Editor’s Note: The following books have been published by the U-M-Press.
Palimpsest: Editorial Theory in the Humanities edited by English Profs. George Bornstein and Ralph G. Williams. This is the latest volume in our Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism series. Palimpsest assembles an extraordinarily distinguished group of leading practitioners and theorists, who examine editing in varying contexts ranging from editions of Ulysses to editing Martin Luther King Jr., and stress both the multilayered character of major monuments of our culture and the broader process of their cultural transmission.
The Family, Women and Death, second edition, by S.C. Humphreys, professor of history and of anthropology and of Greek. Until recently, students and scholars of antiquity did not investigate everyday life but concentrated instead on war, politics, and ethics. The Family, Women and Death was one of the first books to explore domestic life in ancient Greece. In this pathbreaking work, first published in 1983, Humphreys sheds new light on our understanding of Greek civilization. For this revised edition, she has added a new introduction that discusses scholarship on the topic that has appeared since its initial publication.
Women Lawyers and the Origins of Professional Identity in America: The Letters of the Equity Club, 1887 to 1890 by Virginia G. Drachman, associate professor of history, Tufts University. On the evening of Oct. 6, 1886, seven women lawyers and law students at the University of Michigan met at the home of law student Letitia Burlingame for an all-women’s dinner. By the end of the evening, this small group of women had formed the Equity Club. Though local at its founding, the Equity Club quickly developed into a correspondence club for women lawyers and law students throughout America and in other countries as well. Drachman collects their letters in this illuminating history.
All My Relatives by Bonnie Tusmith, assistant professor of English, Bowling Green State University. Critics claim that Americans have lost the language to express communal values. Maybe that’s true of the white middle class, writes Tusmith, but the “first language of community” definitely exists within the cultures of ethnic Americans. This exceptional volume probes the questions of community and individualism in ethnic American literatures, highlighting some of today’s best writers: Frank Chin, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, N. Scott Momaday, Tomas Rivera, Leslie Marmon Silko, Alice Walker and John Edgar Wideman.
Michigan Free: Your Comprehensive Guide to Free Travel, Recreation, and Entertainment Opportunities by Eric Freedman, reporter for the Detroit News Lansing Bureau. Whether your preference is for indoor or outdoor activities, whether traveling with children, as a couple, or singly, Michigan Free provides an abundance of year-round, cost-free and inexpensive activities from Detroit to the remote reaches of the Upper Peninsula. You’ll find detailed information about national parks and forests, fish hatcheries, college campus activities, live theater and dance, concerts and government buildings, winery and factory tours, nature centers and festivals, cemeteries, walking tours, and more.
