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 97-108 of 124 items.
Epic Landscapes
Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Art of Watercolor
University of Delaware Press
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 illustrated manuscripts.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson
Volume 2
Edited by Jane E. Calvert; By John Dickinson
University of Delaware Press
Volume Two of The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson, covering the years 1759 to 1763, shows Dickinson’s rise to prominence as a lawyer with cases ranging from land disputes to murder; and his entry into public life as a legislator in the Delaware and Pennsylvania Assemblies. In addition to case notes and legislation, the documents include correspondence, commonplace books, verse, and essays on political and legal topics such as judicial tenure and the flag-of-truce trade.
- Copyright year: 2021
The Dark Thread
From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales
Edited by John D. Lyons
University of Delaware Press
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 such as murder, cannibalism, poisoning, the burial of the living, the failed burial of the dead, and subsequent apparitions of ghosts that haunt the household unite “high” and “low” cultural traditions. This book questions the traditional separation between the highly honored genre of tragedy and the less respected and generally less well-known genres of histoires tragiques, gothic tales and novels, and horror stories.
- Copyright year: 2011
Grant Wood’s Secrets
By Sue Taylor
University of Delaware Press
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 first time ever, Sue Taylor integrates the artist’s own recollections into interpretations of his art.
- Copyright year: 2011
Exquisite Materials
Episodes in the Queer History of Victorian Style
University of Delaware Press
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.
- Copyright year: 2011
Milton Among Spaniards
University of Delaware Press
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, following a general chronology from the eighteenth to the early twenty-first century, tracing the overall story of Milton’s presence from indices of prohibited works during the Inquisition, through the many Spanish translations of Paradise Lost, to the author’s depiction on stage in the nineteenth-century play Milton, and finally to the representation of Paradise Lost by Spanish visual artists.
- Copyright year: 2011
Art and Artifact in Austen
Edited by Anna Battigelli
University of Delaware Press
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.
- Copyright year: 2020
Hostile Humor in Renaissance France
By Bruce Hayes
University of Delaware Press
This study examines both pamphlets and plays to show how this new form of humor emerged that attacked religious practices and people in ways that forever changed the nature of satire and religious debate in France. Hayes explores this phenomenon in the context of the Catholic and Protestant conflict to reveal new insights about the society that both exploited and vilified this kind of satire.
- Copyright year: 2011
Realism and Role-Play
The Human Figure in French Art from Callot to the Brothers Le Nain
University of Delaware Press
After the heroic nudes of the Renaissance and depictions of the tortured bodies of Christian saints, early seventeenth-century French artists turned their attention to their fellow humans, to nobles and beggars seen on the streets of Paris, to courtesans standing at their windows, to vendors advertising their wares, to peasants standing before their landlords. Realism and Role-Play draws on literature, social history, and affect theory in order to understand the way that figuration performed social positions.
- Copyright year: 2011
Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson
Volume 1
Edited by Jane E. Calvert; By John Dickinson
University of Delaware Press
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 odes.
- Copyright year: 2011
Writings of Warner Mifflin
Forgotten Quaker Abolitionist of the Revolutionary Era
University of Delaware Press
This volume represents the written record of the America's most under-appreciated abolitionist, a man who became the conscience of the new nation in the aftermath of the American Revolution. In about 150 documents, readers will find the literary record of a man who devoted his life to that newly born nation, which he hoped to rescue from its continued embrace of slavery.
- Copyright year: 2021
Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation
Edited by Shannon McHugh and Anna Wainwright
University of Delaware Press
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 studies, in particular.
- Copyright year: 2011
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