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 […]

Author:
Daniel Rich
Hardback ISBN:
9781644532966
Hardback Release:
March 2023
Paperback ISBN:
9781644532959
Paperback Release:
March 2023

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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 […]

Author:
Margaret M. Mulrooney
Hardback ISBN:
9781644532812
Hardback Release:
December 2022
Paperback ISBN:
9781644532805
Paperback Release:
December 2022
Series:
Cultural Studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore

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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 […]

Editor(s):
Meredith K. Ray, Lynn Lara Westwater
Hardback ISBN:
9781644533055
Hardback Release:
April 2023
Paperback ISBN:
9781644533048
Paperback Release:
April 2023
Series:
The Early Modern Exchange

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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 […]

Editor(s):
Anna Battigelli
Contributor(s):
Anna Battigelli, Steven N Zwicker, Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Paul Hammond, Andrew Walkling, David Hopkins, Cedric D Reverand II, Paula R. Backscheider, Ellen T Harris, Peter Sabor, Melissa A Schoenberger
Hardback ISBN:
9781644533123
Hardback Release:
October 2023
Paperback ISBN:
9781644533116
Paperback Release:
October 2023

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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 […]

Author:
Kathryn Taylor
Hardback ISBN:
9781644533000
Hardback Release:
May 2023
Paperback ISBN:
9781644532997
Paperback Release:
May 2023
Series:
The Early Modern Exchange

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Victorine du Pont: The Force Behind The Family

Victorine Elizabeth du Pont, the first child of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont and his wife Sophie, was seven years old when her family emigrated to America, where her father established the humble beginnings of what would become a corporate giant. Through correspondence with friends and relatives from the ages of eight to sixty-eight, Victorine unwittingly […]

Author:
Leonard C. Spitale
Hardback ISBN:
9781644532775
Hardback Release:
December 2022
Paperback ISBN:
9781644532768
Paperback Release:
December 2022
Series:
Cultural Studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore

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The Visionary Queen: Justice, Reform, and the Labyrinth in Marguerite de Navarre

The Visionary Queen: Justice, Reform, and the Labyrinth in Marguerite de Navarre affirms Navarre’s status not only as a political figure, author, or proponent of non-schismatic reform, but also as a visionary. In her life and writings, the queen of Navarre dissected the injustices that her society and its institutions perpetuated against women. We also […]

Author:
Theresa Brock
Hardback ISBN:
9781644533277
Hardback Release:
October 2023
Paperback ISBN:
9781644533086
Paperback Release:
October 2023
Series:
Early Modern Feminisms

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The Waxing of the Middle Ages: Revisiting Late Medieval France

Johan Huizinga’s much-loved and much-contested Autumn of the Middle Ages, first published in 1919, encouraged an image of the Late French. Middle Ages as a flamboyant but empty period of decline and nostalgia. Many studies, particularly literary studies, have challenged Huizinga’s perceptions of individual works or genres. Still, the vision of the Late French and Burgundian […]

Editor(s):
Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier, Tracy Adams
Hardback ISBN:
9781644532911
Hardback Release:
April 2023
Paperback ISBN:
9781644532904
Paperback Release:
April 2023
Series:
The Early Modern Exchange

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Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century: Age, Gender, and Work

Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century explores how boyhood was constructed in different creative spaces that reflected the lived experience of young boys through the long eighteenth century—not simply in children’s literature but in novels, poetry, medical advice, criminal broadsides, and automaton exhibitions. The chapters encompass such rituals as breeching, learning to read […]

Author:
Chantel Lavoie
Hardback ISBN:
9781644533208
Hardback Release:
November 2023
Paperback ISBN:
9781644533192
Paperback Release:
November 2023

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