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December 3, 1992                                       
Seven new releases announced by University Press       
                                                       
     The University of Delaware press has announced seven new
publications in the fields of history, literature and biography. All
titles are available at the University Bookstore.            
     Crisis-Consciousness and the Novel by Eugene Hollahan examines
the emergence of modern consciousness as it develops historically in
prose fiction narrative. The book represents a critical history of
crisis and discusses the importance of the word within the development
of the English-language novel from Samuel Richardson to Saul Bellow,
with excursions into discourses in related fields such as    
autobiography, philosophy, theology and social science.      
     Hollahan, a member of the National Book Critics Circle, teaches
literary criticism at Georgia State University.              
     In his book, Richard Farmer, Master of Emmanuel College,
Cambridge: A Forgotten Shakespearean, Arthur Sherbo brings together
the various aspects of Farmer's life to restore to proper balance his
long-neglected importance as a Shakespearean. Sherbo discusses
Farmer's contributions to several Shakespeare editions, including 
those of George Steevens, Isaac Reed and Edmond Malone. Farmer's life,
typical of the 18th century teacher-scholar, is also of interest. 
     Sherbo, professor emeritus of English at Michigan State
University, specializes in 18th-century literature.          
     In The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and
Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard, edited by James M. Dean
and Christian K. Zacher, 16 colleagues and students of Howard address
issues ranging from Chaucer's Edwardian period to the writings of 
Margery of Kempe. The text's three sections are devoted to Chaucer's
culture, his writings and medieval culture and society. Dean is
associate professor of English at the University of Delaware.
Christian K. Zacher is professor of English at Ohio State University.
     In his book, Sidney Godolphin: Servant of the State, Roy A.
Sundstrom examines the importance of Godolphin, Queen Anne's Lord High
Treasurer from 1702-10, in preventing Louis XIV of France from
imposing his will on Europe. Despite his vital contributions to the
war effort, historians have typically left Godolphin in the shadow of
the Duke of Marlborough who led troops to victory. The first scholarly
biography of Godolphin in 100 years, this book shows him to have been
a force in his own right as well as one of the most important
politicians in modern English history. Sundstrom has taught history at
Humboldt State University in California since 1969.          
     Modernity and Revolution in Late 19th-Century France is a
collection of essays presented in 1989 by scholars at the 15th annual
Colloquium in 19th-Century French Studies at the University of New
Hampshire. Editors Barbara T. Cooper and Mary Donaldson-Evans have
compiled these contributions, which deal with the literary and
artistic productions of the French Second Empire and the Third
Republic and their historical ramifications. The writers and artists
analyzed in these essays sought to revolutionize the traditional
practices of their art, looking at both the future and the past for
their inspiration. Cooper is associate professor of French at the 
University of New Hampshire, where she specializes in early  
nineteenth-century French theatre. Donaldson-Evans, professor of
languages and literatures at Delaware, concentrates on late  
19th-century narrative prose.                                
     Winner of the 1990 University of Delaware Press Award for best
manuscript in Shakespearean literature, Myth, Emblem and Music in 
Shakespeare's "Cymbeline:" An Iconographic Reconstruction by Peggy
Munoz Simonds, brings new life to the play for the modern reader
through a rediscovery of Shakespeare's artistic use of Renaissance
myths, symbols and emblems that give meaning to the play. The book
also ranges over a wide spectrum of Shakespeare's dramatic and
non-dramatic works, as well as those of his contemporaries, to show
parallels between the mysteries of Cymbeline and other examples of
Renaissance thought and expression. Simonds graduated with honors in
English from the University of Delaware and earned an        
interdisciplinary Ph.D. in literature and art history from the
American University. Currently, she is professor emerita of English at
Montgomery College in Maryland.                              
     In The Political Career of Oliver St. John, 1637-1649, William
Palmer investigates the impact St. John had upon the English 
Revolution and Parliament. His opposition to monarchical policies of
the 1640s culminated in his speech supporting the execution of the
king's most trusted servant, the Earl of Strafford.          
     St. John became the leader of Parliament in 1643 and was
instrumental in not only luring the Scots to the side of Parliament in
the civil war against the king, but in replacing the Earl of Essex as
commander of the parliamentary army with Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell is
remembered for his political skill and military genius, but St. John's
leadership abilities should not go unnoticed. Palmer, professor of
history at Marshall University.                              
                                        -Cathleen Gibbons