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	THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE PRESS Catalogue: P Titles A \| B\| C \| D \| E \| F \| G \| H \| I \| J \| K \| L \| M \| N \| O \| P \| Q \| R \| S \| T \| U \| V \| W \| X \| Y \| Z Listings are as accurate as possible, based upon information available when the catalogue went to press. Prices are subject to change without notice. Painting Shakespeare Red: An East-European Appropriation Authors: Alexander Shurbanov and Boika Sokolova This study deals with the appropriation of Shakespeare for the needs of communist ideology. While primarily concentrating on the uses of his dramatic work in Bulgaria, it places his experience in the East-European context. The bulk of the book is devoted to an analysis of the complex interplay between oppressive ideological criticism and theater practice. It shows how Shakespeare in the theater gradually managed to escape the constraints of ideology and became a strong oppositional voice. Illustrated. Series: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries ISBN: 0-87413-726-8 $47.50 Particular Saints: Shakespeare's Four Antonios, Their Contexts, and Their Plays Author: Cynthia Lewis Particular Saints draws on church, art, and theater history to illustrate that Renaissance stage Antonios are a type, representing a tradition familiar to early modern audiences and exploited by Shakespeare in portraying his four major characters named Antonio. Whether as central a character as Mark Antony or as apparently marginal as Prospero's false brother, all Antonios share at least their capacity for raising difficult, unsettling questions about love and loving, charity and its limits. ISBN: 0-87413-630-X $39.50 Passionate Action: Yeats's Mastery of Drama Author: David Richman Drawing on Yeats's correspondence with fellow theater artists as well as on the myriad drafts of his plays, this book traces his lifelong battle with the drama's intractable elements, with the theater's human and material resources, and with the wearying business of preparing plays for production. ISBN: 0-87413-718-7 $37.50 Passionate Encounters in a Time of Sensibility Editors: Maximillian E. Novak and Anne Mellor This volume attempts to explore some of the many aspects of sensibility throughout the Restoration and eighteenth century. The essays examine the fine distinctions between definitions of sensibility as well as a wide range of possibilities and implications involving political theory, imperial ambitions, homosocial codes of language, and the ways in which sensibility manifested itself in the literature of the period. ISBN: 0-87413-703-9 $45.00 Back to Top Pencils Rhetorique: Renaissance Poets and the Art of Painting Author: Judith Dundas The painting and poetry of the Renaissance shared the same goal of imitating nature. This study is concerned with the various kinds of allusions and what they can tell us not only about the poets' attitudes to the visual arts but also their attitudes to their own art of representation. Illustrated. ISBN: 0-87413-459-5 $44.50 Penitent Brothellers: Grace, Sexuality, and Genre in Thomas Middleton's City Comedies Author: Herbert Jack Heller Penitent Brothellers examines the religious perspectives of Jacobean dramatist Thomas Middleton, focusing on scenes of repentance and conversion in his city comedies. Using Middleton's rarely studied pamphlet The Two Gates of Salvation, Heller establishes the Calvinist theological background for the repentances. The study also examines Middleton's portrayal of sodomy in his satires. ISBN: 0-87413-701-2 $38.50 Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Biography: Exile of Unfulfilled Renown (1816-1822) Author: James Bieri This volume of Shelley's biography recounts his final years of greatest creativity and his often-painful emotional and romantic entanglements. Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2005 Full Description ISBN: 0-87413-893-0 $69.50 Percy Bysshe Shelley: Youth's Unextinguished Fire (1792-1816) Author: James Bieri This biography, incorporating recent research and scholarship, stresses the intimate relationship between Shelley's life and his poetry between the years 1792 and 1816. Illustrated. Full Description ISBN: 0-87413-870-1 $69.50 Performing the "Everyday": The Culture of Genre in the Eighteenth Century Editor: Alden Cavanaugh This interdisciplinary anthology explores the representation of everyday life across several disciplines in a century known for its interest in individual experience of the mundane as well as the heroic. Comprised of essays by established and emerging scholars of literature, art, and music history, the volume explores not merely the range of performances under the banner of the everyday, but also the meanings inherent in these attempts to create art out of the experience of the "real." Full Description ISBN: 978-0-87413-970-9 $57.50 Peripheries of Nineteenth-Century French Studies: Views from the Edge Editor: Timothy Raser The French nineteenth century came to its full fruition only recently, herald and instigator as it was of some of the most important developments of the twentieth century. This volume offers a wide-ranging selection of scholarly approaches to the works of the French nineteenth century, articles that show how pertinent the texts of that moment are to an understanding of our own modernity. ISBN: 0-87413-765-9 $55.00 The Persistence of Hope: A True Story Author: Albert Alcalay This is the personal saga of a young Yugoslavian artist who, well aware of the Nazi danger from its earliest days, was drafted into the Yugoslav army and taken prisoner of war. Released from the work camp because of his personal courage, Alcalay returned to Nazi-occupied Belgrade where German reprisals caused the execution of over one hundred Jews. He survived to flourish in postwar Rome as a prominent member of a successor generation to the great Jewish Emotionalist movement. Full Description ISBN: 978-0-87413-963-1 $55.00 The Philadelawareans and Other Essays Relating to Delaware Author: John A. Munroe This volume presents a varied sampling of the author's writings from the past sixty years, along with some previously unpublished materials. The first essay provides a title for the book and also a subordinate theme, the relationship between Delaware and the city of Philadelphia. Full Description Series: Cultural Studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore ISBN: 0-87413-872-8 $44.50 The Phoenix at the Fountain: Images of Woman and Eternity in Lactantius's Carmen de ave Phoenice and the Old English Phoenix Author: Carol Falvo Heffernan By exploring the hitherto neglected anthropological and scientific background of these poems' images, this study shows that female physiology and the scenario of female initiation rites constitute such pervasive forces that the interpretation of the poems must be reevaluated. Illustrated. ISBN: 0-87413-313-0 $30.00 Photo-Texualities: Reading Photographs and Literature Editor: Marsha Bryant Literature and photography have been crossing borders since Poe praised the daguerreotype's invention in 1840. This anthology investigates books that juxtapose photographs and written language, considering various genres and nationalities. The anthology also expands critical inquiry by drawing from gender theories, psychoanalysis, Marxism, poststructuralism, and cultural studies. ISBN: 0-87413-551-6 $45.00 Physiognomy in Profile: Lavater's Impact on European Culture Editors: Melissa Percival and Graeme Tytler Physiognomy in Profile affirms and assesses Lavater's contribution to European culture in the two hundred years since his death. It examines how his vision of physiognomy as a viable method of interpreting the modern world has repeatedly been affirmed and challenged. Full Description ISBN: 0-87413-836-1 $49.50 Piety and Politics: Imaging Divine Kingship in Louis XIV's Chapel at Versailles Author: Martha Mel Stumberg Edmunds This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Louis XIV's magnificent palace chapel at Versailles. The story of this carefully calculated dynastic shrine will interest all historians of the ancien régime. Illustrated. Series: Studies in 17th- and 18th-Century Art and Culture ISBN: 0-87413-693-8 $99.50 Back to Top The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (formerly Mrs. Thrale), Volume 4, 1805-1810 Editors: Edward A. Bloom and Lillian D. Bloom Volume 4 describes one of the most traumatic periods of Hester Lynch Piozzi's life, when she could no longer believe that Gabriel Piozzi's attacks of gout were to be endured as a typically gentrified English condition. Illustrated. ISBN: 0-87413-393-9 $75.00 The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (formerly Mrs. Thrale), Volume 5, 1811-1816 Editors: Edward A. Bloom and Lillian D. Bloom Associate Editor: O M Brack, Jr. Introduction by Gay W. Brack Mrs. Piozzi's correspondence for the years 1811-1816 depicts a woman whose horizons are rapidly becoming limited by infirmity and financial difficulties. Illustrated. ISBN: 0-87413-394-7 $69.50 The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (formerly Mrs. Thrale), Volume 6, 1817-1821 Editors: Edward A. Bloom and Lillian D. Bloom Associate Editor: O M Brack, Jr. Introduction by Gay W. Brack The letters in this volume record the last years of Mrs. Piozzi's life. Her correspondence from 1817 to 1821 reads like extensions of her private journals and may be seen as affirmations of hope and ambition as well as declarations of frustration, grief, anger, and self-pity. Illustrated. ISBN: 0-87413-395-5 $95.00 A Place in the Story: Servants and Service in Shakespeare's Plays Author: Linda Anderson This book explores the virtues Shakespeare made of the cultural necessities of servants and service. Although all of Shakespeare's plays feature servants as characters, and many of these characters play prominent roles, surprisingly little attention has been paid to them or to the concept of service. A Place in the Story is the first book-length overview of the uses Shakespeare makes of servant-characters and the early modern concept of service. Full Description ISBN: 0-87413-925-2 $59.50 Plato's Republic and Shakespeare's Rome: A Political Study of the Roman Works Author: Barbara L. Parker This pioneering study argues the influence of Plato's political thought on Shakespeare's Roman works: The Rape of Lucrece, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Titus Andronicus. Shakespeare equates the ruin of Rome with what he foresees as the corresponding decline of England deriving from England's kindred political ills, in particular the burgeoning democratic impulses fostered by the politics of both Elizabeth and James. Full Description ISBN: 0-87413-861-2 $41.50 Back to Top The Player's Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting Author: Joseph R. Roach This reinterpretation of acting theories in light of the history of science examines acting styles from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century and measures them against prevailing conceptions of the human body and its inner workings. Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1987 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History ISBN: 0-87413-265-7 $38.50 Playhouse and Cosmos: Shakespearean Theater as Metaphor Author: Kent van den Berg Playhouse and Cosmos systematically and comprehensively describes the function of theater and role-playing as metaphors in Shakespearean drama. The author examines this metaphor's revelatory and liberating power and concludes by affirming, with Shakespeare, the creative power of theatricality in life and in art. Illustrated. ISBN: 0-87413-244-4 $32.50 Playing Robin Hood: The Legend as Performance in Five Centuries Editor: Lois Potter The essays in this collection explore the performance aspects of the Robin Hood legend from three perspectives: its Tudor social and theatrical context; its adaptations and analogues in other cultures; and its later history in theater and film. Illustrated. ISBN: 0-87413-663-6 $42.50 The Poem in Time: Reading George Herbert's Revisions of The Church Author: Janis Lull In tracing George Herbert's revisionary goals as they developed through the two manuscripts of The Church, this book offers a new approach to the interpretation of his poems in showing that Herbert intended to encourage his readers to connect the separate lyrics into larger structures of meaning and also to look beyond his poetry to the Bible. ISBN: 0-87413-357-2 $32.50 The Poems of Patrick Delany: Comprising Also Poems About Him by Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, and Other Friends and Enemies Editors: Robert Hogan and Donald C. Mell Patrick Delany (1685/6-1768) was a poet who occupied a prominent place in Swift's circle of Irish wits. This edition attempts to gather all of his extant verse, including minor or trivial pieces. Full Description ISBN: 0-87413-938-4 $47.50 Back to Top Poetry and the Feminine from Behn to Cowper Author: Jennifer Keith Poetry and the Feminine from Behn to Cowper revisits the foundations of poetic representation and value for women and men poets of the Restoration and eighteenth century including Aphra Behn, John Dryden, Anne Killigrew, Anne Finch, and Alexander Pope. The author argues that fundamental to poetic innovation in this era are poets' revisions of "feminine" figures such as the muse and Nature. Full Description ISBN: 0-87413-891-4 $46.50 Poetry, Signs, and Magic Author: Thomas M. Greene Poetry, Signs, and Magic brings together in a single volume fourteen new and previously published essays by the eminent Renaissance scholar and literary critic, Thomas M. Greene. This collection looks back toward two earlier volumes by Greene, his first essay collection The Vulnerable Text: Essays on Renaissance Literature, and Poesie et Magie, whose theme is here explored again at greater length and depth, from linguistic and literary critical perspectives. Full Description ISBN: 0-87413-880-9 $57.50 The Political Career of Oliver St. John, 1637-1649 Author: William Palmer This work describes the political career of Oliver St. John, a pivotal figure in the English Revolution of 1640-1660. ISBN: 0-87413-453-6 $32.50 Political Speaking Justified: Women Prophets and the English Revolution Author: Teresa Feroli Political Speaking Justified traces the development of the idea of female political authority in three women prophets of the English Revolution: Eleanor Davies, Anna Trapnel, and Margaret Fell. Teresa Feroli challenges the secular bias of conventional feminist genealogies and argues that the women prophets of the English Revolution inaugurate an early phase in the rise of modern feminist consciousness. Full Description ISBN: 0-87413-908-2 $49.50 The Politics of Pessimism: Albert de Broglie and Conservative Politics in the Early Third Republic Author: Alan Grubb Duc Albert de Broglie was the acknowledged leader of the monarchist majority, the spokesman of the conservative union, and the Right's most effective political strategist. The Politics of Pessimism is an attempt to remedy the neglect of de Broglie and examine in greater depth his political career and, through it, the conservative politics of the period. ISBN: 0-87413-575-3 $55.00 Politics on the Periphery: Factions and Parties in Georgia, 1783-1806 Author: George R. Lamplugh By considering in detail ideology, sectionalism, social tensions, personalities, and land hunger as factors in Georgia politics, this study sheds new light on party formation in the early American republic. Illustrated. ISBN: 0-87413-288-6 $55.00 El Popol Vuh y la Trilogia Bananera: Estructra y recursos narrativos Author: Jorge Alcides Paredes This book offers an in-depth study of the internal structures of Popol Vuh, the Sacred Book of the Maya-Quich people of Guatemala, and of the ways in which in the main characters of this text are configured. This is accompanied by a similar, comparative analysis of the three novels widely known in the Hispanic world as the Banana Trilogy, written between 1950 and 1960 by the winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature, Miguel Angel Asturias. Series: Monash Romance Studies ISBN: 0-87413-810-8 $30.00 Poppies and Politics in China: Sichuan Province, 1840s to 1940s Author: Xiaoxiong Li From the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Sichuan Province was the largest opium-producing region in the largest opium-producing country, China. This book uses a chronological approach to describe and explain the rise and fall of opium in Sichuan. Full Description ISBN: 978-0-87413-054-6 $61.50 Popular Measures: Poetry and Church Order in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Author: Amy M. E. Morris Popular Measures examines the influence of Congregationalist church practices on poetry and poetics in early New England. It considers how the rejection of set prayers, and the privileging of more spontaneous oral forms in colonial churches influenced the style of locally written religious verse. Full Description ISBN: 0-87413-865-5 $53.50 Powerful Connections: The Poetics of Patronage in the Age of Louis XIII Author: Peter W. Shoemaker Powerful Connections is a reappraisal of the role of patronage in seventeenth-century French literary culture. By focusing on the networks of personal relationships in which writers were enmeshed, Shoemaker provides a corrective to the dominant theoretical accounts of representation and power during this period, which have tended to focus narrowly on the figures of the kind and the absolutist state. Full Description ISBN: 978-0-87413-993-8 $60.00 Practising Theory: Pierre Bourdieu and the Field of Cultural Production Editors: Jeff Browitt and Brian Nelson The essays in this collection in honor of Pierre Bourdieu gather loosely under the rubric of "cultural production" and around three central themes: the philosophy of art and symbolic forms, the function of critical intellectuals, and the concept of habitus. Full Description Series: Monash Romance Studies ISBN: 0-87413-919-8 $30.00 (paperback) Print, Chaos, and Complexity: Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Media Culture Author: Mark E. Wildermuth This book describes how eighteenth-century awareness of the interplay between fixity and instability in printed texts demonstrates the role print played in developing Samuel Johnson's awareness of print culture's impact on human beings ethically, politically, and aesthetically. The study traces the evolution and continuity of Johnson's ideas in these areas by describing the importance of print mediation for Johnson's approach to solving related epistemological and ethical dilemmas facing his generation from the Restoration to the late eighteenth century. Full Description ISBN: 978-0-87413-032-4 $48.50 Private Philanthropy and Public Education: Pierre S. du Pont and the Delaware Schools, 1890-1940 Author: Robert J. Taggart An account of Delaware's experience of educational modernization led by Pierre S. du Pont, from a local-based collection of school districts to a coherent state system that by the 1930s ranked near the top in the nation. Illustrated. Series: Cultural Studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore ISBN: 0-87413-318-1 $37.50 Private Property: Charles Brockden Brown's Gendered Economics of Virtue Author: Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds This book describes Charles Brockden Brown's novels in their Federalist-era context, exploring the dual roles of economics and gender that were changing in the 1790s alongside the growing U.S. market-capitalist economy. Hinds argues that Brown's works both recorded and contributed to this shifting ideology. ISBN: 0-87413-603-2 $33.50 Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Delaware State, 1781-92, and of the Constitutional Convention of 1792 Editors: Claudia L. Bushman, Harold B. Hancock, and Elizabeth Moyne Homsey This volume of the proceedings of Delaware's lower house completes the publication of Delaware's legislative papers, a project envisioned by Delawareans more than one hundred years ago. Series: Cultural Studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore ISBN: 0-87413-309-2 $75.00 Producing the Eighteenth-Century Book: Writers and Publishers in England, 1650-1800 Editors: Laura Runge and Pat Rogers This volume includes twelve essays on the history of the book in the long eighteenth century that collectively argue for the importance of integrating literary scholarship and the various practices of book history. ISBN: 978-0-87413-069-0 Forthcoming Progressive Masks: Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Franklin Ford Edited with an Introduction by David H. Burton These remarkable letters reveal Holmes to be patient, sympathetic, even indulgent of theories that, by his own admission, he did not really understand. They bring further notice to financial analyst Franklin Ford, who was a close associate of John Dewey. ISBN: 0-87413-188-X $27.50 Back to Top Prologues, Epilogues, Curtain-Raisers, and Afterpieces: The Rest of the Eighteenth-Century London Stage Editors: Daniel J. Ennis and Judith Bailey Slagle This collection of essays presents a fresh analysis of the complete theater evening that was available to audiences in the Restoration in early nineteenth-century playhouses. Various critical essays address artistic disciplines such as dance and theatrical portraits, while others concentrate on peripheral performance textsprologues, epilogues, pantomimes, and afterpiecesthat merged to define the overall theatrical event. Full Description ISBN: 0-87413-967-8 $47.50 Prospero's "True Preservers": Peter Brook, Yukio Ninagawa, and Giorgio StrehlerTwentieth-Century Directors Approach Shakespeare's The Tempest Author: Arthur Horowitz This work explores how three great modern, international directors have adapted and applied African story-telling techniques, textual deconstruction, traditional Japanese art and theatrical forms, and Italian stage tradition to their productions of William Shakespeare's great play, The Tempest. Full Description ISBN: 0-87413-854-X $42.50 Public Speaking in the Reshaping of Great Britain Author: Robert T. Oliver This volume and its predecessor work, The Influence of Rhetoric in the Shaping of Great Britain, constitute the first comprehensive history of public speaking in the British Isles, including full consideration of preaching and religious changes, the growth and influence of parliament, social and labor problems, intellectual controversies, the rights of Ireland and Scotland, and the struggle to attain equality for women. ISBN: 0-87413-315-7 $40.00 The Pulse of Praise: Form as a Second Self in the Poetry of George Herbert Author: Julia Carolyn Guernsey This book focuses on the meaning and function of George Herbert's poetic form from a psychohistorical perspective, demonstrating what close attention to prosody can contribute to critical discussions about the devices of self-representation, the dynamics of the self-other relation, and the depths of self-transformation in The Temple. ISBN: 0-87413-679-2 $46.50 Puritan London: A Study of Religion and Society in the City Parishes Author: Tai Liu Contributes to an understanding of the internal political and religious structure of the City of London during the period of the English Revolution. This monograph reconstructs the social structure and composition of each of the City parishes, surveys the successes and failures of Presbyterianism among the parishes, explores the new relationship between the Puritan ministers and the parishes, as well as discusses the Independents and the Anglicans in this time and setting. ISBN: 0-87413-283-5 $45.00 Puritanism and Its Discontents Editor: Laura Lunger Knoppers Transatlantic in scope and interdisciplinary in approach, this volume works to restore both a radical edge and a new specificity to the much-debated definitions of Puritan and Puritanism. The ten essays presented in this book offer a richly detailed account of the intersection of religion, politics, and culture in England and America, in the seventeenth century and beyond. Full Description ISBN: 0-87413-817-5 $49.50 Back to Top
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