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Book SynopsisA sharply observed, affectionate, and unsentimental portrait of life in a Maine fishing village, The Country of the Pointed Firs is Sarah Orne Jewett’s most enduring work, and commonly regarded as the finest example of American regionalist literature in the nineteenth century. It was originally published in four installments of the Atlantic Monthly in 1896; this Broadview Edition is based on the Atlantic serialization and also includes the four other stories set in Dunnet Landing.The critical introduction situates the text in its historical, cultural, and literary milieu, attending to its place in Jewett’s oeuvre and in her biography. Appendices include earlier “local color” writing by Jewett and others, Jewett’s letters, and contemporary reviews of the novel.Trade Review“In this centenary year of the author’s death Broadview Press is to be commended for bringing forth an excellent new edition of Sarah Orne Jewett’s great work, The Country of the Pointed Firs. Considered by Willa Cather one of the American books guaranteed to endure, the text is here reproduced in its original integrity, after which are appended the sequel Dunnet Landing stories. Deborah Carlin’s exceptionally informative annotations to the text will greatly enrich readers’ appreciation and understanding. Also supplied is a useful selection of supplementary critical and historical material, including a rare, little-known, and very valuable 1895 interview with Jewett. The Country of the Pointed Firs is a distinguished addition to the impressive Broadview Editions series; I highly recommend it for classroom use, as well as for the general reader.” — Josephine Donovan, Professor Emerita of English, University of MaineTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionSarah Orne Jewett: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Country of the Pointed FirsThe Dunnet Landing Stories“The Queen’s Twin” (1899)“A Dunnet Shepherdess” (1899)“The Foreigner” (1900)“William’s Wedding” (1910)Appendix A: Before The Country of the Pointed Firs:Precursors and Influences Sarah Orne Jewett, Preface to Deephaven (1893) Sarah Orne Jewett, Chapter Five, “The Captains,” from Deephaven (1893) Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Aunt Roxy and Aunt Ruey,” Chapter Four of The Pearl of Orr’s Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine (1862) Appendix B: Local Color Literature: Nineteenth-Century Formulations and Definitions William Dean Howells, “Editor’s Study” (1887) Hamlin Garland, “Local Color in Art” (1894) Bret Harte, “The Rise of the ‘Short Story’” (1899) Appendix C: Selected Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett To Annie Fields (June 1885) From a letter to Annie Fields (12 October 1890) From a letter to Annie Fields (1899 or 1890) To Willa Sibert Cather (27 November 1908) To Willa Sibert Cather (13 December 1908) Appendix D: Reviews of The Country of the Pointed Firs Overland Monthly (29 January 1897) Atlantic Monthly (February 1897) The Critic (13 February 1897) The Nation (15 April 1897) Alice Brown, Book Buyer (15 October 1897) Appendix E: Profiles of Sarah Orne Jewett Anonymous, “Miss Jewett” (January 1894) Anonymous, “Pleasant Day With Miss Jewett” (August 1895) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn the late eighteenth century, Matthew Gregory "Monk" Lewis, a notorious author of lurid Gothic novels and plays, began to gather this collection of horror ballads. Including original and traditional works, translations and adaptations, and even burlesques of the Gothic, this "hobgoblin repast," as Lewis called it, brings together a fascinating assortment of works. Contributors include Lewis, the young Walter Scott, William Taylor of Norwich, John Leyden, and Robert Southey.Appendices contain selections from Tales of Terror (1801), a text long intertwined with Lewis's collection; information on Scott's An Apology for Tales of Terror (1799); and parodies and reviews of Lewis's particular brand of Gothic poetry.Trade Review“Douglass H. Thomson’s excellent new edition makes Matthew Gregory Lewis’s long out-of-print Tales of Wonder (1801) available to scholars and students of Romanticism. The text is based on the first edition of the first volume of this important—and controversial—collection, and includes ballads by ‘Monk’ Lewis himself, as well as by Walter Scott and Robert Southey. It is accompanied by a detailed critical introduction and helpful notes. The generous appendices contain crucial contextual materials, including a Lewis chronology, extracts from the second volume of Tales of Wonder (nicknamed ‘Tales of Plunder’ by contemporaries) and a much misunderstood follow-up, Tales of Terror, plus a selection of contemporary reviews. This is an indispensable edition for anyone interested in the Gothic, generic complexity, seriousness and parody, nationalism, canons and their discontents, and literary marketplaces in the Romantic period.” — Lynda Pratt, University of Nottingham“The rediscovery of Gothic fiction has been at the neglect of Gothic poetry. This richly annotated edition of the most important, eclectic, and entertaining anthology of Gothic balladry will help redress the balance. Thomson’s wide-ranging critical introduction shows how Tales of Wonder constantly crosses literary and critical boundaries, playfully blurring distinctions between the serious and the burlesque. This is an invaluable publication, not only for Gothicists but for all interested in the Ballad Revival, Anglo-German literary connections, and Romanticism’s ambiguous relationship with the Gothic.” — Paul Barnaby, Edinburgh University LibraryTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionM.G. Lewis and Tales of Wonder: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextTales of Wonder Bothwell’s Bonny Jane / M.G. Lewis Osric the Lion / M.G. Lewis Sir Hengist / M.G. Lewis Alonzo the Brave, and Fair Imogine / M.G. Lewis Giles Jollup the Grave, and Brown Sally Green / M.G. Lewis Elver’s Hoh / M.G. Lewis The Sword of Angantyr / M.G. Lewis King Hacho’s Death-Song / M.G. Lewis The Erl-King / M.G. Lewis The Erl-King’s Daughter / M.G. Lewis The Water-King / M.G. Lewis The Fire-King / Walter Scott The Cloud-King / M.G. Lewis The Fisherman / M.G. Lewis The Sailor’s Tale / M.G. Lewis The Princess and the Slave / M.G. Lewis The Gay Gold Ring / M.G. Lewis The Grim White Woman / M.G. Lewis The Little Grey Man / H. Bunbury Glenfinlas; or Lord Ronald’s Coronach / WalterScott The Eve of Saint John / Walter Scott Frederick and Alice / Walter Scott The Wild Huntsmen / Walter Scott The Old Woman of Berkeley / Robert Southey Bishop Bruno / Robert Southey Lord William / Robert Southey The Painter of Florence / Robert Southey Donica / Robert Southey Cornelius Agrippa’s Bloody Book / RobertSouthey Rudiger / Robert Southey The Elfin-King / John Leyden The Sorceress; or Wolfwold and Ulla / Mickle Appendix A: A Selection of Poems from Volume II of Tales of Wonder LVI. Clerk Colvin LVII. Willy’s Lady LVIII. Courteous King Jamie LIX.Tam Lin LX. Lenora Appendix B: Robert Southey and the Tales of WonderAppendix C: Selections from Tales of Terror (1801) I. Introductory Dialogue IV.The Wolf-King or Little Red-Riding-Hood. An Old Woman’s Tale X. The Grey Friar of Winton; or, the Death of King Rufus. An English Legend XI. Grim, King of Ghosts; or, the Dance of Death. A Church-Yard Tale XV. The Black Canon of Elmham; or, Saint Edmond’s Eve. An Old English Ballad XIX. The House upon the Heath. A Welsh Tale XX.The Mud-King; or, Smedley’s Ghost. A Tale of the Times Appendix D: A Note on Scott’s Compilation An Apology for Tales of Terror (1799)Appendix E: Critical Reception of Tales of Wonder and Tales of Terror British Critic (December 1801) Antijacobin Review (March 1801) Monthly Magazine (July 1801) Poetical Register (1801) Critical Review (January 1802) From George Gordon, Lord Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809) Select Bibliography and Works Cited

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Book SynopsisA best-seller from its first publication in 1903, The Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck, a big mongrel dog who is shipped from his comfortable life in California to Alaska, where he must adapt to the harsh life of a sled dog during the Klondike Gold Rush. The narrative recounts Buck’s brutal obedience training, his struggle to meet the demands of human masters, and his rise to the position of lead sled dog as a result of his superior physical and mental qualities. Finally, Buck is free to respond to the “call” of the wilderness. Over a hundred years after its publication, Jack London’s “dog story” retains the enduring appeal of a classic.This Broadview Edition includes a critical introduction that explores London’s life and legacy and the complex scientific and psychological ideas drawn upon by London in writing the story. The appendices include material on the Klondike, Darwin’s writings on dogs, other contemporary writings on instinct and atavism, and maps of the regions in which the story takes place.Trade Review“This is the best scholarly edition of The Call of the Wild currently available, with a superb, wide-ranging introduction by Nicholas Ruddick that is a model of judicious lucidity. The edition is also greatly enhanced by a series of fascinating primary documents situating the novella in an array of turn-of-the-twentieth-century cultural contexts, including the Klondike gold rush, Darwin on dogs and men, theories of atavism and instinct, and controversies surrounding charges of plagiarism against Jack London. Highly recommended.” — Jonathan Auerbach, University of MarylandTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsReferences and AbbreviationsIllustrationsIntroductionJack London: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Call of the WildAppendix A: The Klondike in Reality and Myth From Tappan Adney, The Klondike Stampede (1900) From A.C. Harris, Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields (1897) Appendix B: The Animal StoryFrom Charles G.D. Roberts, The Kindred of the Wild:A Book of Animal Life (1902)Appendix C: Darwin on Dogs and Men From Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (1868) From Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) From Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) Appendix D: Outside and Inside Dogs in the Northland From Edward Jesse, Anecdotes of Dogs (1858) From Tappan Adney, The Klondike Stampede (1900) From Jack London, “Husky—The Wolf-Dog of the North” (1900) Appendix E: Instinct, Memory, Recapitulation, and Atavism From Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Psychology (1855, 1890) From Ernst Haeckel, The History of Creation (1868, 1880) From Samuel Butler, Life and Habit (1878) From Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (1868) John Myers O’Hara, “Atavism” (1902) Appendix F: London’s First Dog StoryJack London, “Bâtard” (1902, 1904)Appendix G: Extracts from London’s Correspondence (1902–1916) From Letter to Cloudesley Johns (6 January 1902) From Letter to Anna Strunsky (11 February 1902) From Letter to George P. Brett (28 April 1902) From Letter to George P. Brett (21 November 1902) From Letter to Anna Strunsky (20 December 1902) From Letter to Anna Strunsky (7 January 1903) From Letter to George P. Brett (12 February 1903) From Letter to George P. Brett (25 February 1903) From Letter to George P. Brett (10 March 1903) From Letter to Anna Strunsky (13 March 1903) From Letter to George P. Brett (25 March 1903) From Letter to George P. Brett (2 April 1903) From Letter to George P. Brett (10 April 1903) From Letter to George P. Brett (24 July 1903) From Letter to George P. Brett (10 August 1903) From Letter to George P. Brett (15 August 1903) From Letter to Merle Maddern (28 August 1903) From Letter to Marshall Bond (17 December 1903) From Letter to George P. Brett (5 December 1904) From Letter to John M. O’Hara (25 July 1907) From Letter to Karl E. Harriman (12 December 1910) From Letter to Edgar G. Sisson (30 January 1915) From Letter to Frank A. Garbutt (5 February 1915) From Letter to H.E. Kelsey (3 April 1915) From Letter to Loen Weilskov (16 October 1916) Appendix H: Reviews of The Call of the Wild From New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art (25 July 1903) From Outlook (25 July 1903) From George Hamlin Fitch, San Francisco Chronicle (2 August 1903) From Argonaut (3 August 1903) From Mary Calkins Brooke, [San Francisco] Bulletin (23 August 1903) From Athenaeum (29 August 1903) From Comrade (September 1903) From Florence Jackson, Overland Monthly (September 1903) From J. Stewart Doubleday, Reader (September 1903) From Literary Digest (3 October 1903) From Nation (8 October 1903) From H.W. Boynton, Atlantic Monthly (November 1903) Appendix I: The Plagiarism Issue From Egerton R.Young, My Dogs in the Northland (1902) From Jack London, The Call of the Wild (1903) From L.A.M. Bosworth and Jack London, “Is Jack London a Plagiarist?” (14 February 1907) From “Against Jack London,” New York Times Saturday Review of Books (23 February 1907) From Egerton R.Young, letter in New York Times, Saturday Review of Books (9 March 1907) From Jack London, letter to Egerton R.Young (18 March 1907) Appendix J: Buck’s Travels Map 1. To the Northland Map 2. The Klondike Trail Map 3. Salt Water Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Last of the Mohicans enjoyed tremendous popularity both in America and abroad, offering its readers not only a variation on the immensely popular traditional captivity narrative of the time, but also characters that would become iconic figures in the young nation’s emerging literature. The novel’s central action follows Leatherstocking and his two faithful friends, Chingachgook and Uncas, as they come to the aid of two daughters of a British officer seeking to become reunited with their father. The novel provides insights into Cooper’s own thinking on Native American and White relations during the early national period, revealing a profound ambivalence to the reality that the rising fortunes of the young United States meant the declining fortunes of the nation’s Native American inhabitants.Trade Review“James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans presents a double challenge to today’s readers; a work of historical fiction, it has become, in itself, a historical artifact in need of explication. Paul Gutjahr’s elegant introduction and judicious choice of secondary sources help to place Cooper’s novel in its historical moment, while at the same time clarifying the novel’s own engagements with American history. Accentuating Cooper’s engagement with issues of race, gender, and hemispheric conflict, Gutjahr’s edition reminds us of why Cooper’s novel remains timely and even urgent. It will be the edition of choice for scholars, students, and casual readers alike.” — Leon Jackson, University of South Carolina“Paul Gutjahr’s edition of The Last of the Mohicans is a model text, ideally suited for the classroom or the general reader. The decision to print the novel in its original two-volume format foregrounds Cooper’s careful structuring of the book. Gutjahr’s informative introduction effectively explores the novel’s formal structure and its engagements with colonial and antebellum American history. The contextual materials included are also well-chosen. Including excerpts of Cooper’s ethnographic source material in the edition is extremely helpful, as this will aid readers in developing a deeper understanding of the novel’s representations of colonial history. This is certainly an edition I will use and recommend.” — David J. Carlson, California State University, San BernardinoTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsMapsIntroductionJames Fenimore Cooper: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Last of the MohicansPrefaceVolume IVolume IIAppendix A: IllustrationsAppendix B: Cooper’s Historical Sources From John Gottlieb Heckewelder, History, Manners and Customs of the Indian Nations (1876) From Jonathan Carver, Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768(1781) From Benjamin Silliman, A Short Tour Between Hartford and Quebec (1824) Appendix C: Recollections and Appraisals of Cooper From the United States Literary Gazette (May 1826) From the Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres (April 1826) From W.H. Gardiner, North American Review (1826) From William Cullen Bryant, “Discourse on the Life, Genius, and Writings of J. Fenimore Cooper” (1852) From Susan Fenimore Cooper, Pages and Pictures, from the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper (1861) From Mark Twain, “Fenimore Cooper’s Further Literary Offenses,” The New England Quarterly (c. 1895) Appendix D: The Cherokee Removal The United States Congress’s Indian Removal Act (1830) From Andrew Jackson’s Second State of the Union Address (1830) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe quintessential novel of sentiment, A Sentimental Journey masquerades as the fragmentary travel journal of Parson Yorick, a whimsical and amorous Englishman abroad. Accompanied through Paris and the provinces by his loyal French valet, Yorick enjoys a variety of sentimental and often comic encounters with a lively range of French characters. The novel is also punctuated by passages of self-conscious reflection on questions of personal and national identity, slavery and freedom, poverty and inequality.Appendices include material on sensibility in philosophy and literature and on eighteenth-century travel writing, as well as excerpts from Sterne's other writings and examples of the novel's critical reception, imitation, and illustration.Trade Review“This learned and hugely useable new Sentimental Journey provides a wealth of editorial materials that will add to the enjoyment and understanding of readers of all kinds. The approachable introduction is wisely informative not only on A Sentimental Journey but also on Sterne himself, the rise of the novel, travel literature, sensibility, genre, gender, and the work’s influence and afterlife. The explanatory footnotes are thorough and discreetly scholarly. The text is accompanied by an outstandingly rich and pertinent selection of contextualising contemporary documentation. Turner’s edition of A Sentimental Journey will make Sterne’s second novel many new friends.” — Marcus Walsh, University of Liverpool“Katherine Turner’s comprehensive and superbly written introduction, together with the rich contextual materials, make this the most useful edition of Sterne’s Sentimental Journey in print today. Highly recommended for specialists, students, and general readers—anyone who might enjoy Sterne’s irreverent brilliance.” — James G. Basker, Barnard College, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionLaurence Sterne: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextA Sentimental Journey through France and ItalyAppendix A: Sensibility—Philosophical Sources From John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) From George Cheyne, The English Malady: or, a Treatise of Nervous Diseases of all Kinds (1733) From David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40) From David Hartley, Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty, and his Expectations (1749) From Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) Appendix B: Sensibility in Literature “On Sympathy. By a Young Lady” (October 1752) “Ode to Sensibility” (November 1763) From Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) From Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1762) From the Monthly Review (1765) From Hannah More, “Sensibility: An Epistle to the Honourable Mrs Boscawen” (1782) Appendix C: Sensibility and Social Reform From John Doughty, Christian Sympathy (1752) Correspondence between Sterne and Ignatius Sancho on Slavery (1766) From Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1767) From Hannah More, Slavery, a Poem (1788) Appendix D: Sterne’s Didacticism From Sterne’s Letters (1767) “To Sir W” (27 September 1767) From a Letter to Mrs William James (12 November 1767) From a Letter to “the Earl of ——” (28 November 1767) From Laurence Sterne, The Sermons of Mr. Yorick (1760) Appendix E: Travel Writing From Thomas Nugent, The Grand Tour (1749) From Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy (1766) From Letter V From Letter VII From Samuel Sharp, Letters from Italy (1766) From Letter XI From Letter XVII From Letter XXXVIII From Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1765) From Chapter IV From Chapter XLIV From Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1767) Appendix F: Contemporary Reviews and Evaluations (1767) From the Critical Review (1768) From the Monthly Review (1768) “On the Death of Yorick,” London Magazine (June 1768) From Sentiments on the Death of the Sentimental Yorick (1768) Appendix G: Imitations of A Sentimental Journey From [Samuel Paterson], Another Traveller! (1768) From the Review of Another Traveller!, Critical Review (1768) From the Review (by Ralph Griffiths) of Another Traveller!, Monthly Review (1768) From Yorick’s Sentimental Journey Continued (1768 or 1769) From Cornelius Cayley, A Tour through Holland, Flanders, and Part of France (1773) From Continuation of Yorick’s Sentimental Journey (1788) Appendix H: A Sentimental Journey Anthologized and Illustrated From The Beauties of Sterne (1782) Illustrations from Early Editions of A Sentimental Journey “The Snuff Box” (1794) “Maria” (1794) “Yorick and the Monk Exchanging Snuff Boxes” (1792) “Yorick and the Starling” (1792) “The Grace” (1795) “I Could Not Sustain the Picture of Confinement which my Fancy Had Drawn” (1802) “The Temptation” (1803) “Maria” (1803) “Poor Maria”—Wedgwood Medallion (c. 1785) Appendix I: Some Later Critiques From John Wesley, The Journal of John Wesley (1772) From Vicesimus Knox, Essays Moral and Literary (1782) From William Wilberforce, A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes, Contrasted with Real Christianity (1797) From Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1808) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis engaging short work by a great American novelist addresses the then-controversial topic of interracial marriage. ""An Imperative Duty"" tells the story of Rhoda Aldgate, a young woman on the verge of marriage who has been raised by her aunt to assume that she is white but who is in fact the descendant of an African-American grandmother. The novel traces the struggles of Rhoda, her aunt, and Edward Olney, the aunt's physician and Rhoda's eventual suitor, to come to terms with the implications of Rhoda's ethnic heritage. Howells employs this stock situation to explore newly urgent questions of identity, morality, and social policy raised by 'miscegenation' in the new, post-Reconstruction situation to which he writes. The novel imagines interracial marriage sympathetically at a time when racist sentiment was on the rise, and does this is one of Howells' most aesthetically economical performances in the short novel form. The novel's appeal is increased by the primary source documents on nineteenth-century scientific race theory, contemporary attitudes toward race and miscegenation, and contemporary responses to the novel included in the appendices to this edition.Trade Review“Far from fussing over chipped china, the novella goes to the heart of the great American problem of race... This is a provocative subject, and the publisher has provided much useful material for help in understanding it: an introduction (by Paul R. Petrie), footnotes and a sheaf of appendices, including one that links ‘An Imperative Duty’ to a subgenre of 19th-century fiction: ‘The Tragic Mulatta.’ There is a big difference between other ‘Tragic Mulatta’ novels and this one, however: The other writers played the central situation for shock value, whereas Howells made it into art.” — Dennis Drabelle, The Washington Post “This is a splendid classroom edition of a historically important yet underappreciated ‘passing’ novel as powerful as Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson. Published in 1891–92 at the nadir of race relations in the U.S., W. D. Howells’s An Imperative Duty framed the debate over racial justice in ways that were remarkably progressive. Paul R. Petrie’s introduction, supplemental readings, and critical apparata admirably contextualize the novel for modern readers.” — Gary F. Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico“This sympathetic and carefully edited revival of An Imperative Duty should welcome a new generation of readers to Howells’s impressive work. With its splendid introduction and meticulously chosen secondary materials, this book will delight general readers and prove a helpful resource to both teachers and scholars.” — Susan Goodman, University of DelawareTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionW.D. Howells: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextAn Imperative DutyFirst Installment: Chapters I–V: July 1891Second Installment: Chapters VI–VII: August 1891Third Installment: Chapters VIII–X: September 1891Fourth Installment: Chapters XI–XIII: September 1891 Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews and Responses Laurence Hutton, “Literary Notes,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (November 1891) “The Color Line,” New York Times (30 November 1891) The Critic (16 January 1892) “Novels of the Week,” The Athenaeum (13 February 1892) The Nation (25 February 1892) From Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South (1892) From W.E.B. Du Bois, “As a Friend of the Colored Man,” Boston Evening Transcript (24 February 1912) Appendix B: The “Tragic Mulatta” in Literature From Grace King, “The Little Convent Girl” (1893) From Matt Crim, “Was It an Exceptional Case?” (1891) W.D. Howells, “The Pilot’s Story” (1860) Appendix C: Interracial Marriage and the “Science” of Race From Joseph-Arthur, Comte de Gobineau, Essay on the Inequality of Human Races (1853–55) From J.C. Nott, Types of Mankind (1854) From Frederick L. Hoffman, The Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro (1896) Pace v. State of Alabama (1883) From Henry W. Grady, “In Plain Black and White” (1885) From Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Future American” (1900) From W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Conservation of Races” (1897) Appendix D: Appendix D:W.D. Howells’s Theory of Realism—The “Editor’s Study” Columns May 1886 [Realism and Romance] November 1886 [Aesthetics and Ethics] April 1887 [Art,Truth, and Morality] September 1887 [Realism and Democracy] December 1887 [The Real and the Ideal Grasshopper] March 1888 [Can Fiction Help the People It Depicts?] December 1888 [Christmas Literature] Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis volume includes the full text of More’s 1516 classic, Utopia, together with a wide range of background contextual materials. For this edition the G.C. Richards translation has been substantially revised and modernized by William P. Weaver of Baylor University.As with other volumes in this series, the text and annotations in this edition are taken from The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, acclaimed as “the new standard” in the field. Appendices include illustrations from early editions; relevant passages from the Bible and from Plato; excerpts from More’s 1534 Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation that have been cited for their alleged relevance to the debate over whether or not More himself espoused the “communist” principles of the Utopia he imagined.Trade Review“The Broadview edition of Utopia ... will prove invaluable in the classroom—and should appeal to anyone coming to Utopia for the first time. The language of this translation is highly accessible; it showcases both the brilliance and the meticulousness of More’s social dreaming. The introduction to the volume is extremely helpful, particularly in its coverage of the wide-reaching effects of Renaissance Humanism. The appendices are invaluable ... in providing added historical context. And the edition is eminently affordable.” — Graham J. Murphy, Trent UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionA Note on the TextUtopiaIn ContextIllustration of UtopiaUtopian LanguagePoems in the Utopian TongueFrom Thomas More’s Correspondence from Letter to Erasmus (3 September, 1516) from Letter to Erasmus (c. 20 September, 1516) Letter to Erasmus (31 October, 1516) from Letter to Cuthbert Tunstall (c. November, 1516) from Letter to William Warham (January, 1517) From Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation (1534)From Erasmus, Letter to Ulrich von Hutten (23 July, 1519)From Plato, Republic (c. 380 BCE) from Book 3 from Book 4 From Lucian, Saturnalian LettersFrom Acts of the Apostles, 4.32–5.11

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking fantasy novel, The Wood Beyond the World tells the story of a young man, Golden Walter, who finds himself in a strange and frightening world after being abandoned by his wife and lost at sea. The novel takes the form of Walter’s quest for the visionary Maid that he sees at the beginning of his journey, and takes him from his failed marriage through temptation to emotional fulfillment. Set in Morris’s imaginative recreation of a medieval world, the novel is full of vivid imagery and surprising emotional realism.This edition collates for the first time the three early texts of the work. The introduction discusses the place of the book among Morris’s other prose romances, the events of his life, and his activities as a visual artist and a socialist. The appendices provide excerpts from Morris’s translation of Beowulf, other medieval texts read by Morris, and writings by his contemporaries on politics and aesthetics.Trade Review“Robert Boenig's meticulously edited, beautifully annotated edition of William Morris’s late prose romance, The Wood Beyond the World, will satisfy any teacher or reader wanting to learn more about Morris’s preoccupations at the end of his life. Boenig’s introduction alone makes the edition necessary reading. The supplementary materials, ranging from Morris’s work on a translation of Beowulf to his essay on ‘The Socialist Ideal: Art,’ and works by contemporaries such as Marx, Ruskin, and Mallock, expand richly the ways in which this edition may be used.” — Barry Qualls, Rutgers University“The first new scholarly edition in thirty years, and an admirable achievement.” — Robert Clark, University of East AngliaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionWilliam Morris: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Wood Beyond the WorldAppendix A: Morris and Medieval Narrative From Morris’s and A.J.Wyatt’s Translation of Beowulf (1895) From Morris’s and Eírikr Magnússon’s Translation of The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs (1870) From Malory’s Morte D’Arthur (1471) Appendix B: Morris and Socialism “The Socialist Ideal: Art” (1891) “How I Became a Socialist” (1894) Appendix C: Works by Morris’s Contemporaries From Karl Marx, Das Kapital (1867) From John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism (1851) From Robert Buchanan, “The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D.G. Rossetti” (1871) William Hurrell Mallock, “How to Make a Modern Pre-Raphaelite Poem” (1872) From May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris (1913) Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis amply annotated edition of Wharton’s 1911 classic novella includes textual notes and documents, including Wharton's preface, letters, reviews, and early short story, “Mrs. Manstey’s View.” It is accompanied by the editor’s comprehensive introduction and a wide array of readings on topics central to the novella: tragedy, health and fitness, sex and marriage, and turn-of-the-century New England poverty and isolation. Of her twenty-five novels and novellas, Ethan Frome is the one of which Edith Wharton was most proud. Historically viewed as a high society writer or novelist of manners, Wharton is now receiving her due as an astute chronicler and critic of American life who brought literary realism to new levels and helped to usher in a period of modernist innovation.This Broadview Edition demonstrates that Ethan Frome, a nightmarish saga of thwarted romance, is not an anomaly in Wharton’s career, but a natural outgrowth of her interest in the interplay of individual and society.Trade Review“The Broadview Ethan Frome is that rare edition of a classic that will satisfy everyone. Carol Singley’s comprehensive and beautifully-crafted introduction invites readers to consider deeply the themes and contexts of the novel. The collection of reviews, criticism, and contemporary commentary on health, marriage, masculinity, suicide, and other relevant issues will intrigue readers for its own sake and will enrich their understanding of the ‘envelope of circumstance’ in which Ethan Frome was written and has been read. This is a worthy addition to the Wharton canon.” — Irene Goldman-Price, editor of My Dear Governess: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann“Carol Singley’s fine edition of Ethan Frome provides a detailed introduction to the novel’s main themes and contexts, helpful explanatory notes throughout the text, and a useful bibliography for further reading. The range of secondary materials is excellent and highlights various aesthetic concerns, including the novel’s reception and its relationship to modernist literary technique, as well as its engagement with classic and modern definitions of tragedy. The novel’s cultural contexts are illuminated by materials focusing on health and fitness; sexuality, marriage, and divorce; suicide; and technological progress and economic issues in New England and the broader U.S. The edition also contains a judicious selection of correspondence revealing Wharton’s thoughts on issues such as marriage and relationships, illness, and the novel’s publicity. The edition is a wonderful resource for students, teachers, and researchers.” — Gary Totten, North Dakota State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionEdith Wharton: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextEthan FromeAppendix A: Writings by Edith Wharton Introduction to Ethan Frome (1922) From The Writing of Fiction (1925) From A Backward Glance (1934) “Mrs. Manstey’s View” (10 July 1891) Appendix B: Correspondence Edith Wharton to Elizabeth Frelinghuysen Davis Lodge (20 June [1910]) Edith Wharton to Bernard Berenson (4 January [1911]) Edith Wharton to W. Morton Fullerton (16 October [1911]) Henry James to Edith Wharton (25 October 1911) Edith Wharton to Charles Scribner (27 November [1911]) Appendix C: Contemporary Reviews and Commentaries From The New York Times (8 October 1911) From Outlook (21 October 1911) From The Nation (26 October 1911) From The Saturday Review (18 November 1911) From John Curtis Underwood, “Culture and Edith Wharton” (1914) From William Lyon Phelps, “The Advance of the English Novel,” The Bookman (July 1916) From Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Edith Wharton: A Critical Study (1922) From Alfred Kazin, “The Lady and the Tiger,” Virginia Quarterly Review (Winter 1941) From Percy Lubbock, Portrait of Edith Wharton (1947) Appendix D: Tragedy From Aristotle, Poetics (335 BCE) From Arthur Miller, “Tragedy and the Common Man” (1949) From Richard Sewall, The Vision of Tragedy (1980) Appendix E: Health and Fitness From Theodore Roosevelt, “The Strenuous Life” (1902) From Samuel McComb, “The Power of Suggestion in Nervous Troubles” (May 1908) From Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on Sexuality (1905) and “The Economic Problem of Masochism” (1924) From George Kennan, “The Problems of Suicide” (June 1908) Appendix F: Sex and Marriage Junius Browne, “Romantic Marriages” (January 1895) From Mrs. P.T. Barnum, “Moths of Modern Marriage” (March 1891) From Byron Hall, “A Lesson Conjugal” (1 September 1903) From William Lee Howard, Facts for the Married (1912) “Separation the Cure for Matrimonial Woe” (16 January 1905) From “Felix Adler on Divorce” (26 January 1905) Appendix G: New England and the Nation “Lenox High School Girl Dashed to her Death,” The Berkshire Evening Eagle (12 March 1904) “A Sleeping Giant,” The Youth’s Companion (18 November 1909) From Rollin Lynde Hartt, “The Regeneration of Rural New England,” Outlook (3 March 1900) From “The Value of Natural Scenery,” Outlook (26 September 1908) Appendix H: Photographs The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts (1906) The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts (1906) Edith Wharton (1910) Wharton’s Library, The Mount (undated) Sledding in Lenox, Massachusetts (1890s) Cover of Ethan Frome, the Play (1936) Works Cited and Further Reading

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Book SynopsisSet both in England and in America, Emma Corbett is the moving story of a family torn apart by the American revolutionary war. Edward Corbett and Henry Hammond are brought up together and go on to marry each other’s sisters, but fight on opposite sides in the war. Emma Corbett, Edward’s sister, follows Henry to Pennsylvania. Disguised as a man, she fights for the British before finding Henry and saving his life, but the war and its aftermath have tragic consequences for all four young people. This powerful epistolary novel was a transatlantic best-seller, in part because both sides of the conflict are fully represented—as are the miseries and terrible costs of war.Appendices include contemporary reviews as well as contemporary writings on heroism, sensibility, and women and war. A series of personal letters between Pratt (writing as Courtney Melmoth) and Benjamin Franklin, for whom he worked in France, are also included.Trade Review“Emma Corbett is essential reading for anyone interested in the impact of the American revolutionary war on both sides of the Atlantic, and in the development of the novel as major vehicle for the cultural negotiation of pressing global political and social issues. Professor Bannet offers entirely new scholarly insight into the genesis and cultural context of this, the most popular and influential fictional attempt to come to terms with the War. Republication of Pratt’s pioneering novel is long overdue, and this excellent edition makes it once again fresh, intelligible, and impossible to ignore.” — Karen O’Brien, University of Birmingham“Emma Corbett is one of what Eve Tavor Bannet terms ‘transatlantic stories,’ written in 1780 by Samuel Jackson Pratt, an English curate turned actor and poet. Bannet’s supplementary material, especially the letters between Pratt and Benjamin Franklin, provides clues as to why he developed the themes he did in the book.” — Carole Shammas, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionSamuel Jackson Pratt: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextEmma Corbett, or the Miseries of Civil WarAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews Title Page for the First Bath Edition of Emma Corbett (1780) From The London Magazine, or Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer (May 1780) From The London Review of English and Foreign Literature (April 1780) From The Monthly Review (October 1780) From Rivington’s Royal Gazette (12 September 1781) From The Lady’s Monthly Museum (June 1808) “Sonnet to Mr. Pratt on a Mental Review of His Various Works,” Monthly Magazine, or British Register (November 1802) Appendix B: Changes and Additions in Robert Bell’s American Edition (1782) Title Page for Bell’s American Edition of Emma Corbett (1782) From Bell’s Advertisement, Pennsylvania Evening Post and Public Advertiser (25 November 1782) Bell’s Additions to Emma Corbett, Vol. II (1782) Bell’s Additions to Emma Corbett, Vol. III (1782) Appendix C: Some Letters between “Courtney Melmoth” and Benjamin Franklin Franklin to Melmoth ([on or after 28 January] 1778) Melmoth to Franklin, Paris (29 January 1778) Melmoth to Franklin, Paris (4 [February] 1778) Melmoth to Franklin, Hotel d’Orleans (27 [February] 1778) Melmoth to Franklin, Hotel d’Orleans (19 March [1778]) Franklin to Melmoth (on or after 12 May 1778) Appendix D: The American Revolutionary War From John Dickinson, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1767) From An Address to the People on the Subject of the Contest between Great Britain and America (1776) From A Letter from Edmund Burke Esq., one of the Representatives in Parliament for the City of Bristol … to … Sheriffs of that City, on the Affairs of America (1777) From Philip Freneau, “American Independence. A Poem” (1778) Appendix E: Heroism and Sensibility From Hugh Henry Brackenridge, The Battle of Bunkers Hill (1776) From Francis Dobbs, The Irish Chief or Patriot King. A New Tragedy (1774) From Anna Seward, Monody on Major André (1781) From Samuel Jackson Pratt, “Sensibility” (1781) From Nathaniel Ball, “The Evil Effects of War and the Blessings of Peace” (1749) From John Conybeare, “True Patriotism: A Sermon Preach’d before the House of Commons” (25 April 1749) Appendix F: Women and War From [Anon], The Female Soldier (1750) From [Anon], The History of Constantius and Pulchera. An American Novel (1796) From Sarah Wentworth Morton, The Virtues of Society. A Tale Founded on Fact (1799) From Charles Brockden Brown, Ormond (1799) Appendix G: Contemporary Paintings Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe (1770) Emmanuel Leutze, Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth (1853-54) Engraving Depicting Second Street North from Market Street with the Christ Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1799) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis group of fifteen brief narratives connected by a place and a time, the city of Dublin at the beginning of the twentieth century, was written when James Joyce was a precocious young graduate of University College. With great subtlety and artistic restraint, Joyce suggests what lies beneath the pieties of Dublin society and its surface drive for respectability, suggesting the difficulties and despairs that were being endured on a daily basis in homes, pubs, streets, and offices of the city: underemployment, domestic violence, alcoholism, poverty, hunger, emotional and sexual repression. No writer ever took more seriously the details, history, and culture of a particular place than Joyce did with his home city, and these stories combine dark humor with compassion and a searching eye for the causes of suffering.This new edition's historical appendices include contemporary reviews (including one by Ezra Pound) and materials on religion, the struggle for Irish independence, and Dublin's musical and performance culture.Trade Review“Keri Walsh’s Broadview edition of Dubliners will deepen and enliven any reader’s experience of Joyce’s book. Included here are extensive appendices of primary materials that contextualize Joyce’s fictional world in terms of Ireland’s social, cultural, religious, and economic history, and in terms of the book’s troubled publication history, its early reception, and its place in literary history. Walsh’s introductory essay lays out the stakes of Joyce’s fraught relationship with Dublin and its denizens with clarity, concision, wit, and readability. Nowhere else have I read Joyce’s early life and work so essentially distilled, and rarely have I read Dubliners so artfully described. I expect Walsh’s Broadview edition of Dubliners to be around for a long time to come.” - Michael Rubenstein, Stony Brook University“Keri Walsh, as we already know from her collection of Sylvia Beach’s letters, is an archivist who blends the conscience of an ethnographer with the touch of a lover. She has achieved something genuinely exhilarating in this edition of Dubliners - transformed us into Joyce’s contemporaries while simultaneously renewing the book as a contemporary text, richly teachable and learnable, for twenty-first century readers, students, and scholars.” - Saikat Majumdar, author of Prose of the World: Modernism and the Banality of Empire“In an age when anthologized literary may give students the impression that the texts they are given to study arrived already canonized, Walsh’s approach - the provision of text, subtext, pretext, and context - allows an appreciation of the contingency of both creation and reputation, and is therefore an approach full of merit.” - Stephen Whittaker, James Joyce Literary Supplement“Walsh’s entertaining prose moves competently and gracefully among many aspects of Dublin life and Irish history that have an immediate bearing on the stories…Deftly juggling and ordering so many layers of concerns, Walsh’s essay gives and ideal opening performance, drawing out questions and alerting readers to the details and controversies of the stories while refraining from editorializing or providing a simple, singular answer. In this sense, it makes a nicely polished critical looking glass that opens up many reflective possibilities for readers of Dubliners…The stories are evenly and skillfully annotated by Walsh; the level and depth of her notes also sustain the historical and cultural contexts developed in the critical essay and supplementary materials…Her annotative style is disciplined and concise, providing just the right amount of information about archaic vocabulary or arcane allusions. At their best, her annotations show readers the active interpretive choices that confront them in particular moments.” - Greg Winston, James Joyce QuarterlyTable of Contents Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews Times Literary Supplement (18 June 1914) Athenaeum (20 June 1914) New Statesman (27 June 1914) Everyman Review (3 July 1914) Academy (11 July 1914) From Ezra Pound, ""Dubliners and Mr. James Joyce,"" The Egoist (15 July 1914) The Irish Book Lover (November 1914) Appendix B: Literary Contexts From Matthew Arnold, ""On the Study of Celtic Literature"" (1867) From Padraic Colum, ""With James Joyce in Ireland"" (1922) From Henry James, ""The Story-Teller at Large: Mr. Henry Harland"" (April 1898) From Emile Zola, Preface to Thérése Raquin: A Realistic Novel (1887) Caroline Norton, ""The Arab's Farewell to His Horse"" (c. 1830) From W.B. Yeats, ""Ireland and the Arts"" (1903) From John Eglinton, ""The Philosophy of the Celtic Movement"" (1918) Appendix C: Dublin Musical and Performance Culture From Augusta Gregory, ""West Irish Ballads"" (1903) Charles Dibdin, ""The Lass that Loves a Sailor"" (1811) George Linley, ""Arrayed for the Bridal"" (1835) Anonymous, ""The Lass of Aughrim"" (date unknown) Alfred Bunn and Michael William Balfe, ""I Dreamt that I Dwelt in Marble Halls"" (1843) ""Dougherty's Boarding House,"" Wheman Bros.' Pocket Size Irish Song Book (1909) Appendix D: Emigration From Rev. Michael J. Henry, ""A Century of Irish Emigration"" (1900) From Maud Gonne, ""Ways of Checking Emigration"" (15 October 1901) Philip Francis Little, ""Farewell to the Land"" (1901) From Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, ""Parents and Children"" (1904) Appendix E: Religion, Home Rule, and the Struggle for Independence From Charles Stewart Parnell's Address in Cork (22 January 1885) From Katharine Tynan, ""The Parnell Split"" (1912) From Filson Young, ""Holy Ireland"" (1903) Maud Gonne, ""The Famine Queen"" (7 April 1900) From Michael J.F. McCarthy, ""In Catholic Dublin"" (1903)

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Book SynopsisIn 1898, The Strand Magazine, one of the most influential publications of the Victorian fin de siècle, deemed best-selling author and editor L.T. Meade a literary “celebrity” and “one of the most industrious writers of modern fiction.” Beginning in 1893 and continuing into the first decade of the twentieth century, Meade’s medical mysteries and thrilling tales of dangerous criminal women appeared in The Strand. There they competed successfully not only with Arthur Conan Doyle’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, but also with the works of the most popular writers of the day. The Sorceress of the Strand is one of Meade’s most compelling mysteries, and the first to feature the seductive criminal genius Madame Sara.The Sorceress of the Strand is accompanied in this edition by three other popular stories featuring powerful female criminal protagonists, from gang leaders to spies and terrorists. The historical appendices expand on the stories’ themes of criminality, gender, and political activism. Twenty-eight of the original periodical illustrations are included.Trade Review“This welcome edition of The Sorceress of the Strand and Other Stories makes L.T. Meade’s popular magazine crime fiction newly accessible for students and scholars alike. Editor Janis Dawson supplements these fascinating late-Victorian stories with a wide range of contemporary materials and includes many of the original illustrations as well. The Sorceress of the Strand will appeal to all readers of detective and crime fiction, especially those interested in the early development of the genre and in the role of women writers and women characters within it.” — Elizabeth Miller, University of California, Davis“Dawson’s insightful introduction, as well as her inclusion of the original illustrations and a recommended reading list, make Broadview’s edition an important new addition to studies of the late Victorian press. And as we read Meade’s incredible, gaudy tales, perhaps the sorceress will once again put us under her spell.” — Shannon Scott, Victorian Periodicals Review“Dawson’s edition will be at home in many college classrooms. Its clear, accessible style, explanatory footnotes, and reproductions of the original illustrations make it an excellent textbook choice in courses or units on the fin-de-siècle, Victorian or Edwardian print culture, sensation fiction, the New Woman, and detective fiction. It will also be essential reading for scholars in those fields. Dawson makes a persuasive case for a renewed scholarly attention to Meade’s work, both as a barometer of late-Victorian literary trends and as a contributor of a new twist on an old type: the subversive female criminal, half scientist, half witch, as beautiful as a princess and as ancient as a vampire, her chilling competence haunting the dreams of even seasoned police officers and trade agency managers.” — Caroline Hovanec, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionL.T. Meade: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextStories from the Diary of a Doctor (second series)“The Seventh Step”The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings“At the Edge of the Crater”The Heart of a Mystery“A Little Smoke”The Sorceress of the Strand “Madame Sara” “The Blood-Red Cross” “The Face of the Abbot” “The Talk of the Town” “The Bloodstone” “The Teeth of the Wolf” Appendix A: Contemporary Interviews and Reviews From “Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives,” Strand Magazine (December 1898) From L.T. Meade, “How I Began,” Girl’s Realm (November 1900) From Sarah A. Tooley, “Some Women Novelists,” Woman at Home (1897) From E.A. Bennett, “The Fiction of Popular Magazines,” Fame and Fiction (1901) Appendix B: Degeneration and Crime From Gina Lombroso Ferrero, Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso (1911) From Cesare Lombroso, “Atavism and Evolution,” Contemporary Review (July 1895) From J. Holt Schooling, “Nature’s Danger-Signals. A Study of the Faces of Murderers,” Harmsworth Magazine (1898-99) From H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) From Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897) From Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent (1907) Appendix C: Female Offenders From “The Probable Retrogression of Women,” Saturday Review (July 1871) From Eliza Lynn Linton, “The Wild Women as Social Insurgents,” Nineteenth Century (October 1891) From Cesare Lombroso and William Ferrero, The Female Offender (1895) “We Want the Vote” (1909) From Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm (1911) Appendix D: Anarchism and Terrorism From “Dynamite Outrages,” Times (26 January 1885) From “Explosion in Greenwich Park,” Times (16 February 1894) From “The Were-Wolf of Anarchy,” Punch (23 December 1893) Appendix E: Crime Fiction From “Crime in Fiction,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (August 1890) From Arnold Smith, “The Ethics of Sensational Fiction,” Westminster Review (August 1904) Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisThe best-known work by Aphra Behn, widely considered the first professional woman writer in England, Oroonoko is an important contribution to the development of the novel in English. Though it predates the British abolition movement by more than a century, it is also an early depiction of the dehumanizing racial violence of slavery: Oroonoko tells of a noble African prince enslaved and taken to Surinam, where he leads a violent revolt of the enslaved. When the revolt fails, circumstances force him to kill his wife, the beautiful Imoinda, before he is himself executed, dying with honor. This edition is accompanied by an informative introduction and contextual materials situating Oroonoko in the context of seventeenth-century slavery and the colonization of Surinam. Contextual materials also address the early reception of Oroonoko, including Thomas Southerne's popular stage adaptation of the narrative.Trade ReviewTiffany Potter’s excellent edition of Oroonoko arrives at a time when the history of the Atlantic slave trade is being scrutinized anew in both classrooms and the mass media. Potter deftly introduces Behn’s unsettling text and contextualizes it with seventeenth- and eighteenth-century voices that represent the full spectrum of contemporary responses to slavery: from horrifyingly matter-of-fact justifications of European domination to unforgettable firsthand accounts of abduction, enslavement, and brutal mistreatment. I have no doubt that this will be the preferred teaching edition of Oroonoko for years to come."—Paul Kelleher, Emory University"Tiffany Potter’s edition of Oroonoko makes this important text accessible to a wide range of readers. The introduction offers a concise biography of Behn as well as an insightful discussion of Oroonoko’s genres and reception. The text itself is helpfully annotated, and the supplemental materials provide essential contexts related to European understandings of Surinam and the slave trade. Potter’s edition will doubtlessly become the standard text for generations of students."—Christopher D. Johnson, Francis Marion University"Potter’s edition marshals vital contemporary documents to illuminate the emerging contexts of global trade, enslavement, and colonial racism within which Behn carves her tale. The introduction, as well as gathering the scant information we have about Behn herself, emphasizes the emergence of racialized discourses that were mobilized to justify slavery and the colonial appropriation of distant lands. Potter’s footnotes offer a commentary perfectly pitched to make the strange elements of Oronooko clear to new readers."—Kerry Sinanan, The University of Texas at San Antonio"Tiffany Potter's new edition of Oroonoko is an ideal teaching text. In addition to Behn's novel, it offers a wealth of contextual material on Surinam in the seventeenth century, Africa in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the slave trade, and eighteenth-century abolitionist narratives."—Robert Markley, University of Illinois"Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is widely viewed as a foundational work of British literature: required reading for anyone interested in the development of the novel in English, early women writers, or the history of race, slavery, and colonialism. It is also dense, complex, and deeply strange; as Potter puts it, ‘truth, history, fiction, and fictionalization cannot be untangled with confidence.’ Potter’s edition does a brilliant job of navigating readers through Behn’s tangled engagements with notions of slavery, race, gender, and social rank, as well as with generic conventions borrowed from romance, the travel narrative, heroic tragedy, and an emerging literary realism. It is especially good at providing context for both Behn herself—the first professional woman writer in English—and her most famous work, with helpful selections from contemporary documents on the English colonization of Surinam, and on the slave trade and slavery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These are judiciously excerpted, and explained with incisive, crystal clear commentary; Behn’s text is annotated with equal clarity. The edition is perfectly pitched for the undergraduate classroom; it should be accessible to advanced secondary students and appealing for the general reader as well. This will be the preferred teaching text for years to come."—Heather Keenleyside, University of Chicago"This new edition provides the essential context to situate Oroonoko within English colonial projects and the English trade in enslaved Africans in the seventeenth century. Additional primary materials include the voices of formerly enslaved people through the writing of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and oral histories of the slavery era of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from Suriname. … [W]ith contemporary responses to Behn and Oroonoko and a rich, informative introduction, this edition offers an invaluable cultural historical approach to Behn’s challenging novella."—Mark Vareschi, University of Wisconsin-Madison"Tiffany Potter’s timely new edition of Oroonoko combines an accessible version of Behn’s spellbinding text with a concise, well-chosen set of supplementary materials situating this fiction within the contexts of transatlantic slavery and British empire. Potter has a particularly judicious sense of both the force and limitations of Oroonoko as a document of the slave trade and as a subsequent touchstone for the abolitionist movement. This edition will be an excellent resource for specialized courses but also for general surveys alert to the urgency of these contexts for all literary study now. It will be equally valuable to general readers interested in the global origins of modern English fiction."—Timothy P. Campbell, University of Chicago"A good edition for students and researchers alike. Footnotes explain the basic meanings and facts; the text is clearly laid out, then framed with well-curated selections of documents about the Surinam colony and the conditions of slavery. Some of these contextual readings are chilling and some inspiring, some are by white Europeans and some by the descendants of abducted Africans, but they chime with moments in Behn's own text and fix them in the reader's memory. Tiffany Potter's introduction rightly brings out the contradictions that make Oroonoko a vital text in every sense, neither an escapist romance nor an antislavery tract: fragments of both jostle in the mind and heart of the fictional female narrator, at once credulous and skeptical, complicit in the colonial ‘we’ and revolted by it."—James Grantham Turner, University of California, Berkeley"Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko is a timeless book, one especially important for our times due to its exploration of the intersections of class, race, and gender in the seventeenth century and the legacies of capitalism, slavery, and colonization. Tiffany Potter’s introduction to Behn’s life and the novella’s story deftly untangles the complex layers of genre and seventeenth-century literary trends, politics, commerce, and religion that underwrite Behn’s narrative."—Mona Narain, Texas Christian UniversityTable of Contents APPENDICES The Dedication of Oroonoko to Lord Maitland (1688) The Invitation to Surinam: Lord Willoughby's Prospectus from Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham, Certain Overtures made by the Lord Willoughby of Parham unto all such as shall incline to print in the colony of Surinam on the continent of Guiana (c. 1655) On Surinam in the Seventeenth Century from George Warren, An Impartial Description of Surinam (1667) The Restoration English Monarchy and the Slave Trade from The Letter of His Royal Highness the Duke of York 'To the Right Honourable Francis Lord Willoughby of Parham, Lieutenant General and Chief Governor in and over all His Majesty's Island, Colonies, and Plantations, commonly called, The Charibee Islands in America, 10 January 1662 from letter To all His Majesty's Native Subjects in General: The Public Declaration and Invitation of the Company of Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa, 12 January 1662 Europeans on Slavery, Gold Coast to Guiana from William Snelgrave, A New Account of Guinea, and the Slave Trade (1734) from Charles de Rochefort, The History of the Carriby-Islands (1658, translated 1666) from Richard Ligon, A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados (1657) from Thomas Tryon, Friendly Advice to Gentlemen Planters (1684) from Jean-Baptiste du Tertre, Histoire Generale des Antilles Habitées par les François (1667–71) Black Voices on Slavery in the Eighteenth Century from Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (1787) Historical Reception of Behn's Oroonoko Thomas Southerne, dedication to Oroonoko (1696) from anonymous, The History of the Life and Memoirs of Mrs. Behn (1696) from The General Dictionary, Historical and Critical (1735)

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Book SynopsisOne of the first animal viewpoint novels published in North America, Margaret Marshall Saunders’s Beautiful Joe tells the story of an abused dog and his rescue by a humane family. The novel, based on the true story of a dog in the author’s home province of Ontario, fuelled humane sentiments worldwide. This annotated, illustrated edition draws on archival collections to trace the novel’s impact on the nineteenth-century animal protection movement. The introduction also highlights some of the important social issues surrounding the substantive revisions and omissions in ensuing editions of the text.The historical appendices place the novel in its rich milieu as an international bestseller that taught a generation of children to practice kindness towards animals. Documents include animal training manuals, lesson plans for teaching humane education, legal records of prosecutions for cruelty, and contemporary writings on the psychology of pet-keeping.Trade Review“Margaret Marshall Saunders begins the introduction to Beautiful Joe: ‘The wonderfully successful book, entitled “Black Beauty,” came like a living voice out of the animal kingdom.’ Keridiana Chez’s superb edition of Saunders’s great novel has recalled another vibrant animal voice. Chez not only restores the original 1894 edition—more politically contentious than its many sanitized twentieth-century successors—but she also provides a splendidly thorough introduction and evocative cultural contexts. Now at last there is a definitive edition of Beautiful Joe. I anticipate teaching it with great pleasure, right alongside Black Beauty, where the ‘living voice’ of the mutilated, loving dog and the ill-used, faithful horse will indeed be beautiful.” — Deborah Denenholz Morse, co-editor of Victorian Animal Dreams“At long last, the novel that haunts the history of humane education is back in print, and in a scholarly edition that restores the cringe-worthy details that indicate how a story of animal torture became Canada’s first bestseller. With well-organized appendices of carefully selected, contemporaneous ephemera, this edition is guaranteed to spark lively discussions among scholars and students alike. Situating Saunders’s fiction amid debates about animal protection, petkeeping, vivisection, prohibition, and publication, Chez’s comprehensive introduction further helps to set new terms of debate by making the case for the relevance of the novel to contemporary animal studies scholarship.” — Susan McHugh, University of New EnglandTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionMargaret Marshall Saunders: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextBeautiful JoeAppendix A: Selected Reviews of Beautiful Joe From “Books for Young Folks,” Books (December 1894) From “Editorial Notes,” McMaster University Monthly (February 1894) From “Beautiful Joe,” Sunday School Times (7 April 1894) From “Books and Authors,” Record of Christian Work (June 1894) From “Fiction,” Literature (June 1898) From “Our Book Table,” Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal (1908) Appendix B: Readings on Animal Protectionism Prosecutions From “Cruelty to Animals—First Case of Punishment under the New Law,” New York Times (13 April 1866) From “Mr. Bergh’s Good Work,” New York Times (18 July 1874) “Cruel Cases,” Our Dumb Animals (May 1874) Humane Destruction From “Drowning the Dogs,” New York Times (8 July 1877) From William K. Horton, “The Humane Destruction of Small Animals,” Our Dumb Animals (November 1911) From W.F. Morse, “The Humane and Sanitary Disposal of Superfluous Animal Life,” American Journal of Public Health (July 1913) The Vivisection Controversy From Caroline Earle White, An Answer to Dr. Keen’s Address Entitled “Our Recent Debts to Vivisection” (1886) From Lena Palmer, “Vivisection,” New York Medical Times (March 1889) From Dr. George Fleming, Vivisection: A Prize Essay (1871) From Dr. George Murray Humphry, Vivisection: What Good Has It Done? (1882) From Dr. Michael Foster, “Vivisection,” Popular Science Monthly (April 1874) Appendix C: Teachers’ Lesson Plans for Humane Education From Oliver Angell, The Child’s Fourth Book (1888) From John S. Clark, Mary Dana Hicks, and Walter S. Perry, “Love of Animals,” Teacher’s Manual Part I for the Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction (1898) From J.W. Searson and George E. Martin, Studies in Reading (1913) From Paul Whitfield Horn and Edwin DuBois Shurter, New American Readers Book 4 (1919) From Emma Miller Bolenius, Advanced Lessons in Everyday English (1921) Appendix D: Readings on Pet-Keeping Culture The Dangers and Benefits of Pet-Keeping From Dr. Charles L. Dana, “The Zoophil-Psychosis: A Modern Malady,” Medical Record (6 March 1909) From Reverend Eli Hartness, “Pets and Their Long Life,” Old and New (September 1872) From Alvin George Eberhart, “Children’s Pets,” Everything About Dogs (1902) From Eva C.E. Lückes, “Children and Pets,” Babyhood (December 1886) From “Household Pets,” Good Housekeeping (10 December 1887) From Dr. Granville Stanley Hall, Adolescence (1905) From Dr. W. Fowler Bucke, “Cyno-Psychoses: Children’s Thoughts, Reactions, and Feelings Toward Pet Dogs,” Pedagogical Seminary (1903) From Mabel A. Marsh, “Children and Animals,” Studies in Education (1902) From K.G. Cash, “Children’s Pets: A Side Study,” Studies in Education (1903) Training Manuals From James E. Le Rossignol, “The Training of Animals,” American Journal of Psychology (November 1892) From Dorothy Canfield, “Pets,” What Shall We Do Now?: A Book of Suggestions for Children’s Games and Employments (1907) Appendix E: Selections from Other Animal Literature From Marshall Saunders, Beautiful Joe’s Paradise (1902) From Louise S. Patteson, Pussy Meow: The Autobiography of a Cat (1901) From Walter Emanuel, A Dog Day, or The Angel in the House (1919) From Charles G.D. Roberts, “The Animal Story,” The Kindred of the Wild: A Book of Animal Life (1903) From Ernest Thompson Seton, Krag, the Kootenay Ram (1897) From Jack London, The Call of the Wild (1903) Appendix F: Substantive Variants “Black Jim” Chapter (1907 edition) Variant to the Introduction (1920 edition) Bruno’s Alternative Fate (1965 edition) Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisThe Grand Babylon Hotel opens with New York millionaire Theodore Racksole's demand for an ""Angel Kiss"" - an American concoction the Grand Babylon does not serve. Racksole and his daughter Nella are on vacation, but quickly find themselves running the hotel, after Theodore's impulsive purchase of the establishment from founder and owner Felix Babylon. Soon the Racksoles are rushing to solve the mystery that threatens the reigning Prince of Posen - and Nella's future. The hotel itself opens possibilities for adventure, discovery, and wonder that the Racksoles had never anticipated.The novel, out of print for decades, raises serious questions about the possibilities for a truly cosmopolitan world, offering a dazzling picture of what this would look like. The historical appendices to this edition include extensive photographs and documents from the history of the Savoy Hotel (the model for the Grand Babylon) and material on the film version.Trade Review“Randi Saloman’s editing makes The Grand Babylon Hotel even grander, adding layers of historical, culinary, linguistic, and geographical detail to this fascinating and revelatory fiction. A lucid introduction and magnificent footnotes help to bring Bennett back to life—a resuscitation he surely deserves! This edition is wonderful for teaching—the contextual material is wisely selected and helps to put Bennett into his proper milieu and to bring him—thanks to Saloman’s scholarly vitality and conviction—into ours.”— Elaine Freedgood, New York University“For too long Arnold Bennett’s posthumous reputation has been overshadowed by his public disagreements with Virginia Woolf: he decried her cleverness, ‘the lowest of artistic qualities’; while she considered him a ‘workman,’ a ‘materialist,’ the representative of an outmoded generation. But the range and vitality of his works give the lie to Woolf’s assessment, and in The Grand Babylon Hotel we encounter a young and ambitious Bennett, a writer exploring the spaces, identities, and anxieties of urban modernity. Through her careful notes, contextual appendices, and illuminating introduction, Randi Saloman welcomes us to the Babylon Hotel, where anonymity and aporia, the ‘community and connection’ of its rooms and corridors, seem to embody the paradoxes of modern life. Much overdue, this new edition will introduce Bennett’s strange and enthralling ‘fantasia’ to a whole new generation of readers.”— Amber Regis, University of Sheffield“The modern hotel is a locus for all the fluidities, anxieties, and opportunities for self-invention that define modernity itself, as Arnold Bennett recognized in his delightful, genre-confounding novel The Grand Babylon Hotel, a mystery-farce accented by sharp observations on the nature of modern identity. Randi Salomon’s fine edition of the novel situates it equally well in the contexts of Bennett’s career, of Edwardian and modernist literary history, and of the dynamic first years of the turbulent twentieth century. Her illuminating introduction is equally well-attuned to its playful and thoughtful sides, and demonstrates why, even when he is having fun, Arnold Bennett is worth serious reading.” — Robert Squillace, New York University“Appendices include Bennett’s views on [Grand Babylon Hotel] from his ‘Journal’ and Letters; quotations relevant to GBH from other writings by Bennett; photographs and images of Bennett; contemporary reviews of GBH; quotations from different histories of the Savoy Hotel including photographs, highly relevant as the Grand Babylon is based on the Savoy as indeed is Bennett’s last completed novel ‘Imperial Palace’ (1930); and details of the ‘lost’ 1916 film of the novel … With all the extras this edition provides outstanding ‘value added’ and is a significant contribution to the 150th celebration of Bennett’s birth in 2017.” — Martin Laux, archivist of the Arnold Bennett Society“The Grand Babylon Hotel is a ripping good yarn, and Randi Saloman’s new edition for Broadview truly does it justice … Saloman matches the exuberance and vivacity—and the rich detail— of her subject in the first-rate and well-written scholarly apparatus she provides as part of this new edition. Like other Broadview editions, this one comes complete with an extensive and illuminating introduction, appendices providing important background and context on author and work, and detailed explanatory footnotes” — Janine Utell, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Arnold Bennett: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text The Grand Babylon HotelAppendix A: Bennett's Journal and Letters From The Journal of Arnold Bennett 1896-1928 (1933) From Letters of Arnold Bennett (1966-86) Appendix B: Other Works by Bennett From The Author's Craft and other Critical Writings (1914) From The Truth About an Author (1903) From Imperial Palace (1930) Appendix C: Photographs and Caricatures of Arnold Bennett Appendix D: Contemporary Reviews of The Grand Babylon Hotel Academy (18 January 1902) Times Literary Supplement (24 January 1902) From Spectator (25 January 1902) Appendix E: The Savoy Hotel: Historical Accounts, Photographs, and Related Images From the Savoy Hotel Website From Compton Mackenzie, The Savoy of London (1953) From Stanley Jackson, The Savoy: A Century of Taste (1989) Photographs from the Savoy Hotel Archives and Related Images Appendix F: From Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) Appendix G: Film Versions of The Grand Babylon Hotel Advertisements for the Lost Grand Babylon Hotel Film (1916) Excerpts from the Draft Screenplay of the Unmade Gavin Lambert/Lindsay Anderson Grand Babylon Hotel Film (1970s) Correspondence Related to the Film Project Works Cited and Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisE. Pauline Johnson, also known as Tekahionwake, is remarkable as one of a very few early North American Indigenous poets and fiction writers. Most Indigenous writers of her time were men educated for the ministry who published religious, anthropological, autobiographical, political, and historical works, rather than poetry and fiction. More extraordinary still, she became both a canonical poet and a literary celebrity, performing on stage for fifteen years across Canada, in the US, and in London. Johnson is now seen as a central figure in the intellectual history of Canada and the United States, and as an important historical example of Indigenous feminism. This edition collects a diverse range of Johnson’s writings on what was then called “the Indian question” and on the question of her own complex Indigenous identity.Six thematic sections gather Johnson’s poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, and a rich selection of historical appendices provide context for her public life and her work as a feminist and activist for Indigenous people.Trade Review“More than a century after her death, E. Pauline Johnson continues to surprise, intrigue, and challenge us to ask important questions about the long and often troubled relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canada. Margery Fee and Dory Nason have done a commendable job in assembling Johnson’s work in such a way as to demonstrate not only her enduring legacy as a writer, but also, more importantly, her efforts as an early Native activist/feminist who engaged with issues that First Nation, Métis, and Inuit communities still confront on a daily basis. Created in an era during which ‘Indians’ were considered a ‘disappearing race,’ Johnson’s writing serves as a testament to the resilience of Indigenous peoples everywhere, and this book is evidence that her words deserve to be considered as still relevant, and vital, to the ongoing project of decolonizing our nations.” — Richard Monture, McMaster University“This collection represents a significant expansion of the available archive of E. Pauline Johnson’s work, positioning her writing in relationship to other literary and political voices of her era. A rich contribution.” — Beth H. Piatote, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionE. Pauline Johnson: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the Text The Iroquois Confederacy and Loyalism “Canadian Born” (1900) “The Re-interment of Red Jacket” (1885) “‘Brant,’ A Memorial Ode” (1886) “The Lodge of the Law-makers” (1906) “My Mother” (1909) “Heroic Indian Mothers” (1908) “Forty-Five Miles on the Grand” (1892) “A Brother Chief” (1892) “The Brotherhood” (1910) “The Death Cry” (1888) “As Red Men Die” (1890) “The Avenger” (1892) “Her Majesty’s Guest” (1913) “A Pagan in Saint Paul’s Cathedral” (1906) “We-hro’s Sacrifice” (1907) “The Happy Hunting Grounds” (1889) The Plains and the Second Riel Resistance “A Cry from an Indian Wife” (1895) “Wolverine” (1893) “Silhouette” (1894) “The Cattle Thief” (1894) “A Request” (1886) “The Indian Corn Planter” (1897) “The Haunting Thaw” (1907) Dreams, Rivers, and Winds “At the Ferry” (1886) “The Song My Paddle Sings” (1892) “His Majesty, the West Wind” (1894) “Shadow River” (1889) “Kicking Horse River” (1894) “Moonset” (1894) Women and Children “A Strong Race Opinion: On the Indian Girl in Modern Fiction” (1892) “A Red Girl’s Reasoning” (1893) “Dawendine” (1895) “Ojistoh” (1895) “The Derelict” (1896) “The Pilot of the Plains” (1891) “Lullaby of the Iroquois” (1896) • 190 “The Corn Husker” (1896) • 190 Residential School “As It Was in the Beginning” (1899) “His Sister’s Son” (1896) “Little Wolf-Willow” (1907) The West Coast “The Potlatch” (1910) “Catharine of the Crow’s Nest” (1910) “Hoolool of the Totem Poles” (1911) “The Tenas Klootchman” (1911) “A Squamish Legend of Napoleon” (1910) “The Legend of the Ice Babies” (1911) “The Lost Lagoon” (1910) Appendix A: On Johnson From Garth Grafton / Sara Jeannette Duncan, Interview with E. Pauline Johnson, “Women’s World,” Toronto Globe (14 October 1886) W.D. Lighthall, “Miss E. Pauline Johnson,” Songs of the Great Dominion (1889) Hector Charlesworth, “Miss Pauline Johnson’s Poems,” Canadian Magazine (1895) Horatio Hale, Review of The White Wampum, The Critic (4 January 1896) “From Wigwam to Concert Platform,” Evening Telegraph [Dundee] (4 July 1906) Charles Mair, “Pauline Johnson: An Appreciation,” The Moccasin Maker (1913) Gilbert Parker, Introduction, The Moccasin Maker (1913) Ernest Thompson Seton, “Tekahionwake (Pauline Johnson),” Introduction, The Shaganappi (1913) From Theodore Watts-Dunton, “In Memoriam: Pauline Johnson,” Introduction, Flint and Feather: Collected Verse (1913) Appendix B: Writings by Women Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, “On Leaving My Children John and Jane at School” (1851) Margaret Fuller, “Governor Everett Receiving the Indian Chiefs, November, 1837” (1844) From Sarah Winnemucca, “Domestic and Social Moralities” (1883) Inshata Theamba (“Bright Eyes”) / Susette La Flesche, Introduction to William Justin Harsha’s Ploughed Under: The Story of an Indian Chief (1881) From Anna Julia Cooper, “Woman versus the Indian” (1892) Sophia Alice Callahan, “Is This Right?,” Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1891) Zitkala-Ša / Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, “Why I Am a Pagan,” Atlantic Monthly (December 1902) From Zitkala-Ša / Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, “An Indian Teacher among Indians,” Atlantic Monthly (March 1900) Appendix C: On the Six Nations Duncan Campbell Scott, “The Onondaga Madonna” (1898) W.D. Lighthall, “The Caughnawaga Beadwork Seller” (1889) Walt Whitman, “Red Jacket (From Aloft)” (1885) Ely S. Parker / Donehogawa, Speech at the Ceremony to Re-inter Red Jacket (1885) From Arthur C. Parker, “Certain Important Elements of the Indian Problem,” American Indian Magazine (1915) Appendix D: Canadian Residential Schools From Nicholas Flood Davin, Report on Industrial Schools for Indians and Half-Breeds (14 March 1879) From Peter Henderson Bryce, The Story of a National Crime (1922) Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisLaon and Cythna is one of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s most celebrated, and most controversial, literary works. At once philosophical treatise and love story, it follows the adventures of a pair of siblings who lead a political uprising based on socialist, feminist, and ecological ideals, only to be executed for treason. In its own time Shelley’s poem was condemned by some for promoting sedition, atheism, promiscuity, and incest, while others praised its beauty and radical vision. Although it inspired a generation of writers and activists, today Laon and Cythna is hardly read except by scholars. This edition seeks to correct that oversight and to introduce new audiences to this important and powerful text.Historical appendices provide context for Shelley’s political and philosophical ideas, contemporary feminism, and the treatment of Asia and the Middle East in Romantic literature.Trade Review“With its illuminating appendices and compellingly argued introduction, Anahid Nersessian’s edition of Laon and Cythna; Or, the Revolution of the Golden City richly contextualizes and enlivens one of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s most understudied poems. This edition will become essential reading for students, scholars, or anyone studying Romantic literature’s engagement with the French Revolution and its aftermath, orientalist aesthetics, feminist thought, and utopian philosophy. Indispensable for those working with the poem’s later incarnation—the revised and retitled The Revolt of Islam—Nersessian’s edition also makes the original censored poem and its literary and historical contexts easily accessible for the first time.” — Michele Speitz, Furman University“This new edition of Laon and Cythna makes Shelley’s epic revolutionary romance widely available in a scholarly yet accessible form for the first time. Anahid Nersessian’s highly engaging and wide-ranging introduction makes a compelling case for the centrality of the text’s preoccupations to Shelley’s work and thought more widely, in particular, how Shelley’s reflection on the nature and means of sociopolitical reform shapes the trajectory of the poem. The introduction and supplementary material provide a rich range of historical, political, and literary contexts for the poem. Nersessian demonstrates how the poem participates in contemporary debates about women’s rights, the possibilities of non-violent revolution, and the desirability of vegetarianism, and discusses the poem’s contribution to ideas of Romantic orientalism. This superb new edition is an invaluable resource for new readers and experienced scholars alike and is a timely contribution to Shelley studies more broadly.” — Sally West, University of ChesterTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPercy Bysshe Shelley: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextLaon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden CityAppendix A: Shelley’s Political and Philosophical Prose From A Vindication of Natural Diet (1813) From “On Love” (1818) From “A Philosophical View of Reform” (1819–20) Appendix B: Correspondence about Laon and Cythna Shelley to an unknown publisher (13 October 1817) From Shelley to Charles Ollier (3 December 1817) From Shelley to William Godwin (11 December 1817) Shelley to Charles Ollier (11 December 1817) From Shelley to Thomas Moore (16 December 1817) From Shelley to Charles Ollier (22 January 1818) Appendix C: Contemporary Reviews of The Revolt of Islam From Leigh Hunt, “Literary Notices, No. 39,” The Examiner (1 February 1818) From Leigh Hunt, “Literary Notices, No. 41,” The Examiner (1 March 1818) From [John Gibson Lockhart,] “Observations on the Revolt of Islam,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (January 1819) From [John Taylor Coleridge,] “Shelley’s Revolt of Islam,” Quarterly Review (April 1819) From Leigh Hunt, “The Quarterly Review and the Revolt of Islam,” The Examiner (10 October 1819) Appendix D: Revising the Romance From Richard Hurd, Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762) From Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) From Helen Maria Williams, Letters from France (1792) From William Wordsworth, “The Female Vagrant” (1798) From Lord Byron, Canto II of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812) Appendix E: The Rights of Women From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) From William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, 3rd ed. (1798) From James Lawrence, The Empire of the Nairs (1811) Appendix F: Romantic Orientalism From Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Persian Letters (1721) From Constantin-François Chasseboeuf, Comte de Volney, The Ruins: or a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires (1791) From Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer (1801) From Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), The Missionary (1811) From Lord Byron, The Giaour, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale (1813) From Thomas Love Peacock, Ahrimanes (c. 1815) Appendix G: Mary Shelley’s “Note on The Revolt of Islam” (1839)From Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, “Note on The Revolt of Islam” (1839)Works Cited and Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe first publisher of Tender Buttons described the book’s effect on readers as “something like terror, there are no known precedents to cling to.” Written in pencil in a small notebook and barely revised after its first composition, the text caused a sensation and was widely reviewed and discussed on its publication. This edition of Gertrude Stein’s transformative work immerses the text in its cultural context. The most opaque of modernist texts, Tender Buttons also had modernism’s most voluminous and varied response.This Broadview Edition uses the response to Tender Buttons as a way of understanding this spectacular moment in publishing history. Stein’s text is published alongside its parodies, defenses, publicity brochure, and selections from the hundreds of responses to it in American daily newspapers, which placed it in the context of Cubism, fashion shows, and celebrity culture.Trade Review“Ever since I heard of Don Marquis’s parodies of Tender Buttons, I have been waiting for this edition. Stein’s art, for Mina Loy, ‘makes a demand for a creative audience, by providing a stimulus,’ and I felt that a parody was an interesting response to it. Now with Leonard Diepeveen’s superb, archive-based edition, I know that Marquis was one of many in the popular press in 1914 who went through bafflement by using her style, copying it to understand it. Stein wanted a new way to say, not explain, and the journalists followed suit. I now know that like the Cubists and Fauvists whose work drew massive crowds to the Armory Show in 1913, Stein had an audience, and it was a similar audience—and if this bellwether text was the literary analogue of the paintings, it did not disappoint. I know that when Stein later said ‘My sentences do get under their skin’ she was thinking back to this historical moment, this annus mirabilis, when to write about her led to writing like her; read and ‘the pesky flea has bitten you,’ said Alfred Kreymborg. Once again, we begin.” — Logan Esdale, Chapman University“Few modernist landmarks are as exhilarating in challenging the tyrannies of sense-making as Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons. Published originally by a one-man avant-garde press, the 78-page booklet caused an uproar among columnists who couldn’t decide whether it marked a revolution in language or a practical joke. But while the media made fun of Gertrude Stein, writers absorbed her rhythms and repetitions until her influence grew inexorable. Leonard Diepeveen’s edition makes Stein’s accomplishment more accessible than ever before. His excellent introduction brings alive the book’s writing and reception, and a broad selection of early reviews and commentary demonstrates how it both baffled and emboldened audiences. The Broadview Press edition of this wholly singular classic reveals both how and why the mater of modernism pushed literature’s buttons—sometimes tenderly, sometimes not.” — Kirk Curnutt, Troy University“This terrific edition of Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons vividly situates the text in its moment of publication in 1914. The editors provide, as footnotes, Stein’s own corrections to errata in the Marie Claire edition, and follow up with a generous sampling of print reviews and press reactions. In addition to classic statements by Mencken and Van Vechten, readers will find very keen and rewarding treatments of Tender Buttons by arts patron Mabel Dodge and poet Mina Loy. These and the other respondents, imitators, critics and celebrants brought together in this volume offer an historical center of gravity for a poetic text that challenges readers to ‘Act so there is no use in a center.’” — Patricia Schechter, Portland State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionGertrude Stein: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextTender ButtonsAppendix A: Manuscript Pages of “A Seltzer Bottle,” Tender ButtonsAppendix B: Claire Marie Publicity Brochure for Tender ButtonsAppendix C: Gertrude Stein on Tender Buttons On Her Reception On Words On Interpretation Appendix D: Reviews and Contemporary Comment Generala. “Literary Notes,” St. Joseph News-Press (8 August 1914)b. Mabel Dodge, “Speculations, or Post-Impressionism in Prose,” Arts and Decoration (March 1913)c. Alfred Kreymborg, “Gertrude Stein—Hoax and Hoaxtress,” New York Morning Telegraph (7 March 1915)d. Carl Van Vechten, “How to Read Gertrude Stein,” Trend (1914)e. From Mina Loy, “Gertrude Stein,” Transatlantic Review (1924)f. “Flat Prose,” Atlantic Monthly (September 1914)g. “Gertrude Stein,” New York City Call (7 June 1914)h. “Time to Show a Message,” Omaha World Herald (7 June 1914) Cubism and Futurisma. From Mary Mills Lyall, The Cubies’ ABC (1913)b. “Cubist Literature,” San Antonio Light (14 June 1914)c. “What Is Lunch?,” Chicago Tribune (12 June 1914)d. “Gertrude Stein as Literary Cubist,” Philadelphia North American (13 June 1914)e. G.V.S., “Tender Buttons,” Pittsburgh Sun (17 July 1914)f. H.L. Mencken, “A Cubist Treatise,” Baltimore Sun (6 June 1914) Celebrity and Mass Culturea. Oscar Odd McIntyre, “Day by Day in New York,” Bridgeport Post (13 July 1914)b. Marguerite Mooers Marshall, “No Straight Lines,” Toledo Blade (9 July 1914)c. “Futurist Man’s Dress to Be a One-Piece Suit With One Button and Twinkling in Colors,” Toledo Blade (9 July 1914)d. “Gertrude Stein of the Stage,” Pittsfield Eagle (4 November 1914) Parodiesa. From Franklin P. Adams, “The Conning Tower,” Cleveland Leader (23 June 1914)b. “The Futurist on the Trade,” New York City Daily Trade Record (18 June 1914)c. “Our Own Polo Guide: The Game Explained a la Gertrude Stein,” New York Evening Sun (13 June 1914)d. Don Marquis, “Gertrude Stein on the War,” New York Evening Sun (2 October 1914)e. A.S.K. [Alexander S. Kaun], “The Same Book from Another Standpoint,” Little Review (July 1914) Works Cited and Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisKelroy, a nearly-forgotten 1812 novel by Rebecca Rush, combines the refinement of the novel of manners with the Gothic novel's hidden evil to tell the story of the star-crossed lovers Emily Hammond and the romantic Kelroy, whose romance is doomed by the machinations of Emily's mother. Set in the elite world of Philadelphia's Atlantic Rim society, Kelroy transcends the genre of sentimental romance to expose the financial pressures that motivate Mrs. Hammond's gambles. As she sacrifices her daughter to maintain the appearance of urbane wealth, Mrs. Hammond emerges as one of the most compellingly detestable figures in early American literature.Appendices include materials on gender, economics, and marriage; games and dancing; and gambling and the lottery in early urban America. A group of illustrations of early-nineteenth-century Philadelphia is also included.Trade Review“Betsy Klimasmith’s richly informed edition of Rebecca Rush’s Kelroy will go far toward restoring the novel to its rightful place as one of the most accomplished of early American novels. Situating Rush’s work in the broad field of transatlantic culture, Klimasmith’s introduction recreates the daily life of the Early Republic, immersing the reader in the fraught contest for security and status shaping urban experience. In its portrait of the sociopathic Mrs. Hammond, Kelroy provides an unforgettable account of that culture’s moral flaws, the subtle violence of the drawing room, and the voracity of the Atlantic world. Extensive appendices capture the period through excerpts from sentimental novels, sermons on gambling—even notes on dancing etiquette. Professor Klimasmith’s remarkable edition offers a vital bridge between that lost world of cosmopolitan striving and our own.” — Joseph Fichtelberg, Hofstra University“This much-needed edition brings an important early American novel by a woman author back into print for new audiences and sets out a fresh way to interpret its significance. Betsy Klimasmith’s accessible and engaging introduction explains how the novel’s Philadelphian characters participate in the urbane social rituals and economic speculations characterizing cosmopolitan centers of the Atlantic rim. The novel’s depiction of a mother’s shocking machinations to ensure her daughters’ and her own economic stability through marriage is placed alongside illuminating contextual documents relating to Philadelphia’s urban development and attitudes toward courtship, marriage, gambling, and lotteries. The edition demonstrates the acuteness both of Rebecca Rush’s analysis of gender and economic dynamics in the early-nineteenth-century Atlantic world and of Kelroy’s significance in inaugurating a tradition of urban fiction in American literature.” — Theresa Gaul, Texas Christian University“The Broadview Press version of Kelroy represents another stellar addition to its growing catalog of scholarly editions of hard-to-find texts with feminist or environmental perspectives. The introduction by Betsy Klimasmith offers a rigorous intellectual challenge to upper-division and graduate students. In addition to contextualizing the author and the work, Klimasmith raises a series of research questions for students to ponder as they move forward to read the novel. What makes this Broadview version so valuable for apprentice literary scholars is the series of seventeen supplementary readings … [which] supply a starting point for productive class discussion as well as potential class presentations or seminar papers.” — Ann Beebe, University of Texas at Tyler, Early American Literature“Klimasmith’s version … adds something new by discussing how the text’s emphasis on marriage and seduction is also informed by its concern with city life, sociability, and transatlanticism. Her introduction is particularly useful for explaining Kelroy’s cultural context, both as a narrative in conversation with other seduction novels such as Susanna Rowson’s Charlotte Temple and Charles Brockden Brown’s Ormond, and as a groundbreaking text that showcases the ‘powerful but understated forces that move the cosmopolitan Philadelphia society [Rush] chronicles, from the unwritten rules of polite conversation to the deathly reverberations of swallowed pride’ … Kelroy questions, revises, and reverses seduction tropes while exposing the polite and often sordid details of urban society. This text is a well- edited, intriguing, and welcome addition to its genre.” — Kacy Tillman, LegacyTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionRebecca Rush: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextKelroyAppendix A: Early Philadelphia “A Plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia” (1777) William Russell Birch, Introduction to The City of Philadelphia (1800) William Russell Birch, “Plan of the City of Philadelphia” (1800) William Russell Birch, “Bank of the United States, in Third Street, Philadelphia” (1800) William Russell Birch, “Mendenhall Ferry, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania” (1809) Appendix B: Gender, Economics, and Marriage From Fidelity Rewarded, Or, The History of Polly Granville (1796) From Mrs. Patterson, The Unfortunate Lovers, and Cruel Parents (1799) Susanna Rowson, “Affection” and “The Choice,” Miscellaneous Poems (1804) Appendix C: Entertainments in Early Urban America Thomas Crehore, Playing Cards (c. 1820) From Sarah “Sally” Sayward Barrell Keating Wood, Dorval, or, The Speculator (1801) A Lady’s Invitation to the Philadelphia Assembly (1785) Rules of the Philadelphia Assembly, Season 1812 & 13 “The City Dancing Assembly Honors Washington’s Birthday with a Ball” Philadelphia Gazette (24 February 1794) Thomas Wilson, “The Five Positions of Dancing,” An Analysis of Country Dancing (1811) Appendix D: Gambling and the Lottery From Caroline Matilda Warren, The Gamesters: or, Ruins of Innocence (1805) From Mason Locke Weems, God’s Revenge Against Gambling (1810) From The Wonderful Advantages of Adventuring in the Lottery!!! (1800) Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisJack of Newbury is an incisive yet remarkably entertaining work of narrative prose—and one that was extremely popular when it was published in the 1590s. The title character, an apprentice weaver, marries his former master’s wife, expands her cloth business into an enormous enterprise, refuses Henry VIII’s offer of a knighthood, and confronts Cardinal Wolsey; meanwhile, his servants find themselves in a range of comic situations. While amusing, Jack of Newbury also carries a serious and subversive political message: as Peter C. Herman puts it in his introduction to the volume, “the truly valuable subjects” in Deloney’s narrative “are not the nobility, but the merchant class.” The range of contextual materials included with this edition help to set it in the broader context of its economic and political as well as literary culture.Trade Review“This is an excellent and approachable teaching edition of an important text. Deloney’s Jack of Newbury is significant both as a fine example of a popular sixteenth-century prose narrative, and as an early example of literature created by and for the middling sort rather than social elites. Herman’s edition brilliantly contextualizes Deloney’s text in relation to social and economic conflicts in late sixteenth-century England. The supporting texts are excellently chosen, and provide useful insights into early modern English notions of class, hierarchy, obedience, rebellion, and patriotism.” — Ian Moulton, Arizona State University“Expertly introduced and judiciously annotated by Peter Herman, this modernized Jack of Newbury will engage readers with what Herman excitingly calls ‘an alternative history of England.’ The well-chosen supplementary texts further this project in ways useful to scholars and accessible to undergraduates.” — Heidi Brayman Hackel, University of California, Riverside“Peter Herman’s detailed and highly readable introduction and thoughtful footnotes render this compelling example of Elizabethan prose fiction invaluable to scholars and students alike, while additional materials provide a useful socioeconomic and political context. This is a much-needed, accessible, student-friendly edition of Deloney’s finest work.” — Scott Oldenburg, Tulane University“Peter C. Herman’s introduction to this comprehensive new edition of Jack of Newbury offers an insight into the context of historiography in which Deloney was writing, marking him out from the tradition of English chroniclers in their focus on the aristocratic classes. Herman shows how Deloney’s work filled the gap created by early modern history writing, where ‘ordinary people’ were often excised from narratives—and thus from history itself … as well as showing how Deloney’s tale departs from English historiographers, Herman demonstrates how Jack of Newbury subverts ideas of the status quo prevalent in wider English culture … Herman also provides an illuminated assessment of Deloney’s contribution to English ballad culture, and in particular his Strange Histories, a collection which evinces Deloney’s interest in the blending of fiction and history. Yet Herman also prints a ballad of Deloney’s that celebrates the defeat of the Spanish Armada. This is an edition that explores Deloney’s fascination with the historical and suggests his writings’ relevance to the politics of his time.” — The Times Literary Supplement“Peter Herman’s excellent edition of Jack of Newbury brings together a lucid, readable edition of the text with several intriguing pieces of contextual material and an introduction that outlines the stakes of encountering Deloney in one of these courses … Some students are sure to be intrigued by the excellent work Herman has done to put Jack of Newbury in context …. Peter Herman and Broadview have done teachers of Elizabethan culture and fiction a great service by making this important text available in this convenient and accessible classroom edition. It is sure to find a wide audience.” — Andrew Fleck, Renaissance QuarterleyTable of ContentsIntroductionJack of NewburyIn Context Thomas Deloney, “The Queen’s Visiting of the Camp at Tilbury with Her Entertainment There” (1588) from “An Exhortation Concerning Good Order and Obedience to Rulers and Magistrates,” Certain Sermons or Homilies (1547) from “An Homily against Disobedience and Willful Rebellion” (1570) from Pedro Mexía, The Forest, Or Collection of Histories No Less Profitable than Pleasant and Necessary, Done Out of French into English by Thomas Fortescue (1571) from Holinshed’s Chronicles (1577, revised 1587) [on the reaction to the “Amicable Grant”] from William Harrison, The Description of England, in Holinshed’s Chronicles (1587) The Norfolk Libel (1595) Letter from the Lord Mayor of London to Lord Burghley Concerning Thomas Deloney (1596) Depositions of Bartholomew Steere and His Associates (1596) A Portfolio: Images of Weaving and Cloth-Making Further Reading

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Book SynopsisThe sentimental antislavery novel Ida May appeared so like its predecessor in the genre, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, that for the month of November 1854 reviewers looked for Harriet Beecher Stowe’s hand in the narrative. Ida May explores the “possibility” of white slavery from the safety of an exciting, romantic narrative; Ida is kidnapped on her fifth birthday from her white middle-class family in Pennsylvania, stained brown, and sold into slavery in the South. Traumatic amnesia brought about by a severe beating keeps her from knowing whom she really is, until after five years in slavery, her identity is recovered in a dramatic flash of recognition. To the abolitionists of the period, fictional narratives of white enslaved children offered a crucial possibility: to unsettle the legitimacy of a race-based system of enslavement.The historical appendices to this Broadview Edition provide context for the novel’s reception, Pike’s racial politics, and the “problem” of white slavery in nineteenth-century abolitionist writing.Trade Review“This welcome edition of Ida May: Story of Things Actual and Possible restores an unjustly forgotten abolitionist novel to wide availability. Ida May itself is a politically sophisticated and aesthetically intriguing work that both resonates with and departs from the better-known antislavery fictions of Lydia Maria Child, William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, as well as the mid-century ‘orphan novels’ of Maria Cummins, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Susan Warner, and others. Jessie Morgan-Owens’s research and editorial work expertly frame the novel’s historical and contemporary relevance, making it especially accessible and appealing for undergraduate and graduate courses on the US novel, American women’s writing, and transnational antislavery resistance literature.” — Martha Schoolman, Florida International UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionMary Hayden Green Pike: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextIda MayAppendix A: “Who Wrote Ida May?” The Sentimental Antislavery Novel and Genre Formation William Cullen Bryant’s New York Evening Post, November and December 1854 Boston Daily Atlas, November 1854 Portland Inquirer, November 1854 Richard Hildreth’s Boston Evening Telegraph, November 1854 Boston Courier, December 1854 Appendix B: Contemporary Response & Selected Reviews of Ida May New York Independent, November 1854 The National Era, November 1854 The Liberator, November 1854 Frederick Douglass’ Paper, November 1854, January 1855 Advertisements for Ida May Negative Reviews Southern Reviews Appendix C: Contextual Documents on Kidnapping and the “Problem” of White Slavery “The Story of Ida May,” Boston Daily Atlas, December 1854 From William Craft, Running A Thousand Miles for Freedom, 1860 Lydia Maria Child, “Mary French and Susan Easton,” 1834 From Francis Coburn Adams, Our World, The Slaveholder’s Daughter, 1855 Charles Sumner, “Another Ida May,” Boston Telegraph, February 1855. Appendix D: About the Author—Mary Hayden Green Pike’s Racial Politics Caroline F. Putnam, The Liberator, October 1859 From Mary Hayden Green Pike, Caste: A Story of Republican Equality 1856 Frederick A. Pike Congressional address, “Tax, Fight, Emancipate,” February, 1862 Mary Hayden Green Pike, “John Brown in Prison,” c. 1859 Works Cited and Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn Ragged Dick, Horatio Alger’s most successful book, Alger codified the basic formula he would follow in nearly a hundred subsequent novels for boys: a young hero, inexperienced in the temptations of the city but morally armed to resist them, is unexpectedly forced to earn a livelihood. The hero’s exemplary struggle — to retain his virtue, to clear his name of accusations, and to gain economic independence — was the basis of the Alger plot. Hugely popular at the turn of the twentieth century, Alger’s works have at different times been framed as a model for the “American dream” and as dangerously exciting sensationalism for young readers; Gary Scharnhorst’s new introduction separates the myth of Alger as “success ideologue” from the more complex messages conveyed in his work.Ragged Dick is paired in this edition with Risen from the Ranks, another coming-of-age story of a young man achieving respectability. Historical appendices include extensive contemporary reviews, material on the “success myth” associated with Alger, and parodies of Alger’s work.Trade Review“This new publication of Ragged Dick and Risen from the Ranks offers not only an annotated edition of two popular Alger novels, but also presents a detailed study of the author and his American idea of success. Gary Scharnhorst has written widely on Horatio Alger, Jr., and in his introductory essay he lucidly discusses the author’s life, his ‘fiction formula,’ and his literary reputation. Both the casual reader and the historical scholar will appreciate Scharnhorst’s appendices, which include primary materials (such as contemporary book reviews) and other significant documents. The works of Horatio Alger, Jr. have been reprinted numerous times by modern publishers, but no edition comes even close to providing the wealth of resources available in Professor Scharnhorst’s fine book.” — Jack Bales, University of Mary Washington Library“What a nice way to reintroduce readers to the novels of Horatio Alger Jr., who began writing for young people just over 150 years ago. Scharnhorst pairs the author’s most famous story of a New York bootblack with another popular story involving a country boy who models his life on Benjamin Franklin and succeeds without going to the city. Scharnhorst’s fine introduction examines the similarities, differences, and dissonances between the stories and demonstrates ways in which the meaning of Alger’s moral tales morphed in successive generations until the author became ‘a victim of mistaken identity.’ Supplemental materials acquaint readers with the author’s own reflections, views about children and success, and contemporary reception—from ads to reviews to parodies.” —Carol Nackenoff, Richter Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore CollegeTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Horatio Alger, Jr.: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text Ragged Dick and Risen From the Ranks Appendix A: Alger on Children and the Novel “The Newsboys’ Lodging House,” Liberal Christian (20 April 1867) From Christian Union (10 May 1883) “Are My Boys Real?” Ladies’ Home Journal (November 1890) From “The Novel—Its Scope and Place in Literature,” New York Railroad Men (March 1896) “Writing Stories for Boys,” Writer (March 1896) Appendix B: Historical Documents on Children and the Success Myth From Benjamin Franklin, “The Way to Wealth” (1758) Mark Twain, “The Bootblacks,” Alta California (14 July 1867) Mark Twain, “The Late Benjamin Franklin,” Galaxy (July 1870) From Charles Loring Brace, The Dangerous Classes of New York (1872) Appendix C: Alger’s Critical Reception Advertisements New York Evening Post, 6 May 1868 Boston Journal, 6 August 1868 Boston Herald, 5 December 1868 Boston Transcript, 8 December 1868 Boston Transcript, 9 December 1868 Contemporary Reviews of Ragged Dick Providence Press, 11 May 1868 Salem Register, 11 May 1868 “A Lively Boy’s Book,” Boston Traveller, 13 May 1868 “Current Literature,” Advance, 21 May 1868 “Our Book Table,” Turf, Field, and Farm, 23 May 1868 New York Herald, 28 May 1868 From “Literary Matters,” Daily Cleveland Herald, 5 June 1868 From “Books for Boys, by Horatio Alger, Jr.,” Flag of Our Union, 20 June 1868 “Ragged Dick,” Christian Register, 27 June 1868 Putnam’s Magazine 12 (July 1868) Rufus Ellis, “Literary Notices,” Monthly Religious Magazine 40 (July 1868) “Library Table,” Round Table, 11 July 1868 “Ragged Dick,” Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine 77 (August 1868) Contemporary Reviews of Risen from the Ranks “Briefer Notices,” Advance, 29 January 1874 “Literary Notices,” St. Louis Republican, 17 October 1874 Alexandria, Va., Gazette, 22 October 1874 Vermont Phœnix, 23 October 1874 “Literary Matters,” Daily Cleveland Herald, 29 October 1874 “Briefer Notices,” Advance, 29 October 1874 Galveston, Texas, Daily News, 30 October 1874 “Literary Notices,” Philadelphia North American and United States Gazette, 2 November 1874 “New Books, Charleston, S.C., News and Courier, 9 November 1874 “Recent Publications,” Portland, Me., Daily Press, 30 November 1874 “New Publications,” Arthur’s Illustrated Home Magazine 42 (December 1874) “Bound to Rise,” Little Rock Daily Arkansas Gazette, 22 December 1874 “Editor’s Table,” Ohio Farmer, 2 January 1875 Appendix D: Early Alger Parodies Charles Battell Loomis, “Bernard the Bartender,” Puck (7 May 1894) Stephen Crane, “A Self-Made Man: An Example of Success That Any One Can Follow,” Cornhill Magazine (March 1899)

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1865, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland began as a story told to Alice Liddell and her two sisters on a boating trip in July 1862. The novel follows Alice down a rabbit-hole and into a world of strange and wonderful characters who constantly turn everything upside down with their mind-boggling logic, word play, and fantastic parodies. The sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, was published in 1871, and was both a popular success and appreciated by critics for its wit and philosophical sophistication.Along with both novels and the original Tenniel illustrations, this edition includes Carroll’s earlier story Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. Appendices include Carroll’s photographs of the Liddell sisters, materials on film and television adaptations, selections from other “looking-glass” books for children, and “The Wasp in a Wig,” an originally deleted section of Through the Looking-Glass.Trade Review“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland appeals to all new generations, and Richard Kelly’s edition is a fresh and fitting jamboree for our time. For the first time, it gives us in a single book both Lewis Carroll’s early version of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground and the full version of the story. It encapsulates the major theories of what the book means, and it provides photographs that Carroll took and excerpts from his diaries and letters; it also offers examples of early reviews, imitations, parodies, and recollections of the author. Altogether it is a splendid cornucopia that is bound to become the ultimate Alice for us and for generations to come.” — Morton N. Cohen, Professor Emeritus, City University of New York, author of Lewis Carroll: A Biography, and editor of The Selected Letters of Lewis CarrollTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionLewis Carroll: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextsAlice’s Adventures in WonderlandThrough the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found ThereAppendix A: Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (1864)Appendix B: Lewis Carroll, “Alice on the Stage” (1886)Appendix C: From Lewis Carroll’s Diaries and Letters (1862-90) Diaries Letters Appendix D: Remembering Lewis Carroll From Alice Hargreaves, “Alice’s Recollections of Carrollian Days as Told to Her Son, Caryl Hargreaves” (1932) From Isa Bowman, The Story of Lewis Carroll (1899) Appendix E: George MacDonald, “The Fantastic Imagination” (1893)Appendix F: Contemporary Reviews of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland The Press (25 November 1865) The Publishers’ Circular (8 December 1865) The Bookseller (12 December 1865) The Guardian (15 December 1865) Illustrated Times (16 December 1865) Athenaeum (16 December 1865) The Spectator (22 December 1865) From The Spectator (22 December 1866) London Review (23 December 1865) From The Times (13 August 1868) John Bull (20 January 1866) The Literary Churchman (5 May 1866) The Sunderland Herald (25 May 1866) Aunt Judy’s Magazine (1 June 1866) The Examiner (15 December 1866) From The Daily News (19 December 1866) The Scotsman (22 December 1866) Contemporary Review (May 1869) “Alice Translated,” The Spectator (7 August 1869) Appendix G: Poems Parodied in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Isaac Watts, “Against Idleness and Mischief” (1720) Robert Southey, “The Old Man’s Comforts and How He Gained Them” (1799) David Bates, “Speak Gently” (1848) Jane Taylor, “The Star” (1806) Mary Howitt, “The Spider and the Fly” (1834) Isaac Watts, “The Sluggard” (1715) James M. Sayles, “Star of the Evening” (date unknown) William Mee, “Alice Gray” (c. 1815) Lewis Carroll, “She’s All My Fancy Painted Him” (1855) Appendix H: Contemporary Children’s Literature From Anonymous, The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765) From Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies (1862-63) From Julia Horatia Ewing, “Amelia and the Dwarfs” (1870) Appendix I: Notable Film and Television ProductionsAppendix J: Lewis Carroll’s Photographs of Alice, Lorina, and Edith LiddellAppendix K: Quentin Massys’s An Old Woman [The Ugly Duchess] (1513)Appendix L: The Wasp in a WigAppendix M: Lewis Carroll’s Comments on “Jabberwocky” From Mischmash (1855) From Letters of Lewis Carroll (15 February 1871) From Preface to The Hunting of the Snark (1876) Appendix N: William Wordsworth’s “Resolution and Independence” (1807)Appendix O: Looking-Glass Books From The Laughable Looking-Glass for Little Folks (1857–59) From Maria Louisa Charlesworth, The Old Looking-Glass; or, Mrs. Dorothy Cope’s Recollections of Service (1878) Appendix P: Contemporary Reviews of Through the Looking-Glass From Pall Mall Gazette (14 December 1871) The Standard (21 December 1871) The Times (25 December 1871) From The Spectator (30 December 1871) Appendix Q: The Chess Motif in Literature From Thomas Middleton, A Game at Chess (1625) From George Eliot, Felix Holt: The Radical (1866) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn April 1888, Friedrich Engels wrote a letter to the English novelist and journalist Margaret Harkness, expressing his appreciation for her first novel, A City Girl: A Realistic Story, and calling it “a small work of art.” A City Girl was one of many slum novels set in the East End of London in the 1880s. It tells the story of a young East Ender, Nelly Ambrose, who is seduced and abandoned by a middle-class politician. After the birth of her child and betrayal by her family, Nelly is rescued by two outside forces: the Salvation Army and a sympathetic local man, George, who marries her despite her “fallen” status. While Nelly’s relative passivity and social ignorance distinguishes her from contemporary New Woman heroines, Harkness’s sympathy for Nelly’s position and refusal to judge her morally make A City Girl a fascinating and original novel.This Broadview Edition includes contemporary reviews of A City Girl along with historical documents on London’s East End, fallen women in late-Victorian fiction, and reform organizations for East End women.Trade Review“A surprising Broadview decision to publish the slum novella A City Girl, by the socially aware Margaret Harkness, has produced an important edition, brilliantly edited by Tabitha Sparks. The story is filled with clichés, yet contains unique descriptions of grim, for-profit tenements, written in an intimate, non-partisan tone. What rivets attention is the volume as a whole, not only the expected but wonderful contemporary reviews but also pieces by Friedrich Engels—a fascinating response written to Harkness herself—Eleanor Marx, Jack London, Beatrice Potter, and others. Taken together, A City Girl, Broadview edition, offers much more than supplements to Harkness’s competent story; with satisfying richness, it opens a teeming vista onto the impoverished world of the story. This is a book not only for students but also for all nineteenth-century buffs interested in darkest London, the title of a later Harkness fiction.” —Adrienne Munich, Stony Brook University, Co-Editor, Victorian Literature and CultureTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Margaret Harkness: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text A City Girl Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews of A City Girl From “Novels of the week,” The Athenaeum (30 April 1887) “A City Girl: a Realistic Story,” The Spectator (31 March 1888) “Publisher’s Corner,” Our Corner (August 1887) From “Novels and Stories,” The Glasgow Herald (14 May 1887) From “New Books and Reviews,” The Sheffield Daily Telegraph (11 May 1887) From “Metropolitan Gossip,” The Belfast News-Letter (22 May 1887) Letter, Friedrich Engels to Margaret Harkness (from Engels: Correspondence January 1887–July 1890) Appendix B: Other Writings by Margaret Harkness/John Law “Girl Labour in the City,” Justice (3 March 1888) “Salvationists and Socialists,” Justice (24 March 1888) From In Darkest London (1891) Appendix C: The East End in Late-Victorian London From Andrew Mearns, The Bitter Cry of Outcast London (1883) From The Diary of Beatrice Webb, vol. I (11 April 1888) From Jack London, “Those on the Edge,” People of the Abyss (1903) Appendix D: Reform Initiatives for East End Women From Lady Mary Jeune, “Helping the Fallen,” Fortnightly Review (1 November 1885) Margaret E. Harkness, “The Match Girls’ Strike,” The Spectator (21 July 1888) From Captain William Booth, “A New Way of Escape for Lost Women: The Rescue Homes,” In Darkest London and the Way Out (1890) Eleanor Marx, Speech on May Day (4 May 1890) Appendix E: Fallen Women in Late-Victorian Fiction From George Gissing, The Unclassed (1884) From Ella Hepworth Dixon, The Story of a Modern Woman (1894) Arthur St. John Adcock, “The Soul of Penelope Sanders,” East End Idylls (1897)

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Book SynopsisThe Travels of Hildebrand Bowman is an eponymous novel purportedly written by a midshipman left behind in New Zealand’s Queen Charlotte Sound after escaping the infamous Grass Cove massacre. The protagonist is a midshipman on HMS Adventure, the ship that accompanied Cook’s Resolution on his second voyage around the world. The two ships become separated off New Zealand, leading to a group of seamen being sent from the Adventure to gather wild greens at Grass Cove, where they are killed by Maori. The fictional Hildebrand escapes because he has gone off hunting. The remainder of the novel traces his travels through six fictional islands in the South Pacific; echoing eighteenth-century stadial theory, these societies represent human culture gradually ascending from brutish insensibility to the primitive savagery to idealized pastoral economy. The novel is a unique hybrid of historical events and the cultural satire of such works as Gulliver’s Travels. Historical appendices provide an exceptionally broad range of materials on the Grass Cove massacre, the eighteenth-century stadial theory of historical development, cannibalism, and contemporary depictions of the South Pacific and its indigenous peoples.Trade Review“Like a hologram, The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman refracts a variety of eighteenth-century concerns. In his remarkable edition, Lance Bertelsen shows how Bowman, inspired by James Cook’s sensational discoveries in the Pacific Ocean, travel literature, Scottish Enlightenment philosophers, and satire both social and political, explores what it means to be human. In this lively satirical allegory of England’s ‘progress’ over the past 200 years, Bowman asks whether an ideal state of nature can actually exist. Do cultural interventions caused by the global circulation of trade destroy what it means to build up? As humanity embraces ever more sophisticated stages of development, do luxury, decadence, and corruption inevitably lead to decline? A wealth of helpful and accessible knowledge illuminates this fascinating, prophetic, genre-defying book, the first fiction set in New Zealand and a major find for eighteenth-century studies.” — Jocelyn Harris, University of Otago“Part adventure story, part allegory, didactic but never less than entertaining, The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman can be enjoyed on a number of levels. Bowman’s search for Utopia in newly discovered exotic worlds captures the spirit of the Enlightenment imaginatively. For anyone interested in late eighteenth century voyaging and discovery, and in the Old World reaching out towards the New, Bowman’s travels make captivating reading.” —Graeme Lay, Captain Cook SocietyTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextThe Travels of Hildebrand BowmanAppendix A: The Grass Cove Incident From Lieutenant James Burney, Log, 1773 From Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, 16 July 1774 From Frances Burney, Journal, 1774 From Tobias Furneaux, Narrative, 1775 From Lieutenant James King, Journal, 17 February 1777 Appendix B: Descriptions of Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific From Tobias Furneaux, Narrative, 1772 From William Anderson, A Journal of a Voyage Made in His Majestys Sloop Resolution, 28-29 January 1777 From Georg Forster, A Voyage Round the World (1777) From James Cook, A Voyage towards the South Pole (1777) From Frances Burney, Letter to Mr. Crisp, 1 December 1774 Appendix C: Cannibals From Michel de Montaigne, “Of Cannibals” (1580) From Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719) From Voltaire, “Anthropophagi, or Man-eaters” (1765) From James Cook, Journal, 23 November 1773 Appendix D: Stadial Theory and the Scottish Enlightenment From Edward Tyson, Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris: or, The Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with that of a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man (1699) From Adam Smith, “Lectures on Jurisprudence” (1762) From Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) From Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767) From John Millar, Observations Concerning the Distinction of Ranks in Society (1771) From Lord Monboddo (James Burnett), Of the Origin and Progress of Language, 2nd ed. (1774) Lord Kames (Henry Home), Sketches of the History of Man (1774) Appendix E: Luxury, Global Trade, and Cross-Cultural Satire From Bernard Mandeville, The Grumbling Hive: or, Knaves Turn’d Honest (1705) From Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (1726) From Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770) From Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker (1771) From An Historic Epistle from Omiah, to the Queen of Otaheite; being his Remarks on the English Nation (1773) From Omiah’s Farewell, Inscribed to the Ladies of London (1776) From William Preston, Seventeen-Hundred and Seventy-Seven; or, A Picture of the Manners and Character of the Age. In a Poetical Epistle from a Lady of Quality in England to Omai, at Otaheite (1777) Appendix F: Flying Fashion and Macaroni Style Louis-Phillipe Boitard, “A Gawrey Extended for Flight,” from Robert Paltock, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins (1755) The Preposterous Head Dress, or the Feathered Lady (1776) Sir Joshua Reynolds, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (c. 1775) Phaetona or Modern Female Taste (1776) Oh. Heigh. Oh. Or a View of the Back Settlements (1776) The Fly-Catching Macaroni (1772) From Yankee Doodle (c.1765-75) Appendix G: Political Discussion of the American War Onboard Cook’s ResolutionFrom Lieutenant James King, Letter to Jane Burke, 2 July 1776Appendix H. The Great Southern Continent From Alexander Dalrymple, An Account of the Discoveries Made in the South Pacifick Ocean, Previous to 1764, Part 1 (1767) From the Admiralty, Secret Instructions for Capt Cook, Commander of His Majesty’s Sloop Resolution, 25 June 1772 Appendix I: Reviews of Hildebrand Bowman William Bewley, The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal (1778) From The Critical Review: or, Annals of Literature (1778) From the London Chronicle, 19-21 May 1778 Works Cited and Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDinah Mulock Craik’s The Half-Caste concerns the coming-of-age of its title character, the mixed-race Zillah Le Poer, daughter of an English merchant and an Indian princess. Sent back to England as a young girl, Zillah has no knowledge that she is an heiress. She lives with her uncle Le Poer, his wife, and two daughters, and is treated as little more than a servant in the household. Zillah’s situation is gradually improved when Cassandra Pryor is employed as a governess to the Le Poer daughters and takes an interest in the mysterious “cousin.” Craik explores issues of gender, race, and empire in the Victorian period in this compact and gripping novella.Along with a newly-annotated text, this Broadview edition includes a critical introduction that discusses Craik’s involvement with contemporary racial and imperialist attitudes, her place within the broader genre of Anglo-Indian fiction, and the importance of Zillah Le Poer as a positive symbol of empire. The edition is also enriched with relevant contemporary contextual material, including Dinah Mulock Craik’s writing on gender and female employment, British views on the biracial Eurasian community in India, and writings on the Victorian governess.Trade Review“Melissa Edmundson has supplied a most useful addition to the literature of Victorian empire and race. Craik’s story is supplemented by excerpts from Philip Meadows Taylor’s novel Seeta along with a story by William Browne Hockley, ‘The Half-Caste Daughter.’ These texts are supplemented by well-chosen supporting materials delineating attitudes toward ‘Eurasians’ in nineteenth-century India, and together they create a rich context for understanding Craik’s often overlooked novella. Edmundson shows how Craik’s work confounds the usual binaries and prejudices of the period even as it creates a sympathetic governess character. This edition would make a fine pairing with Jane Eyre or with Kipling’s Plain Tales from the Hills in an undergraduate course on Victorian empire.” — Mary Ellis Gibson, University of Glasgow“The Half-Caste is a timely and well-contextualized edition of a fascinating work of fiction. The editorial material sheds light on the broader cultural importance of the story’s many threads, including the role of the British Empire, the ‘Eurasian Question,’ and the place of the Victorian governess and work for women.” — Karen Bourrier, University of Calgary“This edition of Dinah Mulock Craik’s long neglected 1851 novella makes a fine contribution to the scholarship on Victorian studies on empire and race. Melissa Edmundson’s ample introduction provides clear biographical, historical, and cultural background to situate Craik’s life and her fiction within the complexities of views about the Eurasian woman, British identity, and colonial power. Deft summaries, expanded by a rich assortment of supplementary materials, point to the frequency with which Victorian authors addressed the fraught gender and race issues the Eurasian woman emblematized and prove that Craik’s The Half-Caste, with its progressive narrative about cultural merging, struck a decidedly different note. Additional materials assist in categorizing The Half-Caste with that other predominant nineteenth-century genre, the governess novel. Comprehensive explanatory footnotes and an informed and wide-ranging bibliography tempt the reader for future critical (as well as fun) reading. Edmundson ensures her own audience hears Craik’s strong voice about the period’s significant contemporary issues and more than demonstrates her own admiration for this important Victorian woman author.” — Joellen Masters, Boston University, co-editor of The Latchkey: A Journal of New Woman StudiesTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Dinah Mulock Craik: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text The Half-CasteAppendix A: Dinah Mulock Craik on Gender Issues and Female Employment From Dinah Mulock Craik, A Woman's Thoughts about Women (1858) From ""Concerning Men, By a Woman,"" Cornhill (1887) Appendix B: The British Empire, Race, and the ""Eurasian Question"" From ""Half-Castes,"" House of Commons, Minutes of Evidence Taken before the Select Committee on the Affairs ofthe East India Company (1832) From A.D. Rowe, Every-day Life in India (1881) From Mrs. John B. Speid, Our Last Years in India (1862) From Graham Sandberg, ""Our Outcast Cousins in India,"" The Contemporary Review (1892) William Browne Hockley, ""The Half-Caste Daughter"" (1841) From [Philip] Meadows Taylor, Seeta (1872) From Dinah Mulock Craik, Olive (1850) Appendix C: The Victorian Governess From ""Hints on the Modern Governess System,"" Fraser's Magazine (November 1844) From Sarah Lewis, ""On the Social Position of Governesses,"" Fraser's Magazine (1848) From Emily Peart, A Book for Governesses (1868) From The Letters of Charlotte Bronte Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey (30 June 1839) Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey (3 March 1841) From Dinah Mulock Craik, Bread upon the Waters: A Governess's Life (1852)

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Book SynopsisContinuously in print and translated into multiple languages since it was first published, Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty is a classic work of children’s literature and an important text in the fields of Victorian studies and animal studies. Writing to “induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses,” Sewell realistically documents the working conditions of Black Beauty, who moves down the social scale from a rural carriage horse to a delivery horse in London. Sewell makes visible and tangible the experience of animals who were often treated as if they were machines. Though she died shortly after it was published, Sewell’s book contributed significantly to late nineteenth-century campaigns for humane treatment of horses and remains a seminal anti-cruelty text today.The Broadview Press edition reproduces the first edition of 1877, restoring material often abridged in other modern editions. Appendices include materials on contemporary animal-rights movements, “equine management,” and Victorian understandings of animal emotions.Trade Review“No animal narrative captures the complexity of Victorian relations with animals better than Black Beauty. This edition offers an invaluable introduction to the novel and the burgeoning field of Victorian animal studies. In addition, Guest’s excerpts of primary documents plunge readers into the physical, material, and affective conditions not only of domestic animals, but also of the authors and advocates who longed to understand and protect them.” — Teresa Mangum, University of Iowa“Students, as well as the growing number of literary scholars working in animal studies, will benefit immensely from this edition. Guest places the novel in the context of disparate, but overlapping, discourses in Victorian England: animal rights and anti-vivisection, scientific analyses of animal emotion, industrial discourse that linked horses with machines, and the sentimental novel. By locating the novel within a complicated cultural milieu, Guest defends the work from those who might dismiss it as a didactic tale for children. Her final note tying the cruelty suffered by animals in this text with the ongoing mistreatment of animals in our culture demonstrates just how relevant Sewell’s text remains today.” — Monica Flegel, Lakehead UniversityTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionAnna Sewell: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextGlossary of CarriagesBlack Beauty: His Grooms and Companions. The Autobiography of a Horse.Appendix A: Biographical Context and Early Reception From Mary Bayly, The Life and Letters of Mrs. Sewell (1890) George T. Angell, “Introductory Chapter” to the American Humane Education Society Edition (1890) Review of Black Beauty, The Nonconformist (9 January 1878) Appendix B: Victorian Science: Questions of Animal Emotion From Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) From Thomas Huxley, “On the Hypothesis that Animals Are Automata, and Its History” (1874) From George Romanes, Animal Intelligence (1882) From George Romanes, Mental Evolution in Animals (1884) Appendix C: Victorian Industry: Horse and Machine From Fanny Kemble, Record of a Girlhood (1878) From Philip Hamerton, Chapters on Animals (1874) From W.J. Gordon, The Horse World of London (1893) Appendix D: Animal Cruelty and Animal Rights From Frances Power Cobbe, “The Rights of Man and the Claims of Brutes” (1865) From John Duke Coleridge, The Lord Chief Justice of England [Baron Coleridge] on Vivisection (1881) From Henry Salt, Animal Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1892) Appendix E: Bits, Bearing Reins, and Equine Management From Henry Curling, A Lashing for the Lashers: Being an Exposition of the Cruelties Practised upon the Cab and Omnibus Horses of London (1851) From Sir Arthur Helps, Some Talk about Animals and Their Masters (1873) From Samuel Sidney, The Book of the Horse (1873) From Edward Fordham Flower, Bits and Bearing Reins (1875) From Samuel Smiles, Duty (1880) Works Cited and Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAs nearly all of its reviewers pointed out, Clotel was an audience-minded performance, an effort to capitalize on the post—Uncle Tom’s Cabin “mania” for abolitionist fiction in Great Britain, where William Wells Brown lived between 1849 and 1854. The novel tells the story of Clotel and Althesa, the fictional daughters of Thomas Jefferson and his mixed-race slave. Like the popular and entertaining public lectures that Brown gave in England and America, Clotel is a series of startling, attention-grabbing narrative “attractions.” Brown creates in this novel a delivery system for these attractions in an effort to draw as many readers as possible toward anti-slavery and anti-racist causes. Rough, studded with caricatures, and intimate with the racism it ironizes, Clotel is still capable of creating a potent mix of discomfort and delight.This edition aims to make it possible to read Clotel in something like its original cultural context. Geoffrey Sanborn’s Introduction discusses Brown’s extensive plagiarism of other authors in composing Clotel, as well as his narrative strategies within the novel itself. Appendices include material on slave auctions, contemporary attractions and amusements, and the topic of plagiarism more broadly.Trade Review“Exquisitely curated with appropriate supporting documents and furnished with an expert introduction, Geoffrey Sanborn’s edition of William Wells Brown’s Clotel will prove to be a welcome text to students and generalists interested in the literature and history of chattel slavery in the US, as well as to specialists working in African-American Studies.” — Ivy Wilson, Northwestern University“Geoffrey Sanborn’s edition of Clotel offers readers a clear understanding of its richness, complexity, and value to American literature. In a lucid introduction that allows us to understand Brown’s work in relation to his contemporaries, and in meticulously researched notes and appendices, Sanborn invites twenty-firstcentury audiences to experience the pleasure and power of Clotel.” — Tess Chakkalakal, Bowdoin CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionWilliam Wells Brown: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextClotel; or, The President’s DaughterAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews “Clotel,” Hereford Times (17 December 1853) “Clotel,” Pennsylvania Freeman (29 December 1853) “W.W. Brown’s New Work,” National Anti-Slavery Standard (31 December 1853) “Clotel,” Anti-Slavery Advocate (January 1854) “Clotel,” Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine 21 (January 1854) “Clotel,” Bristol Mercury (28 January 1854) [William Lloyd Garrison,] “New Work by William Wells Brown,” Liberator (3 February 1854) Appendix B: Slave-Auction Scenes From [William Lloyd Garrison,] “A Scene at New Orleans,” Liberator (21 September 1838) H.S.D., “An Auction,” National Anti-Slavery Standard (20 March 1845) “Slave Auction Scene,” Anti-Slavery Reporter (1 December 1846) From “The Case of Two Slave Girls,” Christian Watchman (2 November 1848) From “Visit to a Slave Auction,” Frederick Douglass' Paper (2 February 1855) Appendix C: The Aesthetic of Attractions From [Gamaliel Bailey,] “Popular Amusements in New York” National Era (15 April 1847) “Mechanical Museum—Lafayette Bazaar,” New York Evening Post (22 December 1847) From “Banvard’s Panorama of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers,” Illustrated London News (9 December 1848) From George Washington Bungay, Crayon Sketches and Off-Hand Takings (1852) Appendix D: Brown and His Audiences From “The Anniversaries,” New York Herald (9 May 1849) From “Address from W.W. Brown, an Escaped Slave,” Norfolk News (4 May 1850) From “Third Anniversary of the New York Anti-Slavery Society,” National Anti-Slavery Standard (16 May 1856) From “Speech of William Wells Brown,” National Anti-Slavery Standard (26 May 1860) Appendix E: Plagiarism From [James Frederick Ferrier,] “The Plagiarisms of S.T. Coleridge,” Blackwood’s Magazine 47 (March 1840) From “Plagiarism,” New-York Mirror (15 January 1842) Untitled article, Caledonian Mercury (18 November 1852) From untitled article, London Times (22 November 1852) From “Stop Thief!” Fife Herald (25 November 1852) From William Wells Brown, “Letter from William W. Brown,” Frederick Douglass’ Paper (10 June 1853) From Thomas Montgomery, Literary Societies, Their Uses and Abuses (1853) From “Plagiarism: Especially That of Coleridge,” Eclectic Magazine 32 (August 1854) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFrom the predatory same-sex desire in “Carmilla” to the ghostly hallucinations in “Green Tea,” the five supernatural stories in In a Glass Darkly reflect a profound and deeply disturbing uncertainty about the nature of humanity. Originally published separately in magazines, the stories are framed and linked in this collection as case notes in the papers of the fictional Dr. Hesselius. Sheridan Le Fanu’s approach to the supernatural reworks traditional Irish oral storytelling and combines it with nineteenth-century adaptations of the eighteenth-century Gothic novel. Appendices include Le Fanu’s correspondence about the stories, posthumous assessments of his life and work, and twentieth-century critical commentaries by M.R. James and Elizabeth Bowen. Engravings from the original serial publications of several stories are also included. Trade Review“Le Fanu’s In a Glass Darkly is one of the landmark works of Victorian Gothic. It contains some of the greatest ghost stories ever written, and in ‘Carmilla’ one of the most important vampire tales. Elizabeth Tilley’s brilliant new edition is the best one we’ve ever had, and it takes us closer to Le Fanu’s collection than we’ve ever been before. With its wonderful introduction and its superb selection of critical and contextual material, this book has everything a serious reader needs.” — Darryl Jones, Trinity College DublinTable of Contents In a Glass Darkly Green Tea The Familiar Mr. Justice Harbottle The Room in the Dragon Volant Carmilla Appendix A: Reviews and Early Observations 1. Contemporary Reviews (a) The Athenaeum (6 July 1872) (b) The Saturday Review (17 August 1872) (c) The Examiner (6 July 1872) 2. Twentieth-century notices of Le Fanu’s work (a) From M.R. James, “Some Remarks on Ghost Stories,” The Bookman (December 1929) (b) From Elizabeth Bowen, “Preface to Uncle Silas,” Collected Impressions (1950) Appendix B: Obituaries 1. The Irish Times (8 February 1873) 2. The Freeman’s Journal (10 February 1873) 3. The Irish Builder (15 February 1873) 4. The Illustrated London News (15 February 1873) Appendix C: On Swedenborg 1. From The Saturday Review (11 May 1867) Appendix D: Correspondence between Le Fanu and others 1. Charles Dickens to Le Fanu (24 September 1869) 2. Charles Dickens to Le Fanu (24 November 1869) 3. Le Fanu to George Bentley (3 January 1870) 4. Le Fanu to J. Munnings (16 June 1872) 5. Le Fanu to J. Munnings (24 June 1872)

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Book SynopsisThis edition presents 33 of the 100 tales, with at least two from each of the ten days of storytelling. Boccaccio’s general introduction and conclusion to the work are also included, as are the introduction and conclusion to the first day; the reader is thus provided with a real sense of the Decameron’s framing narrative. Extensive explanatory notes are provided, and the volume is prefaced by a concise but wide-ranging introduction to Boccaccio’s life and times, as well as to the Decameron itself. A unique selection of contextual materials concludes the volume.Trade Review“Furnished with an engaging selection of tales, a formidable apparatus of primary texts and reproductions [from the] visual arts, this is an ideal text for a course in English on Boccaccio’s Decameron. The translators have struck an enviable balance between the colloquial valences of the dialogue and the more formal moments of its register, all while untangling the complex syntax that can be daunting to the non-specialist….This is a Decameron that is accessible and comprehensible, inviting the general reader into its rich narrative world.” —Kristina M. Olson, George Mason University “Boccaccio… is unsurpassed in the illuminating perspective from which he explores the variety of dramas of his characters in their day to day interactions,… [and this] rendition of the Decameron is extraordinary: it breathes fresh life into this classic of world literature.” —Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor in the Humanities for Italian, Yale University “The translators have provided a smart and engaging selection of the best tales of the Decameron. Their lively prose translation successfully captures the oral scene of storytelling that is central to the book while still attending to important specifics of Boccaccio’s language. A carefully conceived collection of secondary readings completes this volume, which will allow readers to enjoy Boccaccio’s masterpiece from a variety of perspectives.” —Michael Sherberg, Washington University Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction from The Decameron The Author’s Preface Introduction to the First Day The First Day I. Story 1: Cepparello’s False Confession I. Story 2: The Jew who Sees Rome and Converts I. Story 3: Melchisedech and the Tale of the Three Rings I. Story 5: The King of France and the Banquet of Hens I. Story 10: Master Alberto Shames the Woman who Refuses his Love Conclusion to the First Day The Second Day II. Story 5: Andreuccio’s Three Misadventures in Naples II. Story 7: The Sultan’s Daughter Sleeps with Nine Men and Returns a Virgin The Third Day III. Story 1: Masetto becomes Gardener to a Convent III. Story 6: Ricciardo sends a Jealous Wife to the Baths to catch her Husband III. Story 8: Ferondo visits Purgatory III. Story 9: Giletta of Narbonne III. Story 10: Alibech and Rustico put the Devil back into Hell The Fourth Day Introduction IV. Story 1: Tancredi, Ghismunda, and her Lover’s Heart IV. Story 2: Frate Alberto as the Angel Gabriel IV. Story 5: Lisabetta and the Pot of Basil IV. Story 8: The Broken Hearts of Girolamo and Salvestra The Fifth Day V. Story 1: Cimone and Lisimaco Abduct their Brides V. Story 4: The Lovers, the Balcony, and the Nightingale The Sixth Day VI. Story 1: Madonna Oretta and the Story Ride VI. Story 4: Chichibio and the One-legged Bird VI. Story 7: Donna Filippa Confronts the Adultery Laws VI. Story 9: Guido Cavalcanti’s Witty Escape The Seventh Day VII. Story 2: Peronella’s Lover and the Barrel VII. Story 6: A Quick-Thinking Adulteress The Eighth Day VIII. Story 3: Calendrino and the Heliotrope Stone VIII. Story 7: The Scholar Frozen and the Lady Burned The Ninth Day IX. Story 5: Calandrino in Love IX. Story 6: Three Beds and a Cradle IX. Story 10: The Spell that Turns Women to Mares The Tenth Day X. Story 3: Nathan Offers his Life X. Story 5: A Lady’s Honour for a Garden in Winter X. Story 8: The Perfect Friendship of Tito and Gisippus X. Story 10: Griselda’s Remarkable Patience The Author’s Epilogue In Context The Black Death from Marchione di Coppo Stefani, from The Florentine Chronicle (ca. 1389), “Concerning the Black Death in the City of Florence, Mortal to Many People,” The Black Death: fourteenth century images Accounts of Boccaccio’s Life Giannozzo Manetti, “The Life of Giovanni Boccaccio” Ludovico Dolce, “A Description of the Life of Messer Giovanni Boccaccio” (1552) Sources and Antecedents from Apuleius, The Golden Ass: from Book Nine, “The Lover in the Barrel” (c. 160 CE) from Petrus Alphonsus, Disciplina Clericalis, “The Two Perfect Friends,” (12th century) from Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love (c. 1180) Anonymous, “Concerning a Priest and a Lady” (13th century) from Anonymous, Il novellino (1281-1300) How a king raised his son in darkness, then revealed to him all there was in the world, and how the boy found women above all things the most pleasing.” “How the Sultan in search of money tried to snare a Jew through litigation.” “The never-ending story.” from Giovanni Boccaccio, The Questions of Love: “The Fourth Question, as proposed by Menedon” (1335-36) The Tale of Patient Griselda from Francesco Petrarch, Letter to Boccaccio on “The Tale of Patient Griselda” (1373) Anonymous, “A Most Pleasant Ballad of Patient Grissell” (ca. 1600) Patterns of Influence from Sir Thomas Elyot, The Book Named the Governour: from Bk. II, Chap. 12, “The Wonderful History of Titus and Gisippus, whereby is fully declared the figure of perfect amity.” (1531) from Giovan Francesco Straparola, The Pleasant Nights (Piacevoli notti) (1550, 1553) from the Proem Rodolino and Violante, or The Broken Hearts Illustrations to the Decameron

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Book SynopsisBenito Cereno, a story of atmospheric Gothic horror and striking political resonance, represents Herman Melville's most profound and unsettling engagement with the horrors of New World slavery. Narrating the story of a slave revolt using materials drawn from Amasa Delano's non-fictional account of the Tryal Rebellion from earlier in the nineteenth-century, Melville's story probes the moral complexities of the antebellum United States and its position within the Americas. Melville explores the psychology of slavery and racism and role of violence in both resistance to slavery and the perpetuation of slavery in the Americas. The appendices to this volume illustrate how Melville's satirical treatment of racism and his ambivalent response to violent resistance to slavery connect with antislavery literature (poetry, fiction, and non-fiction alike) in the middle of the nineteenth century, and they also consider how Benito Cereno functions as a central piece in Melville's contribution to the literature of the Americas.Trade Review“The Broadview Press edition of Herman Melville’s ‘Benito Cereno’ is vital for teaching, research, and exploring the power of American short fiction. From abolitionist writings to texts about the Haitian Revolution to reflections by Melville’s contemporaries, Brian Yothers has reassembled crucial materials for a profound journey into Melville’s fictional universe. Whether you are interested in the historical context that inspired Melville or the philosophical questions that saturate his art, this captivating edition contains all of the major materials and literary artifacts. If you’re teaching, rereading, or even discovering ‘Benito Cereno’ for the first time, this edition is a fresh and fully updated take on Melville’s classic.” — Christopher Freeburg, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignTable of Contents Appendix A: Representations of Slave Revolt and the Slave Trade From Amasa Delano, Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (1817) From Frederick Douglass, “The Heroic Slave” (1853) From John Quincy Adams, Argument of John Quincy Adams Before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Case of United States, Appellants, Cinque, and Others, Africans (1841) From Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) From Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856) From The Confessions of Nat Turner (1832) Am I Not a Man and a Brother (1787) Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788 The Slave Deck of the Bark “Wildfire,” Brought into Key West on 30 April 1860 The Abolition of the Slave Trade Cinque, the Chief of the Amistad Captives Appendix B: Herman Melville on Race, Slavery, Colonialism, and Violence From Herman Melville, Typee (1846) From Herman Melville, “Mr. Parkman’s Tour,” New York Literary World (31 March 1849) From Herman Melville, “A Bosom Friend,” in Moby-Dick, or, The Whale (1851) From Herman Melville, “Midnight, Forecastle,” in Moby-Dick, or, The Whale (1851) Herman Melville, “Formerly a Slave,” in Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) Herman Melville, “The Swamp Angel,” in Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) From Herman Melville, Supplement to Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) From Herman Melville, Clarel, A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) Appendix C: The Haitian Revolution and the Black Legend John Greenleaf Whittier, “Toussaint L’ouverture” (1833) William Wordsworth, “Toussaint L’ouverture” (1802) From Frank J. Webb, The Garies and Their Friends (1857) Toussaint Louverture From Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Suprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) From James Montgomery, “The West Indies” (1810) Appendix D: Anti-Slavery Rhetoric and Poetry From Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” (5 July 1854) Frederick Douglass, “A Parody,” in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point (1849) James Russell Lowell, “The Present Crisis” (1844) James M. Whitfield, “To Cinque” (1853) James M. Whitfield, “Lines on the Death of John Quincy Adams” (1853) James M. Whitfield, “America” (1853) Frances E.W. Harper, “The Slave Mother. A Tale of the Ohio” (1857) Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Caste and Christ” (1853) From Lydia Maria Child, An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans (1833) Lydia Maria Child, “The Influence of Slavery with Regard to Moral Purity” (1838) Lydia Huntley Sigourney, “To the First Slave Ship” (1827) Appendix E: Melville and the Theory of Short Fiction From Herman Melville, “Hawthorne and his Mosses” (1850) From Edgar Allan Poe, Review of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales (1842) Review of The Piazza Tales, United States Democratic Review (September 1856) Nathaniel Hawthorne, Preface to The House of the Seven Gables (1852)

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Book SynopsisThis edition brings together Tolstoy’s 1886 masterpiece and several shorter works that connect with it in thought-provoking ways. The stories are accompanied by a fascinating selection of contextual materials, including nineteenth-century reviews, excerpts from Tolstoy’s letters concerning death, excerpts from a pamphlet he wrote after witnessing the slaughtering of livestock, and a portfolio of relevant photographs. As well as crafting fresh translations both of the stories themselves and of the background materials, Kirsten Lodge has provided an illuminating introduction and helpful annotations.Trade Review“Brilliantly conceived and executed, this slender volume should hold great appeal to both teachers of literature and students of life… In her masterful translation, Lodge captures the writer’s full stylistic register, from his quiet lyricism, lucid metaphors, fleshy descriptions, and arresting juxtapositions to his at times torturous syntax, defamiliarizing word choice, and scathing, mirthless wit. Like his contemporaries, modern readers cannot help but marvel at the range and originality of Tolstoy’s experiments in the literature of death, from the felling of a tree at the close of ‘Three Deaths’ to the dark inner worlds of characters drawing their last breath. Lodge’s inclusion of ‘Strider’—a short story told from the perspective of a dying horse—feels especially timely in light of the recent turn in literary criticism toward animal studies… Taken together, Lodge’s selections from Tolstoy’s oeuvre form a sort of modern dance macabre in which death, indifferent and inhuman, fells not only sinners from all stations of life but also plants, animals, self, and other. As her volume amply demonstrates, Tolstoy—more than a century after his own storied death at the Astapovo train station—remains as vital as ever.” — Jefferson J.A. Gatrall, Montclair State University“Kirsten Lodge’s translation is neat and efficient; she doesn’t mind phrasings that would not, in 1886 in English, have been used and I don’t mind either (for example “goofed up,” p. 21). The voice is steady and un-self-conscious and not bookish or cautious or twisted by Russian grammar or syntax.” — Bob Blaisdell, The Russian ReviewCOMMENTS on Kirsten Lodge ’s edition of Notes from the Underground:“… superlative in all respects. It offers an excellent translation, highly readable yet always faithful to the original, as well as essential supplementary materials that make it by far the easiest edition to teach from.” — Michael Wachtel, Princeton University“Kirsten Lodge’s important new edition of Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground offers readers a dazzling collection of contexts, sources, and images for Dostoevsky and his novel, all of which will be indispensable for students and general readers alike.” — Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University“For years I have taught these classic Russian texts [Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground, and Zamyatin’s We] to students with little or no knowledge of Russian language or culture. In addition to providing clear, readable translations of the texts themselves, Lodge’s editions provide critical apparatus—introductions, notes, secondary texts, and images—that have made these stories much more accessible to my students. Contextual material that I have long had to put in handouts and powerpoints is now conveniently included in the text itself. These are certainly the most teachable editions of these texts currently available.” — Chad Engbers, Calvin UniversityTable of Contents Introduction The Death of Ivan Ilyich Strider Three Deaths In Context Killing Animals, Eating Animals from Leo Tolstoy, The First Step from Howard Williams, Preface to The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-Eating (1882) From Tolstoy’s Letters Concerning Death Letter of Oct. 17, 1860 to Afanasy Fet (on the death of Tolstoy’s brother Nikolai from tuberculosis Letter of May 1, 1868 to Aleksandra Tolstaya, Tolstoy’s grandmother (on “Three Deaths”) Other Writings by Tolstoy from Leo Tolstoy, Childhood, Chapter 27: Grief (1852) from Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1878 from Leo Tolstoy, Confession (1879) from Leo Tolstoy, “Notes of a Madman” (unfinished; begun in 1884 and published posthumously) Critical Reception from Nikolai Leskov, “On the Kitchen Muzhik and Other Matters: Notes on Certain Reviews of Count Leo Tolstoy’s Work” (1886) from Dmitry Pisarev, “‘Three Deaths’: A Story by Count Leo Tolstoy” (1859) Nineteenth-Century Images

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Book SynopsisFollowing the success of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe wrote a new fiction, the story of an English pirate whose success eclipsed every buccaneer the Atlantic world had seen. Featuring a haunted, unreliable narrator, a daring trek across the continent of Africa, and mercantile adventures in the China Seas, Captain Singleton is a tale of loneliness, brotherhood, and the lust for profit.Appendices to this Broadview Edition include materials on pirate writing, travel writing, and earlier pirate tales that may have provided models for Captain Singleton.Trade Review“Manushag Powell’s excellent edition of Captain Singleton fills a need for teachers and students of Defoe and the eighteenth-century novel, since there is no widely available edition of this important work. Powell’s introduction is informative about Defoe and about the eighteenth century’s fascination with pirates. Her copious annotation of the text is judicious; the supplementary readings of other pirate and travel narratives from the period provide very useful contexts for Defoe’s novel.” — John Richetti, University of Pennsylvania, Emeritus“Captain Singleton, while fascinating, is in many ways a bewildering text for twenty-first-century readers. Rather than attempt to tame it, Powell expertly guides us into its most perplexing and ambiguous aspects, helping us see how fictional projects depart from historical ones, even as fiction and history inform each other. By refusing to resolve the text’s ‘narrative enigmas,’ the introduction urges us toward thinking critically and imaginatively about the tale’s more challenging components. This edition presents Singleton as an opportunity to practice ways of reading that will give readers purchase on a wide array of eighteenth-century prose fictions.” — Eugenia Zuroski, McMaster University“I can think of nobody better than pirate expert Manushag Powell to edit Defoe’s ripping yarn of the adventures of Captain Bob Singleton, pirate extraordinaire. Her well-judged introduction provides generous intellectual context for new readers of this absorbing novel of global travel and international trade. The excitement and possibilities, as well as the consequences, of European expansionism are brought to readers’ attention through Powell’s inclusion in her appendices of a series of short extracts from the experiences of other eighteenth-century travellers. By using this excellent new edition, students and teachers alike will be able not only to appreciate the importance of Captain Bob within his eighteenth-century context, but also to understand his place in the history of pirate lives and literature.” — Claire Jowitt, University of East Anglia“There is copious contextual grounding in Manushag Powell’s excellent edition, with meticulously informative notes that will intrigue even the most blasé undergraduate.” — Min Wild, Times Literary Supplement“Manushag N. Powell’s carefully edited and meticulously researched edition does an outstanding job of combining interpretive lens and pedagogical glossing. … Powell’s edition will introduce generations of students to one of Defoe’s most wide-ranging adventure stories.” — Srividhya Swaminathan, Eighteenth Century FictionTable of Contents APPENDICES Appendix A: The Test-Run(?) for Singleton The King of Pirates: Being an Account of the Famous Enterprises of Captain Avery, the Mock King of Madagascar (1719) Appendix B: Pirate Writing From The Life of Charlotta Du Pont, an English Lady (Penelope Aubin, 1723) Letter from James Aubin to Abraham Aubin, protesting his treatment by pirates (1720) Some Memoirs Concerning that Famous Pyrate Capt. Avery (1708) From The Life and Adventures of Capt. John Avery (1709) From A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates (1724) From Daniel Defoe, A Review of the State of the British Nation (1707) Appendix C: Travel Writing From Robert Knox, An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon (1681) From Madagascar: Or, Robert Drury’s Journal (1729) From Willam Bosman, A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea (1705) From William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World (1697) From Woodes Rogers, A Cruising Voyage Round the World (1712) From Herman Moll, Atlas Geographus (1711–17)

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Book SynopsisAs George Orwell wrote in 1940, “Everyone who has ever read When the Sleeper Wakes remembers it.” Graham, the “sleeper” of the title, falls into a cataleptic trance in 1897. Graham will survive on life support for 203 years, suddenly waking in 2100. He wakes to a London encased in a glass dome, in which the Victorian class system has hardened into castes and a revolution is brewing. An important influence on later dystopian novels, Sleeper is a deeply pessimistic book, although Wells could not resist an ending ambiguous enough to permit the reader a faint gleam of optimism. The novel was re-written and published in 1908 as The Sleeper Awakes, but this edition preserves the original version. Historical appendices include contemporary reviews, Henri Lanos illustrations from The Graphic, and other utopian fiction from the period.Trade Review“In his masterly introduction to H.G. Wells’s 1899 novel When the Sleeper Wakes, John Sutherland amply demonstrates its enduring relevance to the contemporary reader, even though it is one of Wells’s lesser-known works. Sutherland’s assessment of the novel is not only extraordinarily erudite and informative but also witty and immensely readable. He provides a lively biography of Wells alongside an appraisal of the novel that is brim-full of fascinating contextual detail and penetrating critical observations. The appendices offer an invaluable historical background to the novel’s inspiration, reception, and film adaptations, as well as reproductions of the fabulous illustrations accompanying the serialization in The Graphic. The two Prefaces and the “Afterword” give us a unique personal glimpse into the development of Wells’s ideas and his writing processes. For any fan or scholar of Wells, this is a much-needed, exemplary revisiting of his tale of time travel.” — Linda Dryden, Edinburgh Napier University“John Sutherland has produced a knowledgeable, classroom-friendly edition of one of the lesser-known masterpieces of Wells’s scientific fantasies. When the Sleeper Wakes brims with some of Wells’s most prophetic technological inventions and radical political ideas, all of which are expertly discussed and contextualized in Sutherland’s introduction, notes, and appendices.” — Jeremy Withers, Iowa State University“… this novel deserves to be studied by a larger audience, and John Sutherland is well suited to the task of helping to bring When the Sleeper Wakes to more readers. … this is another commendable volume by Broadview Press. This Canadian publisher continues to produce high-quality, classroom-friendly, affordable editions of many literary works, and their roster of texts by H. G. Wells is now up to half a dozen titles. … One can only hope that we continue to see more Wells volumes published by this press.” — Jeremy Withers, The WellsianTable of Contents Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews 1. Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine (June 1900) 2. Athenæum (3 June 1899) 3. “Prophet vs. Novelist,” Academy (10 June 1899) 4. New York Times, 18 August 1899 Appendix B: Two Prefaces and an “Afterword” 1. Preface to the 1910 Edition 2. Preface to the 1921 Edition 3. From Experiment in Autobiography (1934) Appendix C: Illustrations by Henri Lanos 1. The Graphic, no. 1529 (21 January 1899) 2. The Graphic, no. 1529 (4 February 1899) 3. The Graphic, no. 1529 (25 February 1899) 4. The Graphic, no. 1529 (29 April 1899) Appendix D: Utopian Quarrels 1. From W.H. Hudson, A Crystal Age (1887) 2. From William Morris, News from Nowhere (1891) 3. From Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (1889) Appendix E: Film Versions of When the Sleeper Wakes

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Book SynopsisQueen Eleanor and Fair Rosamond—among the most compelling and thought-provoking of Margaret Oliphant’s works of short fiction—tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Lycett-Landon, “two middle-aged people in the fullness of life and prosperity,” and of what becomes of their marriage when Mr. Lycett-Landon becomes uncommunicative while on an extended business trip.In addition to an illuminating introduction, this edition includes a variety of background materials that help to set this extraordinary work in its literary and historical context.Trade Review“This welcome edition of Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamond allows readers to experience, perhaps for the first time, Margaret Oliphant’s exquisite skill at depicting ‘marriage [as] a tie which is curiously elastic.’ The novella is one of Oliphant’s many little-known shorter works which explore the ambiguity and psychological complexity of the relations between the genders with a sensitivity that anticipates the novels of Henry James. … Pam Perkins’s edition provides a perfect frame for the novella—an introduction to Oliphant’s life and works, excerpts from other literary tales of Eleanor and Rosamond, selections from bigamy laws and novels of the period that deal with bigamy, contemporary reviews, and contextual background for the novel’s sophisticated representations of class relations, suburbia, and its setting in London and Liverpool.” — Elsie Michie, Louisiana State University“Margaret Oliphant’s works are hard to come by, so for this reason alone Pam Perkins’s edition of Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamond is valuable. It is made substantially the more so by Perkins’s clear and helpful annotations and her illuminating and insightful introduction, situating the novella within the framework of contemporary fictional representations of bigamy while also highlighting Oliphant’s unique attention to issues of gender and class. … This is an admirable edition, relevant to those who know Oliphant as well as those encountering her for the first time.” — Emily Morris, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan“It is very good to have one of Margaret Oliphant’s later short stories published in the form of an accessible student text, accompanied by contextual material which helps to explain the significance of her take on the recurrent Victorian subject of bigamous marriages. Long remembered only for her successful mid-century ‘Chronicles of Carlingford’ and her 1862 essay ‘Sensation Novels,’ … [Oliphant here] offers an extraordinary insight into the emotional cost that might be demanded in preserving her long-held belief in the virtue of female self-sacrifice.” — Elisabeth Jay, Oxford Brookes UniversityTable of Contents The Legend of Fair Rosamond from “Fair Rosamond,” Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) from Mary Russell Mitford, Dramatic Scenes, Sonnets, and Other Poems (1827) from Pierce Egan, Fair Rosamond, An Historical Romance (1844) Bigamy Laws Section 22, Offences against the Person Act (1828) Section 57, Offences against the Person Act (1861) Bigamy in Sensation Novels from Wilkie Collins, The Two Destinies (1876) from Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Phantom Fortune (1883) Contemporary Reactions to Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamond from “Magazines for January,” “Magazines for February,” The Sunday Times (1886) from “Cornhill Magazine (January, February, March),” The London Quarterly and Holborn Review (1886) from “Recent Short Stories,” The Spectator (1898) J.M. Barrie on Oliphant and on “Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamond” J.M. Barrie, Introductory Note to The Widow’s Tale and Other Stories (1898) Victorian London and Liverpool from Isabella Beeton, The Book of Household Management (1861) from George and Weedon Grossmith, Diary of a Nobody (1888-9) from Black’s Guide to Liverpool and Birkenhead (1871) Images of Liverpool

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Book SynopsisIn this 1874 novella, the celebrated British writer of sensation fiction tells the tale of two brothers sentenced to be executed for having committed a murder that never occurred, and of the efforts of the energetic Naomi Colebrook to ferret out the truth and save the two innocents. As editor Anna Clarke observes, Collins' work is both a compelling legal sensation thriller and an important transatlantic commentary on American life. Along with the text itself and an illuminating introduction, Clarke provides a range of background materials-including documents from the real-life Boorn murder trial that inspired the novella-in order to set the work in its historical context.Trade Review“This is a timely re-examination of Wilkie Collins’s The Dead Alive. Anna Clark has situated Collins’s novella within its nineteenth-century context in terms of the Boorn murder trial, which inspired its plot, and other contemporary materials, including reviews and illustrations. The introduction provides a clear overview of Collins’s work, as well as of the text under consideration, which makes this volume useful for both scholars and students. This is a welcome and exciting addition to Broadview’s indispensable Victorian literature series.” — Joanne Ella Parsons, Falmouth University“Wilkie Collins’s The Dead Alive is an incredibly teachable novella, and Anna Clark’s introduction helpfully situates it within a range of historical contexts. This little-known text—advertised as Collins’s ‘first American story’ and based on an actual 1819 Vermont trial—is distinct within Collins’s oeuvre. The bold Naomi Colebrook prefigures Collins’s detective-heroine Valeria Woodville in The Law and the Lady but is also depicted as a uniquely American heroine. The contextual material that Clark provides, including reviews and reports of the real-life trial, position The Dead Alive as a significant experiment in transatlantic, legal, and sensational writing.” — Tara MacDonald, University of IdahoTable of Contents Introduction William Wilkie Collins The Dead Alive in Context A Note on the Text The Dead Alive In Context The Boorn Murder Trial from Leonard Sargent, The Trial, Confessions and Conviction of Jesse and Stephen Boorn, for the Murder of Russell Colvin, and the Return of the Man Supposed to Have Been Murdered (1873) from Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, Seventieth Session, "Report of the Select Committee on the Abolishment of Capital Punishment" (5 March 1847) from Lemuel Haynes, "The Prisoner Released. A Sermon delivered at Manchester, Vermont, Lord's Day, Man. 9th, 1820, on the remarkable interpositin of Divine Providence in the deliverance of Stephen and Jesse Boorn, who had been under sentence of death for the supposed murder of Russell Colvin." In Sketches of the Life and Character of Rev. Lemuel Haynes, A.M., by Timothy Mather Cooley (1837) On the American Character from Alexis de Tocqueville, "Of the Principal Source of Belief Among Democratc Nations," Democracy in America, vol. 2, trans. Henry Reeve (1841) from Charles Dickens, American Notes (1842) American Reviews from "The Dead Alive" (Review), Cincinnati Daily Enquirer (4 January 1874) from "New Publications" (Review of The Dead Alive), Christian Watchman (5 February 1874) from "Literariana" (Review of The Dead Alive), The Daily Graphic (18 February 1874) from "New Publications" (Review of The Dead Alive), The Christian Register (21 February 1874) from "Novels of the Week" (Review of The Frozen Deep, and Other Stories), The Athenaeum (21 November 1874) Advertising, Illustrations from The Commercial Advertiser (3 January 1874) Illustrations from Shepard and Gill edition of The Dead Alive Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThe great-grandmother of Downton Abbey, Barford Abbey is among the first of a new genre of 'abbey fictions.' Using the abbey as a site and a question mark, Susannah Minifie weaves a story of new and broken relationships, of change and fear of change, and of heredity and inheritance. Here the abbey becomes a symbol not simply tied to the gothic but a setting for social dramas that prefigures the realist novels of the nineteenth century. In two compact volumes, the novel achieves innovations in narrative manner and style. Barford Abbey may seem to offer the consolations of melodrama and the comforts of marriage, but the balance of the novel reminds us that parts of life can sometimes be left out, and that life's losses cannot genuinely be recovered.Trade ReviewSusannah Minifie Gunning's Barford Abbey is delightful reading, both for its fast-paced epistolary immediacy and for the light it sheds on the more famous novels that it prefigures. Inaugurating what the editors call 'abbey fiction,' Barford affords a deeper understanding of the English novel in the transitional years between Fielding, Richardson, and Sterne, on the one hand, and Burney, Smith, and Austen, on the other. Doody and Milberger introduce us as well to a prolific but little-known woman writer with a fascinating and ultimately scandalous history, whose later novels contributed to the popular series published by the Minerva Press. The return of Barford Abbey to print in this richly annotated edition is a welcome occasion for students and scholars alike." - Susan S. Lanser, Brandeis University"In this excellent edition, Margaret Doody and Kurt Milberger recover an important early contribution to a tradition of literary commentary on England's religious past. Ruined abbeys or those transformed into the houses of the wealthy appear quite frequently in poetry and novels in the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth-centuries, most famously in the works of Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, and Lord Byron. Long before these writers, however, Susannah Minifie Gunning recognized the usefulness of an abbey setting for raising complicated questions about the social, economic, and political character of English culture. With a detailed introduction and a rich collection of contextual materials, including excerpts from sixteenth-century documents, eighteenth-century historical works, and contemporary literature, this edition is an invaluable resource for students and scholars as well as anyone interested in Jane Austen's literary forebears." - Roger E. Moore, Vanderbilt UniversityTable of Contents Appendix A: 'Writing to the Moment': The Epistolary Style 1. Daniel Defoe, From Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-27) on the London Post Office 2. Samuel Richardson, From Letters Written To and For Particular Friends, on the Most Important Occasions, 1741 3. Samuel Richardson on 'Writing to the Moment' in the 'Preface' to Clarissa, 1748 4. Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 152, 31 August 1751 on Epistolary Style 5. Rev. John Trusler, 'The PENNY-POST.' From The London Advisor and Guide, 1786 Appendix B: The Dissolution of the Abbeys 1. An Act for the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries, 1535 2. William Camden, From Britannia, 1586 [Gough Edition, 1789] 3. David Hume, From The History of England: Under the House of Tudor, 1759 Edition Appendix C: The Picturesque Abbey as Ruin or Great Mansion 1. George Keate, The Ruins of Netley Abbey, 1764 2. William Gilpin, On Glastonbury and Ford Abbey, From Observations on the Western parts of England, 1798 3. Walter Scott, From Lay of the Last Minstrel, 1805 Appendix D: Abbey Fictions 1. Charlotte Smith, From Ethelinde, 1789 2. Regina Maria Roche, From The Children of the Abbey, 1796 3. Jane Austen, From Northanger Abbey, 1817 4. George Gordon, Lord Byron, From Don Juan, 1819 Appendix E: The Reception of Barford Abbey the Writing of Susannah Minifie Gunning 1. Review of Barford Abbey from The Critical Review, Vol. 24, 422-30, edited by Tobias Smollet, 1767 2. Review of Minife's Coombe Wood from The British Magazine and Review, Vol. 2, 127-128, 1783 3. Excerpt of a review of Gunning's poem Virginius and Virginia published in the Critical Review, vol. 5, 1792

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Book SynopsisCastle Rackrent—Maria Edgeworth’s first novel, and the work for which she was and is best known—occupies a most unusual place in the history both of Irish literature and of English-language fiction. It has sometimes been called the first historical novel in English literature, yet in its tone it more closely resembles a comedy of manners than anything in the genre that has come to be known as “the historical novel.” It has been identified as the first of other lines as well—the first English novel written in a non-standard dialect, the first “provincial” or “regional” novel, and the first in what developed into the “big house” tradition of novels focused on the lives of the Anglo-Irish Protestant landholding class that dominated much of Ireland for centuries. Its innovative use of an unreliable narrator makes it also, arguably, an important milestone in the development of the novel form as a whole. Castle Rackrent chronicles the declining fortunes and ultimate ruin of the Rackrent family through the mishandling of their estate by a series of incompetent and irresponsible heirs. Edgeworth attested in a letter she wrote years later that “the only character drawn from the life” in the novel is Thady Quirk (servant to the Rackrent family, and the novel’s narrator). But the novel as a whole is grounded in real events—the careless landlords and the “middle men who grind the face of the poor” described in Edgeworth’s fiction were very real in eighteenth-century Ireland.This edition does more than any other to set this classic novel in the political, economic, and religious context of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Irish life; in addition to an illuminating introduction, the edition includes a variety of background historical materials.Trade Review“This new edition of Maria Edgeworth’s best-known fiction of Irish life will be warmly welcomed. A lively and informative introduction sketches Edgeworth’s life and times, and outlines the central questions posed by this witty philosophical tale. A skillfully accomplished summary of the historical and political background to the novel is followed by useful selections from contemporary sources, including Arthur Young’s scathing exposé of corrupt landlordism, and Theobald Wolfe Tone’s ‘Argument on Behalf of the Catholics of Ireland,’ a polemic that does much to show how the 1798 United Irishmen uprising emerged out of the exploitation identified by Young. Other extracts from contemporary documents focus on the misgovernment by the Anglo-Irish Protestant ascendancy echoed in Edgeworth’s tale of chaotic local tyrants. This edition is a valuable resource both for students of Edgeworth and general readers encountering her, and eighteenth-century Irish life, for the first time.” — Susan Manly, University of St Andrews“The introduction to Broadview’s welcome new edition sets the novel in the context of Edgeworth’s career and its subsequent reception. The ‘In Context’ section furnishes the reader with contemporary reviews and texts from the times concerning Irish social and political conditions, particularly relating to the 1798 rebellion which led to the legislative union.” — Professor James H. Murphy, Director of Irish Studies, Boston College“This valuable new edition sets the book in its historico-political context with excerpts from influential works by contemporary authors…. Edgeworth’s work is so valuable because it traverses the obvious faultlines in Irish political and social life. Helpfully, the edition also includes excerpts from reviews at the time of its publication, demonstrating how the meaning of Edgeworth’s novella continued to be interpreted and reinterpreted in so many different ways.” — John Bew, Professor of History and Foreign Policy, King’s College London“The introduction provides a concise overview of Edgeworth’s critical neglect and literary merit as well as clearly outlining the challenges of reading a novel of ‘Irish’ manners by an Anglo-Irish writer. The contextual materials invaluably elucidate the political and economic injustices faced by the Irish as well as the English and Anglo-Irish prejudices justifying the continued religious and cultural oppression of the Irish people.” — Robin Runia, Xavier University of Louisiana“As Walter Allen pointed out in his history of the English novel, Castle Rackent is to Irish literature what Huckleberry Finn is to American literature. This is a fine edition of a classic of the novel in English literary tradition.” — Maureen O. Murphy, Hofstra University“Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent has always been a strange little novel, a tale of the dissolution of the Rackrent family through their own mismanagement and irresponsibility, told in non-standard dialect by the illiterate Irish steward Thady Quirk. … [T]his welcome edition for the classroom provides an additional layer of useful glosses and illuminating contextual readings.” — Susan Egenolf, Texas A&M University“Though Castle Rackrent is surely one of the shortest novels of its era—certainly in comparison with typical eighteenth- and nineteenth-century door-stoppers—it is also one of the most important, touching on a huge range of issues including British and Irish nationalism, colonial power, marriage and sexuality, religion and its obligations, property ownership, revolution and rebellion. It is also laugh-out-loud funny: Thady Quirk is one of the great unsung narrators of literary history. Julie Nash and her colleagues are to be commended for providing just the right amount of commentary and contextual material to keep any literature class interested and engaged. This is a welcome addition to the Broadview Anthology of Literature and to Broadview’s impressive lineup of Romantic-period editions.” — Alexander Dick, University of British Columbia“This richly informative new edition of Maria Edgeworth’s ironic masterpiece approaches Castle Rackrent in terms of the questions that it still poses. The book supplies a wide array of contextual material, prompting new connections and allowing readers to come to their own conclusions. Students are sure to be drawn to the portfolio of images of Irish housing that accompanies the text. Truly an edition to explore and enjoy.” — Claire Connolly, University College CorkTable of Contents from Arthur Young, A Tour in Ireland, 1776–79 (1780) The Rebellions of 1798 and 1803, and the Acts of Union from Wolfe Tone, “An Argument on Behalf of the Catholics of Ireland” (1791) from The Reading Mercury and Oxford Gazette, 23 July 1798 from “Examination of William James MacNeven before the Secret Committee of the House of Commons, Dublin,” 7 and 8 August 1798 Songs of ‘98 Slievenamon (date unknown) Carroll Malone, “The Croppy Boy” (1845) from Francis Moylan, Letter to Thomas Pelham, 9 March 1799 from Report of a Motion Brought before the Irish House of Commons, as presented in The Aberdeen Journal, 10 March 1800 from Anne Devlin, The Life, Imprisonment, Suffering and Death of Anne Devlin (1851) Letters to The Times Regarding Tithes from Letter to The Times, 14 November 1804 from Letter to The Times, 24 November 1804 Maria Edgeworth on Castle Rackrent, and on the Irish from Maria Edgeworth, Letter to Mrs. Stark (1834) from Maria Edgeworth, An Essay on Irish Bulls (1803) Reviews and Early Nineteenth Century Comments on Castle Rackrent Unsigned Review, Monthly Review (1800) Unsigned Review Notice, The British Critic (November 1800) from anonymous, “Novels Descriptive of Irish Life,” Edinburgh Review 52 (1831) from “Miss Edgeworth’s Tales and Novels,” Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country 35 (November 1832)

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Book SynopsisThe Great Gatsby is widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of American fiction. It tells of the mysterious Jay Gatsby's grand effort to win the love of Daisy Buchanan, the rich girl who embodies for him the promise of the American dream. Deeply romantic in its concern with self-making, ideal love, and the power of illusion, it draws on modernist techniques to capture the spirit of the materialistic, morally adrift, post-war era Fitzgerald dubbed "the jazz age." Gatsby's aspirations remain inseparable from the rhythms and possibilities suggested by modern consumer culture, popular song, the movies; his obstacles inseparable from contemporary American anxieties about social mobility, racial mongrelization, and the fate of Western civilization.This Broadview edition sets the novel in context by providing readers with a critical introduction and crucial background material about the consumer culture in which Fitzgerald was immersed; about the spirit of the jazz age; and about racial discourse in the 1920s.Trade Review"If The Great Gatsby is, at first glance, an alluring but relatively simple tale, it eventually settles on our consciousness as an almost miraculous dramatization of the essence of the American experience. No major American theme—be it the role of money, art, the quest for social justice, race, or our sense of our national destiny—escapes Fitzgerald's prophetic gaze. This edition, strategically organized and invaluable from start to finish, is the virtually perfect guide to the depth and significance of his masterpiece." - Arnold Rampersad, Stanford University “Michael Nowlin’s edition of The Great Gatsby is educational and elegant. The generous footnotes are detailed yet unobtrusive, and the supplementary materials provide excellent context for what many consider The Great American Novel. The novel, and the world of the novel, are both available to you here, as inseparable as they were while Fitzgerald found inspiration and wrote.” — Anne Margaret Daniel, The New School “Readers are indeed fortunate to have Michael Nowlin’s extremely useful edition of The Great Gatsby. Nowlin provides a wealth of ancillary materials that enhance our understanding and appreciation of Fitzgerald’s masterpiece. Throughout, Nowlin’s emphasis is on the quality, not quantity, of these materials; the result is a book that will be indispensable to students, teachers, and the casual reader alike.” — Jackson R. Bryer, University of MarylandTable of Contents Appendix A: Fitzgerald's Correspondence about The Great Gatsby (1922-25) Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews 1. Isabel Patterson, New York Herald Tribune Books (19 April 1925) 2. H.L. Mencken, Baltimore Evening Sun (2 May 1925) 3. William Rose Benét, Saturday Review of Literature (9 May 1925) 4. William Curtis, Town & Country (15 May 1925) 5. Carl Van Vechten, The Nation (20 May 1925) 6. Burton Rascoe, Arts & Decoration (June 1925) 5. Gilbert Seldes, The Dial (August 1925) Appendix C: Consumption, Class, and Economy 1. From Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home (1922) 2. Eight Contemporary Advertisements 3. From F. Scott Fitzgerald, "How to Live on $36,000 a Year" (1924) 4. From Samuel Crowther & Jacob Raskob, "Everybody Ought to be Rich" (1929) Appendix D: The Irreverent Spirit of the Jazz Age 1. From F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Echoes of the Jazz Age" (1931) 2. Duncan M. Poole, "The Great Jazz Trial" (1922) 3. F. A. Austin, "The Bootlegger Speaks" (1922) 3. From H.L. Mencken, ["Five Years of Prohibition"] (1924) 4. Zelda Fitzgerald, "What Became of the Flappers?" (1925) 5. From Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals (1929) Appendix E: Race and the National Culture, 1920-25 1. From Lothrop Stoddard, The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920) 2. From Henry Ford, Jewish Influences in American Life (1921) 3. From Frederick C. Howe, "The Alien" (1922) 4. From Anzia Yezierska, Bread Givers (1925) 5. From Alain Locke, "The New Negro" (1925) 6. From J. A. Rogers, "Jazz at Home" (1925) 7. Miguel Covurrubias and Eric Walrond, "The Sheik of Dahomey" (illustration, 1924)

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Book SynopsisIn their moral tales, writers such as Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth embraced explicitly didactic aims, seeking to instill normative moral behavior in their readers while entertaining them with vivid, emotional storytelling. In More's 'Tawney Rachel,' for example, a servant girl suffers severe consequences for succumbing to superstition; in Opie's 'The Black Velvet Pelisse,' a young woman is rewarded for a charitable act with a desirable marriage; and in Edgeworth's 'The Dun,' a wealthy man's selfishness destroys a poor family before he finally sees the error of his ways.This edition offers a selection of five short fictions by More, Opie, and Edgeworth-the best-known writers of the moral tale-prefaced by a critical introduction to the genre and its place in the complex and fascinating debates surrounding the writing and reading of fiction in the Romantic period. The volume concludes with a variety of background materials that help situate the moral tale in its late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literary contexts, including moral tales for children, theories of education, and contemporary reviews.Trade Review“This is a fascinating and thought-provoking book. Arguing that writing moral tales was women writers’ solution to the disparagement of the novel, Robin Runia’s selection of stories by Hannah More, Amelia Opie and Maria Edgeworth, three popular authors, provides interesting and stimulating illustrations of their different use of the genre. However, Runia does more than this: she includes, for each writer, excerpts from contemporary critical reviews. This gives us an insight not just into the contemporary reception of their work but into the criteria that critics used for these judgements, a most important one being educating and improving the reader. Unusually but commendably, Runia includes in her discussion the moral tales for children by Edgeworth and Opie, providing as context the didactic advice about suitable reading for children and about female education purveyed in two of the most important educational texts of the late 18th century, Practical Education and Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. This book will be ‘amusing and instructive’ to scholars, students, and general readers alike.” — Michele Cohen, UCL Institute of Education"Professor Robin Runia’s Broadview edition of Moral Tales will appeal to a broad range of readers with interests in the long eighteenth century and Romanticism, the histories of the novel, gender, popular culture and education, and in the distinctive works of Hannah More, Amelie Opie, and Maria Edgeworth, the writers featured in the volume. The stories included are fascinating, rich and compelling, the notes helpful, the contexts (with contemporary reviews, illustrations and commentary) illuminating. Runia’s splendid introduction alone, lucidly placing the moral tale and writers in their respective contexts, is worth the price of the volume. This book should be required reading for any student interested in the long eighteenth century and in how the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries understood themselves." — Christopher Fox, University of Notre Dame“Robin Runia’s Moral Tales provides an excellent introduction to Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth—three leading female authors at the turn of the nineteenth century—and some of their short fictions from the oft-neglected, though popular didactic genre. The contexts from contemporary reviewers and conduct books, as well as their connections to early children’s literature, are useful for student readers and convincingly demonstrate the significance of these works.” — Hilary Havens, University of Tennessee“This well-researched edition shows how moral tales became a mode of resistance to derogatory perceptions of women writers and readers of the English sentimental novel in the late eighteenth century. Runia shows how the moral tale was developed in reaction to the English sentimental novel; how it broadened women’s authority; and how it became a highly versatile form that could be adapted to suit the political positions of writers as diverse as Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth. In an introduction that clearly demonstrates how the moral tale was used for diverse purposes, Runia places the moral tale beside the sentimental novel, not apart from it. This fine and readable edition also includes contemporaneous reviews and selections from other texts by the three writers, which add literary and social context that expands our knowledge of the history of genre, gender, and the English novel.” — Rebecca Shapiro, City University of New York“The rise of the British ‘moral tale’ in the early nineteenth century promoted powerful female authors, advanced far-ranging pragmatic educational theories, and established the genre that flourished in the following decades as the Golden Age of children’s literature. Robin Runia’s collection, Moral Tales, focuses on three influential figures: Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth, supplying biographical information, cultural context, and readable samples from each one. This book will be a useful reference guide for advanced scholars; Runia has employed extensive archival knowledge to excavate both the most essential and the most accessible materials. Professors teaching Women’s and Gender Studies, Education, and Romantic Literature will find it invaluable, since the material deals explicitly with issues of class, gender, and the impact of military service. They show a side of the period erased by canonical Romantic fiction and will provoke passionate discussions among twenty-first century students.” — Katharine Kittredge, Ithaca College“Robin Runia’s Broadview edition of Moral Tales reminds scholars and students that the Romantic-era’s publishing landscape was rich and diverse. It is past time that scholars set the essays, poetry, and novels of Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth into conversation with their tales, and this ground-breaking teaching edition allows us to do so.” — Roxanne Eberle, University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsIntroduction The Moral Tale Hannah More Amelia Alderson Opie Maria Edgeworth Moral Tales: A Selection Hannah More, 'Tawney Rachel,' Cheap Repository Tracts (1796-97) Hannah More, 'The Servant Man Turned Soldier,' Cheap Repository Tracts (1796-97) Amelia Opie, 'The Black Velvet Pelisse,' Simple Tales (1806) Amelia Opie, 'The Soldier's Return,' Simple Tales (1806) Maria Edgeworth, 'The Dun,' Tales of Fashionable Life (1809) In Context A. Contemporary Reviews 1. from anonymous, review of 'Cheap Repository Tracts,' The Evangelical Magazine (October 1795) 2. from anonymous, review of 'Cheap Repository Tracts,' Critical Review (October 1797) 3. from anonymous, review of 'Simple Tales,' Literary Journal (August 1806) 4. from anonymous, review of 'Simple Tales,' Edinburgh Review (July 1806) 5. from anonymous, review of 'Simple Tales,' The Critical Review (August 1806) 6. from anonymous, review of 'Tales of Fashionable Life,' The Critical Review (July 1809) 7. from anonymous, 'On Edgeworth's Tales of Fashionable Life,' The Critical Review, or Annals of Literature (October 1809) B. Illustrations 1. Title page, 'Tawney Rachel,' from Hannah More, Cheap Repository Tracts (1796-97) 2. Title page, 'Servant Man Turned Soldier,' from Hannah More, Cheap Repository Tracts (1796-97) 3. Valentine Green after John Opie, 'A lady telling a gripping story to young women and children' (1785) 4. William Harvey, 'Ennui' [Frontispiece engraving], in Maria Edgeworth's Tales and Novels, Volume 6 (1832) C. Tales for Children 1. Maria Edgeworth, 'Tarlton,' The Parent's Assistant (1796) 2. Amelia Opie, 'The Little Boy and His Lame Dog,' Tales of the Pemberton Family (1825) D. Educating Readers 1. from Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Practical Education (1798) 2. from Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education with a View to the Principles and Conduct of Women of Rank and Fortune (1799; 1809)

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Book SynopsisThe first incarnation of this Broadview edition of Heart of Darkness appeared in 1995, the second in 1999; both were widely acclaimed, and the Goonetilleke Heart of Darkness remained for many years one of Broadview's best-selling titles. For the third edition the book has been completely revised and updated to take account of the scholarship of the most recent generation. The introduction has been extensively rewritten, and the appendices of contextual materials thoroughly overhauled.The two previous editions of the Goonetilleke Heart of Darkness included a substantial selection of documents on the history of Benin, ranging from excerpts taken from Olaudah Equiano's eighteenth-century narrative to documents concerning the Benin massacre of 1897. Those documents concerning a neighboring Bantu society were included in large part because of the paucity of known late nineteenth-century documents concerning the Congo by black Africans - or indeed by black observers of any nationality. In place of those Benin-related materials, this new edition includes substantial excerpts from George Washington Williams's Letter to Leopold II, as well as substantial excerpts from an extraordinary document not included in any other edition of Heart of Darkness (but discussed extensively in two ground-breaking twenty-first century works of scholarship, David Van Reybrouck's Congo: The Epic History of a People and Maya Jasanoff's The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World): the autobiography of Disasi Makulo. Makulo grew up near the shore of the Congo River in the 1880s and early 1890s, was enslaved by notorious ivory dealer Tippu Tip, and then was taken under the wing of Henry Morgan Stanley. Makulo's account - substantial excerpts of which are here translated into English for the first time - opens an unprecedented window on life in the equatorial forest of the Congo in the late nineteenth century.Trade Review“It is difficult to imagine a more complete, or authoritative, edition of Heart of Darkness. An elegant, and informative, essay introduces the text, but it is the two hundred pages of context which distinguishes this edition from other volumes. Reviews, letters, essays, articles and speeches, give us a fully nuanced picture of Conrad, the Congo, and contemporary attitudes to race, imperialism and exploration. The editor also tracks textual changes, provides us with illustrations, photographs and maps, and manages to distill years of research into a single comprehensive volume that will probably become the standard edition for both the general reader and the scholar.” — Caryl Phillips, Yale University“From the wide-ranging and even-handed Introduction to the absorbing—and often outright arresting—selection of supplementary historical documents, this very substantial edition will give even the newest readers of Heart of Darkness the opportunity to arrive at a properly informed critical opinion on the notoriously contested topic of Conrad, race, and empire.” — Marina MacKay, University of Oxford“Controversial classics like Conrad’s Heart of Darkness demand editions as revelatory as this one. Following his thought-provoking Introduction, D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke provides us with an abundance of contextual materials, many of which introduce new voices and new perspectives on the book’s writing, publication, and reception. The ‘blank space’ of Conrad’s boyhood apprehension of Africa is filled up with excerpts from the adult novelist’s travel and reading during the peak of European imperialism at the end of the 19th century. Alongside racist propaganda keen to excuse the atrocities committed in the vile scramble for African loot, we hear the voices of a former slave and an African-American eye-witness whose open letter to Leopold II denounced Belgium’s unjust and cruel wars in the Congo. In this edition the figure of the British explorer Henry Stanley hovers around the figure of Kurtz while the human mind itself evolves as the ‘lightless region of subtle horrors’.” — Deirdre Coleman, University of Melbourne“D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke’s third edition of Heart of Darkness has been updated with an expanded introduction and a number of highly relevant secondary texts not readily available elsewhere. The introduction speaks to undergraduates and specialists alike, providing a clear and effective account of the Congo’s history and of the critical approaches to the novella since its emergence at the forefront of the modernist canon. The text comes with a rich accompaniment of secondary material. Several significant contemporary reviews and the essential letters are here, as is a representative sampling of writing on race and imperialism. The selections relating to Henry Morton Stanley provide valuable background. Of particular importance is a section from the autobiography of Disasi Makulo, a Congolese villager who was captured as a slave a few years before Conrad was in central Africa. Here at last is a voice from Africa itself to set alongside those of Marlow and Kurtz.” — William Atkinson, Appalachian State University“Broadview’s new edition of Heart of Darkness is a welcome addition to the archive for students and scholars. Professor Gooniteleke’s collection of primary and secondary essays, chronologies, and photographs offers a useful complement to John G. Peters’ recent Broadview edition. In particular, this edition brings forward the Congo’s own history to tell that nation’s story as more than a backdrop to Conrad’s tale of European longing. In that sense, this edition reads Heart of Darkness as a story of colliding cultures; not as Europe acting on the passive object Africa. Furthermore, the Broadview Heart of Darkness embraces the fullest archive of writings Conrad would himself have read—including letters from influential friends and significant journalism from the Times and from Blackwood’s. These are Conrad’s own sources for writing about imperialism and about Africa, and they offer scholars an intense resource for exploring that context. Similarly, supplemental photographs from multiple sources offer teaching tools for students of all levels. The Broadview Heart of Darkness frames a story of globalization and imperialism, and frames it in a way that’s as productive for a deep dive by scholars as it is for a classroom visit by students. Together, these make the newest Broadview Heart of Darkness useful for library shelves and undergraduate syllabi.” — Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy, Director of Environmental Humanities, The University of Utah“This rich critical edition offers a deep engagement with Conrad’s thinking about European ‘criminality … when undertaking the civilizing work on Africa,’ and its apparatus reflects Heart of Darkness’ complicated status as an emblematic text for decolonial and critical race studies. It invites students to critically examine imperialist apologias of the period, perspectives from African, American, and European observers, protest writings, and formative anti-racist efforts from politically active writers such as Roger Casement. It takes account of recent discussions in Conrad scholarship as well as the text’s early reception history.” — Judith Paltin, University of British Columbia“D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke’s third edition of Heart of Darkness arrives at a critical moment when racially motivated violence against African Americans has spurred mass public protests across the world and renewed calls for action by the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement. His comprehensive introduction, along with revised and expanded Appendices offer a wide-ranging historical and political context to Conrad’s literary exposé of imperial domination and brutality in late 19th century Europe. These contextual materials enable important and challenging discussions of systemic and ingrained racism, for, as American writer and activist James Baldwin wrote, ‘[H]istory is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.’ This new edition is compulsive, compulsory reading, providing an excellent basis for the reader to probe the text further—and, if one were to allow it, see one’s self in it.” — Ranjini Mendis, Kwantlen Polytechnic University; Founding Editor, Postcolonial Text“It has been twenty-one years since Professor Goonetilleke published the second edition of his casebook on Heart of Darkness. Much has been added in that time to the critical conversation—now lasting 123 years—about the novella that this edition addresses. The enlargements all help to historicize the novella compellingly and most appropriately to the present moment, in terms of Conrad’s own reading at the time, the inclusion of more photos and personal accounts of life in the Congo at the time, a section entitled ‘Perspectives on Race and Imperialism’ that gathers together in a more pointed way some readings already present and several new ones, and an expanded, very timely bibliography. I can’t imagine a more valuable casebook for a classroom reading of Conrad’s novella.” — Andrea White, California State University at Dominguez HillsTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface to the Third Broadview Edition Preface to the First Broadview Edition Introduction Joseph Conrad: A Brief Chronology A Congo Chronology A Note on the Text Heart of Darkness Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews 1. From Edward Garnett, “Mr. Conrad’s New Book,” Academy and Literature (6 December 1902) 2. Hugh Clifford, “The Art of Mr. Joseph Conrad,” Spectator (29 November 1902) 3. From “Mr. Conrad’s New Book” (unsigned), Manchester Guardian (10 December 1902) 4. From “Youth” (unsigned), Times Literary Supplement (12 December 1902) 5. From Athenaeum (unsigned) (20 December 1902) 6. From “Some Stories by Joseph Conrad” (unsigned), New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art (4 April 1903) 7. From The Monthly Review (unsigned) (7 April 1903) 8. Virginia Woolf, “Mr. Conrad’s ‘Youth,’” Times Literary Supplement (20 September 1917) Appendix B: Diaries, Letters, Other Writings, and Comments by Conrad 1. From Conrad’s Congo Diary (1890) 2. Letter to Marguerite Poradowska (26 September 1890) 3. From Letter to William Blackwood (31 December 1898) 4. From Edward Garnett, “Introduction” to Letters from Conrad (1928) 5. From Letter to R.B. Cunninghame Graham (31 January 1898) 6. From Letter to R.B. Cunninghame Graham (8 February 1899) 7. From Letter to William Blackwood (31 May 1902) 8. From Letter to Elsie Hueffer (3 December 1902) 9. From Letter to Edward Garnett (22 December 1902) 10. From “Geography and Some Explorers,” National Geographic (March 1924) 11. From Letter to Roger Casement (21 December 1903) 12. “Author’s Note” to Almayer’s Folly (1895) Appendix C: The Congo: African, American, and European Viewpoints 1. From Disasi Makulo, The Life of Disasi Makulo (c. 1940) 2. From William G. Stairs, Victorian Explorer: The African Diaries of William G. Stairs (1887) 3. From George Washington Williams, An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II (1890) 4. From E.J. Glave, In Savage Africa: Or, Six Years Adventure in Congo-Land (1893) 5. From Guy Burrows, The Land of the Pigmies (1898) 6. From “An Englishman’s Account of Congo State Methods,” The Times (26 May 1899) 7. From Roger Casement, “The Casement Report” (1904) 8. From E.D. Morel, Great Britain and the Congo (1909) 9. From Mark Twain, King Leopold’s Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule (1905) Appendix D: Henry Morton Stanley 1. From Henry Morton Stanley, Through the Dark Continent (1878) 2. From Henry Morton Stanley, “Preface,” Through the Dark Continent (1899) 3. From Henry Morton Stanley, Incidents of the Journey through the Dark Continent (1886) 4. From speech at a dinner given in his honour by the Lotos Club in New York (27 November 1886) 5. From speech on being given the Freedom of the City of Swansea (4 October 1892) 6. Advertising Announcement (1899) Appendix E: British Perspectives on Race and Imperialism 1. From Thomas Carlyle, “Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question,” Fraser’s Magazine (December 1849) 2. From John Stuart Mill, “The Negro Question,” Fraser’s Magazine (January 1850) 3. From W.M. Thackeray to Anne Carmichael-Smyth (26 January 1853) 4. From John Ruskin, “Lecture 1: Inaugural” (1870) 5. From George Gissing to Algernon Gissing (23 January 1885) 6. From Joseph Chamberlain, Speech, the Imperial Institute (11 November 1895) 7. From Joseph Chamberlain, Speech, the Royal Colonial Institute (31 March 1897) 8. From Mary Kingsley, “Appendix 1: Trade and Labour in West Africa,” Travels in West Africa (1897) 9. From Benjamin Kidd, The Control of the Tropics (1898) 10. From Cecil Rhodes, Speech at Cape Town (18 July 1898) Appendix F: Conrad’s Reading 1. From Gabriela Cunninghame Graham, Saint Teresa, Being Some Account of Her Life and Times (1894) 2. From R.B. Cunninghame Graham, “Bloody Niggers,” The Social-Democrat (April 1897) 3. From Jules Houdret, “The Congo Free State,” Letter to the Editor of The Times (10 April 1897) 4. From H.R. Fox Bourne, “The Congo Free State,” Letter to the Editor of The Times (16 April 1897) 5. From Andrew Seth, “Friedrich Nietzsche: His Life and Works,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (October 1897) 6. From E.J. Glave, “Cruelty in the Congo Free State: Concluding Extracts from the Journals of E.J. Glave,” Century Magazine (September 1897) 7. From “Notes,” Saturday Review (17 December 1898) Appendix G: Major Textual Changes Appendix H: Illustrations Appendix I: The Photographs of Alexandre Delcommune Appendix J: The Photographs of Alice Harris Appendix K: Maps of the Congo Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDreams is a work that defies conventional categorization; however, one might best capture its unique formal structure by construing it as a series of prose poems or narrative paintings, a starkly modern text inflected by the far older tradition of the medieval dream vision poem. Arthur Symons praised Dreams by saying, “The words seem to chant themselves to a music which we do not hear.” Though a work of prophecy, it proceeds with a light touch. The sequence of eleven dreams, loosely interlinked, leaves us to wrestle with our doubts; it takes up thorny questions that challenge a culture right where it may tend to be its proudest. The landscape of the work shifts as it moves among the African savannah, congested late-industrial London, and the olive tree-studded hillsides of Italy. The intersectionality of Schreiner’s writing—its concern with gender, sexual orientation, class, nation, and race—makes her a particularly salient voice for today’s students. The appendices to this edition provide an accessible representation of Schreiner’s key contexts, South African and British as well as American. The introduction provides a biographical overview of a writer wrestling with questions of social justice pertinent to her own era, yet relevant to our contemporary moment.Trade Review“The genre of the allegorical fable has long been out of fashion. In their new edition of Olive Schreiner’s Dreams, the editors have provided a wealth of judiciously chosen materials, critical and historical, to help us read these allegories with fresh eyes.” — J.M. Coetzee“Dreams, Olive Schreiner’s book of feminist allegories, became an inspirational book for hunger-striking British suffragettes in Holloway Prison. Charlotte Perkins Gilman carried it with her when she left her marriage, and she called it the sunlight of her freedom. It is wonderful to have Schreiner’s influential book now available for students and scholars, with a splendid introduction co-written by the three editors, connecting her South African political roots, London intellectual experiences, controversial feminist ideas, and literary evolution. The editors have provided a rich selection of contextual documents illuminating Schreiner’s literary influences and her intersecting views of the relationships between feminism, race, sexuality, and labor. A welcome and timely edition for a new generation of readers.” — Elaine Showalter, Professor Emerita, Princeton University“Congratulations to the editors on producing a wonderful new edition of Olive Schreiner’s Dreams, one of her key publications. The editors have also added to the allegories in providing well-chosen selections from across a wide range of Schreiner’s writings, together with thoughtful interpretational notes. The result will surely be an essential book in Schreiner scholarship, appealing both to those wanting an introduction and to those wanting to deepen their knowledge of Schreiner’s work. Brava!” — Liz Stanley, University of EdinburghTable of Contents 1. From the Charter of the British South Africa Company (1889) 2. From Cecil Rhodes, “What We Were Fighting” (November 13, 1900) 3. From Sol Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa (1916) 4. Women’s Enfranchisement Leaflet with Schreiner’s notes (1908) 5. Letters to Julia Solly (1908), Will Schreiner (June 12, 1898), and Edward Carpenter (April 3, 1911) Appendix B: London 1. From Edward Carpenter, My Days and Dreams (1916) 2. From Constance Lytton, Prisons and Prisoners (1914) 3. From W.T. Stead, “The Novel of the Modern Woman” (March 1896) 4. Letters to Havelock Ellis (April 24, 1887), Maria Sharpe (November 24, 1887), and Karl Pearson (November 11, 1890) Appendix C: Literary and Intellectual Influences 1. From John Bunyan, “The Author’s Apology for his Book” and “In the Similitude of a Dream,” Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) 2. “The Parable of the Wedding Banquet,” Luke 14:7-24 3. From Herbert Spencer, First Principles (1860) 4. From Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lecture on the Times (1841) 5. From W.E.B. Du Bois, On the Souls of Black Folk (1903) 6. Selected poems from contemporary black South African poets: I.W.W. Citashe, “Your Cattle are Gone” (written during the 19th century, published 1961); Sol Plaatje, “Sweet Mhudi and I” (1920); Mrs. A.C. Dube, “Africa: My Native Land” (1913); and A.K. Soga, “Daughters of Africa” (1919) 7. From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) 8. Edward Carpenter, “The Curse of Property” from Towards Democracy (1905) 9. Anna Kingsford, “The Armed Goddess” from Dreams and Dream Stories (1883) 10. Letters to Edward Carpenter (October 26, 1905) and Margaret Harkness (between January and February 1891) Appendix D: The Reception and Importance of Dreams 1. Letter to T. Fisher Unwin (1892) 2. Arthur Symons, “Review of Dreams,” The Athenaeum (1891) 3. Amy Wellington, Introduction to Dreams (1915) 4. Advertisement for Dreams, from Trooper Peter Halket (1897) Appendix E: Schreiner’s Corpus 1. From The Story of an African Farm (1883) 2. From Woman and Labour (1911) 3. From From Man to Man (1926) 4. From “The Buddhist Priest’s Wife” (1891) 5. From “The Dawn of Civilisation” (1921) 6. From “Diamond Fields” (1872) 7. From “The Lingua Franca of the World” (1896)

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Book SynopsisThe Afrofuturist plot of Pauline E. Hopkins's Of One Blood (1902-03) weaves together a lost African city, bigamy, incest, murder, ancient prophecies, a thwarted leopard attack, racial passing, baby switching, mesmerism, and hauntings—both literal ghost hauntings and metaphoric hauntings from the sins of slavery. The Broadview Edition offers for the first time annotations and appendices that contextualize the novel in relation to magazines, Black feminism, travels to Africa, racial discourses, scientific and medical debates, and musical culture. The edition's introduction surveys current debates about Hopkins's textual borrowings of from other contemporary writings, and the appendices provide extensive materials on the novel's cultural, musical, and political contexts.Trade Review“Broadview’s edition of Pauline E. Hopkins’s Of One Blood identifies and contextualizes Hopkins’s wide-ranging and varied inspirations, sources, and allusions in a manner that helps readers trace and understand how she employed her craft to perform ‘historical recovery in the service of racial justice.’ Eurie Dahn and Brian Sweeney’s brilliant introduction and meticulously researched notes bring Hopkins’s voice to life and illuminate her position as one of the foremost African American intellectuals of the early twentieth century. The breadth and depth of primary contemporaneous sources that Dahn and Sweeney have assembled raise the bar for scholarly editions.” — Alisha Knight, Washington College“Dahn and Sweeney’s edition of Hopkins’s Of One Blood; or, The Hidden Self strongly grounds the novel in the context of its publication in the Colored American Magazine and of relevant contemporaneous texts and ideas. Its wealth of background and archival material and meticulous elucidation of many of Hopkins’s textual ‘borrowings’ provide multiple inroads for the study of the novel and a tremendous resource for students, instructors, and scholars.” — Julie Fiorelli, Loyola University ChicagoTable of ContentsAppendix A: Pauline Hopkins and the Colored American Magazine 1. From “Rise of the Black Republic: Miss Pauline E. Hopkins Lectures at Tremont Temple,” Boston Post (18 Oct 1889) 2. “Pauline E. Hopkins,” Colored American Magazine (January 1901) 3. From Pauline E. Hopkins, Dedication and Preface to Contending Forces (1900) 4. From “Editorial and Publishers’ Announcements,” Colored American Magazine (May 1900) 5. From R. S. Elliott, “The Story of Our Magazine,” Colored American Magazine (May 1901) 6. “Powerful Serial Stories,” from “Announcement for 1902,” Colored American Magazine (November 1901) 7. Cover, Colored American Magazine (March 1903) 8. “An Interesting Publication,” Colored American newspaper (4 April 1903) 9. Synopsis of Chapters I to XXIII of Of One Blood, Colored American Magazine (November 1903) 10. Crane and Co. Cosmetics Advertisement, Colored American Magazine (March 1903) 11. From “Editorial and Publishers’ Announcements,” Colored American Magazine (October 1903) 12. From “Editorial and Publishers’ Announcements,” Colored American Magazine (March 1903) 13. “Editorial and Publisher’s Announcements,” Colored American Magazine, (May-June 1903) 14. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “How a New York Newspaper Man Entertained a Number of Colored Ladies and Gentlemen at Dinner in the Revere House, Boston, and How the Colored American League was Started,” Colored American Magazine (March 1904) 15. From Pauline E. Hopkins, Letter to William Monroe Trotter (16 April 1905) 16. From “Publishers’ Announcements,” Colored American Magazine (November 1904) 17. From “The Colored Magazine in America,” Crisis (November 1912) Appendix B: Black Feminist Activism 1. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “Famous Women of the Negro Race: IV. Some Literary Workers,” Colored American Magazine (March 1902) 2. From Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, “Address of Josephine St. P. Ruffin, President of Conference” (1902) 3. From Victoria Earle Matthews, “The Value of Race Literature” (1895) 4. From Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892) 5. From Anna Julia Cooper, “The Status of Woman in America” (1892) Appendix C: “Of One Blood” 1. From Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) 2. Acts of the Apostles 17.16-33 (King James Bible) 3. From Frederick Douglass, “The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered” (1854) 4. From Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861) 5. From W.E.B. Du Bois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings,” The Souls of Black Folk (1903) 6. From Francis Marion Crawford, Casa Braccio (1894) 7. From Pauline E. Hopkins (as J. Shirley Shadrach), “Furnace Blasts: II. Black or White?—Which Should Be the Young Afro-American’s Choice in Marriage?” Colored American Magazine (March 1903) Appendix D: Hopkins’s Africa 1. From John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book Four (1667, 1674) 2. From John Hartley Coombs, editor, Dr. Livingstone’s 17 Years’ Explorations and Adventures in the Wilds of Africa (1857) 3. From A.F. Jacassy, “African Studies: I. Tripoli of Barbary,” Scribner’s Magazine (January 1890) 4. From Noel Ruthven, “In the Claws,” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly (January 1884) 5. From N. Robinson, “The Colossal Statues of Egypt and Asia,” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly (January 1884) 6. From G.A. Hoskins, Travels in Ethiopia, Above the Second Cataract of the Nile(1835) 7. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “Famous Women of the Negro Race. VII. Educators (Continued),” Colored American Magazine (June 1902) 8. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “Ethiopia” (1854) 9. From H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (1886-87) 10. Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, “The Black Princess” (1872) 11. From W.E.B. Du Bois, “To the Nations of the World” (25 July 1900) 12. From Pauline E. Hopkins, A Primer of Facts Pertaining to the Early Greatness of the African Race and the Possibility of Restoration by its Descendants—with Epilogue (1905) Appendix E: Mesmerism, Spiritualism, and Professional Medicine 1. From William James, “The Hidden Self,” Scribner’s Magazine (March 1890) 2. Pauline E. Hopkins, “The Mystery Within Us,” Colored American Magazine (May 1900) 3. From Emma Hardinge Britten, “The Improvvisatore, or Torn Leaves from Life History” (1861) 4. From “The Haunted Voice,” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly (December 1884) 5. From J.P.F. Deleuze, Practical Instruction in Animal Magnetism (1837) 6. From The History and Philosophy of Animal Magnetism, with Practical Instructions for the Exercise of This Power, by a Practical Magnetizer (1843) 7. “Discovers the Secret of Life: Indiana Physician Asserts It Is Volatile Magnetism, Which Exists in the Air,” Boston Daily Globe (29 September 1902) 8. From W. E. B. Du Bois, editor, The College-Bred Negro: Report of a Social Study Made Under the Direction of Atlanta University (1900) 9. Abraham Flexner, “The Medical Education of the Negro” (1910) Appendix F: Musical Culture 1. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “Famous Women of the Negro Race: I. Phenomenal Vocalists,” Colored American Magazine (November 1901) 2. From Theodore Drury, “The Negro in Classic Music; or, Leading Opera, Oratorio and Concert Singers,” Colored American Magazine (September 1902) 3. Advertisement for Theodore Drury Opera Company’s Aida, Colored American Magazine (March 1903) 4. Poster for Fisk University Jubilee Singers Concert (c. 1885) 5. “Go Down, Moses,” from The Story of the Jubilee Singers; with Their Songs, 5th edition (1876) 6. From Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845) 7. From W.E.B. Du Bois, “Of the Sorrow Songs,” The Souls of Black Folk (1903) 8. From James Weldon Johnson, “Preface,” The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922)

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Book SynopsisIn this novelette, William Gilmore Simms records one of the awful realities of America's early frontier, that of women trapped in ill-fated marriages. Forced into a union with her lover, Helen Halsey is exploited and victimized in a domestic situation from which there is no release.Utilizing the compression of the short novel form, Simms weaves elaborate plot lines of violence, romance, and intrigue to create a fast-moving, action-packed tale of an America just beginning its search for identity, justice, and spiritual truth. Edgar Allan Poe said of Simms that "in invention, in vigor, in movement, in the power of exciting interest, and in the artistical arrangement of his themes," he surpassed "any of his countrymen."

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