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	THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE PRESS Catalogue: R 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. Reading and Writing in Shakespeare Editor: David M. Bergeron These essays range from typography to theology, from epistemology to ethics, from class to culture, from gender to genre, from letters to literature. They end by confronting the connections between writing, printing, reading, interpretation, and authorship. ISBN: 0-87413-557-5 $42.50 Reading in the Renaissance: Amadis de Gaule and the Lessons of Memory Author: Marian Rothstein The rise and fall of Amadis de Gaule invites a case study of the time-bound nature of readers' reading. The contemporary status of translations justifies regarding Amadis as an independent entity. The paradigms governing it reappear in many familiar contemporary works; what we learn fromAmadis applies broadly to sixteenth-century texts. ISBN: 0-87413-668-7 $36.00 A Reading of Edward Taylor Author: Thomas M. Davis This work examines the subtle changes in Taylor's attitudes toward the nature and purpose of his poetry, particularly in Series 1 of the Preparatory Meditations. Davis argues that Gods Determinations is the poem in which Taylor becomes a poet. The early poems in Series 1 exhibit an exuberance and joy prompted by Taylor's attempts to praise God. However, the death of Taylor's wife and his sense of sin and partial estrangement from God make the Meditations more sombre. ISBN: 0-87413-428-5 $40.00 Reading the Family Dance: Family Systems Therapy and Literary Study Editors: John V. Knapp and Kenneth Womack In addition to addressing the family dynamic through which a given literary character develops a fully realized sense of self, family systems therapy allows readers to examine the patterns by which characters function in their larger intimate systems, whether those systems be social, institutional, or even global. Full Description ISBN: 0-87413-823-X $55.00 Back to Top Rebecca West Today: Contemporary Critical Approaches Editor: Bernard Schweizer Rebecca West Today, the first-ever collection of essays on this prolific writer, employs cutting-edge as well as more traditional methodological approaches, ranging from historicism to gender studies, to textual analyses, to philosophical engagements. The book also contains a useful section on teaching the works of Rebecca West. Full Description ISBN 0-87413-950-3 $61.50 Rebel with a Conscience Author: Russell W. Peterson This is an account of Russell W. Peterson's life and the battles he has fought, despite tremendous opposition, to further social justice and environmental integrity. In addition to working in private industry, Peterson was governor of Delaware, chairman of the President's Council on Environmental Quality, director of the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress, and president of the National Audubon Society. Series: Cultural Studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore ISBN: 0-87413-681-4 $29.95 The Reemergence of World Literature: A Study of Asia and the West Author: A. Owen Aldridge Argues that the discipline of comparative literature should be expanded to include all of the world, not only a favored segment, and that translation represents a legitimate and indispensable tool for readers. ISBN: 0-87413-277-0 $35.00 Back to Top Reforming the "Bad" Quartos: Performance and Provenance of Six Shakespearean First Editions Author: Kathleen O. Irace This work explores both the performance features and the provenance of the six early Shakespearean playtexts known as "bad" quartos—the first printed editions of Hamlet, Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and the Second and Third Parts of Henry VI. First examining the performance features of these playtexts, the book goes on to explore the three main theories concerning the provenance of these texts: authorial revision, memorial reconstruction, and adaptation. ISBN: 0-87413-471-4 $37.50 Regulating Readers: Gender and Literary Criticism in the Eighteenth-Century Novel Author: Ellen Gardiner An important contribution to the study of authorship and criticism, Regulating Readers adds to a growing body of scholarship by women that shows eighteenth-century women writers envisioning for themselves authoritative critical positions and roles in the public sphere. ISBN: 0-87413-695-4 $36.50 Rehearsing the Revolution: Radical Performance, Radical Politics in the English Restoration Author: Odai Johnson Rehearsing the Revolution is the story of the radical dark side of English Restoration theater. Using the silenced plays and subversive performances, both in the theater and on the streets of London, it investigates the role that performance played in circulating images of dissent and popularizing the Whig platform during the volatile years of the Exclusion Crisis (1678-82). It argues that the performance and politics of the Exclusion Crisis functioned in many ways as a rehearsal of the Glorious Revolution. ISBN: 0-87413-724-1 $34.50 Remarks on Antiquities, Arts and Letters During an Excursion in Italy, in the Years 1802 and 1803 Author: Joseph Forsyth Editor: Keith Crook Forsyth combined an eighteenth-century taste with an openness to new forms. His intelligent firsthand observations and historical reflections were informed, skeptical, inquiring, trenchant, and witty. This edition discusses these matters (using unpublished material), translates and sources all his quotations, provides brief lives of 450 individuals mentioned, annotates political and cultural references, and has a full bibliographical apparatus. ISBN: 0-87413-756-X $47.50 Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift Author: John Boyle, Fifth Earl of Cork and Orrery Editor: Joo Fres A best-seller in its day and written by someone who knew Swift personally, Lord Orrery's Remarks on Swift (1751) was the earliest biographical account of Jonathan Swift and the major influence in shaping the nineteenth-century critical views about him. This edition offers, for the first time, a text of the Remarks on Swift that is the result of careful textual collation of copies of all editions, with the definition of the best text as the copy-text. Also offered is Orrery's complete manuscript notes about Swift in all his fully annotated copies of the Remarks. ISBN: 0-87413-651-2 $49.50 Renaissance Historicisms: Essays in Honor of Arthur F. Kinney Editors: James M. Dutcher and Anne Lake Prescott This collection of various approaches to early modern England offers readers such pleasures as the most complete bibliography to date of King James's poetry, a unique edition of a memoir by the son of Sir Martin Barnham, as well as new arguments about Skelton, More, Elyot, Marguerite de Navarre, Sidney, Spenser, Daniel, Shakespeare (The Comedy of Errors), the Henriad, Macbeth, The Winter's Tale, Mary Wroth, Isabella Whitney, and Marvell. Here too are new approaches to such topics as the royal succession, Shakespeare's "bad" quartos, romance, witches, politics, humanism, English and Irish identity, and "conversations about women," finishing with an essay about. . ."nothing." Full Description ISBN: 978-0-87413-001-0 $67.50 Representations of Swift Editor: Brian A. Connery These thirteen essay offer not only the "representations of Swift" to which its title refers but also a representation of Swift scholarship at the close of the twentieth century and a return to fundamental questions about the life, writing, and views of Swift, issues raised in part by literary scholarship's return to historicism but also powerfully suggestive of a return to biography. Full Description ISBN: 0-87413-797-7 $52.50 Representing France and the French in Early Modern English Drama Editor: Jean-Christophe Mayer This wide-ranging collection of essays, written by leading specialists, furnishes previously unpublished evidence of France's role and importance in the early modern English literary and dramatic fields. Its chapter-length introduction offers an up-to-date critical presentation of the issues involved: representation, cultural identity, the construction of otherness, Frenchness, and the social and cultural dynamics of theater. The essays in the five sections of the book continue the debate with a series of in-depth studies touching on important critical themes. Full Description ISBN: 978-0-87413-000-3 $48.50 Representing the Professions: Administration, Law, and Theater in Early Modern England Author: Edward Gieskes Representing the Professions unites literary criticism, social and legal history, and Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture. It offers a detailed exploration of the professionalism of selected early modern disciplines in an effort to characterize those disciplines in their social, economic, and historical contexts. Full Description ISBN: 0-87413-929-5 $60.00 The Restoration Mind Editor: W. Gerald Marshall This book offers a culture-based, interdisciplinary study that formulates a general theory as to the essence of the Restoration mentality, that is, ways in which the period viewed itself, its artistic creations, and the world. Contributors include Restoration scholars from around the world. ISBN: 0-87413-571-0 $44.50 Revealing Difference: The Fiction of Isabelle de Charrire Author: Jenene J. Allison This book is directed at elucidating both a new perspective on eighteenth-century fiction and the evidence Isabelle de Charrire's work offers on the construction of gender. The texts considered reconfigure the definition of woman in a variety of ways. Her description of the female body in its absolute difference articulates a commentary on sexual difference that pertains to current efforts to rethink gender. ISBN: 0-87413-566-4 $33.50 Back to Top Re-Visions of Shakespeare: Essays in Honor of Robert Ornstein Editor: Evelyn Gajowski The essays in this collection use a variety of theoretical perspectives to address issues of contemporary import in Shakespeare's dramatic texts: alterity, sexuality, gender, performance, intertextuality, and genre. Janus-like, the collection suggests the directions of Shakespeare studies at the outset of the new millennium, while considering their roots in the last. Full Description ISBN 0-87413-855-8 $52.50 A Revolution Almost Beyond Expression: Jane Austen's Persuasion Author: Jocelyn Harris To praise Jane Austen's novels only as stylistic masterpieces is to strip them of the contexts and intertexts that would otherwise illuminate them. By focusing primarily on the political, historical, satiric, actively intertextual, and deeply sexualized text Persuasion, Jocelyn Harris seeks to reconcile the apparent insignificance of her content with her high canonical status. This book calls on new discoveries to answer assertions that Austen is "limited." Full Description ISBN: 978-0-87413-966-2 $54.00 Rhetorics of Order/Ordering Rhetorics in English Neoclassical Literature Editors: Douglas Canfield and J. Paul Hunter This collection of essays on the rhetorics of order in English neoclassical literature includes Rose A. Zimbardo's investigation of generic slippage between drama and novel in works by Dryden and Behn; Maynard Mack's analysis of Pope's enduring rhetorics of presentation; and Patricia Meyer Spack's examination of the heroines of Clarissa and The Italian. ISBN: 0-87413-374-2 $36.50 Rights, Goods, and Democracy Author: Ramon M. Lemos A philosophical study of the relationships and connections among natural rights, material goods, and democracy. A defense of ethical absolutism is presented in the appendix. ISBN: 0-87413-312-2 $38.50 Ritual Unbound: Reading Sacrifice in Modernist Fiction Author: Thomas Cousineau This study explores the vestiges of primitive sacrificial rituals that emerge in a group of canonical modernist novels, including The Turn of the Screw, Heart of Darkness, The Good Soldier, The Great Gatsby, and To the Lighthouse. It argues that modernist reenactments of this pattern present narrators who, although vigorously protesting the victimization of certain characters, unfailingly seize upon others as their surrogates. Full Description ISBN: 0-87413-851-5 $39.50 Robert Bridges: An Annotated Bibliography, 1873-1988 Editors: Lee Templin Hamilton Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England from 1913 to 1930, is an important cultural link between the Victorian Age and the modern period. This bibliography updates and expands George McKay's A Bibliography of Robert Bridges (1933) and is the first gathering of reviews, articles, essays, books, and other scholarly notes about Bridges. ISBN: 0-87413-364-5 $44.50 Robin Hood: The Early Poems, 1465-1560: Texts, Contexts, and Ideology Author: Thomas H. Ohlgren Previous scholarship on the early Robin Hood poems has tended to treat the three major worksRobin Hood and the Monk, Robin Hood and the Potter, and A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hodeas a homogeneous group with a common audience and ideology. In this new study, Thomas H. Ohlgren demonstrates that each work must be evaluated according to its own history, production, ownership, transmission, and reception. Full Description ISBN: 0-87413-964-3 $55.00 Roman Invasions: The British History, Protestant Anti-Romanism, and the Historical Imagination in England, 1530-1660 Author: John E. Curran, Jr. This book describes how the Renaissance understanding of ancient Britain remained affected by medieval conceptions. The reason for this remaining medievalism was that the tradition based on Geoffrey of Monmouth became so relevant to Protestant patriotism that a great many Protestant English writers clung to it or were influenced by it despite its evident historical inaccuracies. Drayton, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton figure prominently, but a wide range of authors is considered. ISBN: 0-87413-778-0 $55.00 Romance and Reformation: The Rhetoric of Erasmian Humanism in Measure for Measure Author: Robert Bennett This book argues that Measure for Measure is not a cynical problem play but a comic romance through which Shakespeare examines Tudor humanism's desire to reform social ills through art. ISBN: 0-87413-671-7 $36.00 Romantic Ideology Unmasked: The Mentally Constructed Tyrannies in Dramas of William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Joanna Baillie Author: Marjean D. Purinton Romantic drama explores the multiple forms of tyranny inflicted by human-created systems. By unmasking the embedded layers of ideology and revealing fictions that ideology perpetrated as truth, this work reveals the mental processes on which romantic drama's temporal and spatial issues rest. Works discussed include Wordsworth's The Borderers, Byron's Manfred and Werner, Shelley's The Cenci and Prometheus Unbound, and Baillie's Count Basil and De Montfort. ISBN: 0-87413-499-4 $36.50 Romeo and Juliet: Parallel Texts of Quarto I (1597) and Quarto 2 (1599) Editor: Jay L. Halio Using this edition, the reader may see at once how Shakespeare's manuscript of the play, upon which the second quarto (Q2) is based, was adapted for the Elizabethan stage by the author and/or his colleagues. Q1 is considerably shorter than Q2. While many long speeches are cut, abbreviated, or revised, the structure of the play remains essentially as Shakespeare originally conceived it. Full Description ISBN: 978-0-87413-038-6 $42.50 Ruling Suburbia: John J. McClure and the Republican Machine in Delaware County, Pennsylvania Author: John Morrison McLarnon III. Ruling Suburbia chronicles the history of the Republican machine that has dominated the political life of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, since 1875, and of the career of John J. McClure, who controlled the machine from 1907 until 1965. Full Description Series: Cultural Studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore ISBN: 0-87413-814-0 $60.00 Russian Essays on Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Editors: Alexandr Parfenov and Joseph G. Price Shakespeare's importance to Russia and the countries that make up the former Soviet Union is discussed in this volume. The Shakespearean world at large is extended by significant scholarly and critical contributions of a country too long isolated from the Western literary scene. In the global world of Shakespeare, this volume provides a definitive study of his reception throughout Russia and its independent states. Series: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries ISBN: 0-87413-619-9 $36.50 Back to Top
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