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Bringing Travel Home to England: Tourism, Gender, and Imaginative Literature in the Eighteenth Century by Susan Lamb ISBN: 978-0-87413-921-1 $87.50    AUP Order Form Bringing Travel Home to England is the first book 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. Susan Lamb 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.

The Stonemasons of Creuse in Nineteenth-Century Paris Casey Harison "Since the 1960s, social historians have emphasized the predominance of traditional craftsmen in revolutionary crowds. While accepting their conclusions, Harison examines the contribution of a large but neglected group of migrant workers to the recurrent outbreaks of political violence in Paris from 1789 until 1914: the stonemasons from the department of Creuse in the former province of Limousin who came to work in the expanding Parisian building industry every year from the spring to the autumn and returned home in the winter." French History, vol. 23. Review provided by Oxford Journals Clippings Service, 2/16/09.

Lockwood de Forest: Furnishing the Gilded Age with a Passion for India by Roberta A. Mayer Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932) is best known as an artistic decorator with a flair for designs based on the arts and crafts of the Middle East and India. This is the first scholarly book on de Forest. It explores his career in the decorative arts by examining cultural context, material culture, biography, and patronage. (more)	Zinc Sculpture in America, 1850-1950 by Carol A. Grissom This first comprehensive overview of American zinc sculpture is interdisciplinary, engaging aspects of art history, popular culture, local history, technology, and art conservation. (more)	Neoclassical Tragedy in Elizabethan England by Howard B. Norland Howard Norland examines the development of neoclassical tragedy during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). Chapters investigate Elizabethan views of tragedy expressed by critics of the theater, English translations of Seneca’s tragedy between 1559 and 1581, the four extant Inns of Court tragedies performed in the sixteenth century, and the three tragedies that were translated or modeled upon Garnier’s French tragedies. (more)

In the News: Milestones in the History of the University of Delaware Press exhibition in the Morris Library, University of Delaware The exhibition, on display in the Information Room of the Morris Library from June 15, 2009 through September 11, 2009, depicts the beginnings of the Press and celebrates its achievements over the years. For more information, see the Library's announcement.

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