UpDate - Vol. 13, No. 33, Page 9
May 26, 1994
University Press announces eight new releases

   The University of Delaware Press has published eight new titles in
the fields of history, poetry, multiculturalism, Elizabethan and
Renaissance studies, genre studies and college football. All titles
are available at the University Bookstore.

   The late David M. Nelson's The Anatomy of a Game: Football, the
Rules, and the Men Who Made the Game is the first work to chronicle
year by year how the playing rules developed the game of college
football. Mr. Nelson's work follows football rules from the game's
European roots through its beginning in the U.S., and finally to its
current position as the most popular spectator sport in the U.S.
   Mr. Nelson served as athletic director at the University of
Delaware from 1951-1984 and was dean of the College of Physical
Education from 1980-1989. The author of several books on football, he
also served as editor and secretary of the NCAA Football Rules
Committee for over 30 years until his death in 1991.

   Styles of Cultural Activism: From Theory and Pedagogy to Women,
Indians and Communism, edited by Philip Goldstein, is a broad
collection examining disciplinary activism, dismissed by left- and
right-wing traditionalists as "politically correct," and oppositional
practices that are both disciplinary and committed, professional and
political. The collection covers a range of subjects, including
communism, the rhetorical authority of the feminist teacher, the
incommensurate historical accounts of Europeans and Native Americans,
Jewish studies as part of a multicutural agenda and the mainstream
media's one-sided coverage of the Gulf War. Goldstein is associate
professor of English at the University of Delaware.

   Attending to Women in Early Modern England contains the edited
proceedings from the 1990 symposium sponsored by the Center for
Renaissance and Baroque Studies (CRBS) at the University of Maryland
at College Park.
   A study of women in early modern England, the book focuses on the
challenges of interdisciplinary scholarship in this area, the
construction of women's identity and the complexities of studying
early modern women of both traditionally visible and invisible
classes. The editors are Betty Travitsky, research librarian at the
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and Adele Seeff,
executive director of CRBS.

   The essays collected in The Picaresque: A Symposium on the Rogue's
Tale grew out of an April 1989 conference sponsored by CRBS.
Representing the diversity of scholarly approaches to the study of the
picaresque, the collection raises new questions concerning the
picaresque canon and prevailing problems of definition and method.
   The 10 contributors are internationally renowned scholars in their
fields. The collection was edited by Carmen Benito-Vessels, an author
of works in Spanish medieval historiography and the interaction of
medieval literary genres, and the late Michael Zappala, who published
many articles and a book on literary and cultural translation.

   Joseph Bartolomeo's A New Species of Criticism: 18th-Century
Discourse on the Novel examines the role played by critical discourses
in establishing the novel as a potent force in literary and popular
culture. Analyzing a variety of ostensibly peripheral texts, including
prefaces, dedications, letters, pamphlets and periodical reviews,
Bartolomeo demonstrates the extent to which early novelists and
critics anticipated many of the aesthetic and ethical issues that
concern modern critics of fiction and popular genres. Bartolomeo
teaches English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

   Charles Hinnant's The Poetry of Anne Finch is a full-scale study of
the poems of Anne Finch, the Countess of Winchilsea (1621-1720). The
first study to examine all of the genres incorporated by Finch, it
functions partly as a survey, covering a wide range of poems, many of
which have never been mentioned in the commentary on Finch's verse.
Hinnant is professor of English at the University of Missouri at
Columbia. His "Steel for the Mind": Samuel Johnson and Critical
Discourse, published by the University of Delaware Press in 1993.

   Walter Gray's Interpreting American Democracy in France: The Career
of Edouard Laboulaye, 1811-1883 is a study of the French savant,
liberal, politician and Americanist Edouard Laboulaye. A professor at
the respected College de France,
   Laboulaye was France's leading Americanist. He devoted his energies
to lectures on American history and politics and work on behalf of the
North during the Civil War. Laboulaye is perhaps best known in America
today as the president of the Union France-Americaine, which raised
funds in France for the Statue of Liberty. Gray is professor of
history at Loyola University in Chicago.

   Black Liberation/Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party is a
study of the African-American Communist leader Ben Davis (1904-1964)
and of the Communist Party in America from 1930 through the 1960s. By
examining the public life of an important party leader, Gerald Horne
approaches the story of how and why the party rose, and fell, from a
unique viewpoint. Before Davis' death in 1964, his controversial
appearances on college campuses helped set the stage for a new era of
activism at universities. According to Horne, Davis should be regarded
as a premier leader of African-Americans and the U.S. left during the
20th century. Horne teaches at the University of California, Santa
Barbara.
                                                        -Andrea Newlyn