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.

Spenser, Milton, and the Redemption of the Epic Hero by Christopher Bond "A scholar of both English literature and law, Bond (formerly Yale and Univ. of London, UK) identifies a previously unexamined pattern of dual heroism in the epic poems of Edmund Spenser and John Milton: the use of both a primary hero with perfect virtue and great physical strength and a weaker secondary hero who is human and fallible. The author sees the roots of this epic pattern in Lucan, Langland, and Tasso but finds that Spenser and Milton developed it far beyond their predecessors... Among other things, Bond finds that both poets challenge the antifeminist bias of earlier epics...Well-written and accessible, this insightful study will reward students and scholars at every level. Extensive notes follow each chapter, with a cumulative bibliography at the end." Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. Review by B. E. Brandt, South Dakota State University Choice, October 2011, p. 300

A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court by Craig R. Smith A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court focuses on the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court and determines their frames for assessing First Amendment cases. (more)	Science, Politics, and Friendship in the Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes by Ute Berns This study revaluates the work of the scientist and radical, poet and dramatist and English exile in Germany Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849). (more)	Transforming Campus Culture: Frank Aydelotte's Honors Experiment at Swarthmore College by Ruth Shoemaker Wood The ways in which Swarthmore changed as a college under Frank Aydelotte’s leadership shed light on how change on a single campus can bring about wide-spread educational reform that affects a nation. (more)

UD PRESS NEWS Rowman & Littlefield's 2011-2012 catalogue of University of Delaware Press publications is available. Click on the catalogue image (right) to view an electronic copy. Requests for print copies should be sent to the Press at the address shown in the footer below.

Shakespeare and Contemporary Fiction: Theorizing Foundling and Lyric Plots by Barbara L. Estrin 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 never been explored in literary-critical interpretations. (more)

Citoyennes: Women and the Ideal of Citizenship in Eighteenth-Century France by Annie K. Smart While previous scholarship has emphasized the ideal of domestic motherhood or the image of the republican mother, Smart argues persuasively that many pre-revolutionary and revolutionary texts created another ideal for women–the ideal of civic motherhood. (more)

Picturing Religious Experience: George Herbert, Calvin, and the Scriptures by Daniel W. Doerksen Picturing Religious Experience studies Herbert’s poetry in relation to those writings, particularly regarding "spiritual conflicts," which the poet himself said would be found depicted in his book of poems. (more)

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