Books published by Pennsylvania State University Press

An analysis of the process and implications of German unification in its historical and international setting. The book ends with a glimpse of how Germans envisage themselves in the year 2000.

Emily Dickinson's fascicles comprise more than 800 poems in 40 booklets. In this text, Oberhaus argues that these poems are presented in a meaningful order and centering on common themes. Dickinson is also revealed as a Christian poet for whom the Bible was an essential inspiration.

This examination of Bishop's work - poetry, prose and selected unpublished material - reveal how personal loss becomes implicated in her vision of self and how gender and sexual identity influence the experience of loss in her writing.

This work represents an attempt to recast debates over reason and modernity, knowledge and power, in the terms of a democratic philosophy that treats epistemological debates in social terms.