University Of Delaware Press: 91 books
by Sharon Schuman
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
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...
Literary Sociability in Early Modern England
The Epistolary Record
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
The Correspondence of Sarah Helen Whitman and Julia Deane Freeman
Writer to Writer, Woman to Woman
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
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
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
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
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....