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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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 […]

Author:
Olivia Gruber Florek
Hardback ISBN:
9781644532867
Hardback Release:
November 2022
Paperback ISBN:
9781644532850
Paperback Release:
November 2022
Series:
Performing Celebrity

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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 […]

Editor(s):
Heather Ladd
Editor(s):
Leslie Ritchie
Hardback ISBN:
9781644532614
Hardback Release:
June 2022
Paperback ISBN:
9781644532607
Paperback Release:
June 2022
Series:
Performing Celebrity

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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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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 […]

Editor(s):
Nora Nachumi
Editor(s):
Kristina Straub
Hardback ISBN:
9781644532652
Hardback Release:
July 2022
Paperback ISBN:
9781644532645
Paperback Release:
July 2022
Series:
Performing Celebrity

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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 […]

Author:
Amanda Lahikainen
Hardback ISBN:
9781644532690
Hardback Release:
August 2022
Paperback ISBN:
9781644532683
Paperback Release:
August 2022
Series:
Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture

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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 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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The World of Elizabeth Inchbald: Essays on Literature, Culture, and Theatre in the Long Eighteenth Century

This collection centers on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821), active in Great Britain in the late eighteenth century. Inspired by the example of Inchbald’s biographer, Annibel Jenkins (1918–2013), the contributors explore the broad historical and cultural context around Inchbald’s life and work, with essays ranging from the […]

Editor(s):
Daniel J. Ennis
Editor(s):
E. Joe Johnson
Hardback ISBN:
9781644532577
Hardback Release:
June 2022
Paperback ISBN:
9781644532560
Paperback Release:
June 2022

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