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Time Warner Trade Publishing Jacob's Bell: A Christmas Story
Book SynopsisSometimes the road to forgiveness and restoration can be a rocky one. Set in Chicago and Baltimore in 1944 with flashbacks to the 1920s, JACOB'S BELL follows Jacob MacCallum on his arduous journey to redemption. At one time, Jacob had it all: wealth, a wonderful family and a position as one of the most respected businessmen in Chicago. Then he made some bad decisions and all that changed. For the past twenty years he lived in an alcohol-induced haze, riddled with guilt for the dreadful things he had done to his family and his role in the untimely death of his wife. Estranged from his children and penniless, he was in and out of jail, on the street and jumping freight trains for transportation. Realizing he needed a drastic change, Jacob embarked on a journey to find his children, seek their forgiveness, and restore his relationship with them. Befriended by a pastor at a Salvation Army mission, he struggled to transform his life. Yet finally he overcame his demons, but not without a fair number of setbacks. Jacob became a Salvation Army Bell Ringer at Christmastime. While ringing his bell on a street corner one snowy day, he met a young girl who, through a series of strange coincidences, led him back to his children and facilitated Jacob's forgiveness just in time for Christmas. Author John Snyder pens a story of love, hardship, and reconciliation that will leave readers filled with Christmas joy.Trade ReviewOne of the most incredible stories I have run across for a long time... a beautiful story that embodies the true meaning of Christmas. - Dr. Jerry Fuller, WGTS-FM - Silver Spring, MDJacob's Bell takes readers on a journey of success & failure, love & hate, bitterness & repentance. This tale promises to become a Christmas classic that transports each of us to many familiar and unfamiliar places all the while calling us to a place of forgiveness and restoration. Jacob's Bell is a gift that reminds us of the TRUE meaning of Christmas and the forgiveness that comes when we trust in God's indescribable gift...his Son Jesus. Jacob's Bell will hold a special place in our family library and Christmas tradition! - Jeff Sheets, Former President, Echolight Studios --Franklin, TNHere is a story that deals with the real meaning of Christmas. This is the kind of story you that you could sit around with the entire family and read. It's very entertaining-very heartwarming. - Doug Griffith, WAYM-FM - Nashville, TN
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Triplanetary
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Exile Editions It's Never Over
Book SynopsisCombining romance with the darker side of human nature, this novel opens with the hanging of an ex-World War I soldier for involuntary murder. The element of violence blends with a love story involving the late soldier's sister, who seeks to possess the life of her brother's closest friend, John Hughes. Hughes then finds himself drawn into the circle affected by the hanging, contemplating murdering the sister himself. Capturing the terror of a war abroad as it penetrates the tranquility of a small town, this tale illustrates how a man's death can haunt those who endure his execution.
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Exile Editions Luke Baldwin's Vow
Book SynopsisA story of a boy and his dog and their adventures, which will appeal to the many children who are dog lovers. It is also a sensitive story of love and loss, and of making a new life for oneself. Although it was first published seventy years ago, only a few details (such as clothing) really indicate that it is not a contemporary story. Luke is not yet 12 when his father dies of a heart attack, leaving him an orphan. Small for his age and something of a loner, he moves from the city to the country to live with his aunt and uncle. He is naturally homesick and grieving the loss of his father. His well-meaning and kindly aunt and uncle do their best for him; but his only real friend and comfort becomes Dan, the farm's elderly, one-eyed collie. Practical Uncle Henry considers Dan useless now that he is too old to be a watch-dog and decides that Dan should be "put down." Luke, whose sense of dignity and loyalty transcend the practical, frantically tries to save Dan's life, providing for heart-racing suspense as he makes his stand against the expedient world of adults.Trade Review“A single vision encompasses these people in all their self-contradictions, betrayals, nobility, bewilderment… every pattern leads out into a larger atmosphere of mercy and wonder.” —Margaret Avison “The story poses in opposition disinterested love and practical use and teaches how ‘love’ must be flawed by ‘use,’ and how love must be preserved in a world set to destroy it.” —Commonwealth"Literature I highly recommend it for middle school children, but I would recommend parents read it too, so they can talk about it with the young readers, can explain how things once were with people and pets - and sometimes still are." —Library Thing
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Broadview Press Ltd Nineteenth Century Stories by Women: An Anthology
Book Synopsis“The female novelist of the nineteenth century may have frequently encountered opposition and interference from the male literary establishment, but the female short story writer, working in a genre that was seen as less serious and less profitable, found her work to be actively encouraged.” ― from the Introduction.During the nineteenth century women writers finally began to be as popular―and as respected―as their male counterparts. We are all familiar with the novels of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and the Bröntes. Less familiar is the short fiction of the period; yet a great many nineteenth-century stories by women―both famous and obscure―retain in full measure their power to fascinate and to entertain. For this anthology Glennis Stephenson brings together stories by both British and North American writers; by such established luminaries as Shelley, Gaskell and Kate Chopin; and by lesser-known writers such as the Anglo-Indian writer Flora Steel, the Afro-American Alice Dunbar Nelson and the Canadian Annie Howells Frèchette. The result is an anthology that will be as interesting to the general reader as it will be useful to the student. Stephenson provides background information on all authors, together with a general introduction.Table of ContentsIntroductionLouisa May Alcott / A Whisper in the DarkMary Elizabeth Braddon / Good Lady DucayneKate Chopin / The StormIsabella Valancy Crawford / ExtraditedElla D’Arcy / The Pleasure-PilgrimRebecca Harding Davis / AnneAlice Dunbar-Nelson / Sister JosephaGeorge Egerton / Gone UnderAnnie Howells Frechette / A Widow in the WildernessMary Wilkins Freeman / A New England NunElizabeth Gaskell / Lizzie LeighElizabeth Gaskell / The Old Nurse’s StoryCharlotte Perkins Gilman / The Yellow WallpaperSarah Orne Jewett / A White HeronVernon Lee / DioneaL.M. Montgomery / The Red RoomMargaret Oliphant / A Story of a Wedding TourMary Shelley / The ParvenueHarriet Prescott Spofford / CircumstanceFlora Annie Steel / Mussumât Kirpo’s DollConstance Fenimore Woolson / FelipaFurther Reading
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Broadview Press Ltd The Evil Genius
Book SynopsisWilkie Collins is best known for his great mystery The Moonstone and The Woman in White—and for a life as sensational as are those novels. (The writer who famously advised other novelists to ‘make ‘em laugh, make ‘em cry, make ‘em wait’ is now known to have kept entire households in different parts of England going simultaneously.) Yet Collins also wrote a succession of extraordinarily powerful novels of private life; of these The Evil Genius is among the finest.The story is motivated by the attraction between Herbert Linley and the woman he hires as governess for his child Kitty—the long suffering Sydney Westerfield. As one expects with Collins, the story is driven forward with deft assurance. Yet he also treats the theme of adultery and divorce in a manner quite unconventional for his time—and, remarkably, he manages to draw readers into a sympathetic understanding of both of the main female characters: the offending governess and the aggrieved wife.The Evil Genius was a very considerable success when first published; indeed, it brought Collins more financially than any of his other works. Over a century later its sinews retain the strength to speak powerfully to the reader; lively and intelligent, it is perhaps the finest of Collins’ later novels.Trade Review“Collins’ boldness in drawing sympathetic portraits of both the wife and ‘the other woman’ is astonishingly modern. The novel well deserves to be brought back into print.” — Catherine Peters, Oxford UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionFootnotesA Note on the TextSelected BibliographyWilliam Wilkie Collins: A Brief ChronologyThe Evil GeniusAppendix: Contemporary DocumentsExplanatory Notes
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Broadview Press Ltd Hard Times
Book SynopsisDespite the title, Dickens's portrayal of early industrial society here is less relentlessly grim than that in novels by contemporaries such as Elizabeth Gaskell or Charles Kingsley. Hard Times weaves the tale of Thomas Gradgrind, a hard-headed politician who raises his children Louisa and Tom without love, of Sissy the circus girl with love to spare who is deserted and adopted into their family, and of the honest mill worker Stephen Blackpool and the bombastic mill owner Josiah Bounderby. The key contrasts created are finally less those between wealth and poverty, or capitalists and workers, than those between the head and the heart, between "Fact"—the cold, rationalistic approach to life that Dickens associates with utilitarianism—and "Fancy"—a warmth of the imagination and of the feelings, which values individuals above ideas.Concentrated and compressed in its narrative form, Hard Times is at once a fable, a novel of ideas, and a social novel that seeks to engage directly and analytically with political issues. The central conflicts raised in the text, between government's duty not to intervene to guarantee the liberty of the subject, and between quantitative and qualitative assessments of progress, remain unresolved today in the late or post industrial stages of liberal democracies.Trade ReviewGraham Law's edition of Hard Times is the most useful edition for teaching Dickens that I have seen. Its text is authoritative, and the range of contextual documents included gives readers an opportunity to situate the work in the discussions of industrialization and labor as they took place in nineteenth-century England." - Barry V. Qualls, Rutgers University"This beautifully produced edition combines a freshly written, informative introduction with helpful and well-judged notes. Particularly welcome is the wealth of documentary material and examples carefully chosen from other contemporary fiction, enabling readers to place Hard Times within its full Victorian context. This is an excellent edition—clear, authoritative and stimulating." - Kate Flint, University of OxfordTable of ContentsIntroductionAcknowledgementsA Note on the TextSelect BibliographyCharles Dickens: A Brief ChronologyHARD TIMES: FOR THESE TIMESAppendices: Contemporary DocumentsAppendix A: The Composition of the Novel Household Words Partners’ Agreement Announcements in Household Words Dickens’s Working Memoranda Mentions in Dickens’s Letters Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews of the Novel Athanaeum (12 August 1854) Examiner (9 September 1854) Gentleman’s Magazine (September 1854) British Quarterly Review (October 1854) Rambler (October 1854) South London Athanaeum and Institution Magazine (October 1854) Westminster Review (October 1854) Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (April 1855) Appendix C: On Industrialization: Commentary Thomas Carlyle “Signs of the Times,” Edinburgh Review (June 1829) Chartism (1839) Past and Present (1843) Andrew Ure, The Philosophy of Manufactures (1836) P. Gaskell, Artisans and Machinery (1836) J.S. Mill “Bentham,” London and Westminster Review (August 1838) Principles of Political Economy(1848) Arthur Helps, The Claims of Labour (1844) Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (1845) Charles Dickens, “On Strike,” Household Words (11 February 1854) Henry Morley, “Ground in the Mill,” Household Words (22 April 1854) Harriet Martineau, The Factory Controversy: A Warning Against Meddling Legislation (1855) W.B. Hodgson, “On the Importance of the Study of Economic Science as a Branch of Education for all Classes,” Lectures in Education Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (1855) John Ruskin, “Unto This Last,” Cornhill Magazine (August 1860) Appendix D: On Industrialization: Fiction Harriet Martineau, A Manchester Strike (Illustrations of Political Economy No. 7) (1832) Frances Trollope, Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong (1840) “Charlotte Elizabeth,” Helen Fleetwood (1841) Elizabeth Stone, William Langshawe, the Cotton Lord (1842) Benjamin Disraeli Coningsby (1844) (i) Coningsby (1844) (ii) Sybil (1845) Elizabeth Gaskell Mary Barton (1848) (i) Mary Barton (1848) (ii) North and South (1855) Charlotte Bronte, Shirley (1849) Charles Kingsley Yeast (1850) Alton Locke (1850) Fanny Mayne, Jane Rutherford, or The Miners’ Strike (1854) Explanatory Notes
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Broadview Press Ltd Lodore
Book SynopsisBeset by jealousy over an admirer of his wife's, Lord Lodore has come with his daughter Ethel to the American wilderness; his wife Cornelia, meanwhile, has remained with her controlling mother in England. When he finally brings himself to attempt a return, Lodore is killed en route in a duel. Ethel does return to England, and the rest of the book tells the story of her marriage to the troubled and impoverished Villiers (whom she stands by through a variety of tribulations) and her long journey to a reconciliation with her mother.Lodore's scope of character and of idea is matched by its narrative range and variety of setting; the novel's highly dramatic story-line moves at different points to Italy, to Illinois, and to Niagara Falls. And in this edition, which includes a wealth of documents from the period, the reader is provided with a sense of the full context out of which Shelley's achievement emerged.Trade Review“Not the one book author that Frankenstein sometimes make her seem, Mary Shelley was a complex and committed social thinker whose novels reveal her deep concern with the impact of the emerging Victorian social dynamic upon the lives of women. While Lodore reflects Shelley's conviction of the importance to the new bourgeois family model of the ‘genuine affections of the human heart,' it shows us too, in the person of the remarkable Fanny Derham, the consequences for a free-thinking and independent woman who has learned ‘to be afraid of nothing.' Vargo's splendid edition resituates Shelley within the 1830s milieu of successful literary women like Landon and Hemans who understood their readers and their marked, and within a culture that was moving rapidly away from the exuberant Romanticism of only two decades earlier. With its illuminating critical introduction, and its extensive contextualizing appendices, this exceptional edition will alert readers anew to the complexity and sophistication of Shelley's mind and art.” - Stephen C. Behrendt, University of Nebraska"This volume marks yet another excellent addition to Broadview's expanding list of literary writings that have long been out of print." - Nineteenth-Century Literature"Vargo has provided a much-needed, comprehensive edition of the text." - University of Toronto QuarterlyTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionA Note on the TextMary Shelley: A Brief ChronologyLodoreAppendix A: Mary Shelley—Woman of Letters “The Bride of Modern Italy” (1824) From Review of The Loves of the Poets (1829) From Review of Cloudesley; A Tale (1830) From “Ugo Foscolo,” Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal (1837) Appendix B: Some Literary Contexts George Gordon, Lord Byron, from Lara (1814) The Tempest and Mary Wollstonecraft’s The Female Reader (1797) Thomas Campbell, from Gertrude of Wyoming (1809) Edward John Trelawny from Adventures of a Younger Son (1831) Appendix C: Illinois and Duelling Morris Birkbeck, from Letters from Illinois (1818) William Cobbett, from A Year’s Residence in America (1818-19) Frances Wright, from Views of Society and Manners in America (1821) William Godwin, from Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Third Edition (1798) James Fenimore Cooper, from Notions of the Americans (1828) Appendix D: Domesticity and Women’s Education Mary Wollstonecraft, from Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787) Mary Wollstonecraft, from Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) William Godwin, from The Enquirer (1797) Anna Jameson, from Characteristics of Women (1832) Sarah Stickney Ellis, from The Women of England (1839) Appendix E: Contemporary Reviews of Lodore From The Athenæum From The Examiner From Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country From Leigh Hunt’s London Journal From The Literary Gazette From New Monthly Magazine From The Sun Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Set in Authority
Book SynopsisIn 1906, two years after the appearance of her best-known novel, The Imperialist, Duncan published its darker twin, an Anglo-Indian novel which returns to political themes but with a deeper and more clinical irony than in her previous work. Set in Authority is about illusions: the imperial illusions of those who rule and are ruled; the illusions of families about their members; the illusions of men and women about each other. The setting moves between the political drawing rooms of London and the English station at Pilaghur in the province of Ghoom, where the murder of a native by an English soldier changes the lives of a cast of ruthlessly observed characters.Duncan, who grew up in Ontario, led a remarkably varied life, working as a political correspondent (writing for the Washington Post, the Toronto Globe and the Montreal Star) and living in India for over twenty years. She is increasingly being regarded as deserving of a place among the first rank of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novelists; the re-publication of Set in Authority will do nothing to dispel that view.Trade Review“This valuable edition locates Duncan’s novel about the Anglo-Indian community at the height of the British Empire in its socio-political, historical context—one that foregrounds Duncan’s frank and insightful evocation of the imperialist project in this and other novels.” — Sukeshi Kamra, Chair, English Dept., Okanagan University CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSet in AuthorityNotesAppendix I: ViceroysAppendix II: Contemporary Reviews of Set in AuthorityA Note on the TextVariants in the 1906 New York EditionSara Jeanette Duncan: A Brief Chronology
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Broadview Press Ltd Ormond
Book SynopsisBrown is often called the first American novelist. Originally published in 1799, Ormond was inspired by enlightenment philosophers and Gothic writers. The novel engages with many of the period’s popular debates about women’s education, marriage, and the morality of violence, while the plot revolves around the Gothic themes of seduction, murder, incest, impersonation, romance and disease. Set in post-revolutionary Philadelphia, Ormond examines the prospects of the struggling nation by tracing the experiences of Constantia, a young virtuous republican who struggles to survive when her father’s business is ruined by a confidence man, and her friends and neighbors are killed by a yellow fever epidemic.Trade Review“In her marvelous new edition of Ormond, Mary Chapman has given scholars, teachers and students of Charles Brockden Brown what they have longed for: an affordable paperback edition complete with a trenchant, historically-textured introduction to Brown’s least known, and most underrated major novel. Chapman’s exhaustive labour in both the classic and contemporary criticism of the early American novel, coupled with her thorough knowledge of the philosophical and political pamphlet literature of the early national period, afford the modern reader the very sort of ‘thick description’ so often lost in considering the work of America’s first ‘professional’ novelist.” ― Julia Stern, Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextCharles Brockden Brown: A Brief ChronologyOrmond; or, The Secret WitnessNotes on the AppendicesAppendix A: Judith Sargent Murray’s “On the Equality of the Sexes” (1790)Appendix B: From John Robison’s Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe, Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and Reading Societies (1798)Appendix C: Selections from Jedidiah Morse’s “A Sermon Exhibiting the Present Dangers, and Consequent Duties of the Citizens of the United States” (1799)Works Cited and Recommended Reading
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Broadview Press Ltd The Odd Women
Book SynopsisGeorge Gissing’s The Odd Women dramatizes key issues relating to class and gender in late-Victorian culture: the changing relationship between the sexes, the social impact of ‘odd’ or ‘redundant’ women, the cultural impact of ‘the new woman,’ and the opportunities for and conditions of employment in the expanding service sector of the economy. At the heart of these issues as many late Victorians saw them was a problem of the imbalance in the ratio of men to women in the population. There were more females than males, which meant that more and more women would be left unmarried; they would be ‘odd’ or ‘redundant,’ and would be forced to be independent and to find work to support themselves. In the Broadview edition, Gissing’s text is carefully annotated and accompanied by a range of documents from the period that help to lay out the context in which the book was written.In Gissing’s story, Virginia Madden and her two sisters are confronted upon the death of their father with sudden impoverishment. Without training for employment, and desperate to maintain middle-class respectability, they face a daunting struggle. In Rhoda Nunn, a strong feminist, Gissing also presents a strong character who draws attention overtly to the issues behind the novel. The Odd Women is one of the most important social novels of the late nineteenth century.Trade Review“When it comes to the complexities of everyday life in late-Victorian London, there is no better guide than Gissing and no better Gissing than The Odd Women. And now, in Arlene Young’s carefully edited and annotated edition, we have the definitive guide to Gissing’s novel. Students will also find the historical documents gathered in this volume an invaluable resource in the study of the “woman question” and the sociology of work in the 1890s.” — Stephen Arata, University of Virginia“Broadview’s enterprise is especially welcome in the case of The Odd Women, Gissing’s second most commonly studied novel. [This edition] deserves to become the text of choice for teachers—especially given its modest price.” — The Gissing JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextGeorge Gissing: A Brief ChronologyThe Odd WomenAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews Glasgow Herald 20 April 1893 Saturday Review 29 April 1893 Athenaeum 27 May 1893 Pall Mall Gazette 29 May 1893 Nation (New York) 13 July 1893 Illustrated London News (Clementia Black) 5 August 1893 Appendix B: Attitudes Towards Women and Marriage in Victorian Culture Sarah Ellis, from The Daughters of England (1842) Alfred Lord Tennyson, from The Princess (1847) Coventry Patmore, from The Angel in the House: “The Rose of the World” (1854) Thomas Henry Huxley, from “Emancipation—Black and White,” Reader (20 May 1865) John Ruskin, from “Of Queens’ Gardens,” in Sesame and Lilies (1865) John Stuart Mill, from The Subjection of Women (1869) Mona Caird, from “Marriage,” Westminster Review (1888) Appendix C: Debate over the “Woman Question” Grant Allen, from “Plain Words on the Woman Question,” Fortnightly Review (October 1889) Bernard Shaw, from “The Womanly Woman,” The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891) Eliza Lynn Linton, from “The Wild Women: As Politicians,” Nineteenth Century (July 1891) Eliza Lynn Linton, from “The Wild Women: As Insurgents,” Nineteenth Century (October 1891) Mona Caird, “A Defense of the So-Called ‘Wild Women’,” Nineteenth Century (May 1891) From “Character Note: The New Woman” Cornhill Magazine (October 1894) Nat Arling, “What is the Role of the ‘New Woman?’” Westminster Review (November 1898) Appendix D: Women and Paid Employment: The Limitations of Aspirations and the Actualities Charlotte Brontë, from Shirley (1849) From “The Disputed Question,” English Woman’s Journal (August 1858) Evelyn March Phillips, from “The Working Lady in London,” Fortnightly Review (August 1892) Clara Collet, from “The Employment of Women,” Report to the Royal Commission on Labour (1893) Frances H. Low, from “How Poor Ladies Live,” Nineteenth Century (March 1897) Eliza Orme, from “How Poor Ladies Live: A Reply,” Nineteenth Century (April 1897) Appendix E: Conditions of Work for Men in the White-Collar Sector James Fitzjames Stephen, from “Gentlemen” Cornhill Magazine (March 1862) B.O. Orchard, from The Clerks of Liverpool (1871) Charles Edward Parsons, from Clerks: their Position and Advancement (1876) Thomas Sutherst, from Death and Disease Behind the Counter (1884) H.G. Wells, from Kipps (1905) H.G. Wells, from Experiment in Autobiography (1934) Appendix F: Map of London (1892)Selected Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd The History of Ophelia
Book SynopsisIn the mid-eighteenth century, Sarah Fielding (1710-68) was the second most popular English woman novelist, rivaled only by Eliza Haywood. The History of Ophelia, the last of her seven novels, is an often comic epistolary fiction, narrated by the heroine to an unnamed female correspondent in the form of a single protracted letter.This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and valuable appendices that contain contemporary reviews of the novel, Richard Corbould's illustrations to the Novelist’s Magazine edition, and excerpts from Sarah Fielding’s Remarks on Clarissa.Trade ReviewWith this edition of Sarah Fielding's popular final novel, Peter Sabor widens our access to the work of this respected and path-breaking writer of the mid-eighteenth century, until recently remembered, if at all, as Henry's sister and as 'the Author of David Simple', her first novel. The pleasures of this entertaining narrative of a female Welsh noble savage, kidnapped and transposed into a sophisticated and corrupt English society by a rakish nobleman, are heightened by Sabor's expert placement of the novel in the introduction and appendices, particularly with respect to the latest biographical scholarship and suggestive contemporary parallels such as Françoise de Graffigny's 1748 Letters Written by a Peruvian Princess and Frances Burney's 1778 Evelina." - Betty Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University"Peter Sabor deserves high praise for this beautiful edition of Sarah Fielding's The History of Ophelia. Sabor discusses Fielding's work in fiction, drama, and criticism, and provides a rich selection of contemporary documents and illustrations. Most striking are the questions he poses and answers. Did Fielding rework an unfinished manuscript by her brother Henry? How may Ophelia write back to Samuel Richardson's Clarissa? If the novel looks forward to gothic fiction, how may it subject the notion of gothic terror to comic deflation? In all, this edition makes an essential contribution to our current debates about and growing interest in Sarah Fielding." - Carolyn Woodward, University of New MexicoTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionSarah Fielding: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe History of OpheliaAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews The Monthly Review (April 1760) The Critical Review (April 1760) The British Magazine (April 1760) Appendix B: Material added to the Dublin Edition (1763)Appendix C: Richard Corbould’s Illustrations to the Novelist’s Magazine Edition (1785)Appendix D: A Victorian Critic of Ophelia: Clementina Black’s Essay of 1888Appendix E: Sarah Fielding’s Remarks on Clarissa (1749)Appendix F: From Françoise de Graffigny’s Letters Written by a Peruvian Princess (1748)Appendix G: From Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778)Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd The Mayor of Casterbridge
Book SynopsisThis 1886 novel may be Hardy’s most intense and gripping narrative. We first see the central character, Michael Henchard, as a drunken and unemployed hay-trusser who sells his wife Susan and his daughter Elizabeth-Jane at a fair. When he is eventually reunited with the two, he has become the contented and prosperous mayor of a thriving market town. But the downward spiral begins. Henchard’s fall is hastened by a series of coincidences and quarrels, and by his own jealousy and pride. Though the perspective on events that Hardy gives us is often that of other characters (Elizabeth-Jane in particular), Henchard remains the central focus; in the end he is a tragic figure, bankrupt, emotionally broken and an outcast from society.Prepared by one of the world’s leading Hardy scholars, this edition includes a critical introduction and a range of background materials from the period. Historical documents (concerning such topics as the corn laws and the practice of wife-selling) and contemporary reviews help set this remarkable novel in the context out of which it emerged.Trade Review“Of all the great Victorian novelists, Hardy is the one who consistently requires most annotation and careful contextual placing. The density of regional reference, the often complex composition, publication and reception histories, the author’s vexed relationship with his age—all call for tactful but learned editing. The noted Victorian scholar Norman Page supplies this admirably for Broadview Press’s Mayor of Casterbridge. This is the edition I shall use and prescribe in the future.” — John Sutherland, Professor Emeritus, University College LondonTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionComposition and PublicationSetting: Time and HistorySetting: Town and Country“A Man of Character”Narrative Technique: Pictorialism and CircularityLanguage and StyleA Note on the TextThomas Hardy: A Brief ChronologyThe Life and Death of the Mayor of Castlebridge: A Story of a Man of CharacterAppendix A: Dialect Words and ExpressionsAppendix B: Place-namesAppendix C: Wife-sellingAppendix D: The Corn LawsAppendix E: Prince Albert in DorchesterAppendix F: Maumbury Ring and the Execution of Mary ChanningAppendix G: The Skimmington RideAppendix H: Henchard’s BankruptcyAppendix I: The First Book of SamuelAppendix J: Hardy’s “General Preface”Appendix K: Contemporary ReviewsWorks Cited and Recommended Reading
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Broadview Press Ltd Aurora Floyd
Book SynopsisAurora Floyd is one of the leading novels in the genre known as ‘sensation fiction’—a tradition in which the key texts include Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, Ellen Wood’s East Lynne, and Dickens’s Great Expectations. When Aurora Floyd was first published in serial form in 1862-63, Fraser’s magazine asserted that “a book without a murder, a divorce, a seduction, or a bigamy, is not apparently considered either worth writing or reading; and a mystery and a secret are the chief qualifications of the modern novel.”The novel depicts a heroine trapped in an abusive and adulterous marriage, and effectively dramatizes the extra-legal pressures which kept many such unhappy marriages out of the courts: fear of personal scandal, and of betraying one’s family through the publicity and expense of the process. Aurora’s bigamous marriage dramatizes the need for expeditious divorce without the enormous social cost, but the overt sexuality of the heroine shocked contemporary critics. “What is held up to us as the story of the feminine soul as it really exists underneath its conventional coverings, is a very fleshy and unlovely record,” wrote Margaret Oliphant.Braddon’s text is studded with references to contemporary events (the Crimean War, the Divorce Act of 1857) and the text has been carefully annotated for modern readers in this edition, which also includes a range of documents designed to help set the text in context.Trade Review“This is the only modern edition to be based on the first three-volume version of Braddon’s much revised novel, and the editors make an excellent case for their choice. A substantial and lucidly written critical introduction situates the novel in its contemporary cultural contexts; in debates about realism and sensationalism, and anxieties about class, femininity, domesticity and marriage. The appendices, containing a selection of contemporary views of femininity and domesticity, and responses to Braddon and her novel, are an added bonus to this excellent volume.” — Lyn Pykett, University of Wales-Aberystwyth“Invaluable … provides copious explanatory notes, appendices containing contemporary reviews and writings on femininity, and a thorough, well-organized introduction.” — Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextMary Elizabeth Braddon: A Brief ChronologyAurora FloydAppendix A: Victorian Femininity: The Stable, the Home, and the Fast Young Lady “Fast Young Ladies” (Punch) “Six Reasons Why Ladies Should Not Hunt” (The Field) “Muscular Education” (Temple Bar) John Ruskin, “Of Queens’ Gardens” (Sesame and Lilies) (1865) Appendix B: Reviews and Responses H.L. Mansel, “Sensation Novels” (Quarterly Review) “The Archbishop of York on Works of Fiction” (The Times) W. Fraser Rae, “Sensation Novelists: Miss Braddon” (North British Review) Henry James, “Miss Braddon” (The Nation) Margaret Oliphant, “Novels” (Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine) George Augustus Sala, “The Cant of Modern Criticism” (Belgravia) George Augustus Sala, “On the ‘Sensational’ in Literature and Art” (Belgravia) “Sensation Novels” (Punch) Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time
Book SynopsisWilkie Collins's later novels are often as concerned with social issues as they are with simple storytelling—but as more and more critics are suggesting, the best of them are as readable and thought-provoking today as they were when they first appeared. Of none is this more true than of his 1883 novel Heart and Science, which Collins himself placed alongside his masterpiece The Woman in White.Heart and Science turns on the fate of the orphaned Carmina Graywell, who is left in the charge of her aunt and guardian Mrs. Gallilee when her fiancé is forced to take an extended trip to Canada's drier climes in order to recover his health. Over the issue of her inheritance Mrs. Gallilee schemes to manipulate, control and ultimately destroy the naïve but strong-willed Carmina. The story is complicated by the machinations of Dr. Benjulia, a dark genius whose passionate devotion to the study of diseases of the brain leads him to encourage the progress of Carmina's life-threatening brain illness for the sake of scientific observation; the narrative builds to a pair of spectacularly lurid climactic scenes.Collin's novel tackles the debate over what he termed ‘the hideous secrets of Vivisection' with a passionate intensity aroused in large part by the sensational 1880s case of a doctor who was acquitted on charges laid under the new Cruelty to Animals Act of having practiced live experimentation on animals without a license. Excerpts from a contemporary account of this trial, together with other documents relating to the vivisectionist controversy and a variety of contemporary reviews of the book, are included among the appendices of this volume. The edition also includes a full introduction, chronology, explanatory notes and a note on the text.Heart and Science's story of the struggle between strong-willed women will strike chords of sympathetic understanding with modern readers—as will its vivisectionist theme, with it's clear parallels to the animal welfare/ animal rights debates of today.Trade ReviewThis is an important novel of historical and cultural as well as literary interest, and one which every Victorian scholar will find indispensable. Broadview Press has quickly become a leader in the field of producing the best editions of canonical and non-canonical nineteenth-century British literary texts, and Steve Farmer's Heart and Science is no exception." - Rick Simmons, University of South Carolina"engaging...suspenseful" - The Washington PostTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextPhotographs of Collins’s ManuscriptWilkie Collins: A Brief ChronologyPrefaceHeart and ScienceAppendix A: Reviews of Heart and ScienceAppendix B: The Vivisection Debate of the 1870s and 1880sAppendix C: Frances Power Cobbe’s Account of the Ferrier TrialAppendix D: Author’s letters about Heart and ScienceAppendix E: From A.C. Swinburne’s Obituary Notice on CollinsAppendix F: The Times’s Notice of Professor Helmholtz’s Visit to London, 12 April 1881Appendix G: Belgravia serial part divisions and corresponding page numbers in this editionAppendix H: Robert Browning’s Anti-vivisectionist poetrySelect Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Dracula
Book SynopsisTo borrow a phrase used by one of the characters in the novel, Dracula is "nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance." In her introduction to this edition Glennis Byron first discusses the famous novel as an expression not of universal fears and desires, but of specifically late nineteenth-century concerns. And she discusses too the ways in which to the modern reader it is not Transylvania but London that is the location of the monstrosity in Dracula.The many appendices include contemporary reviews; source materials drawn on by Stoker; documents expressing contemporary views on trances, sleepwalking and hypnotism; and other relevant writing by Stoker, including "the censorship of Fiction," in which he expresses his belief in the need to defend the social and moral purity of the nation. Trade ReviewNo other edition so carefully assembles a wealth of contextual material, nor succeeds so admirably in drawing the reader into Stoker's cultural milieu." - David Glover, University of Southampton Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionBram Stoker: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextDraculaAppendix A: “Dracula’s Guest”Appendix B: Bram Stoker “The Censorship of Fiction” (1908)Appendix C: Transylvania: History, Culture, and FolkloreAppendix D: LondonAppendix E: Mental PhysiologyAppendix F: DegenerationAppendix G: GenderAppendix H: Reviews and InterviewsWorks Cited and Recommended Reading
£14.20
Broadview Press Ltd Valperga
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1823, Valperga is probably Mary Shelley's most neglected novel. Set in 14th-century Italy, it represents a merging of historical romance and the literature of sentiment. Incorporating intriguing feminist elements, this absorbing novel shows Shelley as a complex and intellectually astute thinker.Trade ReviewThis is a superb edition of Mary Shelley's historical romance Valperga. Professor Rajan provides an extremely illuminating introduction to the novel, one that if finely informed by her extensive knowledge of women's literary history, Italian history, British Romanticism, and critical theory. She sensitively analyses the ways in which Shelly's complex bio-textual relationships to both her husband and her father play out in the novel. She also provides extensive and invaluable annotations, chronologies, appendices of relevant writings by Godwin, Sismondi, Machiavelli, and the earliest reviews of the novel." - Anne K. Mellor, UCLATable of ContentsAppendix A: from Godwin’s “Of History and Romance”Appendix B: from Machiavelli’s Life of CastruccioAppendix C: Extract from Draft ManuscriptAppendix D: from Sismondi’s History of the Italian Republics of the Middle Ages, II: 110-12 (translation Rajan)Appendix E: Reviews of Valperga From The Ladies’ Monthly Museum 17 (April, 1823) From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine 13 (1823) From The Examiner 788 (March 2, 1823) From The Literary Gazette, and Journal of the Belles Lettres 319 (March 1, 1823) From Monthly Review 101 (May, 1823) Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Memoirs of Modern Philosophers
Book SynopsisWhen the Anti-Jacobin Review described Memoirs of Modern Philosophers in 1800 as “the first novel of the day” and as proof that “all the female writers of the day are not corrupted by the voluptuous dogmas of Mary Godwin, or her more profligate imitators,” they clearly situated Elizabeth Hamilton’s work within the revolutionary debate of the 1790s. As with her successful first novel, Letters of a Hindoo Rajah, Hamilton uses fiction to enter the political fray and discuss issues such as female education, the rights of woman and new philosophy.The novel follows the plight of three heroines. The mock heroine, Bridgetina Botherim—a crude caricature of Mary Hays—participates in an English-Jacobin group, leading her to abandon her mother and home to pursue her beloved to London in hopes of emigrating to the Hottentots in Africa. The second heroine, Julia Delmont, is another member of the local group; she is seduced by a hairdresser masquerading as a New Philosopher. She is left pregnant and destitute only to discover that her actions caused her father’s untimely death. The third heroine is the virtuous Harriet, whose Christian faith enables her to resist the teachings of the New Philosophers.Trade Review“Grogan’s attentive editing and contextual introduction to what has traditionally been called an ‘Anti-Jacobin’ novel, forces us to question easy classifications of the 1790s into the dichotomous camps of Jacobin and Anti-Jacobin or feminist and anti-feminist. By providing the contextual evidence and extensive footnotes which document Hamilton’s sources, Grogan has convincingly shifted our understanding of the novel from a simple satire of the New Philosophy to a complex questioning of the sexual and social politics of her day. Grogan provides the citations for Hamilton’s impressive referencing of literary, philosophical, political and anthropological texts (many of which Grogan then includes in her helpful appendices) and in so doing, this edition of Memoirs gives us a new and highly textured memoir of Hamilton’s time.” — Katherine Binhammer, University of AlbertaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionElizabeth Hamilton: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextAuthor’s Advertisement to 3rd edition 1801Memoirs of Modern Philosophers Volume I Volume II Volume III Appendix A: Contemporary Works William Godwin Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on ModernMorals and Happiness The Enquirer Mary Hays Memoirs of Emma Courtney Appendix B:The Hottentots Fig 1. The “Hottentot Venus,” George Cuvier Fig 2. A Gonoquais Hottentot Fig 3. Klaas,The Author’s Favourite Hottentot Fig 4. Female Hottentot Appendix C: Reviews of Memoirs of Modern Philosophers Critical Review (May 1800) British Critic (October 1800) Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine (September 1800) Anna Laetitia Barbauld British Novelists (1810) Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Mary Barton
Book SynopsisMary Barton first appeared in 1848, and has since become one of the best known novels on the 'condition of England,' part of a nineteenth-century British trend to understand the enormous cultural, economic and social changes wrought by industrialization. Gaskell's work had great importance to the labour and reform movements, and it influenced writers such as Charles Dickens, Thomas Carlyle and Charlotte Brontë.The plot of Mary Barton concerns the poverty and desperation of England's industrial workers. Fundamentally, however, it revolves around Mary's personal conflicts. She is already divided between an affection for an industrialist's son, Henry Carson, and for a man of her own class, Jem Wilson. But Mary's conflict escalates when her father, a committed trade unionist, is asked to assassinate Henry, who is the son of his unjust employer.Trade Review“Another splendid edition from Broadview with the usual high standard of helpful footnotes. Among the appendices in this volume are Gaskell’s letters about writing the novel; contemporary reviews; essays and reports from the 1840s on industrialization, Chartism, emigration, prostitution and conditions in Manchester; brief selections from related fiction and poetry; and a very intelligible short summary of dates and events that shape the novel’s politics.” — Sally Mitchell, Temple UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionElizabeth Gaskell: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextMary BartonAppendix A:The Composition of the Novel Excerpts from Gaskell’s Letters Parable of Dives and Lazarus Appendix B:Contemporary Reviews of the Novel Athenaeum (21 October 1848) Examiner (4 November 1848) Christian Examiner (March 1849) Edinburgh Review (April 1849) Fraser’s Magazine (April 1849) Appendix C:Social Commentary on Industrialization Thomas Carlyle, Chapter I, Chartism (1840) “Emigration—Report of the Poor-Law Commissioners on the Subject,” Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal (15 February 1840) Joseph Adshead, Distress in Manchester. Evidence (Tabular and Otherwise) of the State of the Labouring Classes in 1840-42 (1842) Leon Faucher, Manchester in 1844: Its PresentCondition and Future Prospects (1844) Ralph Barnes Grindrod, The Slaves of the Needle(1844) Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) Charles Kingsley, Appeal to the Chartists (12 April 1848) Caroline Norton, Letters to the Mob (1848) Morning Chronicle (Thursday, 1 November 1849) William Rathbone Greg, Employers and Employed (1853) Appendix D:Related Fiction and Poetry Thomas Hood, “Song of the Shirt” (1843) Charlotte Brontë, Chapters 8 and 19, Shirley (1849) Charles Dickens, Chapter 4, Hard Times (1854) George Eliot, Chapter 31, Felix Holt (1866) Appendix E:Chartism and Free TradeSelect Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Jude the Obscure
Book SynopsisWhen Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure appeared in 1895, it immediately caused scandal and controversy. Its frank treatment of Jude's sexual relationships with Arabella and Sue, its scathing criticisms of late-Victorian hypocrisy, its depiction of the "New Woman," and its attacks on "holy wedlock" and religious bigotry outraged numerous reviewers; one called the book "Jude the Obscene." Others saw it as brilliantly progressive in its ideas and techniques. Vivid and complex, satiric and harrowing, this novel marked the culmination of Hardy's development as a leading novelist of the cultural transition from the Victorian to the Modernist era. The Broadview edition restores the original, controversial 1895 text.Trade ReviewCedric Watts's edition of Jude the Obscure is one of an extremely interesting set of literary works from Broadview Press, distinguished by wise editorial choices and inclusion of a variety of documents contemporary with the works. Watts is one of our era's most resourceful and level-headed analysts of literature, and his introduction richly sketches the angles of several controversies current in Hardy's time. There are numerous selections from writings which influenced Hardy (science, philosophy, poems, the Bible) excerpts from essays and poems from the late nineteenth century, and materials in categories such as divorce, and university education, all of which amplify and add to Watts' comments, and stimulate thinking about Hardy and nineteenth-century subjects, as well as about our own time." - Dale Kramer, University of Oregon."This is an informative and scholarly edition of the novel which brings out its explosive nature, why it so scandalised Hardy's contemporaries. Professor Watts provides a clear, lively introduction, helpful notes and a wealth of material on the textual history of Jude the Obscure, its contemporary reception and its intellectual and social context. Readers of Hardy will find it immensely useful." - T.R. Wright, University of Newcastle"Broadview Press and editor Cedric Watts have done a splendid job." - English Literature in TransitionTable of ContentsAcknowledgements and Editorial NoteIntroductionA Note on the TextThomas Hardy: A Brief ChronologyHardy’s Preface (1895), Revised Preface and Postscript (1912)JUDE THE OBSCUREPart First, At Marygreen, I-XIPart Second, At Christminster, I-VIIPart Third, At Melchester, I-XPart Fourth, At Shaston, I-VIPart Fifth, At Aldbrickham and Elsewhere, I-VIIIPart Sixth, At Christminster again, I-XIAppendix A: Major Textual ChangesAppendix B: Comments by HardyAppendix C: Contemporaneous Reviews and a ParodyAppendix D: Hardy’s OutlookAppendix E: Influences and Contexts: Cultural ExtractsAppendix F: Oxford, Jowett, and Educational OpportunityAppendix G: Divorce in Jude the ObscureAppendix H: Map of Wessex Appended to the 1895 Edition of Jude the ObscureSelect Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Great Expectations
Book SynopsisOriginally published in serial form from December 1860 to August 1861, Great Expectations is the ‘autobiography’ of Pip, as he transformed from apprentice village blacksmith to a London gentleman. Unlike many of Dickens’s earlier works, the novel is not so much a protest against social evils as a sustained meditation upon the process of social reform in Victorian England. It is this which gives such importance to the book’s handling of the theme of the gentleman, a theme central both to Dickens’s society and to his own life story.Trade Review“The notes to this edition of Great Expectations are extremely helpful, and the supporting materials are useful, clear, and well-selected. Law and Pinnington have put together an edition that takes into account what the contemporary (and especially, the non-British) reader needs in order to appreciate the novel. All in all, this is an excellent edition.” — Sally Mitchell, Temple University“It is high time for this Dickens masterpiece to receive the kind of critical and contextual attention that this edition of Great Expectations affords. The editors provide essential information about Dickens’s compositional as well as publishing practices, and they further support this background with a sampling of the lively contemporary dialogue about the text in the periodicals of the day. They issues raised by the novel—namely class and language, and crime and punishment—are amply explored by pertinent historical documentation, including highly-charged autobiographical writing by Dickens himself that was not available to his contemporary readership. Moreover, the introduction expertly guides the reader though the application of these materials in a creative and inviting manner. Law and Pinnington have gathered together an impressive array of contemporary documents to promote an informed reading of this classic text … In particular, the maps and illustrations of the novel’s various settings allow the non-expert to quickly gain insights which should lead to intriguing arguments about how the novel has worked—for its own time as well as our own. I especially commend the editors for their resourceful choices related to the Victorian conception of what constitutes a true gentleman—itself perhaps the key question that helps to unlock the novel.” — Carol Hanbery MacKay, University of Texas-AustinTable of ContentsIntroductionAcknowledgementsA Note on the TextCharles Dickens: A Brief ChronologyGREAT EXPECTATIONS Volume I Volume II Volume III Explanatory NotesAppendices: Contemporary DocumentsAppendix A. The Composition of the Novel Dickens’s Working Memoranda Dickens’s Letters Appendix B. Contemporary Responses to the Novel Athenaeum (13 July 1861) Examiner (20 July 1861) Saturday Review (20 July 1861) Atlantic Monday (September 1861) The Times (17 October 1861) British Quarterly Review (January 1862) Rambler (January 1862) Blackwood’s Magazine (May 1862) Temple Bar (September 1862) Appendix C. On Class and Language Charles Dickens, “Hard Experiences in Boyhood” in John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens (1872-74) Charles Dickens, “Travelling Abroad” The Uncommercial Traveller (1861) Alexis deTocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution (1856) Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, “Gentlemen” Cornhill Magazine (1862) William Sewell, “Gentlemanly Manners” Sermons to Boys at Radley School (1854-69) John Ruskin, “Of Vulgarity,” Modern Painters (1860) J.H. Newman, “Liberal Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Religion,” The Scope and Nature of University Education (1859) Thomas Carlyle, “Labour,” Past and Present (1843) Samuel Smiles, “Character: The True Gentleman,” Self Help (1859) Mrs. Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman (1856) Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857) Reports on the State of Popular Education in England (1861) Appendix D. On Crime & Punishment Mrs. Trimmer, The Charity School Spelling Book (1818) Charles Dickens, “Criminal Courts,” Sketches by Boz (1839) Charles Dickens, “A Visit to Newgate,” Sketches by Boz (1839) Report from the Select Committee on Transportation (1838) Henry Savery, Quintus Servinton (1830-31) Marcus Clarke, His Natural Life (1870-72) “The Autobiography of a Convict,” The Voices of Our Exiles (1854) John Binny, “Thieves and Swindlers,” in London Labour and the London Poor (1861) Thomas Carlyle, Model Prisons (1850) Thomas Beard, “A Dialogue Concerning Convicts,” All the Year Round (1861) Charles Dickens, “The Ruffian,” The Uncommercial Traveller (1868) Maps and Illustrations Showing SettingsMap A: Estuaries of the Thames and MedwayMap B: City of LondonMap C: Pip’s LondonIllustration A. Smithfield MarketIllustration B. Barnard’s InnIllustration C. The River Front at HammersmithIllustration D. Covent Garden MarketIllustration E. The Royal ExchangeIllustration F. The Temple StairsIllustration G. London BridgeIllustration H. Billingsgate MarketSelect Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Little Women
Book SynopsisLittle Women, Louisa May Alcott’s masterpiece of Children’s literature, is the story of the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Living in a small Massachusetts town, the girls and Mrs. March must make do while Mr. March is away serving as an Army Chaplain during the Civil War. At the story’s center lies Jo who, as she approaches adulthood, must reconcile her duties to her family with her desire to become a successful writer.The many appendices in this Broadview edition include materials on the early women’s movement, the novel’s composition, and Alcott’s literary influences.Trade Review“Broadview Press’s Little Women provides a definitive text along with the most comprehensive historical overview yet offered. Alton not only gives us a text based on the first edition, she also presents the genesis and development of Alcott’s most famous novel using the author’s own public and private writings. For the first time in one edition, we now have the complete story of the March family! It is a wonderful scholarly achievement that has long been overdue.” — Daniel Shealy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte“Anne Hiebert Alton’s edition for Broadview is unique in supplementing the text with Alcott’s sources for and correspondence about the novel, with those of Alcott’s works that she attributes to Jo and her sisters, selections from the text that she alludes to most frequently, such as Pilgrim’s Progress, and excerpts that demonstrate Alcott’s feminism. A number of these selections are not readily accessible elsewhere, and some will prove unfamiliar even to Alcott scholars. Alton and Broadview are to be commended for bringing them together in a single volume.” — Elizabeth Keyser, Hollins UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionLouisa May Alcott: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextList of AbbreviationsLittle Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and AmyAppendix A: The Composition and Publication of Little Women Entries from Louisa May Alcott’s Journals about Little Women A Manuscript Page of Little Women Correspondence concerning Little Women Nineteenth-Century comments/reviews of Little Women Appendix B: The Sources for Little Women Louisa May Alcott’s Journal entries Early versions of Little Women stories: “The Sister’s Trial” “Merry’s Monthly Chat” “My Polish Boy” Appendix C: The March Girls’ Writings “Norna; or, The Witches’ Curse" “Aunt Sue’s Scrap Bag” from Merry’s Museum “The Masked Marriage” “The Greek Slave” “The Rival Painters” Appendix D: Literary Influences Bronson Alcott’s Influence Louisa May Alcott’s comments about books & reading Jean de La Fontaine, “The Jay in Peacock’s Feathers” Hans Christian Andersen, "The Steadfast Tin Soldier” “The King & the Beggarmaid” tales Selections from John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress Appendix E: Feminist Issues Excerpts from the Proceedings of the Women’s Rights Convention Selections from Louisa May Alcott’s journals & letters “Louisa M. Alcott’s Defence of Woman Suffrage” Selections from Louisa May Alcott’s other writings Works Cited & Recommended Reading
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Broadview Press Ltd The Rover or the Banished Cavaliers
Book SynopsisIncreasingly Aphra Behn—the first woman professional writer—is also regarded as one of the most important writers of the 17th century. The Rover, her most famous and most accomplished play, is in many ways firmly in the tradition of Restoration drama; Willmore, the title character, is a rake and a libertine, and the comedy feeds on sexual innuendo, intrigue and wit. But the laughter that the play insights has a biting edge to it and the sexual intrigue an unsettling depth. Anne Russell points out in her introduction to this edition, there are three options for women in the society represented in The Rover: marriage, the convent, or prostitution. In this marriage economy the witty and pragmatic virgin Hellena learns how to survive, while the prostitute Angellica Bianca can retain her autonomy only so long as she remains free from romantic love. It seems that in this world women can only be free by the anonymity of disguise—yet the mask is also the mark of the prostitute. And, paradoxically, disguise is the device that in many ways drives the plot towards marriage.Enormously popular through the eighteenth century, The Rover is now once again widely performed. Filled with the play of ideas, it is one of the most amusing, entertaining—and unsettling—of comedies.Trade ReviewThis well-conceived edition of Aphra Behn's The Rover begins with a lively, thorough and intelligent introduction to the play. The scholarly work is indispensable." - Heidi Hutner, Hunter College, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote to the Second EditionIntroductionAphra Behn’s Life and CareerSources of The RoverThe Rover: Critical IssuesStage HistoryNotesSelected BibliographyA Note on the TextThe RoverPrologueThe Actors’ NamesAct IAct IIAct IIIAct IVAct VEpiloguePost-ScriptTextual NotesAppendix A: Behn on her Work From the “Epistle Dedicatory” to the Second Part of The Rover From “A Pastoral to Mr. Stafford…” Appendix B: From Early Accounts of Behn’s Life From Female Forms of Several Occasions. Written by Ephelia From Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatick Poets From “The History of the Life and Memoirs of Mrs. Behn” From The Poetical Register From A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical Appendix C: AdaptationExcerpt from J.P. Kemble’s adaptation of The Rover, Love in Many Masks
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Broadview Press Ltd Felix Holt
Book SynopsisWhen William Blackwood, George Eliot’s publisher, first saw the manuscript of Felix Holt in 1866 he could not contain his enthusiasm; in a letter to a friend he described the novel as “a perfect marvel. The time is 1832 just after the passing of the Reform Bill, and surely such a...series of pictures of English Life, manners, and conversation never was drawn. You see and hear the people speaking. Every individual character stands out a distinct figure.”A political radical and a child of the working class, Felix has lost faith in a political system in which candidates never represent the interests of the working class. Harold Transome, the cynical son of wealthy Tory landowners, embraces radical politics for very different reasons. Both Harold and Felix vie for the affections of Esther Lyon, and she must weigh her feelings for them with the social and material goals she has set for herself. Their personal drama unfolds against the broad canvas of social and political upheaval of 1830s England.This edition is based on the text of the first edition of the novel published in three volumes in 1866, and includes a full introduction, a wide range of appendices including reviews, as well as Eliot’s “Address to Working Men, by Felix Holt”; “The Legal Plot of Felix Holt”; and a chronology of Eliot’s life and career.Trade Review“The Broadview Press Felix Holt, the Radical is a handsomely-produced and reader-friendly edition of George Eliot’s powerful novel of social ambition and illicit love. Generous selections of contextual material show how George Eliot’s theories of artistic production and understanding of political realities shape the novel, and what her contemporaries made of it. Editors Baker and Womack deploy their expertise in Victorian studies to illuminate this work for the twenty-first century.” — Margaret Harris, University of Sydney“This edition carefully documents the politics of composition and of England at a critical time in the author’s and the country’s life. Useful appendices establish the context for understanding the novel and its background. The Condition of England Question at last comes alive!” — Ira Nadel, University of British ColumbiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionGeorge Eliot: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextFelix Holt, The RadicalAppendix A: The Legal Plot of Felix Holt, The RadicalAppendix B: “An Address to Working Men, by Felix Holt”Appendix C: “The Natural History of German Life”Appendix D: The Critical Response to Felix Holt, The RadicalSelect Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd East Lynne
Book SynopsisLady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful and refined young woman, leaves her hard-working but neglectful lawyer-husband and her infant children to elope with an aristocratic suitor. After he deserts her, and she bears their illegitimate child, Lady Isabel disguises herself and takes the position of governess in the household of her husband and his new wife.East Lynne is the archetypal sensation novel, filled with disaster, guilt and repentance. It also documents the growing protest against the rigid roles prescribed for Victorian women. Among the many appendices included are a selection of Victorian medical views on men, women, and sexuality.Trade Review“This is a splendid edition. Its introduction is an authoritative and up to date guide to the novel and its context. A generous and judicious selection of contemporary reviews of East Lynne and the sensation novel further amplify the context, and provide an excellent resource for students.” — Lyn Pykett, University of Wales-Aberystwyth“In his introduction, Andrew Maunder suggests that East Lynne may be ‘one of the most famous unread works in the English language.’ This immensely readable and teachable edition should help to preserve its fame while increasing its readership. Maunder locates the novel in its various contexts—social, historical, and literary—focusing especially on the material conditions of the novel’s publication, and the various “woman questions” of the middle nineteenth century. The supplemental materials are thorough and well-chosen, and for the selections from T. A. Palmer’s theatrical adaptation alone, the Broadview edition would be my choice for teaching.” — Elisabeth Rose Gruner, University of RichmondTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionA Note on the TextEllen Wood: A Brief ChronologyEast LynneAppendix A: Letters from Ellen Wood on the writing and publication of East LynneAppendix B: Geraldine Jewsbury’s Reader’s Report on East LynneAppendix C: Wood’s East Lynne contract with Richard Bentley and SonAppendix D: Serialisation of East LynneAppendix E: Contemporary ReviewsAppendix F: The Sensation NovelAppendix G: Women’s Education and ResponsibilitiesAppendix H: Contemporary Medical Opinions on Men, Women, and SexualityAppendix I: Contemporary Images of WomenAppendix J: Extracts from T.A. Palmer’s adaptation of East LynneWorks Cited and Recommended Reading
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Broadview Press Ltd Evelina: or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the
Book SynopsisThe reputation of Frances Burney (1752-1840) was largely established with her first novel, Evelina. Published anonymously in 1778, it is an epistolary account of a sheltered young woman's entrance into society and her experience of family. Its comedy ranges from the violent practical joking reminiscent of Smollett's fiction to witty repartee that influenced Austen.The Broadview edition is based on the second edition of the novel (1779), which incorporates Burney's revisions and corrections. Its appendices include contemporary reviews of Evelina as well as eighteenth-century works on the family and on comedyTrade Review“Longtime admirers of Frances Burney’s delightful eighteenth-century comedy of manners, Evelina, will no doubt rejoice in Broadview’s impressive new edition of the work, here ably introduced and annotated by Susan Kubica Howard. Readers new to the novel have a treat in store. Evelina remains, quite simply, the most accomplished and insouciant comic novel written by an Englishwoman before Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and coruscates anew in the handsome presentation it is given here.” — Terry Castle, Stanford University“Susan Kubica Howard’s research is impressively detailed, yet accessibly presented so that the edition will serve both seasoned scholars in the field and readers who may be encountering Evelina for the first time.” — Audrey Bilger, Claremont McKenna CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionFrances Burney: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextEvelinaIntroduction to AppendicesAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews London Review (February 1778) Monthly Review (April 1778) Westminster Magazine (June 1778) Gentleman’s Magazine (September Critical Review (September 1778) Appendix B: Works on Family George Savile, Marquis of Halifax, The Lady’s New-Year’s-Gift William Fleetwood, The Relative Duties of Parentsand Children, Husbands and Wives. Masters andServants Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, “Correspondencewith her Granddaughter, Diana, Duchess of Bedford,1732-35” Samuel Richardson, Letters Written To and For ParticularFriends, on the Most Important Occasions [John Hill], On the Management and Education ofChildren Samuel Richardson, A Collection of the Moral andInstructive Sentiments, Maxims, Cautions, and Reflexions,Contained in the Histories of PAMELA, CLARISSA, and SIRCHARLES GRANDISON James Nelson, An Essay on the Government of Children Eliza Haywood, The Female Spectator Lady Sarah Pennington, An Unfortunate Mother’s Adviceto Her Absent Daughters “Portia” [pseud.], The Polite Lady Hester Mulso Chapone, Letters on the Improvement ofthe Mind Clara Reeve, Plans of Education Mrs. Bonhote, The Parental Monitor Thomas Gisborne, An Enquiry into the Duties of theFemale Sex Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Practical Education Francis Burney D’Arblay, Memoirs of Doctor Burney Appendix C: Works on Comedy Anon., Pasquil’s Jests, Mixed with Mother Bunches Merriments Joseph Addison, The Spectator Anon., Scoggin’s Jests [John Mottley], Joe Miller’s Jest Book [Corbyn Morris], An Essay Towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule Eliza Haywood, The Female Spectator Jane Collier, An Essay on the Art of IngeniouslyTormenting Christopher Anstey, The New Bath Guide [James Quin], Quin’s Jests Anon., An Essay on Laughter William Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Comic Writers Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Desmond
Book SynopsisDesmond is a political novel about the French Revolution. It is Charlotte Smith’s only epistolary work, and it is her most politically radical piece. Written in response to Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, Smith’s Desmond fuses political discussion with romance, social satire and a suspenseful plot revolving around a liberal hero desperately in love with a woman who is married to a drunken anti-revolutionary. Whereas Burke represented the French Revolution as a sentimental drama, Smith draws out the parallel between political and domestic tyranny to show how the disenfranchisement of British women under eighteenth-century common law resembled the political tyranny of the French absolutist monarchy.Trade Review“Desmond is perhaps Charlotte Smith’s most trenchant and most daring work, and is certainly among the most important polemical novels of the period. The Preface by Blank and Todd is both authoritative and absorbing, and the detailed notes and contextual material they provide are informative and illuminating. Indeed, if one had to pick a single novel to introduce the turbulent 1790s, this novel, along with the supporting material provided by Blank and Todd, would be it.” - Claudia L. Johnson, Princeton University"This exceptional edition of Desmond is a windfall for all who are interested in the incendiary world of late eighteenth-century England. Following Edmund Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith adapts sentimental convention to social critique through her story of Geraldine Verney, bound to a tyrannical husband. Antje Blank and Janet Todd provide a superb introduction that sets the narrative in the biographical context of Smith’s own domestic travails (which included a spendthrift husband, a legally inaccessible inheritance, and nine hungry children), along with vital intertextual materials, such as Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Men, Helen Maria Williams’ Letters Written in France, and Smith’s own letters and narrative poem, The Emigrants. Readers drawn to Charlotte Smith through her poetry can now access her as a powerful novelist." - Denise Gigante, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionCharlotte Smith: A Brief ChronologyWorks by Charlotte SmithFurther ReadingA Note on the TextDESMONDPrefaceVolume IVolume IIVolume IIINotesAppendix A. Extract from Edmund Burke,Reflections on the Revolution in FranceAppendix B. Extract from Mary Wollstonecraft,A Vindication of the Rights of MenAppendix C. Extract from Helen Maria Williams,Letters from FranceAppendix D. Charlotte Smith, The EmigrantsAppendix E. Charlotte Smith, Letters toJoseph Cooper Walker and Joel Barlow
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Broadview Press Ltd A New Woman Reader: Fiction, Drama and Articles
Book SynopsisIn the 1890s one phrase above all stood as shorthand for the various controversies over gender that swirled throughout the period: "the New Woman." In New Women fiction, progressive writers such as Sarah Grand, George Egerton, and Ella D'Arcy gave imaginative life to plight of modern women—and reactionaries such as Grant Allen attempted to put women back in their place. In all the leading journals of the day these and other writers argued their cases in essays, letters, and reviews as well as in fiction. This anthology brings together for the first time a representative selection of the most important, interesting, and influential of New Woman writings.Trade Review“This is a timely and marvelously useful anthology. Packed full of unabridged key documents from the period, Nelson’s A New Woman Reader is a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of fin-de-siècle studies. It will also be an invaluable teaching tool: the choice of contextual material to support the short stories and New Woman play is unerringly judicious.” — Sally Ledger, Birkbeck College, University of London“This collection of essential texts, introducing and discussing the figure of the ‘New Woman,’ is a wonderful, stimulating mix of the new and the familiar. Diverse in genre and tone, this volume will interest both the academic and the general reader. Intelligently and informatively edited, it is a most timely and welcome anthology.” — Kate Flint, Oxford UniversityTable of ContentsINTRODUCTIONA NOTE ON THE TEXTPART I: SHORT STORIES BY NEW WOMAN WRITERSINTRODUCTIONGEORGE EGERTON“A Cross Line”“Now Spring Has Come”SARAH GRAND“The Undefinable”NETTA SYRETT“Thy Heart’s Desire”VICTORIA CROSS“Theodora. A Fragment”ADA RADFORD“Lot 99”MABEL E. WOTTON“The Hour of Her Life”ELLA D’ARCY“White Magic”PART II: ARTICLESTHE DEBATE OVER WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE“An Appeal Against Female Suffrage” Nineteenth Century“The Appeal Against Female Suffrage: A Reply. I” Millicent GarrettFawcett“The Appeal Against Female Suffrage: A Reply. II” M.M. Dilke“A Jingle of the Franchise” ShaftsSARAH GRAND ON THE NEW WOMAN: HER CRITICS RESPOND“The New Aspect of the Woman Question” Sarah Grand“The Man of the Moment” Sarah Grand“A Ballade of the New Manhood” Punch“The New Woman” Punch“The New Woman” Ouida“The Woman’s Question. An Interview with Madame Sarah Grand”Humanitarian“Science and the Rights of Women” H.E. Harvey“Foibles of the New Woman” Ella W. Winston“The Eternal Feminine” Boyd WinchesterTHE MARRIAGE QUESTION“Marriage” Mona Caird“Does Marriage Hinder a Woman’s Self-Development?” Mona Caird“Does Marriage Hinder a Woman’s Self-Development?” GertrudeAtherton“A Young Woman’s Right: Knowledge” Julia M.A. Hawksley“The Voice of Woman” H.E. Harvey“Plain Words on the Woman Question” Grant AllenTHE ATTACK ON THE NEW WOMAN WRITERS“Donna Quixote” Punch“She-Notes” Punch“She-Notes. Part II” Punch“Tommyrotics” Hugh E.M. Stutfield“The Psychology of Feminism” Hugh E.M. Stutfield“The Physical Insensibility of Woman” Cesare LombrosoTHE REVOLTING DAUGHTERS“The Revolt of the Daughters” B.A. Crackanthorpe“A Reply From the Daughters” Alys W. Pearsall Smith“The Revolt of the Daughters” May Jeune“The Revolt of the Daughters. An Answer—By One of Them” GertrudeHemery“The Evolution of the Daughters” Sarah M. AmosPART III: DRAMAINTRODUCTIONSYDNEY GRUNDYThe New Woman. An Original Comedy, in Four ActsFURTHER READING
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Broadview Press Ltd The Time Machine: An Invention
Book SynopsisWells was interested in the implications of evolutionary theory on the future of human beings at the biological, sociological, and cultural levels, and The Time Machine, short and readable, draws on many of the social and scientific debates of the time. The Broadview edition of this science fiction classic includes extensive materials on Wells’s scientific and political influences.Trade Review“This is undoubtedly the definitive edition of H.G. Wells’s masterpiece, as fresh today in its imaginative power as the day it was written; but here refreshed by excellent introduction, notes and a comprehensive collection of appendices by Wells’s contemporaries. The method could not be bettered.” — Brian W. Aldiss, author of the Helliconia trilogy; Billion Year Spree: A History of Science Fiction and, most recently, White Mars: or, the Mind Set Free: A 21st-Century Utopia“This is an invaluable edition of a text with a crucial role in modern culture. Wielding his meticulous scholarship and wide-ranging knowledge, Ruddick produces a splendid introduction and a rich selection of contextual materials.” — H. Bruce Franklin, author of War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination and Future Perfect: American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century“Ruddick offers a wide-ranging and stimulating Introduction to this generously documented edition of one of the great source texts of modern science fiction. General readers, students, and scholars will all be grateful for the comprehensive appendices, which provide a full selection of the scientific, philosophical, and cultural contexts out of which The Time Machine first emerged. This should be the scholarly edition for some time to come.” — Douglas Barbour, University of Alberta“The structure of Ruddick’s book makes the complexity of The Time Machine easy to map, while the critical materials provide a basis for deep and detailed study. The impressive scholarship included ensures that it will remain a useful resource for teachers, essential for libraries and especially suitable for students or newcomers to Wells’ canon.” — Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts“I exclusively use your edition of The Time Machine and cannot say enough about its perspective. Mathematics and science in literature is a specialty of mine, and there is no finer edition of that text. It is a keystone in my Mathematics and Science in the Humanities course. You folks at Broadview are outstanding!” — Michael J. Gormley, Quinsigamond Community CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionH. G. Wells: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Time Machine: An InventionAppendix A. The Evolutionary Context: Biology Charles Darwin, from The Origin of Species (1859, 1872) E. Ray Lankester, from Degeneration (1880) Thomas H. Huxley, from “The Struggle for Existence in Human Society” (1888) H. G. Wells, from “Zoological Retrogression” (1891) H. G. Wells, from Text-Book of Biology (1893) Thomas H. Huxley, from “Evolution and Ethics” (1893) H. G. Wells, “On Extinction” (1893) H. G. Wells, from “The Man of the Year Million” (1893) H. G. Wells, from “The Extinction of Man” (1894) Appendix B. The Evolutionary Context: Society Thomas Carlyle, from Past and Present (1843) Karl Marx, from various writings (1844-64) Frederick Engels, from The Condition of the Working-Class (1845) Benjamin Disraeli, from Sybil (1845) Herbert Spencer, from Social Statics (1851) Herbert Spencer, from First Principles (1862) Jules Verne, from The Child of the Cavern (1877) Henry George, from Progress and Poverty (1880) Edward Bellamy, from Looking Backward (1888) Thomas H. Huxley, from “The Struggle for Existence in Human Society” (1888) William Morris, from News from Nowhere (1890) Benjamin Kidd, from Social Evolution (1894) Appendix C. The Evolutionary Context: Culture Winwood Reade, from The Martyrdom of Man (1872, 1875) Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Joyful Wisdom (1882, 1886) H. G. Wells, from “The Rediscovery of the Unique” (1891) Max Nordau, from Degeneration (1892, 1895) Appendix D. The Spatiotemporal Context: The Fourth Dimension Edwin A. Abbott, from Flatland (1884) C. H. Hinton, from “What Is the Fourth Dimension?” (1884) “S,” “Four-Dimensional Space” (1885) E. A. Hamilton Gordon, from “The Fourth Dimension” (1887) Oscar Wilde, from “The Canterville Ghost” (1887) William James, from The Principles of Psychology (1890) Simon Newcomb, from “Modern Mathematical Thought” (1894) Appendix E. The Spatiotemporal Context: Solar Death and the End of the World Jonathan Swift, from Gulliver’s Travels (1726) William Thomson, from “On the Age of the Sun’s Heat” (1862) Balfour Stewart, from The Conservation of Energy (1874) Balfour Stewart & Peter Guthrie Tait, from The Unseen Universe (1875) George Howard Darwin, from “The Determination of the Secular Effects of Tidal Friction by a Graphical Method” (1879) George Howard Darwin, from “On the Precession of a Viscous Spheroid” (1879) H. G. Wells, from “The ‘Cyclic’ Delusion” (1894) Camille Flammarion, from Omega (1894) Appendix F. Extracts from Wells’s CorrespondenceAppendix G. Wells on The Time Machine H. G. Wells, from “Popularising Science” (1894) H. G. Wells, from “Preface,” Works of H. G. Wells, Vol. 1 (1924) H. G. Wells, from “Preface,” The Time Machine: An Invention (1931) H. G. Wells, from “Preface,” Seven Famous Novels (1934) H. G. Wells, from Experiment in Autobiography (1934) H. G. Wells, from “Fiction About the Future” (1938) Appendix H. Reviews of The Time Machine From Review of Reviews [London] (March 1895) From Review of Reviews [New York] (June 1895) New York Times (23 June 1895) Spectator (13 July 1895) Literary World (13 July 1895) Nature (18 July 1895) From Saturday Review (20 July 1895) Daily Chronicle (27 July 1895) Israel Zangwill, from Pall Mall Magazine (September 1895) From Review of Reviews [New York] (October 1895) Appendix I. Contemporary Portraits of Wells From Bookman (August 1895) “Picaroon,” from Chap-Book [Chicago] (1896) Selected Annotated BibliographyWorks Cited
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Broadview Press Ltd The Island of Doctor Moreau
Book SynopsisA classic of science fiction and a dark meditation on Darwinian thought in the late Victorian period, The Island of Doctor Moreau explores the possibility of civilization as a constraint imposed on savage human nature. The protagonist, Edward Prendick, finds himself stranded on an island with the notorious Doctor Moreau, whose experiments on the island’s humans and animals result in unspeakable horrors.The critical introduction to this Broadview Edition gives particular emphasis to Wells’s hostility towards religion as well as his thorough knowledge of the Darwinian thought of his time. Appendices provide passages from Darwin and Huxley related to Wells’s early writing; in addition, excerpts from other writers illustrate late-nineteenth-century anxieties about social degeneration.Trade Review“The Broadview Edition of The Island of Doctor Moreau restores this greatest of all post-Darwinian island fables to its original context. In his introduction, Mason Harris provides a lively account of the evolutionary debates that influenced the novel’s construction and an informative overview of criticism to date. Appendices show the controversy generated by Moreau’s publication, situate the final text alongside early drafts and Wells’s journalism, and reprint scientific and literary sources crucial to understanding the novel. This edition will appeal to both those in the academy and the general reader, and is to be strongly recommended.” — Steven McLean, H. G. Wells Society“Mason Harris provides the reader with essential connections between The Island of Doctor Moreau and the scientific and philosophical debates that raged in the Victorian world. This edition provides vital insight that allows the reader to slice through the shadows of Moreau’s House of Pain and emerge into the true turn-of-the-century horror that H.G. Wells constructed. The appendices, including samples of Wells’s scientific journalism, help bring focus to the complexity of the author’s vision.” — Eric Cash, Abraham Baldwin College, Editor, The Undying Fire: The Journal of The H.G. Wells Society, the Americas, 2001–2005Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionH.G. Wells: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Island of Doctor MoreauAppendix A: Wells on WellsAppendix B: Wells on Moreau and Science Fiction From Arthur H. Lawrence, “The Romance of the Scientist: An Interview with Mr. H.G. Wells” (1897) From H.G. Wells, “Preface,” The Works of H.G. Wells, Vol. 2 (1924) From H.G. Wells, “Preface,” The Scientific Romances of H.G. Wells (1933) Appendix C: Contemporary Reviews Chalmers Mitchell, Saturday Review (11 April 1896) Letter from H.G. Wells replying to Chalmers Mitchell, Saturday Review (1 November 1896) [R.H. Hutton], Spectator (11 April 1896) Manchester Guardian (14 April 1896) The Guardian (3 June 1896) The Times (17 June 1896) The Review of Reviews (July–December 1895) Appendix D: Evolution and Struggle I: Classical Darwinism From Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam (1850) From Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species (1859, 1872) From Thomas H. Huxley, Man’s Place in Nature (1863) 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) From H.G. Wells, Text–Book of Biology (1893) From H.G. Wells, “The Rediscovery of the Unique” (1891) From H.G. Wells, “The Mind in Animals” (1894) Appendix E: Evolution and Struggle II: Later Huxley and Wells From Thomas H. Huxley, “The Struggle for Existence in Human Society” (February 1888) From Thomas H. Huxley, “An Apologetic Irenicon” (November 1892) From Thomas H. Huxley, “Evolution and Ethics” (1893, 1894) From H.G. Wells, “Bio–Optimism” (29 August 1895) From H.G. Wells, “Human Evolution, an Artificial Process” (October 1896) From H.G. Wells, “The Acquired Factor” (9 January 1897) From H.G. Wells, “Morals and Civilization” (February 1897) From H.G. Wells, “Human Evolution: Mr. Wells Replies” (April 1897) Appendix F: Degeneration and Madness From Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) From H.G. Wells, “The Problem of the Birth Supply” (1903) From H.G. Wells, A Modern Utopia (1905) From Gina Lombroso–Ferrero, Criminal Man According tothe Classification of Cesare Lombroso (1911) From Cesare Lombroso, Crime: Its Causes and Remedies (1899) From William James, Psychology: The Briefer Course (1892) From Jacques–Joseph Moreau, La Psychologie Morbide (1859) From Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind(1895, 1896) From H.G. Wells, The Croquet Player (1936) Appendix G: The Vivisection Controversy From Claude Bernard, Report on the Progress and Development of General Physiology in France (1867) From Michael Foster, Claude Bernard (1899) From Claude Bernard, An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) From George Hoggan (and R.H. Hutton), Letter, The Spectator (1875) From R.H. Hutton’s Testimony in Report of the Royal Commission on the Practice of Subjecting Live Animals to Experiments for Scientific Purposes (1876) From Dr. Emanuel Klein’s Testimony in Report of the Royal Commission on the Practice of Subjecting Live Animals to Experiments for Scientific Purposes (1876) From Frances Power Cobbe, Life of Frances Power Cobbe. By Herself (1894) From H.G. Wells, Text–Book of Biology (1893) From H.G. Wells, “Popular Feeling and the Advancement of Science. Anti–Vivisection” (1928) Appendix H: Wells Explains: Two Essays Relating to Moreau’s Argument From H.G. Wells, “The Province of Pain” (February 1894) From H.G. Wells, “The Limits of Individual Plasticity”(19 January 1895) Appendix I: “The Terrible Medusa Case”: An Historical Source for Prendick’s Shipwreck (1818)Appendix J: Wells’s First Draft of MoreauSelect Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
Book SynopsisThe Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph was hugely popular in circulating libraries in the years after its publication, and its emotional intensity was often remarked upon; Samuel Johnson wrote to Frances Sheridan, “I know not, Madam! that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.” Sheridan traces Sidney Bidulph’s development in a complex epistolary novel spanning much of the protagonist’s life, and explores the tension between sexual desire and prescribed female conduct.In addition to an introduction that places the novel in the context of Sheridan’s feminism and of the early novel, this edition provides material on discourses of female conduct, letters between Sheridan and Samuel Richardson, and contemporary reviews.Trade Review“Restoring to print an important, if neglected, eighteenth-century novel, this thoroughly annotated new edition also sets The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph in the context of its period’s attitudes toward and dicta for women, suggests the novel’s political implications, and provides a sampling of its enthusiastic contemporary reviews. The edition should create a new generation of enthusiasts.” — Patricia M. Spacks, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionFrances Sheridan: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Memoirs of Miss Sidney BidulphAppendix A: Contemporary Discourse on Female Conduct From George Savile, Marquess of Halifax, The Lady’ New-Year’s-Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688) From Wetenhall Wilkes, A Letter of Genteel and Moral Advice To a Young Lady (1740) From Samuel Richardson, et al., Familiar Letters Written To and For Particular Friends on the Most Important Occasions (1741) From Sarah Pennington, An Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to Her Absent Daughters (1761) From John Gregory, A Father’s Legacy to His Daughters (1774) Appendix B: Reviews of The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph The Monthly Review 24 (1761) London Magazine 30 (1761) The Critical Review 11 (1762) From Clara Reeve, The Progress of Romance (1785) Select Bibliography and Works Cited
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Broadview Press Ltd The Awakening and Other Writings
Book SynopsisCritically acclaimed as Kate Chopin’s most influential work of fiction, The Awakening has assumed a place in the American literary canon. This new edition places the novel in the context of the cultural and regional influences that shape Chopin’s narrative.With extensive contemporary readings that examine historical events, including the hurricanes that frequently disrupt life in Louisiana, this edition will contextualize The Awakening for a new generation of readers.Trade Review“This edition of Chopin’s masterpiece contextualizes her work in a way that creates endless possibilities for teachers and students. From Chopin’s other stories and personal writings to her poetry and non-fiction; from contemporary responses to her work in the popular press to the intellectual legacy she was drawing upon in her writing; from the etiquette guides of the era to accounts of its great hurricane to period sketches of New Orleans social history, all of this together combines to situate The Awakening in a kaleidoscopic set of intellectual and cultural frameworks. For the classroom, a treasure—I can’t imagine using any other edition.” — T. R. Johnson, Tulane University“This is the most richly comprehensive and contextualized edition of Chopin’s novel to date. The extensive introduction not only situates the novel in this era of the New Woman, but also clarifies problematic regional terms such as ‘Creole.’ This edition illuminates the local and national settings of Chopin’s novel for a new generation of readers. Kudos to Broadview and these editors, who have provided a valuable service for scholars and students of southern and women’s literature. I will definitely be using this text in my own classroom and for my own research.” — Mary Ann Wilson, University of Louisiana at Lafayette“The introduction sets the stage for using the text in either literature or women’s studies classes by describing not only Kate Chopin’s work but also the setting in America that existed during her lifetime. There are clear explanations of the issues of race and gender in Louisiana and the South in general. The notes are also excellent, adding another dimension to the text. I am eagerly anticipating introducing this edition to my students.” — Theresa Flowers, University of North TexasTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionKate Chopin: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe AwakeningOther FictionFrom At Fault (1890)“At Chênière Caminada” (1893)“Madame Célestin’s Divorce,” from Bayou Folk (1894)“A Respectable Woman” (1894)“An Egyptian Cigarette” (1897)“The Storm: A Sequel to ‘At the ’Cadian Ball’” (1898)Poetry“A Fancy” (1892)“To Mrs B_______” (1896)“To A Lady at the Piano” — “Mrs. R” (1896)“A Document in Madness” (1898)“The Haunted Chamber” (1899)“A day with a splash of sunlight” (1899)Journals and Essays“Emancipation. A Life Fable” (1869-70)“Solitude” (1895)from “Is Love Divine? The Question Answered by Three Ladies Well Known in St. Louis Society” (1898)“Reflection” (1899)Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews From Frances Porcher, The Mirror [St. Louis] (4 May 1899) From the St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat (13 May 1899) From C.L. Deyo, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (20 May 1899) From G.B., St. Louis Post-Dispatch (21 May 1899) From the Chicago Times-Herald (1 June 1899) New Orleans Times-Democrat (18 June 1899) Public Opinion [New York] (22 June 1899) Literature (23 June 1899) From the Boston Beacon (24 June 1899) From the Los Angeles Sunday Times (25 June 1899) Sibert [Willa Cather], Pittsburgh Leader (8 July 1899) William Morton Payne, The Dial (1 August 1899) The Nation (3 August 1899) Boston Herald (12 August 1899) Indianapolis Journal (14 August 1899) The Congregationalist [Boston] (24 August 1899) Appendix B: Background, Sources, and Contexts From Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” (1841) Algernon Swinburne, “A Cameo” (1866) From Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis (1886) From Mary A. Livermore, Amelia E. Barr, and Rose Terry Cooke, “Women’s Views of Divorce,” North American Review (1890) From Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “The Solitude of Self” (1892) From “Wife Who Retains Her Maiden Name and Won’t Obey,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (14 May 1895) From Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898) From Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) From Herbert Spencer, Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects (1914) Appendix C: Etiquette and Social Customs From The Elite Directory of St. Louis Society (1877) From Blunders in Behavior Corrected (1880) From James S. Zacharie, New Orleans Guide (1885) From Richard A. Wells, Manners, Culture and Dress of the Best American Society (1891) From Georgene Corry Benham, Polite Life and Etiquette, or What is Right and the Social Acts (1891) Appendix D: Louisiana Contexts From Jewell’s Crescent City Illustrated: The Commercial, Social, Political and General History of New Orleans (1873) From Will H. Coleman, Historical Sketch Book and Guide to New Orleans and Environs (1885) From Eliza Ripley, Social Life in Old New Orleans: Being Recollections of My Girlhood (1912) From Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “People of Color in Louisiana: Part 1,” Journal of Negro History (1916) Appendix E: The Great Hurricane of 1893 From Rose C. Falls, Cheniere Caminada, or The Wind of Death: The Story of the Storm in Louisiana (1893) From Mark Forrest, Wasted by Wind and Water: A Historical and Pictorial Sketch of the Gulf Disaster (1894) From Lafcadio Hearn, Chita: A Story of Last Island (1889) Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Imre: A Memorandum
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2003 Silver Medal for Gay/Lesbian Fiction, ForeWord MagazineImre is one of the first openly gay American novels without a tragic ending. Described by the author as “a little psychological romance,” the narrative follows two men who meet by chance in a café; in Budapest, where they forge a friendship that leads to a series of mutual revelations and gradual disclosures. With its sympathetic characterizations of homosexual men, Imre’s 1906 publication marked a turning point in English literature. This edition includes material relating to the novels origins, contemporary writings on homosexuality, other writings by Prime-Stevenson, and a contemporary review.Trade Review“Like Whitman’s noiseless, patient spider, Prime-Stevenson’s homosexual characters spin out threads of mutual recognition and loving affirmation. An invaluable literary document, Imre is also an unexpectedly absorbing fiction, here accompanied by an excellent scholarly apparatus.” — John W. Crowley, editor of Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard“Not only are we given Prime-Stevenson’s text in the most readable form it has ever enjoyed, but also an eloquent introduction that illuminates both the life of this mysterious author and the historical and literary significance of this, his most important work, and a fascinating sequence of appendices. This edition is a piece of scholarship as exciting as it is rigorous.” — David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell, editors of Pages Passed From Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Literature in English from 1748 to 1914“This edition shows how carefully the novel is positioned geographically at the very margins of Europe at the very end of the Belle Époque, and hownearly a century after its compositionthe novel not only has a good deal to say about its day, but also our own.” — David Bergman, Towson University, author of Gaiety TransfiguredTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionEdward Prime-Stevenson:A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextImre: A MemorandumIntroduction to the AppendicesAppendix A: On the Origin of ImreAppendix B: The Medical Establishment and Homosexuality—A Sample Case StudyAppendix C: Homosexuality and the Artistic TemperamentAppendix D: Excerpts from The Intersexes (1908)Appendix E: From Life to FictionAppendix F: “The Most Peculiar Friend I Have Ever Had”Appendix G: A Contemporary Review of ImreWorks Cited and Recommended Reading
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Broadview Press Ltd Adam Bede
Book SynopsisThe seemingly peaceful country village of Hayslope is the setting for this ambitious first novel by one of the nineteenth century's great novelists. With sympathy, wit, and unflinching realism, Adam Bede tells a story that would have been familiar to Eliot's first readers: the seduction of a pretty farm girl by the young squire of the district. Eliot uses this story, with its tragic implications, to explore the dangers of reliance on religious and social norms to govern destructive desires. As this edition demonstrates, Adam Bede addresses profound questions of morality, religion, and the role of women in society, while at the same time seeking to establish a new aesthetic for fiction.This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a rich selection of appendices, including selections from Eliot's letters and journals, contemporary reviews of the novel, and accounts of the murder trial of Mary Voce, the woman whose story formed part of the inspiration for the novel.Trade ReviewThe Broadview edition of Adam Bede is an excellent one for students, scholars, and the intelligent general reader. The introduction and appendices offer the apparatus to contextualize the novel, a bestseller in its day because it engaged with major religious and philosophical questions as well as involving the reader with a compelling love story. It appealed then, as it does today, to both head and heart." - Pam Hirsch, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionGeorge Eliot: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextAdam BedeAppendix A: Realism, Morality, and Fiction George Eliot’s Early Attitudes to Fiction Letter to Maria Lewis, 16 March 1839 Letter to Sarah Hennell, 9 February 1849 George Eliot and George Henry Lewes on the Nature and Function of the Novel From Lewes’s “Recent Novels: French and English,” Fraser’s Magazine (December 1847) From Lewes’s Review of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth and Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, Westminster Review (April 1853) From Eliot’s Reviews of Charles Kingsley’s Westward Ho!, Geraldine Jewsbury’s Constance Herbert, and Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, Westminster Review (July 1855), and Leader (July 1855) Realism From John Ruskin’s Modern Painters (1856) Eliot’s Response to Ruskin, Westminster Review (April 1856) From George Eliot’s Review of Wilhelm HeinrichRiehl’s Die Naturgeschichte des deutschen Volkes als Grundlage einer deutschen Social Politik, Westminster Review (July 1856) Appendix B: The Genesis and Publication of Adam Bede: From George Eliot’s Letters and JournalsAppendix C: The Trial and Execution of Mary Voce, 1802 An Account of the Experience and Happy Death of Mary Voce The Life, Character, Behaviour at the Place of Execution and Dying Speech of Mary Voce A full and particular Account of the Life,Trial, and Behaviour of Mary Voce Appendix D: The Reception of Adam Bede From a Letter from Jane Welsh Carlyle, 20 February 1859 From a Letter from Charles Dickens, 10 July 1859 The Times (12 April 1859) Bentley’s Quarterly Review (July 1859) The Saturday Review (26 February 1859) The London Quarterly Review (July 1861) Henry James, The Atlantic Monthly (October 1866) Appendix E: The Religious Background Methodism: From the Journals of John Wesley Women Preachers Saint Paul From John Wesley’s Letters (1761, 1769) From the Journal of Ann Gilbert, 1771 Sarah’s Crosby’s Experience, 1768 Elizabeth Evans and Mary Voce, 1802 Marriage for Women Preachers Contemporary Religious Thought From David Friederich Strauss, The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined (1835-36) From Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity (1841) From Charles Hennell, An Inquiry into the Origin of Christianity (1838) From Herbert Spencer, First Principles (1862) Eliot’s Religious Beliefs From a Letter to Maria Lewis, 18 August 1838 From a Letter to Her Father, 28 February 1842 From Eliot’s Review of Works by John Cumming, Westminster Review (October 1855) From a Letter to François d’Albert-Durade, 6 December 1859 From a Letter to Mme Eugène Bodichon (Barbara Leigh Smith), 26 December 1860 Select Bibliography and Further Reading
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Broadview Press Ltd The Vagabond
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1799, George Walker’s The Vagabond was an immediate popular success. Offering a vitriolic critique of post-Bastille Jacobinism and sansculotte-style mob rule, its true-to-life satirical portraits of many of the radical men and women who fought in the forefront of the “British Revolution” are nonetheless full of playful banter and farce. With swipes at Hume, Rousseau, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and Paine; the French Revolution; and the ideas of the noble savage, natural virtue, liberty, equality, and romantic primitivism, The Vagabond offers a unique cross-section of 1790s radicalism. This Broadview edition contains a critical introduction and a wide selection of primary source materials that situate the novel in the context of the revolutionary debate of the 1790s. Appendices include contemporary reviews of the novel and excerpts from the writings of a variety of radicals and reactionaries engaged in the debate, such as Hume, Rousseau, Paine, Thelwall, Wollstonecraft, Godwin, Burke, Playfair, Malthus, and Cobbett, among many others.Trade Review“The Vagabond is a vibrant counterrevolutionary polemic that illuminates a wide range of political controversy in the 1790s—the French Revolution crisis, domestic reform, transatlantic emigration, and the era's heated debates on human nature and its troubling propensity for violence. This accessible edition brings to life for modern readers the novel's turbulent political and philosophical contexts through its wide-ranging introduction and well-researched set of contemporary materials. Expertly edited and vividly presented through these contemporary contexts, The Vagabond is a must-read for those interested in the popular phenomenon of the conservative Romantic-period novel.” — Adriana Craciun, Birkbeck College, University of London“W.M. Verhoeven’s edition of George Walker’s The Vagabond is an essential text for scholars and readers of eighteenth-century and Romantic literature. Verhoeven’s erudite introduction and notes contextualize the anti-Jacobin novel, covering British history and culture from the Glorious Revolution through the Gordon Riots into the revolutionary and post-revolutionary nineties, and his appendices provide valuable material for an understanding of just what was at stake in the period.” — Carol Houlihan Flynn, Tufts UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextThe VagabondNotesA Note on the AppendicesAppendix A: Sources and Contexts: The Jacobin Side of the Revolutionary Debate From David Hume, “An Abstract of a Book Lately Published, Entitled A Treatise of Human Nature, &c.” (1740) From John James Rousseau [Jean-Jacques Rousseau], The Social Contract (1762) From Joseph Priestley, Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit (1777) From Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, Part One (1791) From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) From William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness(1793) From Gilbert Imlay, The Emigrants, &c.; or, The History of an Expatriated Family (1793) Writings on “Pantisocracy” From Samuel Coleridge, Collected Letters of Samuel Coleridge From a letter by Thomas Poole to Mr. Hoskins (1794) Two poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Pantistocracy” (1794) “On the Prospect of Establishing a Pantisocracy in America” (1794) From John Thelwall, “A Warning Voice to the Violent of All Parties” (1795) From William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798) From William Godwin, Thoughts occasioned by the perusal of Dr. Parr’s Spital Sermon (1801) Appendix B: Sources and Contexts: The Anti-Jacobin Side of the Revolutionary Debate From Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) From Anon., “Proceedings of the Friends to the Abuse of the Liberty of the Press” (1793) From William Playfair, Peace with the Jacobins Impossible (1794) From Peter Porcupine [William Cobbett], Observations on the Emigration of Dr. Joseph Priestley (1794) From Anon., Letters on Emigration. By a Gentleman, Lately Returned from America (1794) From Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) Appendix C: Contemporary Reviews Analytical Review (February 1799) From the Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine (February 1799) New London Review (April 1799) Critical Review (June 1799) Monthly Magazine (20 July 1799) Monthly Mirror (March 1800) British Critic (April 1800) From the British Critic (October 1800) Select Bibliography
£27.86
Broadview Press Ltd The Great Gatsby
Book Synopsis“The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each others’ names.”After the dizzying success of Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922, Fitzgerald submitted a very different work to his publishers two years later. Originally entitled Tremalchio, the novel was extensively revised at the galley stage, and emerged with a new title: The Great Gatsby. The novel sold poorly, however, and it was not until after Fitzgerald’s death in 1940 that The Great Gatsby began to be regarded as his greatest work—and by many as the great American novel.When Nick Carraway rents a cottage in an exclusive part of Long Island, he becomes curious about his neighbour in the mansion next door, where extravagant parties extend into the early hours. Jay Gatsby turns out to care little for partying, but is obsessed with winning back Daisy Buchanan, an early love who is now married and living just across the water.This Broadview edition provides a reliable text at a very reasonable price. It contains textual notes but no appendices or introduction.
£10.40
Broadview Press Ltd Nightmare Abbey
Book SynopsisThis 1818 novel is set in a former abbey whose owner, Christopher Glowry, is host to visitors who enjoy his hospitality and engage in endless debate. Among these guests are figures recognizable to Peacock’s contemporaries, including characters based on Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Mr. Glowry’s son Scythrop (also modeled on a famous Romantic, Peacock’s friend Percy Bysshe Shelley) locks himself up in a tower where he reads German tragedies and transcendental philosophy and develops a “passion for reforming the world.” Disappointed in love, a sorrowful Scythrop decides the only thing to do is to commit suicide, but circumstances persuade him to instead follow his father in a love of misanthropy and Madeira. In addition to satire and comic romance, Nightmare Abbey presents a biting critique of the texts we view as central to British romanticism.This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a range of illuminating contemporary documents on the novel’s reception and its German and British literary contexts. A selection of Peacock’s critical and autobiographical writings is also included.Trade Review“Though considered a light—even a slight—novel, Nightmare Abbey requires of its ideal reader extensive knowledge of the age that produced it: the literature, the politics, and, not least, the personalities associated with English Romanticism. Lisa Vargo succeeds admirably in bringing this rich background—masterfully synthesized in a critical introduction and amply documented in notes and appendices—to bear on the work for which its author is best known and which, as much as any other work of the period, engages English Romantic culture in all its numerous contradictory forms. Vargo has brought together the resources of recent Peacock scholarship and an invaluable archive of excerpted contemporary texts to produce an edition of Peacock’s most characteristic—and arguably his best—novel for a new generation of readers.” — James Mulvihill, University of Alberta“Published in the same year as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Thomas Love Peacock’s Nightmare Abbey is not just a burlesque of the Gothic novel, but a sustained critique of what he regarded as ‘the darkness and misanthropy of modern literature.’ His witty satire on ‘the spirit of the age’ can best be understood through an awareness of its complex intertextual relations with other works of Romantic literature. To help promote such awareness, Lisa Vargo’s new Broadview edition provides a thoughtful introduction, detailed explanatory notes, and an exceptionally rich array of contextual material drawn from contemporary reviews of the novel, translations of earlier German literature, relevant works by Godwin, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, and Hazlitt, and, perhaps equally important, Peacock’s own critical and autobiographical writings.” — Nicholas A. Joukovsky, Pennsylvania State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextThomas Love Peacock: A Brief ChronologyNightmare AbbeyAppendix A: The Reception of Nightmare Abbey The Monthly Review 90 (November 1819) The Literary Gazette 99 (12 December 1818) The Tickler 1.1 (1 December 1818) The European Magazine, and London Review 75 (March1819) From James Spedding, Edinburgh Review 68 (January1839) The Examiner (28 May 1837) Appendix B: German Literature From Karl Grosse, “The Marquis of Grosse” (1796) From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stella: A Play for Lovers (1774) From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) From Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff (1813) Appendix C: Literary Contexts From William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) From William Godwin, Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in England (1817) From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Statesman’s Manual (1816) From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (1817) Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” (1817) From Percy Bysshe Shelley, Author’s Preface to The Revolt of Islam (1818) From George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Corsair, A Tale (1814) From George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto the Fourth (1818) George Gordon, Lord Byron, Dedication to Don Juan (1833) From William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age (1825) Appendix D: Peacock’s Critical and Autobiographical Writings From “An Essay on Fashionable Literature” (1818) From “The Four Ages of Poetry” (1820) From “French Comic Romances” (1835) Preface to Volume 57 of Bentley’s Standard Novels (1837) “Recollections of Childhood: The Abbey House” (1837) From “Memoirs of Percy Bysshe Shelley” (1860) Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Blind Love
Book SynopsisBlind Love is Wilkie Collins’s final novel. Although he did not live to complete the work, he left detailed plans for the last third of this absorbingly plotted novel which were faithfully executed by his colleague, the popular author Walter Besant. The novel is set during the Irish Land War of the early 1880s and tells the story of Iris Henley, an independent young woman who marries the “wild” Lord Harry Norland, a member of an Irish secret society, and becomes unhappily drawn into a conspiracy plot.The Broadview edition of Blind Love includes a critical introduction and primary source materials that address the novel’s focus on movements for Irish independence. Appendices include newspaper accounts of Ireland during the Land War and of the fraud case on which Collins based his story, articles reacting to Collins’s sudden death, Punch cartoons depicting the English attitudes toward the Irish, and contemporary reviews.Trade Review“This edition of Collins’s Blind Love offers the best of modern scholarship—it is impossible to praise it too much. Professors Bachman and Cox add considerably to Broadview’s series of reasonably-priced fine scholarly editions.” — A.D. Hutter, UCLATable of ContentsAcknowledgementsHistorical Context: The Irish QuestionWilkie Collins’s Response to the Irish QuestionAnglo-Saxon vs. Celt: The Imperialist AgendaWilkie Collins and the “Woman Question”The Von Scheurer FraudBlind Love: The History and Evolution of the TextWilliam Wilkie Collins: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextBlind LoveAppendix A: Reaction to the Death of Wilkie Collins “Death of Mr.Wilkie Collins,” The Times, 24 September 1889 “The Late Mr.Wilkie Collins,” The Illustrated London News, 28 September 1889 “Obituary.Wilkie Collins,” The Academy, 28 September 1889 Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews of Collins’s Work Edmund Yates, “The Works of Wilkie Collins,” Temple Bar, August 1890 Meredith White Thompson,“Wilkie Collins,” The Spectator, 28 September 1889 George Cotterell, “New Novels,” The Academy, 15 March 1890 “Blind Love,” New York Tribune, 23 January 1890 Andrew Lang, “Mr. Wilkie Collins’s Novels,” Contemporary Review, January 1890 Harold Quilter, “In Memoriam Amici: Wilkie Collins,” The Universal Review, 5, 1889 Appendix C: Horace Pym’s Notes on the Von Scheurer CaseAppendix D: Newspaper Accounts of the Insurance Trial “The Scheurer Frauds,” The Times, 25 April 1888 “France,” The Times, 26 April 1888 “France,” The Times, 27 April 1888 Appendix E: The Prologue to “Iris,” Manuscript “C,” 1887Appendix F: Excerpts from Collins’s Plans for Blind Love: The Synopsis The Cast of Characters The Synopsis Appendix G: The Irish Question Accounts from The Times, 1882 The Irish as Depicted in Punch, 1866, 1881, 1882 Appendix H: The Duties of the Lady’s MaidSelect Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Adeline Mowbray: Or The Mother and Daughter
Book SynopsisWhen Adeline Mowbray puts her mother Editha’s radical theories into practice by eloping with, but not marrying, a notorious writer, the mother and daughter are estranged for many years, but finally reconciled. As its subtitle suggests, Adeline Mowbray, or The Mother and Daughter begins and ends with their story, but its complex plot encompasses almost every other human relationship. This engaging novel explores many issues important in the Romantic period, from women’s education to the ethics of slavery and colonialism.This Broadview Edition uses the first edition of 1805 as its copy text, but also includes important variants from the 1810 and 1844 editions. The appendices include contemporary reviews and material expanding on the novel’s themes of women’s education, marriage, slavery, and the tension between feeling and reason.Trade Review“Anne McWhir’s new edition of Amelia Opie’s Adeline Mowbray deftly positions the text in its larger cultural and global context. It also pays notable attention to the author’s revisions of the text over the course of the nineteenth century, thus leading us to consider the ways in which conventions associated with the Victorian novel evolve out of Romantic-era fiction.” — Roxanne Eberle, University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionAmelia Alderson Opie: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextAdeline Mowbray, or The Mother and Daughter; A TaleTextual VariantsAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews Critical Review (1805) Annual Review (1805) Literary Journal (1805) Monthly Review (1806) European Magazine (1805) Appendix B: On Education From John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) From Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799) Appendix C: On DuellingFrom William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness (1798)Appendix D: On Marriage and Divorce From An Act for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriages (1753) From Anon., Letters on Love, Marriage, and Adultery (1789) From William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness (1798) From Mary Wollstonecraft, The Wrongs of Woman: or, Maria. A Fragment (1798) Appendix E: On Godwin and Wollstonecraft From William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1798) From Robert Bisset, et al., The Historical, Biographical, Literary, and Scientific Magazine.… for … 1799 Appendix F: On Mothers and Daughters From Amelia Opie, Poems by Mrs. Opie (1802) From Lays for the Dead (1834) Appendix G: On Slavery and Jamaica From the Mansfield Decision (22 June 1772) From J. Stewart, A View of the Past and Present State of the Island of Jamaica (1823) Appendix H: On ReligionFrom Joseph Gurney Bevan, A Refutation of Some of the More Modern Misrepresentations of the Society of Friends, Commonly Called Quakers (1800)Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret
Book SynopsisSusanna Centlivre’s play The Wonder (1714) was one of the most popular works on the eighteenth-century English stage. Set in Lisbon, the plot interweaves two romantic intrigues around one “secret”: the heroine Violante is hiding her best friend, Isabella (who is the sister of her own lover, Don Felix) from Isabella’s father who wishes to marry her off to a rich but decrepit old merchant. Because she is sworn to secrecy, Violante cannot reveal Isabella’s whereabouts, nor can she explain to Felix why Isabella’s new lover, a dashing British soldier, happens to be about the house, prompting Felix’s intense jealousy. Centlivre’s critique on the tyrannical patriarchs in the world of the play is at the same time a veiled critique of similar conditions in Augustan-era Britain.This Broadview edition includes contemporary responses (by Richard Steele and Arthur Bedford), biographical accounts, selections of Centlivre’s poetry, and early nineteenth-century criticism (by Elizabeth Inchbald and William Hazlitt).Trade Review“John O’Brien’s excellent edition of The Wonder makes accessible one of the most performed plays of the eighteenth century and reminds us why Susanna Centlivre was one of the most successful playwrights of her age—male or female.” — Lisa A. Freeman, University of Illinois at ChicagoTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSusanna Centlivre: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe WonderTextual NotesAppendix A: Contemporary Responses to Centlivre and The Wonder Richard Steele, The Tatler Richard Steele, The Lover Arthur Bedford, A Serious Remonstrance in Behalf of the Christian Religion Appendix B: Eighteenth-Century Biographical Accounts Giles Jacob, The Poetical Register Abel Boyer, The Political State of Great Britain John Mottley [?], “A Complete List of all the English Dramatic Poets” William Chetwood, The British Theatre Appendix C: Selections from Centlivre’s Poetry “A Poem, Humbly Presented to His most Sacred Majesty George, King Of Great Britain, France, and Ireland. Upon his Accession to the Throne” “A Woman’s Case” Appendix D: Early Nineteenth-Century Criticism Elizabeth Inchbald, “Remarks” on The Wonder, The British Theatre William Hazlitt, The Examiner William Hazlitt, “On the Comic Writers of the Last Century” Works Cited and Recommended Reading
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Broadview Press Ltd The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Book SynopsisAnne Brontë's second and last novel was widely and contentiously reviewed upon its 1848 publication, in part because its subject matter domestic violence, alcoholism, women's rights, and universal salvation was so controversial. The tale unfolds through a series of letters between two friends as one man learns more about Helen Huntingdon and the past that brought this young painter and single mother to Wildfell Hall. Powerfully plotted and unconventionally structured, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is now considered to be a classic of Victorian literature.This Broadview Edition includes a critical introduction that situates the novel in significant Victorian debates, and provides appendices that make clear Brontë's intellectual inheritance from important eighteenth-century writers such as Hannah More and Mary Wollstonecraft. Material on temperance, education, childrearing, and nineteenth-century women artists is also included in the appendices.Trade Review“I will always order Lee A. Talley’s Broadview edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which I teach nearly every year. The historical and scholarly contexts are beautifully summarized. This is an eminently useful edition. Well done again, Broadview!” — Deborah Denenholz Morse, The College of William and Mary“This Broadview Edition is a rich resource, unrivaled in its range of contextual materials. When you read them, you see where Anne Brontë was coming from and why she felt compelled to ‘tell the truth’ as she saw it. Lee A. Talley’s clear, accessible introduction orients readers to issues that teachers will want to consider and that students and general readers will find eye-opening. The footnotes are useful and easy to access. I will always order this edition in the future.” — Sue Lonoff, Harvard University Extension School“Lee A. Talley, in the introduction to her new edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, succinctly argues Anne Brontë’s case for wanting to write and publish her disturbing but powerful story, even as she addresses Anne’s own status as third sister, explains early publishing confusion (including Charlotte’s pervasive influence on Anne’s reputation), and evaluates the novel’s first reviews. To allow readers their own judgments, Talley includes numerous helpful appendices placing Tenant within the legal, educational, and philosophical contexts of Victorian culture, and as with other Broadview texts, provides an extremely useful sampling of contemporary reviews.” — Andrea Westcott, Capilano UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionAnne Brontë: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Tenant of Wildfell HallAppendix A: Other Writings by Anne and Charlotte Brontë Anne Brontë, Letter to the Reverend David Thom (30 December 1848) Anne Brontë, “To Cowper” (1846) Anne Brontë, “A Word to the ‘Elect’” (1846) From Charlotte Brontë, “Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell” (1850) Charlotte Brontë, Introduction to “Poems by Acton Bell” (1850) Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews Athenaeum (8 July 1848) The Examiner (29 July 1848) Fraser’s Magazine (April 1849) The Literary World (12 August 1848) North American Review (October 1848) Rambler (September 1848) Sharpe’s London Magazine (August 1848) The Spectator (8 July 1848) Appendix C: Women’s Education From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) From Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799) From Sarah Lewis, Woman’s Mission (1840) John Cowie, “Noble Sentiments on the Influence of Women,” Howitt’s Journal (March 1847) Appendix D: Wives From Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1808) From Caroline Norton, A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth’s Marriage and Divorce Bill (1855) Appendix E: Childrearing From Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799) From John S.C. Abbott, The Mother at Home (1833) From John S.C. Abbott, The Child at Home (1834) From Sarah Lewis, Woman’s Mission (1840) From Berthold Auerbach, “Every–day Wisdom, Plucked from the Garden of Childhood,” Howitt’s Journal (January 1848) From Anonymous, “The Moral Discipline of Children,” British Quarterly Review (April 1858) Appendix F: Temperance From Joseph Entwisle, “On Drinking Spirits,” The Methodist Magazine (July 1804) J.P. Parker, Lecture on Temperance and Slavery, Howitt’s Journal (24 April 1847) From Anonymous, “Temperance and Teetotal Societies,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (April 1853) Thomas Buchanan Read, “What a Word May Do” (1868) Appendix G: Women and Art Anonymous, “Let Us Join the Ladies,” Punch (July 1857) From Ellen C. Clayton, English Female Artists (1876) Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd The Woman Who Did
Book SynopsisThe controversial subject matter of Grant Allen’s novel, The Woman Who Did, made it a major bestseller in 1895. It tells the story of Herminia Barton, a university-educated New Woman who, because of her belief that marriage oppresses women, refuses to marry her lover even though she shares his bed and bears his child. Her ideals come into disastrous conflict with intensely patriarchal late Victorian England. Indeed, Allen intended his novel to shock readers into a serious exploration of some of the major issues in fin de siècle sexual politics, issues that he himself, in various periodical articles under the rubric of the “Woman Question”, had played a leading role in opening up to public debate.This Broadview edition contains a critical introduction as well as a rich selection of appendices which include excerpts from Allen’s writings on women, sex, and marriage; contemporary writings on the “Sex Problem”; documents pertaining to the Marriage Debate; contemporary responses to the novel; and excerpts from two parodies of the novel.Trade Review“Ruddick’s new edition of The Woman Who Did makes a wonderful addition to Broadview’s growing list of key fin de siècle texts. Placing Grant Allen’s polemical short novel in the context both of his career as a public intellectual and of ongoing debates about sex, marriage, gender, and eugenics, the introduction and selected primary sources help explain the stakes behind the uproar that surrounded the novel’s publication. The supplementary material on marriage debates of the 1880s and 1890s, as well as the selections from initial reviews of the novel, are particularly helpful in this regard. A splendid resource for those interested in the Victorian fin de siècle, and the nineteenth-century Woman Question.” — Kathy Alexis Psomiades, Duke University“This meticulously edited reprint of Grant Allen’s notorious 1895 novel is an important and very welcome addition to Broadview Press’s increasingly rich library of once-popular eighteenth- and nineteenth-century texts by women that have, for many years now, languished in archives accessible only to scholars. Nicholas Ruddick’s thoughtful introduction and the appendices—which include contemporary reviews, source materials, excerpts from the Marriage Debate, 1888-1895, and key non-fiction prose writings by Grant Allen—will be invaluable resources.” — Ann L. Ardis, University of DelawareTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionGrant Allen: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Woman Who DidAppendix A: Grant Allen on Women, Sex, and Marriage From “Woman’s Place in Nature” (1889) From “Plain Words on the Woman Question” (1889) From “The Girl of the Future” (1890) From “The New Hedonism” (1894) From “About the New Hedonism” (1894) From “Introduction” to The British Barbarians (1895) Appendix B: Sources of Allen’s Views on the “Sex Problem” Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Notes to Queen Mab (1813) John Stuart Mill, from The Subjection of Women (1878) Herbert Spencer, from The Principles of Sociology (1885) August Bebel, from Woman in the Past, Present, and Future (1885) Eleanor Marx Aveling and Edward Aveling, from “The Woman Question” (1886) Karl Pearson, from “Socialism and Sex” (1888) Olive Schreiner, from “Three Dreams in a Desert” (1894) Appendix C: The Marriage Debate 1888-1895 Mona Caird, from “Marriage” (1888) Elizabeth Rachel Chapman, from “Marriage Rejection and Marriage Reform” (1888) Harry Quilter, ed., from Is Marriage a Failure? (1888) Mona Caird, from “Ideal Marriage” (1888) Clementina Black, from “On Marriage: A Criticism” (1890) Edward Carpenter, from Marriage in Free Society (1894) Beswicke Ancrum, from “The Sexual Problem” (1894) E.M.S., from “Some Modern Ideas about Marriage” (1895) Appendix D: The Reception of The Woman Who Did H[arold] F[rederic], from the New York Times (3 and 17 February 1895) [W.T. Stead], from Review of Reviews (February 1895) a. Percy Addleshaw, from Academy (2 March 1895) b. Grant Allen, from letter to Academy (9 March 1895) a. [H.G. Wells], from Saturday Review (9 March 1895) b. Grant Allen, from letter to Saturday Review (16 March 1895) From Spectator (30 March 1895) From Humanitarian (March 1895) Millicent Garrett Fawcett, from Contemporary Review (May 1895) Sarah A. Tooley, from Humanitarian (March 1896) Richard Le Gallienne, from Retrospective Reviews (1896) Appendix E: Two Parodies W.L. Alden, from Idler (February–July 1895) From Punch (30 March 1895) Works Cited and Recommended Reading
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Broadview Press Ltd Moths
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1880, Moths addresses such Victorian taboos as adultery, domestic violence, and divorce in vivid and flamboyant prose. The beautiful young heroine, Vere Herbert, suffers at the hands of both her tyrannical mother and her dissipated husband, and is finally united with her beloved, a famous opera singer. Moths was Ouida’s most popular work, and its melodramatic plot, glamorous European settings, and controversial treatment of marriage make it an important, as well as a highly entertaining, example of the nineteenth-century “high society” novel.This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a broad range of contextual documents, including contemporary reactions to Ouida’s fiction and a selection of nineteenth-century writings on marriage, feminism, and the aristocracy.Trade Review“This impressive edition of Ouida’s Moths brings a little-known novel by one of Victorian England’s most eccentric novelists to the attention of twenty-first-century readers. Natalie Schroeder’s helpful introduction situates the author and her work in their historical and cultural moment, while the appendices offer a rich selection of supplementary material. Most fascinating are the accompanying texts that document Victorian views of divorce and the ‘marriage market,’ a debate in which Ouida herself participated in paradoxical and controversial ways in both her fictional and journalistic writing. An excellent edition that is up to Broadview’s usual high standards.” ― Lynn Voskuil, University of Houston“Eccentric, extravagant, an incurable fantasist and lifelong dog-lover, Ouida was one of the most popular romantic novelists of the late Victorian age. Credited (perhaps wrongly) with naming the New Woman, Ouida produced numerous novels that show unconventional heroines struggling with convention in high society and exotic settings. This new edition of Moths provides an excellent introduction for the general reader, while its scholarly material on historical and social background, contemporary responses, and biographical detail provides an invaluable resource for specialists.” ― Gail Cunningham, Kingston UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionOuida: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextMothsAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews of Moths The Athenæum 7 (February 1880) The Saturday Review49 (28 February 1880) The Westminster Review 113 (April 1880) The North American Review 285 ( July 1880) Appendix B: The Novels of Society From Vincent E.H. Murray, “Ouida’s Novels,” The Contemporary Review 22 (1878) From “Contemporary Literature,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 125 (March 1879) From Harriet Waters Preston,“Ouida,” The Atlantic Monthly 58 (1886) From [Oscar Wilde],“Ouida’s New Novel,” Pall Mall Gazette (May 1889) From Ouida,“The Sins of Society,” Views and Opinions (1895) Appendix C: Contemporary Responses to Ouida From Ella, “Ouida,” The Victoria Magazine 28 (March 1877) From “The ‘Whitehall’ Portraits. XCVIII.—Ouida,” The Whitehall Review (5 October 1878) From Marie Corelli,“A Word about ‘Ouida,’” Belgravia 71 (March 1890) From G.S. Street,“An Appreciation of Ouida,” The Yellow Book 6 ( July 1895) From Willa Cather,“The Passing Show,” The Courier (23 November 1895) From Max Beerbohm,“Ouida,” More (1899) Obituary, The Times (27 January 1908) Appendix D: Marriage and Divorce in the Nineteenth Century Ouida on The Marriage Market and her “Philosophy of Marriage” From Granville de Vigne (1863) From Princess Napraxine (1884) From Guilderoy (1889) From George H. Lewis, “Marriage and Divorce,” The Fortnightly Review 37 (1885) From Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1854) Reports of Divorce Cases, 1884 Cranfield v. Cranfield, The Times, 4 April 1884 Wilson v. Wilson, Grille, and Morley, The Times, 10 May 1884 Stent v. Stent and Low, The Times, 19 June 1884 From Mona Caird, “Marriage,” The Westminster Review (August 1888) From Marie Corelli, “The Modern Marriage Market,” The Lady’s Realm (April 1897) Appendix E: Ouida and the New Woman Debate From Eliza Lynn Lynton,“The Shrieking Sisterhood,” The Saturday Review (12 March 1870) From Sarah Grand,“The New Aspect of the Woman Question,” The North American Review 158 (March 1894) From Ouida,“The New Woman,” The North American Review 158 (May 1894) From Mrs. M. Eastwood,“The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact,” The Humanitarian 5 (1894) From Ouida,“Female Suffrage,” Views and Opinions (1895) From Mrs. Morgan-Dockrell, “Is the New Woman a Myth?” The Humanitarian 8 (1896) Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Fantomina and Other Works
Book SynopsisThis collection of early works by Eliza Haywood includes the well-known novella Fantomina (1725) along with three other short, highly engaging Haywood works: The Tea-Table (1725), Reflections on the Various Effects of Love (1726), and Love-Letters on All Occasions (1730). In these writings, Haywood arouses the vicarious experience of erotic love while exploring the ethical and social issues evoked by sexual passion.This Broadview edition includes an introduction that focuses on Haywood’s life and career and on the status of prose fiction in the early eighteenth century. Also included are appendices of contextual materials from the period comprising writings by Haywood on female conduct, eighteenth-century pornography (from Venus in the Cloister), and a source text (Nahum Tate’s A Present for the Ladies).Trade Review“Fantomina and Other Works is a valuable addition to the impressive range of Haywood texts published by Broadview Press and a welcome contribution to Haywood scholarship. The introduction and annotation to this edition are admirably adapted to help the reader understand the texts in all their richness and complexity. Fantomina itself is a delightfully outrageous and subversive novel, intriguing in its moral ambiguity, and unforgettable for its ingenious and determined heroine. It is by far the most enjoyable introduction to Haywood and the eighteenth-century novel that one could hope for.” — Patrick Spedding, Monash UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionEliza Haywood: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextsFantomina: or, Love in a MazeThe Tea-Table: or, A Conversation between Some Polite Persons of Both SexesReflections on the Various Effects of LoveLove-Letters on All OccasionsAppendix A: Haywood on Female Conduct A Present for a Servant-Maid (1743) The Female Spectator (1744-46) Appendix B: Eighteenth-Century Pornography: Jean Barrin(?), Venus in the Cloister; or, The Nun in Her Smock (1724)Appendix C: A Source for Reflections on the Various Effects of Love: Nahum Tate, A Present for the Ladies: Being an Historical Account of Several Illustrious Persons of the Female Sex (1692)Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Wuthering Heights
Book SynopsisOver a hundred and fifty years after its initial publication, Emily Brontë’s turbulent portrayal of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, two northern English households nearly destroyed by violent passions in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, continues to provoke and fascinate readers. Heathcliff remains one of the best-known characters in the English novel, and Catherine Earnshaw’s impossible choice between two rivals retains its appeal for contemporary readers. At the same time, the novel’s highly ambivalent representations of domesticity, its famous reticence about its characters and their actions, its formal features as a story within a story, and the mystery of Heathcliff’s origins and identity provide material for classroom discussion at every level of study.The introduction and appendices to this Broadview edition, which place Brontë’s life and novel in the context of the developing “Brontë myth,” explore the impact of industrialization on the people of Yorkshire, consider the novel’s representation of gender, and survey the ways contemporary scholarship has sought to account for Heathcliff, open up multiple contexts within which Wuthering Heights can be read, understood, and enjoyed.Trade Review“This Broadview edition of Wuthering Heights is ideal for understanding the novel. Beth Newman has written an incisive introduction, intelligently edited the text, and provided a wonderful set of contemporary documents that provide multiple valuable ways of contextualizing Brontë’s powerful narrative.” — James Phelan, Ohio State University“Broadview Press’s edition of Wuthering Heights, edited by Beth Newman, is a critically current and versatile text that includes solid primary materials and a strong introduction. Newman’s stated aim is to provide a broad contextual understanding of contemporary critical approaches, and the finished product fulfills this objective. The primary material accompanying the text accomplishes two very important goals—rooting the text in important known textual materials, such as Brontë’s poems, Belgian devoirs, and critical reviews contemporary to the text, as well as drawing attention to new historical materials, such as an essay ‘On Brain Fever,’ which illuminates Catherine’s medical treatment. In short, the edition is entirely usable and an excellent choice for the classroom or the general reader.” — Terri A. Hasseler, Bryant UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionEmily Brontë: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextWuthering HeightsAppendix A: A Selection of Emily Brontë’s Essays and Poems [“The Cat”] [“Portrait: King Harold before the Battle of Hastings”] [“The Butterfly”] Poems “Faith and Despondency” “Stars” “The Philosopher” “Remembrance” “Song” “Anticipation” “To A.G.A.” [“No Coward Soul”] Appendix B: Some Literary Influences From George Gordon, Lord Byron, Manfred (1817) From Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) Appendix C: Currer Bell’s [Charlotte Brontë’s] Prefatory Essays for the 1850 Edition of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell Editor’s Preface to the New Edition of Wuthering Heights Appendix D: Contemporary Responses to the Novel The Spectator (December 1847) The Athenaeum (25 December 1847) Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine (1848) Douglas Jerrold’s Weekly Newspaper (15 January 1848) The Examiner (8 January 1848) The Britannia (15 January 1848) The Atlas (22 January 1848) Peterson’s Magazine (June 1848) The American Review (June 1848) The Palladium (September 1850) The Examiner (21 December 1850) The Leader (28 December 1850) Appendix E: On Geographical Remoteness and Cultural Difference From William Howitt, The Rural Life of England (1838) From Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) William Wordsworth, “Gipsies” (1807) Appendix F: On “Brain Fever”Appendix G:Women in MarriageAppendix H: MapsAppendix I: Genealogical Table of the Earnshaw and Linton FamiliesWorks Cited and Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Trilby
Book SynopsisDu Maurier’s Trilby was the novel sensation of the 1890s. Du Maurier had spent a good deal of his life as a child and later as an art student in Paris; when he turned from his career in journalism and magazine illustration to novel writing he found enormous success with a novel divided as his own life had been between Paris and London. Billee, an English artist living the Bohemian life abroad, meets and falls in love with Trilby, a Parisian model. Differences in social class doom their romance, but Trilby, taught by the mysterious hypnotist Svengali to sing like “some enchanted princess” becomes a famous entertainer. As it turns out, however, her talent and her possession of her own mind have become dependent on Svengali maintaining his spell over her. Originally serialized in Harper’s Monthly in 1894, Trilby was published with 120 illustrations by the author (who was also a celebrated caricaturist for Punch). All 120 illustrations were included in the Harper and Brothers New York edition of 1894, and in a British edition published the following year in London. The first British publication in book form, however, (by Osgood & McIlvaine in 1894) did not include any of Du Maurier’s illustrations, and many editions since that time have included no illustrations or reproduced only a selection of the illustrations. Particularly given that many of the illustrations are integrated into the page of text in which they appear, Trilby is ideally suited to be made available again in a facsimile reprint.In its first year of publication, the book sold over 200,000 copies, and before long it had also been adapted for the stage. The name “Svengali” came to be applied to any hypnotist and the image of Svengali carved a lasting place in the popular imagination. Perhaps the most important expression of 1890s Bohemianism, Trilby has also attracted interest in recent years on account of its presentation of hypnosis and split personality, and for the conflicted but often anti-Semitic presentation of the mysterious Svengali.This is one of a series from Broadview Press of facsimile reprint editions—editions that provide readers with a direct sense of these works as the Victorians themselves experienced them.
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Broadview Press Ltd Hamel, the Obeah Man
Book SynopsisHamel, the Obeah Man is set against the backdrop of early nineteenth-century Jamaica, and tells the story of a slave rebellion planned in the ruins of a plantation. Though the novel is sympathetic to white slaveholders and hostile to anti-slavery missionaries, it presents a complex picture of the culture and resistance of the island’s black majority. Hamel, the spiritual leader of the rebels, becomes more and more central to the story, and is a surprisingly powerful and ultimately ambiguous figure.This Broadview Edition includes a new foreword by Kamau Brathwaite, as well as a critical introduction and appendices. The extensive appendices include contemporary reviews of the novel, other authors’ and travellers’ descriptions of Jamaica, and historical documents related to slave insurrections and the debate over slavery.Trade Review“This edition of Cynric Williams’s startling if little-appreciated novel will prove indispensable to scholars and students interested in the dynamic among history, the novel, and the potent set of circumstances that led to Emancipation. In Hamel one finds a precocious account of how Afro-Creole religious and political traditions and their peripatetic leaders were remaking the violent world on which Caribbean slaveholders and their defenders were losing hold—a point expertly made in the editors’ introduction and supported by comprehensive appendices that include contemporary reviews of the novel and competing fictive and nonfiction accounts of Caribbean slavery.” — Sean X. Goudie, Pennsylvania State University“Candace Ward and Tim Watson have produced what is probably the definitive scholarly edition of Cynric Williams’s Hamel, the Obeah Man. Their introduction is a magisterial synthesis of archival research and textual analysis that contextualizes the novel’s themes and plot within the conjunctural specifics of white West Indian Creole racial anxieties in the face of slave revolts and abolitionist agitation in 1820s Jamaica. In producing this edition of Hamel, Ward and Watson do an impressive job in shifting the temporal boundaries of Anglophone Caribbean literature from its assumed twentieth-century origins, and Caribbeanists of all stripes will be grateful for their intellectual labor.” — Nadi Edwards, University of the West Indies, Mona, JamaicaTable of ContentsForewardAcknowledgementsIntroductionChronologyA Note on the TextAbbreviationsHamel, the Obeah ManAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews From Westminster Review (April 1827) From London Magazine (June 1827) From The Atlas (8 April 1827) From The Scotsman (21 April 1827) Appendix B: British and White Creole Views of Jamaica From Matthew Lewis, Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) From Cynric R. Williams, A Tour through the Island of Jamaica (1826) From Marly; or, A Planter’s Life in Jamaica (1828) Appendix C: Insurrections From Joshua Bryant, Account of an Insurrection of the Negro Slaves in the Colony of Demerara (1824) From The Missionary Smith (1824) From Great Britain, Parliamentary Papers, “Copy of All Judicial Proceedings Relative to the Trial and Punishment of Rebels, or Alleged Rebels, in the Island of Jamaica, Since the 1st of January 1823” (1825) Appendix D: The Debate Over Slavery From Report of the Committee of the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions (1824) From William Wilberforce, An Appeal to the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire (1823) From George Wilson Bridges, A Voice from Jamaica (1823) From James M’Queen, The West India Colonies (1824) Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd The History of Sandford and Merton
Book SynopsisAmong the earliest novels written about children, for children, The History of Sandford and Merton was enormously popular for a century and a half after its first publication in 1783-9. The novel is Enlightenment for beginners, offering a course of education in class, race, and gender to its six year-old protagonists, the robust farm-boy Harry Sandford and Tommy Merton, the spoiled boy from the big house. Sandford and Merton offers entertaining and practical lessons in manners, masculinity, and class politics.This Broadview Edition includes the original illustrations, along with contemporary reviews and other material on childhood by John Locke, Thomas Day, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and others.Trade ReviewThomas Day's The History of Sandford and Merton, one of the most interesting pioneering books in the history of children's literature, has long been out of print and in need of a modern critical edition. This new edition of Sandford and Merton – with an illuminating introduction that locates the novel in its intellectual, cultural, and political contexts, indispensable footnotes, and a useful selection of contextual material in the appendices – is exactly what was wanted. I’ll now have to redesign my Children's Literature course.”" - Tom Furniss, University of Strathclyde"The History of Sandford and Merton is a key text in the history of children's literature, education theory, the British novel, Enlightenment philosophy, and the culture of sensibility. This thoughtful, carefully researched, and accessible edition provides a much needed – and long missed – opportunity for reading and teaching in all of these areas. The story of two boys' moral education, and especially of Tommy Merton's transformation from spoiled child of luxury to vigorous, sensitive, and truly gentle man, is one that speaks to ongoing debates about class, education, cruelty, and moral character." - Laura Stevens, University of TulsaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionThomas Day: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe History of Sandford and MertonAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews From The English Review (November 1783) From The Analytical Review(September–December 1789) Appendix B: From John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1752) Health, the Body, and Gender Rules and Practice Pain and Punishment Skills and Recreation Appendix C: From Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile (1763) Books. From Book II Magnetism. From Book III Astronomy. From Book III Books. From Book III Female Education. From Book V Appendix D: From Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1820) Meeting with Day Edgeworth and Day Travel to Ireland Together The Experiment with the Girls Day’s Letter to Edgeworth from Avignon, 1769 Sabrina and Honora Day’s Death Appendix E: Thomas Day and John Bicknell,The Dying Negro (1793)Appendix F: From Thomas Day, Fragment of an Original Letteron the Slavery of the Negroes (1784)Select Bibliography
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