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 13-24 of 124 items.
Shakespeare without Boundaries
Essays in Honor of Dieter Mehl
University of Delaware Press
Shakespeare without Boundaries: Essays in Honor of Dieter Mehl offers a wide-ranging collection of essays written by an international team of distinguished scholars who attempt to define, to challenge, and to erode boundaries that currently inhibit understanding of Shakespeare, and to exemplify how approaches that defy traditional bounds of study and criticism may enhance understanding and enjoyment of a dramatist who acknowledged no boundaries in art.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Dark Thread
From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales
Edited by John D. Lyons
University of Delaware Press
In The Dark Thread, scholars examine a set of important and perennial narrative motifs centered on violence within the family as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American literatures. Over fourteen essays, contributors highlight the connections between works from early modernity and subsequent texts from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, in which incidents such as murder, cannibalism, poisoning, the burial of the living, the failed burial of the dead, and subsequent apparitions of ghosts that haunt the household unite “high” and “low” cultural traditions. This book questions the traditional separation between the highly honored genre of tragedy and the less respected and generally less well-known genres of histoires tragiques, gothic tales and novels, and horror stories.
- Copyright year: 2011
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
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.
- Copyright year: 2011
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.
- Copyright year: 2021
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.
- 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
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
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
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
Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century
Age, Gender, and Work
University of Delaware Press
Looking at privileged boys in school as well as those of the laboring class, criminal boys who ended up in prison, and apprentices in the printing press whose labor helped them achieve respectable manhood, this book argues that boys in the long eighteenth century constituted a particular kind of currency, both valuable and expendable—valuable because of gender, expendable because of youth. As such, boys were all, one way or another, made useful, and their stories run the gamut from trivial to tragic.
- Copyright year: 2024
Gendering the Renaissance
Text and Context in Early Modern Italy
Edited by Meredith K. Ray and Lynn Lara Westwater
University of Delaware Press
The essays in Gendering the Renaissance offer a nuanced picture of gender in early modern Italian literature and culture through overlapping lenses that bring into focus myriad issues, from race and religion to schooling and storytelling. Read in dialogue with one another, these interventions provide a multifaceted view of currents in gender studies and early modern Italy.
- Copyright year: 2023
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