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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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