UD Press books reap recognition, awards

“This has been a banner year for the UD Press, and these awards will certainly increase our visibility and further enhance an already strong reputation in scholarly publication,” Donald Mell, professor of English who chairs the UD Press board of editors, said.

Mapping Discord: Allegorical Cartography in Early Modern French Writing by Jeffrey N. Peters, a professor of French at the University of Kentucky, won the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Literary Studies. The award will be given at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association meeting in late December.

In addition, Choice magazine, the official review publication of the Association of College and University Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, has selected three UD Press books as outstanding academic tiles for 2005.

The books are A Dream of Stone: Fame, Vision and Monumentality in 19th-Century French Literary Culture by Michael D. Garval; Percy Bysshe Shelley: Exile of Unfulfilled Renown by James Bieri; and What Happened to Abraham? Reinventing the Covenant in American Jewish Fiction by Victoria Aarons. Fewer than 10 percent of the books reviewed by Choice during the year--and less than 3 percent of the books received for review--were selected, according to Mell.

Theresa Guicciol’s Lord Byron’s Life in Italy, translated by Michael Rees and edited by Peter Cochran, received recognition in the Dec. 15 holiday issue of the New York Review of Books in a review by Ann Barton, a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge University. Two other books on Byron were cited, as well.

"...Vie de Lord Byron en Italie has languished far too long in a manuscript, kept in Ravenna that only a few scholars have seen," Barton wrote in her review. "Translated excellently now by Michael Rees and superbly edited and introduced by Peter Cochran, it provides a very different and more attractive perspective....The book is invaluable in the detailed information it provides not only about [the life Guiccioli shared with Byron], but along the way about Italy under Austrian yoke...."

Earlier this year, the book won the 2005 Elma Dangerfield Prize from the International Byron Society for the best book about the poet.

Article by Sue Moncure

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