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Book SynopsisThe Island of Apples is a brilliant study of a pre-adolescent boy's romantic imagination and dangerous enthralment, set vividly in the south Wales of Methyr Tydfil and Carmarthen in the early twentieth centuryTrade Review" I found my self unexpectedly hooked by the Island of Apples - I became increasingly beguiled by its haunting quality." New York Herald Tribune " An iridescent story." New York Times " The novel, like all true works of art, grows more important with time - it is a remarkable piece of work, sustained and controlled." Leslie Norris, Dictionary of Literary Biography

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Book SynopsisAn early gem from the creator of the Kurt Wallander series, charting the life of a principled man through tragedy, heartbreak, true love and the battle for a nation''s soul.A very engaging portrait . . . There is a powerful lack of sentimentality to the telling of the story [and] a lovely and genuinely moving love story at the heart of the book. Liam Heylin, Irish ExaminerAt 3 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon in 1911, Oskar Johansson is caught in a blast in an industrial accident. The local newspaper reports him dead, but they are mistaken.Because Oskar Johansson is a born survivor.Though crippled, Oskar finds the strength to go on living and working. The Rock Blaster charts his long professional life - his hopes and dreams, sorrows and joys. His relationship with the woman whose love saved him, with the labour movement that gave him a cause to believe in, and with his children, who do not share his ideals.Trade ReviewOne of Scandinavia's finest writers. -- Ian Rankin.He is in the great tradition of those whose works transcend their chosen genre to become thrilling and moral literature. -- Michael OndaatjeA literary writer of considerable accomplishment. -- Barry Forshaw * Independent. *In life and in art Henning Mankell was a man of passionate commitment. -- Kenneth BrannaghMankell is the master. -- Viv GroskopMankell's fierce instinct for social criticism is admirable. -- Mike Peed * New York Times. *Mankell writes with both a social conscience and great humour. -- Sarah Compton * Daily Telegraph. *An excellent craftsman. -- Joanna KavennaProvides a fascinating preview of the psychology of Kurt Wallander who was to become Mankell's most famous creation * Shots Magazine *A very engaging portrait . . . There is a powerful lack of sentimentality to the telling of the story [and] a lovely and genuinely moving love story at the heart of the book. -- Liam Heylin * Irish Examiner *

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Book SynopsisCONTENTS: Introduction; Soubrot of fornkonungum: Mythologised History for Late Thirteenth-Century Iceland; Hrolfs saga kraka & the Legend of Lejre; Enter the Dragon: Legendary Saga Courage & the Birth of the Hero; Pora & Aslaug in Ragnars saga loòrokar: Women, Dragons & Destiny; Hvggin ok forsjal: Wisdom & Women''s Counsel in Hrolfs saga Gautrekssonar; Vid pik sattumsk ek aldri: Qrvar-Odds saga & the Meanings of Qgmundr Eypjofsbani; The Tale of Hogni & Hedinn; The Saga of Asmundr, Killer of Champions.

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary study presents compelling evidence for a revolutionary idea: that to understand the historical entrenchment of gentility in America, we must understand its creation among non-elite people: colonial middling sorts who laid the groundwork for the later American middle class. Focusing on the daily life of Widow Elizabeth Pratt, a shopkeeper from early eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, Christina J. Hodge uses material remains as a means of reconstructing not only how Mrs Pratt lived, but also how these objects reflect shifting class and gender relationships in this period. Challenging the ''emulation thesis'', a common assumption that wealthy elites led fashion and culture change while middling sorts only followed, Hodge shows how middling consumers were in fact discerning cultural leaders, adopting genteel material practices early and aggressively. By focusing on the rise and emergence of the middle class, this book brings new insights into the evolution of Table of ContentsPreface: vivent les revolutions; 1. Introduction; 2. Consuming contexts; 3. Living spaces; 4. At table; 5. Keeping the shop; 6. Legacies of the genteel revolution.

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Book SynopsisRanging across literature, theater, history and the visual arts, this collection of essays explores the range of places where British Romantic-period sociability transpired. Specialist and non-specialists readers can revisit the rooms, buildings, landscapes and seascapes where people gathered to converse, to eat and drink, to work and to find entertainment.Table of ContentsIntroduction Kevin Gilmartin; Part I. Print Relations: 1. Recovering the country book club Ina Ferris; 2. 'Bread and cheese and porter only being allowed': radical spaces in London, 1792–5 Jon Mee; 3. Piccadilly booksellers and conservative sociability David Fallon; Part II. Sociable Spectacle: 4. Proxy Israelites: staging ethnic violence in the ring and the pit Daniel O'Quinn; 5. Fashionable subjects: exhibition culture and the limits of sociability Paul Keen; Part III. Interior Places: 6. 'The place is not free to you': the Georgian assembly room and the ends of sociability Gillian Russell; 7. Unconventional calling: Godwin, women and visiting in the 1790s Mark Philp; Part IV. Traveling Sociability: 8. Sociability among the ruins: the Colosseum by moonlight, circa 1820 Christopher Rovee; 9. Sociability by the sea side: Margate before 1815 Harriet Guest; 10. Lower deck narratives and sociability in the British Navy, 1750–1815 Nicholas Rogers.

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Book SynopsisThomas Hardy and Animals examines the human and nonhuman animals who walk and crawl and fly across and around the pages of Hardy''s novels. Animals abound in his writings, yet little scholarly attention has been paid to them so far. This book fills this gap in Hardy studies, bringing an important author within range of a new and developing area of critical inquiry. It considers the way Hardy''s representations of animals challenged ideas of human-animal boundaries debated by the Victorian scientific and philosophical communities. In moments of encounter between humans and animals, Hardy questions boundaries based on ideas of moral sense or moral agency, language and reason, the possession of a face, and the capacity to suffer and perceive pain. Through an emphasis on embodied encounters, his writings call for an extension of empathy to others, human or nonhuman. In this accessible book Anna West offers a new approach to Hardy criticism.Trade Review'… an important and welcome contribution to Hardy scholarship. … West's volume serves as a good beginning point … on this compelling and complex subject. … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.' R. D. Morrison, CHOICE'Thomas Hardy and Animals is an outstanding piece of work that makes an important contribution to Hardy studies and to scholarship on animals in the Victorian period.' Jennifer McDonell, Victorian Studies'… West's excellent study provides a very welcome introduction to the 'creatures' that play so notable a part in Hardy's oeuvre.' Adrian Tait, The British Society for Literature and ScienceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Hardy's 'shifted [...] centre of altruism': an ethics of encounter and empathy; 1. What does it mean to be a creature?; 2. 'The only things we believe in are the sheep and the dogs'; 3. 'Artful' creatures, part one: animal language; 4. 'Artful' creatures, part two: can a snake have a face?; 5. 'Artful' creatures, part three: 'pre-posthumanist' Hardy; 6. Useful creatures: rethinking Hardy's humanitarianism.

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Book SynopsisJames Joyce was educated almost exclusively by the Jesuits; this education and these priests make their appearance across Joyce''s oeuvre. This dynamic has never been properly explicated or rigorously explored. Using Joyce''s religious education and psychoanalytic theories of depression and paranoia, this book opens radical new possibilities for reading Joyce''s fiction. It takes readers through some of the canon''s most well-read texts and produces bold, fresh new readings. By placing these readings in light of Jesuit religious practice - in particular, the Spiritual Exercises all Jesuit priests and many students undergo - the book shows how Joyce''s deepest concerns about truth, literature, and love were shaped by these religious practices and texts. Joyce worked out his answers to these questions in his own texts, largely by forcing his readers to encounter, and perhaps answer, those questions themselves. Reading Joyce is a challenge not only in terms of interpretation but of experience - the confusion, boredom, and even paranoia readers feel when making their way through these texts.Trade Review'Michael Mayo's lucidly written, patiently reasoned James Joyce and the Jesuits argues that 'Joyce's work addresses itself to particular crises of belief and representation generated by Ignatius of Loyola' in his Spiritual Exercises (1522–1524)… Mayo leaves us with a highly compelling conceptual framework: one that others might well profit from and apply further in their own engagements with the frustrations and enigmas of Joyce's art, and also its playfulness.' James Joyce Broadsheet, No. 123Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The disturbed mind; 3. Beyond the Uncle Charles Principle; 4. The labour of reading: Joyce with Klein; 5. Kleinian Aesthetics; 6. Discernment and indifference; 7. It was pitch dark almost; 8. Substantiation; 9. Conclusion: The transference; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisMargaret Cavendish was one of the most subversive and entertaining writers of the seventeenth century. She invented new genres, challenged gender roles, and critiqued the new science as well as the mores of society. "Paper Bodies" was the wonderful phrase she used to described her manuscripts, which she hoped would continue to make "a great Blazing Light" after her death. There are connections here to Cavendish's most famous work, The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World (1666), a unique tale of a woman travelling through the north pole to a strange new world.In addition to The Blazing World, this volume includes Cavendish's brief autobiography, A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life (1667), her play The Convent of Pleasure, and selections from her Sociable Letters, her poetry, and her critical writings. A variety of background documents by other seventeenth-century writers helps to set her work in context for the modern reader.Trade Review“Paper Bodies gathers together important and representative selections from the poetry, fiction, prefaces, and letters of Margaret Cavendish. The book also sets the work in context by printing extracts from Francis Bacon, Mary Evelyn, and Aphra Behn. Cavendish scholars will be very pleased by the appearance of this highly useful collection.” — James Fitzmaurice, Northern Arizona University“Cavendish always hoped that a future audience might read her texts—the ‘paper bodies’ that remained after her death—more attentively than had her contemporaries. This anthology facilitates that readership. Its lucid introduction and careful selection of texts and contexts adumbrate key topics in Cavendish studies, and its potential to enrich courses on early modern literature, the history of science, and gender studies is great.” — Anna Battigelli, SUNY, PlattsburghTable of ContentsIntroduction Birth, Breeding, and Self-fashioning Gender and Serious Play Women and the New Science Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle: A Brief ChronologyPart I: Birth, Breeding, and Self-fashioning A True Relation of my Birth, Breeding, and Life (1656) Selections from CCXI Sociable Letters (1664) Preface to Orations of Divers Sorts (1662) Letter of Mary Evelyn to Ralph Bohun (c.1667) Part II: Gender and Serious Play The Convent of Pleasure (1668) Preface to the Reader, The Worlds Olio (1655) Female Orations, from Orations of Divers Sorts (1662) Part III: Women and the New Science The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World (1666) Selections from Poems and Fancies (1635) Francis Bacon, New Atlantis (1627) Selections from Letters and Poems in Honour of … Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (1676) Aphra Behn, Preface to her translation of Fontenelle’s Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes (1688) Works Cited and Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisBaillie’s eminently readable dramas stand at the crossroads of the Scottish Enlightenment and early Romanticism, and compellingly engage with questions of women’s rights. Her exploration of the passions, first published in 1798, is here reissued with a wealth of contextual materials including "The Introductory Discourse," Baillie’s own brand of feminist literary criticism. The three plays included here are "Count Basil: A Tragedy," and "The Tryal: A Comedy," which show love from opposing perspectives; and "De Monfort: A Tragedy," which explores the drama of hate. Among other appendices, the Broadview edition includes materials on the contemporary philosophical understanding of the passions, and contemporary reviews.Baillie’s work is enjoying a revival of interest. She lived a long life, (1762-1851), and had a wide circle of literary friends including Maria Edgeworth and Sir Walter Scott (who termed her a "female Shakespeare"). Scottish born, she moved to England in her twenties where she then resided. Her Plays on the Passions, alternatively known as A Series of Plays in which it is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind—Each Passion being the Subject of a Tragedy and Comedy was produced in three volumes between 1798 and 1812. The first volume created quite a stir amongst the literary circles of London and Edinburgh when introduced anonymously. The speculation into the authorship concluded two years later when Baillie came forward as the writer of the collection, thereby causing a subsequent sensation since no one had considered the shy spinster a candidate in the mystery.Trade Review“At a time when serious scholars are reevaluating the merit and impact of Joanna Baillie’s work, we finally have an annotated edition of her first volume of A Series of Plays. Sound research is impossible without authoritative primary texts, and Peter Duthie provides judicious editing, pertinent annotations and important philosophical explanations to make this Baillie edition useful for researchers and general readers alike.” — Judith Bailey Slagle, editor of The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie“Peter Duthie has given teachers of romanticism and theater a gift; this elegant, accessible, and carefully contextualized edition of Joanna Baillie’s earliest plays is an invaluable resource for demonstrating the centrality of Baillie’s dramas to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century debates about women and performance, morality and the mind.” — Catherine Burroughs, Wells CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionJoanna Baillie: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the Text Introductory DiscourseCount Basil: A TragedyThe Tryal: A ComedyDe Monfort: A Tragedy Appendix A: The Moral Writers John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40) Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) Dugald Stewart, Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind (1792) Appendix B: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) [On soldiers, professions, and masculine corruption] [On the tyranny of the sexes] Appendix C: Prologue and Epilogue to the Tragedy of De Montfort from the Larpent VersionAppendix D: William Wordsworth “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads (1800) From Lyrical Ballads Vol. 2 (1800) Appendix E: Contemporary Reviews Literary Leisure I (Jan. 1800) Edinburgh Review 4 (July 1803) Imperial Review I (March 1804) Dramatic Censor (April-May 1800) Works Cited/Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisFleetwood is a pivotal novel of early English Romanticism and a powerful critique of the Romantic emotionalism being spread across Europe in Rousseau’s name. Godwin’s “new man of feeling” chronicles the impact of his “natural” education in the wilds of Wales, and his behavior allows Godwin to draw attention to an array of contemporary social issues. Godwin attacks the inhumanity of the early factory system, and indicts British society for its patriarchal inequities. His portrayal of Fleetwood’s obsessive and devastating jealousy contributed significantly to the development of psychological realism in English fiction. As essential historical background, the editors provide reviews, and excerpts from Rousseau’s writing and from Godwin’s other works.Trade Review“Fleetwood has long deserved a wider audience. Its pioneering explorations—of factory labour, of the role of manipulation in pedagogy, and of obsession and spousal abuse—show Godwin ranging beyond the questions of rationality and justice that marked his earlier works. Handwerk and Markley have provided a clear and thorough account of Godwin’s career and intellectual milieu. Their introduction and their well-chosen supplementary materials demonstrate Godwin’s contributions to debates about politics, marriage, the rights of women, education, and travel. The appearance of Fleetwood in this scholarly edition will help readers understand Godwin’s formidable reputation for good and for evil among his contemporaries, and will invite a re-evaluation in our time of his power as a thinker and a novelist.” — Jeanne Moskal, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionWilliam Godwin: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextPreface to the First Edition (1805)Appendix A: Foundations of the Novel William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness (1797) “Of Political Imposture” “Of Cooperation, Cohabitation and Marriage” William Godwin, The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature in a Series of Essays (1797) “Of Public and Private Education” “Of Deception and Frankness” “Of the Obtaining of Confidence” “Of Choice in Reading” “Of Difference of Opinion” Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) “The Prevailing Opinion Of A Sexual Character Discussed” “Observations On The State Of Degradation To Which Woman Is Reduced By Various Causes” “Animadversions On Some Of The Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects Of Pity, Bordering On Contempt” “The Effect Which An Early Association Of Ideas Has Upon The Character” “On National Education” “Some Instances Of The Folly Which The Ignorance of Women Generates; With Concluding Reflections On The Moral Improvement That A Revolution In Female Manners Might Naturally Be Expected To Produce” Appendix B: The Influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Julie, ou La Nouvelle Héloïse (1761), translated by Gary Handwerk. Émile, or on Education (1762), translated by Grace Roosevelt. Appendix C: The Novel of Sensibility Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, By Mr. Yorick (1768) Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling (1771) Henry Mackenzie, Julia de Roubigné (1777) Appendix D: The English Jacobin Novel and the Lot of Woman Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story (1791) Mary Wollstonecraft, The Wrongs of Woman: Or, Maria (1798) Mary Hays, The Victim of Prejudice (1799) Appendix E: The Resonance of Renaissance Drama John Fletcher, A Wife for a Moneth (1624) Thomas Otway, Don Carlos (1676) Appendix F: The Lure of Switzerland William Coxe, Travels in Switzerland (1778, 1789) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley, History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (1817) Appendix G: Contemporary Reviews Critical Review (April 1805) Walter Scott, Edinburgh Review (April 1805) The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine (August 1805) British Critic (August 1805) Monthly Review (January 1806) European Magazine and London Review (April 1806) Review of the 1832 edition of Fleetwood, from the Examiner (December 1832) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFactory Lives contains four works of great importance in the field of nineteenth-century working-class autobiography: John Brown’s A Memoir of Robert Blincoe; William Dodd’s A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd; Ellen Johnston’s “Autobiography”; and James Myles’s Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy.This Broadview edition also includes a remarkably rich selection of historical documents that provide context for these works. Appendices include contemporary responses to the autobiographies, debates on factory legislation, transcripts of testimony given before parliamentary committees on child labour, and excerpts from literary works on factory life by Harriet Martineau, Frances Trollope, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, among others. Trade ReviewFactory Lives is a wonderful and wonderfully affordable resource for anyone who teaches British nineteenth-century literature, culture, or history. The text does a real service by providing a representative sampling of working-class autobiographies from this period. The engagingly learned introduction by Janice Carlisle provides a rich and wide-ranging contextualization that will help teachers and students approach these texts from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary angles. I cannot imagine teaching a course on the Condition of England novel without including this collection on my reading list." - Elaine Hadley, University of Chicago"This eye-opening edition of working-class autobiographies written by men and women who labored in the harsh industrial system of Victorian Britain is a useful addition to our understanding of the era's full human costs in terms of physical and psychological suffering. It is an engaging emotional experience to read these carefully selected accounts of individuals working long hours in the mills and factories. The collection of official reports and legislative documents that attempted to bring social reforms places these autobiographies in their full and proper historical and political contexts. An added bonus of the edition is the inclusion of a range of contemporary poetry and fiction on industrial life." - William B. Thesing, University of South CarolinaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction, Janice CarlisleSignificant Nineteenth-Century Factory Legislationand Factory Literature: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the Text, Elizabeth ReedJohn Brown, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, An Orphan Boy (1832)William Dodd, A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd, A Factory Cripple.Written by Himself (1841)James Myles, Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy (1850)Ellen Johnston, “Autobiography of Ellen Johnston, ‘The Factory Girl’” (1867) and “Autobiography” (1869)Appendix A: Contemporary Perspectives on A Memoir of Robert Blincoe A Correspondent to The Lion, “Confirmation of the Memoir of Robert Blincoe” (14 March 1828) A Friend at Manchester, “Confirmation of Blincoe’s Printed Memoir By Himself” (28 March 1828) Robert Blincoe,Testimony before the 1833 Royal Commission on the Employment of Children in Factories Substantive Changes in Doherty’s 1832 Edition of the Memoir Appendix B: Contemporary Perspectives on William Dodd’s Narrative Lord Ashley and John Bright, from the debate of 15 March 1844, House of Commons William Dodd, from The Laboring Classes of England (1847) Appendix C: Contemporary Perspectives on Myles’s Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy James Myles, from Rambles in Forfarshire (1850) William Norrie, from Dundee Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century (1873): James Myles, Robert Nicoll, and William Jackson Appendix D: Contemporary Perspectives on Johnston’s “Autobiography”: Selected Poems from Autobiography, Poems and Songs of Ellen Johnston,The “Factory Girl” (1867 and 1869) “The Working Man” “Kennedy’s Dear Mill” “An Address to Napiers’ Dockyard” “Lord Raglan’s Address to the Allied Armies” “The Last Sark” “To my Aunt Phemie” “An Address to Nature on its Cruelty” “Lines to Mr James Dorward” “Lines by Edith to the Factory Girl” “The Factory Girl’s Reply to ‘Lines by Edith’” “The Factory Girl’s Reply to Edith” “Lines to Mr G.D. Russell” “The Last Lay of ‘The Factory Girl’” Appendix E: Contemporary Documents: Parliamentary Testimony as Autobiography Charles Aberdeen,Testimony before the 1832 Committee on the Labour of Children in Factories Elizabeth Bentley,Testimony before the 1832 Committee on the Labour of Children in Factories Appendix F: Factory Life: Contemporary Views Harriet Martineau, from A Manchester Strike (1832) Andrew Ure, from The Philosophy of Manufactures(1835) From The Young Folks of the Factory (1840) Frances Trollope, from Michael Armstrong (1840) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Cry of the Children”(1843) R. Arthur Arnold, from The History of the Cotton Famine(1864) Appendix G: Factory Legislation: Contemporary Views Richard Oastler, “The White Slaves of Yorkshire” (1830) Caroline Norton, A Voice from the Factories (1836) John Fielden, from The Curse of the Factory System(1836) Robert Hyde Greg, from The Factory Question and the “Ten Hours Bill” (1837) Frances Trollope, from Michael Armstrong (1840) Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, from Helen Fleetwood (1841) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisL.M. Findlay's elegant new translation is a work of textual and historical scholarship. Few books have had as much of an impact on modern history as The Communist Manifesto. Since it was first published in 1848, it has become the rallying cry for revolutionary movements around the world. This new Broadview edition draws on the 1888 Samuel Moore translation supervised by Engels—the standard English version in Marxist discourse—and on the original Helen Macfarlane translation into English of 1850. Throughout, Findlay draws on a variety of disciplines and maintains a broad-ranging perspective. Among the appendices are Engels' "Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith," correspondence and journalism of Marx and Engels, ten illustrations, and eight additional influential political manifestos from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Trade ReviewL.M. Findlay's excellent translation of The Communist Manifesto, embedded in a splendid introduction and a most carefully chosen appendix of Marx and Engels pieces, superbly places this nineteenth-century classic in an extraordinary historical context. There is no other edition at the moment that can match its quality in terms of translation, and its substance in terms of historical context." - Renate Holub, Director, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of California, Berkeley"Findlay engages the reader by depicting how personal and historical events shaped the thinking of Marx and Engels. At the same time, he clarifies why Marx and Engels pursue the manifesto format, explains its historical significance as a political genre, and highlights the importance of Marxist concerns in the post-industrial, post-Cold War era. Combined with the excellent array of appendices, Findlay's translation should enrich readers' understanding of the Manifesto's historical context and help solidify their understanding of the fundamentals of Marxism." - Bryon Moraski, University of Florida"Findlay's new edition of The Communist Manifesto is very scholarly, and the additional documents are a real bonus, providing an interesting context for the work. All in all, this is an excellent edition." - Walter Adamson, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroductionA Note on the TextMarx and Engels: A Brief ChronologyThe Communist ManifestoAppendix A: From Flora Tristan’s Tour de France, September 1844Appendix B: Letter from Engels to Marx, November–December 1846Appendix C: Engels, Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith, 9 June 1847Appendix D: Marx, “The Communism of the Rheinischer Beobachter,” September 1847Appendix E: Communist Journal, No. 1, September 1847Appendix F: Engels, “Principles of Communism,” late October 1847Appendix G: Letter from Engels to Marx, 23–24 November 1847Appendix H: Engels, “On the History of the Communist League,” 1885Appendix I: Engels, “The Labour Movement in America.” Preface to the American Edition of The Condition of the Working Class in England, 26 January 1887Appendix J: Engels, “Notes On My Journey Through America and Canada,” late September 1888Appendix K: Engels, “Impressions of a Journey Round America,” late September 1888Appendix L: Manifestoes The Brunswick Manifesto (1972) a. Report on the Manifestoes of the Allied Kings Against the Republic (1793)b. Reply of the National Convention to the Manifestoes of the Kings leagued against the Republic (1793) Manifesto of the Equals (1796) Manifesto of the Delegates to their Countrymen (1797) Proclamation by Robert Emmet (1803) Manifesto of the Productive Classes of Great Britain and Ireland (1833) Manifesto Addressed to the People of Canada by the Constitutional Committee on Reform and Progress (1847) “Manifesto to Europe” (1848) Further ReadingCredits

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Book SynopsisBased on Leonora Sansay's eyewitness accounts of the final days of French rule in Saint Domingue (Haiti), Secret History is a vivid account of race warfare and domestic violence. Sansay's writing provocatively draws comparisons between Saint Domingue during the Haitian Revolution and the postrevolutionary United States, while fluidly combining qualities of the eighteenth-century epistolary novel, colonial travel writing, and political analysis. Laura, Sansay's second novel, features as its protagonist a beautiful impoverished orphan who throws herself headlong into a secret marriage with a young medical student. When her husband dies in a duel in an effort to protect his wife's reputation, Laura finds herself once more alone in the world. The republication of these works will contribute to a significant revision of thinking about early American literary history.This Broadview edition offers a rich selection of contextual materials, including selections from periodical literature about Haiti, engravings, letters written by Sansay to her friend Aaron Burr, historical material related to the Burr trial for treason, and excerpts from literature referenced in the novels.Trade ReviewMichael J. Drexler's splendidly documented, richly contextualized edition of Leonora Sansay's Secret History and Laura is indispensable to anyone studying the complexities of the Haitian Revolution, the conventions of gothic literature, and the history of the Americas. The appendices gather together for the first time letters between Sansay and Aaron Burr, as well as news reports of the Haitian Revolution in the U.S. press, observations by Charles Brockden Brown, memoirs by Condy Raguet, and paintings by Agostino Brunias. These appendices alone constitute a repository of materials that will offer scholars and students everything needed for an interdisciplinary course on romance and race—with Haiti as rightful progenitor and ancestor spirit." - Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt University, author of Haiti, History, and the Gods (1995)"Michael J. Drexler's superb new edition of Secret History and Laura places two enormously significant literary works within easy reach of students and scholars. As Drexler's insightful introduction indicates, the cultural and political connections between the early U.S. republic and the Haitian Revolution have been overlooked by generations of scholars. This edition places issues of Atlantic race slavery, republican revolution, colonialism, and gender relations squarely at the center of early American literature and culture and makes readily available texts that will become required reading in the fields of Atlantic and early American studies. The historical documents collected in this edition bring into focus the complex and compelling historical and literary interconnections between the U.S. and Haiti at the moment when Haiti saw the first and only successful slave rebellion in the western hemisphere." - Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChronology: Haiti/USA/France/Leonora SansayMaps of Haiti (1853) and the Caribbean (2005)A Note on the TextSecret History; or, the Horrors of St. DomingoLauraAppendix A: Biographical Documents Letter from Leonora Sansay to Aaron Burr (6 May 1803) Letter from Leonora Sansay to Aaron Burr (6 November 1808) Letter from Leonora Sansay to Aaron Burr (29 July 1812) William Wirt’s Speech at Aaron Burr’s Trial (August 1807) Review of Laura from The Port-Folio (1809) Appendix B: Literary Selections Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard” (1717) From John Armstrong, The Oeconomy of Love (1736) From Germaine de Staël, Influence of the Passions (1796) From [Leonora Sansay?], Zelica, the Creole (1821) Appendix C: Contextual Documents From Baron de Wimpffen, A Voyage to Saint Domingo (1797) From Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia (1794) [Anonymous], “Renewed War in St. Domingo” (1802) Charles Brockden Brown, “On the Consequences of Abolishing the Slave Trade to the West Indian Colonies”(1805) Engravings from Marcus Rainsford’s Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti (1805) From Condy Raguet, “Account of the Massacre in St. Domingo” (1807) From [Condy Raguet], “Memoirs of Hayti” (1809–12) Agostino Brunias, Scenes of the West Indies (ca. 1780) Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisPublished together for the first time, Eliza Haywood’s Anti-Pamela and Henry Fielding’s An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews are the two most important responses to Samuel Richardson’s novel Pamela. Anti-Pamela comments on Richardson’s representations of work, virtue, and gender, while also questioning the generic expectations of the novel that Pamela establishes, and it provides a vivid portrayal of the material realities of life for a woman in eighteenth-century London. Fielding’s Shamela punctures both the figure Richardson established for himself as an author and Pamela’s preoccupation with virtue.This Broadview edition also includes a rich selection of historical materials, including writings from the period on sexuality, women’s work, Pamela and the print trade, and education and conduct.Trade Review“As the first modern edition of Eliza Haywood’s Anti-Pamela, this book makes available, at long last, a daring work of fiction and its protagonist Syrena Tricksy, a servant girl whose feigned innocence (taught by a wily mother) brings her almost as much treasure as trouble. Coupling Anti-Pamela with Fielding’s well-known Pamela parody, Shamela, makes the book especially appealing. This is a first-rate edition—Ingrassia’s introduction, notes, and supplemental readings are superb and bring Haywood’s and Fielding’s fiction, as well as the Pamela controversy itself, into crisp historical and literary focus.” — Devoney Looser, University of Missouri-Columbia“An inspired pairing of the two most important early critiques of Richardson’s Pamela, this edition at last makes it possible for students to read Haywood’s darkly satiric Anti-Pamela alongside Fielding’s well-known and hilarious parody Shamela. Ingrassia has put together a splendidly informative volume. The thorough introduction, generous selection of contextual materials, and extensive notes (which contain a wealth of information about economic, legal, and social contexts), make this an exemplary edition.” — Kathryn King, University of Montevallo“Ingrassia’s carefully prepared edition provides virtually everything any reader, whether novice or seasoned scholar, might need to understand both works fully in their contexts and to arrive at an independent judgment concerning their relative merits. It is impressive in every way—a model thing of its kind.” — Jerry Beasley, East-Central IntelligencerTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionEliza Haywood and Henry Fielding: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextA Note on British MoneyAnti-Pamela; or, Feign’d Innocence DetectedAn Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela AndrewsAppendix A: Women’s Work Richard Campbell, from The London Tradesman (1747) Richard Steele, The Spectator no. 155 (1711) Samuel Johnson, Idler nos. 26 and 29 (1758) Eliza Haywood, from Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze (1724) Samuel Richardson, from Pamela; or,Virtue Rewarded (1740) Eliza Haywood, from A Present for a Servant-Maid (1743) Mary Collier, from “The Woman’s Labour” (1739) Appendix B: Sexuality Attempted rape scene from Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740) James Boswell, from The London Journal (1762-63) Daniel Defoe, from Conjugal Lewdness; or, Matrimonial Whoredom (1727) Richard Steele, from The Spectator no. 266 (1712) Appendix C: Pamela and the Print Trade Title-pages (Pamela, Anti-Pamela, and Mrs. Shamela Andrews) Samuel Richardson, from Pamela (1740) Conyers Middleton,“Dedication” to History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero (1741) Colley Cibber, from An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber (1740) Appendix D: Education and Conduct Books Richard Allestree, from The Whole Duty of Man (1658) Lady Sarah Pennington, from An Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to her Absent Daughters (1761) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Lady Bute (1753) Appendix E: Map of London in Anti-Pamela and ShamelaSelect Bibliography

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Book SynopsisPublished in 1911, Suffragette Sally is one of the best-known popular novels promoting the cause of women's suffrage in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The novel details the militant campaign of the suffragist Women’s Social and Political Union against the political establishment of the time. Through its three female protagonists, each from a different class, the novel recounts the challenges faced by women who dared to flout social convention by agitating for the vote. The Sally of the title is Sally Simmonds, a maid-of-all-work in a household where she has to deal with her employer’s advances along with her daily tasks. The novel follows Sally’s conversion to the suffrage movement and details the consequences she must face as a working-class woman who risks her job, her relationships, and eventually her life for the cause.The novel weaves together the fictional stories of the three main characters with documentary material drawn from contemporary suffrage and mainstream newspapers, and raises the hope that female alliances might someday transcend class boundaries. This Broadview edition also includes fascinating historical materials on the suffrage movement, including contemporary accounts of imprisonment, hunger strikes, and battles with police.Trade Review“Gertrude Colmore is one of the most compelling voices of the suffrage era and her Suffragette Sally stands out as one of the most significant novels of the suffrage genre. This edition will be hugely welcomed by students and scholars of literature and history alike, offering as it does a comprehensive collection of the historical documents relating to the text, as well as a thoroughly satisfying analysis of some of the literary, social, and historical issues that the novel throws up.” — Sowon Park, Oxford UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionGertrude Colmore: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextSuffragette SallyAppendix A: Additional Writing by Gertrude Colmore “Broken” (1913) “The Nun” (1913) From “Standards and Ideals of Purity” (1914) From The Life of Emily Davison (1913) Appendix B: Suffrage: Militant, Constitutional, Anti “Constitution” (of the WSPU) (1908) “Some Questions the Electors are Asking” (1910) Helena Swanwick, “The Hope and the Meaning”(1909) Mary Augusta Ward, “Editorial” (1908) From Sir Almroth E. Wright, “Suffrage Fallacies”(1912) Appendix C: Imprisonment, Forcible Feeding, Release From “A Speech by Lady Constance Lytton, Delivered at the Queen’s Hall, January 31, 1910” (1910) From Constance Lytton and Jane Warton, Spinster, Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences (1914) Mary Leigh, “Forcible Feeding: Statement of Mrs. Mary Leigh to Her Solicitor” (1909) Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, “Welcome Christabel Pankhurst!” (1908) Appendix D: The Conciliation Bill and Black Friday From H.N. Brailsford, “The ‘Conciliation’ Bill: An Explanation and Defence” (1910) Henry Noel Brailsford and Dr. Jessie Murray, “The Treatment of the Women’s Deputations by the Police” (1911) “Mr. Churchill and the Suffragists,” The Times (1910) Christabel Pankhurst, “We Revert to a State of War”(1910) Appendix E: Contemporary Reviews The Bookman (June 1911) Votes for Women (12 May 1911) The Times Literary Supplement (4 May 1911) Votes for Women (28 June 1911) The Vote (1 July 1911) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOscar Wilde wrote of this novel, “Its directness, its uncompromising truths, its depth of feeling, and above all, its absence of any single superfluous word, make Reuben Sachs, in some sort, a classic.” Reuben Sachs, the story of an extended Anglo-Jewish family in London, focuses on the relationship between two cousins, Reuben Sachs and Judith Quixano, and the tensions between their Jewish identities and English society. The novel’s complex and sometimes satirical portrait of Anglo-Jewish life, which was in part a reaction to George Eliot’s romanticized view of Victorian Jews in Daniel Deronda, caused controversy on its first publication. This Broadview edition prints for the first time since its initial publication in The Jewish Chronicle Levy's essay "The Jew in Fiction." Other appendices include George Eliot's essay on anti-Jewish sentiment in Victorian England and a chapter from Israel Zangwill's novel The Children of the Ghetto. Also included is a map of Levy's London with landmarks from her biography and from the "Jewish geography" of Reuben Sachs.Trade ReviewSusan David Bernstein has done Victorian studies a great service with this edition of Amy Levy's Reuben Sachs. Bernstein's original research, insightful commentary, and wide ranging selection of appendices provide a detailed view of the many cultural discourses that surrounded Levy's work. Thus, with this one volume, readers can discover this important Anglo-Jewish writer and also have enough source materials to contextualize Levy in the critical histories of Anglo-Jewish literature, women's writing, and late Victorian England. I feel as if I have been waiting for this volume for ten years." - Cynthia Scheinberg, Mills College"This is an extremely welcome reissue of a complex and fascinating novel. Susan David Bernstein's illuminating introduction persuasively demonstrates how to read Amy Levy's fiction as an expression of the 'double-consciousness' of the semi-assimilated Victorian Jew. This edition provides superb sources that illustrate the extent and terms of contemporary controversy about the novel, and document the debates around racial science, ethnic politics, and the woman question that find expression in her writing. Bernstein also includes other examples of Levy's fiction, poetry, and criticism that engage in troubled and unresolved ways with similar themes of Jewish identity and feminism." - Nadia Valman, University of SouthamptonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Amy Levy: A Brief Chronology Anglo-Jewish History: A Brief Chronology A Note on the TextReuben Sachs: A SketchAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews of Reuben Sachs “Critical Jews,” The Jewish Chronicle (25 January 1889) “Reuben Sachs,” The Spectator (16 February 1889) John Barrow Allen, “New Novels,” The Academy (16 February 1889) “The Deterioration of the Jewess,” Jewish World (22 February 1889) “Literary: Amy Levy’s Reuben Sachs,” The American Hebrew (5 April 1889) Oscar Wilde, “Amy Levy,” The Woman’s World (1890) Appendix B: Other Writing by Levy “Jewish Women and ‘Women’s Rights,’” The Jewish Chronicle (7 February 1879, 28 February 1879) “The Jew in Fiction,” The Jewish Chronicle (4 June 1886) “Middle-Class Jewish Women of To-Day,” The Jewish Chronicle (17 September 1886) “Cohen of Trinity,” The Gentleman’s Magazine (May 1889) Poetry Appendix C: Literary Contexts From George Eliot, “The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep!,” The Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1878) From Mathilde Blind, “Daniel Deronda,” George Eliot (1883) From Israel Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto (1892) From Vernon Lee, “A Dialogue on Novels,” The Contemporary Review (September 1885) From Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue,” The Nineteenth Century (January 1889) Appendix D: The Jewish Question in Victorian Culture The Jewish Type: The New Race Sciences From Robert Knox, “Of the Coptic, Jewish, and Phoenician Races,” The Races of Men (1862) Joseph Jacobs, “The Jewish Type, and Galton’s Composite Photographs,” The Photographic News (24 April 1885) Political and Social Contexts From Goldwin Smith, “Can Jews Be Patriots?” The Nineteenth Century (May 1878) From Hermann Adler, “Recent Phases of Judaeophobia,” The Nineteenth Century (December 1881) From Laurence Oliphant, “The Jew and the Eastern Question,” The Nineteenth Century (August 1882) Appendix E: The New Woman Question From Clementina Black, “On Marriage: A Criticism,” Fortnightly Review (April 1890) From Grant Allen, “The Girl of the Future,” The Universal Review (1890) Appendix F: Map of Levy’s London from Bacon’s New Map of London (1885)Select Bibliography

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Book Synopsis“The study of children’s literature is not just about children and the books said to be for them; it is also about the societies and cultures from which the literature comes, and it is about the assumptions and ideas we hold about children and childhood. For adults, reading children’s literature is ultimately both an act of nostalgia and of self-examination. When we consider children’s literature, we must include ourselves in the equation: What kinds of readers are we? How do we relate to books and stories? To what degree should we impose our experience upon others? Reading children’s literature actively can lead to all kinds of remarkable (and sometimes unsettling) revelations about ourselves and our society.” — from the IntroductionConsidering Children’s Literature is a collection of previously published essays on a variety of topics that inform the study of children’s literature. Exploring issues such as censorship, the canon, the meanings of fairy tales, and the adaptation of children’s literature into film, the essays in this anthology are as diverse as they are illuminating.Along with authors like Natalie Babbitt and Margaret Mahy, teachers, scholars, and publishers of children’s books are also contributors. Accessible and comprehensive, this book will appeal to anyone interested in children’s literature. Trade Review“Considering Children’s Literature is a compilation of accessible—and often highly personal—explorations of children’s literature as literature. Placed together, they represent diverse opinions on several of the genres commonly explored within contemporary studies of children’s literature: the picture book, historical fiction, poetry, and folklore. Discussions of young adult literature, theatre, and film are also included. All in all, Considering Children’s Literature is a valuable anthology of critical opinions about children’s and young adult media that should engage its readers in provocative discussions about the place of children’s literature in today’s publishing houses, libraries, schools, and colleges.” — Jill May, Purdue UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter I: Introducing the Study of Children’s LiteratureIntroductionNatalie Babbitt, “Happy Endings? Of Course, and Also Joy” (1970)Aidan Chambers, “Axes for Frozen Seas” (1985)Hazel Rochman, “Introduction: Beyond Political Correctness” (1993)Naser Yusefi, “Good Books, Bad Books—and Who Decides Why” (1995)Chapter II: Historical Children’s LiteratureIntroductionGillian Adams, “Medieval Children’s Literature: Its Possibility and Actuality” (1998)Peter Hunt, “Passing on the Past: The Problem of Books That Are for Children and That Were for Children” (1996)Susan R. Gannon, “Report from Limbo: Reading Historical Children’s Literature Today” (1998)Chapter III: The PicturebookIntroductionMarcia Brown, “Distinction in Picture Books” (1958)Deborah Stevenson, “Narrative in Picture Books or, The Paper That Should Have Had Slides” (1998)Aidan Chambers, “Why ‘Tell Me’?” (1993)Aidan Chambers, From “Scenes from ‘Tell Me’ in Action” (1993)Scott McCloud, From “The Vocabulary of Comics” and “Blood in the Gutters” in Understanding Comics (1993)Emer O’Sullivan, “Translating Pictures” (1999)Chapter IV: Poetry and Nursery RhymesIntroductionPerry Nodelman, “The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose: A World without Glasses” (1987)Morag Styles, “‘From the Best Poets’?: How the Canon of Poetry for Children Is Constructed” (1998)Chapter V: Fairy Tales and FantasyIntroductionHugh Crago, “What Is a Fairy Tale?” (2003)Anna E. Altmann, “Parody and Poesis in Feminist Fairy Tales” (1994)C.W. Sullivan III, “Fantasy” (1992)Chapter VI: Young Adult LiteratureIntroductionAnne Scott Macleod, “The Journey Inward: Adolescent Literature in America, 1945–1995” (1997)Virginia Monseau, From “Responding to Response” in Responding to Young Adult Literature (1996)Geralde Schmidt-Dumont, “Poetic Encryption and ‘Sex Scrubbed Clean’: A Report from Germany” (1994)Caroline Hunt, “Young Adult Literature Evades the Theorists” (1996)Chapter VII: Drama and TheatreIntroductionSanjay Kumar, “Theatre for Children in India: An Instrument for Social Change?” (1998)Jack Zipes, “Political Children’s Theatre in the Age of Globalization” (2003)Wolfgang Schneider, “‘Rosy Cheeks’ and ‘Shining Eyes’ as Criteria in Children’s Theatre Criticism” (1995)Chapter VIII: Film AdaptationsIntroductionKeith Mehlinger, “A Case Study of The Planet of Junior Brown” (2000)A. Waller Hastings, “Moral Simplification in Disney’s The Little Mermaid” (1993)Shaul Bassi, “Traffic in the Jungle: Teachers, Lawyers, Doctors, and Animals in Three Kipling Films” (2001)Chapter IX: Theoretical Explorations and Practical IssuesIntroductionWendy Lamb, “Strange Business: The Publishing Point of View” (1998)Margaret Mahy (Lyttelton), “The Writer in New Zealand: Building Bridges through Children’s Books” (1996)Perry Nodelman, “Fear of Children’s Literature: What’s Left (or Right) After Theory?” (1997)Margaret Mackey, “Playing in the Phase Space: Contemporary Forms of Fictional Pleasure” (1999)Further Readings SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisPompey the Little, the canine narrator of this story, is a uniquely observant and witty guide to eighteenth-century culture, both high and low. In the course of the novel Pompey is passed from owner to owner, offering a panoramic vision of English and European societies in the period. Written with sparkling irony, The History of Pompey the Little is an important example of an “it-narrative,” or a narrative written from a non-human perspective; this genre allows the novelist to move between levels of society and to observe human behaviour from an outsider’s perspective.The rich selection of historical documents in the appendices to this Broadview edition includes a similar narrative told by a cat, along with other writings on eighteenth-century attitudes towards animals.Trade Review“This fine edition of Coventry’s novel will contribute to the scholarly conversation about the generic affiliations, conceptual concerns, and cultural underpinnings of the it-narrative. It will also serve as a terrific teaching text and should find a home on a variety of eighteenth-century syllabi. Thoroughly but unobtrusively annotated for both context and terminology, this edition is well suited to the undergraduate reader, who will benefit from its accessible introduction and notes, as well as a helpful set of appendices.” — Heather Keenleyside, University of Chicago, from Eighteenth-Century Fiction Volume 23“Nicholas Hudson has done scholars and students alike an enormous service by producing the first edition of The History of Pompey the Little to appear in over thirty years. Francis Coventry’s lively and entertaining work exemplifies the tradition of mock-heroic satire between Pope’s Rape of the Lock and Byron’s Don Juan, yet readers are perhaps more likely to appreciate Pompey the Little as an early it-narrative. Hudson’s useful introduction discusses Pompey’s place in the history of the English novel and explores its connection to the period debates about the relationship between humans and animals and about ‘the boundary between people and objects.’” — Mark Blackwell, University of HartfordTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionFrancis Coventry: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe History of Pompey the Little; or the Life and Adventures of a Lap-DogAppendix A: Omitted Section from Book II, Chapters VI-VII in the Third EditionAppendix B: From Anonymous, The Life and Adventures of a Cat (1760)Appendix C: Anonymous, An Essay on the New Species of Writing Founded by Mr. Fielding (1751)Appendix D: Poems by Francis Coventry Penshurst (1750) “To the Hon. Wilmot Vaughan, Esq. in Wales” (1755) Appendix E: Eighteenth-Century Discussions of Animals Pierre Bayle, “Rorarius,” from The Dictionary Historical and Critical (1696) Samuel Johnson, The Idler, No. 24 (1758) From Anonymous, A Dissertation on Mr. Hogarth’s ... The Four Stages of Cruelty (1751) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAmong the most popular children’s books of the Victorian period, The Water-Babies continues to delight readers of all ages. It tells the story of a young boy named Tom, who escapes his harsh life as a chimney sweep by being transformed into a “water-baby.” His adventures underwater introduce him to strange animals, gentle fairies, and exotic seascapes, and Kingsley frequently digresses from the mythical narrative with his commentary on political and scientific topics. Many of Linley Sambourne’s remarkable illustrations from the 1886 edition are included in the text of the novel.This Broadview edition reproduces the first edition of The Water-Babies, published in 1863. The appendices include a broad selection of other 19th-century children’s literature and excerpts from Kingsley’s essays on evolution, hygiene, and education.Trade ReviewA new and unabridged edition of The Water-Babies is an unlooked-for pleasure. Everyone who has an interest in the exuberant, eclectic, ecological, and erotic aspects of Victorian literature should know this book. When combined with the definitive illustrations by Linley Sambourne and a wealth of explanatory notes, appendices, and other critical tools, this edition becomes indispensable. We all owe a debt of gratitude to Richard Kelly and to Broadview Press for editing and re-issuing this delightful and important work of Victorian children's literature." - Naomi Wood, Kansas State University"This is a long overdue, thoroughly detailed, and informative edition of Kingsley's classic Victorian children's tale. Though The Water-Babies has had great popular success since first publication, especially in the UK, it has frequently been read in abbreviated versions with many of Kingsley's often lengthy asides on politics, religion, education, and other pressing topics of the day omitted. This Broadview edition, following closely the first book text of 1863, includes all of Kingsley's fascinating diversions. The work is greatly enhanced by Professor Kelly's many scholarly appendices and numerous instructive annotations on the text. The result is an excellent edition that renders this intriguing classic much more amenable to the modern reader." - Brendan A. Rapple, Boston CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionCharles Kingsley: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Water-BabiesAppendix A: William Blake, “The Chimney Sweeper” from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience (1789, 1794)Appendix B: Matthew Arnold, “The Forsaken Merman” from The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems (1849)Appendix C: From Heinrich Hoffman, Struwwelpeter (1845)Appendix D: From Lewis Carroll, “The Mock-Turtle’s Story” in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)Appendix E: From Margaret Gatty, “Whereunto?” Parables From Nature (1861)Appendix F: From Maria Susanna Cummins, The Lamplighter (1854)Appendix G: From Samuel G. Goodrich, Peter Parley’s Method of Telling About Geography to Children (1831)Appendix H: Reflections of Charles Kingsley on Nature and Sanitation From Charles Kingsley, Glaucus; or,The Wonders of the Shore (1855) From Charles Kingsley, Madame How and Lady Why or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children (1870) From Charles Kingsley, “Air-Mothers,” in Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays (1880) From Letter XII Appendix I: Joseph Noel Paton’s Illustrations for the First Edition of The Water-Babies (1863)Appendix J: Reviews of The Water-Babies The Anthropological Review (November 1863) New York Times (25 December 1863) The Times (26 January 1864) The Times (12 December 1885) Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA Companion to Chaucer and his Contemporaries provides a detailed introduction to medieval culture, broadly considered. This sourcebook gives readers fuller access to Middle English literary works by situating these works within their sometimes alien historical and cultural contexts. Chapters open with an overview that suggests how contemporary debates and attitudes influence meaning in works like the Canterbury Tales, Piers Plowman, and Mankind. The main body of the text is thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations, such as excerpts from the chronicles, law treatises, sermons, court records, medical and alchemical tracts, and performance records, as well as maps and manuscript illustrations.Trade Review“This invaluable collection offers students a first-hand glimpse of the diversity of voices and ideas that underlie, complicate, and exceed the canonical literature of the later Middle Ages.” — Nathanial B. Smith, Pedagogy“A Companion to Chaucer and his Contemporaries will be essential to teaching Chaucer in the 21st century. It gives students direct and convenient access to the documents and texts that have changed the way we think about late medieval literature. From the dramatic vistas of rebellions, heresies and schisms to the practice of everyday life, the texts provided by Amtower and Vanhoutte demonstrate how history and literature shape each other, both in the Middle Ages and in our own time.” — John Ganim, Professor of English, University of California Riverside and former President of the New Chaucer SocietyTable of ContentsPREFACECHAPTER 1POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURYINTRODUCTIONCivil Conflict and the War with FranceThe PlagueThe Peasant’s RevoltThe Merciless Parliament and Its RepercussionsThe LancastersDOCUMENTSEdward III Makes Ready for War (1337)Close Roll (1337)Statutes of the Realm (1340)The Battle of Poitiers. Henry Knighton (1346)The Plague. Henry Knighton (1348-50)The Plague and Its Aftermath. Henry Knighton (1349)Statute of Laborers (1351)Alice Perrers. Thomas Walsingham (late 14thc)The Poll Tax (1380)John Ball. Thomas Walsingham (1381)The Burning of the Savoy. Thomas Walsingham (1381)The King’s Dire Straits. Thomas Walsingham (1381)The Death of Wat Tyler. Thomas Walsingham (1381)Richard’s Words to the People. Thomas Walsingham (1381)Proclamation for Keeping the Peace within the City (1381)Letter from Richard Revoking Their Liberties. Thomas Walsingham (1381)John Ball Letters (1381)A Censure of the Mendicant Friars. Thomas Walsingham (late 14thc)The Merciless Parliament (1388)Deposition of Richard II (1399)Henry IV’s words to Richard II, upon Richard’s Abdication. Froissart (1399)Coronation of Bolingbroke (1399)Death of Richard II. Froissart (1400)St. Joan’s Appearance to Deliver France (1429)CHAPTER 2“FROM EVERY SHIRES ENDE”: THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIETYINTRODUCTIONThe Three EstatesSocial Conflict and Social ChangeThe Situation of WomenThe Anti-Feminist TraditionDOCUMENTSThe Treatise on the Laws and Customs of the Realm of England Commonly Called Glanville (12thc)The Sumptuary Laws of 1363 and 1463Apprenticeship Contracts (13thc)The Oath for the Issue of Apprentices (15thc)The Petition of the Tailors against Nicholas Brembre (1386)On AmazonsMen, Women, Wives, Husbands, and Servants. Bartholomew Anglicus (trans. 1397)The Ballad of the Tyrannical Husband (15thc)Chaucer and the Raptus of Cecily Chaumpaigne (1380)Widows and Clerical Anti-Feminism. Christine de Pizan (1405)Fourteenth-Century Court Cases Involving WomenFirst Epistle to the Corinthians (1388)“The Wife Is Subject to the Husband.” John Wyclif (c. 1378 and 1384)The Clerical Tradition on WomenCHAPTER 3“OF METE AND DRYNK”: DAILY LIFE IN MEDIEVAL ENGLANDINTRODUCTIONMedieval LondonGetting AroundThe CountryDaily ActivitiesFood and DrinkMedieval MoneyDOCUMENTSCoroners’ Cases and Court Cases (14thc)Of Swine, Bawds, Thieves, and Courtesans (14thc)The Goodman’s Instructions on Hosting, Cooking, and Serving (1392-94)A Feast Fit for a King (14thc)Letters from the Pastons (15thc)On Manners (15thc)CHAPTER 4“HOOLY THOUGHT AND WERK”: RELIGIOUS LIFE, RITUAL, AND PRAYERINTRODUCTIONPopular Religion and Daily LifeThe Clerical HierarchyAnti-SemitismReligious Orders and Religious ProfessionalsCorruption and AnticlericalismDOCUMENTSFrom On Christian Doctrine. St. Augustine (c. 396-427)“Religious Symbolism.” William Durandus (1286)“The Lives of Spiritual Women.” The Ancrene Wisse (13thc)“Interpretations of Biblical Verse on the Conduct of Women.” The Ancrene Wisse (13thc)Alma Redemptoris Mater (11thc)A Myrour to Lewde Men and Wymmen (14thc)“Against Pilgrimage.” Lollardist Treatise (14thc)Margery Kempe’s Pilgrimage to Rome and Jerusalem. Margery Kempe (c. 1436-38)“The Two Powers.” Hugh of St. Victor (1134)A Punishment for Lollardy (1389)“Epistola 391: On the Jews.” Bernard of Clairvaux (early 12thc)The Murder of Hugh of Lincoln. Matthew of Paris (1255)The Papal Bull Defending the Jews. Gregory X (1272)Vox Clamantis. John Gower (c. 1380s)On the Pope. John Wyclif (1370s)Bull of Pope Gregory XI, Against John Wycliffe (1384)Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards (1395)Against Confession. Lollard Treatise (1394)“The Case for Translation.” John Wyclif (1370s)On Biblical Translation. Lollard Treatise (early 15thc)The Constitutions of Archbishop Arundel Against the Lollards (1409)CHAPTER 5“TROUTHE AND HONOUR, FREEDOM AND CURTEISIE”: WAR, PAGEANTRY, AND THE KNIGHTHOODINTRODUCTIONThe Origins of ChivalryChivalry and Courtly LovePracticing KnighthoodChivalric OrdersWarfare and the CrusadesClass AntagonismDOCUMENTS The Book of the Order of Chivalry. Ramon Llull (c. 1276, trans. 1484)The Tree of Battles. Honoré Bonet (1387)Letter of Othea to Hector. Christine de Pizan (1399-1400)The Art of Courtly Love. Andreas Capellanus (1184-86)The Book of Chivalry. Geoffroi de Charny (c. 1350)The Jousts in Smithfield. The Brut, or Chronicles of England (1388)Free Companies. Froissart (c. 1356)The Black Prince’s Revenge on Limoges. Froissart (1370)Order of the Garter. Froissart (1344)The Condemnation of the Templars (1312)Statute on Livery and Maintenance (1390)The Defender of Peace. Marsilius of Padua (1324)The Conquest of Alexandria. Petrarch (1365)The Capture of Alexandria. Guillaume de Machaut (after 1369)Relations with the Franks. Ousama Ibn Mounkidh (12thc)From Vox Clamantis. John Gower (c. 1380s)The Two Ways. John Clanvowe (late 14thc)Epilogue to the Book of the Order of Chivalry. William Caxton (1484)CHAPTER 6“GLADLY WOLDE HE LERNE AND GLADLY TECHE”: READING, LITERACY, AND EDUCATIONINTRODUCTION EducationThe Medieval Commentary TraditionHumanismThe Arrival of the Printing PressDOCUMENTS The Boke of Curtasye (c. 1460)A Fifteenth Century School Book (late 15thc)Aristotle’s ABC (early 15thc)Morale Scolarium. John of Garland (13thc)Rules of the University of Paris (c. 1215)Studies Necessary Before Admission as a Master of Arts, 1431The Statutes of New College, Oxford (1400)The Study of the French Language and English Law at Oxford (1432)The Commons Protest Against the Misbehaviour of the Scholars and Clerks of Oxford (1421)Letter to Can Grande. Dante (early 14thc)The Philobiblon. Richard de Bury (14thc)Genealogy of the Gentile Gods. Giovanni Boccaccio (1360-74)The Prologues and Epilogues. William Caxton (15thc)CHAPTER 7“MAGYK NATUREEL”: SCIENCE, MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY, AND ALCHEMYINTRODUCTIONMedieval Science: Theory and PracticeThe ElementsThe Humours and Human TemperamentDOCUMENTSOn the Natural Faculties. Galen (170)Of the Four Complexions (14thc)Of the Science of Physiognomy from the Secreta Secretorum (1422)An Arab Opinion of the Crusaders’ Medicine (12thc)A Lollard View on Bodily and Spiritual Blindness (14thc-15thc)From De Coitu (On Intercourse). Constantinus Africanus (11thc)From On the Properties of Things. Bartholomew Anglicus (13thc)Various Remedies. Gilbertus Anglicus (13thc)On Lycanthropia (6th c)Two Medical Cases (late 14thc)On Natural Magic (16thc)On Animals (12thc and 13thc)From The Ordinal of Alchemy. Thomas Norton (1477)“On Dreams.” Macrobius (c. 395-423)CHAPTER 8“TO FLAUNDRES WOL I GO”: INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCES AND EXCHANGESINTRODUCTIONLate Medieval Conceptions of the WorldEngland and the ContinentThe Stranger in Their MidstDOCUMENTSInformation for Pilgrims (c. 1500)From Mandeville’s Travels (1356-57?)On Various Countries. Bartholomew Anglicus (13thc)From The Libelle of English Policy (15thc)Court Cases (14thc)The Murder of Janus Imperial (1379)The Rights of Aliens and the Petition of the Hansards (1389)The Massacre of the Flemish (1381)Mandate of Payment to Geoffrey Chaucer (11 November 1373)BIBLIOGRAPHYSOURCES

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