Welcome to the University of Delaware Press The University of Delaware Press was established in 1922 during the presidency of Walter Hullihen, who sought national recognition of University of Delaware research. Today the University of Delaware Press is a nonprofit publisher of scholarly books in all fields of scholarship. Our major strengths are in literary studies, especially Shakespeare, Renaissance and Early Modern literature; Eighteenth-Century Studies; French literature; art history and history; and cultural studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore.

Uneasy Possessions: The Mother-Daughter Dilemma in French Women's Writings, 1671-1928 by Katharine A. Jensen Jensen’s prose is lucid and persuasive throughout, and she returns to her central principle in each chapter, reaffirming and refining it as she moves chronologically through the texts...The overall effect...is that of a unified approach, and Jensen’s detailed close readings of each text give excellent proof that her new viewpoint is valid, whether she is concentrating on mothers or daughters, discussing an aristocrat or a bourgeoise, or explaining a woman from the Enlightenment, the Romantic era, or the Belle Epoque. Numerous references to biographies and critical works on each main author also demonstrate Jensen’s superior understanding of previous scholarship while at the same time showing the advantages of her new perspective... Jensen’s text is a breakthrough work that will appeal to and be informative for readers from many different backgrounds. Scholars who already have a thorough knowledge of the primary texts and the secondary sources will find here an innovative and refreshing approach; students will also benefit from Jensen’s clear prose and meticulous analysis of these major women writers and their texts. Reviewer: Juliette M. Rogers, Associate Professor of French at Macalester College. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 30.1 (Spring 2011), 172-4.

Gender, Interpretation, and Political Rule in Sidney's Arcadia by Kathryn DeZur 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. (more)	Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theatre: Gender and Comedy, Performance and Print by Diana Solomon Prologues and epilogues should be included in scholars' analyses of Restoration and eighteenth-century plays in order for us to understand how Restoration audiences consumed plays. Solomon unites the Restoration actress and the dramatic prologue and epilogue in the first book-length study on the subject. (more)	Five Lectures on the American Civil War, 1861-1865 by Raimondo Luraghi The product of over thirty years of research on the American Civil War by Italy's most renowned authority on the subject, this study synthetically analyzes the great drama that from 1861 to 1865 that devastated the United States and gave life to the modern American nation. (more)

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Theodore von Neuhoff, King of Corsica: The Man Behind the Legend by Julia Gasper "A visionary and a madman" was how one British statesman, Lord Carteret, described Theodore von Neuhoff. This exciting biography traces the unlikely career of the German baron who in 1736 had himself proclaimed and crowned King of Corsica. (more)

Women Art Critics in Nineteenth-Century France: Vanishing Acts Edited by Wendelin Guentner Many women in nineteenth-century France had their art criticism published both in journal reviews and in book form, often for decades, in a number of the most influential venues of their day. Women Art Critics in Nineteenth-Century France: Vanishing Acts is the first sustained effort to bring these prolific and influential critics out from the shadows. (more)

Women Warriors in Romantic Drama by Wendy C. Nielsen The central claim of this book is the woman warrior is a way for some women writers (Olympe de Gouges, Christine Westphalen, Karoline von Günderrode, and Mary Robinson) to explore the case for extending citizenship to women. (more)

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