Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books

Book SynopsisUnearthing previously unseen manuscript and print evidence, the book redefines the notion of Dante's reception by conducting the first material and book-historical inquiry into the formation and popularisation of the the critical and scholarly discourse on Dante in Victorian culture. -- .

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Book SynopsisJane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall...these fictional masterpieces are all recognised as landmarks of English Literature. Still inspirational and challenging to readers today, upon release in the mid-nineteenth century they caused a veritable sensation, chiefly due to their subject matter and unconventional styles. But the greatest sensation of all came when these books were revealed to be the creations of women. This is the story of those women and of the forces that shaped them into trailblazing writers. From early childhood, literature and the world of books held the attention and sparked the fertile imaginations of the emotionally intense and fascinating Bronte siblings. Beset by tragedy, three outlets existed for their grief and their creative talents; they escaped into books, into the wild moorlands surrounding their home and into their own rich inner lives and an intricate play-world born out of their collective imaginations. In this new study, Catherine Rayner offers a full and fascinating exploration of the formative years of these bright children, taking us on a journey from their earliest years to their tragically early deaths. The Bronte girls grew into women who were unafraid to write themselves into territories previously only visited by male authors. In addition, they tackled all the taboo subjects of their time; divorce, child abuse, bigamy, domestic violence, class, female depression and mental illness. Nothing was beyond their scope and it is especially for this ability and determination to speak for women, the marginalised and the disadvantaged that they are remembered and celebrated today, two hundred years after their births in the quiet Yorkshire village of Haworth. This timely release offers a fresh perspective on a fascinating family and a unique trio of talented and trailblazing sisters whose books will doubtless continue to haunt and inspire for generations to come.

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Book SynopsisThis light-hearted but deeply researched book offers interest and guidance to walkers, social historians and lovers of the Bronte family; their lives and works. Set in and around the town of Haworth it gives a dual introduction to walkers and lovers of literature who can explore this unique area of Yorkshire and walk in the footsteps of those who knew and loved this town and its moorlands two hundred years ago. With guided tours around special buildings as well as outdoor walks and the history of people and places who lived and worked in Haworth over centuries, it offers an insight into life and death in the melee of the Industrial Revolution. Its joint authors have combined their lifelong interests in Victorian literature and social history with writing, walking, photography and cartography and have included quotes from Bronte poetry and novels.

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Book SynopsisToy Stories: Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature explores the stakes of recurrent depictions of children’s violent, damaging, and tenuously restorative play with objects within a long nineteenth century of fictional and educational writing. As Vanessa Smith shows us, these scenes of aggression and anxiety cannot be squared with the standard picture of domestic childhood across that period. Instead, they seem to attest to the kinds of enactments of infant distress we would normally associate with post-psychoanalytic modernity, creating a ripple effect in the literary texts that nest them: regressing developmental narratives, giving new value to wooden characters, exposing Realism’s solid objects to odd fracture, and troubling distinctions between artificial and authentic interiority. Toy Stories is the first study to take these scenes of anger and overwhelm seriously, challenging received ideas about both the nineteenth century and its literary forms. Radically re-conceiving nineteenth-century childhood and its literary depiction as anticipating the scenes, theories, and methodologies of early child analysis, Toy Stories proposes a shared literary and psychoanalytic discernment about child’s play that in turn provides a deep context for understanding both the “development” of the novel and the keen British uptake of Melanie Klein’s and Anna Freud’s interventions in child therapy. In doing so, the book provides a necessary reframing of the work of Klein and Freud and their fractious disagreement about the interior life of the child and its object-mediated manifestations.Table of ContentsPreface: A Toy Is Being Beaten | ix Introduction: Child’s Play | 1 1 Proper Objects | 27 2 Possible Persons | 54 3 Our Plays | 82 4 Bildung Blocks | 110 Conclusion: Toy Stories | 137 Acknowledgments | 147 Notes | 149 Works Cited | 189 Index | 205

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Book SynopsisRobert Louis Stevenson is the author of many classic novels. He was also prolific letter writer. The letters in volumes I and II, cover the years 1868 through 1894. Volume I begins with his student days at Edinburgh and contains letters to all kinds of people from towns like Paris, San Francisco, Marseilles and Bournemouth. Volume II starts in Bournemouth in 1886 and ends with the four years he spent in Samoa. The letters make fascinating reading, not only for those interested in Stevenson''s life but also for anyone interested in nineteenth-century literature.

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Book SynopsisRobert Louis Stevenson is the author of many classic novels. He was also prolific letter writer. The letters in volumes I and II, cover the years 1868 through 1894. Volume I begins with his student days at Edinburgh and contains letters to all kinds of people from towns like Paris, San Francisco, Marseilles and Bournemouth. Volume II starts in Bournemouth in 1886 and ends with the four years he spent in Samoa. The letters make fascinating reading, not only for those interested in Stevenson's life but also for anyone interested in nineteenth-century literature.Table of ContentsFor more information, please visit our website at:https://novapublishers.com/shop/the-letters-of-robert-louis-stevenson-volume-ii/

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

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Book SynopsisGeorge Gissing’s The Odd Women dramatizes key issues relating to class and gender in late-Victorian culture: the changing relationship between the sexes, the social impact of ‘odd’ or ‘redundant’ women, the cultural impact of ‘the new woman,’ and the opportunities for and conditions of employment in the expanding service sector of the economy. At the heart of these issues as many late Victorians saw them was a problem of the imbalance in the ratio of men to women in the population. There were more females than males, which meant that more and more women would be left unmarried; they would be ‘odd’ or ‘redundant,’ and would be forced to be independent and to find work to support themselves. In the Broadview edition, Gissing’s text is carefully annotated and accompanied by a range of documents from the period that help to lay out the context in which the book was written.In Gissing’s story, Virginia Madden and her two sisters are confronted upon the death of their father with sudden impoverishment. Without training for employment, and desperate to maintain middle-class respectability, they face a daunting struggle. In Rhoda Nunn, a strong feminist, Gissing also presents a strong character who draws attention overtly to the issues behind the novel. The Odd Women is one of the most important social novels of the late nineteenth century.Trade Review“When it comes to the complexities of everyday life in late-Victorian London, there is no better guide than Gissing and no better Gissing than The Odd Women. And now, in Arlene Young’s carefully edited and annotated edition, we have the definitive guide to Gissing’s novel. Students will also find the historical documents gathered in this volume an invaluable resource in the study of the “woman question” and the sociology of work in the 1890s.” — Stephen Arata, University of Virginia“Broadview’s enterprise is especially welcome in the case of The Odd Women, Gissing’s second most commonly studied novel. [This edition] deserves to become the text of choice for teachers—especially given its modest price.” — The Gissing JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextGeorge Gissing: A Brief ChronologyThe Odd WomenAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews Glasgow Herald 20 April 1893 Saturday Review 29 April 1893 Athenaeum 27 May 1893 Pall Mall Gazette 29 May 1893 Nation (New York) 13 July 1893 Illustrated London News (Clementia Black) 5 August 1893 Appendix B: Attitudes Towards Women and Marriage in Victorian Culture Sarah Ellis, from The Daughters of England (1842) Alfred Lord Tennyson, from The Princess (1847) Coventry Patmore, from The Angel in the House: “The Rose of the World” (1854) Thomas Henry Huxley, from “Emancipation—Black and White,” Reader (20 May 1865) John Ruskin, from “Of Queens’ Gardens,” in Sesame and Lilies (1865) John Stuart Mill, from The Subjection of Women (1869) Mona Caird, from “Marriage,” Westminster Review (1888) Appendix C: Debate over the “Woman Question” Grant Allen, from “Plain Words on the Woman Question,” Fortnightly Review (October 1889) Bernard Shaw, from “The Womanly Woman,” The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891) Eliza Lynn Linton, from “The Wild Women: As Politicians,” Nineteenth Century (July 1891) Eliza Lynn Linton, from “The Wild Women: As Insurgents,” Nineteenth Century (October 1891) Mona Caird, “A Defense of the So-Called ‘Wild Women’,” Nineteenth Century (May 1891) From “Character Note: The New Woman” Cornhill Magazine (October 1894) Nat Arling, “What is the Role of the ‘New Woman?’” Westminster Review (November 1898) Appendix D: Women and Paid Employment: The Limitations of Aspirations and the Actualities Charlotte Brontë, from Shirley (1849) From “The Disputed Question,” English Woman’s Journal (August 1858) Evelyn March Phillips, from “The Working Lady in London,” Fortnightly Review (August 1892) Clara Collet, from “The Employment of Women,” Report to the Royal Commission on Labour (1893) Frances H. Low, from “How Poor Ladies Live,” Nineteenth Century (March 1897) Eliza Orme, from “How Poor Ladies Live: A Reply,” Nineteenth Century (April 1897) Appendix E: Conditions of Work for Men in the White-Collar Sector James Fitzjames Stephen, from “Gentlemen” Cornhill Magazine (March 1862) B.O. Orchard, from The Clerks of Liverpool (1871) Charles Edward Parsons, from Clerks: their Position and Advancement (1876) Thomas Sutherst, from Death and Disease Behind the Counter (1884) H.G. Wells, from Kipps (1905) H.G. Wells, from Experiment in Autobiography (1934) Appendix F: Map of London (1892)Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAurora Floyd is one of the leading novels in the genre known as ‘sensation fiction’—a tradition in which the key texts include Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, Ellen Wood’s East Lynne, and Dickens’s Great Expectations. When Aurora Floyd was first published in serial form in 1862-63, Fraser’s magazine asserted that “a book without a murder, a divorce, a seduction, or a bigamy, is not apparently considered either worth writing or reading; and a mystery and a secret are the chief qualifications of the modern novel.”The novel depicts a heroine trapped in an abusive and adulterous marriage, and effectively dramatizes the extra-legal pressures which kept many such unhappy marriages out of the courts: fear of personal scandal, and of betraying one’s family through the publicity and expense of the process. Aurora’s bigamous marriage dramatizes the need for expeditious divorce without the enormous social cost, but the overt sexuality of the heroine shocked contemporary critics. “What is held up to us as the story of the feminine soul as it really exists underneath its conventional coverings, is a very fleshy and unlovely record,” wrote Margaret Oliphant.Braddon’s text is studded with references to contemporary events (the Crimean War, the Divorce Act of 1857) and the text has been carefully annotated for modern readers in this edition, which also includes a range of documents designed to help set the text in context.Trade Review“This is the only modern edition to be based on the first three-volume version of Braddon’s much revised novel, and the editors make an excellent case for their choice. A substantial and lucidly written critical introduction situates the novel in its contemporary cultural contexts; in debates about realism and sensationalism, and anxieties about class, femininity, domesticity and marriage. The appendices, containing a selection of contemporary views of femininity and domesticity, and responses to Braddon and her novel, are an added bonus to this excellent volume.” — Lyn Pykett, University of Wales-Aberystwyth“Invaluable … provides copious explanatory notes, appendices containing contemporary reviews and writings on femininity, and a thorough, well-organized introduction.” — Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextMary Elizabeth Braddon: A Brief ChronologyAurora FloydAppendix A: Victorian Femininity: The Stable, the Home, and the Fast Young Lady “Fast Young Ladies” (Punch) “Six Reasons Why Ladies Should Not Hunt” (The Field) “Muscular Education” (Temple Bar) John Ruskin, “Of Queens’ Gardens” (Sesame and Lilies) (1865) Appendix B: Reviews and Responses H.L. Mansel, “Sensation Novels” (Quarterly Review) “The Archbishop of York on Works of Fiction” (The Times) W. Fraser Rae, “Sensation Novelists: Miss Braddon” (North British Review) Henry James, “Miss Braddon” (The Nation) Margaret Oliphant, “Novels” (Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine) George Augustus Sala, “The Cant of Modern Criticism” (Belgravia) George Augustus Sala, “On the ‘Sensational’ in Literature and Art” (Belgravia) “Sensation Novels” (Punch) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisJane Eyre, the story of a young girl and her passage into adulthood, was an immediate commercial success at the time of its original publication in 1847. Its representation of the underside of domestic life and the hypocrisy behind religious enthusiasm drew both praise and bitter criticism, while Charlotte Brontë's striking expose of poor living conditions for children in charity schools as well as her poignant portrayal of the limitations faced by women who worked as governesses sparked great controversy and social debate. Jane Eyre, Brontë's best-known novel, remains an extraordinary coming-of-age narrative, and one of the great classics of literature.Trade ReviewJoining fiction to history, this edition of Jane Eyre illustrates the way literature addresses important moral and political issues. The original nineteenth-century documents in the appendices provide an invaluable opportunity for readers to view the novel in both its biographical and its historical contexts; it illustrates, in a broader sense, how literature is a vital element in the discourse of an age, and thus helps shape history." - Micael M. Clarke, Loyola University Chicago"While the student who approaches Jane Eyre for the first time or the reader unfamiliar with Victorian culture will find Richard Nemesvari's introduction and annotations very useful, most helpful of all are the appendices, which place the novel in the context of Victorian writing on governesses, gender roles, empire and race. The Broadview edition of Jane Eyre makes it possible for readers to approach Brontë's novel with a fuller sense of the way it engages important Victorian social issues. An excellent introduction to Jane Eyre in its time." - Mary Ellis Gibson, University of North Carolina - GreensboroTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextCharlotte Brontë: A Brief ChronologyJane EyreAppendix A: Prefatory Material to Subsequent Editions of Jane Eyre Preface to the Second Edition of Jane Eyre Note on the Third Edition of Jane Eyre Appendix B: Charlotte Brontë: Correspondence on Being a Governess To Emily Brontë, June 8, 1839 To Ellen Nussey, January 24, 1840 To Ellen Nussey, March 3, 1841 Appendix C: Jane Eyre and the Governess Question “Hints on the Modern Governess System” (Fraser’s Magazine) “Governesses Benevolent Institution” (Punch) Sarah Lewis, “On the Social Position of Governesses” (Fraser’s Magazine) Elizabeth Rigby, Review of Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, Governesses Benevolent Institution Report for 1847 (Quarterly Review) Appendix D: Jane Eyre and the Proper Young Woman Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Daughters of England: Their Position in Society, Character and Responsibilities Appendix E: Race, Empire, and the West Indies Thomas Carlyle, “Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question” (Fraser’s Magazine) John Stuart Mill, “The Negro Question” (Fraser’s Magazine) Appendix F: Jamaica and Governor Eyre Despatch from Edward John Eyre, “The Insurrection in Jamaica” (The Times) “The Outbreak in Jamaica” (The Times) Editorial (The Times) Charles Buxton, Letter to the Editor (The Times) “The Jamaica Question” (Punch) “The Bold Governor Eyre and the Bulls of Exeter Hall” (Punch) John Stuart Mill, “Statement of the Jamaica Committee” (The Daily News) Thomas Carlyle, Letter to Hamilton Hume John Ruskin, “A Speech in London” (The Daily Telegraph) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisMary Robinson’s work has begun again to assume a central place in discussions of Romanticism. A writer of the 1790’s—a decade which saw the birth of Romanticism, revolution, and enormous popular engagement with political ideas—Robinson was acknowledged in her time as a leading poet. Her writing exhibits great variety: charm, theatricality, and emotional resonance are all characteristics Robinson displays. She was by turns a poet of sensibility, a poet of popular culture, a chronicler of the major events of the time, and a participant in some of its chief aesthetic innovations. This long-awaited collection is the first critical edition of her poems.Trade Review“Mary Robinson was one of the most significant authors of the Romantic era; her poetic vision is in many ways a counterpoint to that of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. At last, this expertly edited, well researched and affordable edition makes Robinson’s innovative and influential poetry accessible again to a wide audience. It is a superb selection which gives a fully rounded view of Robinson’s poetic production.” — Paula Feldman, University of South Carolina“This rich and varied selection of poems, letters and reviews, centered and guided by Judith Pascoe’s rich and sympathetic scholarship, amply illustrates why Mary Robinson is so crucial a figure for understanding the development of English verse between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. With its range and inclusiveness, its authentic artistic claims, and its scholarly weight, Mary Robinson: Selected Poems is an edition to be universally celebrated as repaying a long overdue debt, and with generous interest. Even in Broadview’s exemplary list of recovered literature, it is a standout, a truly major accomplishment.” — Stuart Curran, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsA Note on the Texts and IllustrationsList of IllustrationsIntroductionMary Darby Robinson: A Brief ChronologyFrom Poems (1775)A Pastoral ElegyThe Linnet’s PetitionLetter to a Friend on Leaving TownFrom Poems (1791)Ode to the MuseOde to MelancholyOde to the NightingaleOde to Delia CruscaLines to Him Who Will Understand ThemLines Inscribed to P. De Loutherbourg, Esq. R.A.The Adieu to LoveStanzas to FloraOberon to the Queen of the FairiesSonnet. Written Among the Ruins of an Ancient Castle inGermany, In the Year 1786Ainsi va le MondeFrom Poems (1793)SightThe ManiacA Fragment, Supposed to be Written Near the Temple, at Paris, on the Night Before the Execution of Louis XVIStanzas. Written After Successive Nights of Melancholy DreamsStanzas. Written Between Dover and Calais, in July, 1792Marie Antoinette’s Lamentation, in Her Prison of the TempleOde to RaptureStanzas to a Friend,Who Desired to Have My PortraitSappho and Phaon (1796)PrefaceTo the ReaderAccount of SapphoSappho and PhaonSonnet IntroductorySonnet IISonnet IIISonnet IVSonnet VSonnet VISonnet VIISonnetVIIISonnet IXSonnet XSonnet XISonnet XIISonnet XIIISonnet XIVSonnet XVSonnet XVISonnet XVIISonnet XVIIISonnet XIXSonnet XXSonnet XXISonnet XXIISonnet XXIIISonnet XXIVSonnet XXVSonnet XXVISonnet XXVIISonnet XXVIIISonnet XXIXSonnet XXXSonnet XXXISonnet XXXIISonnet XXXIIISonnet XXXIVSonnet XXXVSonnet XXXVISonnet XXXVIISonnet XXXVIIISonnet XXXIXSonnet XLSonnet XLISonnet XLIISonnet XLIIISonnet XLIV. ConclusiveLyrical Tales (1800)All AloneThe Mistletoe, a Christmas TaleThe Poor, Singing DameMistress Gurton’s Cat, a Domestic TaleThe Lascar. In Two PartsThe Widow’s HomeThe Shepherd’s DogThe FugitiveThe Haunted BeachOld Barnard, a Monkish TaleThe Hermit of Mont-BlancDeborah’s Parrot, a Village TaleThe Negro GirlThe Trumpeter, an Old English TaleThe Deserted CottageThe Fortune-Teller, a Gypsy TalePoor MargueriteThe Confessor, a Sanctified TaleEdmund s WeddingThe Alien BoyThe Granny Grey, a Love TaleGolfre, a Gothic Swiss TaleUncollected poems from newspapers and magazines:To Sir Joshua ReynoldsSonnet to Mrs. Charlotte Smith, on Hearing That Her Son Was Wounded at the Siege of DunkirkStanzasAll For-LornThe CampGreat and Small!Poems that were incorporated into The Progress of LibertyThe Birth-Day of LibertyThe Progress of LibertyThe Horrors of AnarchyThe VestalThe MonkThe DungeonThe Cell of the AtheistThe AfricanThe Italian PeasantryHarvest HomeFrom The Poetical Works (1806)Ode to the Snow-dropOde Inscribed to the Infant Son of S.T. Coleridge, Esq.To the Poet ColeridgeThe Savage of AveyronThe Birth-DayThe Summer DayThe Wintry DayOn Leaving the Country for the Winter Season, 1799Oberon’s Invitation to TitaniaTitania’s Answer to OberonJasperLondon’s Summer MorningThe Poet’s GarretJanuary, 1795Impromptu Sent to a Friend Who Had Left His Gloves, by Mistake, at the Author’s House on the Preceding EveningModern Male FashionsModern Female FashionsAppendix A: Three letters of Mary RobinsonTo John Taylor, 5 October 1794To William Godwin, 24 August 1800To Jane Porter, 27 August 1800Appendix B: Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poems in response to RobinsonThe Apotheosis, or the Snow-DropAlcaeus to SapphoA Stranger MinstrelAppendix C: Reviews of Robinson’s poetryReview of Poems (1791) in the Critical ReviewReview of Sappho and Phaon (1796) in the English ReviewReview of Lyrical Tales (1800) in the Monthly ReviewReview of The Poetical Works of the Late Mrs. Mary Robinson (1806) in the Annual Review Appendix D: Publication histories of Robinson’s poemsBibliographyList of changesIndex of first linesIndex of titles

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Book SynopsisThis anthology of literary criticism by Victorian women of letters brings together a wealth of difficult-to-find writings. Originally published from the 1830s through the 1890s, the essays concern a range of topics including poetry, fiction, non-fiction prose, the roles of literature and of criticism, topical reviews of major works, and retrospectives of major authors. Together, they demonstrate the impressive depth and breadth of Victorian women’s literary criticism. This Broadview anthology also includes an introduction, textual and explanatory notes, author biographies, and suggestions for further reading.Trade Review“Solveig C. Robinson’s important and welcome collection recovers substantial works of literary criticism by eighteen Victorian women. With knowledgeable headnotes and the helpful footnotes that are one of Broadview’s special hallmarks, the book is a valuable resource for anyone working in nineteenth-century British literature.” — Sally Mitchell, Temple UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionCharacters of Intellect: Portia (1832)Anna JamesonAchievements of the Genius of Scott (December 1832)Harriet MartineauReview of Vanity Fair and Jane Eyre (December 1848)Elizabeth Rigby EastlakePeople Who Do Not Like Poetry (May 1849)Eliza CookEditor’s Preface to the New Edition of Wuthering Heights (1850)Charlotte BrontëSilly Novels by Lady Novelists (October 1856)George EliotTo Novelists—and a Novelist (April 1861)Dinah Mulock CraikThe Uses and Pleasures of Poetry for the Working Classes (1863)Janet HamiltonReview of Cometh Up as a Flower (April 1867)Geraldine JewsburyNovels (September 1867)Margaret OliphantA Remonstrance (November 1867)Mary Elizabeth BraddonOn Fiction as an Educator (October 1870)Anne MozleyBrowning’s Poems (December 1870)Elizabeth Julia HasellJane Austen (August 1871)Anne Thackeray RitchieStyle and Miss Austen (December 1884)Mary Augusta (Mrs. Humphry) WardWomen’s Books—A Possible Library (May 1889)Helen BlackburnLiterature: Then and Now (April 1890)Eliza Lynn LintonChristina Rossetti (February 1895)Alice Meynell

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Book SynopsisThe Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory, Concise Edition is less than half the length of the full anthology, but preserves the main principles of the larger work. A number of longer poems (such as Tennyson's In Memoriam) are included in their entirety; there are generous selections from the work of all major poets, and a representative selection of other work; the work of Victorian women poets features very prominently; and a substantial selection of poetic theory is included to round out the volume.Trade Review“A long-overdue collection that balances representative and canonical works with traditionally under-represented ones.” — Barbara Gates, University of Delaware“What we have needed has been the Victorian poetic texts, by many writers—and here they are, splendidly assembled! Thank you.” — William N. Rogers, San Diego State University“A comprehensive and intelligent selection … fills a long-standing need.” — Thomas Hoberg, Northeastern Illinois University“I’m excited about the appearance of this anthology—especially about its inclusion of so may full-text long poems.” — Peter W. Sinnema, University of AlbertaTable of ContentsPOETRYFELICIA HEMANSThe Suliote MotherThe Lady of The CastleTo WordsworthCasabiancaThe Grave of a PoetessThe Image In LavaThe Indian With His Dead ChildThe Rock of Cader IdrisLETITIA E. LANDON from The Improvisatrice AdvertisementSappho’s Song “Preface” to The Venetian Bracelet, The Lost Pleiad, A History of the Lyre, and Other PoemsThe Nameless Grave The Factory Carthage Felicia Hemans Rydal Water and Grasmere LakeInfanticide in Madagascar ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The Cry of the ChildrenSonnets From the PortugueseIIIXXIIXXIX XLIII The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s PointAurora Leigh First Book Second Book Fifth Book A Curse for a Nation A Musical Instrument CAROLINE NORTONFrom Voice From the Factories The Creole Girl The Poet’s ChoiceEDWARD FITZGERALDRubáiyát of Omar KhayyámALFRED TENNYSONMariana Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind The Poet The Poet’s Mind The Mystic The Kraken The Lady of Shalott To —. With the Following Poem [The Palace of Art] The Palace of Art The Hesperides The Lotos-Eaters The Two Voices St Simeon Stylites Ulysses Tiresias The Epic [Morte d’Arthur] Morte d’Arthur “Break, break, break” Locksley Hall The Vision of Sin In Memoriam A.H.H The Charge of the Light Brigade Maud Tithonus Crossing the BarROBERT BROWNINGMy Last Duchess Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Johannes Agrνcola in Meditation Porphyria’s Lover Pictor Ignotus The Lost Leader The Bishop Orders His Tom at Saint Praxed’s Church The Laboratory Love Among the Ruins Fra Lippo Lippi A Toccata of Galuppi’s By the Fire-Side An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” The Statue and the Bust How It Strikes a Contemporary The Last Ride Together Bishop Blougram’s Apology Andrea del Sarto Saul Cleon Abt Vogler Rabbi Ben Ezra Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the IslandEDWARD LEAR The Owl and the Pussy-Cat The Dong with a Luminous Nose How Pleasant to Know Mr. LearCHARLOTTE BRONTËThe Missionary Master and Pupil On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë On the Death of Anne BronteReason“The house was still—the room was still”The Lonely Lady“Is this my tomb, this humble stone”“Obscure and little seen my way”EMILY JANE BRONTË“Riches I hold in light esteem”To ImaginationPlead For MeRemembranceThe Prisoner“No coward soul is mine”Stanzas—“Often rebuked, yet always back returning”A Farewell to Alexandria“Long neglect has worn away”“The night is darkening round me”“What winter floods, what showers of spring”“She dried her tears, and diey did smile”ELIZA COOKThe WatersThe Ploughshare of Old EnglandSong of the Red IndianSong of the Ugly MaidenA Song For The WorkersARTHUR HUGH CLOUGHDuty—that’s to say complying Qui Laborat, OratThe Latest Decalogue“Say not the struggle nought availeth”SPERANZA (LADY WILDE)The Voice of the PoorA Lament For the PotatoTristan and IsoldeMATTHEW ARNOLDTo a Gipsy Child by the Sea-ShoreThe Strayed RevellerResignationThe Forsaken MermanTo Marguerite—ContinuedStanzas in Memory of the Author of “Obermann”Empedocles on EtnaMemorial VersesDover BeachThe Buried LifeStanzas from the Grande ChartreuseThe Scholar-GipsyThyrsisDANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI The Blessed Damozel My Sister’s SleepJenny“A Sonnet is a moment’s monument,—” Nuptial SleepThe PortraitSilent NoonWillowwoodThe Soul’s SphereThe LandmarkAutumn IdlenessThe Hill SummitOld and New ArtSoul’s BeautyBody’s BeautyA SuperscriptionThe One Hope ARTHUR MUNBYThe Serving MaidWoman’s RightsELIZABETH SIDDALThe Lust of the EyesWorn OutAt LastLove and HateCHRISTINA ROSSETTI Goblin MarketA BirthdayAfter DeathAn Apple GatheringEcho“No, Thank you, John”SongUphillA Better Resurrection“The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children”Monna Innominata 1 2 34567891011121314 “For Thine Own Sake, O My God”In an Artist’s Studio LEWIS CARROLLJabberwockyThe Walrus and the CarpenterWILLIAM MORRISThe Defence of GuenevereThe Haystack in the FloodsALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNEThe Triumph of TimeItylusAnactoriaHymn to ProserpineThe LeperThe Garden of Proserpine A Forsaken GardenAt A Month’s EndAve Atque ValeAUGUSTA WEBSTERCirce A CastawayMother and Daughter SonnetsVIVIIIXXIVXIIXIIIXIVXVXVIXVII THOMAS HARDYHap Neutral TonesA Broken AppointmentThe Darkling ThrushThe Self-UnseeingIn TenebrisThe Minute Before Meeting Night in the Old HomeThe Something that Saved HimAfterwardsA Young Man’s ExhortationSnow in the SuburbsIn a WoodGERARD MANLEY HOPKINSThe Wreck of the DeutschlandGod’s GrandeurThe WindhoverFelix Randal“As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame”The Leaden Echo and the Golden EchoCarrion Comfort“No worst, there is none”Tom’s GarlandHarry PloughmanMICHAEL FIELDPrefaceLa GiocondaThe Birth of Venus“Death, men say, is like a sea”“Ah, Eros doth not always smite”“Sometimes I do despatch my heart”“Solitary Death, make me thine own”Love’s Sour Leisure“It was deep April, and the morn”An Aeolian HarpALICE MEYNELLA Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old AgeIn FebruaryA Father of WomenThe Threshing MachineReflections(I) In Ireland (II) In “Othello”(III) In Two Poets OSCAR WILDE Requiescat Hélas! Impressionsle jardin la mer Symphony in Yellow RUDYARD KIPLINGGentlemen-Rankesr In the Neolithic Age RecessionalThe White Man’s BurdenIfLIONEL JOHNSONThe Dark Angel Summer StormDead The End Nihilism The Darkness In a Workhouse Bagley Wood The Destroyer of a Soul The Precept of Silence A ProselyteCHARLOTTE MEWThe Farmer’s BrideIn Nunhead Cemetery The Road To Kιrity I Have Been Through The Gates The Cenotaph V. R. Ii. January 22nd, 1901 ii. February^, 1901 POETIC THEORYWILLIAM JOHNSON FOXTennyson – Poems, Chiefly Lyrical – 1830ARTHUR HENRY HALLAMOn Some of the Characteristics of Modern PoetryLETITIA E. LANDONOn the Ancient and Modern Influence of PoetryJOHN STUART MILL“What is Poetry?”ROBERT BROWNING“Introductory Essay” [“Essay on Shelley”]ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGHRecent English Poetry: A Review of Several Volumes of Poems byAlexander Smith, Matthew Arnold, and OthersMATTHEW ARNOLDPreface to the First Edition of PoemsJOHN RUSKINOf the Pathetic FallacyMATTHEW ARNOLDThe Function of Criticism at the Present TimeWALTER BAGEHOTWordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English PoetryROBERT BUCHANAN The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D.G. RossettiDANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI The Stealthy School Of CriticismALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Under The MicroscopeWALTER PATER The Renaissance: Studies in Art and PoetryGERARD MANLEY HOPKINSAuthor’s PrefaceALICE MEYNELLTennysonRobert Browning The Rhythm of LifeINDEXESINDEX OF FIRST LINESINDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES

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Book SynopsisThe prize-winning entry in a national competition for distinctively Canadian fiction, Winona was serialised in a Montreal story paper in 1873. The novel focuses on the lives of two foster-sisters raised in the northern Ontario wilderness: Androsia Howard, daughter of a retired military officer, and Winona, the daughter of a Huron chief. As the story begins, both have come under the sway of the mysterious and powerful Andrew Farmer, who has proposed to Androsia while secretly pursuing Winona. With the arrival of Archie Frazer, the son of an old military friend, there is a violent crisis, and the scene shifts southward as Archie takes the foster-sisters via Toronto to his family's estate in the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence River. Farmer follows, and the narrative moves towards a sensational climax.The critical introduction and appendices to this edition place Winona in the contexts of Crawford's career, the contemporary market for serialized fiction, the sensation novel of the 1860s, nineteenth-century representations of women and North American indigenous peoples, and the emergence of Canadian literary nationalism in the era following Confederation.Trade Review“Winona; or, The Foster-Sisters is a lively and engaging novel that makes up for its reliance on conventions through its treatment of issues of gender, race, and modernity that are of continuing critical and theoretical interest. Not least because of its brightly illuminating introduction, annotations, and appendices, the Broadview edition of Winona by Len Early and Michael A. Peterman, two of the most highly esteemed scholars in the field, opens a large and revealing window onto Crawford’s times and writerly concerns. Now that it is readily available in an authoritatively edited text, Winona is sure to spark reconsideration of the achievements and trajectory of a writer who made a greater contribution than has hitherto been generally recognized to the literary culture that emerged in Canada during the post-Confederation period.” — D.M.R. Bentley, University of Western OntarioTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionIsabella Valancy Crawford: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextEditorial EmendationsLine-end Hyphenated Compounds in the Original TextWinona; or,The Foster-SistersAppendix A: The Discourse of Womanhood Eliza Lynn Linton, “The Girl of the Period,” Saturday Review 25 (14 March 1868) “Fast Young Ladies,” Canadian Illustrated News (28 September 1872) Sara Jeannette Duncan, “Saunterings,” The Week (28 October 1886) E. Pauline Johnson, “A Strong Race Opinion: On the IndianGirl in Modern Fiction,” Toronto Sunday Globe (22 May 1892) Appendix B: Editorials on Literature and Publishing from Desbarats’s Papers [“The state of Canadian literature”], Canadian Illustrated News (13 July 1872) “Sensation Literature,” The Hearthstone (3 August 1872) “Artistic Filth,” The Favorite (1 February 1873) Appendix C: Prospectus for The Favorite “Our First Bow,” The Favorite (28 December 1872) “Who Will Write for The Favorite,” The Favorite (28 December 1872) Appendix D: Reports of the 1873 Autumn Assizes, Peterborough, Ontario From “The Assizes,” Peterborough Examiner (30 October 1873) From “The Autumn Assizes,” Peterborough Review (31 October 1873) Appendix E: Illustrations “Winona’s Return,” The Favorite (1 February 1873) The Clytie Bust (c. CE 40-50) John Everett Millais, “The Black Brunswicker” (1860) Carlo Dolci, “Madonna of the Veil,” c. 1630-86, Canadian Illustrated News (23 December 1871) “A Moonlight Excursion on the St. Lawrence,” Canadian Illustrated News (24 June 1871) William Armstrong, “Ice Boats on the Bay, Toronto,” Canadian Illustrated News (18 February 1871) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisArthur Conan Doyle’s second Sherlock Holmes novel is both a detective story and an imperial romance. Ostensibly the story of Mary Morstan, a beautiful young woman enlisting the help of Holmes to find her vanished father and solve the mystery of her receipt of a perfect pearl on the same date each year, it gradually uncovers a tale of treachery and human greed. The action audaciously ranges from penal settlements on the Andaman Islands to the suburban comfort of South London, and from the opium-fuelled violence of Agra Fort during the Indian ‘Mutiny’ to the cocaine-induced contemplation of Holmes’ own Baker Street.This Broadview Edition places Doyle’s tale in the cultural, political, and social contexts of late nineteenth-century colonialism and imperialism. The appendices provide a wealth of relevant extracts from hard-to-find sources, including official reports, memoirs, newspaper editorials, and anthropological studies.Trade Review“In this erudite and provocative edition, Shafquat Towheed offers fans of both Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle an intricate account of the intertextual histories at the heart of The Sign of Four. Arguing for the inextricability of its colonial plots with its work as detective fiction, Towheed builds a persuasive case for The Sign of Four as Mutiny fiction, positioning it as pivotal to the imperial career of ‘British’ fiction per se. Readers of this edition will be gripped by the colonial pathways Towheed reveals, the politics of citation he uncovers, and the entanglement of home and empire he tracks in the making of the novel. This is postcolonial interpretation at its very best.” — Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Arthur Conan Doyle: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text The Sign of Four Appendix A: Domestic Context Appendix B: Colonial Contexts: Accounts of the Indian “Mutiny,” 1857–58 Appendix C: Colonial Contexts: The First and Second Anglo-Afghan Wars Appendix D: Colonial Contexts: The Andaman Islands Appendix E: Contemporary Reviews Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisHelen Maria Williams’s epic poem Peru, first published in 1784, movingly recounts the story of Francisco Pizarro’s brutal conquest and exploitation of the Incas and their subsequent revolt against Spain. Like William Wordsworth, who revised The Prelude over the course of his life, Williams revisited her epic several times within almost four decades, transforming it with each revision. It began as an ambitious poetic blueprint for revolution—in terms of politics, gender, religion, and genre. By the time it appeared in 1823, under the title “Peruvian Tales” in her last poetry collection, Williams’s voice had become more moderate, more restrained; in her words, her muse had become “timid,” reflecting the cultural shift that had taken place in England since the poem’s earliest publication.This edition includes both versions of the poem, along with extensive examples of Williams’s literary sources, other poetic works, and the many and varied critical responses from contemporary reviewers.Trade Review“Paula R. Feldman’s edition of Williams’ poem and related works is impeccably presented; the apparatus is erudite yet accessible. More important, Peru is a fascinating and satisfying read, worthy of the impressive treatment afforded it here. This edition makes available an important poem in the history of the epic and of European colonialism and provides a wealth of contextual material that shows just how necessary this book is for readers, students, and instructors of British Romanticism.” — Daniel Robinson, Homer C. Nearing Jr. Distinguished Professor of English at Widener University“Paula R. Feldman and her collaborators are to be congratulated for this exemplary edition of Helen Maria Williams’s Peru and Peruvian Tales. They have advanced our understanding of Romantic-period women writers, of the history of the epic, and of Frankenstein’s Creature’s wish to retire to the ‘vast wilds of South America.’” — Jeanne Moskal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Editor of the Keats-Shelley Journal“This new edition of two of Helen Maria Williams’s most interesting poems, Peru (1784; 1786) and ‘Peruvian Tales’ (her 1823 revision of Peru), does justice both to Williams’s originals and to the reputation of Broadview books for producing texts of high editorial quality which are useful to both students and teachers. As we have come to expect of Broadview’s editions, Paula Feldman’s volume includes not only highly-readable annotated primary texts, but a veritable cornucopia of secondary and contextual materials in four appendices.” — Kerri Andrews, The Byron JournalTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Helen Maria Williams: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Texts "Peru" "Peruvian Tales" Appendix A: Related Poetic Works by Helen Maria Williams 1. Helen Maria Williams, "An Ode on the Peace" (1783) 2. "A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade" (1788) Appendix B: Williams's Historical and Literary Sources 1. Joseph Warton, "The Dying Indian" (1744) and "The Revenge of America" (1755) 2.William Hayley, An Essay on Epic Poetry (1782) and translation of Alonso de Ercilla's La Arauncana (1782) 3. Françoise de Graffigny, Letters Written by a Peruvian Princess (1747) 4. Abbé Raynal, A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies (1776) 5. William Robertson, History of America (1777) 6. Jean-François Marmontel, The Incas; or, The Destruction of the Empire of Peru (1777) Appendix C: Poetic Responses to Helen Maria Williams 1. Anna Seward, "Sonnet to Miss Williams, on her Epic Poem Peru" (1784) 2. Eliza, "To Miss Helen Maria Williams: on her Poem of Peru" (1784) 3. E., "Sonnet to Miss Helen Maria Williams, on her Poem of Peru" (1786) 4. J. B-o, "Sonnet. To Miss Helena-Maria Williams" (1787) 5. William Wordsworth, "Sonnet on Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress" (1787) 6. Richard Polewhele, from "The Unsex'd Females: A Poem" (1798) Appendix D: Contemporary Critical Reviews of "Peru" and of "Peruvian Tales" 1. From The New Annual Register (1784) 2. From The Critical Review (1784) 3. From The English Review (1784) 4. From the Monthly Review (1784); reprinted in the London Magazine (1784) 5. From Town and Country Magazine (1784) 6. From The English Review (1786) 7. From The European Magazine and London Review (1786) 8. From the Monthly Review (1786) 9. From the New Review (1786) 10. From the New Annual Register (1786) 11. From The English Lyceum (1787) 12. From The European Magazine and London Review (1823) 13. From The Literary Gazette (1823) 14. From The Monthly Review (1823) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIntended for courses with a major focus on poetry during the Romantic period, this volume includes all the poetry selections from Volume 4 of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, along with a number of works newly edited for this volume. The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Poetry maintains the Broadview Anthology of British Literature’s characteristic balance of canonical favorites and lesser-known gems, featuring a breadth of poetry from William Blake to Phillis Wheatley, from Ebenezer Elliott to Felicia Hemans. To give a sense of the full sweep of the Romantic period, the anthology incorporates important early figures from William Collins to Phillis Wheatley, as well as works by Victorians—such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Alfred, Lord Tennyson—for whom Romanticism was a formative force. “Contexts” sections provide valuable background on cultural matters such as “The Natural and the Sublime” and “The Abolition of Slavery,” while the companion website offers a wealth of additional resources and primary works. Longer works newly prepared for the bound book include Byron’s Manfred and The Giaour, Keats’s Hyperion, and substantial selections from Wordsworth’s fourteen-book Prelude; authors newly added for this volume include Hannah Cowley, Hannah More, Ann Yearsley, Robert Southey, and Thomas Moore.Trade ReviewPraise for The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Poetry:“At last, an anthology that lets us explore in detail the remarkable depth and breadth of British poetry during the long Romantic period, and to do so from a genuinely interdisciplinary perspective that embraces the range of social, political, economic, scientific and cultural developments of that protean era, including issues of gender, race, class and religion. The ample and judicious selections splendidly illustrate the rich diversity of Romantic poetry in all its forms, while the abundant contextual materials—including the lavish illustrations—situate that poetry within its contemporary intellectual, historical, artistic and cultural contexts. Concise editorial annotations deftly and unobtrusively guide readers through complex or unfamiliar territory and profitably supplement the excellent introductory and supplementary essays. Here is an anthology for all seasons of Romanticism studies, and for students at all levels.” — Stephen C. Behrendt, University of Nebraska“ … [A]n exciting moment for all teachers in the field of Romanticism and poetry. Broadview has led the way in the new generation of literature anthologies, and the Romantic Poetry volume offers a characteristic breadth of verse selections from the expanded canon, accompanied by contemporary treatises and commentaries on an array of topics vital to the twenty-first-century classroom: from debates on gender and slavery, to Britain’s imperial and colonial project, to revolutionary politics and the first stresses of industrialization. All this is enriched with illustrations evocative of the budding visual culture of the period, and contained in a single volume that is as thorough as any instructor could wish, while not intimidating to the student in its heft or price.” — Gillen Wood, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign“The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Poetry … offers a marvelously diverse body of material; it is much more comprehensive than any other available anthology of British Romantic writings … This is a fine anthology, imaginative and innovative in the way it is organized and rich in the options it offers for access to less anthologized, less generally available works by the British Romantic poets.” — Waqas Khwaja, Agnes Scott College“The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Poetry is the most comprehensive collection of verse and prose from this period available today. Scrupulously and judiciously edited, it combines selections from a wide array of major and lesser-known Romantic poets and critics of both genders and from many regions with invaluable introductory essays and rich contextual materials … It is surely to become the standard anthology in the field. I know I will be using it from now on.” — Alexander Dick, University of British Columbia“The new Broadview Anthology of Romantic Poetry is as thoughtfully assembled as any anthology I have seen. It presents a diverse chorus of voices from the period, representing both the traditional canon of romantic writers and also, exhilaratingly, extending beyond that canon, with selections from poets such as Wheatley, Barbauld, Burns, Clare, and Landon, among others. From the editors’ outstanding introductory essay—clear, original, vibrant—to its incredibly rich selection of writings, which are generously and gently annotated, to the enthralling and complex contextual materials covering subjects such as India and the Orient, non-human animals in nature, and steam power, this anthology explores and elaborates “the romantic” in a way that is sure to dazzle students, to enrich their experience of this period’s literature and to enhance classroom discussion of it. The Broadview will be the new gold standard for instructional texts in the field. — Christopher Rovee, Louisiana State University“I am so glad to find this anthology. The selections are outstanding, the illustrations excellent, and the contextual material is sound. This book will make my course much more powerful than it would have been had I used a standard anthology supplemented with e-texts.” — Gary Harrison, University of New MexicoPraise for The Age of Romanticism:“ … I am very impressed.… A wealth of cultural and historical information is provided.… The introductions show subtle expertise.… Here, as in the other volumes, the editors bring English literary tradition to life.” — Wendy Nielsen, Montclair State UniversityComments on The Broadview Anthology of British Literature:“ … sets a new standard by which all other anthologies of British Literature will now have to be measured.” — Graham Hammill, SUNY Buffalo“With the publication of the Broadview Anthology of British Literature, teachers and students in survey and upper-level undergraduate courses have a compelling alternative to the established anthologies by Norton and Longman. … This is a very real intellectual, as well as pedagogical, achievement.” — Nicholas Watson, Harvard University“ … an excellent anthology. Good selections for my purposes (including some nice surprises), just the right level of annotation, affordable—and a hit with my students. I will definitely use it again.” — Ira Nadel, University of British ColumbiaTable of Contents William Collins Oliver Goldsmith William Cowper Hannah Cowley Anna Laetitia Barbauld Hannah More Sir William Jones Charlotte Smith Phyllis Wheatley George Crabbe Ann Yearsley William Blake Mary Robinson Contexts: Women and Society Robert Burns Joanna Baillie William Taylor Ann Batten Cristall William Wordsworth Sir Walter Scott Dorothy Wordsworth Contexts: The Natural and the Sublime Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Southey Mary Tighe Contexts: The Abolition of Slavery Thomas Moore Ebenezer Elliott George Gordon, Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley Felicia Hemans John Clare John Keats Letitia Elizabeth Landon Thomas Beddoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning Alfred Tennyson

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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 SynopsisThe Invisible Man stands out as possessing one of the most complicated heroes, or perhaps anti-heroes, in literature. A thoroughly unlikeable character, the Invisible Man is defined by his arrogance, impulsiveness, rudeness, and, at times, violence. He is, however, a man of great genius; but, his genius is selfish—no one profits from his experiments, not even himself. The Invisible Man is not only a commentary on imagination and the great spirit of invention that elevated the nineteenth century but also a warning against the eugenic and self-interested policies that threatened the twentieth.This edition includes a valuable collection of the nineteenth-century narratives of invisibility that inspired Wells’s novel, as well as excerpts of Wells’s nonfiction writings on education and class. Additional appendices situate the novel in its late-Victorian scientific and technological contexts, including material on radio waves and x-rays. Trade Review“This is a wonderful edition, setting Wells’s text in a number of rich contexts, especially the history of invisibility literature.” — Simon James, Durham University“A marvelously comprehensive edition of an H.G. Wells classic. Editors Nicole Lobdell and Nancee Reeves meticulously reconstruct The Invisible Man from early printed sources, providing readers with both a seamless narrative experience and a fascinating glimpse into Wells’s creative process. The carefully curated appendices provide rich literary and scientific context for this complex and sometimes troubling scientific romance, and the concluding filmography demonstrates The Invisible Man’s enduring appeal to the popular imagination. Highly recommended for scholars, artists, and students alike.” — Lisa Yaszek, Georgia Institute of Technology“From the striking X-ray ‘Self Portrait’ on the front cover to the eloquent blurbs on the back, the university classroom now has a portable, modestly priced edition of The Invisible Man worthy of Wells’s remarkable ‘grotesque romance.’” — Nicholas Ruddick, Science Fiction StudiesTable of Contents Appendix A: The Four Endings of The Invisible Man a) Pearson’s Weekly, August 1897 b) Pearson, First Edition, September 1897 c) Pearson, Second Edition, November 1897 d) Arnold, New York Edition, November 1897 Appendix B: Invisibility in Nineteenth-Century Fiction a) James Dalton. From The Invisible Gentleman. London: Edward Bull, 1833. I: 61-72. b) Fitz-James O’Brien. From “What Was It? A Mystery” Harper’s Magazine (March 1859): 504-9. c) W. S. Gilbert, “The Perils of Invisibility” (1869). More “Bab” Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense. London: Routledge, 1872. 178-183. d) Edward Page Mitchell. From “The Crystal Man” The Sun (30 January 1881) e) Charles H. Hinton. From “Stella.” Stella and An Unfinished Communication: Studies of the Unseen. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1895. 55-56. f) Katherine Kip. From “My Invisible Friend” The Black Cat (February 1897): 9-21. Appendix C: Reviews of The Invisible Man a) From “Mr. Wells’s New Stories.” Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art (18 September 1897), lxxxiv. 322. b) Arnold Bennett. “The Invisible Man.” [Woman 405 (29 September 1897): 9] Arnold Bennett and H.G. Wells: A Record of a Personal and Literary Friendship. Ed. Harris Wilson. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1960. 258-59. c) Letter from H.G. Wells replying to Arnold Bennett (October 1897) d) Clement Shorter. From “The Invisible Man.” The Bookman [London] (October 1897): 19-20. e) Claudius Clear. From “The Fantastic Fiction; Or, ‘The Invisible Man.’” The Bookman [New York] 6 (November 1897): 250-51. f) “H.G. Wells’s ‘The Invisible Man.’” The New York Times (25 December 1897): BR15. Appendix D: Wells and Friends on The Invisible Man a) Extract from Letter, H.G. Wells to James B. Pinker (Received 16 April 1896). b) Extract from Letter, H.G. Wells to James B. Pinker (Undated). c) H.G. Wells to James B. Pinker (2 May 1897). d) Joseph Conrad to H.G. Wells (4 December 1898). From Joseph Conrad: Life and Letters. Ed. G. Jean-Aubry. New York: Doubleday, 1927. 259-60. Appendix E: Biological Context a) J. Lockhart Gerson, from “On the ‘Invisible Blood Corpuscles’ of Norris.” Journal of Anatomy and Physiology: Normal and Pathological. Macmillan and Co.: London and Cambridge, 1882. b) From W. Robinson, “Notes on Some Albino Birds Presented to the U.S. National Museum, with Some Remarks on Albinism.” Proceedings of The United States National Museum, volume 11, issue 733, 1889. c) From H.G. Wells, “Popular Feeling and the Advancement of Science. Anti-Vivisection.” The Way the World is Going: Guesses and Forecasts of the Years Ahead. London: Ernest Benn, 1928. 222-227. Appendix F: Technology Contexts: Röntgen Rays and Radio Waves a) Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen. From “On a New Kind of Rays” Trans. Arthur Stanton. Nature 53 (23 January 1896): 274-276. b) H.J.W. Dam. From “A Wizard of To-Day.” Pearson’s Magazine. 1 (April 1896): 413-19. c) George Griffith, “A Photograph of the Invisible” Pearson’s Magazine 1 (April 1896) 378-80. d) H.J.W. Dam “The New Telegraphy” The Strand Magazine 13 (March 1897): 273-80. Appendix G: Wells on Class and Society a) H.G. Wells. From Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought. United Kingdom; Chapman and Hall, 1901: 229-30. b) H.G. Wells. From A Modern Utopia. London: Chapman and Hall, 1905. 265-70. c) H.G. Wells. From “Of the New Reign.” An Englishman Looks at the World: Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters. London: Cassel & Co, 1914. 28-32. d) H.G. Wells. From Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of A Very Ordinary Brain (since 1866). Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1934: 556.

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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 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 SynopsisHerman Melville’s The Piazza Tales is the only collection of short fiction that he published in hislifetime, and it includes his two most famous short stories, Bartleby, the Scrivener and Benito Cerenoalong with the less well-known but deeply engaging sketches of the Galapagos Islands that make up TheEncantadas and three more short stories: The Piazza, The Bell-Tower, and The Lightning-Rod Man. This edition places these stories in the context of nineteenth-century debates over slavery, free willand determinism, science and technology, and the nature and value of literary artistry. The stories in ThePiazza Tales demonstrate the global range of Melville’s cultural and aesthetic concerns, as Melville sethis stories in locales ranging from rural western Massachusetts and Wall Street in the United States to thePacific coast of South America and southern Europe.This edition is especially concerned with Melville’s engagement with both political questions related toslavery and imperialism and aesthetic questions germane to the short story tradition as developed by hisnear contemporaries Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.Trade Review“At last! Although the stories in The Piazza Tales have been collected and anthologized before, only in this version, with Brian Yothers’s meticulous editing, general introduction, and selection of contextual readings, do we get the book Herman Melville envisioned—for twenty-first-century readers and students. Yothers presents a seasoned novelist, but an experimental writer of tales, laboring within a hectic magazine economy and changing literary history forever. He also exhibits a Melville who responds vigorously to contemporary debates over slavery, urbanization, capitalism, and changing gender roles, and who engages with nineteenth-century science, philosophy, and religion, as well as with a transatlantic cast of canonical and popular authors. Prepare to be delighted and surprised by a Melville you may not have known existed.” — Wyn Kelley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology“In this new Broadview Press edition of Melville’s original 1856 version of The Piazza Tales, Brian Yothers provides a valuable classroom edition that includes reviews, sources and allusions, and other contemporary writings on the art of the story, on slavery and inequality, on science and philosophy, and on other topics of importance to an understanding of the diverse worlds embodied in these tales. Yothers’s illuminating introduction highlights the distinctive character of each of the stories while adroitly placing them in the context of Melville’s personal history and career as a fiction writer and poet, making an eloquent case for reading all six stories together for their imaginative variety and skillful artistry. For teachers of Melville, this compact volume fills a long-standing need.” — Christopher Sten, George Washington University“This new edition makes a strong claim to become the Piazza Tales of choice in the undergraduate classroom. … The appendices feature many inspired choices that will amplify the literary and historical resonance of The Piazza Tales without encumbering students with lengthy supplementary readings.” — Dawn Coleman, LeviathanTable of Contents Appendix A: The Art of the Short Story and the Romance 1. Herman Melville, “Hawthorne and his Mosses” (1850) 2. Edgar Allan Poe, Rev. of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales, Graham’s, 1842 3. Rev. of The Piazza Tales in United States Democratic Review, September 1856 4. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Preface to The House of the Seven Gables (1851) Appendix B: Race, Slavery and Inequality 1. Amasa Delano, Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, Comprising Three Voyages Round the World, Together With a Voyage of Survey and Discovery in the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands (1817) 2. Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave (1852) 3. George Lippard, New York, Its Upper Ten and Lower Million (1854) 4. John Quincy Adams, The United States v. The Amistad (1841) 5. The slave deck of the bark ""Wildfire,"" brought into Key West on April 30, 1860 Appendix C: Allusions to Poetry and the Bible 1. “Mariana,” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1830) 2. Matthew 5:38-48, The Bible, King James Version 3. Job 3:1-26, The Bible, King James Version 4. Judges 4:4-22, The Bible, King James Version Appendix D: Science and Philosophy 1. Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. From 1832 to 1836 [October 1835] (1840) 2. Jonathan Edwards, Freedom of the Will (1754), Section V, Concerning the Notion of Liberty, and of Moral Agency 3. Joseph Priestley, The Doctrine of Philosophic Necessity Illustrated (1777)

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Book SynopsisIn all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, the anthology takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors, and includes a wide selection of work by lesser-known writers. The anthology also provides wide-ranging coverage of the worldwide connections of British literature, and it pays attention throughout to matters such as race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. The full anthology comprises six bound volumes, together with an extensive website component; the latter is accessible by using the passcode obtained with the purchase of one or more of the bound volumes. A two-volume Concise Edition and a one-volume Compact Edition are also available. Trade Review“Since the publication of the first edition in 2006, the Broadview Age of Romanticism has outstripped all competitors in its cultural richness and array of conceptual offerings. This new third edition extends the lead in that area, with exciting new entries and course-ready units that help reframe key topics…. The Broadview provides great access to texts (thanks for The Giaour and Castle Rackrent!), but more than that, it is the kind of anthology that may shape innovative and necessary new thinking about the role played by Romantic literary, cultural, and material production at the onset of our contemporary world moment.” — Eric Lindstrom, University of Vermont“I love the changes to the third edition! Adding excerpts from Macpherson’s Poems of Ossian allows students to engage with one of the least accessible but most immediately influential texts of the Romantic era; likewise, adding Byron’s The Giaour gives students a clearer sense of how the most charismatic Romantic poet established his reputation for dashing, exotic glamor.” — Evan Gottlieb, Oregon State University“The new Broadview Anthology of British Literature: The Age of Romanticism includes a range of rich contextual materials, including sections devoted to print culture, the gothic, slavery, and the sublime. These materials … invite students to see beyond the anthology format and understand literature’s interactions with technology, politics, and the environment. The editors have judiciously attended to the significant contributions of Irish and Scottish authors…. In addition, the anthology and the accompanying website document literature’s role in shaping and critiquing the British Empire.” — JoEllen DeLucia, Central Michigan University“… Finally, instructors and students of British Romanticism have an anthology that addresses our needs in the 21st century. There is a fine balance between male and female writers, and the plethora of ancillary material that is available through the text’s website is unparalleled. The affordable price makes the Broadview the natural choice for instructors; I am excited to use it my classroom.” — Peter Francev, Victor Valley College“This latest edition expands nicely on what has always been Broadview’s strength: the sheer diversity of authors and works included. The (very few) significant works that I felt to have been missing in the previous edition’s offerings have all now been included and the new material added to the ‘Contexts’ sections is highly useful and relevant. Canonical authors are thoroughly represented, but the range of authors from outside both the conventional limits of the canon and the geographical limits of England now provides a much broader scope for the teaching of the Romantic period. As someone who is currently revising my courses in the period to make them less focused on individual authors, the flexibility offered by this anthology is very exciting.” — Nat Leach, Cape Breton University“This anthology provides students with a fresh, extensive look at Romantic-period literature from the perspective of the most recent scholarship on the period without sacrificing fundamental texts. There is a healthy balance of canonical and non-canonical pieces, and the thematic approach used in the anthology provides students with a lens to help understand these texts within the framework of the global cultural debates that defined the Romantic period. The ‘Contexts’ offered throughout the volume and the supplemental texts offered in the online supplement to the anthology provide both richness and balance so that students have multiple paths by which they can access the diversity that characterizes Romantic-era literature. The anthology offers students a look at the dynamism and modernity that make Romantic-era literature so engaging.” — Jennifer Golightly, University of Denver“This is an anthology of remarkable breadth and depth, one that captures several of the various spirits of the Romantic Age. The integration of online supplementary material shows that material's relationship to the print selections, but the print version also stands on its own. The section on the Gothic, though brief, is particularly welcome and includes important primary and secondary source considerations of the nature of the Gothic and its relationship to the sublime.” — Jenny Crisp, Dalton State CollegeComments on The Broadview Anthology of British Literature:“… an exciting achievement. It sets a new standard by which all other anthologies of British literature will now have to be measured.” — Graham Hammill, State University of New York, Buffalo“I have been using The Broadview Anthology of British Literature for three years now. I love it—and so do my students!” — Martha Stoddard-Holmes, California State University, San Marcos“… a very real intellectual, as well as pedagogical, achievement.” — Nicholas Watson, Harvard University“After twenty years of teaching British literature from the Norton anthologies, I’m ready to switch to the Broadview. The introductions to each period are key to teaching a survey course, and those in the Broadview seem to me to be both more accessible to students and more detailed in their portraits of each era than are those of the Norton. And Broadview’s selection of authors and texts includes everything I like to teach from the Norton, plus a good deal else that’s of real interest.” — Neil R. Davison, Oregon State University “Norton’s intros are good; Broadview’s are better, with greater clarity and comprehension, as well as emphasis upon how the language and literature develop, both reacting or responding to and influencing or modifying the cultural, religious/philosophical, political, and socio-economic developments of Britain. The historian and the linguist in me thoroughly enjoyed the flow and word-craftsmanship. If you have not considered the anthology for your courses, I recommend that you do so.” — Robert J. Schmidt, Tarrant County College Table of Contents Introduction To The Age Of Romanticism History Of The Language And Of Print Culture James Macpherson Thomas Paine Anna Laetitia Barbauld Hannah More Sir William Jones Charlotte Smith Contexts: The French Revolution And The Napoleonic Era George Crabbe Jane Cave William Blake Mary Robinson Mary Wollstonecraft Contexts: Women And Society Robert Burns Joanna Baillie William Taylor Maria Edgeworth Anne Batten Cristall Contexts: Disability James Hogg William Wordsworth Contexts: Reading, Writing, Publishing Sir Walter Scott Dorothy Wordsworth Contexts: The Natural, The Human, The Supernatural, And The Sublime Contexts: The Gothic Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Southey Contexts: India And The Orient Mary Tighe Jane Austen Matthew Gregory Lewis Charles Lamb William Hazlitt Thomas Moore Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan Leigh Hunt Thomas De Quincey Mary Prince Contexts: Slavery And Its Abolition George Gordon, Lord Byron Emma Lyon Percy Bysshe Shelley Felicia Hemans Contexts: Religion In The Romantic Period John Clare John Keats John William Polidori Mary Shelley Letitia Elizabeth Landon Contexts: Steam Power And The Machine Age Thomas Lovell Beddoes Appendices

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Book SynopsisThe quintessential depiction of the Byronic hero is accompanied in this edition by a substantial selection of contextual materials, including Byron’s original draft of the play’s conclusion; influences on the poem, such as Paradise Lost, Goethe’s Faust, and Vathek; further examples of the Byronic hero from the poet’s other writings; a selection of contemporary reviews; and an excerpt from Man-Fred, a dramatic parody in which the protagonist is reimagined as a chimney-sweep.Trade Review“With its incisive introduction, expertly annotated text, and exceptional roster of contextual materials (including rarely seen manuscript draft excerpts), this Broadview Manfred is an excellent teaching and reading edition of one of Byron’s most influential works.” — Harriet Kramer Linkin, New Mexico State University“This edition of Manfred provides a teaching tool ideally suited to both undergraduate and graduate classrooms. The notes are clear and judicious, neither too many nor too few, and the introduction is a model of scholarship, offering vital information in clear prose. All in all, a welcome addition to the field.” — Emily Bernhard Jackson, University of Exeter“This edition will prove a gift to teachers and students alike interested in experiencing Byron’s dark masterpiece of ‘mental theater’ in the contexts of the Byron-Shelley circle, the Gothic, Romantic Satanism, and Prometheanism, as well as the play’s manuscript, reception, and theatrical histories. The accessible and lively introduction provides an engaging sketch of Byron’s biography and prepares the reader to encounter the radical autonomy of the Byronic hero in this dramatic poem’s exploration of isolation, incest, and irreligion.” — Dan White, University of Toronto“This lucidly annotated edition of Byron’s Manfred, with essential documents reflecting the play’s composition, literary antecedents, and reception, will give students just what they need to appreciate this rich and notoriously iconoclastic text.” — Alan Richardson, Boston CollegeTable of Contents Introduction Manfred In Context Manfred’s Original Third Act Literary Contexts from John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667) from Anne Radcliffe, The Italian (1797) from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part One (1808) from Horace Walpole, The Mysterious Mother (1768) from William Beckford, Vathek (1786) Byron’s Other Writings Selected Letters to Augusta Leigh from The Corsair: A Tale (1814) “Prometheus” (1816) from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto the Third (1816) Responses to Manfred Contemporary English reviews from The British Critic and Quarterly Theological Review (July 1817) from William Roberts, The British Review, and London Critical Journal (August 1817) from Francis Jeffrey, review of Manfred, The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal (August 1817) from anonymous review of Manfred, The Gentleman’s Magazine (July 1817) from anonymous review of Manfred, The Lady’s Monthly Museum (August 1817) from anonymous review of Manfred, The Literary Gazette (June 1817) from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, review of Manfred, Über Kunst und Altertum (1820, written 1817) from Man-Fred (1834) from Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody (1883–91)

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Book SynopsisThis study examines the roots of the distinctive form of writing known as journalism - whether called literary journalism or creative non-fiction - and argues that within America it can be traced at least as far back as the late-19th century.

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Book SynopsisAlone among important American writers, Ambrose Bierce fought for four years in the Civil War. The writings he produced about that conflict comprise a body of work unique in merican literature. This volume gathers virtually everything Bierce wrote about the war, from letters composed on the field of battle to maps he drew as a topographical engineer, from his masterful short stories to his final bittersweet ruminations before he disappeared into Mexico in 1914. The collection is organized chronologically, following Bierce's participation in a wide range of battles, from the early skirmishes in the West Virginia mountains to the bloodbaths at Shiloh and Chickamauga and his near fatal wounding at Kennesaw Mountain. His overlapping accounts of these events provide a clear and compelling record of the sights and sounds of the battlefield, the psychological traumas the war induced in its soldiers, and the memories that would haunt survivors for the rest of their lives. In prose that anticipates the work of Ernest Hemingway and Tim O'Brien, Bierce's writings unflinchingly tell the truth about the war. The volume includes a biographical introduction and comprehensive notes on all the writings and is suitable for classroom adoption and general readers alike.

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Book SynopsisA study of the poet's distinctive compositional practices; Debates about editorial proprieties have been at the center of Emily Dickinson scholarship since the 1981 publication of the two-volume Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, edited by Ralph W. Franklin. Many critics have since investigated the possibility that autograph poems might have primacy over their printed versions, and it has been suggested that to read Dickinson in any standard typographic edition is effectively to read her in translation, at one remove from her actual practices. More specifically, it has been claimed that line arrangements, the shape of words and letters, and the particular angle of dashes are all potentially integral to any given poem's meaning, making a graphic contribution to its contents. In Measures of Possibility, Domhnall Mitchell sets out to test the hypothesis of Dickinson's textual radicalism, and its consequences for readers, students, and teachers, by looking closely at features such as spacing, the physical direction of the writing, and letter-shapes in hand-written lyric and epistolary texts. Through systematic contextualization and cross-referencing, Mitchell provides the reader with a critical apparatus by which to measure the extent to which contemporary approaches to Dickinson's autograph procedures can reasonably be formulated as corresponding to the poet's own purposes.Trade ReviewIn this admirable and ambitious study, Domhnall confronts the thorny question of whether any set of editing practices can adequately represent in print the distinctive characteristics of Emily Dickinson's writing.... This book will do for our generation of Dickinson scholars what Franklin's The Editing of Emily Dickinson did in the wake of the Johnson edition, but it will draw a lot more attention because editing issues now claim a tremendous amount of attention in ways that force everyone who proposes to write on Dickinson (or perhaps even to teach her poems) to arrive at some sort of considered justification for individual choices. This will be an important and timely book - and a controversial one. - Jane Donahue Eberwein, editor of An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia; ""Domhnall Mitchell's critical persona is witty and humane, engaging and astute.... the book is sure to have a major impact on Dickinson studies and on editorial politics and practices further afield."" - Vivian Pollak, author of Dickinson: The Anxiety of Gender

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Book SynopsisThis book is a source of quick reference containing basic and up-to-date information on the poet's life, her art, the manuscripts, and the current state of Dickinson scholarship in general. For ease of use, individual essays have been structured as follows: Each essay provides a historical overview of the relevant issues under scrutiny. The essays offer detailed discussions of important aspects pertaining of the fields in question. Unlike encyclopedic entries, each of the several essays reflects the authors own perspective, presenting a distinct point of view, at times a controversial one. Trade ReviewThis book presents the most exhaustive and useful summary of Emily Dickinson scholarship in the 20th century-a series of short but amazingly comprehensive essays on almost every aspect of Dickinson studies, written especially for this volume by Dickinson's most formidable contemporary critics. Invaluable to the expert and novice alike, every page of this book is sheer pleasure, in a way comparable to few scholarly texts.-Virginia Quarterly Review; ""The best of recent Dickinson scholarship is gathered together in the multifaceted Emily Dickinson Handbook, a collection of essays that examine Dickinson's life, poetry, poetics, and social perspective.""-Booklist ""Satisfies a long-standing need in 19th-century U.S. literature studies, providing a ready reference guide with essential, up-to-date material about Dickinson's life and art, her manuscripts, and the present state of research.... Highly recommended.""-Choice; ""A single authoritative source for information about Dickinson's historical, cultural, and biographical contexts, as well as the editing and transmission of her texts, their critical reception, and the most recent interpretive, pedagogical, and theoretical approaches within Dickinson scholarship.... This book has it all.""-Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin

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Book SynopsisIndifference is a common, even indispensable element of human experience. But it is rare in poetry, which is traditionally defined by its direct opposition to indifference-by its heightened emotion, consciousness, and effort. This definition applies especially to English poets of the nineteenth century, heirs to an age that predicated aesthetics on moral sentiment or feeling. Yet it was in this period, Erik Gray argues, that a concentrated strain of poetic indifference began to emerge. The Poetry of Indifference analyzes nineteenth-century works by Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Edward FitzGerald, among others-works that do not merely declare themselves to be indifferent but formally enact the indifference they describe. Each poem consciously disregards some aspect of poetry that is usually considered to be crucial or definitive, even at the risk of seeming ""indifferent"" in the sense of ""mediocre."" Such gestures discourage critical attention, since the poetry of indifference refuses to make claims for itself. This is particularly true of FitzGerald's Rubaiyat, one of the most popular poems of the nineteenth century, but one that recent critics have almost entirely ignored. In concentrating on this underexplored mode of poetry, Gray not only traces a major shift in recent literary history, from a Romantic poetics of sympathy to a Modernist poetics of alienation, but also considers how this literature can help us understand the sometimes embarrassing but unavoidable presence of indifference in our lives.Trade ReviewExtraordinary from start to finish. Once I began reading it, I continued reading it almost nonstop, even in a period full of other obligations. The book is electric in its revelations and in its quality of writing a small work of art.-Elaine Scarry, Harvard University; ""A first-rate piece of work: original, daring, witty-just very perceptive page after page. Absolutely free from jargon or pomposity or any of the afflications that beset English study.""-William H. Pritchard, Amherst College

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Book SynopsisA vital feature of American culture in the nineteenth century was the growing awareness that the literary marketplace consisted not of a single, unified, relatively homogeneous reading public, but rather of many disparate, overlapping reading communities differentiated by interests, class, and level of education, as well as by gender and stage of life. Tracing the segmentation of the literary marketplace in nineteenth-century America, this book analyzes the implications of the subdivided literary field for readers, writers, and literature itself. With sections focusing on segmentation by age, gender, and cultural status, ""In the Company of Books"" analyzes the ways authors and publishers carved up the field of literary production into a multitude of distinct submarkets, differentiated their products, and targeted specific groups of readers in order to guide their book-buying decisions. Combining innovative approaches to canonical authors, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, and Henry James with engaging investigations into the careers of many lesser-known literary figures, Sarah Wadsworth reveals how American writers responded to - and contributed to - this diverse, and diversified, market. ""In the Company of Books"" contends that specialized editorial and marketing tactics, in concert with the narrative strategies of authors and the reading practices of the book-buying public, transformed the literary landscape, leading to new roles for the book in American culture, the innovation of literary genres, and new relationships between books and readers. Both an exploration of a fragmented print culture through the lens of nineteenth-century American literature and an analysis of nineteenth-century American literature from the perspective of this subdivided marketplace, this wide-ranging study offers fresh insight into the impact of market forces on the development of American literature.

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Book SynopsisBetween the two world wars, American publishing entered a ""golden age"" characterized by an explosion of new publishers, authors, audiences, distribution strategies, and marketing techniques. The period was distinguished by a diverse literary culture, ranging from modern cultural rebels to working-class laborers, political radicals, and progressive housewives. In ""America the Middlebrow"", Jaime Harker focuses on one neglected mode of authorship in the interwar period - women's middlebrow authorship and its intersection with progressive politics. With the rise of middlebrow institutions and readers came the need for the creation of the new category of authorship. Harker contends that these new writers appropriated and adapted a larger tradition of women's activism and literary activity to their own needs and practices. Like sentimental women writers and readers of the 1850s, these authors saw fiction as a means of reforming and transforming society. Like their Progressive Era forebears, they replaced religious icons with nationalistic images of progress and pragmatic ideology. In the interwar period, this mode of authorship was informed by Deweyan pragmatist aesthetics, which insisted that art provided vicarious experience that could help create humane, democratic societies. Drawing on letters from publishers, editors, agents, and authors, ""America the Middlebrow"" traces four key moments in this distinctive culture of letters through the careers of Dorothy Canfield, Jessie Fauset, Pearl Buck, and Josephine Herbst. Both an exploration of a virtually invisible culture of letters and a challenge to monolithic paradigms of modernism, the book offers fresh insight into the ongoing tradition of political domestic fiction that flourished between the wars.Trade ReviewPart cultural/intellectual history and part literary history and criticism, this book is interesting and useful.... The writing is clear and accessible, and the book will be of use not only to literary scholars, but also to cultural historians of the early twentieth century. - Trysh Travis, University of Florida

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Book SynopsisAn old Indian woman comforts two young white children she finds lost in the woods and lovingly carries them back to their eager parents. A frontiersman sheds tears over the grave of a Mohican youth, holding hands with the mourning father.According to Laura L. Mielke, such emotionally charged scenes between whites and Indians paradoxically flourished in American literature from 1820 to 1850, a time when the United States government developed and applied a policy of Indian removal. Although these ""moving encounters,"" as Mielke terms them, often promoted the possibility of mutual sympathy between Native Americans and Euro-Americans, they also suggested that these emotional links were inherently unstable, potentially dangerous, and ultimately doomed. At the same time, the emphasis on Indian-white sympathy provided an opportunity for Indians and non-Native activists to voice an alternative to removal and acculturation, turning the language of a sentimental U.S. culture against its own imperial impulse.Mielke details not only how such writers as James Fenimore Cooper and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft forecast the inevitable demise of Indian-white sympathy, but also how authors like Lydia Maria Child and William Apess insisted that a language of feeling could be used to create shared community or defend American Indian sovereignty. In this way, ""Moving Encounters"" sheds new light on a wide range of texts concerning the ""Indian Question"" by emphasizing their engagement with popular sentimental forms and by challenging the commonly held belief that all Euro-American expressions of sympathy for American Indians in this period were fundamentally insincere. While portraits of Indian-white sympathy often prompted cynical rejoinders from parodists, many never lost faith in the power of emotion to overcome the greed and prejudice fueling the dispossession of American Indians.Trade ReviewMielke's scholarship is exemplary. She shows broad knowledge of historical and literary scholarship in Native American studies and in American history and literature.... This text could be quite useful in advanced undergraduate seminars in nineteenth-century literature, and it will certainly be a must-have book for scholars in the field. - Renee Bergland, author of The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects

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Book SynopsisThis book reconstructs the literary and cultural history of addiction from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The notion of addiction has always conjured first-person stories, often beginning with an insidious seduction, followed by compulsion and despair, culminating in recovery and tentative hope for the future. We are all familiar with this form of individual life narrative, Susan Zieger observes, but we know far less about its history. 'Addict' was not an available identity until the end of the nineteenth century, when a modernizing medical establishment and burgeoning culture of consumption updated the figure of the sinful drunkard popularized by the temperance movement.In ""Inventing the Addict"", Zieger tells the story of how the addict, a person uniquely torn between disease and desire, emerged from a variety of earlier figures such as drunkards, opium-eating scholars, vicious slave masters, dissipated New Women, and queer doctors. Drawing on a broad range of literary and cultural material, including canonical novels such as ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", ""The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"", and ""Dracula"", she traces the evolution of the concept of addiction through a series of recurrent metaphors: exile, self-enslavement, disease, and vampirism. She shows how addiction took on multiple meanings beyond its common association with intoxication or specific habit-forming substances - it was an abiding desire akin to both sexual attraction and commodity fetishism, a disease that strangely failed to meet the requirements of pathology, and the citizen's ironic refusal to fulfill the promise of freedom.Nor was addiction an ideologically neutral idea. As Zieger demonstrates, it took form over time through specific, shifting intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality, reflecting the role of social power in the construction of meaning.Trade ReviewInventing the Addict is full of excellent things. It not only makes an important contribution to the field of addiction studies and many other areas of present interest in cultural, social, and material studies, it also functions partly as a summary and synthesis of much current work in nineteenth-century civilization. - Marty Roth, author of Drunk the Night Before: An Anatomy of Intoxication

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses how Northern writers came to grips with the mixed legacy of the Civil War.The memory of the American Civil War took many forms over the decades after the conflict ended: personal, social, religious, and political. It was also remembered and commemorated by poets and fiction writers who understood that the war had bequeathed both historical and symbolic meanings to American culture. Although the defeated Confederacy became best known for producing a literature of nostalgia and an ideological defensiveness intended to protect the South's own version of history, authors loyal to the Union also confronted the question of what the memory of the war signified, and how to shape the literary response to that individual and collective experience.In ""Ashes of the Mind"", Martin Griffin examines the work of five Northerners - three poets and two fiction writers - who over a period of four decades tried to understand and articulate the landscape of memory in postwar America, and in particular in that part of the nation that could, with most justification, claim the victory of its beliefs and values. The book begins with an examination of the rhetorical grandeur of James Russell Lowell's ""Harvard Commemoration Ode"", ranges across Herman Melville's ironic war poetry, Henry James' novel of North-South reconciliation, ""The Bostonians"", and Ambrose Bierce's short stories, and ends with the bitter meditation on race and nation presented by Paul Laurence Dunbar's elegy ""Robert Gould Shaw."" Together these texts reveal how a group of representative Northern writers were haunted in different ways by the memory of the conflict and its fraught legacy.Griffin traces a concern with individual and community loss, ambivalence toward victory, and a changing politics of commemoration in the writings of Lowell, Melville, James, Bierce, and Dunbar. What links these very different authors is a Northern memory of the war that became more complex and more compromised as the century went on, often replacing a sense of justification and achievement with a perception of irony and failed promise.Trade ReviewAshes of the Mind will both add to the existing scholarship in a meaningful way and model a kind of interdisciplinarity that the field sorely needs. - Lyde Cullen Sizer, author of The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872

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Book SynopsisCovers the major modernist literary works of Broch and constitutes the first comprehensive introduction in English to his political, cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical writings. Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is best known for his two major modernist works, The Sleepwalkers (3 vols., 1930-1932) and The Death of Virgil (1945), which frame a lifetime of ethical, cultural, political, and social thought. A textile manufacturer by trade, Broch entered the literary scene late in life with an experimental view of the novel that strove towards totality and vividly depicted Europe's cultural disintegration. As fascism took over and Broch, a Viennese Jew, was forced into exile, his view of literature as transformative was challenged, but his commitment to presenting an ethical view of the crises of his time was unwavering. An important mentor and interlocutor for contemporaries such as Arendt and Canetti as well as a continued inspiration for contemporary authors, Broch wrote to better understand and shape the political and cultural conditions for a postfascist world. This volume covers the major literary works and constitutes the first comprehensive introduction in English to Broch's political, cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical writings. Contributors: Graham Bartram, Brechtje Beuker, GiselaBrude-Firnau, Gwyneth Cliver, Jennifer Jenkins, Kathleen L. Komar, Paul Michael Lützeler, Gunther Martens, Sarah McGaughey, Judith Ryan, Judith Sidler, Galin Tihanov, Sebastian Wogenstein. Graham Bartram retired as Senior Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Lancaster, UK. Sarah McGaughey is Associate Professor of German at Dickinson College, USA. Galin Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, UK.Trade Review[A] fantastic volume that introduces Broch, his work, and his historical environment. This task is noble and its execution well done, and in this they have done a significant service to the field. Instructors should be encouraged to assign chapters from this collection - no given chapter is particularly long- to be read in tandem with the works they discuss. -- STUDIES IN 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY LITERATURESpecialists and general readers will find themselves repeatedly turning to this book for overall context and specific elucidation, especially since the editors validate their hope for wide appeal by translating all passages in German. . . . . [P]rovides reliable knowledge expertly presented in essays uniformly lucid, winnowing the full range of scholarship and keeping the topic in focus, never straying into side issues. . . . [A] truly indispensable guide to Broch. Very highly recommended. -- Vincent Kling * GERMAN QUARTERLY *Well suited to giving a broad readership an overview of Broch's work while providing certain historical accents...The volume succeeds overall in portraying in some detail the complexity of and also the inner tension in Broch's works, and at the same time demonstrating that his texts remain relevant for the present day. -- Martin Klebes * GERMANISTIK *This valuable collection suggests reevaluation of the neglected Austrian writer Hermann Broch (1886-1951). . . . This exciting collection, with its suggestions of new scholarly possibilities, will certainly heighten interest in one of the major literary figures of the 20th century. Recommended. * CHOICE *A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch is an indispensable volume for all Broch readers, especially for new readers in the Anglophone world. Beyond its high level of scholarly contribution, the volume balances detailed readings of all Broch's major works (literary, dramatic, and political) with a longue durée view of Broch's intellectual development from his earlier years in Vienna to his transition to novelist to his exile in the United States. The editors have woven together individual readings with a universal assessment of Broch's wide-ranging intellectual commitments, and they have made a strong argument for the continued relevance of his novels, his aesthetic theory, and his humane politics. -Donald L. Wallace, Associate Professor, United States Naval Academy, author of Embracing Democracy: Hermann Broch, Politics, and Exile, 1918 to 1951 * . *[T]his Companion addresses a palpable need, namely to provide a point of entry for a larger readership to one of the major literary figures of European modernism. . . . While not every Broch text mentioned in this Companion will be accessible to those who do not read German, many are, and the book as a whole makes a strong case for seeking them out. -- Martin Klebes * Austrian Studies *[This Companion] is not only rigorous and thorough in its scholarship, but it is a pleasant book to read and spend time with. Its essayists strike a tone that is serious but companionable-which suggests strong leadership behind the scenes on the part of its editors. . . . [An] excellent collection. -- Steve Dowden * MONATSHEFTE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Broch's Life and Works - Graham Bartram and Sarah McGaughey Perspectives on Broch's Die Schlafwandler: Narratives of History and the Self - Kathleen L. Komar Hermann Broch and the Dilemma of Literature in the Modern Age - Gunther Martens Interrogating Modernity: Hermann Broch's Postromanticism - Galin Tihanov Broch and the Theater: Die Entsühnung and Aus der Luft gegriffen as Tragic and Comic Dramatizations of the Economic Machine - Brechtje Beuker Limits of the Scientific: Broch's Die Unbekannte Größe - Gwyneth Cliver Broch's Die Verzauberung: Ludwig Klages and the Bourgeois Mitläufer - Gisela Brude-Firnau Hermann Broch's Massenwahnprojekt and Its Relevance for Our Times - Judith Ryan Human Rights and the Intellectual's Ethical Duty: Broch's Political Writings - Sebastian Wogenstein Broch's Der Tod des Vergil: Art and Power, Language and the Ineffable - Jennifer Jenkins From the "Tierkreis-Erzählungen" to Die Schuldlosen: The Creation of Broch's Last Novel - Judith Sidler Broch's Legacy and Resonance - Paul Michael Lützeler Selected Bibliography - Sarah McGaughey Notes on the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisShows that the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) forms a philosophy of dialogue and communication that is crucially relevant to contemporary debates in the Humanities. Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) is the progenitor of modern linguistics and the originator of the modern teaching and research university. However, his work has received remarkably little attention in the English-speaking world. Humboldt conceives language as the source of cognition as well as communication, both rooted in the possibility of human dialogue. In the same way, his idea of the university posits the free encounter between radically different personalities as the source of education for freedom. For Humboldt, both linguistic and intellectual communication are predicated firstly on dialogue between persons, which is the prerequisite for all intercultural understanding. Linking Humboldt's concept of dialogue to his idea of translation between languages, persons, and cultures, this book shows how Humboldt's thought is of great contemporary relevance. Humboldt shows a way beyond the false alternatives of "culturalism" (the demand that a plurality of cultural and faith-based traditions be recognized as sources of ethical and political legitimacy in the modern world) and "universalism" (the assertion of the primacy of a universal culture of human rights and the renewal of the European Enlightenment project). John Walker explains how Humboldt's work emerges from the intellectual conflicts of his time and yet directly addresses the concerns of our own post-secular and multicultural age.Trade ReviewThis book is not only an important contribution to the Anglo-American scholarship on Wilhelm von Humboldt. It also constitutes an inspiring enrichment of a multitude of contemporary debates of high social and political relevance and thus demonstrates the prime importance of Humanities research for our time. -- Professor Dr Marko Pajevic, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, University of TartuTable of ContentsPreface A Note on Texts List of Abbreviations Introduction 1: Humboldt and the Dialectic of Enlightenment: Language, Culture, and Freedom 2: Language, Dialogue, and Translation: The Human Relevance of the Comparative Study of Language 3: Language Interaction and Language Change: Humboldt on the Kawi Language of Java 4: Humboldt, "Orientalism," and Understanding the Other 5: Humboldt, Translation, and Dialogue between Faiths: Emmanuel Levinas, Stanley Hauerwas, and Shahab Ahmed 6: Scriptural Reasoning: Dialogue and Translation in Practice 7: Secularity and Communities of Faith in the Public Sphere 8: Wilhelm von Humboldt: Translation, Dialogue, and the Modern University Bibliography Index

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