University Of Delaware Press: 91 books
New Testaments
Cognition, Closure, and the Figural Logic of the Sequel, 1660–1740
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, popular works of literature attracted—as they attract today—sequels, prequels, franchises, continuations, and parodies. Sequels of all kinds demonstrate the economic realities of the literary marketplace. This represents something fundamental about...
Nature, Politics, and the Arts
Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American...
Representation, Heterodoxy, and Aesthetics
Essays in Honor of Ronald Paulson
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
This book is a wide-ranging study of British literature and art from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries, one that stresses the connections between visual and verbal representation. Key emphases of the book include aesthetics, the aims and motives of individual producers of...
Private Fire
Robert Francis's Ecopoetry and Prose
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Matthew J. Babcock's Private Fire: Robert Francis's Ecopoetry and Prose is an examination of the life and work of one of America's most intriguing but tragically obscure writers. Babcock uses his own personal relationship Robert Francis's work, which emphasizes conservation and connectedness to our...
Early Modern Drama in Performance
Essays in Honor of Lois Potter
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Early Modern Drama in Performance is a collection of essays in honor of Lois Potter, the distinguished author of five monographs, including most recently The Life of William Shakespeare (2012), and numerous articles, edited collections, and editions. This collection’s emphasis on Shakespearean and...
by Paulina Alberto, Eddie Chambers, Monica Dominguez Torres
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The African Americas insists on the transcendent interconnectedness of histories, stories, and cultural and disciplinary expression, and the centrality of the Middle Passage in connecting Harlem and Brooklyn to Havana, Kingston, and Rio de Janeiro. The collection's framework urges the reader to consider...
George Moore
Influence and Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
George Moore: Influence and Collaboration explores in sustained form for the first time the nature of Moore’s interactions with other European writers and artists of the fin de siècle. Bringing critical scrutiny to the nature of intellectual exchange around this most adaptable of personalities,...
Mandeville's Travails
Merging Travel, Theory, and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
This book offers a critical methodology for analyzing travel literature. The subject of travel literature, as well as travel literatures, have not always been regarded with respect or given much critical attention. In order to amend this lack of positive reception, Francis Tobienne Jr. analyzes the...
New Essays on Samuel Johnson
Revaluation
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation is a collection of essays by various hands that examines its point of focus, the inexhaustible English author Samuel Johnson, from a variety of different critical perspectives. The book also simultaneously interrogates particular texts (such as the Dictionary,...
Narrative Faith
Dostoevsky, Camus, and Singer
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Narrative Faith engages with the dynamics of doubt and faith to consider how literary works with complex structures explore different moral visions. The study describes a literary petite histoire that problematizes faith in two ways—both in the themes presented in the story, and the strategies used...
Dr. John Moore, 1729–1802
A Life in Medicine, Travel, and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
This book is the first biography of Scottish-born physician John Moore. Here, Henry L. Fulton recounts Moore’s childhood, education, and medical training in Glasgow and abroad; discusses his marriage, family, and friendships (particularly with Tobias Smollett); and depicts his professional practice...
Attending to Early Modern Women
Conflict and Concord
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
This volume considers women's roles in the conflicts and negotiations of the early modern world. Essays explore the ways that gender shapes women's agency in times of war, religious strife, and economic change. How were conflict and concord gendered in histories, literature, music, and political,...
by Robert Ziegler
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Casting Octave Mirbeau as a fierce detractor of army, church, and schools—institutions of regimentation and repression that perverted man’s instinct and alienated him from nature—critics and literary historians see his fiction as grounded in the sordid social reality of his time. Yet unlike...
by F. P. Lock
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Gibbon aspired to combine the critical analysis of the eighteenth-century philosophe with the older traditions of the humanist and scholarly historian. His different uses of numbers, to inform and to persuade, illustrate his remarkable fusion of these approaches. This book, the first to be devoted...