University Of Delaware Press: 91 books
Pivotal Policies in Delaware
From Desegregation to Deregulation
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This book identifies ten pivotal policies in Delaware that still impact public life in this small state. Much that has happened since the mid-twentieth century in Delaware public policy evolved from particular events. These events consisted of court decisions, laws passed, or incidents that happened...
Growing Business in Delaware
The Politics of Job Creation in a Small State
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
In this fourth book by the authors' about public affairs in Delaware, the state's strategies to maintain a business-friendly environment are examined, especially by awarding grants and loans to grow businesses and jobs. The book addresses the nation's 2008-2014 Great Recession that was very severe...
by George Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
A Delaware Album, 1900-1930 contains over 300 postcard photographs from the entire state taken during the period from 1900 to 1930. Arranged by subjects—City and Town Views; Delaware Beaches; Amusements; Industry and Agriculture; Signs of the Times; Trains, Trolleys, and Automobiles; Water Transportation;...
General Henry Lockwood of Delaware
Shipmate of Melville, Co-builder of the Naval Academy, Civil War Commander
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
General Henry Lockwood of Delaware: Shipmate of Melville, Co-builder of the Naval Academy, Civil War Commander depicts the fascinating and accomplished life of nineteenth-century Delaware son, Brig. Gen. Henry Lockwood. Excerpt for a leave of absence to fight as a Union general during the Civil War,...
Thirteen Stories by Fitz-James O'Brien
The Realm of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
This volume forms part of a continuing initiative by Wayne R. Kime to make available the writings of Fitz-James O’Brien (1828-1862), an Irish-American literary man who during his lifetime won reputation as one of the most talented young authors in the United States, but who has been all but forgotten...
Publishing, Editing, and Reception
Essays in Honor of Donald H. Reiman
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Publishing, Editing, and Reception is a collection of twelve essays honoring Professor Donald H. Reiman, who moved to the University of Delaware in 1992. The essays, written by friends, students, and collaborators, reflect the scholarly interests that defined Reiman’s long career. Mirroring the...
by R. C. De Prospo
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
The Latest Early American Literature, according to readers for the University of Delaware Press, is “a collection of polemics and manifestoes.” In it R. C. De Prospo bids to follow in the footsteps of the two, rare, early Americanist dissenters whom Philip F. Gura once distinguished as “prophets...
Advertising the Self in Renaissance France
Lemaire, Marot, and Rabelais
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Advertising the Self in Renaissance France explores how authors and readers are represented in printed editions of three major literary figures: Jean Lemaire de Belges, Clément Marot, and François Rabelais. Print culture is marked by an anxiety of reception that became much more pronounced with...
New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
'Hearts Resolved and Hands Prepared'
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction is a collection of thirteen essays honoring Professor Jerry C. Beasley, who retired from the University of Delaware in 2005. The essays, written by friends, collaborators and former students, reflect the scholarly interests that defined Professor...
Sterne, Tristram, Yorick
Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne derives from the Laurence Sterne Tercentenary Conference held at Royal Holloway, University of London, on July 8–11, 2013. It was attended by some eighty scholars from fourteen countries; the conference heard more than sixty papers....
by Kathryn DeZur
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Gender, Interpretation, and Political Rule in Sidney’s Arcadia examines cultural debates regarding queenship and gendered interpretation of persuasive rhetoric in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The book traces ideological changes concerning women’s positions in early modern English...
Masculinities, Violence, Childhood
Attending to Early Modern Women--and Men
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
This interdisciplinary volume includes essays and workshop summaries for the 2006 Attending to Early Modern Women_and Men symposium. Essays and workshop summaries are divided into four sections, 'Masculinities,' 'Violence,' 'Childhood,' and 'Pedagogies'. Taken together, they considers women's works,...
by Annie Brancky, Elizabeth Emery, Michael Garval
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century brings together current scholarship on a diverse range of topics—from French postcards and Third Republic menus to Haitian literary magazines and representation of race in vaudeville theater—in order to provide methodological insight into the...
by Frederick M. Keener
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2012
More radically than had any contemporary English author’s work, Thomas Gray’s two Pindaric odes of 1757, effectively challenged readers’ powers of comprehension, posing problems of reference as well as distinctly Pindaric problems of coherence. Solving those problems calls for knowledge not...