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 97-108 of 124 items.
English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800
Edited by Heather Ladd and Leslie Ritchie
University of Delaware Press
English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explores the theatrical anecdote’s role in the construction of stage fame in England’s emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. Chapters in this book discuss anecdotes about actors, actresses, musicians, and other theatre people.
- Copyright year: 2022
English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800
Edited by Heather Ladd and Leslie Ritchie
University of Delaware Press
English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explores the theatrical anecdote’s role in the construction of stage fame in England’s emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. Chapters in this book discuss anecdotes about actors, actresses, musicians, and other theatre people.
- 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
Making Stars
Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Edited by Nora Nachumi and Kristina Straub
University of Delaware Press
Making Stars provides multiple perspectives on the simultaneous emergence of modern forms of life writing and celebrity culture in eighteenth-century Britain. Crossing multiple genres and media, contributors reveal the complex and varied ways in which these modern ways of thinking about individual identity mutually conditioned their emergence during this formative period.
- Copyright year: 2022
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
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
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
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
The Biden School and the Engaged University of Delaware, 1961-2021
By Daniel Rich
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
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
The Waxing of the Middle Ages
Revisiting Late Medieval France
Edited by Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier and Tracy Adams
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
The Waxing of the Middle Ages
Revisiting Late Medieval France
Edited by Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier and Tracy Adams
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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