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.

Shakespeare’s Lyricized Drama by Alexander Shurbanov Professor Alexander Shurbanov has a high and well-deserved reputation, both as a Shakespeare scholar and as a translator of Shakespeare, Chaucer and Milton into Bulgarian verse, so it is fascinating to read his study of the importance of lyrical elements in Shakespeare’s dramatic verse...The relationship between the lyric and the dramatic is investigated through a series of close and extremely well-informed readings which chart a progress from Berowne to Hamlet, identifying Juliet and Rosalind as the most significant precursors of the Prince of Denmark as the character who most fully integrates the lyric into the dramatic mode... Reviewer: Ann Thompson is Professor of English at King's College, London. "Shakespeare’s Lyricized Drama" English Studies 93.6 (October 2012), 732-3.

Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature: Ethics and the Reconstitution of Subjectivity by Donald R. Wehrs 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 masterpieces. (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)

New Catalogue Is Available Rowman & Littlefield's 2013–2014 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.

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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