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Bucknell University Press Publishing in the arts, humanities, and social sciences since 1968. Bucknell University Press books are sold and distributed by Rowman & Littlefield.

Bucknell University Press is a leading publisher of eighteenth-century studies, Luso-Hispanic studies, and Latin American studies, while also publishing extraordinary occasional texts in other areas of the humanities, including philosophy, environmentalism and ecocriticism, Africana studies, Irish literature, French literature, and cultural studies. As a small, faculty-run organization working closely with people in many universities in the U.S., the U.K., and beyond we are committed to seeking, encouraging, and disseminating engaging, enterprising scholarship that is accessible to educated readers of different kinds. While embracing digitalization, our print books continue to reflect our appreciation of high production values as well as the widespread desire for beauty in the books that people read.

Delighted to see Alimentary Orientalism by Yin Yuan has been shortlisted for the British Association for Romantic Studie...
05/28/2026

Delighted to see Alimentary Orientalism by Yin Yuan has been shortlisted for the British Association for Romantic Studies First Book Prize: tinyurl.com/3d6pchy9. Congratulations to all finalists!

: "Uncovering The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown: An Interview with the Series Editors"With the upcoming ...
05/12/2026

: "Uncovering The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown: An Interview with the Series Editors"

With the upcoming release of the final volume of The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown, Bucknell University Press celebrates the completion of this robust and comprehensive series. Edited by Mark L. Kamrath and Philip Barnard, the multivolume series traces the underresearched textual contributions of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810), whose letters, poems, essays, reviews, historical narratives, and pamphlets with rich political and philosophical insight. As a trained lawyer and one of the first authors of the American short story, Brockden Brown helped shape the American literary landscape with his prolific knowledge and astute theories.

Expanding the Bicentennial Edition of The Novels and Related Works, (edited by Sydney J. Krause and S.W. Reid), which traces Brown’s six novels, the Collected Writings opens the archive and recontextualizes Brown’s impact and influence on the young American republic. The seven-volume series not only draws attention to Brown’s extensive literary contributions but also highlights the political and social controversies and contradictions of the country’s founding. With detailed annotations, the Collected Writings offers new insights into the figure’s mind and provides a capacity to understand the historical time period in which he lived and wrote.

BUP’s Cynthia Fell Intern, Maddy Grieco ’26, spoke with Kamrath and Barnard about their experience stewarding the series, gaining insight into the editorial process behind the Collected Writings, and discovering more about Charles Brockden Brown’s contributions to postrevolutionary America.

To read: https://tinyurl.com/y596czn6

Spring is here, and with it, two new releases at Bucknell University Press: "Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin America...
05/05/2026

Spring is here, and with it, two new releases at Bucknell University Press: "Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction" by Erik Larson, and "1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Volume 31" by eds. Kevin L. Cope and Samara Anne Cahill.

"Groundless Noir":

This philosophical study of Latin American noir fiction poses the question, What if precarity and uncertainty aren’t just themes of the genre but ways of being in the world? Emerging from a region immersed in violence, trauma, and political instability, the novela negra reveals not just disillusionment but a desire to adapt to, even dwell within, chaos. Blending literary analysis with philosophical inquiry, Larson draws on Heideggerian ontology to demonstrate how the noir novel becomes a mode of existence—grounded in its very groundlessness. Rather than offering resolution, these novels embody a paradoxical desire: to engage crisis while also adapting to it. In doing so, they become both ideological and pedagogical—existential fiction for an uncertain world.

To order "Groundless Noir": https://tinyurl.com/35uu7mpb

"1650-1850 vol. 31":

Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 covers the full expanse of long-eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays explore outlandish but often observed activities such as medical quackery, Rosicrucian hermeticism, and the oral antics associated with the twisted "Malaprop" tradition. In happy contrast, the volume offers the second half of a sparkling special feature on the most familiar of all substances, water. Contributors lead us through an astounding assortment of aqueous topics, from the heritage of The Compleat Angler to the sanctified sprinklings of holy water. As always, 1650-1850 culminates in a bevy of full-length book reviews that robustly address the latest scholarship on long-established specialties, unusual subjects, and broad reevaluations of the period.

To order "1650-1850, vol. 31": https://tinyurl.com/ypt2xnhd

Sharing some news from our friends at the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press about two of Bucknell Univer...
04/27/2026

Sharing some news from our friends at the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press about two of Bucknell University Press' longstanding series: https://tinyurl.com/s4ucb757.

Please help spread the word!

: Interviewing "Impolite Periodicals:" Strategic Politeness in the Eighteenth Century"Impolite Periodicals: Reading for...
04/27/2026

: Interviewing "Impolite Periodicals:" Strategic Politeness in the Eighteenth Century"

Impolite Periodicals: Reading for Rudeness in the Eighteenth Century is the newest title in Bucknell University Press' Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 series, following Kathleen Tamayo Alves' debut, Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel (2025). BUP's Transits series publishes monographs and edited volumes that are timely, transformative, and global in their engagement with arts, literature, culture, and history.

Impolite Periodicals, edited by Emrys D. Jones, Adam James Smith, and Katarina Stenke, "reads for impoliteness, revealing a more nuanced, granular, and dynamic view of eighteenth-century periodicals." With an emphasis on The Spectator and The Tatler, Impolite Periodicals "promotes a new history of the periodical characterized not as highbrow gatekeeper of literary taste, but as incongruent, idiosyncratic, and impolite. This collection thus brings together a range of perspectives on eighteenth-century periodical publication, not simply to argue that periodicals could be impolite, but to explore how readings of their potential impoliteness might affect our understanding of their literary and social significance."

In this blog post, Jones, Smith, and Stenke discuss both their individual contributions and the collection as a whole, what it means to "read for rudeness" in eighteenth-century literature, and how we could all benefit from reading against the political grain.

To read: https://tinyurl.com/mvbheywa

Celebrate Women’s History Month with Bucknell University Press! We’ve put together a collection of titles written, edite...
03/23/2026

Celebrate Women’s History Month with Bucknell University Press! We’ve put together a collection of titles written, edited, translated, and published by women.

For more information about these titles and to order: https://tinyurl.com/89yw6np6

Newly released: READING WITH JANE AUSTEN by Elaine Ba**er carefully rereads the great author’s novels against the rich c...
03/18/2026

Newly released: READING WITH JANE AUSTEN by Elaine Ba**er carefully rereads the great author’s novels against the rich context of late Georgian literary and intellectual culture, adding new layers of appreciation for those who love her work.

"Ba**er appreciates and illuminates the eclecticism of Austen’s wide-ranging reading habits. . . . fans will delight in thinking about what she read, and what her reading added to her writing." —
Library Journal

“Sets out to help us re-see the great novelist’s aims & achievements by carefully, clearly, productively describing them alongside the significant writings of her best-loved contemporaries. Will have you rereading Austen in engaging, surprising, powerful new ways.”
Devoney Looser

To order: https://tinyurl.com/yea8b74y

Bucknell University Press recently welcomed the release of Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Nove...
03/04/2026

Bucknell University Press recently welcomed the release of Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel by Kathleen Tamayo Alves, associate professor of English at Queensborough Community College of The City University of New York.

Body Language, which is part of our Transits series, explores the competing ideas espoused in medical texts and British 18th-century comic novels. We spoke with Professor Alves to learn more about female embodiment, agency, and sexuality, exploring how the book’s themes are in conversation with today’s discourse on women’s bodily rights.

To read: https://tinyurl.com/mr9krzba



February is Black History Month, a time to honor and amplify Black stories and voices. To celebrate, we've put together ...
02/10/2026

February is Black History Month, a time to honor and amplify Black stories and voices. To celebrate, we've put together a list of BUP titles by and about Black perspectives and lives. Make sure to check out the last slide, and visit our website for more!

To order: https://tinyurl.com/89yw6np6

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