University Of Delaware Press imprint: 91 books

by Willard Bohn
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016

Reviewing the previous scholarship for seventeen of the most important poems in Alcools, this book provides a detailed analysis of each work and includes a state-of-the-art survey of current Apollinaire criticism. Besides acquainting readers with the existing scholarship, the book considers all the...

Edgar Allan Poe

Beyond Gothicism

by James M. Hutchisson, Amy C. Branam, Dennis Eddings
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011

Most frequently regarded as a writer of the supernatural, Poe was actually among the most versatile of American authors, writing social satire, comic hoaxes, mystery stories, science fiction, prose poems, literary criticism and theory, and even a play. As a journalist and editor, Poe was closely in...

Theodore von Neuhoff, King of Corsica

The Man Behind the Legend

by Julia Gasper
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012

“A visionary and a madman” was how one British statesman, Lord Carteret, described Theodore von Neuhoff. This exciting biography, Theodore von Neuhoff, King of Corsica: The Man behind the Legend by Julia Gasper, traces the unlikely career of the German baron who in 1736 had himself crowned the...
by Theodore Sky
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011

The National Road is a comprehensive history of the first federally financed interstate highway, an approximately 600-mile span that joined Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois in the nineteenth century. This book covers the road's contribution to the cultural, economic,...

The Uncovered Head

Jewish Culture

by Yedidya Itzhaki
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011

What is it that has turned Jewish identity, the product of such a long history, into a problem that has been troubling the minds of Jewish thinkers and Hebrew authors for over two hundred years now? Is it true that the core and substance of Judaism is the Jewish religion? Is a religious Jew 'more...

Buccaneers and Privateers

The Story of the English Sea Rover, 1675–1725

by Richard Frohock
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012

This book takes a fresh look at English buccaneering and privateering literature from the Golden Age of Piracy and includes discussion of well known figures such as Sir Henry Morgan as well as more obscure figures like Captain George Cusack.

Pynchon's Against the Day

A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide

by Jeffrey Severs, Christopher Leise, Graham Benton
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011

Thomas Pynchon's longest novel to date, Against the Day (2006), excited diverse and energetic opinions when it appeared on bookstore shelves nine years after the critically acclaimed Mason & Dixon. Its wide-ranging plot covers nearly three decades-from the 1893 World's Fair to the years just after...

Of Memory and Literary Form

Making the Early Modern English Nation

by Kyle Pivetti
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015

Across readings of late sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century works, Kyle Pivetti argues that the writers of early modern England found in literary forms—including dumb shows, allegory, and rhyme—the means to construct national memory. By combining a historical analysis with formal readings of...

Modern Art on Display

The Legacies of Six Collectors

by K. Porter Aichele
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016

Modern Art on Display: The Legacies of Six Collectors is structured as a sequence of case studies that pair collectors of modern art with artists they particularly favored: Duncan Phillips and Augustus Vincent Tack; Albert Barnes and Chaim Soutine; Albert Eugene Gallatin and Juan Gris; Lillie Bliss...

Violet Oakley

An Artist’s Life

by Bailey Van Hook
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016

Violet Oakley: An Artist's Life is the first full-length biography of Violet Oakley (1874–1961), the only major female artist of the beaux-arts mural movement in the United States, as well as an illustrator, stained glass artist, portraitist and author. There is much human interest here: a pampered...
by Richard Longstreth, Shary Page Berg, Rebecca Howell Crew
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011

Sustainability and Historic Preservation: Towards a Holistic View broadens the horizons of the mushrooming drive to correlate the objectives of these two spheres. To date, discussions of the relationship between historic preservation and sustainability have generally focused on the energy consumption...
by Bashir Abu-Manneh
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011

Fiction of the New Statesman is the first study of the short stories published in the renowned British journal theNew Statesman. This book argues that New Statesman fiction advances a strong realist preoccupation with ordinary, everyday life, and shows how British domestic concerns have a strong hold on the working-class and lower-middle-class imaginative output of this period.

Baudelaire in China

A Study in Literary Reception

by Gloria Bien
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012

Baudelaire's work entered China in the twentieth century amidst political and social upheavals accompanied by a "literary revolution" that called for classical models and modes of expression to be replaced by vernacular language and contemporary content. Chinese writers welcomed their meeting with...

Doctors of Another Calling

Physicians Who Are Known Best in Fields Other than Medicine

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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013

The medical profession is rich in those who have made names for themselves outside of medicine. The fields of literature, exploration, business, sport, entertainment, and beyond abound with doctors whose interests lie outside medicine. This book, largely written by members of the medical profession,...
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