UpDate - Vol. 11, No. 25, Page 4
March 26, 1992
Three competition winners among latest U.D. Press releases

     A book on Indian architecture by former University faculty member
Margaret Prosser Allen, two Shakespearean studies, and a catalogue raisonne
on American artist John Sloan are among the recent publications of the
University of Delaware Press.
     Three of the books are winners of the University of Delaware Press's
manuscript competitions.
     Ornament in Indian Architecture by Margaret Prosser Allen presents
some of India's greatest architectural achievements from the 2nd-century
B.C. to the Moghul period.
     With over 400 plates in striking black-and-white photography, Ornament
in Indian Architecture portrays the many influences on the architectural
structures of this diverse country. Allen taught in the University's art
department for over 30 years.
     Rowland Elzea's two-volume work, John Sloan's Oil Paintings: A
Catalogue Raisonn, is the winner of the University of Delaware Press
Manuscript Competition for American Art. The books contain descriptions,
history and illustrations for more than 1,200 oil paintings by Sloan
(1871-1951). Elzea is the director of the Curatorial Department at the
Delaware Art Museum.
     H. R. Coursen's Shakespearean Performance as Interpretation asserts
that Shakespearean performance organizes the script toward "meanings" that
readings of the plays as text could never reveal.
     The book argues against Harry Berger's recent Imaginary Auditions,
which espouses the "anti-theatrical tradition" of Richard II. Coursen is an
English professor at Bowdoin College and has previously published 11 books
of poetry.
     Guided by medical history, Shakespearean scholar F. David Hoeniger
designed Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance to appeal to
students of Elizabethan and Jacobean thought, literature and history.
     Several chapters describe the background and various theoretical
practices familiar to physicians in Shakespeare's time. This work won the
1988 University of Delaware Press Manuscript Competition in Shakespearean
Literature. Hoeniger is professor emeritus of English at Victoria College,
University of Toronto.
     Evelyn Gajowski's The Art of Loving: Female Subjectivity and Male
Discursive Traditions in Shakespeare's Tragedies questions the phenomenon
of "theatrical subjectivity"-female protagonists as both subjects and
objects on the early modern English stage and within Shakespeare's
tragedies. The Art of Loving argues that to view the tragic females only as
victims of patriarchy is to ignore the commentary that the texts make upon
masculine impulses of possession, politics and power. Gajowski is assistant
professor of English at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.
     Literate Culture: Pope's Rhetorical Art by Ruben Quintero attempts to
revise modern readers' understanding of Pope's poetry and reconstruct the
rhetorical sensibility Pope expected of the 18th-century reader. Literate
Culture is the winner of the 1989 18th-Century Studies competition.
Quintero teaches English at California State University, Los Angeles.
     The sixth and final volume of The Journal of Thomas Moore, edited by
retired Rice University English professor Wilfred S. Dowden, contains
Moore's entries from 1843 through 1847 and an index to the six volumes. The
diary discloses Moore's lifestyle, as well as his acquaintance with various
literary, political and social figures of his day.
     The number of public printers in New England grew rapidly in the
Revolutionary years. Carol Sue Humphrey's book, This Popular Engine: New
England Newspapers during the American Revolution, 1775-1789, discusses the
importance of the American newspaper in the democratic evolution of the
United States and the many problems encountered early in the trade.
Humphrey is an assistant professor of history at Oklahoma Baptist
University.
     Science, Rationality and Neoclassical Economics by L. D. Keita is a
study of neoclassical economics and its claims to scientific status. The
work traces the early attempts by economic theorists such as Bentham Jevons
and Walras to establish genuine science of economic decision making, which
prompted later theorists to found the developing neoclassical economies on
the theory of cardinal unity. Keita is an associate professor of philosophy
at Howard University.
     Boston's Municipal Court was redefined during the antebellum period,
diverting minor cases to extra-legal channels and becoming a dispute
resolution center. Theodore Ferdinand's Boston's Lower Criminal Courts:
1814-1850 contains historical information on the bar association's struggle
to require formal legal education, and on the courts' reactions to the
various changes in the types of criminal activity, such as the increase of
youthful offenders. Ferdinand is currently at the Center for the Study of
Crime, Delinquency and Corrections at Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale.
     Wesley M. Bagby's book, The Eagle-Dragon Alliance: America's Relations
with China in World War II, is a synthesized, general history based on
archival and monographic sources. A rich mix of colorful personalities,
dramatic action, Byzantine intrigue and momentous historical issues, this
work discusses the impact of Americans on China during this war. Bagby is a
professor of history at West Virginia University.
     Harold Temperley was a leading Cambridge diplomatic historian of the
interwar period and master of Peterhouse at the time of his death in 1939.
John Fair's biography, Harold Temperley: A Scholar and Romantic in the
Public Realm, portrays the development of the British historical profession
and contributes to an understanding of early-20th-century Cambridge life.
Fair is professor and head of the history department at Auburn University
at Montgomery.
     All these books are available at the University Bookstore.
     -Marceline A. Bunzey