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Book SynopsisCharlotte Brontë's final masterpiece powerfully portrays a woman struggling to reconcile love, jealousy, and a fierce desire for independence.Having fled a harrowing past in England, Lucy Snowe begins a new life teaching at a boarding school in the great capital of a foreign country. There, as she tries to achieve independence from both outer necessity and inward grief, she finds that her feelings for a worldly doctor and a dictatorial professor threaten her hard-won self-possession. Published in 1853, Charlotte Bronte's last novel was written in the wake of her grief at the death of her siblings. It has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as a striking modernity of psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness.

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Book SynopsisA historical romance with an activist heart, and an impassioned critique of U.S. expansionism—with an introduction by Ana Castillo, author of So Far from GodA fiercely partisan novel based on the author’s own experiences, The Squatter and the Don follows two families living near San Diego shortly after the United States’ annexation of California: the Alamares of the landed Mexican gentry, and the Darrells, the New Englanders who seek to claim the Alamares’ land. When young Clarence Darrell falls in love with Mercedes Alamar, the stage is set for a conflict that blends the personal with the political.  A scathing critique of corporate capitalism, this story exposes the true historical plight of californios as their lands are taken away by a government with incestuous ties to the railroad monopoly—institutions laced with the greed and racism of nineteenth-century America&rsqu

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Book SynopsisA brand-new book from the bestselling author of A Series of Unfortunate Events – a cautionary tale about his own demise. For curious children and adults alike.Trade Review‘Reading this little book feels like opening a window to let in air and light. It’s filled with curious information and powerful feelings, and is humorous, sad, meditative and rapturous by turns – with ambiguous questions to be mulled and savoured.’ -- Guardian‘A wittily macabre treatise about philosophy, creativity, connectivity, gratitude and bravely facing one’s demise while living as well as possible in the meantime.’ -- Financial Times‘a genial, discursive ramble of a book… The tone throughout is Vonnegutian – bewildered, amused, quizzical – and if the book fails to deliver any startling philosophical breakthrough, that’s rather the point, since it’s more about the journey than the destination. A bit like life, then.’ -- James Lovegrove * FT *‘Poison for Breakfast is a strange, beguiling, beautiful book. No one else could have written it, or anything even a little like it. If Lemony Snicket didn’t exist, we’d have to invent him.’ -- Anthony McGowan, author of Lark‘Poison for Breakfast is a book to savour. Every sentence is perfectly balanced to surprise, delight, intrigue and, yes, bewilder the reader. A book about impending death which captures the simple, but profound, joys of being alive. I am a long-time Lemony Snicket fan and this is his best yet.’ -- Sarah Hagger-Holt, author of Nothing Ever Happens Here‘Witty, clever and unsettling – it’s Lemony Snicket at his finest, and bright minds that love dark delights will gobble it right up.’ -- Rachel Delahaye, author of Mort the Meek‘Poison for Breakfast is a murder mystery like no other, which will bewilder and beguile both children and adults alike. It’ll have you questioning everything – from whether or not you can outrun death, to even bigger questions such as whether or not you are choosing the most respectable method to cook your eggs each morning.’ -- Hana Tooke, author of The Unadoptables‘Full of Snickety goodness, philosophical acrobatics and wry wit. A veritable treasure trove for fans of A Series of Unfortunate Events.’ -- Gareth Osborne, Bath Children's Novel Award Winner‘Poison for Breakfast is a delicious read with sentences to savour and philosophical questions to keep you awake long past midnight snack-time... It’s diabolically good.’ -- Jack Meggitt-Phillips, author of The Beast and the Bethany‘Fans who have grown up with his novels may appreciate the opportunity to explore [Lemony Snicket’s] mind.’ -- Books for Keeps

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Book Synopsis Relihan uses alliteration and assonance, rhythm and rhyme, the occasional archaism, the rare neologism, and devices of punctuation and typography, to create a sparkling, luxurious, and readable translation that reproduces something of the linguistic and comic effects of the original Latin. The general Introduction is a masterpiece of clarity, orienting the reader in matters of authorship, narration, genre, religion, structure and style. A generous and browsable index, select bibliography, and maps are included. Trade ReviewRelihan is an American Euphues. I like everything about this edition from the title page to the index. The translation is magnificent. --Stanley Lombardo, Department of Classics, University of KansasThis is easily the best English translation of The Golden Ass. I find that undergraduates with little or no knowledge of classical literature or the Greco-Roman world can readily read and enjoy it--as accessible as Graves or Ruden, but much more true to Apuleius's text and sensibility. Relihan's introduction is a great distillation of scholarly commentary--superb in all aspects. --Robin Walz, University of Alaska SoutheastI've been teaching Apuleius' The Golden Ass off and on for thirty years, first at Dartmouth College and now at Carleton College. Our problem--that shared by all of us who treasure this great romance or novel from late antiquity--has always been translations of The Golden Ass. There's nothing terribly wrong with previous translations; but none captures the wit and candor of Apuleius until now. This term, I used the new translation by Joel Relihan in a Carleton course and the results were beyond my very lofty expectations: students, for the first time, had something close to direct access to Apuleius' prose and they responded with an enthusiasm I've never encountered before. Relihan has given Apuleius a voice in English as never before, and my students and I laughed out loud, often, in reading passages aloud, and we felt the power of Apuleius' wit and open vulgarity. Relihan's translation will be one that many of us will use again and again in the years and decades ahead. -—Robert A. Oden, Jr., Professor of Religion, President of Carleton CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction; A Traveller's Tale; Hospitality in Hypata; The Festival of Laughter; A Den of Thieves; Psyche Lost; Psyche Regained; Charite Regained; Charite Lost; Miller's' Tales; Wicked, Wicked Women; Queen Isis; Index.

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Book SynopsisRelating the misadventures of Captain Farrago and his sidekick, Teague O Regan, this novel covers the major ethnic, racial, religious, or political issues of the twenty-eight year period beginning with Washington's presidency ending with that of Madison.Trade Review"Modern Chivalry is a singularly rich and undeniably important American novel, and Ed White's magnificent new edition does it superb credit. It is at once a bold literary experiment and an incisive social document; its formal adventurousness is matched by its searching political commentary. White's meticulous editing and annotation, and his superb Introduction and interpretive apparatus, make this an edition that will be greatly useful in the classroom as well as magnificently informative and challenging for scholars. Most important, it returns to print in beautiful form a deeply fascinating and wonderfully confounding early American literary masterpiece, one of the truly great American books. Henry Adams aptly called it 'a satire on democracy written by a democrat,' celebrated its 'genuine and original qualities,' and said it was 'more thoroughly American than any book yet published.' Modern Chivalry's capacious humor, epic ambition, and trenchant political satire make it not only intellectually fascinating but also wickedly enjoyable." --Christopher Looby, Department of English, UCLAOne of the most compelling arguments for reading Modern Chivarly is that it brings a situational immediacy to historical figures, issues, and decisions for twenty-first-century students that they might not otherwise have available to them. This new print edition makes an important era of American history and literature available to the reading public. . . . [A] major addition to early American studies. --Janice McIntire-Strasburg, Department of English and Writing Program Director, Saint Louis University, in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

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Book SynopsisRelating the misadventures of Captain Farrago and his sidekick, Teague O Regan, this novel covers the major ethnic, racial, religious, or political issues of the twenty-eight year period beginning with Washington's presidency ending with that of Madison.Trade Review"Modern Chivalry is a singularly rich and undeniably important American novel, and Ed White's magnificent new edition does it superb credit. It is at once a bold literary experiment and an incisive social document; its formal adventurousness is matched by its searching political commentary. White's meticulous editing and annotation, and his superb Introduction and interpretive apparatus, make this an edition that will be greatly useful in the classroom as well as magnificently informative and challenging for scholars. Most important, it returns to print in beautiful form a deeply fascinating and wonderfully confounding early American literary masterpiece, one of the truly great American books. Henry Adams aptly called it 'a satire on democracy written by a democrat,' celebrated its 'genuine and original qualities,' and said it was 'more thoroughly American than any book yet published.' Modern Chivalry's capacious humor, epic ambition, and trenchant political satire make it not only intellectually fascinating but also wickedly enjoyable." --Christopher Looby, Department of English, UCLAOne of the most compelling arguments for reading Modern Chivarly is that it brings a situational immediacy to historical figures, issues, and decisions for twenty-first-century students that they might not otherwise have available to them. This new print edition makes an important era of American history and literature available to the reading public. . . . [A] major addition to early American studies. --Janice McIntire-Strasburg, Department of English and Writing Program Director, Saint Louis University, in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

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Book SynopsisThomas Love Peacock (1785?1866) is one of the most distinctive prose satirists of the Romantic period. The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock offers the first complete text of these works to appear for more than half a century. Headlong Hall (1816), Peacock''s earliest work of dialogic and satirical fiction, was the most popular of his tales during his lifetime and considered his signature novel. An episodic plot and a country house setting provide the framework for a sparkling intellectual comedy that embraces music, gastronomy, philosophy, politics, craniology, painting, and landscape gardening. This edition supplies an authoritative text and a comprehensive introduction tracing the genesis, composition, publication, reception, and revision of the novel. Extensive explanatory notes throw light on the Welsh backdrop to the fiction as well as on the literary, political, social, and intellectual contexts of Peacock''s innovative topical satire.Trade Review'With their meticulous notes, rigorous documentation of textual variants and generous contextual appendices (including two unperformed, unpublished farces that Peacock drew on for Headlong Hall), these fine new volumes in the Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock get us closer than ever to the nuances of his satire.' Thomas Keymer, the Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsGeneral Editor's preface; Chronology; Introduction; Headlong Hall; Appendix A. Peacock's Preface of 1837; Appendix B. The Dilettanti (1812–13); Appendix C. The Three Doctors (1812–13); Appendix D. A Revised Text of the Headlong 'Chorus'; Note on the text; Emendations and variants; Ambiguous line-end hyphenations; Explanatory notes; Select bibliography.

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

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Book SynopsisCelebrate Christmas in true Wonderland style with this special festive edition of Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There.With a foiled festive cover and a Christmas letter from Lewis Carroll as a foreword, this limited edition gift book is the perfect gift for Alice fans, and a must-have for every collector's bookshelf.In a collectable, keepsake size, ideal as a stocking-filler, this unique edition contains Lewis Carroll's complete, original text and iconic illustrations from Sir John Tenniel throughout. Alice's extraordinary adventures are brought to life as caught up in the great looking-glass chess game, she sets off to claim her crown, meeting unforgettable characters along the way, such as Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and Humpty Dumpty.Published by Macmillan Children's Books, the original Alice publisher.

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Book Synopsis'One of the greatest and silliest stories ever told' Greg James'A brilliant writer. Extraordinary' Philip PullmanPoor Pongo Twistleton must endure his sixty-year-old Uncle Fred once a year. But this year, mischievous Uncle Fred has gone too far.While Pongo is busy trying to impress his future father-in-law Sir Aylmer Bostock, Uncle Fred asks him to steal the man's priceless bust and replace it with a creation made by none other than his once-fiancée, Sally Painter. It is a scheme that is doomed to fail, but why should that deter Uncle Fred, or, for that matter, the unshakeable Sally? But when it does, Uncle Fred has several more tricks up his inestimable sleeve and Pongo will have to play more than the good nephew. Will Uncle Fred have his way? Will Pongo end up with the right wife? And is a pot of raspberry jam ever truly safe from invaders?A caper of irrepressible joy and wit, Uncle Dynamite is a Wodehouse classic and one of the finest comedy novels ever written.Trade ReviewThe gold standard of English wit … There is not, and never will be, anything to touch him Christopher Hitchens—Christopher HitchensIt's dangerous to use the word genius to describe a writer, but I'll risk it with him John Humphrys—John HumphrysNot only the funniest English novelist who ever wrote but one of our finest stylists—Susan Hill

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Book Synopsis'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy's stories'Sharon Cameron in her preface to The Kreutzer Sonata and Other StoriesThis second volume of Tolstoy's shorter fiction, selected by the critic Sharon Cameron, contains 'Family Happiness', 'The Devil' and 'The Kreutzer Sonata', three of Tolstoy's unhappy-marriage stories as well as 'Father Sergius', a story of a loss of identity in ambitious pursuit of holy virtue and 'Master and Man'. Tolstoy's antidotes to delusion, fear, jealousy and even madness have an ethical thread pulled through the fabric of different themes and genres.This riverrun edition reissues the translation of Louise and Aylmer Maude, whose influential versions of Tolstoy first brought his work to a wide readership in English.

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Book Synopsis“The female novelist of the nineteenth century may have frequently encountered opposition and interference from the male literary establishment, but the female short story writer, working in a genre that was seen as less serious and less profitable, found her work to be actively encouraged.” ― from the Introduction.During the nineteenth century women writers finally began to be as popular―and as respected―as their male counterparts. We are all familiar with the novels of Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and the Bröntes. Less familiar is the short fiction of the period; yet a great many nineteenth-century stories by women―both famous and obscure―retain in full measure their power to fascinate and to entertain. For this anthology Glennis Stephenson brings together stories by both British and North American writers; by such established luminaries as Shelley, Gaskell and Kate Chopin; and by lesser-known writers such as the Anglo-Indian writer Flora Steel, the Afro-American Alice Dunbar Nelson and the Canadian Annie Howells Frèchette. The result is an anthology that will be as interesting to the general reader as it will be useful to the student. Stephenson provides background information on all authors, together with a general introduction.Table of ContentsIntroductionLouisa May Alcott / A Whisper in the DarkMary Elizabeth Braddon / Good Lady DucayneKate Chopin / The StormIsabella Valancy Crawford / ExtraditedElla D’Arcy / The Pleasure-PilgrimRebecca Harding Davis / AnneAlice Dunbar-Nelson / Sister JosephaGeorge Egerton / Gone UnderAnnie Howells Frechette / A Widow in the WildernessMary Wilkins Freeman / A New England NunElizabeth Gaskell / Lizzie LeighElizabeth Gaskell / The Old Nurse’s StoryCharlotte Perkins Gilman / The Yellow WallpaperSarah Orne Jewett / A White HeronVernon Lee / DioneaL.M. Montgomery / The Red RoomMargaret Oliphant / A Story of a Wedding TourMary Shelley / The ParvenueHarriet Prescott Spofford / CircumstanceFlora Annie Steel / Mussumât Kirpo’s DollConstance Fenimore Woolson / FelipaFurther Reading

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Book SynopsisWilkie Collins is best known for his great mystery The Moonstone and The Woman in White—and for a life as sensational as are those novels. (The writer who famously advised other novelists to ‘make ‘em laugh, make ‘em cry, make ‘em wait’ is now known to have kept entire households in different parts of England going simultaneously.) Yet Collins also wrote a succession of extraordinarily powerful novels of private life; of these The Evil Genius is among the finest.The story is motivated by the attraction between Herbert Linley and the woman he hires as governess for his child Kitty—the long suffering Sydney Westerfield. As one expects with Collins, the story is driven forward with deft assurance. Yet he also treats the theme of adultery and divorce in a manner quite unconventional for his time—and, remarkably, he manages to draw readers into a sympathetic understanding of both of the main female characters: the offending governess and the aggrieved wife.The Evil Genius was a very considerable success when first published; indeed, it brought Collins more financially than any of his other works. Over a century later its sinews retain the strength to speak powerfully to the reader; lively and intelligent, it is perhaps the finest of Collins’ later novels.Trade Review“Collins’ boldness in drawing sympathetic portraits of both the wife and ‘the other woman’ is astonishingly modern. The novel well deserves to be brought back into print.” — Catherine Peters, Oxford UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionFootnotesA Note on the TextSelected BibliographyWilliam Wilkie Collins: A Brief ChronologyThe Evil GeniusAppendix: Contemporary DocumentsExplanatory Notes

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Book SynopsisDespite the title, Dickens's portrayal of early industrial society here is less relentlessly grim than that in novels by contemporaries such as Elizabeth Gaskell or Charles Kingsley. Hard Times weaves the tale of Thomas Gradgrind, a hard-headed politician who raises his children Louisa and Tom without love, of Sissy the circus girl with love to spare who is deserted and adopted into their family, and of the honest mill worker Stephen Blackpool and the bombastic mill owner Josiah Bounderby. The key contrasts created are finally less those between wealth and poverty, or capitalists and workers, than those between the head and the heart, between "Fact"—the cold, rationalistic approach to life that Dickens associates with utilitarianism—and "Fancy"—a warmth of the imagination and of the feelings, which values individuals above ideas.Concentrated and compressed in its narrative form, Hard Times is at once a fable, a novel of ideas, and a social novel that seeks to engage directly and analytically with political issues. The central conflicts raised in the text, between government's duty not to intervene to guarantee the liberty of the subject, and between quantitative and qualitative assessments of progress, remain unresolved today in the late or post industrial stages of liberal democracies.Trade ReviewGraham Law's edition of Hard Times is the most useful edition for teaching Dickens that I have seen. Its text is authoritative, and the range of contextual documents included gives readers an opportunity to situate the work in the discussions of industrialization and labor as they took place in nineteenth-century England." - Barry V. Qualls, Rutgers University"This beautifully produced edition combines a freshly written, informative introduction with helpful and well-judged notes. Particularly welcome is the wealth of documentary material and examples carefully chosen from other contemporary fiction, enabling readers to place Hard Times within its full Victorian context. This is an excellent edition—clear, authoritative and stimulating." - Kate Flint, University of OxfordTable of ContentsIntroductionAcknowledgementsA Note on the TextSelect BibliographyCharles Dickens: A Brief ChronologyHARD TIMES: FOR THESE TIMESAppendices: Contemporary DocumentsAppendix A: The Composition of the Novel Household Words Partners’ Agreement Announcements in Household Words Dickens’s Working Memoranda Mentions in Dickens’s Letters Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews of the Novel Athanaeum (12 August 1854) Examiner (9 September 1854) Gentleman’s Magazine (September 1854) British Quarterly Review (October 1854) Rambler (October 1854) South London Athanaeum and Institution Magazine (October 1854) Westminster Review (October 1854) Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (April 1855) Appendix C: On Industrialization: Commentary Thomas Carlyle “Signs of the Times,” Edinburgh Review (June 1829) Chartism (1839) Past and Present (1843) Andrew Ure, The Philosophy of Manufactures (1836) P. Gaskell, Artisans and Machinery (1836) J.S. Mill “Bentham,” London and Westminster Review (August 1838) Principles of Political Economy(1848) Arthur Helps, The Claims of Labour (1844) Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (1845) Charles Dickens, “On Strike,” Household Words (11 February 1854) Henry Morley, “Ground in the Mill,” Household Words (22 April 1854) Harriet Martineau, The Factory Controversy: A Warning Against Meddling Legislation (1855) W.B. Hodgson, “On the Importance of the Study of Economic Science as a Branch of Education for all Classes,” Lectures in Education Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (1855) John Ruskin, “Unto This Last,” Cornhill Magazine (August 1860) Appendix D: On Industrialization: Fiction Harriet Martineau, A Manchester Strike (Illustrations of Political Economy No. 7) (1832) Frances Trollope, Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong (1840) “Charlotte Elizabeth,” Helen Fleetwood (1841) Elizabeth Stone, William Langshawe, the Cotton Lord (1842) Benjamin Disraeli Coningsby (1844) (i) Coningsby (1844) (ii) Sybil (1845) Elizabeth Gaskell Mary Barton (1848) (i) Mary Barton (1848) (ii) North and South (1855) Charlotte Bronte, Shirley (1849) Charles Kingsley Yeast (1850) Alton Locke (1850) Fanny Mayne, Jane Rutherford, or The Miners’ Strike (1854) Explanatory Notes

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Book SynopsisBeset by jealousy over an admirer of his wife's, Lord Lodore has come with his daughter Ethel to the American wilderness; his wife Cornelia, meanwhile, has remained with her controlling mother in England. When he finally brings himself to attempt a return, Lodore is killed en route in a duel. Ethel does return to England, and the rest of the book tells the story of her marriage to the troubled and impoverished Villiers (whom she stands by through a variety of tribulations) and her long journey to a reconciliation with her mother.Lodore's scope of character and of idea is matched by its narrative range and variety of setting; the novel's highly dramatic story-line moves at different points to Italy, to Illinois, and to Niagara Falls. And in this edition, which includes a wealth of documents from the period, the reader is provided with a sense of the full context out of which Shelley's achievement emerged.Trade Review“Not the one book author that Frankenstein sometimes make her seem, Mary Shelley was a complex and committed social thinker whose novels reveal her deep concern with the impact of the emerging Victorian social dynamic upon the lives of women. While Lodore reflects Shelley's conviction of the importance to the new bourgeois family model of the ‘genuine affections of the human heart,' it shows us too, in the person of the remarkable Fanny Derham, the consequences for a free-thinking and independent woman who has learned ‘to be afraid of nothing.' Vargo's splendid edition resituates Shelley within the 1830s milieu of successful literary women like Landon and Hemans who understood their readers and their marked, and within a culture that was moving rapidly away from the exuberant Romanticism of only two decades earlier. With its illuminating critical introduction, and its extensive contextualizing appendices, this exceptional edition will alert readers anew to the complexity and sophistication of Shelley's mind and art.” - Stephen C. Behrendt, University of Nebraska"This volume marks yet another excellent addition to Broadview's expanding list of literary writings that have long been out of print." - Nineteenth-Century Literature"Vargo has provided a much-needed, comprehensive edition of the text." - University of Toronto QuarterlyTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionA Note on the TextMary Shelley: A Brief ChronologyLodoreAppendix A: Mary Shelley—Woman of Letters “The Bride of Modern Italy” (1824) From Review of The Loves of the Poets (1829) From Review of Cloudesley; A Tale (1830) From “Ugo Foscolo,” Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal (1837) Appendix B: Some Literary Contexts George Gordon, Lord Byron, from Lara (1814) The Tempest and Mary Wollstonecraft’s The Female Reader (1797) Thomas Campbell, from Gertrude of Wyoming (1809) Edward John Trelawny from Adventures of a Younger Son (1831) Appendix C: Illinois and Duelling Morris Birkbeck, from Letters from Illinois (1818) William Cobbett, from A Year’s Residence in America (1818-19) Frances Wright, from Views of Society and Manners in America (1821) William Godwin, from Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Third Edition (1798) James Fenimore Cooper, from Notions of the Americans (1828) Appendix D: Domesticity and Women’s Education Mary Wollstonecraft, from Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787) Mary Wollstonecraft, from Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) William Godwin, from The Enquirer (1797) Anna Jameson, from Characteristics of Women (1832) Sarah Stickney Ellis, from The Women of England (1839) Appendix E: Contemporary Reviews of Lodore From The Athenæum From The Examiner From Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country From Leigh Hunt’s London Journal From The Literary Gazette From New Monthly Magazine From The Sun Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisBrown is often called the first American novelist. Originally published in 1799, Ormond was inspired by enlightenment philosophers and Gothic writers. The novel engages with many of the period’s popular debates about women’s education, marriage, and the morality of violence, while the plot revolves around the Gothic themes of seduction, murder, incest, impersonation, romance and disease. Set in post-revolutionary Philadelphia, Ormond examines the prospects of the struggling nation by tracing the experiences of Constantia, a young virtuous republican who struggles to survive when her father’s business is ruined by a confidence man, and her friends and neighbors are killed by a yellow fever epidemic.Trade Review“In her marvelous new edition of Ormond, Mary Chapman has given scholars, teachers and students of Charles Brockden Brown what they have longed for: an affordable paperback edition complete with a trenchant, historically-textured introduction to Brown’s least known, and most underrated major novel. Chapman’s exhaustive labour in both the classic and contemporary criticism of the early American novel, coupled with her thorough knowledge of the philosophical and political pamphlet literature of the early national period, afford the modern reader the very sort of ‘thick description’ so often lost in considering the work of America’s first ‘professional’ novelist.” ― Julia Stern, Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextCharles Brockden Brown: A Brief ChronologyOrmond; or, The Secret WitnessNotes on the AppendicesAppendix A: Judith Sargent Murray’s “On the Equality of the Sexes” (1790)Appendix B: From John Robison’s Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe, Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and Reading Societies (1798)Appendix C: Selections from Jedidiah Morse’s “A Sermon Exhibiting the Present Dangers, and Consequent Duties of the Citizens of the United States” (1799)Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisIn the mid-eighteenth century, Sarah Fielding (1710-68) was the second most popular English woman novelist, rivaled only by Eliza Haywood. The History of Ophelia, the last of her seven novels, is an often comic epistolary fiction, narrated by the heroine to an unnamed female correspondent in the form of a single protracted letter.This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and valuable appendices that contain contemporary reviews of the novel, Richard Corbould's illustrations to the Novelist’s Magazine edition, and excerpts from Sarah Fielding’s Remarks on Clarissa.Trade ReviewWith this edition of Sarah Fielding's popular final novel, Peter Sabor widens our access to the work of this respected and path-breaking writer of the mid-eighteenth century, until recently remembered, if at all, as Henry's sister and as 'the Author of David Simple', her first novel. The pleasures of this entertaining narrative of a female Welsh noble savage, kidnapped and transposed into a sophisticated and corrupt English society by a rakish nobleman, are heightened by Sabor's expert placement of the novel in the introduction and appendices, particularly with respect to the latest biographical scholarship and suggestive contemporary parallels such as Françoise de Graffigny's 1748 Letters Written by a Peruvian Princess and Frances Burney's 1778 Evelina." - Betty Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University"Peter Sabor deserves high praise for this beautiful edition of Sarah Fielding's The History of Ophelia. Sabor discusses Fielding's work in fiction, drama, and criticism, and provides a rich selection of contemporary documents and illustrations. Most striking are the questions he poses and answers. Did Fielding rework an unfinished manuscript by her brother Henry? How may Ophelia write back to Samuel Richardson's Clarissa? If the novel looks forward to gothic fiction, how may it subject the notion of gothic terror to comic deflation? In all, this edition makes an essential contribution to our current debates about and growing interest in Sarah Fielding." - Carolyn Woodward, University of New MexicoTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionSarah Fielding: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe History of OpheliaAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews The Monthly Review (April 1760) The Critical Review (April 1760) The British Magazine (April 1760) Appendix B: Material added to the Dublin Edition (1763)Appendix C: Richard Corbould’s Illustrations to the Novelist’s Magazine Edition (1785)Appendix D: A Victorian Critic of Ophelia: Clementina Black’s Essay of 1888Appendix E: Sarah Fielding’s Remarks on Clarissa (1749)Appendix F: From Françoise de Graffigny’s Letters Written by a Peruvian Princess (1748)Appendix G: From Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778)Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis 1886 novel may be Hardy’s most intense and gripping narrative. We first see the central character, Michael Henchard, as a drunken and unemployed hay-trusser who sells his wife Susan and his daughter Elizabeth-Jane at a fair. When he is eventually reunited with the two, he has become the contented and prosperous mayor of a thriving market town. But the downward spiral begins. Henchard’s fall is hastened by a series of coincidences and quarrels, and by his own jealousy and pride. Though the perspective on events that Hardy gives us is often that of other characters (Elizabeth-Jane in particular), Henchard remains the central focus; in the end he is a tragic figure, bankrupt, emotionally broken and an outcast from society.Prepared by one of the world’s leading Hardy scholars, this edition includes a critical introduction and a range of background materials from the period. Historical documents (concerning such topics as the corn laws and the practice of wife-selling) and contemporary reviews help set this remarkable novel in the context out of which it emerged.Trade Review“Of all the great Victorian novelists, Hardy is the one who consistently requires most annotation and careful contextual placing. The density of regional reference, the often complex composition, publication and reception histories, the author’s vexed relationship with his age—all call for tactful but learned editing. The noted Victorian scholar Norman Page supplies this admirably for Broadview Press’s Mayor of Casterbridge. This is the edition I shall use and prescribe in the future.” — John Sutherland, Professor Emeritus, University College LondonTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionComposition and PublicationSetting: Time and HistorySetting: Town and Country“A Man of Character”Narrative Technique: Pictorialism and CircularityLanguage and StyleA Note on the TextThomas Hardy: A Brief ChronologyThe Life and Death of the Mayor of Castlebridge: A Story of a Man of CharacterAppendix A: Dialect Words and ExpressionsAppendix B: Place-namesAppendix C: Wife-sellingAppendix D: The Corn LawsAppendix E: Prince Albert in DorchesterAppendix F: Maumbury Ring and the Execution of Mary ChanningAppendix G: The Skimmington RideAppendix H: Henchard’s BankruptcyAppendix I: The First Book of SamuelAppendix J: Hardy’s “General Preface”Appendix K: Contemporary ReviewsWorks Cited and Recommended Reading

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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