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The Baroque in English Neoclassical Literature: From Milton and the Wits to Dryden and the Scriblerians
Author: J. Douglas Canfield
From Milton and the Court Wits to Dryden and the Scriblerians, authors deploy baroque moments of disruption, grotesquerie, excrescence, extravagance, exuberance, encryption—even as they turn to more supposedly classical, restrained, and rational forms. Canfield tries to ferret out the meanings of these disruptions.
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ISBN: 0-87413-834-5 $47.50
Becoming American, Remaining Jewish: The Story of Wilmington,
Delaware's
First Jewish Community, 1879-1924
Author: Toni Young
Wilmington's first permanent Jewish community began as a collection of
less than 100 Jews in 1879 and grew to a community of over 4000 people
by the early 1920s when the immigration laws changed, and growth slowed
down. This in-depth study of one community's success in preserving
Jewish values and becoming American will provide insights for all
readers interested in exploring questions of identity and community
today. Illustrated.
Series: Cultural Studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore
ISBN: 0-87413-694-6 $34.00
The Bed-Trick in English Renaissance Drama: Explorations
in Gender, Sexuality, and Power
Author: Marliss C. Desens
This work provides the first detailed examination of the bed-trick in
English Renaissance drama. Written from a feminist perspective and
based on an analysis of over 250 plays, this study places the bed-trick
in its historical and theatrical context in order to challenge widely
held assumptions about its theatrical history and use on the stage.
ISBN: 0-87413-476-5 $32.50
Bessie Head: The Road of Peace of Mind, A Critical Appreciation
Author: Joyce Johnson
This book shows how Bessie Head used her engagement with sociopolitical issues to convey her ideas about the art of fiction and the operations of the creative imagination. It relates Head's literary practice to goals that she set for herself as a "beginning" writer, and, in view of the importance that she attached to reading as a stimulant of the imagination, pays special attention to the influence of her reading on her writing.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-009-6 $51.50
Between Clan and Crown: The Struggle to Define Noble Property Rights in Imperial Russia
Author: Lee A. Farrow
This is the first study in English to comprehensively examine property law in Imperial Russia, focusing on the struggle to define the scope of individual noble property rights and what that process reveals about the limits of noble freedom within the Russian state.
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ISBN: 0-87413-887-6 $46.50
Between Genders: Narrating Difference in Early French Modernism
Author: Nathaniel Wing
Between Genders studies representations of gender in a group of early and mid-nineteenth-century French texts. The five texts examined are diverse in both literary form and theme: two novels, Honoré de Balzac's La Fille aux yeux d'or, and Théophile Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin; a novella by Charles Baudelaire, "La Fanfarlo"; Claire de Duras's pseudo-confession narrative, Ourika; and an autobiography of an intersexual, currently known under the title Herculine Barbin.
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ISBN: 0-87413-845-0 $43.50
Between the Real and the Ideal: The Accademia degli Arcadi and Its Garden in Eighteenth-Century Rome
Author: Susan M. Dixon
This book examines the Accademia degli Arcadi in its heyday, a little known phenomenon in Italian history in the first part of the eighteenth century. The Roman academy aimed for a peninsula-wide cultural renewal induced by literary reform. Operating within a papal court society, it eschewed extant patronage systems and social hierarchies and introduced enlightened ideas to its members. By attending to the institution's policies, Between
the Real and the Ideal provides a rich understanding of the Arcadi's goals.
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ISBN 0-87413-937-6 $55.00
Between Theater and Philosophy: Skepticism in the Major City Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas
Middleton
Author: Mathew R. Martin
This book studies the major city comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas
Middleton in the context of the quarrel between theater and philosophy.
The book presents deconstructive and materialist readings of Jonson's Volpone,
Epicoene, The Alchemist
and Bartholomew Fair and Middleton's Michaelmas Term,
A Trick to Catch the Old One,
and A Chaste Maid in
Cheapside.
ISBN: 0-87413-739-X $35.00
The Black Comedy of John Guare
Author: Gene A. Plunka
This study explores American playwright John Guare's unnerving and
paradoxical theater through an examination of black comedy. It attempts
to make Guare's theater more accessible by arguing that Guare's black
humor has its roots in the tradition of farce—broadly satirical dark
comedies in which humor is discovered in pain, despair, or horror.
ISBN: 0-87413-763-2 $45.00
Black Liberation/Red Scare: Ben Davis and the
Communist
Party
Author: Gerald Horne
Ben Davis, Jr., was trained for the black elite. After graduating from
Harvard Law School, however, he joined the Communist party, where he
remained
one of their top leaders for thirty years. In the 1960s his
controversial
appearances at college campuses helped to set the stage for a new era
of
activism at universities.
ISBN: 0-87413-472-2 $55.00
The Book of the Laurel
Author: John Skelton
Editor: F. W. Brownlow
This is the
first edition of Skelton's elaborate dream-allegory to be based on a
thorough
examination of extant texts. It represents a major revision of our
knowledge
of Skelton's career and of the form and meaning of the poem. Extensive
introduction, notes, and glossary.
ISBN: 0-87413-372-6 $42.50
Boston's Lower Criminal Courts, 1814-1850
Author: Theodore Ferdinand
This work
describes
the birth and evolution of Boston's lower criminal courts—the municipal
and police courts—during the first half of the nineteenth century. The
emergence of the prosecutor as a key factor in the struggle against
crime,
as well as the invention of plea bargaining, is detailed. As the courts
fashioned a framework of law, they modernized and expanded their role
in
the community. Illustrated.
ISBN: 0-87413-422-6 $38.50
Boudica and Her Stories: Narrative Transformations of a Warrior Queen
Author: Carolyn D. Williams
This book begins with a study of the few ancient texts which provide the source material for all subsequent accounts of the seventh-century British queen Boudica and her ferocious yet ultimately unsuccessful rebellion against the Romans. It shows how their information was assembled over centuries to create the entity we know as Boudica as an individual.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-079-9 $65.00
Brecht Unbound: Presented at the
International
Bertolt Brecht Symposium Held
at the University of Delaware, February 1992
Editors: James K. Lyon and Hans-Peter Breuer
This volume's cross-disciplinary reassessment of important aspects of
Brecht's work derives from essays on his poetry,
drama,
theatrical writings, his influence on American film techniques, his
relationship
to and borrowings from Japanese Noh theatre, and his aesthetic
techniques.
Illustrated.
ISBN: 0-87413-537-0 $46.50
Bringing Travel Home to England: Tourism, Gender, and Imaginative Literature in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Susan Lamb
This book is the first to identify and examine the relations among literature, tourism, and the wider culture in the long eighteenth century. Gendering emerges as a key mechanism here both for those who brought travel home and for those who were influenced by it in other ways. The author brings Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, and William Wordsworth side-by-side with lesser known authors such as Thomas Amory, Sarah Scott, and the anonymous author of The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu; and nuns, iconic Lake District shepherdesses, country houses, gardens, and whores, with accounts of tourists, opinions about them, and commentary on the place of tourism in society.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-921-1 $87.50
The Business of a Woman: The Political Writings of Delarivier Manley
Author: Ruth Herman
The Business of a Woman is the first full-length study of Delarivier Manley, the increasingly important early modern scandal writer, journalist, and propagandist whose most famous work is The New Atlantis (1709). The book focuses on her importance in the fields of political journalism and propaganda, and considers Manley's writing in terms of her importance to the Tory/Whig party conflict, and other contemporary writers and pamphleteers.
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ISBN: 0-87413-792-6 $59.50
Byron, the Bible, and Religion: Essays from the
Twelfth International Byron
Seminar
Editor: Wolf Z. Hirst
This work consists of eight essays selected
from
papers given at the Twelfth International Byron Symposium. Much of
Byron's
poetry is examined, but the focus is on the Mysteries and Don Juan.
The
subjects include the Cain figure, Byron's skepticism, his attitude
toward
Christianity and religion in general, and his literary use of the Bible.
ISBN: 0-87413-401-3 $32.50
Byron and Newstead: The Aristocrat and the Abbey
Author: John Beckett
Byron and Newstead
is a study of England's greatest Romantic poet in the context of his
role
as an English aristocrat. The book examines the whole structure of
Byron's
complex financial problems from his youth to his final days in Greece,
and it shows how important it is to see these in the context of his
aristocratic
heritage. For the first time Byron is examined as a landed aristocrat,
and his business affairs unraveled in this context.
ISBN: 0-87413-751-9 $55.00
Byron: The Image of the Poet
Editor: Christine Kenyon Jones
Originating in a conference held at the National Portrait Gallery in London, this is the first collection of papers to be published on the visual aspects of Byron and Romanticism. Topics explored include Byron's relations with the artists who portrayed him and those who commissioned portraits of him (including his publisher); his self-image and its expression
in his work; the way in which his features were used in illustrations of the heroes of his poems; his role in early forms of modern celebrity visual culture such as prints, caricatures, medals, and other forms of memorabilia; the way he has been represented on screen; and his role as a political icon.
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ISBN: 978-0-87413-997-6 $45.00
