University of Delaware Press
The University of Delaware Press publishes approximately 15–20 books per year in Literary Studies, especially Renaissance and Early Modern literature; Eighteenth-Century Studies; French literature and culture; Art History and Material Culture Studies; and cultural studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore. Showing 109-120 of 124 items.
Inventing the Critic in Renaissance England
University of Delaware Press
In Inventing the Critic in Renaissance England, William Russell reveals that the critics of the English Renaissance did not passively absorb their practice from Continental and classical sources but actively invented it in response to a confluence of social and intellectual factors.
- Copyright year: 2011
Rivers in Russian Literature
University of Delaware Press
Rivers in Russian Literature focuses on the Russian literary and folkloric treatment of five rivers—the Dnieper, Volga, Neva, Don, and Angara. Each chapter traces, within a geographical and historical context, the evolution of the literary representation of one river.
- Copyright year: 2011
Apparition of Splendor
Marianne Moore Performing Democracy through Celebrity, 1952–1970
University of Delaware Press
Apparition of Splendor looks in depth at Marianne Moore's elaborately constructed, multi-dimensional poems of her 1950s-60s celebrity phase, in which, cross-dressed as George Washington, she presented her poetry as part of a comedic performance. This biography shows how her poems challenge the highbrow hierarchy of art and invite the readers into the process of making meaning out of their daily lives.
- Copyright year: 2021
Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France
University of Delaware Press
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 discourse, exhibition criticism, personal diaries, and correspondence.
- Copyright year: 2011
Elusive Archives
Material Culture in Formation
Edited by Martin Brückner and Sandy Isenstadt
University of Delaware Press
Elusive Archives asks how historians, librarians, and museum professionals can bring together scattered, lost, or otherwise forgotten objects into a provisional collection, an elusive archive. Addressing a wide range of objects, the authors’ diverse approaches, varying formats, and wide scope of inquiries describe a new conceptual territory at the intersection of archival studies and material culture studies.
- Copyright year: 2021
Votes for Delaware Women
University of Delaware Press
This book traces the growth of an organized suffrage movement in Delaware from the 1890s to the 1920s. It covers the activities of the major suffrage organizations after 1914, when African American women organized their own suffrage club and the State's National Women's Party affiliate contested with the Delaware Equal Suffrage Association for Leadership of the cause, and explains the Legislature's refusal to make Delaware the final state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment.
- Copyright year: 2021
Performative Polemic
Anti-Absolutist Pamphlets and their Readers in Late Seventeenth-Century France
University of Delaware Press
Performative Polemic offers a literary history of the French-language pamphlets that denounced absolutism during Louis XIV’s personal reign (1661-1715). The book employs performativity as a conceptual framework to trace the evolution of anti-absolutist pamphlets from legalistic texts indicting the French crown to satirical narratives that transformed the Sun King into a laughable object of derision.
- Copyright year: 2021
Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750–1850
Edited by Anaïs Pédron and Clare Siviter
University of Delaware Press
Scholars often focus on the period from 1750 to 1850 as the birth of “celebrity”, but this volume is the first to offer a sustained comparative study of celebrity in Britain and France during this period. Through a series of national and international case studies bringing together the fields of history, politics, literature, theater studies, and musicology, it unearths how celebrity was developed, theorized, and consumed on either side of the Channel.
- Copyright year: 2021
Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies, revised edition
The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France
University of Delaware Press
This new edition of Anne Duggan’s Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies emphasizes the field-changing impacts of the original, which focused on two of the most prolific seventeenth-century women writers, Madeleine de Scudéry and Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, to demonstrate how women helped create the fairy tale genre, staking their claim as major authors of their day. Using novels, chronicles, and fairy tales, Scudéry and d’Aulnoy responded to and participated in significant social changes in early modern France.
- Copyright year: 2021
Comparative Essays on the Poetry and Prose of John Donne and George Herbert
Combined Lights
Edited by Russell M. Hillier and Robert W. Reeder
University of Delaware Press
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 poet-thinkers. The contributors illuminate a variety of topics and fields while suggestion new directions that future study of Donne and Herbert might take.
- Copyright year: 2022
Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century
Edited by Jennifer Milam and Nicola Parsons
University of Delaware Press
This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experience occasioned by reception during the long eighteenth century. Through a consideration of the material formation of concepts, this book explores questions that are implicated by the need to see ideas in painted, sculpted, illustrated, and designed forms. In doing so, it introduces new visual materials and novel conceptual models into traditional accounts of the intellectual history of the Enlightenment.
- Copyright year: 2022
English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800
Edited by Heather Ladd and Leslie Ritchie
University of Delaware Press
English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explores 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 anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. Chapters in this book discuss anecdotes about actors, actresses, musicians, and other theatre people.
- Copyright year: 2022
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