University Of Delaware Press imprint: 91 books

by Sharon Schuman
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013

Freedom and Dialogue in a Polarized World argues that our most cherished ideas about freedom—being left alone to do as we please, or uncovering the truth—have failed us. They promote the polarized thinking that blights our world. Rooted in literature, political theory and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories...
by Paul Trolander
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014

This study represents a significant reinterpretation of literary networks during what is often called the transition from manuscript to print during the early modern period. It is based on a survey of 28,000 letters and over 850 mainly English correspondents, ranging from consumers to authors, significant...

Rough Draft

The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937

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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012

Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937 is an edited selection, published here for the first time, of the diaries kept by American poet and novelist Coleman during her years as an expatriate in the modernist hubs of France and England. During her time abroad, Coleman...

Victorian Yankees at Queen Victoria's Court

American Encounters with Victoria and Albert

by Stanley Weintraub
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

Little seems to have changed since Victoria's day in the instant magnetism of British royalty across the Atlantic; yet for the first generations liberated by revolution, the British Isles and its sovereigns seemed as remote as the Moon. In the young nation, Americans who were little interested in...

Defiant Diplomat

George Platt Waller: American Consul in Nazi-Occupied Luxembourg, 1939–1941

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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012

Drafted while events were fresh in his mind in 1942–1943, Alabama-born American diplomat George Platt Waller’s memoir chronicles his war-time experience in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. In vivid prose, he recalls the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, the “Phony War,” the German...
by Todd Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012

This book concerns the life and theatrical career of the great native-born English composer and musician of the eighteenth century, Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778). Its purpose is three-fold. First, it provides a comprehensive biography and account of the performance and publication of Arne’s...

French Renaissance and Baroque Drama

Text, Performance, Theory

by Sara Beam, Christian Biet, Alison Calhoun
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015

The fifteen articles in this volume highlight the richness, diversity, and experimental nature of French and Francophone drama before the advent of what would become known as neoclassical French theater of the seventeenth century. In essays ranging from conventional stage plays (tragedies, comedies,...

William T. Vollmann

A Critical Companion

by Georg Bauer, Carla Bolte, Aaron Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014

"This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized as one of those rare critical books for which that egregiously overused term 'groundbreaking' is fully...

The Politics of Rape

Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and the Restoration Stage

by Jennifer L. Airey
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012

The Politics of Rape: Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and the Restoration Stage is the first full-length study to examine representations of sexual violence on the Restoration stage. By reading theatrical depictions of sexual violence alongside political tracts, propaganda pamphlets, and circulating...
by Catherine Kunce
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013

The eighty-one manuscript letters, drafts, notes, and fragments comprising the correspondence between Sarah Helen Whitman (Poe’s onetime fiancée) and Julia Deane Freeman span a tumultuous time in American history, 1856–1863. A veritable Who’s Who in literature during the period, the women’s...
by David Grant
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012

Appalled and paralyzed. Abandoned and betrayed. Cowed and bowed. Thus did Frederick Douglass describe the North in the wake of the compromise measures of 1850 that seemed to enshrine concessions to slavery permanently into the American political system. This study discovers in a feature of political...

Soviet Heroic Poetry in Context

Folklore or Fakelore

by Margaret Ziolkowski
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013

Key issues surrounding the composition and recording of folklore include its frequently intensely political aspect and it preoccupation with chimerical cultural authority. These issues are dramatically displayed in Soviet epic compositions of the 1930s and 1940s, the so-called noviny (“new songs”),...

Reading Texts, Reading Lives

Essays in the Tradition of Humanistic Cultural Criticism in Honor of Daniel R. Schwarz

by Paul Gordon, Ruth Hoberman, Ross Murfin
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012

Our culture attempts to separate competing ideological factions by denying relationships between multiple perspectives and influences outside of one’s own narrow interpretive community. The distinguished essayists in this volume find Daniel R. Schwarz’s pluralistic, self-questioning approach to...

Marguerite, Countess of Blessington

The Turbulent Life of a Salonnière and Author

by Susan Matoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015

This new biography of Lady Blessington, the first in more than eighty years, illuminates the private and public life of this important but neglected salonnière and author. This study enriches our knowledge of the social, political, and literary history of the post-Romantic and early Victorian era....
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