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.

Dreamer's Journey: The Life and Writings of Frederic Prokosch by Robert M. Greenfield "Dreamer's Journey is a tremendous work of research, offering sympathetic insight into a gifted, complicated author who created in his work a world to match his odd temperament." Review by Charles Green "The Novelist as Con Artist." Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, Vol. 18, No. 1 (January/February 2011), p44. The Tactics of Toleration: A Refugee Community in the Age of Religious Wars by Jesse Spohnholz "The older intellectual history of European religious toleration has recently been enriched by close examinations of post-Reformation coexistence among the emerging confessions. Such studies have expanded our understanding of how various actors understood religious division and how communities coped — often flexibly and creatively — with the previously unimaginable task of living side-by-side with heretics. We now know that accommodation was widespread, often combining conflict with compromise in ways that contemporary intellectuals believed impossible or pernicious. Jesse Spohnholz's meticulously researched study of the northwest German city of Wesel contributes to this approach..." Review by Randolph C. Head University of California, Riverside Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 4 (Winter 2011), pgs. 1288-1290. "The Stage's Glory": John Rich, 1692-1761 Edited by Berta Joncus and Jeremy Barlow "[T]his book is a treasure trove of historical research. Born out of a 2008 conference about Rich, the 17 essays are scholarly and thorough and include remarkable illustrations. Though the contributors' writing styles differ, the overall effect is of deeply felt desire to provide Rich his rightful place in history. Any theater historian or production group tackling 18th-century dramatic literature will find this book a must-have because it looks at the theater process as a whole as it existed in situ. This is a great resource." Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. Review by E. C. Skiles Lone Star College-Kingwood CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Dec. 2011, pg. 689.

Defiant Diplomat: George Platt Waller: American Consul in Nazi-Occupied Luxembourg, 1939-1941 Edited by Willard Allen Fletcher and Jean Tucker Fletcher Drafted while events were fresh in his mind in 1942–1943, Alabama-born American diplomat George Platt Waller’s memoir chronicles his war-time experience in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. (more)	The Irish Fairy Tale: A Narrative Tradition from the Middle Ages to Yeats and Stephens by Vito Carrassi Translated by Kevin Wren Beginning with a critical reappraisal of the notion of "fairy tale" and extending it to include categories and genres which are in common usage in folklore and in literary studies, this book throws light on the general processes involved in storytelling. (more)	Women as Translators in Early Modern England by Deborah Uman Women as Translators in Early Modern England offers a feminist theory of translation that considers both the practice and representation of translation in works penned by early modern women. (more)

UD PRESS NEWS Rowman & Littlefield's 2012–2013 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.

Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937 Edited by Elizabeth Podnieks Rough Draft is an edited selection, published here for the first time, of the diaries kept by American poet and novelist Coleman during her years as an expatriate in the modernist hubs of France and England. (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)

Political Anti-Slavery Discourse and American Literature of the 1850s by David Grant The book fills a gap in literary criticism of the period, which has primarily focused on abolitionist discourse when relating anti-slavery thought to the literature of the decade. (more)

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