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 37-48 of 124 items.
Black Powder, White Lace
The du Pont Irish and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
University of Delaware Press
This anniversary edition of Black Powder, White Lace, Margaret Mulrooney's history of the community of Irish immigrant workers at the du Pont powder yards, is being published to remind readers of the rich materials on the du Pont workers now publicly available through the Hagley Library and Museum, and of Mulrooney's powerful conclusions about immigrant communities in America.
- Copyright year: 2002
Carrying All before Her
Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800
University of Delaware Press
Carrying All Before Her recovers the stories of six eighteenth-century celebrity actresses who performed during pregnancy, melding public and private, persona and person, domestic and professional labor and helping to shape wider social, medical, and political conversations about gender, sexuality, pregnancy, and motherhood. Their stories deepen our understanding of celebrity, repertory, and theatre’s connection to a wider social world, and challenge notions of women’s agency and power in and beyond the professional theatre.
- Copyright year: 2022
Frankenstein and STEAM
Essays for Charles E. Robinson
Edited by Robin Hammerman
University of Delaware Press
Charles E. Robinson, Professor Emeritus of English at The University of Delaware, definitively transformed study of the novel Frankenstein with his foundational volume The Frankenstein Notebooks and, in nineteenth century studies more broadly, brought heightened attention to the nuances of writing and editing. Frankenstein and STEAM consolidates the generative legacy of his later work on the novel's broad relation to topics in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM).
- Copyright year: 2022
Visualizing the Text
From Manuscript Culture to the Age of Caricature
Edited by Lauren Beck and Christina Ionescu
University of Delaware Press
This volume presents in-depth and contextualized analyses of a wealth of visual materials. These documents provide viewers with a mesmerizing and informative glimpse into how the early modern world was interpreted by image-makers and presented to viewers during a period that spans from manuscript culture to the age of caricature. The premise of this collection responds to a fundamental question: how are early modern texts, objects, and systems of knowledge imaged and consumed through bimodal, hybrid, or intermedial products that rely on both words and pictures to convey meaning?
- Copyright year: 2017
Shakespeare's Folktale Sources
University of Delaware Press
Shakespeare’s Folktale Sources argues that seven plays—The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice, All’s Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Cymbeline—derive one or more of their plots directly from folktales. In most cases, scholars have accepted one literary version of the folktale as a source.
- Copyright year: 2015
Shopping
Material Culture Perspectives
Edited by Deborah C. Andrews
University of Delaware Press
The degree to which shopping, or, more broadly, consumerism, is both critiqued and defended in American society confirms the role that commercial goods play in our daily lives. This collection of essays provides case studies depicting selected aspects of this engaging activity.
- Copyright year: 2015
Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain
A Tribute to Barbara Mujica
Edited by Susan L. Fischer and Frederick A. de Armas
University of Delaware Press
Although scholars often depict early modern Spanish women as victims, history and fiction of the period are filled with examples of women who defended their God-given right to make their own decisions and to define their own identities. The essays in Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain examine many such examples, demonstrating how women battled the status quo, defended certain causes, challenged authority, and broke barriers.
- Copyright year: 2019
Involuntary Confessions of the Flesh in Early Modern France
University of Delaware Press
Involuntary Confessions of the Flesh in Early Modern France was inspired by the observation that small slips of the flesh (involuntary confessions of the flesh) are omnipresent in early modern texts of many kinds. These slips (which bear similarities to what we would today call the Freudian slip) disrupt and destabilize readings of body, self, and text—three categories whose mutual boundaries this book seeks to soften—but also, in their very messiness, participate in defining them.
- Copyright year: 2017
Hostile Humor in Renaissance France
By Bruce Hayes
University of Delaware Press
This study examines both pamphlets and plays to show how this new form of humor emerged that attacked religious practices and people in ways that forever changed the nature of satire and religious debate in France. Hayes explores this phenomenon in the context of the Catholic and Protestant conflict to reveal new insights about the society that both exploited and vilified this kind of satire.
- Copyright year: 2011
Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies, revised edition
The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France
University of Delaware Press
This new edition of Anne Duggan’s Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies emphasizes the field-changing impacts of the original, which focused on two of the most prolific seventeenth-century women writers, Madeleine de Scudéry and Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, to demonstrate how women helped create the fairy tale genre, staking their claim as major authors of their day. Using novels, chronicles, and fairy tales, Scudéry and d’Aulnoy responded to and participated in significant social changes in early modern France.
- Copyright year: 2021
Jonathan Swift
Our Dean
University of Delaware Press
Jonathan Swift: Our Dean details the political climax of his remarkable career—his writing and publication of The Drapier’s Letters (1724), Gulliver’s Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729)—stressing the relentless political opposition he faced and the numerous ways, including through his sermons, that he worked from his political base as Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, psychologically as well as physically just outside the Dublin city walls, to attempt to rouse the Irish people to awareness of the ways that England was abusing them.
- Copyright year: 2016
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
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