Bøger udgivet af University of Delaware Press

John J. Williams was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1946, defeating incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator James M. Tunnell. Honest John Williams: U.S. Senator from Delaware examines the political career of Williams, a political novice who established himself as an important advocate for fiscal probity and integrity in government during four successive terms in the U.S. Senate between 1947 and 1970. Over the course of those twenty-four years in the Senate, which spanned the administrations of five separate U.S. presidents (Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon), Williams positioned himself as an opponent of wasteful government spending and corruption, often working 'across the aisle' in order to achieve specific political goals. In Honest John Williams, noted Delaware historian Carol E. Hoffecker offers readers a comprehensive look at the legislative course forged by Delaware's first four-term senator, a chicken-feed dealer born on a farm near Sussex County who went on to become an important advocate for fiscal probity and integrity in twentieth-century American politics.

The essays in this collection feature many of the world's leading Herbert scholars and are drawn from the more than fifty papers and plenary presentations delivered at the George Herbert's Travels conference held at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in October 2008. They track Herbert's "heart in pilgrimage" through four centuries of time, through west and east across space, through the inner spaces of the suffering body and soul, and through modernity into the postmodern. These essays ask how travel through space and time influences the reception and creation of literary art; in other words, how the movement of poetry affects and effects poetic movements. The interdisciplinary contributors observe Herbert's poetry traveling geographically (from earlier British receptions, to the "American strand," to the Far East), traveling internally (through the interior terrain of formal and bodily experience), and traveling temporally (through the shifting cultural landscapes made by Modern and Postmodern minds). Along the way, they discover connections between Herbert and a kaleidoscopic range of writers and thinkers including Augustine, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Edward Herbert, Anne Clifford, Robert Herrick, Henry Vaughan, Christopher Harvey, Thomas Traherne, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Ridler, R. S. Thomas, Simone Weil, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Philip Larkin, Harold Bloom, Anthony Hecht, John Bradburne, Seamus Heaney, Dallas Wiebe, Carole Rumens, and Vikram Seth. Remarkably, the home-bound Herbert anticipates many modern and post-modern traveling hopes and anxieties. He knows the call of sheer wanderlust, the craving to escape "abroad," while also recommending the utilitarian value of travel to improve oneself, to expand one's cultural, commercial, and spiritual horizons. Yet Herbert also somehow knows the jaded disillusionment, the "grief of pleasures" experienced by the prodigal traveler who has been abroad and abroad and abroad, and strikes the board, and cries "No more!" And in the end-literally, at the end of The Temple, in The Church Militant-he seems to prophesy the present age, in which traveling culture prefigures both millennium and apocalypse.

This book provides wide ranging and comprehensive biographical sketches of forty-two doctors who are best known to the public for their contributions to fields outside of medicine. Largely written by members of the medical profession, the selection of doctors discussed here are those who are, or were, well-known to the public for their contributions to their non-medical fields of choice.In many cases, the readers may have been unaware that well known professionals in fields such as literature, exploration, business, sports, and entertainment was medically qualified.

Uses the reproductive histories of six celebrity women to demonstrate that pregnancy affected celebrity identity, impacted audience reception of performance, changed company repertory and altered company hierarchy, influenced the development of new plays, and had economic consequences for both women and the companies for which they worked.

The original edition of Salonnires, Furies, and Fairies was a work of early modern literary history, exploring women's use of the fairy tale to carve out roles as contributors to the literature of their time. This new edition, with a new introduction by Allison Stedman, emphasizes the scholarly legacy of Anne Duggan's original work.

Presents the correspondence, petitions, and memorials to state and federal legislative bodies, semi-autobiographical essays, and other materials of the key figure in the US abolitionist movement between the end of the American Revolution and the Jefferson presidency.

Analyses the ""war of words"" unleashed in the pamphlets denouncing Louis XIV's absolute monarchy between 1667 and 1715. The book investigates how pamphlet writers challenged the monarchy's monopoly over the performance of sovereignty by contesting the very mechanisms through which the crown legitimized its authority.