University of Delaware Press
The University of Delaware Press publishes approximately 15–20 books per year in Literary Studies, especially Renaissance and Early Modern literature; Eighteenth-Century Studies; French literature and culture; Art History and Material Culture Studies; and cultural studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore. Showing 1-12 of 116 items.
Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation
Edited by Shannon McHugh and Anna Wainwright
University of Delaware Press
The enduring "black legend" of the Italian Counter-Reformation, which has held sway in both scholarly and popular culture, maintains that the Council of Trent ushered in a cultural dark age in Italy, snuffing out the spectacular creative production of the Renaissance. As a result, the decades following Trent have been mostly overlooked in Italian literary studies, in particular.
- Publication year: 2011
The World of Elizabeth Inchbald
Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century
Edited by Daniel J. Ennis and E. Joe Johnson
University of Delaware Press
This collection includes essays on the literary, theatrical and cultural conditions in Britain during the long eighteenth century, centered on the life, work, and world of the writer/actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821).
- Publication year: 2022
Black Celebrity
Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists
University of Delaware Press
Black Celebrity examines representations of postbellum black athletes and artist-entertainers by novelists Caryl Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen and poets Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, Adrian Matejka, and Tyehimba Jess. Inhabiting the perspectives of boxer Jack Johnson and musicians “Blind Tom” Wiggins and Sissieretta Jones, along with several others, these writers both revise understandings of black celebrity history and evince the through-lines between the postbellum era and our own time.
- Publication year: 2022
England's Asian Renaissance
Edited by Su Fang Ng and Carmen Nocentelli
University of Delaware Press
England's Asian Renaissance examines the often-subtle ways in which Asian cultures inflected the literature of early modern England, with an eye toward patterns of cross-cultural fertilization, mediation, and convergence. The collection moves away from hegemonic narratives of English cultural and political sovereignty to underscore the radically mobile nature of early modern culture.
- Publication year: 2022
Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century
Edited by Jennifer Milam and Nicola Parsons
University of Delaware Press
This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experience occasioned by reception during the long eighteenth century. Through a consideration of the material formation of concepts, this book explores questions that are implicated by the need to see ideas in painted, sculpted, illustrated, and designed forms. In doing so, it introduces new visual materials and novel conceptual models into traditional accounts of the intellectual history of the Enlightenment.
- Publication year: 2022
Comparative Essays on the Poetry and Prose of John Donne and George Herbert
Combined Lights
Edited by Russell M. Hillier and Robert W. Reeder
University of Delaware Press
This book brings together ten essays on John Donne and George Herbert composed by an international group of scholars. The volume represents the first collection of its kind to draw close connections between these two distinguished early modern poet-thinkers. The contributors illuminate a variety of topics and fields while suggestion new directions that future study of Donne and Herbert might take.
- Publication year: 2022
Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750–1850
Edited by Anaïs Pédron and Clare Siviter
University of Delaware Press
Scholars often focus on the period from 1750 to 1850 as the birth of “celebrity”, but this volume is the first to offer a sustained comparative study of celebrity in Britain and France during this period. Through a series of national and international case studies bringing together the fields of history, politics, literature, theater studies, and musicology, it unearths how celebrity was developed, theorized, and consumed on either side of the Channel.
- Publication year: 2021
Delaware Naturalist Handbook
Edited by McKay Jenkins and Susan Barton
University of Delaware Press
The Delaware Naturalist Handbook is the primary public face of a major university-led public educational outreach and community engagement initiative. This statewide master naturalist certification program is designed to train hundreds of citizen scientists, K–12 environmental educators, ecological restoration volunteers, and habitat managers each year.
- Publication year: 2011
Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson
Resisting Secularism
Edited by Melvyn New and Gerard Reedy
University of Delaware Press
Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism contains seventeen essays exploring the complex relationships between literary intentions and theological concerns of authors writing in the second half of the eighteenth century. The diversity of literary forms and subjects, from Fielding and Richardson to Burke and Wollstonecraft, is matched by a diversity of approaches and theologies.
- Publication year: 2012
"The Stage's Glory"
John Rich (1692–1761)
Edited by Berta Joncus and Jeremy Barlow
University of Delaware Press
John Rich (1692-1761) was a profoundly influential figure of the eighteenth-century London stage. As producer, manager, and performer, he transformed the urban entertainment market, creating genres and promotional methods still with us today. This volume gives the first comprehensive overview of Rich’s multifaceted career, appreciation of which has suffered from his performing identity as Lun, London’s most celebrated Harlequin.
- Publication year: 2011
Shakespearean Educations
Power, Citizenship, and Performance
University of Delaware Press
Shakespearean Educations examines how and why Shakespeare’s works shaped the development of American education from the colonial period through the 1934 Chicago World’s Fair, taking the reader up to the years before the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (popularly known as the GI Bill), coeducation, and a nascent civil rights movement would alter the educational landscape yet again. The essays in this collection query the nature of education, the nature of citizenship in a democracy, and the roles of literature, elocution, theater, and performance in both.
- Publication year: 2011
French Women Authors
The Significance of the Spiritual, 1400–2000
Edited by Kelsey L. Haskett and Holly Faith Nelson
University of Delaware Press
French Women Authors examines the importance afforded the spiritual in the lives and works of French women authors over the centuries, thereby highlighting both the significance of spiritually informed writings in French literature in general, as well as the specific contribution made by women writers. Eleven different authors have been selected for this collection, representing major literary periods from the medieval to the (post)modern.
- Publication year: 2013
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