University of Delaware Press – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien University of Delaware Press. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
32 produkter
Monstrous Kinships
Realism and Attachment Theory in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Novel
Inbunden, 2011
1388 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Monstrous Kinships: Realism and Attachment Theory in the Novels of Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Vladimir Nabokov investigates the connection between realist fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the psychoanalytic approach …
National Responses to the Holocaust
National Identity and Public Memory
Inbunden, 2013
1557 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Holocaust is an international event, its 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 …
Aesthetics of the 'Beyond'
Phantasm, Nostalgia, and the Literary Practice in Contemporary China
Av Jianguo Chen
Inbunden, 2009
1311 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
At Home and Abroad in the Empire
British Women Write the 1930s
Av Robin Hackett, Freda Hauser m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1375 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Jonathan Swift and the Arts
Inbunden, 2010
1388 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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, …
Shakespeare's Lyricized Drama
Inbunden, 2010
1632 kr
Lägg i varukorg
We are so used to calling the plays written by Shakespeare and his contemporaries 'poetic drama' that we hardly ever stop to think about the generic meaning of the term. This book is an attempt to explore Shakespeare's artistic achievement as an intricate blend of the dramatic and lyrical modes. In …
Defoe and the Whig Novel
A Reading of the Major Fiction
Inbunden, 2010
1469 kr
Lägg i varukorg
his 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 …
Emerson for the Twenty-First Century
Global Perspectives on an American Icon
Inbunden, 2010
2281 kr
Lägg i varukorg
While previous collections of Emerson essays have tended to be a sort of 'stock-taking' or 'retrospective' look at Emerson scholarship, the present collection follows a more 'prospective' trajectory for Emerson studies based on the recent increase in global perspectives in nearly all fields of …
Masks of Hamlet
Inbunden, 1993
2606 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
History of Delaware
Inbunden, 2006
1316 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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.
George Herbert's Travels
International Print and Cultural Legacies
Inbunden, 2011
2042 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This collection of essays features many of the world's leading Herbert scholars and track Herbert's travels: through four centuries, west and east; through the inner spaces of the suffering body and soul; and through modernity into the postmodern. They discover connections between Herbert and …
Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays
Inbunden, 2011
2444 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Shakespeare and Contemporary Fiction
Theorizing Foundling and Lyric Plots
Inbunden, 2011
970 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the first book to use fiction as theory, Barbara L. Estrin reverses chronological direction, beginning with contemporary novels to arrive at a re-visioned Shakespeare, uncovering a telling difference in the stories that script us and that influence our political unconscious in ways that have …
Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature
Ethics and the Reconstitution of Subjectivity
Inbunden, 2013
2203 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Reading What's There
Essays on Shakespeare in Honor of Stephen Booth
Inbunden, 2014
1375 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Stephen Booth has, for over forty years, proposed a distinct understanding of how Shakespeare’s plays and poems work upon us and a unique and rigorous way of reading them. The essays here reflect his insights and method and are meant both to recognize his monumental achievements as a critic and to …
Gender, Interpretation, and Political Rule in Sidney's Arcadia
Häftad, 2014
820 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Implication, Readers' Resources, and Thomas Gray's Pindaric Odes
Häftad, 2014
820 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Odyssey of a Bombardier
The POW Log of Richard M. Mason
Av John J. Hurt, Steven E. Sidebotham
Häftad, 2016
757 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Gender and Genre
German Women Write the French Revolution
Häftad, 2016
706 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
George Moore
Influence and Collaboration
Av Ann Heilmann, Mark Llewellyn
Häftad, 2016
820 kr
Lägg i varukorg
“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 …
Freedom and Dialogue in a Polarized World
Häftad, 2016
706 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Defoe’s Major Fiction
Accounting for the Self
Häftad, 2019
609 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature: Ethics and the Reconstitution of Subjectivity
Häftad, 2017
1124 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Painting the Prehistoric Body in Late Nineteenth-Century France
Inbunden, 2018
1304 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture
Essays in Honor of James M. Dean
Av Brian Gastle, Erick Kelemen
Inbunden, 2018
1938 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Notorious Facts
Publicity in Romantic England, 1780–1830
Häftad, 2011
641 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Urban Life In The Renaissance
Av Susan Zimmerman, Ronald F. E. Weissman
Inbunden, 1994
1019 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Adventures Of A Shakespeare Scholar
To Discover Shakespear's Art
Inbunden, 1997
1231 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Menacing Virgins
Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Av Nancy Weitz
Inbunden, 1999
1021 kr
Tillfälligt slut
These essays explore the religious, political, economic and aesthetic values which produce the Western European myth of virginity. The collection includes readings of Icelandic poems, Malory's Morte D'Arthur and Chaucer's works.
