Classic fiction: literary and general

Book SynopsisAurora Floyd is one of the leading novels in the genre known as ‘sensation fiction’—a tradition in which the key texts include Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, Ellen Wood’s East Lynne, and Dickens’s Great Expectations. When Aurora Floyd was first published in serial form in 1862-63, Fraser’s magazine asserted that “a book without a murder, a divorce, a seduction, or a bigamy, is not apparently considered either worth writing or reading; and a mystery and a secret are the chief qualifications of the modern novel.”The novel depicts a heroine trapped in an abusive and adulterous marriage, and effectively dramatizes the extra-legal pressures which kept many such unhappy marriages out of the courts: fear of personal scandal, and of betraying one’s family through the publicity and expense of the process. Aurora’s bigamous marriage dramatizes the need for expeditious divorce without the enormous social cost, but the overt sexuality of the heroine shocked contemporary critics. “What is held up to us as the story of the feminine soul as it really exists underneath its conventional coverings, is a very fleshy and unlovely record,” wrote Margaret Oliphant.Braddon’s text is studded with references to contemporary events (the Crimean War, the Divorce Act of 1857) and the text has been carefully annotated for modern readers in this edition, which also includes a range of documents designed to help set the text in context.Trade Review“This is the only modern edition to be based on the first three-volume version of Braddon’s much revised novel, and the editors make an excellent case for their choice. A substantial and lucidly written critical introduction situates the novel in its contemporary cultural contexts; in debates about realism and sensationalism, and anxieties about class, femininity, domesticity and marriage. The appendices, containing a selection of contemporary views of femininity and domesticity, and responses to Braddon and her novel, are an added bonus to this excellent volume.” — Lyn Pykett, University of Wales-Aberystwyth“Invaluable … provides copious explanatory notes, appendices containing contemporary reviews and writings on femininity, and a thorough, well-organized introduction.” — Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextMary Elizabeth Braddon: A Brief ChronologyAurora FloydAppendix A: Victorian Femininity: The Stable, the Home, and the Fast Young Lady “Fast Young Ladies” (Punch) “Six Reasons Why Ladies Should Not Hunt” (The Field) “Muscular Education” (Temple Bar) John Ruskin, “Of Queens’ Gardens” (Sesame and Lilies) (1865) Appendix B: Reviews and Responses H.L. Mansel, “Sensation Novels” (Quarterly Review) “The Archbishop of York on Works of Fiction” (The Times) W. Fraser Rae, “Sensation Novelists: Miss Braddon” (North British Review) Henry James, “Miss Braddon” (The Nation) Margaret Oliphant, “Novels” (Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine) George Augustus Sala, “The Cant of Modern Criticism” (Belgravia) George Augustus Sala, “On the ‘Sensational’ in Literature and Art” (Belgravia) “Sensation Novels” (Punch) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWilkie Collins's later novels are often as concerned with social issues as they are with simple storytelling—but as more and more critics are suggesting, the best of them are as readable and thought-provoking today as they were when they first appeared. Of none is this more true than of his 1883 novel Heart and Science, which Collins himself placed alongside his masterpiece The Woman in White.Heart and Science turns on the fate of the orphaned Carmina Graywell, who is left in the charge of her aunt and guardian Mrs. Gallilee when her fiancé is forced to take an extended trip to Canada's drier climes in order to recover his health. Over the issue of her inheritance Mrs. Gallilee schemes to manipulate, control and ultimately destroy the naïve but strong-willed Carmina. The story is complicated by the machinations of Dr. Benjulia, a dark genius whose passionate devotion to the study of diseases of the brain leads him to encourage the progress of Carmina's life-threatening brain illness for the sake of scientific observation; the narrative builds to a pair of spectacularly lurid climactic scenes.Collin's novel tackles the debate over what he termed ‘the hideous secrets of Vivisection' with a passionate intensity aroused in large part by the sensational 1880s case of a doctor who was acquitted on charges laid under the new Cruelty to Animals Act of having practiced live experimentation on animals without a license. Excerpts from a contemporary account of this trial, together with other documents relating to the vivisectionist controversy and a variety of contemporary reviews of the book, are included among the appendices of this volume. The edition also includes a full introduction, chronology, explanatory notes and a note on the text.Heart and Science's story of the struggle between strong-willed women will strike chords of sympathetic understanding with modern readers—as will its vivisectionist theme, with it's clear parallels to the animal welfare/ animal rights debates of today.Trade ReviewThis is an important novel of historical and cultural as well as literary interest, and one which every Victorian scholar will find indispensable. Broadview Press has quickly become a leader in the field of producing the best editions of canonical and non-canonical nineteenth-century British literary texts, and Steve Farmer's Heart and Science is no exception." - Rick Simmons, University of South Carolina"engaging...suspenseful" - The Washington PostTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextPhotographs of Collins’s ManuscriptWilkie Collins: A Brief ChronologyPrefaceHeart and ScienceAppendix A: Reviews of Heart and ScienceAppendix B: The Vivisection Debate of the 1870s and 1880sAppendix C: Frances Power Cobbe’s Account of the Ferrier TrialAppendix D: Author’s letters about Heart and ScienceAppendix E: From A.C. Swinburne’s Obituary Notice on CollinsAppendix F: The Times’s Notice of Professor Helmholtz’s Visit to London, 12 April 1881Appendix G: Belgravia serial part divisions and corresponding page numbers in this editionAppendix H: Robert Browning’s Anti-vivisectionist poetrySelect Bibliography

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Book SynopsisJane Austen’s first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, is a witty satire of the sentimental novel, a popular genre in Britain throughout the 1790s and the Regency. When it first appeared in 1811, the words in its title carried significant cultural weight beyond the confines of the novel, and into both popular and learned discourse. Through her dual heroines, Austen addresses, and satirizes, notions of sense and sensibility, and engages with the issues of inheritance, marriage, and love.The story concerns two sisters: the level-headed Elinor and the passionate and impulsive Marianne. When their father dies, his son by a previous marriage assumes possession of the family home. Marianne and Elinor, left to the care of their mercenary brother John and his wife Fanny, must remove to a cottage with their mother. Each sister meets a man in whom she is interested, and as with other Austen novels, requited love does not come easily.This newly annotated edition offers a thorough and perceptive introduction and a wide range of carefully selected contextual materials that further explore the term “sensibility.”Trade Review“The complexity and courage of Sense and Sensibility get their due in this wonderful new edition, which features an illuminating and sometimes surprising selection of contextual materials. Kathleen James-Cavan’s introduction provides a readable, trenchant account of the characteristically bold ways in which Austen went public as a woman novelist and negotiated the power of literary precedent.” — Deidre Lynch, University at Buffalo, State University of New YorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionJane Austen: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextSense and SensibilityAppendix A: Reviews of Sense and Sensibility Critical Review, February 1812 British Critic, May 1812 Appendix B: Sensibility “Effects of Mistaken Synonymy.” The Lady’s Monthly Museum, 1799 Henry Mackenzie, The Lounger, June 1785 Henry Mackenzie, The Lounger, July 1786 “Letter from Barbara Heartless.” The Lounger, October1786 Vicesimus Knox, Winter Evenings, 1795 Appendix C: The PicturesqueWilliam Gilpin, Essays on Picturesque Beauty, 1794Appendix D: Map of LondonAppendix E: Modes of Travel Curricle Plain Post-Chaise Town Chariot Appendix F: Marianne Dashwood’s Reading Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel James Thomson, “Autumn” William Cowper, The Task Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisTo borrow a phrase used by one of the characters in the novel, Dracula is "nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance." In her introduction to this edition Glennis Byron first discusses the famous novel as an expression not of universal fears and desires, but of specifically late nineteenth-century concerns. And she discusses too the ways in which to the modern reader it is not Transylvania but London that is the location of the monstrosity in Dracula.The many appendices include contemporary reviews; source materials drawn on by Stoker; documents expressing contemporary views on trances, sleepwalking and hypnotism; and other relevant writing by Stoker, including "the censorship of Fiction," in which he expresses his belief in the need to defend the social and moral purity of the nation. Trade ReviewNo other edition so carefully assembles a wealth of contextual material, nor succeeds so admirably in drawing the reader into Stoker's cultural milieu." - David Glover, University of Southampton Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionBram Stoker: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextDraculaAppendix A: “Dracula’s Guest”Appendix B: Bram Stoker “The Censorship of Fiction” (1908)Appendix C: Transylvania: History, Culture, and FolkloreAppendix D: LondonAppendix E: Mental PhysiologyAppendix F: DegenerationAppendix G: GenderAppendix H: Reviews and InterviewsWorks Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisWhen the Anti-Jacobin Review described Memoirs of Modern Philosophers in 1800 as “the first novel of the day” and as proof that “all the female writers of the day are not corrupted by the voluptuous dogmas of Mary Godwin, or her more profligate imitators,” they clearly situated Elizabeth Hamilton’s work within the revolutionary debate of the 1790s. As with her successful first novel, Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, Hamilton uses fiction to enter the political fray and discuss issues such as female education, the rights of woman and new philosophy.The novel follows the plight of three heroines. The mock heroine, Bridgetina Botherim—a crude caricature of Mary Hays—participates in an English-Jacobin group, leading her to abandon her mother and home to pursue her beloved to London in hopes of emigrating to the Hottentots in Africa. The second heroine, Julia Delmont, is another member of the local group; she is seduced by a hairdresser masquerading as a New Philosopher. She is left pregnant and destitute only to discover that her actions caused her father’s untimely death. The third heroine is the virtuous Harriet, whose Christian faith enables her to resist the teachings of the New Philosophers.Trade Review“Grogan’s attentive editing and contextual introduction to what has traditionally been called an ‘Anti-Jacobin’ novel, forces us to question easy classifications of the 1790s into the dichotomous camps of Jacobin and Anti-Jacobin or feminist and anti-feminist. By providing the contextual evidence and extensive footnotes which document Hamilton’s sources, Grogan has convincingly shifted our understanding of the novel from a simple satire of the New Philosophy to a complex questioning of the sexual and social politics of her day. Grogan provides the citations for Hamilton’s impressive referencing of literary, philosophical, political and anthropological texts (many of which Grogan then includes in her helpful appendices) and in so doing, this edition of Memoirs gives us a new and highly textured memoir of Hamilton’s time.” — Katherine Binhammer, University of AlbertaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionElizabeth Hamilton: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextAuthor’s Advertisement to 3rd edition 1801Memoirs of Modern Philosophers Volume I Volume II Volume III Appendix A: Contemporary Works William Godwin Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on ModernMorals and Happiness The Enquirer Mary Hays Memoirs of Emma Courtney Appendix B:The Hottentots Fig 1. The “Hottentot Venus,” George Cuvier Fig 2. A Gonoquais Hottentot Fig 3. Klaas,The Author’s Favourite Hottentot Fig 4. Female Hottentot Appendix C: Reviews of Memoirs of Modern Philosophers Critical Review (May 1800) British Critic (October 1800) Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine (September 1800) Anna Laetitia Barbauld British Novelists (1810) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisMary Barton first appeared in 1848, and has since become one of the best known novels on the 'condition of England,' part of a nineteenth-century British trend to understand the enormous cultural, economic and social changes wrought by industrialization. Gaskell's work had great importance to the labour and reform movements, and it influenced writers such as Charles Dickens, Thomas Carlyle and Charlotte Brontë.The plot of Mary Barton concerns the poverty and desperation of England's industrial workers. Fundamentally, however, it revolves around Mary's personal conflicts. She is already divided between an affection for an industrialist's son, Henry Carson, and for a man of her own class, Jem Wilson. But Mary's conflict escalates when her father, a committed trade unionist, is asked to assassinate Henry, who is the son of his unjust employer.Trade Review“Another splendid edition from Broadview with the usual high standard of helpful footnotes. Among the appendices in this volume are Gaskell’s letters about writing the novel; contemporary reviews; essays and reports from the 1840s on industrialization, Chartism, emigration, prostitution and conditions in Manchester; brief selections from related fiction and poetry; and a very intelligible short summary of dates and events that shape the novel’s politics.” — Sally Mitchell, Temple UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionElizabeth Gaskell: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextMary BartonAppendix A:The Composition of the Novel Excerpts from Gaskell’s Letters Parable of Dives and Lazarus Appendix B:Contemporary Reviews of the Novel Athenaeum (21 October 1848) Examiner (4 November 1848) Christian Examiner (March 1849) Edinburgh Review (April 1849) Fraser’s Magazine (April 1849) Appendix C:Social Commentary on Industrialization Thomas Carlyle, Chapter I, Chartism (1840) “Emigration—Report of the Poor-Law Commissioners on the Subject,” Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal (15 February 1840) Joseph Adshead, Distress in Manchester. Evidence (Tabular and Otherwise) of the State of the Labouring Classes in 1840-42 (1842) Leon Faucher, Manchester in 1844: Its PresentCondition and Future Prospects (1844) Ralph Barnes Grindrod, The Slaves of the Needle(1844) Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) Charles Kingsley, Appeal to the Chartists (12 April 1848) Caroline Norton, Letters to the Mob (1848) Morning Chronicle (Thursday, 1 November 1849) William Rathbone Greg, Employers and Employed (1853) Appendix D:Related Fiction and Poetry Thomas Hood, “Song of the Shirt” (1843) Charlotte Brontë, Chapters 8 and 19, Shirley (1849) Charles Dickens, Chapter 4, Hard Times (1854) George Eliot, Chapter 31, Felix Holt (1866) Appendix E:Chartism and Free TradeSelect Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWhen Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure appeared in 1895, it immediately caused scandal and controversy. Its frank treatment of Jude's sexual relationships with Arabella and Sue, its scathing criticisms of late-Victorian hypocrisy, its depiction of the "New Woman," and its attacks on "holy wedlock" and religious bigotry outraged numerous reviewers; one called the book "Jude the Obscene." Others saw it as brilliantly progressive in its ideas and techniques. Vivid and complex, satiric and harrowing, this novel marked the culmination of Hardy's development as a leading novelist of the cultural transition from the Victorian to the Modernist era. The Broadview edition restores the original, controversial 1895 text.Trade ReviewCedric Watts's edition of Jude the Obscure is one of an extremely interesting set of literary works from Broadview Press, distinguished by wise editorial choices and inclusion of a variety of documents contemporary with the works. Watts is one of our era's most resourceful and level-headed analysts of literature, and his introduction richly sketches the angles of several controversies current in Hardy's time. There are numerous selections from writings which influenced Hardy (science, philosophy, poems, the Bible) excerpts from essays and poems from the late nineteenth century, and materials in categories such as divorce, and university education, all of which amplify and add to Watts' comments, and stimulate thinking about Hardy and nineteenth-century subjects, as well as about our own time." - Dale Kramer, University of Oregon."This is an informative and scholarly edition of the novel which brings out its explosive nature, why it so scandalised Hardy's contemporaries. Professor Watts provides a clear, lively introduction, helpful notes and a wealth of material on the textual history of Jude the Obscure, its contemporary reception and its intellectual and social context. Readers of Hardy will find it immensely useful." - T.R. Wright, University of Newcastle"Broadview Press and editor Cedric Watts have done a splendid job." - English Literature in TransitionTable of ContentsAcknowledgements and Editorial NoteIntroductionA Note on the TextThomas Hardy: A Brief ChronologyHardy’s Preface (1895), Revised Preface and Postscript (1912)JUDE THE OBSCUREPart First, At Marygreen, I-XIPart Second, At Christminster, I-VIIPart Third, At Melchester, I-XPart Fourth, At Shaston, I-VIPart Fifth, At Aldbrickham and Elsewhere, I-VIIIPart Sixth, At Christminster again, I-XIAppendix A: Major Textual ChangesAppendix B: Comments by HardyAppendix C: Contemporaneous Reviews and a ParodyAppendix D: Hardy’s OutlookAppendix E: Influences and Contexts: Cultural ExtractsAppendix F: Oxford, Jowett, and Educational OpportunityAppendix G: Divorce in Jude the ObscureAppendix H: Map of Wessex Appended to the 1895 Edition of Jude the ObscureSelect Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in serial form from December 1860 to August 1861, Great Expectations is the ‘autobiography’ of Pip, as he transformed from apprentice village blacksmith to a London gentleman. Unlike many of Dickens’s earlier works, the novel is not so much a protest against social evils as a sustained meditation upon the process of social reform in Victorian England. It is this which gives such importance to the book’s handling of the theme of the gentleman, a theme central both to Dickens’s society and to his own life story.Trade Review“The notes to this edition of Great Expectations are extremely helpful, and the supporting materials are useful, clear, and well-selected. Law and Pinnington have put together an edition that takes into account what the contemporary (and especially, the non-British) reader needs in order to appreciate the novel. All in all, this is an excellent edition.” — Sally Mitchell, Temple University“It is high time for this Dickens masterpiece to receive the kind of critical and contextual attention that this edition of Great Expectations affords. The editors provide essential information about Dickens’s compositional as well as publishing practices, and they further support this background with a sampling of the lively contemporary dialogue about the text in the periodicals of the day. They issues raised by the novel—namely class and language, and crime and punishment—are amply explored by pertinent historical documentation, including highly-charged autobiographical writing by Dickens himself that was not available to his contemporary readership. Moreover, the introduction expertly guides the reader though the application of these materials in a creative and inviting manner. Law and Pinnington have gathered together an impressive array of contemporary documents to promote an informed reading of this classic text … In particular, the maps and illustrations of the novel’s various settings allow the non-expert to quickly gain insights which should lead to intriguing arguments about how the novel has worked—for its own time as well as our own. I especially commend the editors for their resourceful choices related to the Victorian conception of what constitutes a true gentleman—itself perhaps the key question that helps to unlock the novel.” — Carol Hanbery MacKay, University of Texas-AustinTable of ContentsIntroductionAcknowledgementsA Note on the TextCharles Dickens: A Brief ChronologyGREAT EXPECTATIONS Volume I Volume II Volume III Explanatory NotesAppendices: Contemporary DocumentsAppendix A. The Composition of the Novel Dickens’s Working Memoranda Dickens’s Letters Appendix B. Contemporary Responses to the Novel Athenaeum (13 July 1861) Examiner (20 July 1861) Saturday Review (20 July 1861) Atlantic Monday (September 1861) The Times (17 October 1861) British Quarterly Review (January 1862) Rambler (January 1862) Blackwood’s Magazine (May 1862) Temple Bar (September 1862) Appendix C. On Class and Language Charles Dickens, “Hard Experiences in Boyhood” in John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens (1872-74) Charles Dickens, “Travelling Abroad” The Uncommercial Traveller (1861) Alexis deTocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution (1856) Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, “Gentlemen” Cornhill Magazine (1862) William Sewell, “Gentlemanly Manners” Sermons to Boys at Radley School (1854-69) John Ruskin, “Of Vulgarity,” Modern Painters (1860) J.H. Newman, “Liberal Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Religion,” The Scope and Nature of University Education (1859) Thomas Carlyle, “Labour,” Past and Present (1843) Samuel Smiles, “Character: The True Gentleman,” Self Help (1859) Mrs. Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman (1856) Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857) Reports on the State of Popular Education in England (1861) Appendix D. On Crime & Punishment Mrs. Trimmer, The Charity School Spelling Book (1818) Charles Dickens, “Criminal Courts,” Sketches by Boz (1839) Charles Dickens, “A Visit to Newgate,” Sketches by Boz (1839) Report from the Select Committee on Transportation (1838) Henry Savery, Quintus Servinton (1830-31) Marcus Clarke, His Natural Life (1870-72) “The Autobiography of a Convict,” The Voices of Our Exiles (1854) John Binny, “Thieves and Swindlers,” in London Labour and the London Poor (1861) Thomas Carlyle, Model Prisons (1850) Thomas Beard, “A Dialogue Concerning Convicts,” All the Year Round (1861) Charles Dickens, “The Ruffian,” The Uncommercial Traveller (1868) Maps and Illustrations Showing SettingsMap A: Estuaries of the Thames and MedwayMap B: City of LondonMap C: Pip’s LondonIllustration A. Smithfield MarketIllustration B. Barnard’s InnIllustration C. The River Front at HammersmithIllustration D. Covent Garden MarketIllustration E. The Royal ExchangeIllustration F. The Temple StairsIllustration G. London BridgeIllustration H. Billingsgate MarketSelect Bibliography

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Book SynopsisLittle Women, Louisa May Alcott’s masterpiece of Children’s literature, is the story of the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Living in a small Massachusetts town, the girls and Mrs. March must make do while Mr. March is away serving as an Army Chaplain during the Civil War. At the story’s center lies Jo who, as she approaches adulthood, must reconcile her duties to her family with her desire to become a successful writer.The many appendices in this Broadview edition include materials on the early women’s movement, the novel’s composition, and Alcott’s literary influences.Trade Review“Broadview Press’s Little Women provides a definitive text along with the most comprehensive historical overview yet offered. Alton not only gives us a text based on the first edition, she also presents the genesis and development of Alcott’s most famous novel using the author’s own public and private writings. For the first time in one edition, we now have the complete story of the March family! It is a wonderful scholarly achievement that has long been overdue.” — Daniel Shealy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte“Anne Hiebert Alton’s edition for Broadview is unique in supplementing the text with Alcott’s sources for and correspondence about the novel, with those of Alcott’s works that she attributes to Jo and her sisters, selections from the text that she alludes to most frequently, such as Pilgrim’s Progress, and excerpts that demonstrate Alcott’s feminism. A number of these selections are not readily accessible elsewhere, and some will prove unfamiliar even to Alcott scholars. Alton and Broadview are to be commended for bringing them together in a single volume.” — Elizabeth Keyser, Hollins UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionLouisa May Alcott: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextList of AbbreviationsLittle Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and AmyAppendix A: The Composition and Publication of Little Women Entries from Louisa May Alcott’s Journals about Little Women A Manuscript Page of Little Women Correspondence concerning Little Women Nineteenth-Century comments/reviews of Little Women Appendix B: The Sources for Little Women Louisa May Alcott’s Journal entries Early versions of Little Women stories: “The Sister’s Trial” “Merry’s Monthly Chat” “My Polish Boy” Appendix C: The March Girls’ Writings “Norna; or, The Witches’ Curse" “Aunt Sue’s Scrap Bag” from Merry’s Museum “The Masked Marriage” “The Greek Slave” “The Rival Painters” Appendix D: Literary Influences Bronson Alcott’s Influence Louisa May Alcott’s comments about books & reading Jean de La Fontaine, “The Jay in Peacock’s Feathers” Hans Christian Andersen, "The Steadfast Tin Soldier” “The King & the Beggarmaid” tales Selections from John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress Appendix E: Feminist Issues Excerpts from the Proceedings of the Women’s Rights Convention Selections from Louisa May Alcott’s journals & letters “Louisa M. Alcott’s Defence of Woman Suffrage” Selections from Louisa May Alcott’s other writings Works Cited & Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisWhen William Blackwood, George Eliot’s publisher, first saw the manuscript of Felix Holt in 1866 he could not contain his enthusiasm; in a letter to a friend he described the novel as “a perfect marvel. The time is 1832 just after the passing of the Reform Bill, and surely such a...series of pictures of English Life, manners, and conversation never was drawn. You see and hear the people speaking. Every individual character stands out a distinct figure.”A political radical and a child of the working class, Felix has lost faith in a political system in which candidates never represent the interests of the working class. Harold Transome, the cynical son of wealthy Tory landowners, embraces radical politics for very different reasons. Both Harold and Felix vie for the affections of Esther Lyon, and she must weigh her feelings for them with the social and material goals she has set for herself. Their personal drama unfolds against the broad canvas of social and political upheaval of 1830s England.This edition is based on the text of the first edition of the novel published in three volumes in 1866, and includes a full introduction, a wide range of appendices including reviews, as well as Eliot’s “Address to Working Men, by Felix Holt”; “The Legal Plot of Felix Holt”; and a chronology of Eliot’s life and career.Trade Review“The Broadview Press Felix Holt, the Radical is a handsomely-produced and reader-friendly edition of George Eliot’s powerful novel of social ambition and illicit love. Generous selections of contextual material show how George Eliot’s theories of artistic production and understanding of political realities shape the novel, and what her contemporaries made of it. Editors Baker and Womack deploy their expertise in Victorian studies to illuminate this work for the twenty-first century.” — Margaret Harris, University of Sydney“This edition carefully documents the politics of composition and of England at a critical time in the author’s and the country’s life. Useful appendices establish the context for understanding the novel and its background. The Condition of England Question at last comes alive!” — Ira Nadel, University of British ColumbiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionGeorge Eliot: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextFelix Holt, The RadicalAppendix A: The Legal Plot of Felix Holt, The RadicalAppendix B: “An Address to Working Men, by Felix Holt”Appendix C: “The Natural History of German Life”Appendix D: The Critical Response to Felix Holt, The RadicalSelect Bibliography

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Book SynopsisLady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful and refined young woman, leaves her hard-working but neglectful lawyer-husband and her infant children to elope with an aristocratic suitor. After he deserts her, and she bears their illegitimate child, Lady Isabel disguises herself and takes the position of governess in the household of her husband and his new wife.East Lynne is the archetypal sensation novel, filled with disaster, guilt and repentance. It also documents the growing protest against the rigid roles prescribed for Victorian women. Among the many appendices included are a selection of Victorian medical views on men, women, and sexuality.Trade Review“This is a splendid edition. Its introduction is an authoritative and up to date guide to the novel and its context. A generous and judicious selection of contemporary reviews of East Lynne and the sensation novel further amplify the context, and provide an excellent resource for students.” — Lyn Pykett, University of Wales-Aberystwyth“In his introduction, Andrew Maunder suggests that East Lynne may be ‘one of the most famous unread works in the English language.’ This immensely readable and teachable edition should help to preserve its fame while increasing its readership. Maunder locates the novel in its various contexts—social, historical, and literary—focusing especially on the material conditions of the novel’s publication, and the various “woman questions” of the middle nineteenth century. The supplemental materials are thorough and well-chosen, and for the selections from T. A. Palmer’s theatrical adaptation alone, the Broadview edition would be my choice for teaching.” — Elisabeth Rose Gruner, University of RichmondTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionA Note on the TextEllen Wood: A Brief ChronologyEast LynneAppendix A: Letters from Ellen Wood on the writing and publication of East LynneAppendix B: Geraldine Jewsbury’s Reader’s Report on East LynneAppendix C: Wood’s East Lynne contract with Richard Bentley and SonAppendix D: Serialisation of East LynneAppendix E: Contemporary ReviewsAppendix F: The Sensation NovelAppendix G: Women’s Education and ResponsibilitiesAppendix H: Contemporary Medical Opinions on Men, Women, and SexualityAppendix I: Contemporary Images of WomenAppendix J: Extracts from T.A. Palmer’s adaptation of East LynneWorks Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisThe reputation of Frances Burney (1752-1840) was largely established with her first novel, Evelina. Published anonymously in 1778, it is an epistolary account of a sheltered young woman's entrance into society and her experience of family. Its comedy ranges from the violent practical joking reminiscent of Smollett's fiction to witty repartee that influenced Austen.The Broadview edition is based on the second edition of the novel (1779), which incorporates Burney's revisions and corrections. Its appendices include contemporary reviews of Evelina as well as eighteenth-century works on the family and on comedyTrade Review“Longtime admirers of Frances Burney’s delightful eighteenth-century comedy of manners, Evelina, will no doubt rejoice in Broadview’s impressive new edition of the work, here ably introduced and annotated by Susan Kubica Howard. Readers new to the novel have a treat in store. Evelina remains, quite simply, the most accomplished and insouciant comic novel written by an Englishwoman before Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and coruscates anew in the handsome presentation it is given here.” — Terry Castle, Stanford University“Susan Kubica Howard’s research is impressively detailed, yet accessibly presented so that the edition will serve both seasoned scholars in the field and readers who may be encountering Evelina for the first time.” — Audrey Bilger, Claremont McKenna CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionFrances Burney: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextEvelinaIntroduction to AppendicesAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews London Review (February 1778) Monthly Review (April 1778) Westminster Magazine (June 1778) Gentleman’s Magazine (September Critical Review (September 1778) Appendix B: Works on Family George Savile, Marquis of Halifax, The Lady’s New-Year’s-Gift William Fleetwood, The Relative Duties of Parentsand Children, Husbands and Wives. Masters andServants Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, “Correspondencewith her Granddaughter, Diana, Duchess of Bedford,1732-35” Samuel Richardson, Letters Written To and For ParticularFriends, on the Most Important Occasions [John Hill], On the Management and Education ofChildren Samuel Richardson, A Collection of the Moral andInstructive Sentiments, Maxims, Cautions, and Reflexions,Contained in the Histories of PAMELA, CLARISSA, and SIRCHARLES GRANDISON James Nelson, An Essay on the Government of Children Eliza Haywood, The Female Spectator Lady Sarah Pennington, An Unfortunate Mother’s Adviceto Her Absent Daughters “Portia” [pseud.], The Polite Lady Hester Mulso Chapone, Letters on the Improvement ofthe Mind Clara Reeve, Plans of Education Mrs. Bonhote, The Parental Monitor Thomas Gisborne, An Enquiry into the Duties of theFemale Sex Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Practical Education Francis Burney D’Arblay, Memoirs of Doctor Burney Appendix C: Works on Comedy Anon., Pasquil’s Jests, Mixed with Mother Bunches Merriments Joseph Addison, The Spectator Anon., Scoggin’s Jests [John Mottley], Joe Miller’s Jest Book [Corbyn Morris], An Essay Towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule Eliza Haywood, The Female Spectator Jane Collier, An Essay on the Art of IngeniouslyTormenting Christopher Anstey, The New Bath Guide [James Quin], Quin’s Jests Anon., An Essay on Laughter William Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Comic Writers Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDesmond is a political novel about the French Revolution. It is Charlotte Smith’s only epistolary work, and it is her most politically radical piece. Written in response to Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, Smith’s Desmond fuses political discussion with romance, social satire and a suspenseful plot revolving around a liberal hero desperately in love with a woman who is married to a drunken anti-revolutionary. Whereas Burke represented the French Revolution as a sentimental drama, Smith draws out the parallel between political and domestic tyranny to show how the disenfranchisement of British women under eighteenth-century common law resembled the political tyranny of the French absolutist monarchy.Trade Review“Desmond is perhaps Charlotte Smith’s most trenchant and most daring work, and is certainly among the most important polemical novels of the period. The Preface by Blank and Todd is both authoritative and absorbing, and the detailed notes and contextual material they provide are informative and illuminating. Indeed, if one had to pick a single novel to introduce the turbulent 1790s, this novel, along with the supporting material provided by Blank and Todd, would be it.” - Claudia L. Johnson, Princeton University"This exceptional edition of Desmond is a windfall for all who are interested in the incendiary world of late eighteenth-century England. Following Edmund Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith adapts sentimental convention to social critique through her story of Geraldine Verney, bound to a tyrannical husband. Antje Blank and Janet Todd provide a superb introduction that sets the narrative in the biographical context of Smith’s own domestic travails (which included a spendthrift husband, a legally inaccessible inheritance, and nine hungry children), along with vital intertextual materials, such as Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Men, Helen Maria Williams’ Letters Written in France, and Smith’s own letters and narrative poem, The Emigrants. Readers drawn to Charlotte Smith through her poetry can now access her as a powerful novelist." - Denise Gigante, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionCharlotte Smith: A Brief ChronologyWorks by Charlotte SmithFurther ReadingA Note on the TextDESMONDPrefaceVolume IVolume IIVolume IIINotesAppendix A. Extract from Edmund Burke,Reflections on the Revolution in FranceAppendix B. Extract from Mary Wollstonecraft,A Vindication of the Rights of MenAppendix C. Extract from Helen Maria Williams,Letters from FranceAppendix D. Charlotte Smith, The EmigrantsAppendix E. Charlotte Smith, Letters toJoseph Cooper Walker and Joel Barlow

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Book SynopsisIn the 1890s one phrase above all stood as shorthand for the various controversies over gender that swirled throughout the period: "the New Woman." In New Women fiction, progressive writers such as Sarah Grand, George Egerton, and Ella D'Arcy gave imaginative life to plight of modern women—and reactionaries such as Grant Allen attempted to put women back in their place. In all the leading journals of the day these and other writers argued their cases in essays, letters, and reviews as well as in fiction. This anthology brings together for the first time a representative selection of the most important, interesting, and influential of New Woman writings.Trade Review“This is a timely and marvelously useful anthology. Packed full of unabridged key documents from the period, Nelson’s A New Woman Reader is a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of fin-de-siècle studies. It will also be an invaluable teaching tool: the choice of contextual material to support the short stories and New Woman play is unerringly judicious.” — Sally Ledger, Birkbeck College, University of London“This collection of essential texts, introducing and discussing the figure of the ‘New Woman,’ is a wonderful, stimulating mix of the new and the familiar. Diverse in genre and tone, this volume will interest both the academic and the general reader. Intelligently and informatively edited, it is a most timely and welcome anthology.” — Kate Flint, Oxford UniversityTable of ContentsINTRODUCTIONA NOTE ON THE TEXTPART I: SHORT STORIES BY NEW WOMAN WRITERSINTRODUCTIONGEORGE EGERTON“A Cross Line”“Now Spring Has Come”SARAH GRAND“The Undefinable”NETTA SYRETT“Thy Heart’s Desire”VICTORIA CROSS“Theodora. A Fragment”ADA RADFORD“Lot 99”MABEL E. WOTTON“The Hour of Her Life”ELLA D’ARCY“White Magic”PART II: ARTICLESTHE DEBATE OVER WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE“An Appeal Against Female Suffrage” Nineteenth Century“The Appeal Against Female Suffrage: A Reply. I” Millicent GarrettFawcett“The Appeal Against Female Suffrage: A Reply. II” M.M. Dilke“A Jingle of the Franchise” ShaftsSARAH GRAND ON THE NEW WOMAN: HER CRITICS RESPOND“The New Aspect of the Woman Question” Sarah Grand“The Man of the Moment” Sarah Grand“A Ballade of the New Manhood” Punch“The New Woman” Punch“The New Woman” Ouida“The Woman’s Question. An Interview with Madame Sarah Grand”Humanitarian“Science and the Rights of Women” H.E. Harvey“Foibles of the New Woman” Ella W. Winston“The Eternal Feminine” Boyd WinchesterTHE MARRIAGE QUESTION“Marriage” Mona Caird“Does Marriage Hinder a Woman’s Self-Development?” Mona Caird“Does Marriage Hinder a Woman’s Self-Development?” GertrudeAtherton“A Young Woman’s Right: Knowledge” Julia M.A. Hawksley“The Voice of Woman” H.E. Harvey“Plain Words on the Woman Question” Grant AllenTHE ATTACK ON THE NEW WOMAN WRITERS“Donna Quixote” Punch“She-Notes” Punch“She-Notes. Part II” Punch“Tommyrotics” Hugh E.M. Stutfield“The Psychology of Feminism” Hugh E.M. Stutfield“The Physical Insensibility of Woman” Cesare LombrosoTHE REVOLTING DAUGHTERS“The Revolt of the Daughters” B.A. Crackanthorpe“A Reply From the Daughters” Alys W. Pearsall Smith“The Revolt of the Daughters” May Jeune“The Revolt of the Daughters. An Answer—By One of Them” GertrudeHemery“The Evolution of the Daughters” Sarah M. AmosPART III: DRAMAINTRODUCTIONSYDNEY GRUNDYThe New Woman. An Original Comedy, in Four ActsFURTHER READING

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Book SynopsisWells was interested in the implications of evolutionary theory on the future of human beings at the biological, sociological, and cultural levels, and The Time Machine, short and readable, draws on many of the social and scientific debates of the time. The Broadview edition of this science fiction classic includes extensive materials on Wells’s scientific and political influences.Trade Review“This is undoubtedly the definitive edition of H.G. Wells’s masterpiece, as fresh today in its imaginative power as the day it was written; but here refreshed by excellent introduction, notes and a comprehensive collection of appendices by Wells’s contemporaries. The method could not be bettered.” — Brian W. Aldiss, author of the Helliconia trilogy; Billion Year Spree: A History of Science Fiction and, most recently, White Mars: or, the Mind Set Free: A 21st-Century Utopia“This is an invaluable edition of a text with a crucial role in modern culture. Wielding his meticulous scholarship and wide-ranging knowledge, Ruddick produces a splendid introduction and a rich selection of contextual materials.” — H. Bruce Franklin, author of War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination and Future Perfect: American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century“Ruddick offers a wide-ranging and stimulating Introduction to this generously documented edition of one of the great source texts of modern science fiction. General readers, students, and scholars will all be grateful for the comprehensive appendices, which provide a full selection of the scientific, philosophical, and cultural contexts out of which The Time Machine first emerged. This should be the scholarly edition for some time to come.” — Douglas Barbour, University of Alberta“The structure of Ruddick’s book makes the complexity of The Time Machine easy to map, while the critical materials provide a basis for deep and detailed study. The impressive scholarship included ensures that it will remain a useful resource for teachers, essential for libraries and especially suitable for students or newcomers to Wells’ canon.” — Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts“I exclusively use your edition of The Time Machine and cannot say enough about its perspective. Mathematics and science in literature is a specialty of mine, and there is no finer edition of that text. It is a keystone in my Mathematics and Science in the Humanities course. You folks at Broadview are outstanding!” — Michael J. Gormley, Quinsigamond Community CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionH. G. Wells: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Time Machine: An InventionAppendix A. The Evolutionary Context: Biology Charles Darwin, from The Origin of Species (1859, 1872) E. Ray Lankester, from Degeneration (1880) Thomas H. Huxley, from “The Struggle for Existence in Human Society” (1888) H. G. Wells, from “Zoological Retrogression” (1891) H. G. Wells, from Text-Book of Biology (1893) Thomas H. Huxley, from “Evolution and Ethics” (1893) H. G. Wells, “On Extinction” (1893) H. G. Wells, from “The Man of the Year Million” (1893) H. G. Wells, from “The Extinction of Man” (1894) Appendix B. The Evolutionary Context: Society Thomas Carlyle, from Past and Present (1843) Karl Marx, from various writings (1844-64) Frederick Engels, from The Condition of the Working-Class (1845) Benjamin Disraeli, from Sybil (1845) Herbert Spencer, from Social Statics (1851) Herbert Spencer, from First Principles (1862) Jules Verne, from The Child of the Cavern (1877) Henry George, from Progress and Poverty (1880) Edward Bellamy, from Looking Backward (1888) Thomas H. Huxley, from “The Struggle for Existence in Human Society” (1888) William Morris, from News from Nowhere (1890) Benjamin Kidd, from Social Evolution (1894) Appendix C. The Evolutionary Context: Culture Winwood Reade, from The Martyrdom of Man (1872, 1875) Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Joyful Wisdom (1882, 1886) H. G. Wells, from “The Rediscovery of the Unique” (1891) Max Nordau, from Degeneration (1892, 1895) Appendix D. The Spatiotemporal Context: The Fourth Dimension Edwin A. Abbott, from Flatland (1884) C. H. Hinton, from “What Is the Fourth Dimension?” (1884) “S,” “Four-Dimensional Space” (1885) E. A. Hamilton Gordon, from “The Fourth Dimension” (1887) Oscar Wilde, from “The Canterville Ghost” (1887) William James, from The Principles of Psychology (1890) Simon Newcomb, from “Modern Mathematical Thought” (1894) Appendix E. The Spatiotemporal Context: Solar Death and the End of the World Jonathan Swift, from Gulliver’s Travels (1726) William Thomson, from “On the Age of the Sun’s Heat” (1862) Balfour Stewart, from The Conservation of Energy (1874) Balfour Stewart & Peter Guthrie Tait, from The Unseen Universe (1875) George Howard Darwin, from “The Determination of the Secular Effects of Tidal Friction by a Graphical Method” (1879) George Howard Darwin, from “On the Precession of a Viscous Spheroid” (1879) H. G. Wells, from “The ‘Cyclic’ Delusion” (1894) Camille Flammarion, from Omega (1894) Appendix F. Extracts from Wells’s CorrespondenceAppendix G. Wells on The Time Machine H. G. Wells, from “Popularising Science” (1894) H. G. Wells, from “Preface,” Works of H. G. Wells, Vol. 1 (1924) H. G. Wells, from “Preface,” The Time Machine: An Invention (1931) H. G. Wells, from “Preface,” Seven Famous Novels (1934) H. G. Wells, from Experiment in Autobiography (1934) H. G. Wells, from “Fiction About the Future” (1938) Appendix H. Reviews of The Time Machine From Review of Reviews [London] (March 1895) From Review of Reviews [New York] (June 1895) New York Times (23 June 1895) Spectator (13 July 1895) Literary World (13 July 1895) Nature (18 July 1895) From Saturday Review (20 July 1895) Daily Chronicle (27 July 1895) Israel Zangwill, from Pall Mall Magazine (September 1895) From Review of Reviews [New York] (October 1895) Appendix I. Contemporary Portraits of Wells From Bookman (August 1895) “Picaroon,” from Chap-Book [Chicago] (1896) Selected Annotated BibliographyWorks Cited

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Book SynopsisThe Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph was hugely popular in circulating libraries in the years after its publication, and its emotional intensity was often remarked upon; Samuel Johnson wrote to Frances Sheridan, “I know not, Madam! that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.” Sheridan traces Sidney Bidulph’s development in a complex epistolary novel spanning much of the protagonist’s life, and explores the tension between sexual desire and prescribed female conduct.In addition to an introduction that places the novel in the context of Sheridan’s feminism and of the early novel, this edition provides material on discourses of female conduct, letters between Sheridan and Samuel Richardson, and contemporary reviews.Trade Review“Restoring to print an important, if neglected, eighteenth-century novel, this thoroughly annotated new edition also sets The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph in the context of its period’s attitudes toward and dicta for women, suggests the novel’s political implications, and provides a sampling of its enthusiastic contemporary reviews. The edition should create a new generation of enthusiasts.” — Patricia M. Spacks, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionFrances Sheridan: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Memoirs of Miss Sidney BidulphAppendix A: Contemporary Discourse on Female Conduct From George Savile, Marquess of Halifax, The Lady’ New-Year’s-Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688) From Wetenhall Wilkes, A Letter of Genteel and Moral Advice To a Young Lady (1740) From Samuel Richardson, et al., Familiar Letters Written To and For Particular Friends on the Most Important Occasions (1741) From Sarah Pennington, An Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to Her Absent Daughters (1761) From John Gregory, A Father’s Legacy to His Daughters (1774) Appendix B: Reviews of The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph The Monthly Review 24 (1761) London Magazine 30 (1761) The Critical Review 11 (1762) From Clara Reeve, The Progress of Romance (1785) Select Bibliography and Works Cited

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Book SynopsisCritically acclaimed as Kate Chopin’s most influential work of fiction, The Awakening has assumed a place in the American literary canon. This new edition places the novel in the context of the cultural and regional influences that shape Chopin’s narrative.With extensive contemporary readings that examine historical events, including the hurricanes that frequently disrupt life in Louisiana, this edition will contextualize The Awakening for a new generation of readers.Trade Review“This edition of Chopin’s masterpiece contextualizes her work in a way that creates endless possibilities for teachers and students. From Chopin’s other stories and personal writings to her poetry and non-fiction; from contemporary responses to her work in the popular press to the intellectual legacy she was drawing upon in her writing; from the etiquette guides of the era to accounts of its great hurricane to period sketches of New Orleans social history, all of this together combines to situate The Awakening in a kaleidoscopic set of intellectual and cultural frameworks. For the classroom, a treasure—I can’t imagine using any other edition.” — T. R. Johnson, Tulane University“This is the most richly comprehensive and contextualized edition of Chopin’s novel to date. The extensive introduction not only situates the novel in this era of the New Woman, but also clarifies problematic regional terms such as ‘Creole.’ This edition illuminates the local and national settings of Chopin’s novel for a new generation of readers. Kudos to Broadview and these editors, who have provided a valuable service for scholars and students of southern and women’s literature. I will definitely be using this text in my own classroom and for my own research.” — Mary Ann Wilson, University of Louisiana at Lafayette“The introduction sets the stage for using the text in either literature or women’s studies classes by describing not only Kate Chopin’s work but also the setting in America that existed during her lifetime. There are clear explanations of the issues of race and gender in Louisiana and the South in general. The notes are also excellent, adding another dimension to the text. I am eagerly anticipating introducing this edition to my students.” — Theresa Flowers, University of North TexasTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionKate Chopin: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe AwakeningOther FictionFrom At Fault (1890)“At Chênière Caminada” (1893)“Madame Célestin’s Divorce,” from Bayou Folk (1894)“A Respectable Woman” (1894)“An Egyptian Cigarette” (1897)“The Storm: A Sequel to ‘At the ’Cadian Ball’” (1898)Poetry“A Fancy” (1892)“To Mrs B_______” (1896)“To A Lady at the Piano” — “Mrs. R” (1896)“A Document in Madness” (1898)“The Haunted Chamber” (1899)“A day with a splash of sunlight” (1899)Journals and Essays“Emancipation. A Life Fable” (1869-70)“Solitude” (1895)from “Is Love Divine? The Question Answered by Three Ladies Well Known in St. Louis Society” (1898)“Reflection” (1899)Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews From Frances Porcher, The Mirror [St. Louis] (4 May 1899) From the St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat (13 May 1899) From C.L. Deyo, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (20 May 1899) From G.B., St. Louis Post-Dispatch (21 May 1899) From the Chicago Times-Herald (1 June 1899) New Orleans Times-Democrat (18 June 1899) Public Opinion [New York] (22 June 1899) Literature (23 June 1899) From the Boston Beacon (24 June 1899) From the Los Angeles Sunday Times (25 June 1899) Sibert [Willa Cather], Pittsburgh Leader (8 July 1899) William Morton Payne, The Dial (1 August 1899) The Nation (3 August 1899) Boston Herald (12 August 1899) Indianapolis Journal (14 August 1899) The Congregationalist [Boston] (24 August 1899) Appendix B: Background, Sources, and Contexts From Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” (1841) Algernon Swinburne, “A Cameo” (1866) From Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis (1886) From Mary A. Livermore, Amelia E. Barr, and Rose Terry Cooke, “Women’s Views of Divorce,” North American Review (1890) From Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “The Solitude of Self” (1892) From “Wife Who Retains Her Maiden Name and Won’t Obey,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (14 May 1895) From Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898) From Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) From Herbert Spencer, Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects (1914) Appendix C: Etiquette and Social Customs From The Elite Directory of St. Louis Society (1877) From Blunders in Behavior Corrected (1880) From James S. Zacharie, New Orleans Guide (1885) From Richard A. Wells, Manners, Culture and Dress of the Best American Society (1891) From Georgene Corry Benham, Polite Life and Etiquette, or What is Right and the Social Acts (1891) Appendix D: Louisiana Contexts From Jewell’s Crescent City Illustrated: The Commercial, Social, Political and General History of New Orleans (1873) From Will H. Coleman, Historical Sketch Book and Guide to New Orleans and Environs (1885) From Eliza Ripley, Social Life in Old New Orleans: Being Recollections of My Girlhood (1912) From Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “People of Color in Louisiana: Part 1,” Journal of Negro History (1916) Appendix E: The Great Hurricane of 1893 From Rose C. Falls, Cheniere Caminada, or The Wind of Death: The Story of the Storm in Louisiana (1893) From Mark Forrest, Wasted by Wind and Water: A Historical and Pictorial Sketch of the Gulf Disaster (1894) From Lafcadio Hearn, Chita: A Story of Last Island (1889) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2003 Silver Medal for Gay/Lesbian Fiction, ForeWord MagazineImre is one of the first openly gay American novels without a tragic ending. Described by the author as “a little psychological romance,” the narrative follows two men who meet by chance in a café; in Budapest, where they forge a friendship that leads to a series of mutual revelations and gradual disclosures. With its sympathetic characterizations of homosexual men, Imre’s 1906 publication marked a turning point in English literature. This edition includes material relating to the novels origins, contemporary writings on homosexuality, other writings by Prime-Stevenson, and a contemporary review.Trade Review“Like Whitman’s noiseless, patient spider, Prime-Stevenson’s homosexual characters spin out threads of mutual recognition and loving affirmation. An invaluable literary document, Imre is also an unexpectedly absorbing fiction, here accompanied by an excellent scholarly apparatus.” — John W. Crowley, editor of Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard“Not only are we given Prime-Stevenson’s text in the most readable form it has ever enjoyed, but also an eloquent introduction that illuminates both the life of this mysterious author and the historical and literary significance of this, his most important work, and a fascinating sequence of appendices. This edition is a piece of scholarship as exciting as it is rigorous.” — David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell, editors of Pages Passed From Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Literature in English from 1748 to 1914“This edition shows how carefully the novel is positioned geographically at the very margins of Europe at the very end of the Belle Époque, and hownearly a century after its compositionthe novel not only has a good deal to say about its day, but also our own.” — David Bergman, Towson University, author of Gaiety TransfiguredTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionEdward Prime-Stevenson:A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextImre: A MemorandumIntroduction to the AppendicesAppendix A: On the Origin of ImreAppendix B: The Medical Establishment and Homosexuality—A Sample Case StudyAppendix C: Homosexuality and the Artistic TemperamentAppendix D: Excerpts from The Intersexes (1908)Appendix E: From Life to FictionAppendix F: “The Most Peculiar Friend I Have Ever Had”Appendix G: A Contemporary Review of ImreWorks Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisThe seemingly peaceful country village of Hayslope is the setting for this ambitious first novel by one of the nineteenth century's great novelists. With sympathy, wit, and unflinching realism, Adam Bede tells a story that would have been familiar to Eliot's first readers: the seduction of a pretty farm girl by the young squire of the district. Eliot uses this story, with its tragic implications, to explore the dangers of reliance on religious and social norms to govern destructive desires. As this edition demonstrates, Adam Bede addresses profound questions of morality, religion, and the role of women in society, while at the same time seeking to establish a new aesthetic for fiction.This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a rich selection of appendices, including selections from Eliot's letters and journals, contemporary reviews of the novel, and accounts of the murder trial of Mary Voce, the woman whose story formed part of the inspiration for the novel.Trade ReviewThe Broadview edition of Adam Bede is an excellent one for students, scholars, and the intelligent general reader. The introduction and appendices offer the apparatus to contextualize the novel, a bestseller in its day because it engaged with major religious and philosophical questions as well as involving the reader with a compelling love story. It appealed then, as it does today, to both head and heart." - Pam Hirsch, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionGeorge Eliot: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextAdam BedeAppendix A: Realism, Morality, and Fiction George Eliot’s Early Attitudes to Fiction Letter to Maria Lewis, 16 March 1839 Letter to Sarah Hennell, 9 February 1849 George Eliot and George Henry Lewes on the Nature and Function of the Novel From Lewes’s “Recent Novels: French and English,” Fraser’s Magazine (December 1847) From Lewes’s Review of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth and Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, Westminster Review (April 1853) From Eliot’s Reviews of Charles Kingsley’s Westward Ho!, Geraldine Jewsbury’s Constance Herbert, and Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, Westminster Review (July 1855), and Leader (July 1855) Realism From John Ruskin’s Modern Painters (1856) Eliot’s Response to Ruskin, Westminster Review (April 1856) From George Eliot’s Review of Wilhelm HeinrichRiehl’s Die Naturgeschichte des deutschen Volkes als Grundlage einer deutschen Social Politik, Westminster Review (July 1856) Appendix B: The Genesis and Publication of Adam Bede: From George Eliot’s Letters and JournalsAppendix C: The Trial and Execution of Mary Voce, 1802 An Account of the Experience and Happy Death of Mary Voce The Life, Character, Behaviour at the Place of Execution and Dying Speech of Mary Voce A full and particular Account of the Life,Trial, and Behaviour of Mary Voce Appendix D: The Reception of Adam Bede From a Letter from Jane Welsh Carlyle, 20 February 1859 From a Letter from Charles Dickens, 10 July 1859 The Times (12 April 1859) Bentley’s Quarterly Review (July 1859) The Saturday Review (26 February 1859) The London Quarterly Review (July 1861) Henry James, The Atlantic Monthly (October 1866) Appendix E: The Religious Background Methodism: From the Journals of John Wesley Women Preachers Saint Paul From John Wesley’s Letters (1761, 1769) From the Journal of Ann Gilbert, 1771 Sarah’s Crosby’s Experience, 1768 Elizabeth Evans and Mary Voce, 1802 Marriage for Women Preachers Contemporary Religious Thought From David Friederich Strauss, The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined (1835-36) From Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity (1841) From Charles Hennell, An Inquiry into the Origin of Christianity (1838) From Herbert Spencer, First Principles (1862) Eliot’s Religious Beliefs From a Letter to Maria Lewis, 18 August 1838 From a Letter to Her Father, 28 February 1842 From Eliot’s Review of Works by John Cumming, Westminster Review (October 1855) From a Letter to François d’Albert-Durade, 6 December 1859 From a Letter to Mme Eugène Bodichon (Barbara Leigh Smith), 26 December 1860 Select Bibliography and Further Reading

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1799, George Walker’s The Vagabond was an immediate popular success. Offering a vitriolic critique of post-Bastille Jacobinism and sansculotte-style mob rule, its true-to-life satirical portraits of many of the radical men and women who fought in the forefront of the “British Revolution” are nonetheless full of playful banter and farce. With swipes at Hume, Rousseau, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and Paine; the French Revolution; and the ideas of the noble savage, natural virtue, liberty, equality, and romantic primitivism, The Vagabond offers a unique cross-section of 1790s radicalism. This Broadview edition contains a critical introduction and a wide selection of primary source materials that situate the novel in the context of the revolutionary debate of the 1790s. Appendices include contemporary reviews of the novel and excerpts from the writings of a variety of radicals and reactionaries engaged in the debate, such as Hume, Rousseau, Paine, Thelwall, Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Burke, Playfair, Malthus, and Cobbett, among many others.Trade Review“The Vagabond is a vibrant counterrevolutionary polemic that illuminates a wide range of political controversy in the 1790s—the French Revolution crisis, domestic reform, transatlantic emigration, and the era's heated debates on human nature and its troubling propensity for violence. This accessible edition brings to life for modern readers the novel's turbulent political and philosophical contexts through its wide-ranging introduction and well-researched set of contemporary materials. Expertly edited and vividly presented through these contemporary contexts, The Vagabond is a must-read for those interested in the popular phenomenon of the conservative Romantic-period novel.” — Adriana Craciun, Birkbeck College, University of London“W.M. Verhoeven’s edition of George Walker’s The Vagabond is an essential text for scholars and readers of eighteenth-century and Romantic literature. Verhoeven’s erudite introduction and notes contextualize the anti-Jacobin novel, covering British history and culture from the Glorious Revolution through the Gordon Riots into the revolutionary and post-revolutionary nineties, and his appendices provide valuable material for an understanding of just what was at stake in the period.” — Carol Houlihan Flynn, Tufts UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextThe VagabondNotesA Note on the AppendicesAppendix A: Sources and Contexts: The Jacobin Side of the Revolutionary Debate From David Hume, “An Abstract of a Book Lately Published, Entitled A Treatise of Human Nature, &c.” (1740) From John James Rousseau [Jean-Jacques Rousseau], The Social Contract (1762) From Joseph Priestley, Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit (1777) From Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, Part One (1791) From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) From William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness(1793) From Gilbert Imlay, The Emigrants, &c.; or, The History of an Expatriated Family (1793) Writings on “Pantisocracy” From Samuel Coleridge, Collected Letters of Samuel Coleridge From a letter by Thomas Poole to Mr. Hoskins (1794) Two poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Pantistocracy” (1794) “On the Prospect of Establishing a Pantisocracy in America” (1794) From John Thelwall, “A Warning Voice to the Violent of All Parties” (1795) From William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798) From William Godwin, Thoughts occasioned by the perusal of Dr. Parr’s Spital Sermon (1801) Appendix B: Sources and Contexts: The Anti-Jacobin Side of the Revolutionary Debate From Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) From Anon., “Proceedings of the Friends to the Abuse of the Liberty of the Press” (1793) From William Playfair, Peace with the Jacobins Impossible (1794) From Peter Porcupine [William Cobbett], Observations on the Emigration of Dr. Joseph Priestley (1794) From Anon., Letters on Emigration. By a Gentleman, Lately Returned from America (1794) From Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) Appendix C: Contemporary Reviews Analytical Review (February 1799) From the Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine (February 1799) New London Review (April 1799) Critical Review (June 1799) Monthly Magazine (20 July 1799) Monthly Mirror (March 1800) British Critic (April 1800) From the British Critic (October 1800) Select Bibliography

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Book Synopsis“The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each others’ names.”After the dizzying success of Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922, Fitzgerald submitted a very different work to his publishers two years later. Originally entitled Tremalchio, the novel was extensively revised at the galley stage, and emerged with a new title: The Great Gatsby. The novel sold poorly, however, and it was not until after Fitzgerald’s death in 1940 that The Great Gatsby began to be regarded as his greatest work—and by many as the great American novel.When Nick Carraway rents a cottage in an exclusive part of Long Island, he becomes curious about his neighbour in the mansion next door, where extravagant parties extend into the early hours. Jay Gatsby turns out to care little for partying, but is obsessed with winning back Daisy Buchanan, an early love who is now married and living just across the water.This Broadview edition provides a reliable text at a very reasonable price. It contains textual notes but no appendices or introduction.

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Book SynopsisThis 1818 novel is set in a former abbey whose owner, Christopher Glowry, is host to visitors who enjoy his hospitality and engage in endless debate. Among these guests are figures recognizable to Peacock’s contemporaries, including characters based on Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Mr. Glowry’s son Scythrop (also modeled on a famous Romantic, Peacock’s friend Percy Bysshe Shelley) locks himself up in a tower where he reads German tragedies and transcendental philosophy and develops a “passion for reforming the world.” Disappointed in love, a sorrowful Scythrop decides the only thing to do is to commit suicide, but circumstances persuade him to instead follow his father in a love of misanthropy and Madeira. In addition to satire and comic romance, Nightmare Abbey presents a biting critique of the texts we view as central to British romanticism.This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a range of illuminating contemporary documents on the novel’s reception and its German and British literary contexts. A selection of Peacock’s critical and autobiographical writings is also included.Trade Review“Though considered a light—even a slight—novel, Nightmare Abbey requires of its ideal reader extensive knowledge of the age that produced it: the literature, the politics, and, not least, the personalities associated with English Romanticism. Lisa Vargo succeeds admirably in bringing this rich background—masterfully synthesized in a critical introduction and amply documented in notes and appendices—to bear on the work for which its author is best known and which, as much as any other work of the period, engages English Romantic culture in all its numerous contradictory forms. Vargo has brought together the resources of recent Peacock scholarship and an invaluable archive of excerpted contemporary texts to produce an edition of Peacock’s most characteristic—and arguably his best—novel for a new generation of readers.” — James Mulvihill, University of Alberta“Published in the same year as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Thomas Love Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey is not just a burlesque of the Gothic novel, but a sustained critique of what he regarded as ‘the darkness and misanthropy of modern literature.’ His witty satire on ‘the spirit of the age’ can best be understood through an awareness of its complex intertextual relations with other works of Romantic literature. To help promote such awareness, Lisa Vargo’s new Broadview edition provides a thoughtful introduction, detailed explanatory notes, and an exceptionally rich array of contextual material drawn from contemporary reviews of the novel, translations of earlier German literature, relevant works by Godwin, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, and Hazlitt, and, perhaps equally important, Peacock’s own critical and autobiographical writings.” — Nicholas A. Joukovsky, Pennsylvania State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextThomas Love Peacock: A Brief ChronologyNightmare AbbeyAppendix A: The Reception of Nightmare Abbey The Monthly Review 90 (November 1819) The Literary Gazette 99 (12 December 1818) The Tickler 1.1 (1 December 1818) The European Magazine, and London Review 75 (March1819) From James Spedding, Edinburgh Review 68 (January1839) The Examiner (28 May 1837) Appendix B: German Literature From Karl Grosse, “The Marquis of Grosse” (1796) From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stella: A Play for Lovers (1774) From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) From Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff (1813) Appendix C: Literary Contexts From William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) From William Godwin, Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in England (1817) From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Statesman’s Manual (1816) From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (1817) Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” (1817) From Percy Bysshe Shelley, Author’s Preface to The Revolt of Islam (1818) From George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Corsair, A Tale (1814) From George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto the Fourth (1818) George Gordon, Lord Byron, Dedication to Don Juan (1833) From William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age (1825) Appendix D: Peacock’s Critical and Autobiographical Writings From “An Essay on Fashionable Literature” (1818) From “The Four Ages of Poetry” (1820) From “French Comic Romances” (1835) Preface to Volume 57 of Bentley’s Standard Novels (1837) “Recollections of Childhood: The Abbey House” (1837) From “Memoirs of Percy Bysshe Shelley” (1860) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisBlind Love is Wilkie Collins’s final novel. Although he did not live to complete the work, he left detailed plans for the last third of this absorbingly plotted novel which were faithfully executed by his colleague, the popular author Walter Besant. The novel is set during the Irish Land War of the early 1880s and tells the story of Iris Henley, an independent young woman who marries the “wild” Lord Harry Norland, a member of an Irish secret society, and becomes unhappily drawn into a conspiracy plot.The Broadview edition of Blind Love includes a critical introduction and primary source materials that address the novel’s focus on movements for Irish independence. Appendices include newspaper accounts of Ireland during the Land War and of the fraud case on which Collins based his story, articles reacting to Collins’s sudden death, Punch cartoons depicting the English attitudes toward the Irish, and contemporary reviews.Trade Review“This edition of Collins’s Blind Love offers the best of modern scholarship—it is impossible to praise it too much. Professors Bachman and Cox add considerably to Broadview’s series of reasonably-priced fine scholarly editions.” — A.D. Hutter, UCLATable of ContentsAcknowledgementsHistorical Context: The Irish QuestionWilkie Collins’s Response to the Irish QuestionAnglo-Saxon vs. Celt: The Imperialist AgendaWilkie Collins and the “Woman Question”The Von Scheurer FraudBlind Love: The History and Evolution of the TextWilliam Wilkie Collins: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextBlind LoveAppendix A: Reaction to the Death of Wilkie Collins “Death of Mr.Wilkie Collins,” The Times, 24 September 1889 “The Late Mr.Wilkie Collins,” The Illustrated London News, 28 September 1889 “Obituary.Wilkie Collins,” The Academy, 28 September 1889 Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews of Collins’s Work Edmund Yates, “The Works of Wilkie Collins,” Temple Bar, August 1890 Meredith White Thompson,“Wilkie Collins,” The Spectator, 28 September 1889 George Cotterell, “New Novels,” The Academy, 15 March 1890 “Blind Love,” New York Tribune, 23 January 1890 Andrew Lang, “Mr. Wilkie Collins’s Novels,” Contemporary Review, January 1890 Harold Quilter, “In Memoriam Amici: Wilkie Collins,” The Universal Review, 5, 1889 Appendix C: Horace Pym’s Notes on the Von Scheurer CaseAppendix D: Newspaper Accounts of the Insurance Trial “The Scheurer Frauds,” The Times, 25 April 1888 “France,” The Times, 26 April 1888 “France,” The Times, 27 April 1888 Appendix E: The Prologue to “Iris,” Manuscript “C,” 1887Appendix F: Excerpts from Collins’s Plans for Blind Love: The Synopsis The Cast of Characters The Synopsis Appendix G: The Irish Question Accounts from The Times, 1882 The Irish as Depicted in Punch, 1866, 1881, 1882 Appendix H: The Duties of the Lady’s MaidSelect Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWhen Adeline Mowbray puts her mother Editha’s radical theories into practice by eloping with, but not marrying, a notorious writer, the mother and daughter are estranged for many years, but finally reconciled. As its subtitle suggests, Adeline Mowbray, or The Mother and Daughter begins and ends with their story, but its complex plot encompasses almost every other human relationship. This engaging novel explores many issues important in the Romantic period, from women’s education to the ethics of slavery and colonialism.This Broadview Edition uses the first edition of 1805 as its copy text, but also includes important variants from the 1810 and 1844 editions. The appendices include contemporary reviews and material expanding on the novel’s themes of women’s education, marriage, slavery, and the tension between feeling and reason.Trade Review“Anne McWhir’s new edition of Amelia Opie’s Adeline Mowbray deftly positions the text in its larger cultural and global context. It also pays notable attention to the author’s revisions of the text over the course of the nineteenth century, thus leading us to consider the ways in which conventions associated with the Victorian novel evolve out of Romantic-era fiction.” — Roxanne Eberle, University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionAmelia Alderson Opie: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextAdeline Mowbray, or The Mother and Daughter; A TaleTextual VariantsAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews Critical Review (1805) Annual Review (1805) Literary Journal (1805) Monthly Review (1806) European Magazine (1805) Appendix B: On Education From John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) From Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799) Appendix C: On DuellingFrom William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness (1798)Appendix D: On Marriage and Divorce From An Act for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriages (1753) From Anon., Letters on Love, Marriage, and Adultery (1789) From William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness (1798) From Mary Wollstonecraft, The Wrongs of Woman: or, Maria. A Fragment (1798) Appendix E: On Godwin and Wollstonecraft From William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1798) From Robert Bisset, et al., The Historical, Biographical, Literary, and Scientific Magazine.… for … 1799 Appendix F: On Mothers and Daughters From Amelia Opie, Poems by Mrs. Opie (1802) From Lays for the Dead (1834) Appendix G: On Slavery and Jamaica From the Mansfield Decision (22 June 1772) From J. Stewart, A View of the Past and Present State of the Island of Jamaica (1823) Appendix H: On ReligionFrom Joseph Gurney Bevan, A Refutation of Some of the More Modern Misrepresentations of the Society of Friends, Commonly Called Quakers (1800)Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSusanna Centlivre’s play The Wonder (1714) was one of the most popular works on the eighteenth-century English stage. Set in Lisbon, the plot interweaves two romantic intrigues around one “secret”: the heroine Violante is hiding her best friend, Isabella (who is the sister of her own lover, Don Felix) from Isabella’s father who wishes to marry her off to a rich but decrepit old merchant. Because she is sworn to secrecy, Violante cannot reveal Isabella’s whereabouts, nor can she explain to Felix why Isabella’s new lover, a dashing British soldier, happens to be about the house, prompting Felix’s intense jealousy. Centlivre’s critique on the tyrannical patriarchs in the world of the play is at the same time a veiled critique of similar conditions in Augustan-era Britain.This Broadview edition includes contemporary responses (by Richard Steele and Arthur Bedford), biographical accounts, selections of Centlivre’s poetry, and early nineteenth-century criticism (by Elizabeth Inchbald and William Hazlitt).Trade Review“John O’Brien’s excellent edition of The Wonder makes accessible one of the most performed plays of the eighteenth century and reminds us why Susanna Centlivre was one of the most successful playwrights of her age—male or female.” — Lisa A. Freeman, University of Illinois at ChicagoTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSusanna Centlivre: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe WonderTextual NotesAppendix A: Contemporary Responses to Centlivre and The Wonder Richard Steele, The Tatler Richard Steele, The Lover Arthur Bedford, A Serious Remonstrance in Behalf of the Christian Religion Appendix B: Eighteenth-Century Biographical Accounts Giles Jacob, The Poetical Register Abel Boyer, The Political State of Great Britain John Mottley [?], “A Complete List of all the English Dramatic Poets” William Chetwood, The British Theatre Appendix C: Selections from Centlivre’s Poetry “A Poem, Humbly Presented to His most Sacred Majesty George, King Of Great Britain, France, and Ireland. Upon his Accession to the Throne” “A Woman’s Case” Appendix D: Early Nineteenth-Century Criticism Elizabeth Inchbald, “Remarks” on The Wonder, The British Theatre William Hazlitt, The Examiner William Hazlitt, “On the Comic Writers of the Last Century” Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisAnne Brontë's second and last novel was widely and contentiously reviewed upon its 1848 publication, in part because its subject matter domestic violence, alcoholism, women's rights, and universal salvation was so controversial. The tale unfolds through a series of letters between two friends as one man learns more about Helen Huntingdon and the past that brought this young painter and single mother to Wildfell Hall. Powerfully plotted and unconventionally structured, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is now considered to be a classic of Victorian literature.This Broadview Edition includes a critical introduction that situates the novel in significant Victorian debates, and provides appendices that make clear Brontë's intellectual inheritance from important eighteenth-century writers such as Hannah More and Mary Wollstonecraft. Material on temperance, education, childrearing, and nineteenth-century women artists is also included in the appendices.Trade Review“I will always order Lee A. Talley’s Broadview edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which I teach nearly every year. The historical and scholarly contexts are beautifully summarized. This is an eminently useful edition. Well done again, Broadview!” — Deborah Denenholz Morse, The College of William and Mary“This Broadview Edition is a rich resource, unrivaled in its range of contextual materials. When you read them, you see where Anne Brontë was coming from and why she felt compelled to ‘tell the truth’ as she saw it. Lee A. Talley’s clear, accessible introduction orients readers to issues that teachers will want to consider and that students and general readers will find eye-opening. The footnotes are useful and easy to access. I will always order this edition in the future.” — Sue Lonoff, Harvard University Extension School“Lee A. Talley, in the introduction to her new edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, succinctly argues Anne Brontë’s case for wanting to write and publish her disturbing but powerful story, even as she addresses Anne’s own status as third sister, explains early publishing confusion (including Charlotte’s pervasive influence on Anne’s reputation), and evaluates the novel’s first reviews. To allow readers their own judgments, Talley includes numerous helpful appendices placing Tenant within the legal, educational, and philosophical contexts of Victorian culture, and as with other Broadview texts, provides an extremely useful sampling of contemporary reviews.” — Andrea Westcott, Capilano UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionAnne Brontë: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Tenant of Wildfell HallAppendix A: Other Writings by Anne and Charlotte Brontë Anne Brontë, Letter to the Reverend David Thom (30 December 1848) Anne Brontë, “To Cowper” (1846) Anne Brontë, “A Word to the ‘Elect’” (1846) From Charlotte Brontë, “Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell” (1850) Charlotte Brontë, Introduction to “Poems by Acton Bell” (1850) Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews Athenaeum (8 July 1848) The Examiner (29 July 1848) Fraser’s Magazine (April 1849) The Literary World (12 August 1848) North American Review (October 1848) Rambler (September 1848) Sharpe’s London Magazine (August 1848) The Spectator (8 July 1848) Appendix C: Women’s Education From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) From Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799) From Sarah Lewis, Woman’s Mission (1840) John Cowie, “Noble Sentiments on the Influence of Women,” Howitt’s Journal (March 1847) Appendix D: Wives From Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1808) From Caroline Norton, A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth’s Marriage and Divorce Bill (1855) Appendix E: Childrearing From Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799) From John S.C. Abbott, The Mother at Home (1833) From John S.C. Abbott, The Child at Home (1834) From Sarah Lewis, Woman’s Mission (1840) From Berthold Auerbach, “Every–day Wisdom, Plucked from the Garden of Childhood,” Howitt’s Journal (January 1848) From Anonymous, “The Moral Discipline of Children,” British Quarterly Review (April 1858) Appendix F: Temperance From Joseph Entwisle, “On Drinking Spirits,” The Methodist Magazine (July 1804) J.P. Parker, Lecture on Temperance and Slavery, Howitt’s Journal (24 April 1847) From Anonymous, “Temperance and Teetotal Societies,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (April 1853) Thomas Buchanan Read, “What a Word May Do” (1868) Appendix G: Women and Art Anonymous, “Let Us Join the Ladies,” Punch (July 1857) From Ellen C. Clayton, English Female Artists (1876) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe controversial subject matter of Grant Allen’s novel, The Woman Who Did, made it a major bestseller in 1895. It tells the story of Herminia Barton, a university-educated New Woman who, because of her belief that marriage oppresses women, refuses to marry her lover even though she shares his bed and bears his child. Her ideals come into disastrous conflict with intensely patriarchal late Victorian England. Indeed, Allen intended his novel to shock readers into a serious exploration of some of the major issues in fin de siècle sexual politics, issues that he himself, in various periodical articles under the rubric of the “Woman Question”, had played a leading role in opening up to public debate.This Broadview edition contains a critical introduction as well as a rich selection of appendices which include excerpts from Allen’s writings on women, sex, and marriage; contemporary writings on the “Sex Problem”; documents pertaining to the Marriage Debate; contemporary responses to the novel; and excerpts from two parodies of the novel.Trade Review“Ruddick’s new edition of The Woman Who Did makes a wonderful addition to Broadview’s growing list of key fin de siècle texts. Placing Grant Allen’s polemical short novel in the context both of his career as a public intellectual and of ongoing debates about sex, marriage, gender, and eugenics, the introduction and selected primary sources help explain the stakes behind the uproar that surrounded the novel’s publication. The supplementary material on marriage debates of the 1880s and 1890s, as well as the selections from initial reviews of the novel, are particularly helpful in this regard. A splendid resource for those interested in the Victorian fin de siècle, and the nineteenth-century Woman Question.” — Kathy Alexis Psomiades, Duke University“This meticulously edited reprint of Grant Allen’s notorious 1895 novel is an important and very welcome addition to Broadview Press’s increasingly rich library of once-popular eighteenth- and nineteenth-century texts by women that have, for many years now, languished in archives accessible only to scholars. Nicholas Ruddick’s thoughtful introduction and the appendices—which include contemporary reviews, source materials, excerpts from the Marriage Debate, 1888-1895, and key non-fiction prose writings by Grant Allen—will be invaluable resources.” — Ann L. Ardis, University of DelawareTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionGrant Allen: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Woman Who DidAppendix A: Grant Allen on Women, Sex, and Marriage From “Woman’s Place in Nature” (1889) From “Plain Words on the Woman Question” (1889) From “The Girl of the Future” (1890) From “The New Hedonism” (1894) From “About the New Hedonism” (1894) From “Introduction” to The British Barbarians (1895) Appendix B: Sources of Allen’s Views on the “Sex Problem” Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Notes to Queen Mab (1813) John Stuart Mill, from The Subjection of Women (1878) Herbert Spencer, from The Principles of Sociology (1885) August Bebel, from Woman in the Past, Present, and Future (1885) Eleanor Marx Aveling and Edward Aveling, from “The Woman Question” (1886) Karl Pearson, from “Socialism and Sex” (1888) Olive Schreiner, from “Three Dreams in a Desert” (1894) Appendix C: The Marriage Debate 1888-1895 Mona Caird, from “Marriage” (1888) Elizabeth Rachel Chapman, from “Marriage Rejection and Marriage Reform” (1888) Harry Quilter, ed., from Is Marriage a Failure? (1888) Mona Caird, from “Ideal Marriage” (1888) Clementina Black, from “On Marriage: A Criticism” (1890) Edward Carpenter, from Marriage in Free Society (1894) Beswicke Ancrum, from “The Sexual Problem” (1894) E.M.S., from “Some Modern Ideas about Marriage” (1895) Appendix D: The Reception of The Woman Who Did H[arold] F[rederic], from the New York Times (3 and 17 February 1895) [W.T. Stead], from Review of Reviews (February 1895) a. Percy Addleshaw, from Academy (2 March 1895) b. Grant Allen, from letter to Academy (9 March 1895) a. [H.G. Wells], from Saturday Review (9 March 1895) b. Grant Allen, from letter to Saturday Review (16 March 1895) From Spectator (30 March 1895) From Humanitarian (March 1895) Millicent Garrett Fawcett, from Contemporary Review (May 1895) Sarah A. Tooley, from Humanitarian (March 1896) Richard Le Gallienne, from Retrospective Reviews (1896) Appendix E: Two Parodies W.L. Alden, from Idler (February–July 1895) From Punch (30 March 1895) Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisOver a hundred and fifty years after its initial publication, Emily Brontë’s turbulent portrayal of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, two northern English households nearly destroyed by violent passions in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, continues to provoke and fascinate readers. Heathcliff remains one of the best-known characters in the English novel, and Catherine Earnshaw’s impossible choice between two rivals retains its appeal for contemporary readers. At the same time, the novel’s highly ambivalent representations of domesticity, its famous reticence about its characters and their actions, its formal features as a story within a story, and the mystery of Heathcliff’s origins and identity provide material for classroom discussion at every level of study.The introduction and appendices to this Broadview edition, which place Brontë’s life and novel in the context of the developing “Brontë myth,” explore the impact of industrialization on the people of Yorkshire, consider the novel’s representation of gender, and survey the ways contemporary scholarship has sought to account for Heathcliff, open up multiple contexts within which Wuthering Heights can be read, understood, and enjoyed.Trade Review“This Broadview edition of Wuthering Heights is ideal for understanding the novel. Beth Newman has written an incisive introduction, intelligently edited the text, and provided a wonderful set of contemporary documents that provide multiple valuable ways of contextualizing Brontë’s powerful narrative.” — James Phelan, Ohio State University“Broadview Press’s edition of Wuthering Heights, edited by Beth Newman, is a critically current and versatile text that includes solid primary materials and a strong introduction. Newman’s stated aim is to provide a broad contextual understanding of contemporary critical approaches, and the finished product fulfills this objective. The primary material accompanying the text accomplishes two very important goals—rooting the text in important known textual materials, such as Brontë’s poems, Belgian devoirs, and critical reviews contemporary to the text, as well as drawing attention to new historical materials, such as an essay ‘On Brain Fever,’ which illuminates Catherine’s medical treatment. In short, the edition is entirely usable and an excellent choice for the classroom or the general reader.” — Terri A. Hasseler, Bryant UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionEmily Brontë: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextWuthering HeightsAppendix A: A Selection of Emily Brontë’s Essays and Poems [“The Cat”] [“Portrait: King Harold before the Battle of Hastings”] [“The Butterfly”] Poems “Faith and Despondency” “Stars” “The Philosopher” “Remembrance” “Song” “Anticipation” “To A.G.A.” [“No Coward Soul”] Appendix B: Some Literary Influences From George Gordon, Lord Byron, Manfred (1817) From Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) Appendix C: Currer Bell’s [Charlotte Brontë’s] Prefatory Essays for the 1850 Edition of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell Editor’s Preface to the New Edition of Wuthering Heights Appendix D: Contemporary Responses to the Novel The Spectator (December 1847) The Athenaeum (25 December 1847) Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine (1848) Douglas Jerrold’s Weekly Newspaper (15 January 1848) The Examiner (8 January 1848) The Britannia (15 January 1848) The Atlas (22 January 1848) Peterson’s Magazine (June 1848) The American Review (June 1848) The Palladium (September 1850) The Examiner (21 December 1850) The Leader (28 December 1850) Appendix E: On Geographical Remoteness and Cultural Difference From William Howitt, The Rural Life of England (1838) From Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) William Wordsworth, “Gipsies” (1807) Appendix F: On “Brain Fever”Appendix G:Women in MarriageAppendix H: MapsAppendix I: Genealogical Table of the Earnshaw and Linton FamiliesWorks Cited and Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDu Maurier’s Trilby was the novel sensation of the 1890s. Du Maurier had spent a good deal of his life as a child and later as an art student in Paris; when he turned from his career in journalism and magazine illustration to novel writing he found enormous success with a novel divided as his own life had been between Paris and London. Billee, an English artist living the Bohemian life abroad, meets and falls in love with Trilby, a Parisian model. Differences in social class doom their romance, but Trilby, taught by the mysterious hypnotist Svengali to sing like “some enchanted princess” becomes a famous entertainer. As it turns out, however, her talent and her possession of her own mind have become dependent on Svengali maintaining his spell over her. Originally serialized in Harper’s Monthly in 1894, Trilby was published with 120 illustrations by the author (who was also a celebrated caricaturist for Punch). All 120 illustrations were included in the Harper and Brothers New York edition of 1894, and in a British edition published the following year in London. The first British publication in book form, however, (by Osgood & McIlvaine in 1894) did not include any of Du Maurier’s illustrations, and many editions since that time have included no illustrations or reproduced only a selection of the illustrations. Particularly given that many of the illustrations are integrated into the page of text in which they appear, Trilby is ideally suited to be made available again in a facsimile reprint.In its first year of publication, the book sold over 200,000 copies, and before long it had also been adapted for the stage. The name “Svengali” came to be applied to any hypnotist and the image of Svengali carved a lasting place in the popular imagination. Perhaps the most important expression of 1890s Bohemianism, Trilby has also attracted interest in recent years on account of its presentation of hypnosis and split personality, and for the conflicted but often anti-Semitic presentation of the mysterious Svengali.This is one of a series from Broadview Press of facsimile reprint editions—editions that provide readers with a direct sense of these works as the Victorians themselves experienced them.

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Book SynopsisHamel, the Obeah Man is set against the backdrop of early nineteenth-century Jamaica, and tells the story of a slave rebellion planned in the ruins of a plantation. Though the novel is sympathetic to white slaveholders and hostile to anti-slavery missionaries, it presents a complex picture of the culture and resistance of the island’s black majority. Hamel, the spiritual leader of the rebels, becomes more and more central to the story, and is a surprisingly powerful and ultimately ambiguous figure.This Broadview Edition includes a new foreword by Kamau Brathwaite, as well as a critical introduction and appendices. The extensive appendices include contemporary reviews of the novel, other authors’ and travellers’ descriptions of Jamaica, and historical documents related to slave insurrections and the debate over slavery.Trade Review“This edition of Cynric Williams’s startling if little-appreciated novel will prove indispensable to scholars and students interested in the dynamic among history, the novel, and the potent set of circumstances that led to Emancipation. In Hamel one finds a precocious account of how Afro-Creole religious and political traditions and their peripatetic leaders were remaking the violent world on which Caribbean slaveholders and their defenders were losing hold—a point expertly made in the editors’ introduction and supported by comprehensive appendices that include contemporary reviews of the novel and competing fictive and nonfiction accounts of Caribbean slavery.” — Sean X. Goudie, Pennsylvania State University“Candace Ward and Tim Watson have produced what is probably the definitive scholarly edition of Cynric Williams’s Hamel, the Obeah Man. Their introduction is a magisterial synthesis of archival research and textual analysis that contextualizes the novel’s themes and plot within the conjunctural specifics of white West Indian Creole racial anxieties in the face of slave revolts and abolitionist agitation in 1820s Jamaica. In producing this edition of Hamel, Ward and Watson do an impressive job in shifting the temporal boundaries of Anglophone Caribbean literature from its assumed twentieth-century origins, and Caribbeanists of all stripes will be grateful for their intellectual labor.” — Nadi Edwards, University of the West Indies, Mona, JamaicaTable of ContentsForewardAcknowledgementsIntroductionChronologyA Note on the TextAbbreviationsHamel, the Obeah ManAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews From Westminster Review (April 1827) From London Magazine (June 1827) From The Atlas (8 April 1827) From The Scotsman (21 April 1827) Appendix B: British and White Creole Views of Jamaica From Matthew Lewis, Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) From Cynric R. Williams, A Tour through the Island of Jamaica (1826) From Marly; or, A Planter’s Life in Jamaica (1828) Appendix C: Insurrections From Joshua Bryant, Account of an Insurrection of the Negro Slaves in the Colony of Demerara (1824) From The Missionary Smith (1824) From Great Britain, Parliamentary Papers, “Copy of All Judicial Proceedings Relative to the Trial and Punishment of Rebels, or Alleged Rebels, in the Island of Jamaica, Since the 1st of January 1823” (1825) Appendix D: The Debate Over Slavery From Report of the Committee of the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions (1824) From William Wilberforce, An Appeal to the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire (1823) From George Wilson Bridges, A Voice from Jamaica (1823) From James M’Queen, The West India Colonies (1824) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAmong the earliest novels written about children, for children, The History of Sandford and Merton was enormously popular for a century and a half after its first publication in 1783-9. The novel is Enlightenment for beginners, offering a course of education in class, race, and gender to its six year-old protagonists, the robust farm-boy Harry Sandford and Tommy Merton, the spoiled boy from the big house. Sandford and Merton offers entertaining and practical lessons in manners, masculinity, and class politics.This Broadview Edition includes the original illustrations, along with contemporary reviews and other material on childhood by John Locke, Thomas Day, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and others.Trade ReviewThomas Day's The History of Sandford and Merton, one of the most interesting pioneering books in the history of children's literature, has long been out of print and in need of a modern critical edition. This new edition of Sandford and Merton – with an illuminating introduction that locates the novel in its intellectual, cultural, and political contexts, indispensable footnotes, and a useful selection of contextual material in the appendices – is exactly what was wanted. I’ll now have to redesign my Children's Literature course.”" - Tom Furniss, University of Strathclyde"The History of Sandford and Merton is a key text in the history of children's literature, education theory, the British novel, Enlightenment philosophy, and the culture of sensibility. This thoughtful, carefully researched, and accessible edition provides a much needed – and long missed – opportunity for reading and teaching in all of these areas. The story of two boys' moral education, and especially of Tommy Merton's transformation from spoiled child of luxury to vigorous, sensitive, and truly gentle man, is one that speaks to ongoing debates about class, education, cruelty, and moral character." - Laura Stevens, University of TulsaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionThomas Day: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe History of Sandford and MertonAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews From The English Review (November 1783) From The Analytical Review(September–December 1789) Appendix B: From John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1752) Health, the Body, and Gender Rules and Practice Pain and Punishment Skills and Recreation Appendix C: From Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile (1763) Books. From Book II Magnetism. From Book III Astronomy. From Book III Books. From Book III Female Education. From Book V Appendix D: From Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1820) Meeting with Day Edgeworth and Day Travel to Ireland Together The Experiment with the Girls Day’s Letter to Edgeworth from Avignon, 1769 Sabrina and Honora Day’s Death Appendix E: Thomas Day and John Bicknell,The Dying Negro (1793)Appendix F: From Thomas Day, Fragment of an Original Letteron the Slavery of the Negroes (1784)Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisHawthorne's story of the disgraced Hester Prynne (who must wear a scarlet "A" as the mark of her adultery), of her illegitimate child, Pearl, and of the righteous minister Arthur Dimmesdale continues to resonate with modern readers. Set in mid-seventeenth-century Boston, this powerful tale of passion, Puritanism, and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature.This Broadview edition contains a selection of historical documents that include Hawthorne's writings on Puritanism, the historical sources of the story, and contemporary reviews of the novel. New to the second edition are an updated critical introduction and bibliography and, in the appendices, additional writings by Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Henry James, and William Dean Howells.Trade Review“Anyone interested in how novels refract history will be enriched by the Broadview edition of The Scarlet Letter. The valuable introduction and extensive archival material will give readers a great foundation for using Hawthorne’s historicist methodology as a model for discussing the complexities of history and storytelling not only for Hawthorne but for contemporary readers as well.” — Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago“John Stephen Martin’s meticulously prepared edition of The Scarlet Letter offers both students and general readers the most comprehensive introduction to Hawthorne’s life and work currently available in one volume. With its historical contextualization, enormously helpful annotations, and judicious assessment of Hawthorne’s greatest work, it establishes itself as the single best guide to this great American masterpiece.” — Joel Porte, Cornell University“This edition is the most effective teaching tool for Hawthorne’s text that I know. Contained within a single volume, students have everything that is necessary for a rich understanding of one of the most important moments in American literary history. Especially donative are the substantial contextualizations provided here—literary, social, and historical—and in turn, these contextualizations ground the principal issues with which Hawthorne’s romance engages. Supplementary to all this is the extensive bibliography, far-ranging and comprehensive. This edition is easily the most comprehensive introduction to the work that is currently available.” — Ian Bell, Keele UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionNathaniel Hawthorne: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Scarlet Letter, A RomanceAppendix A: Hawthorne and Brook Farm (1841)Appendix B: Hawthorne at Concord (1842–1845): Thoreau, Emerson, Fuller, and TranscendentalismAppendix C: The Controversy of “The Custom-House” IntroductionAppendix D: Hawthorne’s Preface to the Second EditionAppendix E: Hawthorne’s Earlier Writings on Puritan History From “Endicott and the Red Cross” (1838) From “Main-street” (1849) From “The Celestial Rail-road” (1843) Appendix F: Hawthorne’s American NotebooksAppendix G: Hawthorne’s Ironic VisionAppendix H: The Development of The Scarlet Letter into a RomanceAppendix I: Imagination and “the Neutral Ground” of MoonlightAppendix J: Historical Sources for The Scarlet LetterAppendix K: Contemporary Reviews of The Scarlet Letter From Anon.,“The New Romance,” Boston Transcript (15 March 1850) From Anon., Salem Register (21 March 1850) From Evert A. Duyckinck, “Nathaniel Hawthorne,” The Literary World (30 March 1850) From George Ripley, New York Tribune Supplement (1 April 1850) From E.P. Whipple, Graham’s Magazine (May 1850) From Henry F. Chorley, Athenæum (June 1850) From Anne W. Abbott, North American Review (July 1850) From George Bailey Loring, Massachusetts Quarterly Review (September 1850) From Orestes Brownson, Brownson’s Quarterly Review (October 1850) From Arthur Cleveland Coxe, “The Writings of Hawthorne,” Church Review (January 1851) From Henry James, Hawthorne (1879) From William Dean Howells, Heroines of Fiction (1901) Appendix L: IllustrationsWorks Cited and Recommended Readings

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Book SynopsisThe Cliff-Dwellers was the first American realist novel to use the rapidly developing city of Chicago as its setting. Henry Blake Fuller’s depiction of social climbing and human depravity among the “cliff-dwelling” residents and workers in the new Chicago skyscrapers shocked readers of the time, and influenced many American writers that followed. With its frenetic pace and many interrelated stories, it remains a compelling document of Chicago’s social history, as well as a searing indictment of modern American life at the close of the nineteenth century.The extensive appendices to this edition include Fuller’s literary criticism and his correspondence about the novel, reviews, and visual and historical materials on turn-of-the-century Chicago and literary realism.Trade Review“Broadview has done it again. Joseph Dimuro’s expertly assembled edition of Henry Blake Fuller’s The Cliff-Dwellers places this important novel—one of the first representations of the modern American city—in a set of productive and provocative historical, literary, visual, and socio-cultural contexts. Dimuro’s introduction and carefully selected appendices connect Fuller and his text with contemporary currents in literary realism, turn-of-the-century Chicago, urban history, and skyscraper architecture, while the novel itself offers a tumultuous look into the lives and longings of the residents of the new American metropolis.” — William Gleason, Princeton University “The Cliff-Dwellers is a master work of Chicago and American urban realism. Henry Blake Fuller had no equal in understanding the complex human dynamics of the transformations that accompanied the creation of modern city life, including the vague but vivid hopes these changes inspired and the confusion and disappointments they inflicted. The novel is a brilliant realization of the social life and mentality of this place and time. This edition, with the deeply insightful commentary Joseph Dimuro offers and the wonderful array of contextual materials he assembles, at last gives this classic the attention and framework it deserves.” — Carl Smith, Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionHenry Blake Fuller: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Cliff-DwellersAppendix A: Fuller’s Correspondence about The Cliff-Dwellers Minna Smith to Henry Blake Fuller (1893) Henry Blake Fuller to Minna Smith (1893) Henry Blake Fuller to Erastus Brainerd (1893) Erastus Brainerd to Henry Blake Fuller (1893) Hamlin Garland to Henry Blake Fuller (1894) Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen to Henry Blake Fuller (1894) Henry Blake Fuller to William Dean Howells (1893) Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews William Morton Payne, The Dial (16 October 1893) William Dean Howells, Harper’s Bazar (28 October 1893) Mary Abbott, Chicago Post (31 October 1893) Laurence Hutton, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (November 1893) Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, Cosmopolitan (December 1893) Atlantic Monthly (April 1894) Appendix C: Fuller’s Literary Commentary “Howells or James?” (circa 1884) From “A Plea for Shorter Novels,” The Dial (30 August 1917) From “My Early Books” (1919) From Unpublished Review of Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street (circa 1920) Appendix D: On Literary Realism From Hamlin Garland, “Productive Conditions of American Literature,” Forum (August 1894) From Hamilton Wright Mabie, “A Typical Novel,” Andover Review (November 1885) Theodore Dreiser, “True Art Speaks Plainly,” Booklovers Magazine (February 1903) Appendix E: Turn-of-the-Century Chicago From Henry Blake Fuller, “The Upward Movement in Chicago,” Atlantic (October 1897) “Chicago Manners,” Harper’s Weekly (29 July 1893) From Henry Van Brunt, “The Columbian Exposition and American Civilization,” Atlantic (May 1893) From Julian Ralph, “Chicago—the Main Event,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (February 1892) From Julian Ralph, “Chicago’s Gentle Side,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (July 1893) From Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910) Appendix F: Skyscrapers From Louis Sullivan, “The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered,” Lippincott’s (March 1896) From George Ade, “After the Skyscrapers, What?” (1912) Henry Blake Fuller, “Architecture in America” (circa 1893) Appendix G: Native Cliff-Dwellers From Frederick Schwatka, “Land of the Living Cliff-Dwellers,” Century (June 1892) From H.C. Hovey, “Homes and Remains of the Cliff Dwellers,” Scientific American (28 October 1893) Appendix H: Other Illustrations Restored Tower and Cliff-Houses (1887) Photograph of Cliff Dwellers Exhibit, Columbian Exposition (1893) “Vicinity of the Board of Trade” (1893) “How It Might Be if the 6,000 People in the Monadnock Should Leave at One Time” (1896) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1886-87, H. Rider Haggard’s imperial romance follows its English heroes from the quiet rooms of Cambridge to the uncharted interior of Africa in search of a legendary lost city with an ageless white queen. The two men find their way to the ancient city of Kôr, where the beautiful and mysterious Ayesha, “She-who-must-be-obeyed,” rules. Despite her cruelty, both men become fascinated by Ayesha, who leads them on a harrowing journey to bathe in the underground “River of Life.” A thrilling "history of adventure," She also reveals the complexity of Victorian attitudes towards race, gender, exploration, and empire.This Broadview edition presents the novel in its original illustrated Graphic magazine version, never before republished, and includes a critical introduction and supporting materials that demonstrate the novel's relationship to late-Victorian issues such as imperialism, archaeology, race, evolution, and the rise of the "New Woman." Trade Review“The Broadview edition of She represents a benchmark in Rider Haggard studies. Situating She within a broad array of cultural documents on race, gender, empire, and archaeology, Andrew M. Stauffer has created an invaluable resource for contextualizing this fascinating adventure story within the ambulatory scope of the late-Victorian scientific and geographical imaginary. This edition will provide students, scholars, and the general reader alike with a sound foundation for reading (and rereading) Haggard’s classic novel.” — Shawn Malley, Bishop’s University“Professor Stauffer’s editing is an exemplary case of textual stewardship: great care without imposition. His introduction is not only authoritative and lucid but stylistically engaging, as energetic as the novel itself—an ideal introduction for first-time readers. The appendix topics are exactly what is needed, and the materials included provide an excellent context. The selection of non-fiction pieces by Haggard himself on questions of genre, imperialism, archaeology, and gender roles provides especially valuable insights into the author, the novel, and the times.” — J. Jeffrey Franklin, University of Colorado at DenverTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionH. Rider Haggard: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextList of IllustrationsShe: A History of AdventureAppendix A: Victorian Critical Reception Pall Mall Gazette (4 January 1887) The Literary World (7 January 1887) Public Opinion (14 January 1887) The Queen (15 January 1887) The Academy (15 January 1887) The Spectator (15 January 1887) H. Rider Haggard, Spectator (22 January 1887) Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (February 1887) H. Rider Haggard, “About Fiction,” Contemporary Review (February 1887) From Augustus M. Moore, “Rider Haggard and ‘The New School of Romance,’” Time (May 1887) Appendix B: Victorian Archaeology: Mummies and Lost Cities From H.G. Tomkins, The Great Discovery of Royal Mummies at Deir el-Bahari (1882) “Royal Mummies Recently Unbandaged at the Boulak Museum,” Graphic (31 July 1886) From E.L.Wilson, “Finding Pharaoh,” Century Magazine (May 1887) From H. Rider Haggard, “Preface” to A.Wilmot, Monomotapa (Rhodesia), Its Monuments and itsHistory (1896) From James Bryce, “Out of the Darkness—Zimbabwe,” Impressions of South Africa (1897) From G. Elliot Smith, “The Mummy of Queen Nsikhonsou,” The Royal Mummies (1912) From H. Rider Haggard, “Egypt,” The Days of My Life (1926) Appendix C: Race and Empire From Robert Knox, The Races of Men (1862) From James Hunt, On the Negro’s Place in Nature (1863) From Charles H. Pearson, National Life and Character (1893) From Benjamin Kidd, Social Evolution (1894) From C. De Thierry, Imperialism (1898) Appendix D: The New Woman From “Beauty is Power,” Essays in Defence of Women (1868) From John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women (1869) From Olive Schreiner, “Three Dreams in a Desert,” Dreams (1891) From Sarah Grand, “The New Aspect of the Woman Question,” North American Review (March 1894) From H. Rider Haggard, “A Man’s View of Woman,” African Review of Mining, Finance, and Commerce (September 1894) From Hugh E.M. Stutfield, “The Psychology of Feminism,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (January 1897) Appendix E: Major Revisions for the First English Edition (1887)Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisIn this, Hannah More’s only novel and an early nineteenth-century best-seller, More gives voice to a wealthy twenty-three-year-old bachelor, who styles himself “Coelebs” (unmarried), but seeks a wife. After the death of his father, Coelebs journeys from the north of England to London, where he encounters a fashionable array of eager mothers and daughters before he visits the Hampshire home of his father’s friend, Mr. Stanley. Lucilla Stanley, Mr. Stanley’s daughter, is both an intellectual and a domestic woman, and Coelebs’ ideal partner. In this intelligent novel about the meeting of two minds, More shows the ways in which a couple becomes truly “matched” as opposed to merely “joined.”Along with a critical introduction, this Broadview edition includes a wide selection of historical documents, from reviews, imitations, and sequels of Coelebs in Search of a Wife to related contemporary writings on conduct, courtship, and women’s education.Trade Review“This is an expert edition of the religious novel of Hannah More that is structured on a long and varied series of beguiling cautionary and exemplary character studies. The cautionary characters, gently satirically treated, are deliciously entertaining; the exemplary characters are also (perhaps) unexpectedly delightful in the balance, humor, good sense, and faith that provide their enviable superiority. There can be no better album of cultivated personages in the first decade of the 19th century.” ― Betty Rizzo, City College of New YorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionHannah More: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextCœlebs in Search of a WifeAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews of Cœlebs in Search of a Wife The Christian Observer (February 1809) The London Review (February 1809) The Monthly Review (February 1809) The Edinburgh Review (April 1809) The British Critic (May 1809) Appendix B: Imitations, Adaptations, and Sequels From [Medora Gordon Byron], Celia in Search of a Husband (1809) From Robert Torrens, Cœlibia Choosing a Husband (1809) From William Mudford, Nubilia in Search of a Husband (1809) From Cœlebs Married (1814) Appendix C: Women’s Observations on the Education and Conduct of Women From Mary Wollstonecraft, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787) From Catharine Macaulay Graham, Letters on Education (1790)) From Maria Edgeworth, Letters for Literary Ladies (1795) From Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799) Appendix D: Contemporary Novels about Courtship and Marriage by Women Writers From “Prudentia Homespun” [Jane West], The Advantages of Education (1793) From Amelia Opie, Adeline Mowbray (1804) From Germaine de Staël, Corinne, or Italy (1807) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFlatland (1884) is an influential mathematical fantasy that simultaneously provides an introduction to non-Euclidean geometry and a satire on the Victorian class structure, issues of science and faith, and the role of women. A classic of early science fiction, the novel takes place in a world of two dimensions where all the characters are geometric shapes. The narrator, A Square, is a naïve, respectable citizen who is faced with proof of the existence of three dimensions when he is visited by a sphere and is forced to see the limitations of his world.The introduction to this Broadview Edition provides context for the book's references to Victorian culture and religion, mathematical history, and the history of philosophy. The appendices contain contemporary reviews; extracts from the work of fellow mathematical fantasy writer/mathematician Charles Hinton; Hermann von Helmboltz's "The Axioms of Geometry" (1870); and autobiographical passages from Abbott's The Kernel and the Husk (1886).Trade Review“Part mathematical exploration, part satire, and part fairy tale, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbot has been around for more than a century and remains a standard in mathematics education…The Broadview Edition of the book combines the text with a variety of notes and essays that enhance the reading and study of this classic.” — Bill Wood, The Mathematical Association of America“Handing its reader the full range of Abbott’s cultural sources and pedagogical motives in one volume, Lila Marz Harper’s edition of Flatland is a welcome event. Her detailed introduction provides a comprehensive overview of Flatland’s intellectual landscape and a generous sampling of current critical discussion. The content of the appendices is well chosen; especially useful is the lengthy selection from Jowett’s translation of Plato’s allegory of the Cave. Placing Abbott’s perennial mathematical parable and curious social critique squarely into its Victorian contexts, Harper also traces Flatland’s deep philosophical roots and spiritual aspirations.” — Bruce Clarke, Texas Tech University“Among the most enduring works of Victorian fiction, Flatland justly continues to attract both popular and scholarly attention. Lila Marz Harper’s richly annotated edition rewards readers by illuminating a variety of perspectives that can be profitably adopted when exploring Abbott’s imaginative worlds today. Her introduction effectively contextualizes Flatland as reflecting mathematical innovations, progressive hermeneutics, spiritualism, social institutions, and national identity in nineteenth-century England. The meticulously compiled appendices are invaluable for providing contemporaneous responses and intellectual alternatives to, as well as appropriations of, Abbott’s genre-defying work. Harper has made an outstanding, multidimensional contribution to Flatland scholarship.” — K. G. Valente, Colgate UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionEdwin Abbott Abbott: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextFlatland: A Romance of Many DimensionsAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews The Oxford Magazine (5 November 1884) From The Literary World (14 November 1884) The Exchange with The Athenaeum (November-December 1884) The Architect (15 November 1884) R.Tucker, Nature (27 November 1884) New York Times (23 February 1885) From the New York Tribune (6 March 1885) Advertisement Run by Robert Brothers Publishers in The Literary World (21 March 1885) Appendix B: Sources and Influences From Benjamin Jowett’s Translation of Plato’s Republic (1871) From Hermann von Helmholtz, “The Axioms of Geometry” (1870) From Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov(1879-80) From C.H. Hinton, “What is the Fourth Dimension?” (1884) Appendix C: Other Works by Abbott From The Kernel and the Husk (1886) From The Spirit on the Water:The Evolution of the Divine From the Human (1897) Appendix D: The Influence of Flatland From A.T. Schofield, Another World (1905) From C.H. Hinton, The Fourth Dimension (1904) From C.H. Hinton, An Episode of Flatland: or How a Plane Folk Discovered the Third Dimension (1907) Appendix E: Mathematical Background Macmillan’s Catalog of Geometry Textbooks (1884) From Euclid’s Elements The T.H. Huxley–J.J. Sylvester Debate (1869-77) Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisJoseph Conrad’s last overtly political novel, Under Western Eyes is considered to be one of his greatest works. Set in pre-Revolutionary Russia, the novel tells the story of a young student involuntarily involved in an assassination and explores themes of terrorism, surveillance, and the suffering of ordinary people caught up in political strife.The critical introduction and appendices to this Broadview Edition provide context for Conrad’s political views, as well as Eastern European anarchism and terrorism. Appendices include Conrad’s letters on the novel’s composition, reviews of the novel, and contemporary accounts of a political assassination.Trade Review“A century after its publication, Under Western Eyes is as compelling and as relevant to our own age as it was to an earlier age of political terrorism. John Peters’ introduction and ample appendices offer a magisterial guide to the composition of this novel, which Conrad struggled to complete at the cost of his own mental health, and to the revolutionary struggles that were an integral part of the political, social, and intellectual crises of the decade leading up to the First World War. Like other Broadview Editions, which never skimp on the materials that make for a thorough understanding of the text, this edition of Under Western Eyes is the one to read.” — Sanford Schwartz, Pennsylvania State University“This new edition of Under Western Eyes will significantly enhance our understanding of the novel. Peters’ introduction is lucid, informative, and extremely well written. The appendices are superbly chosen. Together, they clarify why and how Conrad wrote the novel, and why it was such a major challenge for him, artistically, personally, and psychologically. The scholarly apparatus is brilliantly done; it is concise, compelling, well written, and illuminating. Any and all readers of the novel, even those who think they already know it well, will benefit enormously from this edition.” — Stephen Ross, University of VictoriaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionJoseph Conrad: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextUnder Western EyesAppendix A: Selected Letters To John Galsworthy (6 January 1908) To J.B. Pinker (7 January 1908) To John Galsworthy (30 November 1908) To Stephen Reynolds (18 December 1908) To Perceval Gibbon (11 or 18 September 1909) To Perceval Gibbon (19 December 1909) To John Galsworthy (22 December 1909) To J.B. Pinker (12 January 1910) To John Galsworthy (17 May 1910) To John Galsworthy (15 October 1911) To Edward Garnett (20 October 1911) To Olivia Rayne Garnett (20 October 1911) To Macdonald Hastings (24 December 1916) Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews Anonymous, “Betrayal,” The Pall Mall Gazette (11 October 1911) [Edward Garnett], “Mr. Conrad’s New Novel,” The Nation (21 October 1911) Anonymous, “New Novels,” The Athenæum (21 October 1911) Anonymous, “Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad,” The Academy (2 December 1911) Frederic Taber Cooper, “The Clothing of Thoughts and Some Recent Novels,” The Bookman (December 1911) Anonymous, “Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad,” Catholic World (January 1912) Anonymous, “Recent Fiction and the Critics,” Current Literature (February 1912) Appendix C: Contemporary Accounts of the Assassination of de Pleve Anonymous, “Assassination of M. De Plehve: A Bomb Hurled in St. Petersburg,” The Times (29 July 1904) Anonymous, “The Murder of M. De Plehve,” The Times (1 August 1904) Anonymous, “The Murder of M. De Plehve (From Our Russian Correspondents),” The Times (2 August 1904) Anonymous, “The Assassination of M. de Plehve,” The Illustrated London News (6 August 1904) From E.J. Dillon, The Eclipse of Russia (1918) From Boris Savinkov, Memoirs of a Terrorist (1931) Appendix D: Illustrations of the Assassination of de Pleve Viacheslav Konstantinovich de Pleve, Russian Minister of the Interior Egor Sazanov, Assassin of de Pleve de Pleve’s Exploded Carriage (view one) de Pleve’s Exploded Carriage (view two) Appendix E: The Central Committee of the Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries, “To the Whole Russian Peasantry” (July 1904)Appendix F: Joseph Conrad, “Autocracy and War” (1905)Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-02) is Arthur Conan Doyle's most celebrated Sherlock Holmes adventure. At the end of the yew tree path of his ancestral home, Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead. Close by are the footprints of a gigantic hound. Called to investigate, Holmes seems to face a supernatural foe. In the tense narration of the detective's efforts to solve the crime, Conan Doyle meditates on late Victorian and early twentieth-century ideas of ancestry and atavism, the possible biological determination of criminals, the stability of the British landed classes, and the place of the supernatural.Historical documents included with this fully-annotated Broadview edition help contextualize the novel's debates and reveal its cultural and literary significance as a supreme instance of early detective fiction. Also included is the Conan Doyle short story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band.”Trade Review“This superb edition outstrips all other editions of a popular classic. Francis O’Gorman’s introduction is impressive, placing the text in the context of numerous literary and cultural debates: about aristocracy, primitivism, biology and criminology, the supernatural, Empire, and spiritualism. His textual annotations offer the most thorough aid to understanding available. The edition’s supplementary materials are varied and offer numerous interpretative possibilities. The remarkable achievement of the edition, however, is the sheer enjoyment of the text it conveys, remembering always that the novel has the status of cultural myth because so many readers have found pleasure in it.” — Juliet John, University of Liverpool“Two of the finest Sherlock Holmes chronicles, given in excellent text versions: this alone would invite ‘first choices’ labeling for this book. These two stories are no ‘mere’ thrillers, but fictions in which thrills are convincing because they draw close the natural and the (seeming) supernatural. O’Gorman’s ample, sensible introduction should convince readers that the way from Poe to late-Victorian science, atavism, and the decline of the English landed gentry is no far distance. This edition is a credit to Broadview, and that credit will doubtless have testimony through a long shelf life for the book.” — Benjamin Franklin Fisher, University of MississippiTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionArthur Conan Doyle: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes“Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. VIII. The Adventure of the Speckled Band”Appendix A: “Curiosities,” The Strand Magazine (April 1901)Appendix B: From Francis Galton, “Composite Portraits” (1879)Appendix C: From Francis Galton, Hereditary Genius (1892 ed.)Appendix D: From Jack London, The People of the Abyss (1903)Appendix E: Crime reporting from The Times (14 April 1901)Appendix F: From Edgar Allan Poe, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (April 1841)Appendix G: From Adam Badeau, “The Land,” Aristocracy in England (1886 ed.)Appendix H: From Edward B.Tylor, “The Development of Culture,” Primitive Culture (1873 ed.)Appendix I: From Arthur Conan Doyle, The New Revelation (1918)Selected Further Reading and Filmography

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Book SynopsisIn 1918, when Henry Blake Fuller was 62 years old, he completed the manuscript of a novel, Bertram Cope’s Year. Though Fuller was well known as an accomplished realist and had published twelve previous novels, this work was his first published fiction to address the topic of homosexuality. In the novel Bertram Cope, a handsome young college student, is befriended by Medora Phillips, a wealthy older woman who tries to match him with several eligible young women. However, Bertram is emotionally attached only to his friend and housemate, Arthur Lemoyne. The novel’s portrayal of their friendship is subtle, but has clear overtones of sexual attraction.Appendices focus on the novel’s composition, reception, and place in contemporary discourses about attraction between men.Trade Review“Bertram Cope’s Year—Henry Blake Fuller’s alternately arch and melancholy riposte to the sentimental conventions of heterosexual romance—has been waiting almost a century for its due share of apt readers. At last it has a chance of finding them, thanks to Joseph Dimuro, whose expert editing, indispensable introductory essay, and judicious choice of supplemental writings and reviews open the novel up as never before to scholarly and non-scholarly audiences alike.” — Max Cavitch, University of Pennsylvania “Joseph Dimuro has produced a critical edition of Bertram Cope’s Year that is lucid and well-researched; it is a fitting study of an important novel. Adding previously unpublished material from Fuller’s journals and—excitingly—from the novel itself makes this edition a delight for readers, critics, and researchers alike. This Broadview Edition shows how modern Fuller was in his treatment of gay men, and their relationships with women and each other.” — Keith Gumery, Temple UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionHenry Blake Fuller: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextBertram Cope’s YearAppendix A: Fuller’s Emendations to Bertram Cope’s YearAppendix B: From Anatole France, The Garden of Epicurus (1923)Appendix C: Writings by Henry Blake Fuller From Edmund Dalrymple (1904) At Saint Judas’s from The Puppet Booth: Twelve Plays (1896) “When Robert Sings” (n.d.) Appendix D: Fuller’s Diary Entries, 1874–79 From “A Legacy to Posterity” (1874–79) From “Allison Classical Academy” (1875) Appendix E: Contemporary Reviews Burton Rascoe, Chicago Tribune (8 November 1919) Unsigned Review, Boston Evening Transcript (13 November 1919) Llewellyn Jones, “Henry B. Fuller Portrays Youth and Would-Be Youth,” Chicago Evening Post (28 November 1919) Unsigned Review, “Under the Microscope,” The Boston Post (n.d.) H.L. Mencken, “The Flood of Fiction,” The Smart Set (January 1920) Keith Preston, “North of Chicago,” “The Periscope,” Chicago Daily News (n.d.) From Carl Van Vechten, “Henry Blake Fuller,” Excavations: A Book of Advocacies (1926) Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe philosophical problem of evil—that a supposedly good God could allow terrible human suffering—troubled the minds of eighteenth-century thinkers as it troubles us today. Voltaire’s classic novel Candide relates the misadventures of a young optimist who leaves his sheltered childhood to find his way in a cruel and irrational world. Fast-paced and full of dark humor, the novel mocks the suggestion that “all is well” and challenges us to create a better world.This Broadview Edition follows the text of a 1759 English translation that was released concurrently with Voltaire’s first French edition. Candide is supplemented by Voltaire’s most important poetic and humanistic writings on God and evil, the Poem upon the Destruction of Lisbon and We Must Take Sides. The editor’s introduction situates the novel in its philosophical and intellectual setting; the appendices include other writings by Voltaire, as well as related writings by Bayle, Leibniz, Pope, Rousseau, and others that place the work in its poetic, philosophical, and humanistic contexts.Trade Review“Eric Palmer’s new edition brings us the ‘authentic’ English voice of Candide by presenting the text of one of the very earliest translations. In addition to useful footnotes and a bibliography, the volume contains a substantial introduction and extensive appendices that include translated extracts from a number of key philosophical and literary texts by Voltaire and others. This edition situates Candide firmly in the context of philosophy and the history of ideas, allowing the reader to engage fully with the debates it raised. This important new edition will interest students and scholars at all levels.” — Nicholas Cronk, Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford and Director, Voltaire FoundationTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroductionVoltaire: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextCandideCandide, Chapter XXII, revised version (1761)Appendix A: Poetic Contexts From Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1734) From Voltaire, Poem upon the Destruction of Lisbon (1756) From Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Letter to Voltaire on Optimism (1756) Appendix B: Philosophical Contexts From Pierre Bayle, Historical and Critical Dictionary(1697) From Voltaire, “Of Good and Evil, Physical and Moral,” Philosophical Dictionary (1764) From Gottfried Leibniz, Essays of Theodicy (1710) Voltaire, “Theist,” Philosophical Dictionary (1764) From Abbé Noël Antoine Pluche, The Spectacle of Nature (1750) From Voltaire, “Final Causes,” Philosophical Dictionary (1764) Appendix C: Humanistic Contexts From Voltaire, We Must Take Sides (1772) James Boswell, On Voltaire (1764) Select BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe most exotic of George Eliot’s works, Romola recounts the story of the famous religious leader Savonarola in Florence at the time of Machiavelli and the Medicis. Of all her novels, this was the author’s favourite.No other Eliot novel was illustrated in its first edition. Romola, however, was sought by George Smith for serialization in the prestigious illustrated Cornhill Magazine. Smith commissioned illustrations for the novel from the rising young artist Frederick Leighton, who had studied in Florence in the 1840s and had frequently painted Florentine Renaissance subjects. Romola was serialised with the Leighton illustrations in the magazine from July 1862 to August 1863. It was first published in book form in 1863; the first edition was published by Smith, Elder in three volumes, and a one-volume edition in two-column format with all but one of the Leighton illustrations was published later that year by Harper & Brothers in the United States. This facsimile reprint is of the one-volume 1863 Harper & Brothers edition, and includes 8 pages of original advertisements from the back of the book.This is one of a series from Broadview Press of facsimile reprint editions—editions that provide readers with a direct sense of these works as the Victorians themselves experienced them.

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Book SynopsisCharles Dickens’s famous second novel recounts the story of a boy born in the workhouse and raised in an infant farm as he tries to make his way in the world. Intended to raise feeling against the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 (which had emphasized the workhouse as an appropriate means of dealing with the problem of poverty), Oliver Twist also provides a sweeping portrait of London life in the 1830s—including the life of the criminal elements in society.Oliver Twist was first published in serialised form (with illustrations by George Cruikshank) in Bentley’s Miscellany between February 1837 and April 1839. It was issued with some corrections and revisions in ten numbers in 1846 by Bradbury and Evans (which then also issued the same text in a single volume). Each of these ten numbers, including the Cruikshank illustrations and the advertisements, is included in this facsimile reprint of the 1846 edition.This is one of a series from Broadview Press of facsimile reprint editions—editions that provide readers with a direct sense of these works as the Victorians themselves experienced them.

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Book SynopsisThe Secret Agent is set in the seedy world of Adolf Verloc, a storekeeper and double agent in late-Victorian London who pretends to sympathize with a group of international anarchists but reports on their activities to both the Russian embassy and the British government. As he is drawn further into a terrorist bombing plot, his family also becomes involved, with devastating consequences. Based on a real-life failed anarchist plot, The Secret Agent is both intimately engaged with its historical moment and profoundly relevant today.This new Broadview Edition helps to recreate the historical context that informed Conrad's preoccupations with global terrorism, human degeneration, the relativity of time, and the position of women.Trade Review“Tanya Agathocleous’s edition of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, a tale of espionage in the age of ennui, is an excellent, important, and timely addition to the Broadview list. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the novel uncannily speaks to a range of concerns that continue to preoccupy us—metropolitanism and cosmopolitanism, political terror, degeneracy and the “ends” of history, the collapse of boundaries between domestic and public life, the State’s intrusion into the lives of its citizens—issues that insist on a deep and careful understanding of their historical antecedents. Professor Agathocleous has judiciously selected materials from Conrad’s moment that will effectively immerse students in the social, political, and intellectual milieu of Conrad’s novel.” — Joseph McLaughlin, Ohio University“An outstanding edition. First-time readers will welcome the eloquent introductory essay, which places The Secret Agent in the context of both Victorianism and modernism, as well as the very useful supplementary materials on anarchism and degeneration. And those already familiar with the novel will be prompted to re-read it in light of Agathocleous’s claim that Conrad, along with his New Woman contemporaries, is exploring marriage and the condition of women as well.” — Amanda Claybaugh, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionJoseph Conrad: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextAuthor’s NoteThe Secret AgentAppendix A: London From Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1853) From Ford Madox Hueffer, The Soul of London: A Survey of a Modern City (1905) Appendix B: Anarchism and Terrorism From The Times (16 February 1894) From Isabel Meredith, A Girl Among the Anarchists (1903) From Joseph Conrad, a letter to R.B. Cunninghame Graham (20 December 1897) From Joseph Conrad, a letter to R.B. Cunninghame Graham (7 October 1907) From Peter Kropotkin, “Anarchism,” Encyclopaedia Britannica (1910) Peter Kropotkin, “The Scientific Bases of Anarchy” (1887) From Report of the Royal Commission on Alien Immigration (1903) From The Saturday Review (9 June 1906) Appendix C: Degeneration From Charles Darwin, Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animal (1872) From E. Ray Lankester, Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism (1880) From Cesare Lombroso, “Illustrative Studies in Criminal Anthropology: The Physiognomy of the Anarchists” (1890) From Max Nordau, Degeneration (1892) Appendix D: Heat Death, Entropy, and Time From William Thomson, “On a Universal Tendency in Nature to the Dissipation of Mechanical Energy” (1852) From William Thomson, “On the Age of the Sun’s Heat” (1862) From Algernon Charles Swinburne, “The Garden of Proserpine” (1866) From Balfour Stewart and J. Norman Lockyer, “The Sun as a Type of the Material Universe” (1868) Appendix E: Marriage and Feminism From Coventry Patmore, “The Angel in the House” (1863) From John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies (1865) From Mona Caird, “Marriage” (1888) From Sarah Grand, “The New Aspect of the Woman Question” (1894) From Hugh E.M. Stutfield, “The Psychology of Feminism” (1897) Appendix F: Contemporary Reviews Country Life (21 September 1907) E.V. Lucas, Times Literary Supplement (20 September 1907) New York Times Book Review (21 September 1907) Edward Garnett, The Nation (26 September 1907) William Morton Payne, The Dial (16 October 1907) Glasgow News (3 October 1907) John Galsworthy, Fortnightly Review (1 April 1908) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAn important sensation novel, Cometh Up as a Flower made Rhoda Broughton's reputation and fortune while also attracting harsh criticism. Nell LeStrange, the heroine, is torn between duty to her family and her own passion. What angered critics of the time was the heroine's frank discussion of her sexual attraction to her lover, and her dispassionate evaluation of loveless marriage as a form of self-sale. Broughton's lively, colloquial narrative voice, witty observations of contemporary manners, and sympathetic portrayal of the lives and feelings of young women, though no longer shocking, are as engaging now as they were to her readers of 1867.This Broadview Edition includes an extensive selection of appendices on the novel's reception (including a parody of Broughton), Victorian discourses on health and medicine, and contemporary attitudes towards women, marriage, and sexuality.Trade Review“This excellent and affordable edition of Broughton’s racy bestseller, with Pamela Gilbert’s informative and accessible introduction, detailed explanatory notes, and extremely useful contextual material, is a valuable addition to the Broadview list of works by women writers of the nineteenth century.” — Lyn Pykett, Aberystwyth University“Students and general readers will revel in Broughton’s compulsively readable novel, with its unusually frank discussions of the sexual politics of the marriage market and female erotic desires. Its vivid style and compelling subjects make Cometh Up as a Flower ideal for a modern syllabus. I was impressed by the exceptionally careful footnotes, the introduction that explains this novel’s attitudes towards sexual, class, and racial issues, and the appendices about sensation fiction, Victorian medicine, and women’s sexuality. This is an excellent edition of an exciting text.” — Talia Schaffer, City University of New York“Subtitled (like Jane Eyre) ‘An Autobiography’ and startlingly frank about women’s erotic desire and claims for independence when it was published in 1867, Rhoda Broughton’s Cometh Up as a Flower has been undeservedly ignored ever since. Broadview’s textually responsible new edition, with footnotes to explain the narrator’s sometimes-racy slang, will absorb readers and provide a welcome resource for scholars.” — Sally Mitchell, Temple UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionRhoda Broughton: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextCometh Up As A FlowerAppendix A: The Publication of the Novel Serialization in Dublin University Magazine (1866–67) Epilogue to the Serial Version of the Novel (1867) Correspondence from the Bentley Archives (1866) Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews of the Novel The London Review (16 March 1867) Athenaeum (20 April 1867) The Times (6 June 1867) The Spectator (19 October 1867) Appendix C: Contemporary Reviews of Sensation Fiction “Sensation Novels,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (May 1862) “Sensation Novels,” Medical Critic and Psychological Journal (1863) “Sensation Novels,” Quarterly Review (1863) “Novels,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (September 1867) Appendix D: Punch Magazine’s Parody of the Author From “Prefatory Correspondence” (18 March 1876) From Gone Wrong (1876) Appendix E: Attitudes Toward Women and Marriage in Victorian Society From Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Daughters of England (1845) From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) From Marie Corelli, The Modern Marriage Market (1898) From Flora Annie Steel, The Modern Marriage Market (1898) From Susan, Countess of Malmesbury, The Modern Marriage Market (1898) Appendix F: Discourses on Health in Victorian Medicine From Henry Ancell, A Treatise on Tuberculosis, the Constitutional Origin of Consumption and Scrofula (1852) From Sir James Clark, A Treatise on Pulmonary Consumption (1837) From T.H. Yeoman, M.D., Consumption of the Lungs, or Decline (1848) From Anon., The Causes and Prevention of Consumption (1835) From Rowland East, The Two Dangerous Diseases of England, Consumption and Apoplexy (1842) From Thomas Trotter, M.D., A View of the Nervous Temperament [1812] Appendix G: Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality From William Acton, The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs (1875) From Elizabeth Blackwell, “On the Abuses of Sex,” Essays in Medical Sociology (1902) From Eliza Lynn Linton, “The Girl of the Period,” Saturday Review (14 March 1868) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWith its gripping plot and pungent dialogue, Uncle Tom’s Cabin offers readers today a passionate portrait of a nation on the verge of disunion and a surprisingly subtle examination of the relationship between race and nationalism that has always been at the heart of the American experience. This Broadview edition is based upon the first American edition of the novel and reprints its original illustrations and preface. In addition, it reprints all of the prefaces that Stowe wrote for authorized European editions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, offers a wide array of appendices that clarify the novel’s participation in antebellum debates about domesticity, colonization, abolitionism, and the law, and includes sections on dramatic adaptations of the novel.Trade Review“Christopher Diller’s edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin is, without a doubt, a major contribution. By tracing the novel’s critical reception and voracious consumption by a global audience for more than 150 years, Diller breathes new life into this best-selling text. Diller makes the work accessible to a variety of audiences: scholars; students in American Studies, history, and literature courses; and general readers who want to savor the emotive power of this American classic. He insightfully maps the reasons Stowe’s masterpiece continues to be anchored in the American literary tradition, and the degree to which it continues to lie at the foundation of this tradition in the 21st century. This is a masterly treatment of an American master text.” — Wilfred D. Samuels, University of Utah“The Broadview Press edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a splendid addition to the scholarship on Stowe’s iconic and controversial novel. Christopher Diller’s superb introduction and imaginative selection of supporting materials provide a stimulating array of historical and literary contexts—and remind us of how alive this text remains.” — Joan D. Hedrick, Trinity College, author of Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life (Oxford University Press, 1994)Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionHarriet Beecher Stowe: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextUncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the LowlyAppendix A: Frontispiece and Illustrations for the first American Edition (1852)Appendix B: The European Prefaces to Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe, Preface to the English Edition (1852) Harriet Beecher Stowe, Preface to the European Edition (1852) Harriet Beecher Stowe, Preface to the French Illustrated Edition (1853) Harriet Beecher Stowe, Preface to the French Edition (1852-53) Appendix C: Abolitionist, Colonization, and Proslavery Movements “Preamble,” to the Constitution of the Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society (1787), and Sections 1-3 from“An ACT to give Relief to certain Persons taking Refuge in [the] State [of Pennsylvania], with Respectto their Slaves” (1780) From David Walker, Walker’s Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble,To the Coloured Citizens of theWorld, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America (1830) William Lloyd Garrison, “To the Public,” The Liberator (1 January 1831) From Lyman Beecher, “Dr. Beecher’s Address,” The African Repository and Colonial Journal (November1834) “A Declaration of the Sentiments of the People of Hartford, Regarding the Measures of the Abolitionists”(1835) Maria Chapman, et al., “Address of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society to the Women of Massachusetts,” The Liberator (13 August 1836) William Lloyd Garrison, “The American Union,” The Liberator (10 January 1845) From George Fitzhugh, “The Universal Slave Trade,” Cannibals All! Or Slaves Without Masters (1857) Appendix D: Stowe’s Letters, 1836-53 Georgiana May (6 January 1836) Calvin Stowe (16 June 1845) Calvin Stowe (29 June 1849) Henry Ward Beecher (1 February 1851) Gamaliel Bailey (9 March 1851) Elizabeth Cabot Follen (16 December 1852) Appendix E: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the “Higher Law” Debate The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 with a Synopsis and Poem by S.M. Africanus (1850) From Charles Beecher, “The Duty of Disobedience to Wicked Laws. A Sermon on the Fugitive SlaveLaw” (1851) John C. Lord, “‘The Higher Law’ in its Application to the Fugitive Slave Bill. A Sermon on the DutiesMen Owe to God and to Governments” (1851) Appendix F: Contemporary Responses to Uncle Tom’s CabinSection 1: Abolitionist and African American Views William Lloyd Garrison, “In the execution of her very familiar task,” The Liberator (26 March 1852) William G. Allen, “I have recently read ‘Uncle Tom,’ Frederick Douglass’s Paper (20 May 1852) “Letter from Martin Delany,” with “Remarks” by Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass’s Paper (1 April 1853) Section 2: Proslavery and Southern Responses to Uncle Tom’s Cabin Unsigned reprint, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” The New York Observer (21 October 1852) From Louisa S. McCord, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Southern Quarterly Review (January 1853) Mary Chesnut, Diary entries from Mary Chesnut’s Civil War (1861-65) Section 3: European Responses to Uncle Tom’s Cabin “American Slavery,” New York Times (18 September 1852) George Sand, “Review of Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” La Presse (17 December 1852) From Émile Montégut, “The Abolitionist Novel in America,” Revue des deux mondes (October-December, 1852) Anonymous, from “The American Novel: Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Allgemeine Zeitung (7-8 October 1852) “B,” “Mistress Harriet Beecher-Stowe and the Novel,” El Universo Pintoresco (15 July 1853) Appendix G: Uncle Tom’s Cabin on Stage “J,” “Mrs. Stowe’s Drama,” [Review of Mary Webb’s performance of “The Christian Slave”], The Liberator (14 December 1855) “Uncle Tom’s Cabin at Barnum’s,” New York Daily Tribune (15 November 1853) “Uncle Tom’s Cabin at Barnum’s Museum,” Illustrated News (26 November 1853) “I am going there, or the death of little Eve,” Lithograph (1852) “The famous Jarrett & Palmer London Company consolidated with Slavin’s Original American Troupein Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Lithograph (1881) “Eliza,” from George Peck’s grand revival of Stetson’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin booked by Klaw & Erlanger (1886) “Old Uncle Tom,” Palmer’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin Co, Lithograph (1899) “Little Eva’s Death Scene,” Scene from stage production of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1901) “In The Cotton Field,” Cotton Picking Scene from stage production of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1901) Eugene Lund, from “Trouping with Uncle Tom,” Century Magazine (1928) “Uncle Tom’s Cabin new Uncle Tom’s Cabin Co.,” Lithograph (1923) “Poster or lobby card for 1958 colorized and narrated re-release of Universal Studio’s 1927 Super-Jewel Production of Uncle Tom’s Cabin,Told by Raymond Massey” Suggestions for Further ReadingWorks Cited

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Book SynopsisAlmost three hundred years after its first publication, Roxana continues to challenge readers, who, though compelled by Roxana’s story, are often baffled by her complex relationships to her children, her fortune, and her vices. As one of Daniel Defoe’s four major fictions, Roxana has long been understood as central to the history of the novel, and provides readers with Defoe’s sharpest and most specific commentary on the complexities of life in seventeenth-century London. This edition offers a range of contemporary documents that will help readers understand the struggles of Roxana’s life as series of metaphoric engagements with pressing issues of her time.Trade Review“Rare is that edition that gives us a fresh interpretation of a primary work, but that is precisely what Melissa Mowry has accomplished in this excellent edition. The introduction details Roxana’s place in Defoe’s career and the ways the novel evokes his Dissenter politics, while also shedding new light on the novel’s imbrication in debates about political sovereignty, feminism, and prostitution. The supplementary materials are all artfully chosen to produce fresh readings of the novel. Finally, the inclusion of some of the alternate endings written for Roxana, along with a brief reception history of Defoe’s work, invites speculation about changes in the representation of gender and sexuality over the course of the long eighteenth century in Britain.” — Scarlet Bowen, University of ColoradoTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionDaniel Defoe: A Brief ChronologyDefoe’s Times: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextRoxanaAppendix A: Roxana’s Shifting Identity and the Tradition of Whore Biography From The Lawyer’s Clarke Trappan’d by the Crafty Whore of Canterbury (1663) From The London Jilt (1683) From The Whores Rhetorick (1683) Appendix B:Women’s Work A True Copie of the Petition of the Gentlewomen, and Tradesmens-Wives (1641) Mary Collier, The Woman’s Labour: An Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck (1739) Appendix C: Court Culture Poor-Whores Petition (1668) The Gracious ANSWER … To the Poor-Whores Petition(1668) John Dunton, The Night-Walker (1696) Appendix D: City Culture The Character of a Town-Miss (1680) Auction of Whores (1691) Appendix E: The Great Debate on the Poor From Matthew Hale, A Discourse Touching Provision for the Poor (1683) From Thomas Firman, Some Proposals for the imployment of the Poor (1681) From Daniel Defoe, The Poor Man’s Plea (1698) From Daniel Defoe, Every-Body’s Business is No-Body’s Business (1725) From Bernard Mandeville, Modest Defense of the Publick Stews (1724) From Daniel Defoe, Some Considerations Upon Street-Walkers (1726) Appendix F:Women and Marriage From Mary Astell, Some Considerations on Marriage (1700/1706) From Daniel Defoe, Conjugal Lewdness (1727) Appendix G: Alternate Endings of Roxana Daniel Defoe, The fortunate mistress (1740) Daniel Defoe, The history of Mademoiselle de Beleau (1775) Appendix H: Defoe, Roxana, and Posterity From Charles Gildon, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Daniel Defoe (1719) From The History of Mademoiselle de Beleau; or,The New Roxana (1775) John Howlett, The Insufficiency of the Causes to which the Increase of the Poor’s Rates Have Been Commonly Ascribed (1788) George Chalmers, The Life of Daniel Defoe (1790) Thomas Ruggles, The History of the Poor (1797) The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1833) Select Bibliography

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