University Of Delaware Press: 91 books
Montaigne and the Lives of the Philosophers
Life Writing and Transversality in the Essais
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
In his Essais, Montaigne stresses that his theoretical interest in philosophy goes hand in hand with its practicality. In fact, he makes it clear that there is little reason to live our lives according to doctrine without proof that others have successfully done so. Understanding Montaigne’s philosophical...
A Richard Selzer Reader
Blood and Ink
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
A Richard Selzer Reader: Blood and Ink is a career-spanning collection, including major short stories and essays by the renowned doctor-author. In the 1960s, while practicing as a general surgeon and teaching surgery at the Yale School of Medicine, Richard Selzer began publishing unique creative work...
Swiftly Sterneward
Essays on Laurence Sterne and His Times in Honor of Melvyn New
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
These thirteen essays have been collected to honor Melvyn New, professor emeritus (Florida), and are prefaced by a description of his scholarly career of more than forty years. Suggesting the wide range of that career, the first eight essays offer various critical perspectives on a diverse group of...
Women Art Critics in Nineteenth-Century France
Vanishing Acts
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Over the past years, studies have begun not only to identify the factors that impeded the full participation of women artists in French cultural life, such as women’s limited access to professional art education, but also to bring to light the considerable artistic accomplishments of women occluded...
Transforming Campus Culture
Frank Aydelotte's Honors Experiment at Swarthmore College
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
At a time in American history when football ruled the American campus and fraternities dominated student life, Frank Aydelotte, through his determination to specialize exclusively in initiating an Honors program of study, accomplished a feat virtually unknown in American higher education. That is,...
Shifting Subjects
Plural Subjectivity in Contemporary Francophone Women's Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
There are many different ways to say 'I.' This book examines the ways in which four contemporary women writers (HZl_ne Cixous, Assia Djebar, Gis_le Halimi, and Julia Kristeva) have written their autobiographical 'I' as a plural concept. These women refuse the individual 'I' of traditional autobiography...
Behind the Curtain
Selected Fiction of Fitz-James O'Brien, 1853-1860
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
In the decade that followed his emigration to the United States in 1851, Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862) produced a steady stream of contributions to American newspapers and magazines. As short story writer, essayist, poet, dramatist, reporter, reviewer, drama critic, and editor he won reputation as...
Essays in Memory of Richard Helgerson
Laureations
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
This book brings together new essays by leading cultural critics who have been influenced by the groundbreaking scholarship of Richard Helgerson. The original essays penned for this anthology evince the ongoing impact of Helgerson’s work in major critical debates including national identity, literary...
The Letters of Ruth Pitter
Silent Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Although Ruth Pitter (1897**–**1992) is not well known, her credentials as a poet are extensive, and in England from the mid-1930s to the mid-1970s she maintained a modest yet loyal readership. In total she produced eighteen volumes of new and collected verse. Her A Trophy of Arms (1936) won the...
by Albert N. Hamscher
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France, 1670–1789 explores the French monarchy’s role in financing criminal prosecutions in the royal courts of the realm—the payment of criminal frais de justice in the vocabulary of the ancien régime—between 1670 and 1789...
The Life of Robert Loraine
The Stage, the Sky, and George Bernard Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Robert Loraine was born in a niche of time when technology exploded into a world whose keyword was Progress. Both he and his life-long friend George Bernard Shaw believed they were in an evolutionary period of humanity. Born into a theatrical family, he understood its clashes of temperament and competition...
The Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lectures, 2000–2015
A Legacy in Byron Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This unique collection of lectures honors the pioneering work in Byron studies of Leslie Alexis Marchand, who has had an enduring influence on the appreciation and study of Lord Byron for sixty years. Generations of readers and writers have come to Byron through his biographies and his edition of...
by Naseeb Shaheen
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
The hundreds of biblical references in Shakespeare's plays give ample evidence that he was well acquainted with Scripture. Not only is the range of his biblical references impressive, but also the aptness with which he makes them. Hamlet and Othello each have more than fifty biblical references. No...
Odyssey of a Bombardier
The POW Log of Richard M. Mason
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Odyssey of a Bombardier is the illustrated Prisoner of War “log” that depicts the experiences of bombardier Richard M. Mason in German prison camps after his B-17 “Flying Fortress” was shot down by the Germans in France in 1944, the final year of World War II. The log follows Mason from the...