphasis on the greater Philadelphia area. Includes discussions of the diversity of practice and belief within the church, and between the church and the wider national culture.

This text is an investigation of the notion of interpretation and the strangeness of trying to construct a theory of interpretation, in other words, an interpretation of interpretation.

This historical investigation examines the American Episcopal Church in the 19th century, and how the Evangelical party within the Church - disillusioned over theology, liturgy and cultural direction - broke away to form the Reformed Episcopal Church.

This literary study surveys widely-read and influential adventure tales of the 18th to 20th centuries, considering such authors as Dumas, Scott, Defoe, Verne, Buchan, Kipling and Twain. It advances a theoretical framework whereby the adventure genre can be treated as serious literature.