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 124 items.
A Genealogy of the Gentleman
Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century
University of Delaware Press
A Genealogy of the Gentleman argues that eighteenth-century women writers made key interventions in modern ideals of masculinity and authorship through narrative constructions of the gentleman in courtship novels. This codification of the gentleman allowed women authors to carve out a space for their literary authority not by overtly opposing their male critics and society’s patriarchal structure, but by rewriting the persona of the gentleman as a figure whose very desirability and hegemonic power were dependent on women’s influence.
- Copyright year: 2024
Objects of Liberty
British Women Writers and Revolutionary Souvenirs
By Pamela Buck
University of Delaware Press
Objects of Liberty explores the prevalence of souvenirs in six British women’s travel accounts of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era. Using a methodology informed by literary, gender, and material culture studies, it argues that women writers employed the souvenir to circulate political ideas and contribute to conversations about individual and national identity.
- Copyright year: 2024
Redreaming the Renaissance
Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero
Edited by Mary Lindemann and Deanna Shemek
University of Delaware Press
Redreaming the Renaissance offers twelve essays that build on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero in blending history and literature. Within this volume, contributors take interdisciplinary approaches to examining not only belles lettres but also other forms of artful expression, bringing their fields into conversation and reflecting on the methodology needed to sustain and enrich this conversation.
- Copyright year: 2024
Feminist Comedy
Women Playwrights of London
By Willow White
University of Delaware Press
Feminist Comedy argues that the development of modern feminist thought is closely linked to theatrical comedy. Through analysis of plays by Catherine Clive, Frances Brooke, Frances Burney, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald, the book demonstrates that these authors turned to comedy as a site of feminist critique, practice, and experimentation.
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- Copyright year: 2024
The Age of Subtlety
Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe
University of Delaware Press
The Age of Subtlety is the first book-length study to examine the seventeenth-century craze for rhetorical conceits in connection with scientific and technological debates. Focusing on Italy and Spain, it argues that these intricate and challenging metaphors became embodiments of a competition between natural and human ingenuity, as well as sites to reflect on the consequences of telescopic and microscopic vision, the boundaries between natural and artificial, and the generation of life.
- Copyright year: 2024
Unsettling Sexuality
Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century
Edited by Jeremy Chow and Shelby Johnson
University of Delaware Press
Unsettling Sexuality brings queer, trans, and asexual lenses to bear on the long eighteenth century. Drawing from Middle-Eastern and Asian studies, African American studies, and Native American and Indigenous studies, the authors pioneer intersectional readings of European, transatlantic, and global eighteenth-century archives that unsettle traditional ways of approaching the field, to welcome sexuality as something that can resist rigidity.
- Copyright year: 2025
Honest John Williams
U.S. Senator from Delaware
University of Delaware Press
Honest John Williams, written by noted Delaware historian Carol E. Hoffecker, examines the early life and political career of John J. Williams (1904-88), who served four terms as a U.S. senator between 1947 and 1970, and became an important advocate for fiscal probity and governmental integrity in the mid-twentieth century.
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.
- Copyright 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).
- Copyright 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.
- Copyright 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.
- Copyright 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.
- Copyright year: 2022
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