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. 
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England's Asian Renaissance

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
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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
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The World of Elizabeth Inchbald

Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century

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
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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
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Gendering the Renaissance

Text and Context in Early Modern Italy

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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The Biden School and the Engaged University of Delaware, 1961-2021

University of Delaware Press

This book reviews the history of the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration from 1961 to 2021. The focus is the school’s accomplishments and its journey as a case study of organizational leadership in higher education. The school has been an innovator in its organization and exemplifies the expansion of the higher education responsibilities to the larger society.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Waxing of the Middle Ages

Revisiting Late Medieval France

University of Delaware Press

Johan Huizinga’s much-loved and much-contested Autumn of the Middle Ages, first published in 1919 and in print ever since, encouraged an image of the Late French Middle Ages as a flamboyant but empty period of decline and nostalgia. This collection sets out to provide a rich, complex, and diverse study showing that this often maligned and frequently ignored period is crucial in its own right.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Victorine du Pont

The Force behind the Family

University of Delaware Press

Victorine du Pont is the previously untold biography of a woman who left a profound influence upon multiple generations of the du Pont family, and whose story provides the most intimate view of that family to date. Intellectually capable and actively compassionate, Victorine du Pont overcame personal tragedy and institutional barriers against women to provide pioneering educational opportunities, as well as spiritual leadership, to an entire millworkers’ community. 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Literature and the Arts

Interdisciplinary Essays in Memory of James Anderson Winn

Edited by Anna Battigelli
University of Delaware Press

The ten essays in Literature and the Arts explore the intermedial plenitude of eighteenth-century English culture, honoring the memory of James Anderson Winn, whose work demonstrated how seeing that interplay of the arts and literature was essential to a full understanding of Restoration and eighteenth-century English culture. 
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Fictions of Pleasure

The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France

University of Delaware Press

This book identifies the prostitute memoir as a subgenre of the eighteenth-century French libertine novel and explores how the fictional utopia the narrators of these salacious pseudo-memoirs undermine the patriarchal hierarchies of the Ancien Régime and propose a social model in which women form networks of mutual support to achieve wealth and personal satisfaction.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Money and Materiality in the Golden Age of Graphic Satire

University of Delaware Press

This book examines the entwined and simultaneous rise of graphic satire and cultures of paper money in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, capturing the difficult and uncertain cultural process of attaching value to printed paper as a medium.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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The Celebrity Monarch

Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female Portrait

University of Delaware Press

The Celebrity Monarch argues that portraits of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898) shaped both modern female portraiture and celebrity. Close study of portraits of Elisabeth, renowned as the most beautiful woman in Europe, along with her private collection of celebrity photography reveals her agency in shaping her own representation and the significance of her construction for modern Viennese artists and the emerging phenomenon of celebrity.
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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