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100 Years of Innovation: A Legacy of Pedagogy & Research

In 1914, the University of Delaware established a course in chemical engineering. A century later, the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is one of the leading academic departments at the University of Delaware and one of top chemical engineering programs in the United States. In 100 Years of Innovation, historian Regina Lee Blaszczyk examines the […]

Abstraction and the Classical Ideal, 1760-1920

This study traces an important but largely overlooked conception of abstraction in art form from its roots in eighteenth-century empirical epistemology to its application in the pursuit of ideal form from Joshua Reynolds to Piet Mondrian. Theorized by Enlightenment philosophy as a means of discovering ideal essence by purging natural form of its accidental and […]

Action and Reaction: Proceedings of a Symposium to Commemorate the Tercentenary of Newton’s Principia

This collection of essays reflects the depth of inquiry and diversity of research that have characterized the last generation of work on Sir Isaac Newton.

Acts of Reading: Interpretation, Reading Practices, and the Idea of the Book in John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments

Acts of Reading examines how John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments shaped reading and interpretive practice in the early modern period and addresses the impact of recent electronic editions of Foxe’s text on current reading practice and scholarship. The collection draws on history-of-the-book scholarship to make a plea for the centrality of Foxe to any discussion of Renaissance literary […]

Admired and Understood: The Poetry of Aphra Behn

Admired and Understood analyzes Behn’s only pure verse collection, Poems upon Several Occasions (1684), and situates her in her literary milieu. Her book demonstrates her desire for acceptance in her literary culture, to be “admired and understood,” the antithesis of what many surmise from reading her other works—that she saw herself primarily as a guerilla critic of her […]

Advertising the Self in Renaissance France: Lemaire, Marot, and Rabelais

Advertising the Self in Renaissance France is a study of how authors and readers are represented in printed editions of three major literary figures of the French Renaissance: Jean Lemaire de Belges, Clément Marot, and François Rabelais. Print culture is marked by an anxiety of reception that became much more pronounced with increasingly anonymous and […]

The Aesthetic Body: Passion, Sensibility, and Corporeality in Seventeenth-Century France

This interdisciplinary study traces the radical changes that occurred in the understanding of the biological body and of human incarnation beginning in the first third of the seventeenth century. It is the first to examine the importance of that new corporeality in the determination of sensibility and passion in French culture of the seventeenth century. […]

The Aesthetics of the “Beyond”: Phantasm, Nostalgia, and the Literary Practice in Contemporary China

This book is about an alternative mode of reading, thinking, and representing the intricacies of human experience in Chinese literature of the late twentieth century, which the author calls the aesthetics of the “beyond.” It investigates how contemporary Chinese writers, by means of dynamic interface of literary practice and cultural philosophical considerations, engage the reader […]

African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States

Scholars of the African Americas are sometimes segregated from one another by region or period, by language, or by discipline. Bringing together essays on fashion, the visual arts, film, literature, and history, this volume shows how our understanding of the African diaspora in the Americas can be enriched by crossing disciplinary boundaries to recontextualize images, […]

After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy

What does it mean to come after Blanchot? First, it is to recognize that it is no longer possible to believe in an essentialist determination of literary discourse or of aesthetic experience. Second, there is the question of history. What is Blanchot’s legacy to us, his readers? Any name, however irreplaceably singular, is always already […]

After the Final No: Samuel Beckett's Trilogy

This study explores the dialectic of destruction and renewal in the work that Samuel Beckett regarded as his masterpiece: the trilogy of novels he wrote after World War II. It interprets the trilogy as presenting a subversive critique of the three idols: mother, father, and self to which humanity has looked for protection and guidance […]

Against Power: For an Overhaul of Critical Theory

In his latest book in the study of power, Giacomo Marramao focuses on the work of two great Central European writers, Elias Canetti and Herta Müller, each of whom, in different periods and contexts, offered a philosophical genealogy of forms of domination and a radical diagnosis of power, command and law. To grasp the meaning […]

The Age of Subtlety: Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe

A craze for intricate metaphors, referred to as conceits, permeated all forms of communication in seventeenth-century Italy and Spain. Conceits reshaped reality in highly creative ways, enabling orators, preachers, and poets to make a display of ingenuity. The Age of Subtlety situates itself at the crossroads of rhetoric, poetics, and the history of science. It […]

Aging and the Welfare-State Crisis

A historical-sociological viewpoint, which examines the making of policies on aging in France over a century (late nineteenth century to the present), is examined in this book. This case study presents an attempt to understand the formulation of social policies better by studying the long-range interplay between the state and various social forces. This book […]

Alien Visions: The Chechens and the Navajos in Russian and American Literature

There are many parallels and some revealing differences in the encounter between, on the one hand, the Americans and various Indian tribes and, on the other, the Russians and some of the peoples of the Caucasus and Siberia. The enduring cultural consequences of these encounters provide a fruitful area of inquiry for the comparative examination […]

American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500-1900

This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores intersections between geography and American literary history from the earliest geographic chronicles of the New World to the massive geopolitical imaginings of the 1890s. By foregrounding the unsteady nature of geographical boundaries, the physical and imaginary migrations that coexisted with literary nationalism, and the changing attitudes toward geographical settings, […]

The American Writer and the University

Anatomy of Perjury: Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, Via Rasella, and the GINNY Mission

Careful review of microfilmed German operational records led the author to solve a World War II mystery involving Field Marshall Albert Kesselring and the Italian campaign he directed. Facts about two events in March 1944—the Ardeatine Cave Massacre and the failed GINNY II mission—were manipulated, and Kesselring’s 1947 defense was accepted without challenge until 1997, […]

Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics: The Space Between

Andrew Marvell’s Liminal Lyrics: The Space Between is an interdisciplinary study of the major lyric poems of 17th-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. This study invites Marvell readers to view the poet and some of […]

Antisemitism and Philosemitism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Representing Jews, Jewishness, and Modern Culture

This book of essays provides a significant reappraisal of discussions of anti-Semitism and philosemitism. An outstanding group of contributors from political theory, film, English, gender studies, and history demonstrates that analysis of philosemitic attitudes is as crucial as are investigations of anti-Semitism. Topics include F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Hannah Arendt’s politics, self-help guides such […]

Apparition of Splendor: Marianne Moore Performing Democracy through Celebrity, 1952-1970

While the later work of the great Modernist poet Marianne Moore was hugely popular during her final two decades, since her death critics have condemned it as trivial. This book challenges that assessment: with fresh readings of many of the late poems and of the iconic, cross-dressing public persona Moore developed to deliver them, Apparition […]

Arras Hanging: The Textile That Determined Early Modern Literature and Drama

Textiles have long provided metaphors for storytelling: a compelling novel “weaves a tapestry” and we enjoy hearing someone “spin” a tale. To what extent, however, should we take these metaphors seriously? Arras Hanging: The Textile That Determined Early Modern Literature and Drama reveals that in the early modern period, when cloth-making was ubiquitous and high-quality tapestries called […]

Art and Artifact in Austen

Jane Austen distinguished herself with genius in literature, but she was immersed in all of the arts. Austen loved dancing, played the piano proficiently, meticulously transcribed piano scores, attended concerts and art exhibits, read broadly, wrote poems, sat for portraits by her sister Cassandra, and performed in theatricals. For her, art functioned as a social […]

Art and Culture in the Eighteenth Century: New Dimensions and Multiple Perspectives

This study joins the resurgent scholarship presently redressing the neglect of eighteenth-century visual culture since the beginning of the twentieth century. This volume offers nine contextual and cross-disciplinary essays that engage with a rich panoply of discourses ranging from art criticism to biography, to collecting and the art market, to art theory and practice and […]

The Artist as Original Genius: Shakespeare’s “Fine Frenzy” in Late Eighteenth-Century British Art

This book examines the first generation of artists in Britain to define themselves as history painters, attempting what then was considered to be art’s most exalted category. These ambitious artists, including John Hamilton Mortimer, Henry Fuseli, Alexander and John Runciman, James Barry, James Jefferys, George Romney, John Flaxman, and William Blake, most of whom were […]

The Art of Procrastination: Baudelaire’s Poetry in Prose

How does Baudelaire’s prose poetry tell (human/modern/literary) time, and how do time and narrative tell the story of the poème en prose? Using textual analysis informed by a wide range of scholarship on Baudelaire, modernity, and narrative theory, Krueger argues that what lies beneath the genre’s obvious evocation of formal and literary tensions (between verse and prose, between the lyric […]

The Art of the Persian Letters: Unlocking Montesquieu’s “Secret Chain”

Some thirty years after the initial publication of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters in 1721, the author hinted at the presence of “a secret, and somehow unnoticed, chain” tying together this entertaining, insightful, yet disparate collection of fictional letters to and from two Persian travelers in France. Ever since Montesquieu’s subtle hint, readers have tried to identify the chain, […]

Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics

Howard D. Weinbrot’s Aspects of Samuel Johnson: Essays on His Arts, Mind, Afterlife, and Politics collects earlier and new essays on Johnson’s varied achievements in lexicography, poetry, narrative, and prose style. It considers Johnson’s uses of the general and the particular as they relate to the reader’s role in the creative process, his complex approach to the […]

At Home and Abroad in the Empire: British Women Write the 1930s

This book builds upon critical reevaluations of modernism and British literature of the 1930s with a simultaneous focus on discourses of race, gender, and empire. The essays direct attention to the complications and ambivalence accumulating around the meanings of Englishness. They reject analyses of texts as chronicles of personal psychological development in favor of analyses […]

Attending to Early Modern Women: Conflict and Concord

This volume considers women’s roles in the conflicts and negotiations of the early modern world. Essays explore the ways 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, legal, didactic, and religious treatises? Four interdisciplinary plenary topics ground this […]

Augustan Subjects: Essays in Honor of Martin C. Battestin

The fifteen essays in this volume honor Battestin’s many contributions to our understanding and appreciation of the literature and art of the Augustan period. Spanning over one hundred years, the essays focus on writers such as Behn, Swift, Defoe, and Pope, as well as Fielding’s connections with Richardson and Smollett’s fictional heroines.

Austen’s Oughts: Judgment after Locke and Shaftesbury

The word is all over Austen’s novels: what ought to be done, what one ought to say, how one ought to feel (versus how one does feel). When Austen’s characters employ an ought, the delicate oscillation between first- and third-person perspectives that marks her prose leads the reader to distinguish between what they say, and […]

Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century

This book deals with changing conditions and conceptions of authorship in the long eighteenth century, a period often said to have witnessed the birth of the modern author. It focuses not on authorial self-presentation or self-revelation but on an author’s interactions with booksellers, collaborators, rivals, correspondents, patrons, and audiences. Challenging older accounts of the development […]

Bad Books: Rétif de la Bretonne, Sexuality, and Pornography

Bad Books reconstructs how the eighteenth-century French author Nicolas-Edme Rétif de la Bretonne and his writings were at the forefront of the development of modern conceptions of sexuality and pornography. Although certain details are well known (for example, that Rétif’s 1769 treatise on prostitution, Le Pornographe, is the work from which the term pornography is derived, or […]

The Baroque in English Neoclassical Literature: From Milton and the Wits to Dryden and the Scriblerians

Baroque pearls persist inside the shells of order and decorum in English neoclassical literature. From Milton and the Court Wits to Dryden and the Scriblerians, including several women wits, authors deploy baroque moments of disruption, grotesquerie, excrescence, extravagance, exuberance, encryption—even as they turn to more supposedly classical, restrained, and rational forms. Canfield tries to ferret […]

Baudelaire in China: A Study in Literary Reception

Baudelaire’s work entered China in the twentieth century amidst political and social upheavals accompanied by a “literary revolution” that called for the overthrow of classical models and modes of expression to be replaced by vernacular language and contemporary content. Chinese writers welcomed their meeting with the West and openly embraced Western literature as providing models […]

Becoming American, Remaining Jewish: The Story of Wilmington, Delaware's First Jewish Community, 1879-1924

Wilmington’s first permanent Jewish community began as a collection of less than 100 Jews in 1879 and grew to a community of over 4000 people by the early 1920s when the immigration laws changed, and growth slowed down. This in-depth study of one community’s success in preserving Jewish values and becoming American will provide insights […]

Behind the Curtain: Selected Fiction of Fitz-James O'Brien, 1853–1860

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 one of the ablest young writers in New York City, displaying […]

Bessie Head: The Road of Peace of Mind, A Critical Appreciation

This book shows how Bessie Head used her engagement with sociopolitical issues to convey her ideas about the art of fiction and the operations of the creative imagination. It relates Head’s literary practice to goals that she set for herself as a “beginning” writer, and, in view of the importance that she attached to reading […]

Between Clan and Crown: The Struggle to Define Noble Property Rights in Imperial Russia

This is the first study in English to comprehensively examine property law in Imperial Russia, focusing on the struggle to define the scope of individual noble property rights and what that process reveals about the limits of noble freedom within the Russian state. The author uses property laws and right as the measuring stick for […]

Between Genders: Narrating Difference in Early French Modernism

Between Genders studies representations of gender in a group of early and mid-nineteenth-century French texts. The five texts examined are diverse in both literary form and theme: two novels, Honoré de Balzac’s La Fille aux yeux d’or, Theophile Gautier’s Mademoiselle de Maupin, a novella by Charles Baudelarie, “La Fanfarlo,” Claire de Duras’s pseudo-confession narrative, Ourika, and an autobiography of […]

Between Theater and Philosophy: Skepticism in the Major City Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton

This book studies the major city comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton in the context of the quarrel between theater and philosophy. The book presents deconstructive and materialist readings of Jonson’s Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair and Middleton’s Michaelmas Term, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside.

Between the Real and the Ideal: The Accademia degli Arcadi and Its Garden in Eighteenth-Century Rome

This book examines the Accademia degli Arcadi in its heyday, a little known phenomenon in Italian history in the first part of the eighteenth century. The Roman academy aimed for a peninsula-wide cultural renewal induced by literary reform. Operating within a papal court society, it eschewed extant patronage systems and social hierarchies and introduced enlightened […]

Biblical References in Shakespeare’s Plays

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 study of Shakespeare’s plays is complete that […]

The Biden School and the Engaged University of Delaware, 1961-2021

This book reviews the history of the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration from 1961 to 2021. The focus is on the school’s accomplishments over its first sixty years, how they were achieved, and why they are significant. The analysis describes the challenges and opportunities that shaped the school’s development and […]

Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists

Black Celebrity examines representations of postbellum black athletes and artist-entertainers by novelists Caryl Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen and poets Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, Adrian Matejka, and Tyehimba Jess. Inhabiting the perspectives of boxer Jack Johnson and musicians “Blind Tom” Wiggins and Sissieretta Jones, along with several others, these writers retrain readers’ attention away […]

Black Powder, White Lace: The du Pont Irish and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth-Century America

Twenty years ago, Margaret Mulrooney’s history of the community of Irish immigrant workers at the du Pont powder yards, Black Powder, White Lace, was published to wide acclaim. Now, as much of the materials Mulrooney used in her research are now electronically available to the public, and as debates about immigration continue to rage, a new […]

The Book of the Laurel

This is the first edition of Skelton’s elaborate dream-allegory to be based on a thorough examination of extant texts. It represents a major revision of our knowledge of Skelton’s career and of the form and meaning of the poem. Extensive introduction, notes, and glossary.

Boudica and Her Stories: Narrative Transformations of a Warrior Queen

This book begins with a study of the few ancient texts which provide the source material for all subsequent accounts of the seventh-century British queen Boudica and her ferocious yet ultimately unsuccessful rebellion against the Romans. It shows how their information was assembled over centuries to create the entity we know as Boudica as an […]

Bringing Travel Home to England: Tourism, Gender, and Imaginative Literature in the Eighteenth Century

We hold tourism in common as we might a currency or a language. Yet rarely have we thought seriously about how it has shaped our lives, our sense of sexual, religious, political, and social alternatives, or our literatures. This book is the first to identify and examine the relations among literature, tourism, and the wider […]

Buccaneers and Privateers: The Story of the English Sea Rover, 1675–1725

In the late seventeenth century, Spain dominated the Caribbean and Central and South America, establishing colonies, mining gold and silver, and gathering riches from Asia for transportation back to Europe. Seeking to disrupt Spain’s nearly unchecked empire-building and siphon off some of their wealth, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British adventurers, both legitimate and illegitimate, led numerous […]

The Business of a Woman: The Political Writings of Delarivier Manley

The Business of a Woman is the first full-length study of Delarivier Manley, the increasingly important early modern scandal writer, journalist, and propagandist whose most famous work is The New Atalantis (1709). The book focuses on her importance in the fields of political journalism and propaganda, and considers Manley’s writing in terms of her importance to the Tory/Whig […]

Byron, the Bible, and Religion: Essays from the Twelfth International Byron Seminar

This work consists of eight essays selected from papers given at the Twelfth International Byron Symposium. Much of Byron’s poetry is examined, but the focus is on the Mysteries and Don Juan. The subjects include the Cain figure, Byron’s skepticism, his attitude toward Christianity and religion in general, and his literary use of the Bible.

Byron: The Image of the Poet

The fame of the Romantic poet Lord Byron rests not only on his work but also on the way he looked and the way he was portrayed during his lifetime and after his death. Originating in a conference held at the National Portrait Gallery in London, this is the first collection of papers to be […]

Byron and Newstead: The Aristocrat and the Abbey

Byron and Newstead is a study of England’s greatest Romantic poet in the context of his role as an English aristocrat. The book examines the whole structure of Byron’s complex financial problems from his youth to his final days in Greece, and it shows how important it is to see these in the context of his […]

Canadian Film Technology, 1896-1986

The first director of technical operations and research for Canada’s National Film Board profiles the people and technology that together met the challenges of early documentary filmmaking north of the forty-ninth parallel and discusses the board’s emergence as an international model for documentary film units. An Ontario Film Institute Book. Illustrated.

A Careful Longing: The Poetics and Problems of Nostalgia

This book examines the emergence of a new genre during the eighteenth century: the nostalgia poem. This genre is best understood by reconceiving the premises of nostalgia itself, examining it as first and foremost a mode of idealization rather than a longing for the past. From the poems that make up this genre, we have […]

Caricature Unmasked: Irony, Authenticity, and Individualism in Eighteenth-Century English Prints

This book is the first to examine the meaning encoded in the very form of caricature, a form of popular and polemical visual art that burst suddenly on the scene in late eighteenth-century England, and to explain its rise as a consequence of the emergence of modernity, especially the modern self. Caricature and the modern […]

Carnal Reading: Early Modern Language and Bodies

The question of an erotic readership has always vexed scholars. With little evidence of anyone’s actually reading erotic material, scholars have had to make do with variations of an “ideal reader” approach. Insofar as it presupposes authorial intention and a stable meaning, this theoretical model proves unsatisfactory. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Carnal Reading: Early Modern Language […]

Carpe Corpus: Time and Gender in Early Modern France

Through readings of literary texts as well as conduct manuals and moral treatises, Carpe Corpus investigates the meaning of time in early modern France. Arguing that canonical critical assessments of Renaissance temporality have neglected the crucial category of gender, this book reveals a more multifaceted vision of time at work in both male and female poets.

Carrying All Before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800

The rise of celebrity stage actresses in the long eighteenth century created a class of women who worked in the public sphere while facing considerable scrutiny about their offstage lives. Such powerful celebrity women used the cultural and affective significance of their reproductive bodies to leverage audience support and interest to advance their careers, and […]

Catholic Modernists, English Nationalists

Catholic Modernists, English Nationalists examines how the Catholic conversions of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ford Madox Ford, T. S. Eliot (an Anglo-Catholic), Evelyn Waugh, and Graham Greene influenced and were influenced by literary modernism in England. These modernist Catholic converts in England owe their conversions to a desire for a comprehensive spiritual answer to the social and […]

Catholic Theology in Shakespeare's Plays

David N. Beauregard explores and reexamines Shakespeare’s theology in Catholic Theology in Shakespeare’s Plays from the standpoint of current revisionist history of the English Reformation. This new perspective is based on three developments. Currently, there is a steadily growing interest in Shakespeare’s Catholic background. Recent evidence has surfaced strongly suggesting that Shakespeare’s father and daughter were both […]

Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750–1850

This edited volume is the first to study and compare the concept of celebrity in France and Britain from 1750 to 1850, as the two countries transformed into the states we recognize today. It offers a transnational perspective by placing French and British scholarship from the field of celebrity studies in dialogue, especially by engaging […]

The Celebrity Monarch: Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female Portrait

Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898), wife of Habsburg Emperor Francis Joseph I, was celebrated as the most beautiful woman in Europe. Glamorous painted portraits by Franz Xaver Winterhalter and widely collected photographs spread news of her beauty, and the twentieth-century German-language film trilogy Sissi (1955-57) cemented this legacy. Despite the enduring fascination with the empress, art historians […]

Censored Sentiments: Letters and Censorship in Epistolary Novels and Conduct Material

Censored Sentiments offers a new perspective on women as letter writers and on the eighteenth-century increase in, and subsequent decline of, epistolary fiction by tracing forms of censorship that affected female letters in England, France, Italy, and America.

Centennial Essays for Robinson Jeffers

This work is the first volume of critical essays devoted to the poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Although Jeffers was likened to some of the greatest figures in the literary world, his work was controversial. His preoccupation with violence and sexuality was denounced by some, his alleged blasphemy by others. Condemned by moralists, Marxists, and Cold […]

Challenging Humanism: Essays in Honor of Dominic Baker-Smith

Dominic Baker-Smith has been a leading international authority on humanism for more than four decades, specializing in the works of Erasmus and Thomas More. The present collection of essays by colleagues throughout Europe, Canada, and the United States examines humanism in both its historic sixteenth-century meanings and applications and the humanist tradition in our own […]

Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama: Tragedy, History, Tragicomedy

Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama: Tragedy, History, Tragicomedy studies instantiations of the individualistic character in drama, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean, and some of the Renaissance ideas allowing for and informing them. Setting aside such fraught questions as the history of Renaissance subjectivity and individualism on the one hand and Shakespearean exceptionalism on the […]

The Circuit of Apollo: Eighteenth-Century Women’s Tributes to Women

The Circuit of Apollo is a book about early modern women’s networks traced through affirmations of respect, admiration, love, and sometimes competition. It emerges out of the desire to highlight what relationships among women in the long eighteenth century tell us about the emotional lives and the creative work of women. The essays collected here attest […]

Citoyennes: Women and the Ideal of Citizenship in Eighteenth-Century France

Did women have a civic identity in eighteenth-century France? In Citoyennes: Women and the Ideal of Citizenship in Eighteenth-Century France, Annie Smart contends that they did. While previous scholarship has emphasized the ideal of domestic motherhood or the image of the republican mother, Smart argues persuasively that many pre-revolutionary and revolutionary texts created another ideal for […]

Civil Idolatry: Desacralizing and Monarchy in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton

This work discusses important texts that scrutinize the cult of monarchy in light of the injunction against idolatry. When Milton deplored the “civil kind of idolatry,” he echoed a significant theme in earlier texts—Erasmus’s political writings, Spenser, and Shakespeare’s political plays. Milton redefines conquest and fatherhood in response to contemporary monarchists’ patriarchalism and conquest-theory.

Claiming Cambria: Invoking the Welsh in the Romantic Era

This book investigates the cultural impact of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century portrayals of Wales and the Welsh. During the Romantic era Welsh history was invoked by both English and Welsh writers in order to define the role of Wales in British culture, but the nature of that role was a matter of active debate. […]

Clever Fresno Girl: The Travel Writings of Marguerite Thompson Zorach (1908-1915)

This volume features thirty art-related travel articles by the American modern artist, Marguerite Thompson Zorach (1887-1968), reprinted for the first time since they appeared in her hometown newspaper, the Fresno Morning Republican, from 1908-15, the period that corresponds to that when she was studying art in Paris at La Palette and traveling throughout Europe, the Middle […]

Clio: The Autobiography of Martha Fowke Sansom (1689-1736)

This annotated edition of Clio makes available in a well-documented and illustrated modern text the autobiography of Martha Fowke Sansom. This lively account of Fowke’s life is filled with illuminating material on her family background, education, and emotional and social experiences.

Clio’s Daughters: British Women Making History, 1790-1899

Clio’s Daughters exposes the reality behind the notion that nineteenth-century history was an exclusively male preserve. A fortuitous convergence of factors—including the popularization of history and the success of “lady novelists” in the literary marketplace—contributed to women’s emergence as writers of history. The essays in this collection demonstrate that women were neither mere muses or passive […]

Coiffures: Hair in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture

Balzac claimed that toilettes were the expression of society. Coiffures describes the historical and cultural practices associated with women’s hairstyles, hair care, and hair art in nineteenth-century France. Hair also has profound symbolic significance. Lying on the border between life and death, it grows, but does not feel. It marks sexual identity; it can be wild and […]

Collected Poems of Thomas Parnell

This edition is the first to establish a reliable text of the poems of Thomas Parnell (1679-1718). Based on a study of all the available manuscripts, including an extensive collection in the poet’s family, and authoritative editions, it more than doubles the number of poems known to be Parnell’s and represents the first publication of […]

The Collected Works of Abraham Cowley: Volume 2: Poems (1656) Part I: The Mistress

This new edition includes a full bibliographical and critical account of The Mistress. The authority of early printed editions is tested against many other versions of the poems appearing in manuscript copies, printed miscellanies, and as song texts.

Collecting China: The World, China, and a History of Collecting

This is a unique book that brings together theories of materiality and the history of collecting. It grew out of a simple question: how does a thing become Chinese? Fifteen essays explore the question from different angles, ranging from close examination of world-renowned private collections (the Rockefellers, the Goncourts, the Walters, the du Ponts, the Yeh family, […]

Comparative Essays on the Poetry and Prose of John Donne and George Herbert: Combined Lights

This book brings together ten essays on John Donne and George Herbert composed by an international group of scholars. The volume represents the first collection of its kind to draw close connections between these two distinguished early modern thinkers and poets who are justly coupled because of their personal and artistic association. The contributors’ distinctive […]

The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson, Volume 3

During the years 1764 through 1766, John Dickinson became a leading figure in the Pennsylvania Assembly and in the growing American resistance to unjust British taxation. The documents in this volume show that, in both roles, he sought to protect the fundamental rights of ordinary Americans. In the 1764 Assembly, after working to punish those […]

The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson, Volume One

The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson, Vol. 1 inaugurates a multivolume documentary edition that will, for the first time ever, provide the complete collection of everything Dickinson published on public affairs over the course of his life. The documents include essays, articles, broadsides, resolutions, petitions, declarations, constitutions, regulations, legislation, proclamations, songs and […]

The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson, Volume Two

John Dickinson’s entry into public life in Delaware and Pennsylvania is a highlight of the ninety-eight documents written over four years printed in Volume Two of The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson. The volume opens with Dickinson’s legal notes as he established himself as one of the most prominent and learned lawyers […]

Connections and Collisions: Identities in Contemporary Jewish-American Women's Writing

This anthology of scholarship on Jewish women writers is the first to focus on what it is to be a woman and a Jew and to explore how the two identities at times support each other and at times act in opposition. Essays on Nora Gold, Tova Reich, Rebecca Goldstein, and Allegra Goodman discuss the […]

Constructions of Smollett: A Study in Genre and Gender

Constructions of Smollett suggests that Smollett has been unfairly judged by the standards of the traditional realist novel, and urges a critical reappraisal within the generic parameters of satire and romance.

The Correspondence of Sarah Helen Whitman and Julia Deane Freeman: Writer to Writer, Woman to Woman

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 letters reference works and writers such as Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe, Walt Whitman, and scores of women […]

Creativity and the Imagination: Case Studies from the Classical Age to the Twentieth Century

Detailed case studies of imaginative discourses in technical prose, geology, physics, and genetic engineering, as well as in poetics, contemporary painting, philosophy, and history. The thread uniting all of the essays is that metaphors, scenarios, and myths are fundamental to both the scientific and artistic imagination.

Creek Walking: Growing Up in Delaware in the 1950s

This is both the story of a little girl growing up in Christiana, Delaware, in the 1950s and the history of an American crossroads. Wedged between two dramatically different extended families, she tries to make sense of the social signifiers that crosscut even this tiny village in New Castle County—differences between blacks and whites, men […]

Crossing Borders: A Critical Introduction to the Works of Mary Rose Callaghan

The first full-length study of Mary Rose Callaghan’s life and works argues that Callaghan’s books examine the boundaries that constrict Irish society as well as Irish authors. Her novels explore limits of gender roles, strictures around mental health, margins that conceal social problems of alcoholism, sexual abuse in the clergy, domestic violence, and sexual repression. […]

Crusoes and Other Castaways in Modern French Literature: Solitary Adventures

Crusoes and Other Castaways in Modern French Literature: Solitary Adventures by Joseph Acquisto examines the many ways in which the castaway, particularly in the form of engagement with Robinson Crusoe, has been reinterpreted and appropriated in nineteenth through twenty-first century French literature. The book is not merely a literary history of the robinsonnade in France; rather, Acquisto demonstrates how […]

Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women

This is the fourth in the series of proceedings of the interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland. This volume reflects the commitment of scholars to the exploration of early modern women’s culture as recovered through images, literature, music, and archives of the period. In essays […]

A Dangerous Liberty: Translating Gray’s Elegy

Often said to be “the most popular poem in English,” Thomas Gray’s An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard circulated on the continent in a wide variety of translations and engaged the attention of such major European writers as Chateaubriand, Lamartine, Baudelaire, Hölderlin, Foscolo, and Zhukovsky. By tracing the history and influence of these translations, A Dangerous Liberty demonstrates […]

The Dark Thread: From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales

In The Dark Thread, scholars examine a set of important and perennial narrative motifs centered on violence within the family as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American literatures. Over fourteen essays, contributors highlight the connections between works from early modernity and subsequent texts from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, in which incidents […]

David Mallet, Anglo-Scot: Poetry, Patronage, and Politics in the Age of Union

This study of the life and works of David Mallet (?1705-65) is the first study of Mallet for the past one hundred and fifty years and assesses the poet’s significance within his own period, arguing that modern scholarship has unduly neglected this complex personality who represented changing notions in taste and aesthetics, the intersection between […]

Death Row Letters: Correspondence with Donald Ray Wallace, Jr.

In the year 2000 the author, a professor of anthropology, struck up an acquaintance with a prisoner on death row in Indiana. The inmate, Donald Ray Wallace, Jr., bears a vital resemblance to Dostoyevsky’s fictional protagonist in Crime and Punishment. Like Rashkolnikov, Wallace undergoes a spiritual journey from crime to redemption. But Wallace, unlike Rashkolnikov, is […]

Decorative Games: Ornament, Rhetoric, and Noble Culture in the Work of Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742)

This book features an extraordinary album of ornament designs by the French architect Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742). In charge of the buildings and grounds of Philippe, duke of Orléans, regent of France during the minority of Louis XV, Oppenord was at the center of the architectural practice of his time. As made evident by this album, […]

Deep Distresses: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont, 1800-1808

Deep Distresses is a study of the intersecting family and professional vicissitudes that afflicted Wordsworth during the period of his greatest poetic productivity. The negative national publicity over his mariner brother’s death at sea is the focus of the family tragedy; hostile reception to Poems in Two Volumes (1807) is the focus of professional duress. Both topics become […]

The Deep End: A Memoir of Growing Up

One day, when Mary Rose Callaghan was 13, her mother jumped into the freezing Irish Sea. Knowing that her mother was an asthmatic, the shock of seeing her dive into “the deep end” began Mary Rose’s curiosity about her mother’s life. That curiosity spawned the writing of this memoir, a coming-of-age tale focused on Mary […]

Defiant Diplomat George Platt Waller: American Consul in Nazi-Occupied Luxembourg, 1939-1941

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 invasion of May 10, 1940, and the Wehrmacht occupation. Intimately involved […]

Defoe and the Whig Novel: A Reading of the Major Fiction

This study places Defoe’s major fiction squarely in the emerging Whig culture of the early eighteenth century. It offers an alternative to the view that Defoe is essentially a writer of criminal or adventure fiction and to the Marxist judgment that he extols individualism or derives his greatest inspiration from popular print culture. This study […]

Defoe’s Major Fiction: Accounting for the Self

This book focuses on the pervasive concern with narrativity and self-construction that marks Defoe’s first-person fictional narratives. Defoe’s fictions focus obsessively and elaborately on the act of storytelling—not only in his creation of idiosyncratic voices preoccupied with the telling (and often the concealing) of their own life stories but also in his narrators’ repeated adversion […]

A Delaware Album, 1900–1930

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; Schools; Religion; Businesses; Hotels and Motels—each photo has a caption ranging from a […]

The Delaware Naturalist Handbook

The Delaware Naturalist Handbook is the primary public face of a major university-led public educational outreach and community engagement initiative. This statewide master naturalist certification program is designed to train hundreds of citizen scientists, K–12 environmental educators, ecological restoration volunteers, and habitat managers each year. The initiative is conducted in collaboration with multiple disciplines at […]

Design and Historic Preservation: The Challenge of Compatability

Design and Historic Preservation: The Challenge of Compatability addresses two questions central to design and historic preservation: what are the parameters of “compatability” in the design of additions to historic buildings and of new infill buildings in historic districts and landscapes. These papers, presented at the “Third National Forum on Historic Preservation Practice: A Critical Look […]

Design and Thermal Performance: Below-Ground Dwellings in China

The Chinese constitute the third major community in the world to have lived continuously below ground for many millennia. With case studies representing different geographical and cultural environments, this work shows how Chinese below-ground dwellings provide a comfortable ambient environment with low construction costs. Illustrated.

Dignity, Discourse, and Destiny: The Life of Courtney C. Smith

Courtney C. Smith was educated at Harvard in the 1930s, took a Rhodes Scholarship, taught English literature at Princeton, and was the first national director of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program before becoming president of Swarthmore College in 1953 at the age of thirty-six. Simultaneously he became the American Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust. […]

A Dilemma of English Modernism: Visual and Verbal Politics in the Life and Work of C. R. W. Nevinson (1889-1946)

This anthology presents a series of new and important studies on an artist whose work is re-emerging to take its rightful place among the established icons of English modernism in the first half of the twentieth century. It is both timely, and in keeping with current scholarly re-reading of the era in general, through recent […]

The Discontented Cavalier: The Work of Sir John Suckling in Its Social, Religious, Political, and Literary Contexts

This comprehensive study of the literary output of Sir John Suckling reconstructs the various contexts in which the poems, plays, letters, and prose tracts were produced and, by means of close textual analysis, reveals the nature of one writer’s engagement—both creative and subversive—with the social, religious, political, and cultural dimensions of Caroline England. It challenges […]

The Dismembered Community: Bataille, Blanchot, Leiris, and the Remains of Laure

This book examines the intersecting communitarian endeavors of Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, and Colette Peignot, known posthumously as Laure. Through detailed analysis of a series of interlocking texts that the four authors write on, for, and to one another on such topics as love, friendship, and fraternity, it explores these authors’ theoretical elaborations […]

Divine Rhetoric: Essays on the Sermons of Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne, the author of the innovative fictions The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey, served most of his life as a rural Anglican clergyman in Yorkshire, England; for twenty years his sermons were his primary written labors. Sterne published the first two volumes of sermons as the Sermons of Mr. Yorick in 1760 after […]

Doctors of Another Calling: Physicians Who Are Known Best in Fields Other than Medicine

The medical profession is rich in those who have made names for themselves outside of medicine. The fields of literature, exploration, business, sport, entertainment, and beyond abound with doctors whose interests lie outside medicine. This book, largely written by members of the medical profession, examines the efforts of doctors in non-medical fields. The doctors discussed […]

Dooble Tongue: Scots, Burns, Contradiction

Dooble Tongue is an imaginative meditation on Robert Burns and Scottish poetry, as well as a book that engages and contests the customary assumptions and practices of literary criticism. Beginning with an examination of two contemporary Scottish poets, W. N. Herbert and Robert Crawford, and moving back in time to the Scottish Modernist master Hugh MacDiarmid, […]

Dr. John Moore, 1729–1802: A Life in Medicine, Travel, and Revolution

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 in the north. The narrative uncovers Moore’s transformative experience accompanying a young nobleman on […]

The Drama of Storytelling in T. E. Brown's Manx Yarns

This study deals with the Manx poet T. E. Brown and his rustic persona in perhaps the most sustained dramatization of the trails and triumphs of storytelling in British poetry, Fo’c’s’le Yarns.

Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class and Genre in the Early Modern Closet Drama

Dramatic Difference argues that early modern women writers manipulated the class-based exclusivity of closet drama to justify their own contributions to this highly political genre. The book situates women writers’ work in the context of their male peers’ use of the genre and looks at how the genre’s social and political orientation changed from the late […]

Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays

Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts (selections from plays and masques) into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays is the first to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and […]

Drawing an Elusive Line: The Art of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon

A difficult book to categorize, Pierre-Paul Prud’hon emerges in this book as a savvy negotiator of contemporary artistic expectations. From innovative public printmaking ventures to his creation of an alternate, feminine persona through his collaboration with Constance Mayer, Prud’hon questioned and redefined the role of the artist in a changing social milieu. Includes more than […]

Dreamer’s Journey: The Life and Writings of Frederic Prokosch

Dreamer’s Journey: The Life and Writings of Frederic Prokosch is the first comprehensive study of the enigmatic, erratically brilliant novelist and poet. It explores his published and unpublished writings, his troubled personal life, the conflicts arising from his homosexuality, his wanderings as a kind of permanent expatriate, and his preoccupation with reinventing his persona and creating […]

Dynamism of Character in Shakespeare's Mature Tragedies

Dynamism of Character in Shakespeare’s Mature Tragedies applies the systems theory of character to the analysis of the psychological and dramatic consistency of the main characters from Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. The theory considers human behavior in terms of functional equilibrium between the stable properties of the mind, independent of the pressures of the sociocultural environment and the […]

Early Modern Drama in Performance: Essays in Honor of Lois Potter

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 early modern drama reflects the area for which Potter is most widely known, as a […]

Early Modern Europe: From Crisis to Stability

Fifty years after the beginning of the debate about the “general crisis of the seventeenth century,” and thirty years after Theodore K. Rabb’s reformulation of it as the “European struggle for stability,” this volume returns to the fundamental questions raised by the long-running discussion: What continent-wide patterns of change can be discerned in European history […]

Edgar Allan Poe: Beyond Gothicism

Most frequently regarded as a writer of the supernatural, Poe was actually among the most versatile of American authors, writing social satire, comic hoaxes, mystery stories, science fiction, prose poems, literary criticism and theory, and even a play. As a journalist and editor, Poe was closely in touch with the social, political, and cultural trends […]

Edmund Burke of Beaconsfield

This study details the domestic life and private friendships of Edmund Burke from 1750, when he left Dublin to study law at Middle Temple, London, until his wife Jane’s death in 1812, fifteen years after Burke’s. While the events of Burke’s public life and his political theories are familiar to many, the private and domestic […]

Eighteenth-Century Genre and Culture, Serious Reflections on Occasional Forms: Essays in Honor of J. Paul Hunter

This collection of essays, including contributions by Paula Backscheider, Martin C. Battestin, and Patricia Meyer Spacks—examines the relationships between history, literary forms, and the cultural contexts of British literature from the late seventeenth to the late eighteenth century. Topics include print culture and the works of Mary, Lady Chudleigh; the politics of early amatory fiction; […]

Elizabeth Carter, 1717-1806: An Edition of Some Unpublished Letters

This edition includes 111 letters and a brief note. Written by Miss Carter, they date from October 1737 to May 1804, less than two years before her death. they have not been published before and are a very small portion of the thousands of letters that she sent and received. Part of their value lies […]

Eliza Fenwick: Early Modern Feminist

Eliza Fenwick is the previously untold story of the life of an extraordinary woman who paved her own unique path throughout the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as she made her way from country to country, from working as a writer to becoming a teacher and school owner. Author Lissa Paul brings to light Fenwick’s letters for the […]

El Popol Vuh y la Trilogia Bananera: Estructra y recursos narrativos

This book offers an in-depth study of the internal structures of Popol Vuh, the Sacred Book of the Maya-Quiché people of Guatemala, and of the ways in which in the main characters of this text are configured. This is accompanied by a similar, comparative analysis of the three novels widely known in the Hispanic world as […]

Elusive Archives: Material Culture Studies in Formation

Taking cues from a wide variety of objects and their unusual circumstances, the essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed, or subjective, and as ethereal as distant memories? Such things would resist descriptive conventions and definitive value, scholarly or […]

Emerson for the Twenty-first Century: Global Perspectives on an American Icon

While previous collections of Emerson essays have tended to be a sort of “stock-taking” or “retrospective” look at Emerson scholarship, the present collection, divided into four sections, follows a more “prospective” trajectory for Emerson studies based on the recent increase in global perspectives in nearly all fields of humanistic studies. The first section of essays […]

The End of Domesticity: Alienation from the Family in Dickens, Eliot, and James

Few changes in literary history are as dramatic as the replacement of the sentimental image of the home in Victorian fiction by the emphasis in modernist fiction on dysfunctional families and domestic alienation. In The End of Domesticity Charles Hatten offers a provocative theory for this seminal shift that even now shapes literary depictions of the family. […]

The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso

In The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic, Andrea Moudarres examines influential works from the literary canon of the Italian Renaissance to reveal that all forms of hostility consistently arise from within political or religious entities. In Dante’s Divina Commedia, Luigi Pulci’s Morgante, Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, and Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata, all forms of enmity are internal, taking the form […]

England's Asian Renaissance

England’s Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports changed England’s tastes and enriched the English language, Eastern themes, characters, and motifs helped shape the country’s culture and contributed to its national identity. Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a capacious understanding […]

English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800

The essays in English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explore the theatrical anecdote’s role in the construction of stage fame in England’s emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing such anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. This collection showcases scholarship that complicates the theatrical anecdote and shows its many sides and […]

English Versions of Roman Satire in the Earlier Eighteenth Century

The Imitation was a popular verse form in the first half of the eighteenth century. A work of classical poetry would be adapted to contemporary circumstances, so that a satirist such as Alexander Pope would satirize contemporary England as if he were Horace writing of ancient Rome. This book discusses not only well-known examples such […]

Enter the Press-Gang: Naval Impressment in Eighteenth-Century British Literature

This book considers the eighteenth-century practice of violent naval recruitment known as impressment in the light of literary representations of its impact on British society. The author examines scenes that feature press-gangs in novels, plays, ballads, and personal narratives and shows how impressment reveals the ways genre is related to ideology.

Entre Hommes: French and Francophone Masculinities in Culture and Theory

Despite its debt to French thought for theoretical constructs, masculinity studies have been dominated by work on English-language texts and contexts. Entre Hommes lays the foundation for French and Francophone masculinity studies in both a cultural and theoretical sense. This ground-breaking volume considers what is meant by “French” or “Francophone” masculinities per se and how these identities […]

Envisioning The Worst: Representations of “Hottentots” in Early-Modern England

This book examines early modern English constructions of “Hottentots” as humanity’s most base and beastly people. The book presents the entire course of pre-colonial literary and visual representations of “Hottentots” written from the end of the sixteenth century until the opening decades of the nineteenth century.

Epic Landscapes: Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Art of Watercolor

Epic Landscapes is the first study devoted to architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s substantial artistic oeuvre from 1795, when he set sail from Britain to Virginia, to late 1798, when he relocated to Pennsylvania. Thus, this book offers the only extended consideration of Latrobe’s Virginian watercolors, including a series of complex trompe l’oeil studies and three significant […]

Erotic Beasts and Social Monsters: Shakespeare, Jonson, and Comic Androgyny

The voluminous contemporary critical work on English Renaissance androgyny/ transvestism has not fully uncovered the ancient Greek and Roman roots of the gender controversy. This work argues that the variant Renaissance views on the androgyne’s symbolism are, in fact, best understood with reference to classical representations of the double-sexed or gender-baffled figures, and with the […]

Essays in Memory of Richard Helgerson: Laureations

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 careerism, and studies of form. Analyzing not only early modern but also […]

Everyday Revolutions: Eighteenth-Century Women Transforming Public and Private

Women’s everyday choices can engender revolutionary acts. The essays collected here embrace this premise and go beyond the Habermasian public/private paradigm to look at the ways in which eighteenth-century women defied the restrictions their culture sought to enforce. But while recent studies have linked women to public activity by analyzing revolutionary moments, such work often […]

The Experimental Plays of Harold Pinter

The Experimental Plays of Harold Pinter offers a fresh approach to the plays of Nobel Prize laureate Harold Pinter. He is highlighted as an experimental playwright who attempted to free the theatre from the legacy of realism, causality and motivation. His plays are read in relation to the avant-garde movements in the visual arts and music […]

Exquisite Materials: Episodes in the Queer History of Victorian Style

Exquisite Materials explores the connections between gay subjects, material objects, and the social and aesthetic landscapes in which they circulated. Each of the book’s four chapters takes up as a case study a figure or set of figures whose life and work dramatize different aspects of the unique queer relationship to materiality and style. These diverse […]

Extravagance and Three Other Plays

The collection includes four theatrical works of acclaimed Italian author, Dacia Maraini, in a dual-language format (Italian/English). The works have been chosen around the themes of distress, exclusion, and various manifestations of tragedy with particular reference to women. The works were chosen within a modern and a historical reference in order to give breadth to […]

Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection

This is a lavishly illustrated volume that offers a new interpretation of the significance of the portrait image during the final decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, using materials drawn from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection at the University of Delaware. This study highlights the connections between the images of writers’ and artists’ faces […]

Factions' Fictions: Ideological Closure in Swift's Satire

An understanding of the linguistic, political, and moral ramifications of “Private Spirit” (the parochialism and partiality typical of clubs, parties, and cabals) provides insights into the logic behind Swiftian polemic and satire. Swiftian satire, an essentially private joke offering exclusive satisfaction to an elite fraternity of insiders, is shown to be a creative rhetorical adaption […]

Familial Forms: Politics and Genealogy in Seventeenth-Century English Literature

Familial Forms is the first full-length study to examine how literary writers engaged the politics of genealogy that helped define the “century of revolution.” By demonstrating how conflicts over the family-state analogy intersected with the period’s battles over succession, including: the ascent of James I, the execution of Charles I, disputes over the terms of the […]

The Female Homer: An Exploration of Women’s Epic Poetry

The Female Homer opens with simple questions: Are there any women’s epic poems? If so, what are the central characteristics of these epics, and how do they relate to the traditional vision of epic poetry as male-authored and masculinist, as powerful and patriarchal? The book explores relations among women’s epic poems over a great span—from the […]

Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London

Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London identifies the eighteenth-century comedic stage as a key site of feminist critique, practice, and experimentation. While the history of feminism and comedy is undeniably vexed, by focusing on five women playwrights of the latter half of the eighteenth century–Catherine Clive, Frances Brooke, Frances Burney, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald–this […]

Fiction of the New Statesman, 1913-1939

Fiction of the New Statesman is the first study of the short stories published in the renowned British journal the New Statesman. This book argues that New Statesman fiction advances a strong realist preoccupation with ordinary, everyday life, and shows how British domestic concerns have a strong hold on the working-class and lower-middle-class imaginative output of this period. About […]

Fictions of Pleasure: The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France

Out of the libertine literary tradition of eighteenth-century France emerged a dozen memoir novels unlike any others. The fictional narrators of these stories are female libertines who eagerly take up sex work as a means of escape from the patriarchal control of fathers and husbands to pursue pleasure, wealth, and personal independence outside the private, […]

Figurations of France: Literary Nation-Building in Times of Crisis (1550–1650)

In Figurations of France: Literary Nation-Building in Times of Crisis (1550-1650), Marcus Keller explores the often indirect and subtle ways in which key texts of early modern French literature, from Joachim Du Bellay’s Défense et illustration de la langue française to Corneille’s Le Cid, contribute to the fiction of France as a nation. Through his fresh take on these […]

A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court

A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court focuses on the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court and determines their frames for assessing First Amendment cases. In each of the chapters, a justice is profiled in terms of his or her claims during the nomination hearings and the positions they have taken in significant […]

Five Lectures on the American Civil War (1861-1865)

The product of over thirty years of research on the American Civil War by Italy’s most renowned authority on the subject, this study synthetically analyzes the great drama that from 1861 to 1865 that devastated the United States and gave life to the modern American nation. The book also highlights how the Civil War was […]

Formal Revolution in the Work of Baudelaire and Flaubert

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’ literary form and their socio-cultural context. In addition, critical literature has not […]

Four Hundred Years of Shakespeare in Europe

Four Hundred Years of Shakespeare in Europe offers a wide range of essays that capture the unprecedented current boom in the study of “Shakespeare in Europe.” The various contributions cover three basic areas in the history of Shakespearean reception on the European continent and in Britain: translations, productions, and appropriations in more general terms. The essays […]

Frances Burney and Narrative Prior to Ideology

Frances Burney and Narrative Prior to Ideology works between Burney’s Journals and Letters and her fiction more thoroughly than any study of her in the past twenty-five years. By doing so, it offers significant reinterpretations of Burney’s four novels: Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla, and The Wanderer. It describes Burney’s eluding the major modern–isms through which critics have tried to read her: […]

Frankenstein and STEAM: Essays for Charles E. Robinson

Charles E. Robinson, Professor Emeritus of English at The University of Delaware, definitively transformed study of the novel Frankenstein with his foundational volume The Frankenstein Notebooks and, in nineteenth century studies more broadly, brought heightened attention to the nuances of writing and editing. Frankenstein and STEAM consolidates the generative legacy of his later work on the novel’s broad […]

Freedom and Dialogue in a Polarized World

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 of language, this book introduces a new concept: dialogic freedom. […]

French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century

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 current practice of French cultural studies. The essays in the volume show how scholars of […]

French Essays on Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: “What would France with us?”

The nineteen essays presented in this volume reflect the development of English Renaissance studies in France over the past fifteen years. Interests run from textual history to drama and theater poetics, myth, and iconography.

French Renaissance and Baroque Drama: Text, Performance, Theory

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, pastoral, and mystery plays) to court ballets, royal entrances, and meta- and […]

French Women Authors: The Significance of the Spiritual, 1400–2000

French Women Authors examines the importance afforded the spiritual in the lives and works of French women authors over the centuries, thereby highlighting both the significance of spiritually informed writings in French literature in general, as well as the specific contribution made by women writers. Eleven different authors have been selected for this collection, representing major […]

Friedrich Schiller: Crime, Aesthetics, and the Poetics of Punishment

Schiller’s fascination with crime and criminals is well-documented, but little work has been done on his engagement with punishment as retributive or restorative gesture. This study examines the affinity between the pursuit of symmetry in social penal discourse and the symmetry that pleases the aesthetic spectator in Schiller’s drama, fiction, and theoretical essays. Beginning with […]

From Sacred to Secular: Visual Images in Early American Publications

This examination of illustrations in early American books, pamphlets, magazines, almanacs, and broadsides provides a new perspective on the social, cultural, and political environment of the late colonial period and the early republic. American printers and engravers drew upon a rich tradition of Christian visual imagery. Used first to inculcate Protestant doctrines, regional symbolism later […]

From Savage to Citizen: The Invention of the Peasant in the French Enlightenment

From Savage to Citizen examines the invention of the peasant in the literature, theater, and painting of the French Enlightenment. It contends that, much like the noble savage, the peasant is one of the major constructions of the Enlightenment, and that its articulation and development are consonant with changes in the social order and the development […]

From Sensation to Society: Representations of Marriage in the Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1862-1866

From Sensation to Society tracks the evolution of Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s critique of Victorian marriage in the early phase of her long and prolific novel-writing career. The study begins with Braddon’s two famous sensational novels, Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) and Aurora Floyd (1863); it ends with her first novel of “society,” The Lady’s Mile (1865). In the novels of this period, Braddon […]

Félicité de Genlis: Motherhood in the Margins

This book examines the way in which French writer/educator Félicité de Genlis theorized the maternal role in her works, as well as the manner in which she lived out her own maternity. Illuminating her construction of a politics of motherhood that contributed to her marginalization, the book studies her controversial self-referentiality and investigates the relationships […]

Gender, Interpretation, and Political Rule in Sidney's Arcadia

Gender, Interpretation, and Political Rule in Sidney’s Arcadia studies cultural ideologies regarding gender and monarchy in early modern England by examining transformations of a single text, Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, in their historical contexts. It reveals changing tensions in the ideological struggles over queenship, especially with respect to cultural debates focused on anxieties about gendered reception and […]

Gender and Genre: German Women Write the French Revolution

In the wake of the French Revolution, history was no longer imagined as a cyclical process in which the succession of ruling dynasties was as predictable as the change in the seasons. Contemporaries wrestled with the meaning of this historical rupture, which represented both the progress of the Enlightenment and the darkness of the Terreur. French […]

Gender and the Sacred Self in John Donne

This first book-length feminist study of Donne argues that his sacred subject position is ambivalently and illustratively invested in cultural archetypes of mothers, daughters, and brides. The chapters focus on baptism, marriage, and death as key moments in Donne’s and his culture’s construction of the gendered soul.

Gendering the Renaissance: Text and Context in Early Modern Italy

The essays in this volume revisit the Italian Renaissance to rethink spaces thought to be defined and certain: from the social spaces of convent, court, or home, to the literary spaces of established genres such as religious plays or epic poetry. Repopulating these spaces with the women who occupied them but have often been elided […]

A Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century

A Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century poses a direct challenge to Virginia Woolf’s claim, that “Women do not write books about men.” On the contrary, not only were women writers in the eighteenth century able and capable of writing about and for men (though of course not exclusively), […]

General Henry Lockwood of Delaware: Shipmate of Melville, Co-builder of the Naval Academy, Civil War Commander

General Henry Lockwood of Delaware: Shipmate of Melville, Co-builder of the Naval Academy, Civil War Commander depicts the fascinating and accomplished life of a nineteenth-century Delaware favorite son, Brig. Gen. Henry Lockwood, who sailed aboard the U.S. Navy frigate United States, participating in Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones’s seizure of Monterey from Mexico and figuring importantly in […]

The Genius of the English Nation: Travel Writing and National Identity in Early Modern England

Travel literature was one of the most popular literary genres of the early modern era. This book examines how emerging concepts of national identity, imperialism, colonialism, and orientalism were worked out and represented for English readers in early travel and ethnographic writings. Using insights from a variety of scholarly fields such as history, anthropology, and […]

George Herbert's Pastoral: New Essays on the Poet and Priest of Bemerton

As poet and as country parson, George Herbert engaged the pastoral in all of its varied senses. In October of 2007, many of the world’s leading Herbert scholars met at Sarum College in Salisbury, England to locate Herbert’s pastoral life and writings more particularly in early Stuart Wiltshire. They explored the relations between the pastoral […]

George Herbert's Travels: International Print and Cultural Legacies

The essays in this collection feature many of the world’s leading Herbert scholars and are drawn from the more than fifty papers and plenary presentations delivered at the “George Herbert’s Travels” conference held at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in October 2008. They track Herbert’s “heart in pilgrimage”: through four centuries of time, […]

George Moore: Influence and Collaboration

“Nearly every major figure of his era,” writes his biographer Adrian Frazier, “worked with Moore, tangled with Moore, took his impression from, or left it on, George Moore.” The Anglo-Irish novelist George Moore (1852–1933) espoused multiple identities. An agent provocateur whether as an art critic, novelist, short fiction writer or memoirist, always probing and provocative, often deliberately […]

George Moore on Parnassus: Letters (1900-1933) to Secretaries, Publishers, Printers, Agents, Literati, Friends, and Acquaintances

Through the letters and commentary in this volume, the Irish writer George Moore is revealed as a man and artist far more complex and important than most works on him suggest, one who played a significant role in the Irish Literary Renaissance.

George Washington and the Jews

This volume explores the background and circumstances that brought about a milestone relationship between George Washington and the Jews. President George Washington was the first head of a modern nation to openly acknowledge the Jews as full-fledged citizens of the land in which they had chosen to settle. His personal philosophy of religious tolerance can […]

German Shakespeare Studies at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century

This collection of fifteen essays offers a sample of German Shakespeare studies at the turn of the century. The articles are written by scholars in the old “Bundesländer” and deal with topics such as culture, memory and natural sciences in Shakespeare’s work, Shakespearean spin-offs, and the reception of Venice and Shylock in Germany. The section […]

The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral Identities

The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral Identities is a collection of essays aimed at 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 scope of texts from varying time periods and cultures, […]

Giuseppe Vasi’s Rome: Lasting Impressions from the Age of the Grand Tour

Giuseppe Vasi’s Rome: Lasting Impressions from the Age of the Grand Tour serves as the catalogue of the exhibition of the same name, organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon and curated by Professors Harper and Tice. On view in Eugene, OR, from September 25 through January 2, 2010, the […]

Gleaning Modernity: Earlier Eighteenth-Century Literature and the Modernizing Process

Gleaning Modernity shows how earlier eighteenth-century literary texts might have eased the way for Britain’s increasing Modernity. They allowed Modern scenarios to be played out imaginatively, as simulations for experimental, predictive ends. The process spoke to the needs and desires of readers in a world of rapid, managed change. It worked unobtrusively first because of the […]

Global Economics: A History of the Theater Business, the Chamberlain's/King's Men, and Their Plays, 1599-1642

This book is a study of the Chamberlain’s/King’s Men as a business. It investigates the economic workings of the company: the conditions under which they operated, their expenses and income, and the ways in which they adopted to fit changing circumstances. Each chapter focuses on a different moment in the company’s history, and consists of […]

Grant Wood’s Secrets

Incorporating copious archival research and original close readings of American artist Grant Wood’s iconic as well as lesser-known works, Grant Wood’s Secrets reveals how his sometimes anguished psychology was shaped by his close relationship with his mother and how he channeled his lifelong oedipal guilt into his art. Presenting Wood’s abortive autobiography “Return from Bohemia” for the […]

The Grotesque Depiction of War and the Military in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction

A discussion of the tradition of grotesque portrayals of war and the military, especially their proliferation in Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature. Swift’s the Travels is examined in particular, as well as the novels of Smollett, Fielding, and Stern. Illustrations of graphic satire by Hogarth and others.

The Grove Diaries: The Rise and Fall of an English Family, 1809-1925

The publication of the diaries of successive generations of the Grove family is of considerable importance. Spanning more than a century from 1809 to 1925, they chart the rise of an English family from country gentry to aristocratic Victorian grandees before finally tracing the much steeper trajectory of the family’s decline.

Growing Business in Delaware: The Politics of Job Creation in a Small State

In this fourth book in the authors’ series 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 in Delaware. Among the large Delaware employers that disappeared […]

H. C. Westermann at War: Art and Manhood in Cold War America

This book examines the antiwar work of one American artist in relation to the cultural history of the Cold War. The study provides new and detailed information on this important artist, while also contributing to the study of masculinity, dissent, art, violence, and war in the last half of the twentieth century. The study clearly […]

Hamlet and Narcissus

In this book the author argues that the action of Hamlet, particularly its most puzzling and paradoxical element, Hamlet’s delay, can best be understood in terms of Heinz Kohut’s concept of narcissism.

Hamlet and the Visual Arts, 1709-1900

This book examines the manner in which Shakespeare’s Hamlet was perceived in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and represented in the available visual media. The more than 2,000 visual images of Hamlet that the author has identified both reflected the critical reception of the play and simultaneously influenced the history of the ever-changing constructed cultural phenomenon that we refer […]

The Hamlets: Cues, Qs, and Remembered Texts

While differences among the three early printed texts of Hamlet have often been considered in terms of interpretive conequences in performances, The Hamlets instead considers practical issues in the playhouse and acting economy of early modern London. This book examines how Shakespeare’s company operated, how it may have treated the authorial text, what the actors’ needs might be, and […]

Hanging the Moon: The Rollins Rise to Riches

Hanging the Moon follows the tumultuous career of John Rollins and his brother Wayne, offering the reader a close view of a great American entrepreneur and insight into how we, as a society, privilege business over all other institutions.

Henry Fielding (1707-1754): Novelist, Playwright, Journalist, Magistrate: A Double Anniversary Tribute

This collection, to which many of the world’s leading authorities on Fielding have contributed, contains papers on all the major aspects of his work and life, as one of the great early masters of the novel, as England’s best-known playwright in his day, as a political journalist and activist, and as a social thinker and […]

Heroes of Empire: The British Imperial Protagonist in America, 1594-1764

Over the past decade, literary scholars have become increasingly engaged with colonial studies and have fashioned various points of focus in their investigations of imperialist narratives, including the figure of woman, cannibalism, the romance of the first encounter, and the tropicopolitan. This book builds on existing work by offering a new focal point: the evolution […]

The Heroic Idiom of Shakespearean Tragedy

Shakespeare’s idiom is an aggregate of archaic modes of speech and codes of conduct. This book attempts to make that idiom more accessible and, in the process, to illuminate the significance of heroic concepts to a study of Shakespeare’s tragedies and histories.

Heroic Mode and Political Crisis, 1660-1745

This book explores a cultural language, the heroic, that remained consistently powerful through the social, political, and dynastic turbulence of the long eighteenth century. The heroic provided an accessible and vivid shorthand for the ongoing ideological debates over the nature of authority and power, the construction of an ideal masculinity, and the shape of a […]

Hey Presto! Swift and the Quacks

In this book the author reveals how medicine shows, both ancient and modern, galvanized Jonathan Swift’s imagination and inspired his wittiest satiric voices. Swift dubbed these multifaceted traveling entertainments his Stage-itinerant or “Mountebank’s Stage.” In the course of arguing that the stage-itinerant formed an irresistible model for A Tale of a Tub, Ormsby-Lennon also surmises that the mountebank’s […]

Hiram Powers: Vermont Sculptor, 1805-1873 Volume II Catalogue of Works

A detailed account of the life and career of Hiram Powers (1805-73), the first American-born sculptor to win international fame. Drawing mainly on his correspondence, volume one focuses on the artist’s life; and volume two consists of a catalogue of his work and contains more than 225 illustrations. Corrects numerous errors of fact that have […]

Historical Boundaries, Narrative Forms: Essays on British Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century in Honor of Everett Zimmerman

This collection of twelve essays by colleagues, students, and friends of Everett Zimmerman treats four topics that Zimmerman explored during his career: the representation of the self in narratives, the early British novel and related forms, their epistemological and generic borders, and their intellectual and cultural contexts. In “Boundaries,” contributors explore epistemological and narrative distinctions […]

History of Delaware, Fifth Edition

Originally undertaken by the author as a Bicentennial project in 1975, and now the standard history of the state, this volume chronicles the history of Delaware from the early 1600s to the present. About the Author John A. Munroe was H. Rodney Sharp Professor of History at the University of Delaware.

Honest John Williams: U.S. Senator from Delaware

John Williams was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1946, defeating incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator James M. Tunnell. Honest John Williams: U.S. Senator from Delaware examines the political career of Williams, a political novice who established himself as an staunch advocate for fiscal probity and integrity in government during four successive terms in the U.S. […]

Hostile Humor in Renaissance France

In sixteenth-century France, the level of jokes, irony, and ridicule found in pamphlets and plays became aggressively hostile. In Hostile Humor in Renaissance France, Bruce Hayes investigates this period leading up to the French Wars of Religion, when a deliberately harmful and destructive form of satire appeared. This study examines both pamphlets and plays to show […]

Hyperion and the Hobbyhorse: Studies in Carnivalesque Subversion

This book studies the interaction in late medieval and Renaissance English literature of Augustinian theology and the modes of subversive humor Bakhtin calls carnival. This interaction produces a sustained interrogation of public identity which limits medieval culture and its major texts to those of the Renaissance.

Hysteria, Hypnotism, the Spirits and Pornography: Fin-de-Siècle Cultural Discourses in the Decadent Rachilde

This book explores the life and fiction of the French decadent writer Rachilde (pen name of Marguerite Eymery), using her as a case study to examine the impact late nineteenth-century theories about female hysteria, medical hypnotism, mediums, and spiritualism had on the female creative psyche. Rachilde was especially vulnerable as she suffered hysterical attacks, witnessed […]

The Idea of the Sciences in the French Enlightenment: A Reinterpretation

This book traces the development of the idea that the sciences were morally enlightening through an intellectual history of the secrétaires perpétuels of the French Royal Academy of Sciences and their associates from the mid-seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth century. Academy secretaries such as Fontenelle and Condorcet were critical to the emergence of a […]

Idle Pursuits: Literature and Oisiveté in the French Renaissance

Idle Pursuits examines transformations of leisure in the literature and culture of early modern France. It traces a trajectory beginning with the initial detachment of the ‘idle condition’ from religious contemplation in the thirteenth century and culminating with the birth of the modern contemplative at the end of the Renaissance. How did writers define their idle […]

Imagery and Ideology: Fiction and Painting in Nineteenth-Century France

Literature is ostensibly a sequential and thus temporal medium, and painting a static and spatial one; yet writers like George Sand and Emile Zola have attempted repeatedly to represent visual and spatial phenomena in literary texts, just as painters like Eugène Delacroix and Claude Monet have sought consistently to capture effects of time and movement […]

Images of Matter: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance Proceedings of the Eighth Citadel Conference on Literature, Charleston, South Carolina, 2002

  In Images of Matter, a collection of essays first presented at the Eighth Citadel Conference on British Literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the authors of the essays collected address the complex relationship between words and images. The book is organized into three sections, all illuminating aspects of Francis Bacon’s dictum in the Advancement of […]

Images of Robin Hood: Medieval to Modern

This collection explores the rich literary and visual origins and afterlives of the popular legend. It examines Robin’s portrayal as outlaw hero and the significance of his traditional setting in the “merry greenwood,” both in England and in the Brandywine Valley that became the Sherwood Forest of illustrators Howard Pyle and N.C. Wyeth. Complemented by […]

Imagining Architects: Creativity in the Religious Monuments of India

Imagining Architects analyzes a series of unusual formal experiments in a group of eleventh-century stone temples built in the Karnataka region of southern India, demonstrating a self-conscious modernity of architects who searched for a new architectural principle in their design. Reinforced by contemporary inscriptions, the eight chapters of this book interweave analytical text and vivid illustrations, […]

Imagining Fascism: The Cultural Politics of the French Young Right, 1930-1945

Led by Robert Brasillach and Thierry Maulnier, the ‘Young Right’ emerged as a generational insurgency within Charles Mauarras’s Action française in the early 1930s. Inspired by the mobilizing energies of foreign fascisms, the men of the Young Right became vocal advocates for a French ‘national revolution.’ Combining native strains of French nationalism with selected ‘lessons’ […]

Imagining Selves: Essays in Honor of Patricia Meyer Spacks

The thirteen essays in Imagining Selves survey diverse cultural artifacts that include memoirs, histories, plays, poems, courtesy manuals, children’s tales, novels, paintings, and even resin from the early seventeenth century to the threshold of the twenty-first. These essays explore relationships between character, context, and text, and engage genres from realism to magic realism, and geographies from England, […]

Implication, Readers' Resources, and Thomas Gray's Pindaric Odes

Implication, Readers’ Resources, and Thomas Gray’s Pindaric Odes presents an account of “the Poets’ Secret,” the quite belated, historically recent, discovery by scholars and critics of something many poets have recognized and employed for ages: the sense expressed by allusively parallel parts within a text–sense thus expressed intratextually rather than only intertextually. Inferential perception of the […]

India’s Shakespeare: Translation, Interpretation, and Performance

This is a collection on the diverse aspects of the interaction between Shakespeare and India, a process embedded in the contradictions of colonialism—a matrix of simultaneous submission and resistance. The essays, grouped around the key issues of translation, interpretation, and performance, deal with how the plays were taught, translated, and adapted, as well as the […]

In Iberia and Beyond: Hispanic Jews between Cultures: Proceedings of a Symposium to Mark the 500th Anniversary of the Expulsion of Spanish Jewry

Topics discussed in this book include government policy toward Jews and conversos, the image and self-image of Jews and conversos in relation to the surrounding society, the dynamics of Jewish poetics and philosophy on the Iberian Peninsula, and the role of women in the transmission of converso identity from generation to generation.

Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation

The enduring “black legend” of the Italian Counter-Reformation, which has held sway in both scholarly and popular culture, maintains that the Council of Trent ushered in a cultural dark age in Italy, snuffing out the spectacular creative production of the Renaissance. As a result, the decades following Trent have been mostly overlooked in Italian literary […]

In Sickness and in Health: Disease as Metaphor in Art and Popular Wisdom

The essays in this collection offer an expansive view of how medical concerns have shaped and continue to shape our lives and destinies through the subtle communicative power of the visual arts and their interpretation in historical context. Each author demonstrates how works of art and the imagery of popular culture both reflect and reinforce […]

Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment

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 the movement of secularization in literature from the Renaissance […]

Integrating Delaware: The Reddings of Wilmington

Integrating Delaware: The Reddings of Wilmington tells the story of Delaware’s most nationally influential African-American family and reflects the story of the American black middle class in the twentieth century. Patriarch Lewis Redding arrived in Wilmington in 1900. He earned a hard-won place among the city’s small black middle class after overcoming numerous hurdles presented by […]

In the Frame: Women’s Ekphrastic Poetry from Marianne Moore to Susan Wheeler

The subject of In the Frame is poetic ekphrasis: poems whose starting point or source of inspiration is a work of visual art. The authors of these sixteen essays, several of whom are poets as well as critics, have a twofold purpose: calling attention to the contribution women poets have made to this important genre of poetic […]

Into Print: The Production of Female Authorship in Early Modern France

This book examines the role that book production played in shaping notions of female authorship in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century France. Through close analysis of volumes attributed to Helisenne de Crenne, Louise Labé, the Dame des Roches, and Marie de Gournay against the historical backdrop of the early French book market, Chang shows how the […]

Invasion and Insurrection: Security, Defense, and War in the Delaware Valley, 1621-1815

This book seeks to discover when, why, and how Delaware Valley communities, between 1621, when the Dutch West India Company issued instructions for the security and defense of the Delaware River until 1815, as the region abandoned its Committee of Defense of the Delaware at the end of the War of 1812, first used military […]

Inventing the Critic in Renaissance England

The turn of the seventeenth century was an important moment in the history of English criticism. In a series of pioneering works of rhetoric and poetics, writers such as Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, and Ben Jonson laid the foundations of critical discourse in English, and the English word “critic” began, for the first time, to […]

InVerse 2007: Italian Poets in Translation

The InVerse anthology is the outcome of a project that began as a reading of Italian poets at John Cabot University in Rome in the spring of 2005. At the root of the project was the desire to introduce English-speaking audiences and readers to contemporary Italian poetry, since many interesting authors are as yet quite unknown internationally. […]

InVerse 2008-2009: Italian Poets in Translation

InVerse has filled a need in Rome for a forum in which to hear and discuss poetry, and the brilliant idea of offering Italian poetry in translation made the project an instant success and a must date on the calendar of Italian poets. In hosting InVerse, John Cabot University is true to its deepest mission and commitment: […]

InVerse 2012: Italian Poets in Translation

On the occasion of John Cabot University’s fortieth anniversary, we are proud to present the fifth edition of the InVerse poetry anthology. In publishing InVerse, the University is true to its deepest mission and commitment: to bring together Anglo-American and Italian cultures. Franco Pavoncello President Poetry by Sebastiano Aglieco, Annelisa Alleva, Elisa Biagini, Elisa Davoglio, Alessandro De Francesco, […]

InVerse 2014–2015: Italian Poets in Translation

Poetry by: Antonella Anedda Gian Maria Annovi Nadia Agustoni Mario Benedetti Antonio Bux Biagio Cepollaro Vladimir D’Amora Roberto Deidier Stelvio Di Spigno Anna Maria Farabbi Paolo Febbraro Silvia Fiorentino Mariangela Guatteri Andrea Inglese Bianca Madeccia Giampiero Neri Giulia Niccolai Sandro Olimpi Umberto Piersanti Elena Buia Rutt Francesco Serrao Giacomo Trinci Ida Travi

Involuntary Confessions of the Flesh in Early Modern France

Involuntary Confessions of the Flesh in Early Modern France was inspired by the observation that small slips of the flesh (involuntary confessions of the flesh) are omnipresent in early modern texts of many kinds. These slips (which bear similarities to what we would today call the Freudian slip) disrupt and destabilize readings of body, self, and […]

Ireland and Transatlantic Poetics: Essays in Honor of Denis Donoghue

“Transatlantic poetics” is the principal theme and the constructive burden of these essays. The motive toward its articulation lies in the demand for cross-national, international, and post-nationalist comprehension of cultural relations and critical practices across modern Anglophone British, Irish, and North American literary developments, literary filiations, and literary history. Anglophone literary study needs to articulate […]

The Irish Fairy Tale: A Narrative Tradition from the Middle Ages to Yeats and Stephens

Beginning with a critical reappraisal of the notion of “fairy tale” and extending it to include categories and genres which are in common usage in folklore and in literary studies, this book throws light on the general processes involved in storytelling. It illuminates the fundamental ways in which a culture is formed, while highlighting important […]

The Irony of Identity: Self and Imagination in the Drama of Christopher Marlowe

This study recognizes Marlowe’s psychological instability or uncertainty, analyzed as a version of preoedipal narcissistic pathology. McAdam illustrates how two fundamental points of destabilization in Marlowe’s life and work-his subversive treatment of Christian belief and his ambivalence toward his homosexuality-clarify the plays’ interest in the struggle for self-authorization.

Island of Daemons: The Lough Derg Pilgrimage and the Poets Patrick Kavanagh, Denis Devlin, and Seamus Heaney

This work compiles the history of the Donegal pilgrimage as presented in historical texts, guidebooks, popular writing, devotional treatises, and newspaper and journal accounts. This material—with its cultural, political, as well as religious associations—provides background for these poets’ Lough Derg poems, which relate their own pilgrimage experiences. The book proceeds to examine Devlin’s “Lough Derg,” […]

The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama: Cultural Exchange and Intertextuality

This collection explores the Italian matrix of English Renaissance drama through new, challenging aspects of influence and rewarding investigations into classical and Italian theatergrams. The scope of the volume ranges from early Elizabethan to late Jacobean drama, relating at various stages such authors as Gascoigne, Kyd, and Marlowe to Boccaccio, Ariosto, and Castiglione. The essays […]

John Dryden (1631-1700): His Politics, His Plays, and His Poets: A Tercentenary Celebration Held at Yale University 6-7 October, 2000

This volume celebrates the work of John Dryden and reassesses his position in the literary tradition three hundred years after his death. Part 1, “The Court, the Town, and the Playhouse,” features essays by Lawrence Manley, Harold Love, Howard Erskine-Hill, David Womersley, and Maximillian Novak that reconsider Dryden’s interaction with the London of his day, […]

John Quincy Adams Ward: Dean of American Sculpture; with a Catalogue Raisonné

Catalogues Ward’s sculpture, analyzes his style, evaluates the quality of his work, and determines the artistic influences on his sculpture. A chronological catalogue of his 125 recorded works follows a biographical essay. Illustrated.

John Rainolds’s Oxford Lectures on Aristotle’s Rhetoric

Published for the first time, these are the only university lectures known to have survived from sixteenth-century Oxford and the first major treatment of Aristotle’s Rhetoric in England. Includes a critical edition of the Latin and Greek text, translation, commentary, and critical introduction.

John Sloan’s Women: A Psychoanalysis of Vision

John Sloan (1871-1951), a member of the revolutionary group of painters called “The Eight,” was best known for his pictures of early twentieth-century New York City. Using psychoanalysis (object relations theory) and social history, Janice M. Coco explores the individual and social identities that inform Sloan’s many representations of women. She examines the ways that […]

Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson

Johnson the Poet is the first book to deal comprehensively with the poetry of Samuel Johnson. It provides critical commentary on Johnson’s long and versatile poetic career as novice poet, formal verse imitator and satirist, playwright, moralist, neo-Latinist, elegist, prologuist, and writer of impromptu drawing-room versewhile setting his verse in eighteenth-century political, theological, moral, and literary […]

John White Alexander and the Construction of National Identity: Cosmopolitan American Art, 1880-1915

Moore positions the work of American artist John White Alexander at the intersection of the shifting discourse of nationalism in American art at the turn of the twentieth century. The book addresses the dynamic search for and definition of national identity through a careful examination of the institutional complexes in which Alexander worked and exhibited. […]

Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-In

Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-In covers the arc of the first half of Jonathan Swift’s life, offering fresh details of the contentment and exuberance of his childhood, of the support he received from his grandmother, of his striking affection for Esther Johnson from the time she was ten years old (his pet name for her in her […]

Jonathan Swift: Our Dean

Jonathan Swift: Our Dean details the political climax of his remarkable career—his writing and publication of The Drapier’s Letters (1724), Gulliver’s Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729)—stressing the relentless political opposition he faced and the numerous ways, including through his sermons, that he worked from his political base as Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, psychologically as well as physically just outside […]

Jonathan Swift and the Arts

This is the first comprehensive account of Swift’s engagement with the arts in Ireland and England. It both documents and reflects upon his attitudes toward music, gardening, theatre, architecture, and painting, and suggests that, despite his often sceptical attitude towards the non-literary arts, he saw them as a rich source of inspiration and entertainment for […]

Jonathan Swift’s Word-Book: A Vocabulary Compiled for Esther Johnson and Copied in Her Own Hand

This Word-Book is presumably the only work of Jonathan Swift’s not in print, until now. Since the 1690s, Swift had been formulating a list of words and definitions for his protégé Esther Johnson, beginning with terms from the Book of Common Prayer. His was apparently an ongoing list, kept rather haphazardly, with open spaces for adding new words. About […]

The Journal of Thomas Moore, Volume 4: 1831-1835

For over a hundred years, the journal of the Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779-1852) was thought to have been destroyed. In 1967 the manuscript was found in the archives of the Longman Publishing House in London. This edition, to be published in six volumes, reveals the essential Moore and introduces the reader to the daily, […]

A Kind of Wild Justice: Revenge in Shakespeare's Comedies

This study demonstrates not only that the devices of revenge are structurally useful in comedy, but also that there is a consistent conception of revenge as an ethical social instrument in the comedies of Shakespeare.

The Lab'ring Muses: Work, Writing, and the Social Order in English Plebeian Poetry, 1730-1830

The Lab’ring Muses is the first study to bring together a wide range of verse published by laboring-class authors between 1730 and 1830. The book examines a total of sixteen case studies that establish a specifically English tradition of laboring-class poetics.

The Languages of Difference: American Writers and Anthropologists Reconfigure the Primitive, 1878-1940

Exploring the contentions and revisions involving the idea of the primitive in intellectual America of 1878-1940 and the related notions of race, civilization, and culture, this book focuses on the work of several anthropologists and literary writers whose original insight and skill enabled new and more complex understandings of human difference. Lewis Henry Morgan, Eugene […]

Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture Essays in Honor of James M. Dean

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 ideas manifest in later medieval English texts, […]

The Latest Early American Literature

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 without honor in the field”: William Spengemann […]

Law and Authority in Early Modern England: Essays Presented to Thomas Garden Barnes

This collection of essays honors Thomas G. Barnes, Professor of History and Law at the University of California, Berkeley. It addresses some major issues and themes in English history from the 1590s to the 1840s that have been central to Dr. Barnes’s own work in law and authority in the same period. The essays, all […]

Lear's Other Shadow: A Cultural History of Queen Lear

Lear’s Other Shadow: A Cultural History of Queen Lear offers a deep cultural analysis of the figure of Queen Lear, who shadows and eventually sometimes overshadows her royal husband across the nearly 1000-year life of this archetypal tale. What appears to be a deliberate strategy of suppression, even erasure in Shakespeare’s King Lear later inspired dozens […]

Learning from Lying: Paradoxes of the Literary Mystification

Writers who mystify operate through paradox. Since the eighteenth century, when the term was coined in French, the cycle of temporarily taking in a reader by means of a deceptive text, then deliberately uncovering the fake, has enacted a drama of Enlightenment. Obfuscation reveals trickery, in an exercise that simultaneously embodies the ideals of Enlightenment […]

Learning from Scant Beginnings: English Professor Expertise

Although teaching is perhaps the central public activity of most university English professors, there is surprisingly little research in the specifics of expert professorial practice. Many previous studies describe, recipe-like, the end products of successful teaching, while others conflate expertise in this subject matter with pedagogical expertise. This study focuses on the moves the expert […]

The Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lectures, 2000–2015: A Legacy in Byron Studies

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 Marchand’s biographies and his edition of the poet’s letters and journals. All admirers of […]

The Letters of Ruth Pitter: Silent Music

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 Hawthornden Prize for Poetry in 1937, and […]

Levinas and Nineteenth-Century Literature: Ethics and Otherness from Romanticism through Realism

Levinas and Nineteenth-Century Literature presents nine essays that reread major British, American, and European nineteenth-century literary texts in light of the post-deconstruction ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. The first section pursues in essays on Wordsworth, Coleridge, De Quincey, and Baudelaire connections between Levinas’s radical rethinking of subjectivity and Romantic generic, aesthetic, and conceptual innovation. The second […]

Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature: Ethics and the Reconstitution of Subjectivity

In thirteen essays on writers ranging from Virginia Woolf and A. A. Milne to J. M. Coetzee and Cormac McCarthy, Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature puts the thought of the twentieth-century’s most innovative ethical philosopher, Emmanuel Levinas, in dialogue with established twentieth-century masterpieces, such as Six Characters in Search of an Author, As I Lay Dying, One Hundred Years of Solitude, […]

Life After Death: Widows and the English Novel, Defoe to Austen

Life after Death shows how representations of the widow in the eighteenth-century novel express attitudes toward emerging capitalism and women’s participation in it. Authors responded to the century’s instability by using widows, who had the right to act economically and self-interestedly, to teach women that virtue meant foregoing the opportunities that the changing economy offered. Novelists […]

The Life and Times of Goldsworthy: Gentleman Scientist and Inventor, 1793-1875

Goldsworthy Gurney trained as a surgeon in Cornwall but moved to London in 1820 to participate in the chemistry revolution led by Humphrey Davy and Michael Faraday. Successful as an inventor of laboratory equipment, lighting fixtures, and ventilating systems, he failed to convert his pioneering designs for steam locomotion into commercial success. His career illuminates […]

The Life of Robert Loraine: The Stage, the Sky, and George Bernard Shaw

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 Bernard Shaw believed they were in an evolutionary period of humanity. Born into a theatrical family, he understood its clashes of temperament and competition for the attention of the audience. […]

The Limits of Orientalism: Seventeenth-Century Representations of India

The Limits of Orientalism: Seventeenth-Century Representations of India challenges the recent postcolonial readings of European, predominantly English, representations of India in the seventeenth century. Following Edward Said’s discourse of “Orientalism,” most postcolonial analyses of the seventeenth-century representations of India argue that the natives are represented as barbaric or exotic “others,” imagining these representations as products of […]

Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850–1914

This study examines literary celebrity in Britain from 1850 to 1914. Through lively analysis of rare cultural materials, Easley demonstrates the crucial role of the celebrity author in the formation of British national identity. As Victorians toured the homes and haunts of famous writers, they developed a sense of shared national heritage. At the same […]

Literary Milieux: Essays in Text and Context Presented to Howard Erskine-Hill

In the wake of the formalist “New Critical” consensus of the mid-twentieth century, a central and recurrent problem in the field of literary study has been that of precisely how the literary text was to be related to the various and proliferating contexts that now jostled for critical attention. The quality of balanced judgment was […]

Literary Sociability in Early Modern England: The Epistolary Record

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 patrons to state regulators, printers to publishers, from 1615 […]

Literature, Religion, and East/West Comparison: Essays in Honor of Anthony C. Yu

This book pays critical homage to the eminent comparatist of Chinese and Western literature and religion, Anthony C. Yu of The University of Chicago. Broadly comparative, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary in scope, the volume consists of an introductory essay on Yu’s scholarly career, and thirteen additional essays on topics such as literary texts and traditions of […]

Literature and the Arts: Interdisciplinary Essays in Memory of James Anderson Winn

The ten essays in Literature and the Arts explore the intermedial plenitude of eighteenth-century English culture, honoring the memory of James Anderson Winn, whose work demonstrated how seeing that interplay of the arts and literature was essential to a full understanding of Restoration and eighteenth-century English culture. Scenery, machinery, music, dance, and texts transformed one […]

Literature and the Touch of the Real

Literature and the Touch of the Real offers a critique of neo-Saussurean theories of the constitution of the world through language or the essential divorce of language from the real. It does this by, first, offering a critical account of the contradictions and omissions of Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics. Secondly, in a revisionist reading of Jacques […]

Living Art: The Life of Paul R. Jones, African American Art Collector

This book is a life history of the African American art collector, Paul R. Jones. Living Art presents the life of a man who grew up during the height of Jim Crow segregation in Alabama, the son of parents who embraced the dual ideals of racial pride and racial integration and who has become one of the […]

Lockwood de Forest: Furnishing the Gilded Age with a Passion for India

This is the first scholarly book on de Forest. It explores his career in the decorative arts by examining cultural context, material culture, biography, and patronage. Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932) is best known as an artistic decorator with a flair for designs based on the arts and crafts of the Middle East and India. He […]

Lord Byron and the History of Desire

This book interprets a number of Lord Byron’s major literary works— Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1813, 1816, 1818), the Eastern Tales (1812-16), “Prometheus” (1816), “The Prisoner of Chillon” (1816), Manfred (1817), Cain (1821), Heaven and Earth (1823), and Don Juan (1819-24)—from a perspective informed by the Generative Anthropology of Eric Gans and the mimetic theory of René Girard. It reads these works for their developing awareness […]

Love’s Pilgrimage: The Holy Journey in English Renaissance Literature

Love’s Pilgrimage explores literary adaptations of the Catholic pilgrimage in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Protestant English literature generally, and pays specific regard to Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, and Bunyan, each of whom deserve a chapter (two for Shakespeare). Its thesis is that while in the sixteenth century, during the early-to-middle stages of the English Reformation, conventional pilgrimages […]

Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century

This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experience occasioned by reception during the long eighteenth century. The event that gave rise to the collection was the 15th David Nochol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies, which launched a new Australian and New Zealand Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies. Two […]

Making Stars: Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain

In bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in Making Stars interrogate contemporary and current understandings of each. Although biography was not invented in the eighteenth century, the period saw the emergence of works that focus on individuals who are interesting as much, if not more, for their everyday, lived experience than for their status […]

Mandeville’s Travails: Merging Travel, Theory, and Commentary

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, I analyze the late medieval text Mandeville’s Travels, specifically the Cotton MS. This text, though […]

The Manufacturers of Literature: Writing and the Literary Marketplace in Eighteenth-Century England

The Manufacturers of Literature explores the effect of the development of the publishing industry upon print culture generally, and literature specifically, during the eighteenth century. The book is structured around case studies of important writers and publishers, including Addison and Steele, Pope, Johnson, Robert Dodsley, and Frances Burney.

Mapping Discord: Allegorical Cartography in Early Modern French Writing

Mapping Discord examines a series of allegorical maps published in France during the seventeenth century that cast in spatial terms a number of heated aesthetic and social debates. It discusses the convergence of map-making and literary creation in the context of early modern cartographic practice, and demonstrates that the unique language of allegorical cartography raises important […]

Mapping the Fiction of Cristina Fernández Cubas

Cristina Fernández Cubas is one of the most important of the Spanish writers who have begun to publish since the end of the Franco dictatorship. Credited with playing a major role in the renaissance of the short story in Spain, she has won national and international acclaim for her fiction, and it has become a […]

Marble Halls: Civic and Urban Architecture in the Gilded Age

Marble Halls is about the great civic buildings that were designed in the style of Beaux-Arts classicism during the Gilded Age (1865–1918) and about the City Beautiful movement that was intended to improve the setting for the buildings and the urban environment for the people. The Industrial Revolution, which arrived belatedly in the United States, […]

Marginalities: Diamela Eltit and the Subversion of Mainstream Literature in Chile

This English-language study examines multiple works by the Chilean writer Diamela Eltit. Written in clear critical discourse, these essays are a practical tool for first-time or hesitant Eltit readers who seek discussion of a particular book and are not familiar with the author’s entire production. This study will be beneficial for scholars interested in Latin […]

Marguerite, Countess of Blessington: The Turbulent Life of a Salonnière and Author

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. It examines Lady Blessington’s close friendships with politicians and […]

A Martyr for Sin: Rochester's Critique of Polity, Sexuality, and Society

Rochester’s hitherto underappreciated political thinking is reassessed in this study via a combination of postmodern critical approaches, particularly the theories of Foucault with close contextual readings of his works. Substantially new and politicized readings are offered for Rochester’s satires, lyrics, prose, and drama-texts both rarely and much studied.

Masculinities, Childhood, Violence: Attending to Early Modern Women—and Men: Proceedings of the 2006 Symposium

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, lives, and culture across geographical regions, primarily in England, France, Germany, Italy, the Low Countries, the Caribbean, and the […]

The Masks of Anthony and Cleopatra

A sensitive and penetrating analysis, scene by scene, act by act, of this most complex and ambiguous of Shakespeare’s great plays, seen through the eyes of both the literary critic and the student of theatrical history. As in his earlier Masks books, Marvin Rosenberg has gathered impressions from performance reviews from all over the world, comments by […]

The Masks of Hamlet

In this work, Rosenberg insists again and again that only the individual reader or actor can determine Shakespeare’s design of Hamlet’s characterand of the play. To interpret Hamlet’s words and actions at the many crises, the reader needs to double in the role of actor, imagining the character from the inside and observing from the […]

The Masks of King Lear

This book seeks Shakespeare’s intentions in King Lear in new ways. It explores major interpretations of distinguished actors and directors as well as of critics from England, the United States, France, Norway, Italy, Poland, and elsewhere; and it confronts issues of staging and visualization.

Maternal Echoes: The Poetry of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and Alphonse de Lamartine

Maternal Echoes examines maternal imagery in the poetry of two French Romantic poets, the increasingly popular Desbordes-Valmore and the critically marginalized Lamartine. Drawing on psychoanalytic theories on the maternal voice as well as feminist criticism, the book argues that both poets find a voice of their own by echoing their mother’s voice.

Maverick Management: Strategies for Success

Maverick Management: Strategies for Success is the memoir of Al Giacco, the former chairman and CEO of Hercules. The book focuses on Giacco’s role in key developments at Hercules, including establishing Hercules as a major player in the aerospace industry, providing troubleshooting leadership for the polymers division, restructuring Hercules to deal with the changes created by […]

The Mechanics of Solids, History and Evolution: A Festschrift in Honor of Arnold D. Kerr

This book is an outgrowth of a 2004 symposium held at the University of Delaware in honor of Dr. Kerr’s retirement after a thirty-year career at the university. It includes a biography and publications list of Arnold D. Kerr, as well as twelve papers on various topics including contact mechanics, nondestructive evaluation of structures, ice […]

Metternich and the German Question: States' Rights and Federal Duties, 1820-1834

This book discusses Metternich’s attempt to turn the German Confederation into a “school of nationalism” for the German princes and shows that Metternich’s goal for the Confederation was not Austrian mastery, but European security.

Middleton's “Vulgar Pasquin”: Essays on A Game at Chess

Here, discussion of A Game is grounded on a thorough examination of the textual witnesses and contemporary reports, some of them new. The essays are substantially revisionist, situating the play in critical, historical, and theatrical contexts. Extensive illustrative and textual appendixes supply information essential to editors and readers.

Milton Among Spaniards

Firmly grounded in literary studies but drawing on religious studies, translation studies, drama, and visual art, Milton Among Spaniards is the first book-length exploration of the afterlife of John Milton in Spanish culture, illuminating underexamined Anglo-Hispanic cultural relations. This study calls attention to a series of powerful engagements by Spaniards with Milton’s works and legend, […]

The Mind's Landscape: William Bronk and Twentieth-Century American Poetry

Throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, the poet William Bronk (1918-1999) was a significant voice in the American literary landscape. Even though he spent nearly all of his life in Hudson Falls, NY, Bronk was a vital presence in American poetry as evidenced by his connections to Robert Frost, Charles Olson, George Oppen, […]

The Mirror of Divinity: The World and Creation in J.-K. Huysmans

Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book argues that the operation of art-as-mirror is the key to the hidden unity of Huysmans’ fiction. Beginning with an examination of Huysmans’ naturalist reflections of a fallen world, this study moves to an analysis of Huysmans’ Decadent works, in which he images the distorted or idealized selves of aesthetes […]

The Mixed Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This collection underscores the contemporary relevance of Gilman’s analysis of American society, the enduring value of her literary and theoretical work, but also raises questions about the limitations embodied and revealed in her analyses. These essays offer a range of assessments regarding Gilman’s mixed legacy—her vision for a truly humane, egalitarian world alongside her persistent […]

Modern Art on Display: The Legacies of Six Collectors

Modern Art on Display: The Legacies of Six Collectors is structured as a sequence of case studies that pair collectors of modern art with artists they particularly favored: Duncan Phillips and Augustus Vincent Tack; Albert Barnes and Chaim Soutine; Albert Eugene Gallatin and Juan Gris; Lillie Bliss and Paul Cézanne; Etta Cone and Henri Matisse; G. […]

Modern Love: Personal Relationships in Twentieth-Century Britain

Private life has altered beyond all recognition during the past one hundred years. Britain in 1900 was emerging from a Victorian era in which prudery, patriarchal authority, and pettifogging rules of etiquette were widely perceived to have circumscribed relations between men and women. The twentieth century witnessed a reaction against this system of separate spheres […]

The Modest Ambition of Andrew Marvell: A Study of Marvell and His Relation to Lovelace, Fairfax, Cromwell, and Milton

A quasi-biographical, historical, and critical study of Andrew Marvell, this book deals with the specific historical presences and pressures that led Marvell to devise his defenses of “worthy men.” Marvell’s perception of his role as poet emerges through his reformation of conventional figures and structures.

Money, Power, and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles

This collection gathers together the expertise of scholars in several disciplines in order to examine the manner in which financial and economic arguments were expressed in pamphlets, broadsides, and longer works of literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and to assess to what extent the political realities of the day were informed by these […]

Money and Materiality in the Golden Age of Graphic Satire

This book examines the entwined and simultaneous rise of graphic satire and cultures of paper money in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Asking how Britons learned to value both graphic art and money, the book makes surprising connections between two types of engraved images that grew in popularity and influence during this time. Graphic […]

Monstrous Kinships: Realism and Attachment Theory in the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Novel

Monstrous Kinships: Realism and Attachment Theory in the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Novel investigates the connection between realist fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the psychoanalytic approach of John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory. Attachment Theory arises from the guiding principles of realism and the veratist’s devotion to long-term, direct observation of subject matter. Additionally, […]

Montaigne and the Lives of the Philosophers: Life Writing and Transversality in the Essais

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 thought, therefore, means not only studying the philosophies of […]

Mortality’s Muse: The Fine Art of Dying

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 in ways that are perhaps more complete and certainly more deeply human. Among subjects […]

The Mysterious and the Foreign in Early Modern England

This collection of original essays explores the great quests and questions into the unknown that occupied and troubled the early modern world. The topics addressed are in many cases hitherto untouched by modern scholarship. Writings examined include canonical texts of early modern literature and other less familiar works engaged in the transcultural exchanges of their […]

Napoleon’s Sorcerers: The Sophisians

During Napoleon’s rule, Freemasonic circles in France invented rituals that allegedly first took place in the temple structures of ancient Egypt. This book looks at the cultural environment and intellectual background of the one such pseudo-Egyptian secret society, the Sacred Order of the Sophisians. Founded in Paris in 1801, the Sophisian Order initially catered to […]

Narrative Faith: Dostoevsky, Camus, and Singer

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 to tell that story—leading readers to doubt the narrators and their narratives. […]

National Responses to the Holocaust: National Identity and Public Memory

The Holocaust is an international event, but the brutal crimes happened in specific places and are remembered, to a large degree, in various national discourses. The essays in this book examine the complex and often ambiguous relationship between national identity and the legacy of the Holocaust in countries including Lithuania, Poland, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, […]

The National Road and the Difficult Path to Sustainable National Investment

The National Road is a comprehensive history of the first federally financed interstate highway, an approximately 600-mile span that joined Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois in the nineteenth century. This book covers the road’s contribution to the cultural, economic, and administrative history of the United States, its decline during the second half of […]

Nature, Politics, and the Arts: Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring

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 culture. A multiple-authored chapter of postscripts on the aesthetic range of Woodring’s intellectual […]

Neoclassical Tragedy in Elizabethan England

This book examines the development of neoclassical tragedy during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). The first chapter investigates the Elizabethan views of tragedy expressed by critics of the theater, including Gosson, Stubbes, and Rainolds, and defenders of poetry and drama such as Lodge, Philip Sidney, and Gager. The next chapter focuses on the English […]

Nests of the Gentry: Family, Estate, and Local Loyalties in Provincial Russia

This study establishes the deep loyalty of a segment of the Russian gentry to life in the provinces during the period 1820-1860, centering on the family but extending to estates, peasants, and neighborhood society. The book examines the cultural identity of the provincial nobility, focusing on the province of Tver’. It begins with those relationships […]

Neural Computation in Hopfield Networks and Boltzmann Machines

This book deals with the existing mathematical models of neurons and their interactions. Beginning with the research of John Hopfield, the authors go on to study problems involving Hopfield’s network, the modifications introduced by Ackley, Hinton, and Sejnowski, and the rise of the Boltzmann machine.

New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction: “Hearts Resolved and Hands Prepared”: Essays in Honor of Jerry C. Beasley

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 Beasley’s career and point to new directions of critical inquiry. The initial essays, which […]

New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation

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 simultaneously interrogates particular texts (such as the Dictionary, the Lives of the Poets) alongside general themes (such as Johnson and […]

A New Species of Criticism: Eighteenth-Century Discourse on the Novel

This work offers new prominence to the first century of theoretical and critical commentary on the English novel. Moving ostensibly marginal texts (such as prefaces and reviews) to the foreground, the author demonstrates the role critical discourse played in establishing the genre within literary and popular culture, and the extent to which it anticipated many […]

New Testaments: Cognition, Closure, and the Figural Logic of the Sequel, 1660–1740

  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 the way human beings process narrative information. We crave narrative closure, but we also resist its finality, making […]

North American Players of Shakespeare: A Book of Interviews

This is a collection of interviews of twenty-one actors from Shakespeare theaters and festivals across North America, from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland to the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario. The interviews celebrate the variety in education, training, and approaches to acting conducted by recognized performance scholars. Thus, this […]

Nostalgia for a Redeemed Future: Critical Theory

The book collects essays presented at the international conference on Critical Theoy, held at John Cabot University on May 22, 2008. The articles in this book stress the relevance to the present of the early stages of Critical Theory. On the one hand they aim at the recognition of the fundamental role played by such […]

Notes and Remembrances, 1871-1872

This is an eyewitness account of the brutal ending of the civil war in France in 1871; the military destruction of the Commune of Paris by the national government in Versailles; and the subsequent legal judgments rendered against the insurgents. Ludovic Halévy, better known as a librettist and novelist, was not only a gifted writer, […]

Notes from a Mandala: Essays in the History of Indian Religions in Honor of Wendy Doniger

Notes from a Mandala gathers together current work in the history, ethnography and textual study of religions in honor of the career of Wendy Doniger. Its authors are a new generation of leading scholars whose work falls in the interstices between the traditional disciplines: gender studies; the history of sexuality; the role of textual study and […]

Notorious Facts: Publicity in Romantic England, 1780-1830

Notorious Facts examines the sensationalistic confounding of persons and principles in the public life of Romantic England (1780–1830). Its purview is limited to five decades straddling the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but its trajectory, moving from a politics rendered in personal terms to a politics of personality, describes a shift still in process today. […]

Novel Stages: Drama and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France

Aimed at examining the intersections between the drama and the novel in nineteenth-century France, this collection of essays reorients scholarly attention to the central place of the theater in nineteenth-century life. Although not limited to a single critical approach, the essays in this collection share common intellectual concerns: the inscription of theatrical aesthetics within the […]

Nowhere is Perfect: French and Francophone Utopias/Dystopias

Utopian imaginings undoubtedly satisfy a desire for fantasy and escape. At the same time, they are generally anchored in the real world, whose shortcomings they criticize, implicitly or explicitly, and for which they purport to offer solutions. The creation of perfect imaginary worlds therefore serves as a means of acting on the imperfect present. This […]

Objects of Liberty: British Women Writers and Revolutionary Souvenirs

While souvenir collecting was a standard practice of privileged men on the eighteenth-century Grand Tour, women began to partake in this endeavor as political events in France heightened interest in travel to the Continent. Objects of Liberty: British Women Writers and Revolutionary Souvenirs explores the prevalence of souvenirs in British women’s writing during the French […]

Octave Mirbeau’s Fictions of the Transcendental

Political firebrand, tireless reformer, champion of the avant-garde, Octave Mirbeau embraced his role as disturber of the peace. Inspired by Kropotkine and Dostoyevsky, Mirbeau became the social conscience of the era, speaking in a clear voice to impugn capitalist ideology, to defend the cause of the worker, the child, the pauper, the prostitute, and the […]

Odyssey of a Bombardier: The POW Log of Richard M. Mason

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 day his plane crashed […]

Of Memory and Literary Form: Making the Early Modern English Nation

This book opens with a crisis of recollection. In the early modern period, real political traumas like civil war and regicide exacerbated what were already perceived ruptures in myths of English descent. William Camden and other scholars had revealed that the facts of history could not justify the Arthurian myths, nor could history itself guarantee […]

Of Paradise and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum

This collection examines intertextual intersections in the works of Henry Vaughan and John Milton and considers their aesthetic, philosophical, or political implications. The theoretical pluralism of the volume reveals the variety and complexity of textual relations in the words of these early modern authors. Some of the essays focus on the author’s conscious creation of […]

The Ogre’s Progress: Images of the Ogre in Modern and Contemporary French Fiction

This book examines how modern French fiction writers have appropriated the ogre figure in order to evoke violence in all its voracity, as well as destructive time, which eats away the moments of our lives as the prototypical ogre of Western literature, Cronus, who devoured his own children. The ogre is a ubiquitous figure that […]

One Voice and Many: Modern Poets in Dialogue

Dialogue poetry inevitably recapitulates the question of the One and the Many because such poems must be understood both as the product of the one voice of the poet and as the multiple voices of the poems’ speakers. When dialogue poems address issues relevant to the One/Many problem, then, such poetry represents a union of […]

On Measure for Measure: An Essay in Criticism of Shakespeare's Drama

Continuing radical disagreement about Measure for Measure questions criticism’s ability to be answerable to Shakespearean drama. This book illustrates an eclectic historical criticism capable of manifesting this problematic play’s coherence.

On Second Thought: Updating the Eighteenth-Century Text

Why isn’t once enough for the telling of some tales? Why do we return to write and read sequels or updates or revisions? Why do some narratives provoke responses decades or even centuries after their first appearance? Why do some authors stimulate imitations and acts of impersonation or ventriloquism? The essays in this collection address […]

On the Mason-Dixon Line: An Anthology of Contemporary Delaware Writers

In the first collection of its kind, the editors have gathered together fifty-two of the best poems, stories, memoirs, novel excerpts, and creative nonfiction by writers who have called the tiny state of Delaware their home. The volume offers meticulously selected work, alphabetized by author, much of it inspired by or set in the state, […]

Opening the Borders: Inclusivity in Early Modern Studies: Essays in Honor of James V. Mirollo

Early modern studies is increasingly devoted to opening the borders between supposedly discrete areas of study, including antithetical theoretical approaches, and Opening the Borders provides examplars of this eclectic practice. This collection includes studies of both English and Continental subjects, and it demonstrates that the circulation of older and newer critical practices across borders between various “demarcated” […]

Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice

Ordering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact and a rapid acceleration of the circulation of information. Venice was at the center of both these developments. The book traces the emergence of a distinctive tradition of ethnographic writing that served as the basis […]

Organizing, Role Enactment, and Disaster: A Structural Theory

The authors construct a formal theory of organizing and role enactment during the emergency period of disaster. Three core social processes are derived from Ralph Turner’s theorizing about role systems: role allocation, role complementarity, and role differentiation.

The Other Rise of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction

The rise of the novel paradigm—and the underlying homology between the rise of a bourgeois middle class and the coming of age of a new literary genre—continues to influence the way we analyze economic discourse in the eighteenth-century French novel. Characters are often seen as portraying bourgeois values, even when historiographical evidence points to the […]

Other Voices, Other Views: Expanding the Canon in English Renaissance Studies

This collection presents early modern writers who were either virtually unknown, or whose works were overshadowed by those of their great contemporaries Shakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, and Donne. It is a series of historically specific readings of social relationships, understood from the point of view of marginalized or neglected sources. The intention of this volume is […]

Painting Shakespeare Red: An East-European Appropriation

This study deals with the appropriation of Shakespeare for the needs of communist ideology. While primarily concentrating on the uses of his dramatic work in Bulgaria, it places his experience in the East-European context. The bulk of the book is devoted to an analysis of the complex interplay between oppressive ideological criticism and theater practice. […]

Painting the Prehistoric Body in Late Nineteenth-Century France

In late nineteenth-century France, when Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution had finally begun to permeate French culture and society, several academic artists turned to a relatively new sub-genre of history painting, the prehistoric-themed subject. This artistic interest in Darwin’s theories was manifested as paintings and sculptures of prehistoric humanity engaged in physical conflict with each […]

The Papist Represented: Literature and the English Catholic Community, 1688–1791

Most eighteenth-century literary scholarship associates the major developments in English literature and culture during the rise of modernity with a triumphant and increasingly tolerant Protestantism while assuming that the English Catholic community was culturally moribund and disengaged from Protestant society and culture. However, recent work by historians has shown that the English Catholic community was […]

Pastiche, Fashion, and Galanterie in Chardin’s Genre Subjects: Looking Smart

Pastiche, Fashion and Galanterie in Chardin’s Genre Subjects seeks to understand how Chardin’s genre subjects were composed and constructed to communicate certain things to the elites of Paris in the 1730s and 1740s. The book argues against the conventional view of Chardin as the transparent imitator of bourgeois life and values so ingrained in art history […]

Patrons of Enlightenment: The Free Economic Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia

Patrons of Enlightenment is the first English language study of the St. Petersburg Free Economic Study, one of the most prestigious and influential public associations in Imperial Russian history. Established in 1765 under the personal protection of Catherine the Great, its mission was to enlighten the villages and country estates of the Russian Empire by spreading […]

Pencils Rhetorique: Renaissance Poets and the Art of Painting

The painting and poetry of the Renaissance shared the same goal of imitating nature. This study is concerned with the various kinds of allusions and what they can tell us not only about the poets’ attitudes to the visual arts but also their attitudes to their own art of representation. Illustrated.

Penitent Brothellers: Grace, Sexuality, and Genre in Thomas Middleton's City Comedies

Penitent Brothellers examines the religious perspectives of Jacobean dramatist Thomas Middleton, focusing on scenes of repentance and conversion in his city comedies. Using Middleton’s rarely studied pamphlet The Two Gates of Salvation, Heller establishes the Calvinist theological background for the repentances. The study also examines Middleton’s portrayal of sodomy in his satires.

Performative Polemic: Anti-Absolutist Pamphlets and their Readers in Late Seventeenth-Century France

Performative Polemic is the first literary historical study to analyze the “war of words” unleashed in the pamphlets denouncing Louis XIV’s absolute monarchy between 1667 and 1715. As conflict erupted between the French ruler and his political enemies, pamphlet writers across Europe penned scathing assaults on the Sun King’s bellicose impulses and expansionist policies. This […]

Performing the “Everyday”: The Culture of Genre in the Eighteenth Century

This interdisciplinary anthology explores the representation of everyday life across several disciplines in a century known for its interest in individual experience of the mundane as well as the heroic. Comprised of essays by established and emerging scholars of literature, art, and music history, the volume explores not merely the range of performances under the […]

The Persistence of Hope: A True Story

This is the personal saga of a young Yugoslavian artist who, well aware of the Nazi danger from its earliest days, was drafted into the Yugoslav army and taken prisoner of war. Released from the work camp because of his personal courage, Alcalay returned to Nazi-occupied Belgrade where German reprisals caused the execution of over […]

The Philadelawareans and Other Essays Relating to Delaware

This volume presents a varied sampling of the author’s writings from the past sixty years, along with some previously unpublished materials. It begins with a long prologue that the author calls a literary autobiography, and this story is continued and amplified in introductory notes that accompany each of the following items. The first essay provides […]

Physiognomy in Profile: Lavater’s Impact on European Culture

The Swiss theologian Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801) is best known for his revival of physiognomy, or the ancient art of judging character from physical appearance. His writings on physiognomy, rapidly translated into the major European languages, made him a celebrity in his lifetime. Although they were always controversial, Lavater’s theories had a pervasive and long-lasting […]

Picturing Religious Experience: George Herbert, Calvin, and the Scriptures

Little has been said about the relationship of Herbert’s writings to those of John Calvin, yet the latter were abundant and influential in Herbert’s Church of England. Accordingly Picturing Religious Experience studies Herbert’s poetry in relation to those writings, particularly regarding “spiritual conflicts,” which the poet himself said would be found depicted in his book of poems. […]

Piety and Politics: Imaging Divine Kingship in Louis XIV’s Chapel at Versailles

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Louis XIV’s magnificent palace chapel at Versailles. The story of this carefully calculated dynastic shrine will interest all historians of the ancien régime. Illustrated.

The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (formerly Mrs. Thrale), Volume 4, 1805-1810

Volume 4 describes one of the most traumatic periods of Hester Lynch Piozzi’s life, when she could no longer believe that Gabriel Piozzi’s attacks of gout were to be endured as a typically gentrified English condition. Illustrated.

The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (formerly Mrs. Thrale), Volume 6, 1817-1821

The letters in this volume record the last years of Mrs. Piozzi’s life. Her correspondence from 1817 to 1821 reads like extensions of her private journals and may be seen as affirmations of hope and ambition as well as declarations of frustration, grief, anger, and self-pity. Illustrated.

Pivotal Policies in Delaware: From Desegregation to Deregulation

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 happenings of particular persons. They prompted public policies, the effects of which were […]

A Place in the Story: Servants and Service in Shakespeare’s Plays

This book explores the virtues Shakespeare made of the cultural necessities of servants and service. Although all of Shakespeare’s plays feature servants as characters, and many of these characters play prominent roles, surprisingly little attention has been paid to them or to the concept of service. A Place in the Story is the first book-length overview of […]

Plato’s Republic and Shakespeare’s Rome: A Political Study of the Roman Works

This pioneering study argues the influence of Plato’s political thought on Shakespeare’s Roman works: The Rape of Lucrece, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Titus Andronicus. It contends that Plato’s theory of constitutional decline provides the philosophical core of these works; that Lucrece, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra form a “Platonic” tetralogy collectively spanning the stages of timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny; […]

Playful and Serious: Philip Roth as a Comic Writer

Few contemporary American writers have stirred the minds and emotions of their readers as Philip Roth has done. Even fewer writers have excelled in various forms of the comic as Roth has for over a half-century. Playful and Serious assembles a group of outstanding Roth scholars and critics who focus their attention on the different ways Roth […]

Playing Robin Hood: The Legend as Performance in Five Centuries

The essays in this collection explore the performance aspects of the Robin Hood legend from three perspectives: its Tudor social and theatrical context; its adaptations and analogues in other cultures; and its later history in theater and film.

The Poems of Patrick Delany: Comprising Also Poems About Him by Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, and Other Friends and Enemies

Patrick Delany (1685/6-1768) was a poet who occupied a prominent place in Swift’s circle of Irish wits. This edition attempts to gather all of his extant verse, including minor or trivial pieces. His poems occasioned responses or were themselves responses to other poems. This edition prints these interacting poems together for example those concerned with […]

Poetry, Signs, and Magic

Poetry, Signs, and Magic brings together in a single volume fourteen new and previously published essays by the eminent Renaissance scholar and literary critic, Thomas M. Greene. This collection looks back toward two earlier volumes by Greene, his first essay collection The Vulnerable Text: Essays on Renaissance Literature, and Poesie et Magie, whose theme is here explored again […]

Poetry and the Feminine from Behn to Cowper

Poetry and the Feminine from Behn to Cowper revisits the foundations of poetic representation and value for women and men poets of the Restoration and eighteenth century including Aphra Behn, John Dryden, Anne Killigrew, Anne Finch, and Alexander Pope. The author argues that fundamental to poetic innovation in this era are poets’ revisions of “feminine” figures […]

Political Anti-Slavery Discourse and American Literature of the 1850s

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 that feature of political anti-slavery discourse—the condemnation of an enfeebled North—the key to […]

Political Speaking Justified: Women Prophets and the English Revolution

Political Speaking Justified traces the development of the idea of female political authority in three women prophets of the English Revolution. Following in the tradition of the Hebrew prophets, these women—Eleanor Davies, Anna Trapnel, and Margaret Fell—believed that God called them to communicate his will to the leaders of the nation. They entered the public sphere […]

The Politics of Rape: Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and the Restoration Stage

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 broadsides, this study argues that authors used dramatic representations of rape to respond to and […]

Politics on the Periphery: Factions and Parties in Georgia, 1783-1806

By considering in detail ideology, sectionalism, social tensions, personalities, and land hunger as factors in Georgia politics, this study sheds new light on party formation in the early American republic. Illustrated.

Poppies and Politics in China: Sichuan Province, 1840s to 1940s

From the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Sichuan Province was the largest opium-producing region in the largest opium-producing country, China. This book uses a chronological approach to describe and explain the rise and fall of opium in Sichuan. Through discussing the growth of opium production, the government policies toward opium and its usage, the […]

Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France

Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France examines how new and often contradictory ideas about friendship were enacted in the lives of artists in the eighteenth century. It demonstrates that portraits resulted from and generated new ideas about friendship by analyzing the creation, exchange, and display of portraits alongside discussions of friendship in philosophical and academic […]

Powerful Connections: The Poetics of Patronage in the Age of Louis XIII

Powerful Connections is a reappraisal of the role of patronage in seventeenth-century French literary culture. By focusing on the networks of personal relationships in which writers were enmeshed, Shoemaker provides a corrective to the dominant theoretical accounts of representation and power during this period, which have tended to focus narrowly on the figures of the king […]

Print, Chaos, and Complexity: Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Media Culture

This book describes how eighteenth-century awareness of the interplay between fixity and instability in printed texts demonstrates the role print played in developing Samuel Johnson’s awareness of print culture’s impact on human beings ethically, politically, and aesthetically. The study traces the evolution and continuity of Johnson’s ideas in these areas by describing the importance of […]

Private Fire: Robert Francis’s Ecopoetry and Prose

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 with Robert Francis’s work, which emphasizes conservation and connectedness to our natural surroundings, to illuminate both overtones and nuances that are undoubtedly useful […]

Private Philanthropy and Public Education: Pierre S. du Pont and the Delaware Schools, 1890-1940

An account of Delaware’s experience of educational modernization led by Pierre S. du Pont, from a local-based collection of school districts to a coherent state system that by the 1930s ranked near the top in the nation. Illustrated.

Private Property: Charles Brockden Brown’s Gendered Economics of Virtue

This book describes Charles Brockden Brown’s novels in their Federalist-era context, exploring the dual roles of economics and gender that were changing in the 1790s alongside the growing U.S. market-capitalist economy. Hinds argues that Brown’s works both recorded and contributed to this shifting ideology.

PROCEEDINGS of the ASSEMBLY of the LOWER COUNTIES on DELAWARE 1770-1776, of the CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION of 1776, and of the HOUSE of ASSEMBLY of the DELAWARE STATE 1776-1781 (Volume 1)

This volume makes important documents available to the public and to researchers for the first time about the state’s role in the American Revolution and about Delaware’s patriot statesmen.

Producing the Eighteenth-Century Book: Writers and Publishers in England, 1650-1800

This volume includes twelve essays on the history of the book in the long eighteenth century that collectively argue for the importance of integrating literary scholarship and the various practices of book history. Themes include: a rectification of the tendency in literary studies to be blind to the materiality of the book; a focus on […]

The Progressive Poetics of Confusion in the French Enlightenment

In The Progressive Poetics of Confusion in the French Enlightenment, John C. O’Neal draws largely on the etymological meaning of the word confusion as the action of mixing or blending in order to trace the development of this project which, he claims, aimed to reject dogmatic thinking in all of its forms and recognized the need […]