Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing | Annual Conference


SHARP Conference | July 1-5, 2024 — Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing, University of Reading

The University of Delaware Press will be exhibiting at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) annual conference at the University of Reading’s Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing this year!

Stop by the book exhibit tables to browse in person, or take a look below at the University of Delaware Press’s new and forthcoming titles in literary studies. You can view a complete list of titles from the University of Delaware Press here.

If you are interested in connecting with Julia Oestreich, Director of the University of Delaware Press, or any of our series editors, you can contact the Press here and see all series information here.

Use discount code RUP30 to save 30% off plus free domestic US shipping on all books when you order online. Customers located in Canada can order books through UBC Press here, and customers located outside of the Americas can order books through our UK partner, Combined Academic Publishers, here. All detailed instructions for placing book orders can be found here.


Literary and Textual Studies Titles from the University of Delaware Press

Feminist Comedy

Women Playwrights of London

The Age of Subtlety

Nature and Rhetorical Conceits in Early Modern Europe

Redreaming the Renaissance

Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero

A Genealogy of the Gentleman

Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth Century

Objects of Liberty

British Women Writers and Revolutionary Souvenirs

Fictions of Pleasure

The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France

Literature and the Arts

Interdisciplinary Essays in Memory of James Anderson Winn

The Visionary Queen

Justice, Reform, and the Labyrinth in Marguerite de Navarre

Ordering Customs

Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice

Gendering the Renaissance

Text and Context in Early Modern Italy

Frankenstein and STEAM

Essays for Charles E. Robinson

Black Celebrity

Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists

Elusive Archives

Material Culture in Formation

Performative Polemic

Anti-Absolutist Pamphlets and their Readers in Late Seventeenth-Century France

The Dark Thread

From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales

The Circuit of Apollo

Eighteenth-Century Women’s Tributes to Women

Eliza Fenwick

Early Modern Feminist

The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic

Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso

Advertising the Self in Renaissance France

Authorial Personae and Ideal Readers in Lemaire, Marot, and Rabelais

Visualizing the Text

From Manuscript Culture to the Age of Caricature