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and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature.This Broadview edition contains a selection of historical documents that include Hawthorne's writings on Puritanism, the historical sources of the story, and contemporary reviews of the novel.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

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

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisRamona has often been compared to Uncle Tom’s Cabin for its influence on American social policy, and this is the only edition available that presents this important novel in its full historical context. A huge popular and critical success when it was first published in 1884, Ramona is set among the California Spanish missions and tells the story of the young mixed-blood heroine, Ramona, and her Native American lover Alessandro, as they flee from the brutal violence of white settlers.This Broadview edition re-examines the novel’s legacy by placing it alongside public speeches, letters, and newspaper articles that promoted what was ultimately a damaging campaign by reformers to “assimilate” Native American peoples. Selections from Jackson’s non-fiction writings call into question the link between assimilationist policies and the story told in Ramona; also included are the writings and testimonies of some of Jackson’s Native American contemporaries, as well as a selection of travel essays and images that helped to create “the Ramona myth.”Trade Review“Siobhan Senier’s invaluable new edition effectively situates Ramona in its cultural, political, and historical contexts. The appendices assemble a riveting collection of documents, including texts on public opinion surrounding allotment and on women’s roles in Indian reform. Particularly valuable, the section on contemporary Native American voices restores historically silenced perspectives on the allotment and assimilation debates. The lucid, thoughtful introduction and the group of images related to the novel further enhance our ability to appreciate Jackson’s classic novel. Absorbing and challenging, Senier’s edition sets the standard.” ― Karen L. Kilcup, University of North Carolina“In this new edition, Siobhan Senier insightfully reads Ramona in its many modes: a vehicle to advocate for Indian rights; a reinscription, however strategic, of the most common stereotypes of Native peoples; a record of one activist who was wholly consumed with ‘the Indian question’; and a ‘sugar-coated’ narrative of the Mission era in Alta California. Senier deftly sets the stage for readers to grasp the myriad voices echoing in Ramona through her appendices of contemporary works by tribal and non-tribal authors of the time, reflecting current trends in Native American literary studies that seek to engage indigenous perspectives. With these materials in hand, readers are better poised than ever to comprehend the complexity and longevity of the legend of Ramona.” ― Penelope Kelsey, Western Illinois University“Siobhan Senier’s edition of Ramona finally gives this important American novel the critical attention that it deserves. Not only does Senier’s graceful introduction situate Ramona in relation to Jackson’s own activism on behalf of American Indian peoples and to the contentious historical climate of the late nineteenth-century, the included appendices provide ample context for multiple understandings of the novel and its historical moment. I could as easily teach this edition of Ramona in an American Indian rhetoric studies course as well as in a literature course. I am particularly impressed by how this serious scholarly contextualization works in relation to Senier’s equally serious consideration of the ‘Ramona myth’ and how that myth plays out in contemporary Californian culture.” ― Malea Powell, Michigan State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsForeward (by Phil Brigandi)IntroductionHelen Hunt Jackson: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextRamonaAppendix A: Public Opinion on Allotment and Assimilation From Massachusetts Senator Henry L. Dawes, “Solving the Indian Problem” (1883) From Richard Henry Pratt, “The Advantages of Mingling Indians with Whites” (1892) From United States Congress, Committee on Indian Affairs, Minority Report on Land in Severalty Bill (1880) “In the Way,” New York Times (24 December 1879) “The Indian Severalty Law,” New York Times (27 May 1887) Appendix B: Selected Indian Non-Fiction by Helen Hunt Jackson Letter to the Editor, New York Tribune (23 December 1879) Letter to the Editor, New York Tribune (26 December 1879) Letter to the Editor, New York Tribune (31 January 1879) From the Report on the Condition and Needs of the Mission Indians of California (1883) Appendix C: Women in Indian Reform Alice Cunningham Fletcher, letter to Harriet Hawley (6 January 1884) From The Women’s National Indian Association, Sunshine Work (1894) From Anna R. Dawson (Arikara), Report from the Fort Berthold Reservation (1900) Appendix D: Contemporary Native American Voices From Thomas Wildcat Alford, Civilization and the Story of the Absentee Shawnees (1936) Francis LaFlesche (Omaha), “An Indian Allotment” (1900) From Suzette LaFlesche (Omaha), Preface to William Justin Harsha, Ploughed Under (1881) From S. Alice Callahan (Muscogee), Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1891) Pleasant Porter (Muscogee), “What Is Best for the Indian” (1902) From Zitkala-Sa (Dakota), “Lost Treaties of the California Indians” (1922) From Alfred C. Gillis (Wintun), “The California Indians” (1924) Lone Wolf (Kiowa) et al.,Testimony before the Jerome Commission (1899) Appendix E: Contemporary Reviews of and Responses to Ramona From The Los Angeles Times (13 January 1885) From The Nation (29 January 1885) From Elaine Goodale, The Southern Workman (February 1885) From Elizabeth B. Custer, The Boston Evening Transcript (14 May 1887) José Martí, “‘Ramona’ de Helen Hunt Jackson” (1887) From George Wharton James, Through Ramona’s Country (1909) Appendix F: A Portfolio of Ramona Cultural Images Map of Ramona’s Homeland Rancho Camulos, South Veranda The Altar at Rancho Camulos Mission San Luis Rey (1910) Mission Capistrano (1915) Henry Sandham, illustration of Ramona Henry Sandham, illustration of Alessandro’s Murder Ramona Lubo at her Husband’s Grave Ramona Lubo at George Wharton James’s Graphophone 1908 Meeting of the Mission Indian Conference Ramona’s Marriage Place (1920s) The Ramona Pageant (c. 1930) Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisThe Great Gatsby is widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of American fiction. It tells of the mysterious Jay Gatsby's grand effort to win the love of Daisy Buchanan, the rich girl who embodies for him the promise of the American dream. Deeply romantic in its concern with self-making, ideal love, and the power of illusion, it draws on modernist techniques to capture the spirit of the materialistic, morally adrift, post-war era Fitzgerald dubbed "the jazz age." Gatsby’s aspirations remain inseparable from the rhythms and possibilities suggested by modern consumer culture, popular song, the movies; his obstacles inseparable from contemporary American anxieties about social mobility, racial mongrelization, and the fate of Western civilization.This Broadview edition sets the novel in context by providing readers with a critical introduction and crucial background material about the consumer culture in which Fitzgerald was immersed; about the spirit of the jazz age; and about racial discourse in the 1920s.Trade Review“Canadian readers are indeed fortunate to have Michael Nowlin’s extremely useful edition of The Great Gatsby. Nowlin provides a wealth of ancillary materials that enhance our understanding and appreciation of Fitzgerald’s masterpiece: a selection of Fitzgerald’s correspondence about Gatsby; eight advertisements that graphically demonstrate the commodity culture underlying the novel; and, perhaps most worthwhile of all, a selection of contemporary essays that supply an invaluable contextual framework for Gatsby. Throughout, Nowlin’s emphasis is on the quality, not quantity of these materials; the result is a book that will be indispensable to students, teachers, and the casual reader alike.” — Jackson R. Bryer, University of Maryland“This edition of The Great Gatsby confirms what Fitzgerald Society members have long believed: Michael Nowlin is a leader in the emerging generation of Fitzgerald scholars. His introduction here charts the intensely personal journey through love, loss, and ambition that Fitzgerald traveled in order to realize his masterpiece; Nowlin’s appendices, meanwhile, provide secondary sources for appreciating the chaotic energies of youth, race, and cultural change compelling the novel’s inexorable tragedy. Whether excerpting Fitzgerald’s mid-1920s correspondence, contemporary reviews, or nonfiction gems of the day—including Zelda Fitzgerald’s insightful ‘What Became of the Flappers?’ (1925)—Nowlin dramatizes how thoroughly Jay Gatsby’s creator intuited the sadness and uncertainty beneath the glitz and gild of modernity’s most golden of decades.” — Kirk Curnutt, Troy University, Vice-President of the F. Scott Fitzgerald SocietyTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text The Great Gatsby Appendix A: Fitzgerald’s Correspondence about The Great Gatsby (1922-25) Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews Appendix C: Consumption, Class, and Selfhood: Eight Contemporary Advertisements Appendix D: The Irreverent Spirit of the Jazz Age Appendix E: Race and the National Culture, 1920-25 Select Bibliography

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

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

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisEdgar Allan Poe’s only long fiction has provoked intense scholarly discussions about its meaning since its first publication. The novel relates the adventures of Pym after he stows away on a whaling ship, where he endures starvation, encounters with cannibals, a whirlpool, and finally a journey to an Antarctic sea. It draws on the conventions of travel writing and science fiction, and on Poe’s own experiences at sea, but is ultimately in a category of its own.Appendices include virtually all of the contemporary sources of exploration and south polar navigation that Poe consulted and adapted to the narrative, together with reviews and notices of Pym and a sampling of responses to the novel from a wide array of authors, from Herman Melville to Jules Verne. Seven illustrations are also included.Trade Review“This new edition of Poe’s only completed novel represents a welcome option for instructors. The edition features a comprehensive critical introduction detailing the history of Pym scholarship and critical approaches, a detailed chronology of Poe’s life, and three valuable appendices that reprint Poe’s most important literary sources, a healthy selection of contemporary reviews, and responses by other writers such as Melville and James. The selection of sources and reviews will delight instructors eager to teach the novel in its nineteenth-century context.” — Leland S. Person, University of Cincinnati“This scrupulously prepared, thorough, and extremely useful edition of Poe’s only novel will thrill students, instructors, and general Poe aficionados in equal measure. Indeed, the map of Pym’s voyage, incredibly appearing here for the first time, is worth the price of admission alone! The developed and informative introduction, meticulous footnotes, well-considered bibliography, and carefully selected appendices combine to offer a model of accessible and impressive scholarship ideal for the classroom or for the general reader of Poe. Even experts are likely to glean new insights from this top-notch edition.” — Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroductionEdgar Allan Poe: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of NantucketAppendix A: Sources for the Novel From R. Thomas, Remarkable Shipwrecks, A Collection of Interesting Accounts of Naval Disasters (1813) From John Cleves Symmes, Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by Captain Adam Seaborn (1820) From [James McBride], Symmes’s Theory of the Concentric Spheres (1826) From Jane Porter, Sir Edward Seaward’s Narrative of His Shipwreck (1831) From Archibald Duncan, The Mariner’s Chronicle (1804–05) From Jeremiah N. Reynolds, The Voyage of the Potomac (1834) Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews From The New-Yorker (1 August 1838) From The New-York Mirror (11 August 1838) From Albion (18 August 1838) From Knickerbocker Magazine (August 1838) From Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine (September 1838) From Family Magazine (1838) From The Torch (13 October 1838) From The Spectator (27 October 1838) From The Monthly Review (October 1838) Appendix C: Other Writers’ Responses to Pym From Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) and Israel Potter:His Fifty Years of Exile (1855) From “The Mast-Head,” Chapter 35 of Moby-Dick From “The Whiteness of the Whale,” Chapter 42 of Moby-Dick From “Chapter 12. Israel Returns to the Squire’s Abode—His Adventures There,” in Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile From Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal (1857) “La Géante” “A Voyage to Cythera” “Travel” From Jules Verne, Le Sphinx des glaces (1897) From Henry James, The Golden Bowl (1904) Select Bibliography

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisSir Walter Scott’s first novel, Waverley enjoyed tremendous popularity upon its first publication. The novel is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore Charles Edward Stuart to the British throne. It portrays the doomed rising from the perspective of the hero, Edward Waverley, who travels to Scotland and is drawn to the Jacobite cause by a clan chieftain, his beautiful sister, and Charles Edward Stuart himself.Appendices to this edition include material on the Jacobite Rebellion and related conflicts, Scottish folklore, and a broad selection of contemporary reviews of Waverley.Trade Review“The well-chosen additional materials in this new edition of Waverley will prove illuminating to readers of Scott in numerous ways. Contemporaneous reviews reveal a wide range of perspectives on this historical novel; selections by Defoe and Swift express conflicting attitudes toward the Union of 1707. In addition, sections on the Rebellion of 1745 and on the customs of the Highlanders make available relevant but otherwise not easily available texts that further enrich this edition both for scholars of the novel and for student readers.” — Frank Palmeri, University of Miami“Walter Scott’s Waverley is not an antique, but a revolutionary work that established the novel not just as an ideal type of history but as history itself: the psychology, the furnishings, the environment of the transition from militant to commercial society. Broadview’s edition will help to reinstate the vivid creativeness of Scott in imagining a past and its people—not to speak of his anticipation of multi-media only a few years before the photograph.” — Christopher Harvie, historian and Member of the Scottish ParliamentTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionSir Walter Scott: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextAbbreviations for Works Consulted for AnnotationsWaverleyScott’s Notes to Waverley,Volumes One and TwoAppendix A: Selected Reviews of Waverley (1814–31) From the Quarterly Review (July 1814) [John Wilson Croker] From the Scots Magazine (July 1814) From the British Critic (August 1814) From the Antijacobin Review and Magazine (September 1814) From the Scourge (October 1814) From the Edinburgh Review (November 1814) [Francis Jeffrey] From the Monthly Review (November 1814) From the Critical Review (March 1815) From the London Magazine (June 1829) From the North American Review (April 1831) Appendix B: The Union of 1707 Jonathan Swift, “Verses Said to Be Written on the Union” (1707) From Daniel Defoe, A Tour Thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724–27) From Daniel Defoe, A Review of the State of the British Nation (1707) “The Union” (1819) Appendix C: The Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 Tobias Smollett, “Tears of Scotland” (1746) Songs from The Jacobite Relics of Scotland (1819) “Here’s to the King, Sir” “The King shall enjoy his own again” Songs from Jacobite Songs and Ballads (1887) “Maclean’s Welcome” “Will he no come back again” “O’er the Water to Charlie” From Henry Fielding, The History of the Present Rebellion in Scotland (1745) From Walter Scott, Redgauntlet. A Tale of the Eighteenth Century (1824) Appendix D: Scottish Folklore and Legend in Contemporary Literature From James Macpherson, “The Battle of Lora” (1803) From Elizabeth Hamilton, The Cottagers of Glenburnie (1808) From Anne MacVicar Grant, Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland (1811) Select Bibliography and Works Cited

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisFrom its first appearance onward, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been both praised and condemned, enshrined as one of the world’s great novels and banned from libraries and classrooms. This new edition is designed to enable modern readers to explore the sources of its greatness, and also to take a fresh, open-minded look at the source of the current controversy about its place in the canon: its representation of race and slavery. Based on the first American edition of 1885, this Broadview Edition includes all 174 original illustrations by E.W. Kemble. Appendices include contemporary reviews, passages deleted from the original manuscript, advertisements for the book, and a range of materials, from newspaper articles to minstrel show scripts to contemporary fiction, showing how race and slavery were depicted in the larger culture at the time.Trade Review“Broadview’s new Adventures of Huckleberry Finn answers the need for an edition of America’s most popular canonical novel that provides readers—and most especially student readers at all levels—with the critical tools essential to serious inquiry. The text is reliable and beautifully produced; Stephen Railton’s introduction is copious, well informed, and critically suggestive; and the several appendices, featuring a wide selection of contextual materials, nicely anticipate readers’ needs.” — Forrest Robinson, University of California, Santa Cruz“This welcome new edition brings beautifully to life Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Mark Twain conceived it. Along with the excellent critical introduction and notes, the abundant contextual materials offer a superb recreation of the historical and cultural context in which the novel was written and read.” — Eric J. Sundquist, Johns Hopkins UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Appendix A: Related Mark Twain Texts Appendix B: Contemporary Representations of Slavery and Race Appendix C: Illustrating Huckleberry Finn Appendix D: Selling Huckleberry Finn Appendix E: Reception of Huckleberry Finn Appendix F: Freedom versus Fate Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisGeoffrey Chaucer’s most significant literary accomplishment may well be Troilus and Criseyde, a single, profoundly philosophical narrative of a tragic love affair. Set in ancient Troy and telling the story of the rise and fall, in love and war, of the prince Troilus, Troilus and Criseyde is an archetypal medieval romance. The widowed Criseyde is a powerful woman, complex and intelligent, and the naïve Troilus is ambushed by his overwhelming love for her; Pandarus, Troilus’s friend and the enabler of the couple’s love, provides comic relief. Chaucer used his familiarity with the works of Giovanni Boccaccio and Benoît de Sainte-Maure to build his own historical world, depicting pagan beliefs and myths with sympathy and imagination.This edition is based on the Corpus Christi College Cambridge manuscript of Troilus and Criseyde; as with Robert Boenig and Andrew Taylor’s Broadview Edition of The Canterbury Tales, the manuscript text is preserved as much as possible and the original Middle English text is used. Difficult words are conveniently glossed in the margins, and explanatory footnotes help with references and allusions.Trade Review“James Dean and Harriet Spiegel have produced an elegant edition of Chaucer’s masterpiece that will stand next to the Broadview Canterbury Tales as the most widely adapted classroom edition. It wears its considerable learning lightly and lets Chaucer’s poetry speak for itself, while still providing helpful notes and glosses to guide the reader. Spiegel is widely known as a translator of medieval literature and Dean is one of the most respected scholars and editors of his generation. Together they make a great team, and it shows on every page and every line of this edition. It will be on my syllabus, and I recommend it to everyone who teaches the Troilus.” — John Ganim, University of California at Riverside“Everything a reader of Troilus would want: generous glossing; a lucid review of critical history; excerpts from Boccaccio and Benoît de Sainte-Maure; and a full text and translation, prepared specifically for this edition, of Henryson’s Testament. And much more.” — Sarah Stanbury, College of the Holy Cross“Our students deserve to encounter the Troilus more often than they do, and this impressive edition will make such encounters possible. Its price (digital and print) takes into account the exigencies of student budgets. Thoughtfully accommodating all the dimensions of accessibility, the editors and press have given us a clear, up-to-date edition whose single-text editorial approach will make it useful not only in courses in medieval literature, but also those in textual studies or editorial theory. Everyone who teaches Chaucer should acquire this edition.” — Karla Taylor, Arthuriana“The Broadview Troilus is an excellent edition for undergraduate students, helpful in its glossing and rich in its commentary.” — John C. Hirsh, Georgetown UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionGeoffrey Chaucer: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextTroilus and CriseydeBook IBook IIBook IIIBook IVBook VGlossarial Index of Characters in Troilus and CriseydeGlossaryAppendix A: The Story of Troilus and Criseyde From Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Le Roman de Troie (1160) From Giovanni Boccaccio, Il Filostrato (1335–40) Robert Henryson, The Testament of Cresseid (1532) Appendix B: Other Influential Literature From Ovid, Metamorphoses (7 CE) From Ovid, Ars Amatoria (3 BCE) From Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy (524 CE) From Andreas Capellanus, On Love (1185–90) From Jean de Meun, The Romance of the Rose (c. 1275) Francis Petrarch, Sonnet 132 (c. 1370) Appendix C: Medieval Science From Constantine the African, Viaticum (c. 1060) From Gerard of Berry, Glosses on the Viaticum (late 12th century CE) From Bona Fortuna, Treatise on the Viaticum (early 14th century CE) From Macrobius, On Dreams (c. 400) The Ptolemaic Universe (c. 1539) Select Bibliography

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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