University Of Delaware Press: 91 books
Mortality's Muse
The Fine Art of Dying
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
The inevitability of death—that of others and our own—is surely among our greatest anxieties. Mortality’s Muse: The Fine Art of Dying explores how art, mainly literary art, addresses that troubling reality. While religion and philosophy offer important consolations for life’s end, art responds...
by Erika Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
This book analyzes how American painters, sculptors, and writers, active between 1800 and 1865, depicted their response to a democratic society that failed to adequately support them financially and intellectually. Without the traditional European forms of patronage from the church or the crown, American...
The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film
Spectral Identities
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral Identities is a collection of essays expanding the concepts of “ghost” and “haunting” beyond literary tools used to add supernatural flavor to include questions of identity, visibility, memory and trauma, and history. Using a wide...
by Kathryn Oliver Mills
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
In Formal Revolution in the Work of Baudelaire and Flaubert, Kathryn Oliver Mills argues that despite the enduring celebrity of Baudelaire and Flaubert, their significance to modern art has been miscast and misunderstood. To date, literary criticism has paid insufficient attention to these authors'...
Resentment and the Right
French Intellectual Identity Reimagined, 1898–2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Resentment and the Right: French Intellectual Identity Reimagined, 1898-2000 examines a century-long struggle between cultural spokesmen on the extreme right and left to dominate and define the concept of “the intellectual.” This struggle began with the introduction of the “intellectual” during...
Reflections on Sentiment
Essays in Honor of George Starr
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Reflections on Sentiment not only addresses current scholarly interest in feeling and affect but also provides an occasion to celebrate the career of George Starr, who, in more than fifty years of incisive scholarship and committed teaching, haselucidated the work of Daniel Defoe and the role of sentimentalism...
Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics
The Space Between
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics: The Space Between is an interdisciplinary study of the major lyric poems of seventeenth-century British metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell. The poet and his work have generally proven enigmatic to scholars because both refuse to fit into normal categories and expectations....
Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture
Essays in Honor of James M. Dean
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
The essays in this volume consider the ways in which material and intellectual culture both shaped and were shaped by the literature of late medieval England. The first section, “Textual Material,” reflects on cultural and social issues generally referred to as the History of Ideas, and how those...
"Arms, and the Man I sing . . ."
A Preface to Dryden's Æneid
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
This study-referred to as a "preface" is given this designation because its aim is not to offer an up-to-date overall assessment Dryden's translation of Virgil's Æneid, but rather to provide a valid basis for such an assessment. In this it seeks to provide a comprehensive analysis of relevant areas...
Transatlantic Renaissances
Literature of Ireland and the American South
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The impulses that fired the Southern Literary Renaissance echoed the impetus behind the Irish Literary Revival at the turn of the twentieth century, when Ireland sought to demonstrate its cultural equality with any European nation and disentangle itself from English-imposed stereotypes. Seeking to...
The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry
Experiments in Form
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Experiments in Form offers a new account of the nature of the lyric as nineteenth-century women poets developed the form. It offers fresh assessments of the imaginative and aesthetic complexity of women’s poetry. The monograph seeks...
The Rise of Animals and Descent of Man, 1660–1800
Toward Posthumanism in British Literature between Descartes and Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The Rise of Animals and the Descent of Man illuminates compelling historical connections between a current fascination with animal life and the promotion of the moral status of non-human animals as ethical subjects deserving our attention and respect, and a deep interest in the animal as agent in...
by Sarah Eron
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment reconsiders theories of apostrophe and poetic authority to argue that the Augustan age created a new form of inspiration, one that not only changed the relationship of literary production to authority in the modern period but also crucially contributes to defining...
Reversing Babel
Translation Among the English During an Age of Conquests, c. 800 to c. 1200
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Reversing Babel: Translation among the English during an Age of Conquests, c. 800 to c. 1200, starts with a small puzzle: Why did the Normans translate English law, the law of the people they had conquered, from Old English into Latin? Solving this puzzle meant asking questions about what medieval...