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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 SynopsisHenry James’s Daisy Miller was an immediate sensation when it was first published in 1878 and has remained popular ever since. In this novella, the charming but inscrutable young American of the title shocks European society with her casual indifference to its social mores. The novella was popular in part because of the debates it sparked about foreign travel, the behaviour of women, and cultural clashes between people of different nationalities and social classes.This Broadview edition presents an early version of James’s best-known novella within the cultural contexts of its day. In addition to primary materials about nineteenth-century womanhood, foreign travel, medicine, philosophy, theatre, and art—some of the topics that interested James as he was writing the story—this volume includes James’s ruminations on fiction, theatre, and writing, and presents excerpts of Daisy Miller as he rewrote it for the theatre and for a much later and heavily revised edition.Trade Review“Everything about this edition commends it to instructors, students, and general readers alike. Kristin Boudreau’s authoritative introduction provides an excellent orientation, no less for seasoned scholars than for students discovering Henry James. The text of the novella is well chosen—the 1879 Harper edition, capturing the freshness of James’s early style (as opposed to the ornate 1909 revision), but with the benefit of James’s revisions of the first magazine and book versions. Twelve appendices offer contemporary materials that cast strong and helpful lights on key aspects of James’s art and of the literary and cultural contexts of this early masterpiece.” — Daniel Mark Fogel, University of Vermont“Kristin Boudreau’s fascinating and accessible introduction sets James’s Daisy Miller in biographical, literary, historical, philosophical—and even medical—context. Appendices provide ample and well-chosen primary material, including selections focused on the nineteenth-century New Woman; the prevalence and treatment of ‘Roman fever’; and James’s literary and artistic influences, aims, and revisions. Anyone teaching James’s popular novella will find Broadview’s new edition a superb resource.” — Linda Simon, Skidmore CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction, Kristin BoudreauHenry James: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextDaisy Miller: A StudyAppendix A: Henry James on Daisy Miller From Henry James, Notebooks (11 November 1882) Eliza Lynn Linton, Letter to Henry James (1880) Henry James, Reply to Eliza Lynn Linton (1880) From Henry James, Preface to Daisy Miller (1909) Appendix B: Literary and Artistic Influences From Lord Byron, “Manfred: A Dramatic Poem” (1817) From Henry James, Review of Victor Cherbuliez’s Paule Méré (October 1873) From Henry James, Unsigned Note on Velázquez’s “Portrait of Pope Innocent X” (November 1874) Appendix C: Henry James and the Craft of Fiction From Henry James, Hawthorne (1879) From Walter Besant, The Art of Fiction (1884) From Henry James, “The Art of Fiction” (1884; revised 1888) From Henry James, Preface to The Portrait of a Lady (1908) Appendix D: Contemporary Reviews of Daisy Miller (1878-82) From “Editor’s Easy Chair,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (June-November 1878) From The New York Times (10 November 1878) From Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (December 1878) From “Recent Novels,” The Nation (19 December 1878) From The North American Review (January 1879) From John Hay, “The Contributor’s Club,” Atlantic Monthly (March 1879) From William Dean Howells, Letter to James Russell Lowell (22 June 1879) From “New Books,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (July-December 1879) From “Henry James, Jr.,” Century Magazine (November 1882) Appendix E: Henry James and the Craft of Drama From Henry James, “The Parisian Stage,” The Nation (9 January 1873) From Henry James, “Tennyson’s Drama,” The Galaxy (September 1875) From James’s Letters and the Notebooks Letter to William James (6 February 1891) Letter to Elizabeth Lewis (15? December 1894) Letter to William and Alice James (29 December 1893) James, Notebooks (22 January 1899) From Henry James, “Note” to Theatricals: Second Series (1895) From Henry James, Preface to The Awkward Age (1908) Appendix F: From Henry James, Daisy Miller: A Comedy in Three Acts (1883)Appendix G: Contemporary Reviews of Daisy Miller: A Comedy in Three Acts (1883) From “Literary Notes,” The Independent (29 March 1883) From “Miscellaneous,” San Francisco Chronicle (30 September 1883) From “Daisy Miller as a Comedy,” Literary World (6 October 1883) Appendix H: On Henry James’s Revisions William James, Letter to Henry James (4 May 1907) Max Beerbohm, “A Nightmare, Mr. Henry James Subpoenaed as Psychological Expert in a Cause Célèbre” (1908) Henry James, Letter to William James (17-18 October 1907) Parallel Texts from the 1879 and 1900 Editions of Daisy Miller Appendix I: The Nineteenth-Century New Woman From Eliza Lynn Linton, The Girl of the Period and Other Social Essays (1868; reprinted 1883) From Eliza Lynn Linton, Modern Women and What Is Said of Them (1868; reprinted 1870) Henry James, Review of Modern Women and What Is Said of Them (22 October 1868) From Florence Hartley, The Ladies’ Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness (1875) From From Lucy H. Hooper, “American Women Abroad,” The Galaxy (June 1876) From From Albert Rhodes, “Shall the American Girl Be Chaperoned?,” The Galaxy (October 1877) Appendix J: Nineteenth-Century Travel From William Wetmore Story, Roba di Roma (1862) From From Alice A. Bartlett, “Some Pros and Cons of Travel Abroad,” Old and New (October 1871) From Henry James, “The Old Saint-Gothard: Leaves from a Note-book ” (22 October 1868) From “Preface,” Cook’s Tourist Handbook for Northern Italy (1875) From Switzerland, and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and the Tyrol: Handbook for Travellers (1877) Descriptions of Swiss Sights From Switzerland, and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and the Tyrol: Handbook for Travellers (1877) From Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland, and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont (1867) Descriptions of Italian Sights and Challenges From Italy: A Handbook for Travellers (1893) From A Handbook of Rome and Its Environs (1873) Appendix K: “Roman Fever” From Peter S. Townsend, M.D., An Account of the Yellow Fever, as it Prevailed in the City of New York, in the Summer and Autumn of 1822 (1823) From Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle (1839) From Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (22 October 1868) “Miasma,” from A Dictionary of Medical Science (1895) Appendix L: Daisy Miller and the Tradition of Pragmatism From Charles Sanders Peirce, “The Fixation of Belief,” Popular Science Monthly (November 1877) From William James, Pragmatism (1907) Henry James, Letter to William James (17 October 1907) Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisNostromo, first published in 1904, is arguably Conrad’s greatest and most complex novel. A compelling adventure story, it is also a novel of profound psychological insight and of powerful political implications. It tells the story of a Central American state whose silver mine serves both literally and metaphorically as the source of the country‘s value. Written at the time of the development of the Panama Canal, Nostromo is set in the imaginary province of Sulaco, which secedes from the federation of Costaguana in order to protect its natural resource, the silver mine. The parallels with the ‘revolution’ fomented in Panama by the United States in 1903 are striking; just as Panama seceded from Columbia to satisfy the material interests of the canal builders, so the secession of Sulaco serves the material interests of ‘the Gould concession.’ In this edition a variety of documents from the period (including material concerning American involvement in Central America in the early twentieth century, early critical notices, and family letters of Conrad’s) help to set the text in context.Trade Review“Ruth Nadelhaft’s new edition of Nostromo is a timely addition to the Broadview Editions series. Without neglecting the traditional critical and biographical approaches, the supplementary materials and lucid introduction place Conrad’s difficult masterpiece fully and clearly within its contemporary contexts (especially the events surrounding the Panama Canal project), and in relation to our own debates about imperialism, colonials, and alleged racism in Conrad’s work. Broadview’s Nostromo, like its companion volumes, is truly a text for the way we teach now.” — David Latané Jr., Virginia Commonwealth University“Nadelhaft negotiates the impasse between existential and political responses to the book. In reaffirming that the personal is the political, she demonstrates how Nostromo represents the process whereby ‘imperialism transmits the virus of alienation.’ Joined with the historical apparatus so characteristic of Broadview Editions, such theorizing genuinely reopens a book that hasn’t yet received its due.” — Michael Coyle, Colgate UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionA Note on the TextJoseph Conrad: A Brief ChronologyAuthor’s NoteNostromoAppendix A: Selected Reviews Letters of Arnold Bennett (25 November 1912) Unsigned review, The Times Literary Supplement (21 October 1904) Unsigned notice, Review of Reviews (1 November 1904) Unsigned notice, Black and White (5 November 1904) Unsigned review, Daily Telegraph (9 November 1904) C.D.O. Barrie, British Weekly (10 November 1904) Unsigned review, Manchester Guardian (2 November 1904) Edward Garnett, Speaker (12 November 1904) John Buchan, Spectator (19 November 1904) Unsigned notice, Illustrated London News (26 November 1904) Appendix B: Selected LettersAppendix C: Documents relating to the Panama Canal Treaty of 1903Appendix D: “Autocracy and War”Works CitedRecommended Reading

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

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

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Book SynopsisDrawing on recent developments in gay studies and queer theory, Pink Snow: Homotextual Possibilities in Canadian Fiction offers new interpretations that focus on homoerotic resonances in literature. Goldie brings an original, engaging, and sometimes provocative critical perspective to bear on both Canadian classics and less mainstream works. Chapters include:Wacousta (John Richardson)As For Me and My House (Sinclair Ross)Who Has Seen the Wind (W.O. Mitchell)The Mountain and the Valley (Ernest Buckler)Beautiful Losers (Leonard Cohen)Place D’Armes (Scott Symons)Fifth Business (Robertson Davies)The Wars (Timothy Findley)Thy Mother’s Glass (David Watmough)Funny Boy (Shyam Selvadurai)Kiss of the Fur Queen (Tomson Highway)Trade Review“The power of Terry Goldie’s Pink Snow is not to show us what we’ve always known, that some Canadian fiction writers have been gay or that they treat gayness in their work. Goldie shows us what it means to read from a gay perspective even when reading such canonical texts as Wacousta, As For Me and My House, Who Has Seen the Wind, The Mountain and the Valley, Beautiful Losers, or Fifth Business. No matter how well you think you already know these Canadian classics, you emerge from the pages of Pink Snow with a sense of fresh insights, and even, to paraphrase Goldie, of the queerness of much of Canadian fiction.” — Russell Brown, University of Toronto at ScarboroughTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsCHAPTER 1: Introduction: Who is the Homotextual?CHAPTER 2: The Guise of Friendship: WacoustaCHAPTER 3: “Not Precisely Gay in Tone”:As For Me and My HouseCHAPTER 4: Pursuing the Homosocial Ideal:Who Has Seen the WindCHAPTER 5: The Pain of David’s Body:The Mountain and the ValleyCHAPTER 6: Producing Losers: Beautiful LosersCHAPTER 7: The Canadian Assoul: Place d’ArmesCHAPTER 8: “How Am I Queer?”: Fifth BusinessCHAPTER 9: The Canadian HomoSEXual: The WarsCHAPTER 10: What is Davey Bryant Doing Here?:Thy Mother’s GlassCHAPTER 11: The Funniness of the Funny BoyCHAPTER 12: Eaten Up: Kiss of the Fur QueenCHAPTER 13: Conclusion: Guilty BuddiesL’EnvoiWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisBlack Oxen unites such unlikely topics as medical rejuvenation treatments, eugenics, American youth culture, and cross-generational relationships. The beautiful American widow of a Hungarian count, Mary Zattiany is fifty-eight years old; after receiving experimental “rejuvenation treatments” and returning to America, however, she is mistaken for a woman in her twenties, and falls in love with a much younger man. Set in an era fixated on youth, beauty, and pleasure, but focusing on the experiences of an aging woman, Black Oxen offers a unique and unsettling view of the Jazz Age.Black Oxen was written in a burst of mental energy after Gertrude Atherton herself received an experimental anti-aging treatment; the introduction and appendices to this edition explore parallels between Atherton’s medical treatment and that of her rejuvenated protagonist, as well as provide selections from other contemporary writings on aging, science, and the role of women in the 1920s. Stills and posters from the 1924 film adaptation are also included.Trade Review“Broadview’s edition of Atherton’s Black Oxen is long overdue. Of interest to students of 1920s culture, gender studies, and aging studies, Atherton’s novel explores the 1920s female rejuvenation craze. Melanie Dawson situates Atherton’s work in the context of its time, exploring gender and generational tensions, the cult of the flapper, the literary sophistication of the Algonquin Round Table, and the role of American intellectuals on the international stage. Historical documents that illuminate these issues, as well as the popularity of Atherton’s novel and its film adaptation, will bring the novel to life for students. Dawson’s edition of Black Oxen should help the novel enjoy the rejuvenation it deserves.” — Meredith Goldsmith, Ursinus College“Melanie Dawson’s critical edition of Gertrude Atherton’s Black Oxen provides a good range of contextual materials illuminating the novel’s exploration of youth culture, science and technology, eugenics, and sexual politics in the early twentieth century. Dawson’s helpful introduction also emphasizes the novel’s engagement with national and international concerns of the period. Supplementary materials provide a useful overview of rejuvenation theories (including Atherton’s own writing on the subject), contemporary discourses of marriage, gender, and the flapper, and the reception of Atherton’s novel and its popular movie version. The edition will be particularly welcome in modernism and women’s studies courses.” — Gary Totten, North Dakota State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionGertrude Atherton: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextBlack OxenAppendix A: Age and the Body From George F. Corners, Rejuvenation: How Steinach Makes People Young (1923) From Eugen Steinach, Sex and Life: Forty Years of Biological and Medical Experiments (1940) From Gertrude Atherton, “Second Youth” (8 July 1939) Readers’ Letters to Atherton Appendix B: Theories of Cultural Change in the 1920s From Ben B. Lindsey and Wainwright Evans, The Companionate Marriage (1927) From Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties (1931) From Floyd Dell, Love in the Machine Age: A Psychological Study of the Transition from Patriarchal Society (1930) Appendix C: The Flapper and the Other Generations E.L. Aultman, “What Is a ‘Flapper’?” Los Angeles Times (1 March 1922) Helen Bullitt Lowry, “Mrs. Grundy and Miss 1921,” New York Times (23 January 1921) Alma Whitaker, “Exit Flapper; Enter the Mysterious Woman of Thirty,” Los Angeles Times (23 July 1922) Appendix D: Reviews of the Novel and the Film Carl Van Vechten, “A Lady Who Defies Time,” The Nation (14 February 1923) “The New Curiosity Shop, Black Oxen,” The Literary Review (7 July 1923) “First National’s Black Oxen Plays to Capacity Business,” Moving Picture World (19 January 1924) Frank Elliott, “Black Oxen, Frank Lloyd, First National,” Motion Picture News (5 January 1924) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe unique blend of fairy tale atmosphere and social realism in this novel laid the groundwork for modern fantasy literature. In the novel, Little Diamond, a kind and precocious boy living in poverty, is befriended by the mysterious North Wind, who takes him on her nightly adventures. Written in intensely poetic language, At the Back of the North Wind transcends the genres of children’s book or fairy tale.Appendices include essays on childhood by contemporaries such as John Ruskin and Charles Dickens, as well as contextualizing selections from Victorian fantasy and fairy tales.Trade Review“This is a remarkable edition, situating a fascinating text in a number of provocative contexts. The annotations provide informative social and historical background while also following textual traces to other MacDonald texts, and to the varied sources used by this highly eclectic Victorian author. The edition pays particular attention to Arthur Hughes’s marvellous illustrations, which are not only reproduced but fully contextualized by original essays appended to the edition. The full apparatus gives us the text but also its worlds, from the streets of London to the imaginary vistas of myth and fairy tale. As an added treat, the eminent literary critic Stephen Prickett has furnished a rich and densely suggestive Preface.” — Doug Thorpe, University of Saskatchewan“Broadview Editions’ new edition of George MacDonald’s 1871 fairy tale is an excellent and enlightening look at this significant event in children’s literature. With an abundance of supporting material, this volume is veritably a course in the Victorian fairy tale, setting the story in context with nineteenth-century Britain, anticipating the reader’s questions, and addressing the controversies. There is much to be learned from this work.” — George Bodmer, Indiana University Northwest“This eagerly awaited edition of a major children’s classic of the Victorian era wonderfully fulfills its ambitious aims. Not only do McGillis and Pennington validate the cultural importance once held by At the Back of the North Wind, but also manage to highlight this hybrid fantasy-book’s appeal to readers in the Age of Harry Potter. Appendices that place the book into different kinds of contexts; the careful textual annotations; and, above all, the attention paid to visual matters—Arthur Hughes’s illustrations, as well as other cartoons, maps, and anatomies—make this a truly indispensable item.” — Ulrich Knoepflmacher, Professor Emeritus, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPreface, Stephen PrickettIntroductionGeorge MacDonald: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the Text and IllustrationsAt the Back of the North WindAppendix A: Good Words for the Young and the Serial Publication of At the Back of the North Wind Mark Knight, Introduction: Good Words for the Young Cover of Good Words for the Young (1869) Norman Macleod, Editor’s Address (1869) Cover of Good Words for the Young (1870) George MacDonald, Editor’s Greeting (1 December 1870) “The Mother’s Prayer” (1869) Two Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (1 July1870) “The Rags” “What the Whole Family Said” “Up in Heaven” (1870) Arthur Hughes, Illustration for Ranald Bannerman’s Boyhood (1871) Arthur Hughes, Illustration for The Princess and the Goblin (1872) Appendix B: Children’s Literature and the Victorian Consciousness Review of At the Back of the North Wind, The Athenaeum (March 1871) Mark Twain and George MacDonald Letter from Twain to MacDonald (19 September 1882) Letter from Twain to W.D. Howells (1899) From Poems in Two Volumes, by William Wordsworth (1807) “My heart leaps up” (written in 1802) From “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” (written in 1802-04) George MacDonald, “The Child in the Midst” (1867) Cartoon of MacDonald as “Goody Goody” (2 November 1872) George Cattermole, Illustration from Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) Hammatt Billings, Illustration from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) Appendix C: Literary and Cultural Connections From Aesop, “The North Wind and the Sun” From Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies (1863) From Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Henry Mayhew, “Crossing-Sweepers,” from London Labour and the London Poor (1852) Appendix D: Victorian Fairy-Tale Debate Charles Dickens, “Frauds on the Fairies” (1 October 1853) From George Cruikshank, Cinderella and the Glass Slipper (1854) John Ruskin, “Fairy Stories” (1868) George Cruikshank, Illustration of “Rumple-Stilts-Kin” (1823) George Cruikshank, Illustration of “The Elves and the Shoemaker” (1823) George MacDonald, “The Fantastic Imagination” (1893) Appendix E: Illustrations of At the Back of the North Wind Jan Susina, Introduction: “The Brotherhood between George MacDonald and Arthur Hughes”: Hughes’s Illustrations toMacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind Robert Trexler, Five Early Illustrators of At the Back of the North Wind Appendix F: Maps and Other Illustrative Images Sandford Map of Central London, 1862 Sandford Map of Central London, 1862 (detail) Maps of Hyperborean Region Parts of a Horse Parts of a Hansom Cab Currency in Victorian England Works CitedSelect Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe O’Briens and the O’Flahertys is a fast-paced tale of political intrigue and aristocratic vanity—a romp through 1793 Dublin as Ireland pitches towards the United Irishmen Uprising of 1798. It follows Murrogh O’Brien as he tries to find his way between his nostalgic father, the politically savvy Irish-Italian nun Beavoin O’Flaherty, the dashing flirt, Lady Knocklofty, the idealistic United Irishmen, and his comically old-fashioned aunts, only to be caught up in a sweep of arrests and revelations in the novel’s dramatic fourth volume. The O’Briens’ original footnotes and authorial digressions detail the failure of colonial policy in Ireland, contributing to the novel’s long-standing reputation as a credible historical account of the turbulent 1790s. This Broadview Edition includes extensive historical documents on Irish politics in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as well as a selection of contemporary reviews of The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys.Trade Review“Julia M. Wright’s beautiful new edition of The O’Briens and The O’Flahertys is a revelation. As with her masterfully edited Broadview edition of Morgan’s The Missionary, Wright has provided the social and historical contexts that bring Morgan’s work back to us in its rich and complex fullness. The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys, arguably Morgan’s best novel, details the intertwined histories of two Irish families and follows their descendants through the tumultuous period of Ireland on the brink of rebellion, while periodically glancing centuries back to trace incursions and settlements on Ireland’s shores, focusing upon English colonial rule. Wright’s well-researched introduction, copious footnotes (complementing those of Morgan herself), and appendices illuminating the United Irishmen uprising, the move toward reform, and the novel’s reception allow the reader to understand Morgan’s work as a daring national tale and colourful tour de force.” — Susan Egenolf, Texas A&M UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionSydney Owenson (Lady Morgan): A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe O’Briens and the O’Flahertys: A National TaleAppendix A: Selected Historical People, Groups, and EventsAppendix B: Nationalist Movements: From the Volunteers to the United Irishmen From Jonah Barrington, Historic Anecdotes and Secret Memoirs of the Legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland (1809) “Original Declaration of the United Irishmen” (1791), Appendix I of Charles Hamilton Teeling’s Personal Narrative of the “Irish Rebellion” of 1798 From William Drennan, A Letter to his Excellency Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Lieutenant, &c. of Ireland (1795) From William Sampson, Memoirs of William Sampson (1807) From Charles Hamilton Teeling, Personal Narrative of the “Irish Rebellion” of 1798 (1828) From Thomas Moore, The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1831) From Jonah Barrington, Historic Anecdotes and Secret Memoirs of the Legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland (1809) Appendix C: “The Cause of Reform”: From Grattan’s Parliament toCatholic Emancipation From Henry Grattan’s speech on “A Bill for the Relief of theRoman Catholics” (25 December 1781) From Henry Grattan, “Declaration of Right” (22 February1782) From William Drennan, Letter to the Right Honorable William Pitt (1799) From Denys Scully, A Statement of the Penal Laws (1812) From Robert Torrens, The Victim of Intolerance; Or, the Hermitof Killarney. A Catholic Tale (1814) From The Speech of Daniel O’Connell, Esq. at the CatholicAggregate Meeting, at the Freemasons’ Hall, on Feb. 26, 1825 From “Aristocracy,” in Lady Morgan’s Book of the Boudoir(1829) Appendix D: Contemporary Responses to The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys From the Morning Chronicle (22 November 1827) From the Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh) (7 January 1828) From R. Shelton Mackenzie’s “Editor’s Preface,” The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys (1856) Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisWhen Jane Austen died, at the age of 41, she left behind her not only six novels but a large number of manuscripts, ranging from juvenile works to the novel that she was writing at the time of her final illness. The six published novels are now undisputed classics. The manuscripts, however, despite the extraordinary writing they contain and the way in which they illuminate Jane Austen's work as a novelist, are much less well known. From the brilliance of the juvenilia to the urbane modernity of Sanditon these works show Austen pushing the conventional boundaries of fiction, exploring the implications of vulgarity and violence, experimenting with different styles and tones, and practicing and refining her arts of narrative.This Broadview Edition includes Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon, and ten important early manuscript works. Historical appendices include Austen's letters on fiction; continuations written by Austen's niece and nephew of two of her early works; and Sir Walter Scott's important critical appraisal of Austen from 1816.Trade Review“As the informative and scholarly Introduction suggests, these manuscript works, with their combination of boisterous satire and cool detachment, throw a startling light on Jane Austen’s writing practices and the achievements of her great novels. Edited by three distinguished Austen scholars, with useful notes at the bottom of the page, this is a volume all teachers and lovers of her work will want to possess.” — John Wiltshire, La Trobe University, Melbourne“Here, in a form fully annotated and accessible to students, we have ‘the Other Jane Austen’—a selection of the juvenilia, the wicked ‘Lady Susan,’ and the tantalising fragments ‘The Watsons’ and ‘Sanditon.’ No longer buried as ‘Minor Works,’ these sparkling productions, unpublished in her lifetime, provide indispensable insight into a brilliant author at work and at play.” — Juliet McMaster, University of AlbertaTable of Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Jane Austen: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text Juvenilia Lady Susan The Watsons Sanditon Appendix A: Austen’s Letters about Fiction Appendix B: Continuations of “Evelyn” and “Catharine” by James Edward Austen and Anna Lefroy Appendix C: “Love and Friendship” (1790) and Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778) Appendix D: From Mary Wollstonecraft’s Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787): “Unfortunate Situation of Females, fashionably educated, and left without a Fortune” Appendix E: From Walter Scott, Quarterly Review (October 1815) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisJohn Thelwall’s The Daughter of Adoption: A Tale of Modern Times is a witty and wide-ranging work in which the picaresque and sentimental novel of the eighteenth century confronts the revolutionary ideas and forms of the Romantic period. Thelwall puts his two main characters, the conflicted English gentleman Henry Montfort and the Creole Seraphina Parkinson, through their paces in a slave rebellion in Haiti, where they barely escape with their lives, and in London society, where Henry almost loses his soul. Combining political analysis with melodrama and flat-out farce, Daughter expands the scope of the abolitionist novel, pushing the argument beyond the slave trade to challenge empire and racial superiority.Historical materials on Thelwall’s life, the abolitionist movement, and eighteenth-century educational theories provide a detailed context for the novel.Trade Review“This edition of The Daughter of Adoption at last makes this multifaceted work available for general readers and classroom use. The editors have done a terrific job of situating both Thelwall and his novel as central to a reconception of the literary—including fiction, drama, and poetry, but also political, philosophical, and educational writing. Even more critically, they highlight the link between the written and oral language arts in Thelwall’s radicalism. The introduction overflows with connections to key debates and events of the 1790s and gestures toward nearly every major literary thread and cultural concern of the turn between Enlightenment and Romanticism.” — Miriam Wallace, New College of Florida“Eagerly read and distributed by his former associates in the radical movement of the 1790s, John Thelwall’s The Daughter of Adoption stands at the confluence of the many intellectual trends that fed into nineteenth-century literature. Recent scholarly work, to which the editors of this volume have made major contributions, has shown Thelwall’s importance to the emergent forms of Romantic poetry, not least via his personal and poetic dialogues with Wordsworth and Coleridge. Now this edition gives us the opportunity to see the themes of his radical prose and lectures of the 1790s being turned into a groundbreaking work of fiction. Exploring issues and techniques broached by novels such as Godwin’s Caleb Williams and Wollstonecraft’s Maria, it gives the question of freedom a global dimension via its depiction of a slave revolt in Haiti. The result is a complex but compelling work of fiction.” — Jon Mee, University of WarwickTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionJohn Thelwall and His World: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Daughter of Adoption; A Tale of Modern TimesAppendix A: Biographical Documents From John Thelwall, “Prefatory Memoir,” Poems, Chiefly Written in Retirement (1801) From John Thelwall to Susan Thelwall (18 July 1797) From John Thelwall to Dr. Peter Crompton (3 March 1798) From John Thelwall, A Letter to Francis Jeffray [sic], Esq. (1804) From Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835) From William Wordsworth to Henrietta Cecil Thelwall (16 November 1838) From William Wordsworth, Notes Dictated to Isabella Fenwick, first published as Notes in the Poetical Works (1857) Appendix B: Contextual Documents Literature and Education From Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) From Thomas Day, The History of Sandford and Merton (1783-89) From John Thelwall, The Peripatetic (1793) From Richard and Maria Edgeworth, Practical Education (1801) From John Thelwall, Introductory Discourse on the Nature and Objects of Elocutionary Science (1805) From John Thelwall, “The Historical and Oratorical Society,” A Letter to Henry Cline (1810) The West Indies and the Abolition Debate From John Thelwall, “The Connection between the Calamities of the Present Reign, and the System of Borough-Mongering Corruption,” The Tribune (1795-96) From John Thelwall, Rights of Nature, against the Usurpations of Establishments (1796) From Baron de Wimpffen, A Voyage to Saint Domingo, in the Years 1788, 1789, and 1790 (1797) From Bryan Edwards, An Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo (1798) From John Thelwall, “The Negro’s Prayer,” Monthly Magazine (April 1807) The Revolution Debate From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) From William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness (1798) Appendix C: Reviews of The Daughter of Adoption Critical Review (February 1801) Monthly Magazine (20 July 1801) Monthly Review (August 1801) Annals of Philosophy (1801) Thelwall’s Reply to the Reviews, from “Prefatory Memoir,” Poems, Chiefly Written in Retirement (1801) Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisThe Return of the Native was a radical departure for Thomas Hardy, ushering in his tragic literary vision of the world. Though set in a small space (Egdon Heath in the fictional county of Wessex) and short time (the main action spans a year and a day), the novel addresses the broad social and intellectual upheavals of the Victorian age. Much of this turmoil is embodied in the character of Eustacia Vye, the novel’s wilful female protagonist. A complex, independent young woman, Eustacia is a sympathetic but ultimately tragic figure, the epitome of what the narrator calls the “irrepressible New.”The appendices to this Broadview edition place the novel in the context of Hardy’s career and the scientific and social ideas of the time. Documents include contemporary reviews, related writings by Hardy, and materials on biology, geology, and the “Woman Question.” Illustrations from the original serialization in Belgravia magazine and Hardy’s performance text of the mummers’ play are also included.Trade Review“Simon Avery’s edition of The Return of the Native, Hardy’s first great classic, provides a beautifully balanced, meticulously researched resource. Avery’s editorial approach is, in every respect, new and fresh—even in his interpretation of the novel’s denouement. Offering a wide range of critical perspectives, the compelling Introduction features a rich collection of viewpoints and critiques in a manner so informative, compact, and stylish that exploration becomes the modus operandi within and beyond the plot. In turn, the appendices at the end of the book complement the contextualising of the Introduction and footnotes. A selection of Hardy’s other writings in prose and poetry adds textual weight and structural balance overall.” — Rosemarie Morgan, University of St. Andrews“Simon Avery has edited Hardy’s The Return of the Native with great skill: his footnotes are detailed and extensive without becoming intrusive; his bibliography of further reading selects judiciously from old and new materials; and he gives a generous range of contemporary materials to help contextualise the book. Alongside the unmistakable nineteenth-century concerns present in Hardy’s novel, Avery alerts us to less well-known ones, illuminating in particular Hardy’s depiction of Eustacia Vye, who can be seen from this edition as a precursor to Sue Bridehead, the proto-feminist of Jude the Obscure. Distinctively too, Avery includes a selection of Hardy’s poetry, helpfully breaking down the barrier between Hardy the novelist and Hardy the poet. In all respects, the volume continues the excellent standard of Broadview Hardy editions.” — Ralph Pite, Bristol UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionThomas Hardy: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Return of the NativeAppendix A: Prefaces and Maps The Preface to the 1895 Wessex Novels Edition The Postscript added to the 1912 Wessex Edition From the General Preface to the Novels and Poems (1912) Map of Egdon Heath (1878) Map of Wessex (1895) Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews From The Athenaeum (23 November 1878) Hardy’s response to the Athenaeum review (30 November 1878) From W.E. Henley, The Academy (30 November 1878) From the Saturday Review (4 January 1879) From the Spectator (8 February 1879) From the New Quarterly Magazine (October 1879) From Havelock Ellis, “Thomas Hardy’s Novels,” Westminster Review (April 1883) Appendix C: Philosophical and Political Contexts Positivism: from Auguste Comte, System of Positive Polity (1851−54; trans. 1875−76) The Individual and Freedom: from John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859) The Woman Question: from John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies (1865) and John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women (1869) Hedonism and Modernity: from Walter Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873) Appendix D: Scientific Influences From Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology (1830−33) From Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) From Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology (1864−67) From Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) Appendix E: Other Writings by Hardy A Selection of Hardy’s Poetry Hap At a Bridal Neutral Tones Nature’s Questioning An August Midnight The Dead Man Walking By the Barrows The Roman Road The Moth-Signal The Oxen Welcome Home The Graveyard of Dead Creeds Domicilium From “The Dorsetshire Labourer” (1883) From “The Profitable Reading of Fiction” (1888) From “Candour in English Fiction” (1890) From The Life of Thomas Hardy (1928; 1930) Appendix F: The Play of Saint GeorgeAppendix G: Arthur Hopkins’s Illustrations for the Monthly Serialization of Belgravia (1878)Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisLong dismissed by critics as a novel of merely historical interest, Colonel Jack is one of Daniel Defoe’s most entertaining, revealing, and complex works. It is the supposed autobiography of an English gentleman who begins life as a child of the London streets. He and his brothers are brought up as pickpockets and highwaymen, but Jack seeks to improve himself. Kidnapped and taken to America, he becomes first a slave, then an overseer on plantations in Maryland. Jack’s story is one of dramatic turns of fortune that ultimately lead to a life of law-abiding prosperity as a plantation owner.Historical appendices relate to eighteenth-century Virginia and Maryland and to contemporary crime, punishment, and imprisonment.Trade Review“It is a pleasure to have an edition of Defoe’s Colonel Jack available for use in the classroom. As the editors, Gabriel Cervantes and Geoffrey Sill, remark, there has been no edition of this novel available for decades. The introduction is a remarkable piece of original scholarship and criticism. The discussion of Jack’s shifting concept of identity suggests Defoe’s original approach to this subject; the comparison between Jack and the later slave, Frederick Douglas frames a rich discussion about the nature of servitude at the time; and the interesting reading of the illustrations later appended to Defoe’s narrative as a way into discussing Jack’s criminal boyhood and later repentance & all provide suggestive openings into Defoe’s work both for university students who may encounter it in a class and for the general reader. Professors Cervantes and Sill also provide an appendix with fascinating documents throwing light on the nature of transporting criminals to the North American colonies and critical assessments of Colonel Jack. They rightfully lament the neglect of this work and contribute to what will surely be a revival of critical interest in one of Defoe’s best fictional narratives.” — Maximillian E. Novak, UCLA“Jack cuts a wider swath across the social and political geography of his times than any of Defoe’s other protagonists. Abandoned at birth, he rises from homeless London street urchin to wealthy Virginia planter. Along the way, by a ‘long series of Changes and Turns,’ he is among other things a sneak thief and robber; kidnapped into slavery; the overseer and then master of slaves; a captive, variously, of the French and the Spanish; a parvenu returned to Europe intent on fashioning himself into a gentleman; an officer in the French army and then in the service of the Pretender; a fugitive who has not once but twice taken up arms against the English crown; a merchant engaged in illicit trade with Latin America; and five times the husband of four women in England, Italy, France, and Virginia, all of whom betray him. Of labile and elusive identity, he can pass for a Frenchman among his countrymen and a Spaniard among Spaniards. This scrupulous and meticulous edition provides, with its immensely useful annotation, rich and valuable historical context for an often undervalued novel.” — Lincoln Faller, University of Michigan“Colonel Jack, the poor stepchild among the books of Defoe’s major period of fiction writing, has finally gotten the modern edition it deserves. Freshly edited and splendidly introduced by Gabriel Cervantes and Geoffrey Sill, this edition has just the right mix of contemporary writings on trade, criminality, Jacobitism, and marriage to enable modern readers to recover the rich transatlantic world that Defoe inscribes. I cannot wait to bring this edition into the classroom.” — John O’Brien, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionDaniel Defoe: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextColonel JackAppendix A: Historical and Political Contexts From George Alsop, A Character of the Province of Mary-Land (1666) From The Confession and Execution of the Prisoners at Tyburn … (1676) From William Fleetwood, A Sermon Preached before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (1711) From The Jacobites Detected (1718) From An Act for the further Preventing Robbery, Burglary and other Felonies, and for the more effectual Transportation of Felons … (1718) “Compassion on Famishing Thieves,” Applebee’s Original Weekly Journal (16 June 1722) “On the Return to England of Transported Felons,” Applebee’s Original Weekly Journal (26 January 1723) “A Plea for Charity Schools,” Applebee’s Original Weekly Journal (23 July 1723) From Batty Langley, An Accurate Description of Newgate (1724) From Daniel Defoe, Conjugal Lewdness: or, Matrimonial Whoredom (1727) Appendix B: Literary Contexts James Revel, The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon’s Sorrowful Account of His Fourteen Years Transportation at Virginia in America (c. 1659–80) From Street-Robberies, Consider’d: The Reason of their Being so Frequent (1728) Preface to the Fourth Edition of Colonel Jack (1738) “Of some our MODERNS,” London Magazine and Monthly Chronologer (February 1741) Benjamin Franklin, Notices and Editorials on Convict Transportation “London, Jan. 27,” Daily Journal (27 January 1724) “Jakes on our Tables?,” The Pennsylvania Gazette (11 April 1751) “Rattle-Snakes for Felons,” The Pennsylvania Gazette (9 May 1751) From The Fortunate Transport (c. 1750) From a Letter from Erasmus Darwin to Josiah Wedgwood(22 February 1789) Robert Southey, “Elinor” (1797) Remarks on Defoe by Charles Lamb From a Letter to Walter Wilson (16 December 1822) From “Estimate of [Defoe’s] Secondary Novels” (1830) Edward E. Hale, Preface to The Life of Colonel Jack (1891) Works Cited and Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWilliam Godwin’s Mandeville was described as his best novel by Percy Shelley, who sent a copy to Lord Byron, and it was immediately recognized by its other admirers as a work of unique power. Written one year after the battle of Waterloo and set in an earlier revolutionary period between the execution of Charles I and the Restoration, Mandeville is a novel of psychological warfare. The narrative begins with Mandeville’s rescue from the traumatic aftermath of the Ulster Rebellion of 1641 and proceeds through his early education by a fanatical Presbyterian minister to his persecution at Winchester school, his constant (and not unjustified) paranoia, and his confinement in an asylum. Mandeville’s final, desperate attempt to prevent his sister’s marriage to his enemy ends with his disfiguration, which also defaces endings based on settlement or reconciliation. The novel’s events have many resonances with Godwin’s own period.The historical appendices offer contemporary reviews, including Shelley’s letter to Godwin praising Mandeville, material explaining the novel’s complex historical background, and contemporary writings on war, madness, and trauma.Trade Review“Godwin’s most harrowing novel and trenchant analysis of the stalling of political justice by personal trauma, Mandeville probes the importance of pathology to history. Set in the period of the English Revolution, Mandeville narrates Charles Mandeville’s wounding by history and the wounding of the capacity for progress. Expertly situated and annotated by Godwin’s most comprehensive reader, Tilottama Rajan’s edition fleshes out the historical, political, doctrinal, and psychopathological contexts that inform this most damaged Godwinian character. An alternative form of historical novel, Mandeville showcases the negative in persons and events as a deliberate challenge to a taste that impedes radical change. This volume is mandatory reading for scholars of Godwin, projects of Enlightenment, Anglo-Irish relations, and trauma.” — Julie Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara“Mandeville is William Godwin’s darkest, most politically abrasive novel. Godwin’s reputation has surged in recent years. He has benefited from the movement to historicize literary texts which has gathered force in the last two decades. Broadview Press has been in the lead, providing excellent classroom editions of Godwin’s major novels, Caleb Williams, St Leon, and Fleetwood—and now, Mandeville. Tilottama Rajan presents a scrupulously edited text, together with an original critical interpretation. The appendices are comprehensive, well-judged, and illuminating. This edition is compelling in its own right and a point of entry into Godwin’s broader engagement with seventeenth-century English and Irish history.” — Pamela Clemit, Queen Mary University of London“We continue to be indebted to Broadview Press for issuing first-rate editions, with the past year bringing … William Godwin’s Mandeville, edited by Tilottama Rajan, who enables us to read the novel in relation to its historical sources and in conversation with a range of fascinating texts on ‘Extreme Phenomena’ from Carl von Clausewitz on war to John Hunter on wounds to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling on the negative.” — Jeffrey N. Cox, Studies in English LiteratureTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionWilliam Godwin: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextHistorical Timeline for MandevilleMandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in EnglandVolume IVolume IIVolume IIIAppendix A: Godwin, “Fragment of a Romance” (1833)Appendix B: From Godwin, “Of History and Romance” (1797)Appendix C: Contemporary Reviews From P.B. Shelley, Letter to Godwin (7 December 1817) From P.B. Shelley, Letter to The Examiner (28 December 1817) From Champion (1817) From [John Gibson Lockhart,] Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (December 1817) From an Anonymous Response to Lockhart, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (January 1818) From The British Review and London Critical Journal (1818) From [James Mackintosh,] The Edinburgh Magazine, and Literary Miscellany (1818) From Jean Cohen, Preface to French translation of Mandeville (1818) Appendix D: Historical Background: The Commonwealth, Cromwell, the English Revolution, and the Restoration From Godwin, History of the Commonwealth of England (1824-28) From John Thelwall, The Tribune (3 June 1795) From Godwin, History of the Commonwealth of England (1824-28) From Gilbert Burnet, History of His Own Time (1724) Appendix E: Religion and the Politics of Church Government From John Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy (1641) From John Milton, The Reason of Church Government (1642) From Godwin, History of the Commonwealth of England (1824-28) From Samuel Rutherford, Lex Rex (1644) From William Everard, Gerrard Winstanley, et al., The True Levellers’ Standard Advanced (1649) From Encyclopedia Londinensis (1810) From Samuel R. Gardiner, History of the Civil War (1889) From David Hume, “On Parties in Great Britain” (1741) Appendix F: Ireland From Laurence Echard, The History of England (1720) From Godwin, History of the Commonwealth of England (1824-28) From Godwin, History of the Commonwealth of England (1824-28) From “Act for the Settlement of Ireland” (1652) From Godwin, “To the People of Ireland” (1786) From Godwin, “Ireland” (25 December 1821) Appendix G: Extreme Phenomena: Cultural, Physical, and Psychic On War From Carl von Clausewitz, On War (1832) On Wounds From The Complete Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences … (1764) From The Works of John Hunter (1835) On Madness, Dissidence, and Trauma From Godwin, “Of the Rebelliousness of Man” (1831) From Philippe Pinel, A Treatise on Insanity (1801) From John Ferriar, An Essay Towards a Theory of Apparitions (1813) The Literature of Power From Thomas De Quincey, Letters to a Young Man (1823) The Power of the Negative From G.W.F. Hegel, The Philosophy of Nature (1830) From F.W.J. Schelling, Ages of the World (1815) From Friedrich Schelling, Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809) Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis edition recovers Elizabeth Oakes Smith’s successful 1842 novel The Western Captive; or, The Times of Tecumseh and includes many of Oakes Smith’s other writings about Native Americans, including short stories, legends, and autobiographical and biographical sketches. The Western Captive portrays the Shawnee leader as an American hero and the white heroine’s spiritual soulmate; in contrast to the later popular legend of Tecumseh’s rejected marriage proposal to a white woman, Margaret, the “captive” of the title, returns Tecumseh’s love and embraces life apart from white society.These texts are accompanied by selections from Oakes Smith’s Woman and Her Needs and her unpublished autobiography, from contemporary captivity narratives and biographies of William Henry Harrison depicting the Shawnee, and from writings by her colleagues Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft.Trade Review“Caroline M. Woidat’s edition of Elizabeth Oakes Smith’s writings about Native–white relations in nineteenth-century North America is most welcome. The Western Captive gives scholars detailed chronological, cultural, and geographical backgrounds to enrich their analyses, and enters into conversation with the stories of other transculturated women…. This book will be valuable for classroom use because its rich selection of supporting primary material allows readers to see these texts within their cultural and literary contexts.” — Nicole Tonkovich, University of California, San Diego“This is an impressive scholarly edition, not only of Elizabeth Oakes Smith’s life and work, but also of the work of her most important contemporaries. Clearly, there is no other major text of American literature to compare directly with The Western Captive, the heartbreaking narrative of the heroic Tecumseh and equally brave Margaret, whom he rescued as a young girl. In addition to Oakes Smith’s feminist writing, appendices offer texts by her contemporaries, political campaign biographies in which the Indians figure, and, perhaps most interestingly, material on the relationship between Oakes Smith and Henry and Jane Schoolcraft, who wrote about intermarriage between ‘educated’ Indians and ‘whites.’” — Florence Howe, co-founder of The Feminist Press and author of A Life in Motion (2011)Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextThe Western Captive; or, The Times of Tecumseh“Indian Traits: The Story of Niskagah” (1840)“Machinito: The Evil Spirit; from the Legends of Iaogu” (1845)“Beloved of the Evening Star” (1847)From “The Sagamore of Saco: A Legend of Maine” (1848)“Kinneho: A Legend of Moosehead Lake” (1851)Appendix A: Elizabeth Oakes Smith’s Writings on Her Life and Women’s Rights From A Human Life: Being the Autobiography of Elizabeth Oakes Smith (c. 1885) From Woman and Her Needs (1851) Appendix B: Tecumseh, Captivity Narratives, and Indian-White Romance From John Dunn Hunter, Memoirs of a Captivity among the Indians of North America (1823) From James E. Seaver [and Mary Jemison], A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (1824) From John Tanner and Edwin James, A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner (1830) From R. S. Dills, History of Greene County, Together with Historic Notes on the Northwest, and the State of Ohio (1881) Appendix C: Stories of Harrison and the Shawnee in Campaign Biographies From James Hall, A Memoir of the Public Services of William Henry Harrison, of Ohio (1836) From Samuel Jones Burr, The Life and Times of William Henry Harrison (1840) Appendix D: Oakes Smith and the Schoolcrafts Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, “Moowis, The Indian Coquette. A Chippewa Legend” (1827) Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Letter to Jane L. [Johnston] Schoolcraft (1842) Henry Rowe Schoolcraft [with Elizabeth Oakes Smith], from “Nursery and Cradle Songs of the Forest” (1845) Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, “Idea of an American Literature based on Indian Mythology” (1845) Elizabeth Oakes Smith, “Mrs. Henry R. Schoolcraft” (1874) Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisInspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s own experience as a member of the famous Brook Farm Community, which the author describes in his preface as the “most romantic episode” in his life, The Blithedale Romance is one of the most engaging and complex of Hawthorne’s novels. Recounting the hopeful formation and slow fragmentation of a reform-minded socialist community in antebellum Massachusetts, the novel has increasingly preoccupied commentators on American literature and culture over the last few decades.The editors’ new introduction helps the reader to negotiate Blithedale’s literary difficulties by offering a detailed reflection on the main problems confronted by past and present interpreters of the novel. Appendices expand on the central historical theme of reform, highlighting the novel’s references to women’s emancipation, antislavery, and Utopian socialism.Trade Review“The Broadview edition of The Blithedale Romance is an exceptional scholarly achievement. The excellent critical introduction, along with the wealth of biographical and historical materials, at last make it possible to see Hawthorne’s novel in all its complexity and brilliance.” — Eric J. Sundquist, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University“The introduction, by Michael J. Colacurcio (a scholar unrivaled in Hawthorne criticism over the past three decades) and Luke Bresky, is a major piece of literary analysis. An authoritative text of the novel, judicious annotations to help readers with historical persons and events, and extensive appendices contextualizing more fully than heretofore the religious, feminist, reformist, and slavery contexts in which the book should be read—all these make this edition of The Blithedale Romance unsurpassed.” — Frederick Newberry, Professor Emeritus, Duquesne University, former editor of The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review“The Blithedale Romance is a brilliant novel, one that compresses into its reveries and observations some of the most urgent issues troubling antebellum America. With this sparkling new edition, Colacurcio and Bresky not only recognize Hawthorne’s political thoughtfulness, but also include a rich framework of primary sources through which to approach the allusive energy of Hawthorne’s prose. I am looking forward to using this edition in my American Literature courses.” — Dana Medoro, University of ManitobaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionNathaniel Hawthorne: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Blithedale RomanceAppendix A: Hawthorne on Brook Farm, Reform, and Social Change Nathaniel Hawthorne, Selected Letters to Sophia Peabody (April 1841 to June 1842) From “The Hall of Fantasy” (1843, 1846) From “Earth’s Holocaust” (1844, 1846) From “The Old Manse” (1846) From The Scarlet Letter (1850) Appendix B: Universal Reform and Associationism From George Ripley, Letter to the Church in Purchase Street (1 October 1840) From “‘The Memory and Example of the Just,’ A Sermon, Preached on All Saints’ Day, to the First Church, by Its Minister, N.L. Frothingham. Boston, 1840.” Christian Examiner (January 1841) From Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Chardon Street and Bible Conventions,” The Dial (July 1842) From Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Lectures on the Times,” The Dial (July 1842) From Ralph Waldo Emerson, “New England Reformers” (1844) From Albert Brisbane, “Association and Social Reform,” The Boston Quarterly Review (April 1842) From Charles Lane, “Brook Farm,” The Dial (January 1844) From Andrew Jackson Davis, The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and a Voice to Mankind (1847) Appendix C: Woman Emancipating, Woman Emancipated Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Massachusetts (28 June 1837) From Sarah Grimké, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, Addressed to Mary S. Parker, President of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (1838) From Letter III: The Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts From Letter XII: Legal Disabilities of Women From Catharine E. Beecher, An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of American Females (1837) From William Lloyd Garrison, “Letter to the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society,” The Liberator (16 October 1840) Margaret Fuller, Selected Comments on Woman From “Leila,” The Dial (April 1841) From Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) Sophia Ripley, “Woman,” The Dial (January 1841) From Orestes Brownson, “Miss Fuller and Reformers,” Brownson’s Quarterly Review (April 1845) From Oneida Community [John Humphrey Noyes], “Bible Argument; Defining the Relations of the Sexes in the Kingdom of Heaven” (1849) From Theodore Parker, “Sermon of the Public Function of Woman” (1853) Appendix D: The Fugitive Slave Law and Northern Anti-slavery From the US Constitution, Fugitive Slave Act (1850) From Horace Mann, “Speech to the Massachusetts Convention in Opposition to the Fugitive Slave Law” (1851) Caroline W. Healey Dall, “Amy. A Tale,” Liberty Bell (1849) Antislavery Emblems: “Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?” Josiah Wedgwood Antislavery Medallion (1787) Typefounder’s Cut from The Liberator (1832) Kneeling Slave with Dame Justice, from the Cover Page of Authentic Anecdotes of American Slavery (1838) by Lydia Maria Child Needlecase Stamped with Antislavery Emblem Appendix E: Harriet Hosmer, Zenobia in Chains (1859)Appendix F: Contemporary Reviews of The Blithedale Romance From “Contemporary Literature of America: ‘The Blithedale Romance,’” The Westminster Review (October 1852) Edwin Percy Whipple, Graham’s Magazine (September 1852) Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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

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

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Book SynopsisEdgar Huntly is a compelling tale of sleepwalking, murder, and frontier violence set in rural Pennsylvania in the 1780s. His memory and wits shaken by the scenes he has witnessed, ordinary republican citizen Edgar Huntly relates the unpredictable and catastrophic consequences of his chance encounter with Clithero Edny, a mysterious Irish immigrant whose unfortunate but violent history catches up with him in the New World. Huntly’s growing obsession with Clithero plunges both men into physical and mental danger, unsettling the colonial territories of the Delaware basin and the cognitive territory of Huntly’s own mind. Brockden Brown’s artful sensationalism transplants the European form of the gothic romance to the new United States, yielding one of the most exciting, metaphysically sophisticated, and historically self-aware novels in early American literary culture.This Broadview Edition includes a rich selection of historical materials on the gothic and sublime, sleepwalking, captivity narratives, and early American literary nationalism.Trade Review“Siân Silyn Roberts has done readers, students, and scholars a tremendous service in assembling this critical edition of Edgar Huntly. An authoritative scholarly edition of the text of the novel is placed among a remarkable range of contemporary extracts that help readers understand the text in the contexts of late-eighteenth-century aesthetic and moral philosophy, transatlantic literary culture and the gothic boom, and other topics. Roberts also adds an elegant critical introduction, thus making her own important contribution to the critical scholarship. This new edition pulls Brown’s fascinating and difficult novel into a new set of critical and theoretical conversations that reflect early American literary studies today; it will surely make this canonical, yet somewhat under-studied early American novel accessible to new generations of readers.” — Ezra Tawil, University of Rochester “Siân Silyn Roberts has raised the bar considerably in her edition of Charles Brockden Brown’s notoriously difficult Edgar Huntly. In taking up Brown’s ‘dare’ to readers, Roberts provides the most comprehensive toolbox for both new and returning students, and for those of us who have sustained the discomfiting realm of Brown’s world for years. The excellent introduction demonstrates Brown’s broad-ranging investments and influences, from the regional to the transatlantic, native American to radical Irishman, US literary nationalism to the extensive literary archives his work engages with. Roberts illuminates the connections between the 1790s and today, and as a result, invites readers to imagine historical trajectories as Brown’s work demands. This is important and timely—I can’t wait to use it in my classes.” — Gretchen Woertendyke, University of South CarolinaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionCharles Brockden Brown: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextEdgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-WalkerAppendix A: Literary Nationalism and the Romance Charles Brockden Brown, “The Difference Between History and Romance,” Monthly Magazine and American Review (April 1800) From Sir Walter Scott, “Essay on Romance” (1823) From Nathaniel Hawthorne, Preface to The House of the Seven Gables (1851) Appendix B: Theories of the Gothic and the Sublime From Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful(1757) From Immanuel Kant, Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764) From Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mont Blanc” (1817) From Charles Brockden Brown, “Terrific Novels,” Literary Magazine and American Register (April 1805) Charles Brockden Brown (?), “A Receipt for a Modern Romance,” Weekly Magazine (June 1798) Appendix C: Sleepwalking From John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) From Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, the Laws of Organic Life (1794–96) Charles Brockden Brown, “Somnambulism. A Fragment,” Literary Magazine and American Register (May 1805) Appendix D: The Moral Senses From Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) From Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Mankind (1755) From Benjamin Rush, An Inquiry into the Influence of Physical Causes Upon the Moral Faculty (1786) Appendix E: Captivity and Indian Relations A True Narrative of the Sufferings of Mary Kinnan (1794) From Minutes of conferences, held with the Indians, at Easton, in the months of July and November, 1756 (1757) From Benjamin Franklin, A narrative of the late massacres, in Lancaster County, of a number of Indians (1764) Appendix F: Irish Radicalism and ConspiracyFrom “Peter Porcupine” [William Cobbett], Detection of a conspiracy, formed by the United Irishmen (1798)Works Cited and Recommended Reading

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Book SynopsisOn July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne''s wife Sophia and daughters Una and Rose left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives near Boston. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got along over the next three weeks is the subject of this tender and funny extract from Hawthorne''s notebooks.'At about six o''clock I looked over the edge of my bed and saw that Julian was awake, peeping sideways at me.' Each day starts early and is mostly given over to swimming and skipping stones, berry-picking and subduing armies of thistles. There are lots of questions ('It really does seem as if he has baited me with more questions, references, and observations, than mortal father ought to be expected to endure'), a visit to a Shaker community, domestic crises concerning a pet rabbit, and some poignant moments of loneliness ('I went to bed at about nine and longed for Phoebe'). And one evening Mr. Herman Melville comes by to enjoy a late-night discussion of eternity over cigars.With an introduction by Paul Auster that paints a beautifully observed, intimate picture of the Hawthornes at home, this little-known, true-life story by a great American writer emerges from obscurity to shine a delightful light upon family life—then and now.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first collection in print of the letters of Australian colonial poet Charles Harpur (1813-68) and his circle. Supported by extensive annotation newly prepared for this edition, the 200 letters and life -- documents open up successive phases of colonial culture from the 1830s to the 1860s in a newly focused way. Harpur's two-way correspondence with poet Henry Kendall, and with poet and future premier of NSW Henry Parkes, is especially impressive.The letters selected for this edition document Harpur's life in a previously unavailable way. They reveal the intriguing struggle of a high-minded young man to pursue a serious vocation as a poet amidst the unpromising contours of colonial New South Wales society. Despite bearing the taint of a convict family background, Harpur took his vocation with utmost seriousness and had much to endure before he would find recognition as a poet, mainly in colonial newspapers where his poems made over 900 appearances.This edition captures the process in detail, as well as the production in 1883 of his Poems in book form. Even though editorially mangled, Poems confirmed his reputation and led to his presence in dozens of anthologies down to the present day.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Chronology Abbreviations Note on equivalences Introduction Editorial approach Note on the texts THE LETTERSMaps Index

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Book SynopsisLeaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist lens. Aaron Kreuter argues that since Jewish diasporic fiction played a major role in establishing the centroperipheral relationship between Israel and the diaspora, it therefore also has the potential to challenge, trouble, and ultimately rework this relationship. Kreuter suggests that any fictional work that concerns itself with Israel/Palestine and Zionism comes with heightened responsibilities, primarily to make narrative space for the Palestinian worldview, the dispossessed Other of the Zionist project. In engaging prose, the book features a wide range of scholarship and new, compelling readings of texts by Theodor Herzl, Leon Uris, Philip Roth, Ayelet Tsabari, and David Bezmozgis. Throughout, Kreuter develops his concept of diasporic heteroglossia, which is fiction’s unique ability to contain multiple voices that resist and write back against national centres. This work makes an important and original contribution to Jewish studies, diaspora studies, and world literature.Trade ReviewAaron Kreuter incorporates a wide range of scholarly work and historically contextualizes the spaces under discussion. Leaving Other People Alone is an important book. Brett Ashley Kaplan, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignLeaving Other People Alone, is without a doubt, the most morally imaginative and critically compelling exploration of the Jewish literary soul to come along in many years. Through eloquent and genuinely exciting close readings, Kreuter offers brilliant new approaches to considering indigeneity, diasporic identities and related forms of conflicted belonging. His highly original formulation of “diasporic heteroglossia,” a bold conceptual approach to the ethics of repudiating territorialism, offers the kind of rare paradigm that truly transforms the conversation and will likely provoke and inspire scholars in Jewish Studies and well beyond for years to come. Ranen Omer-Sherman, author of Amos Oz: Legacy of a WriterOne of the key questions Aaron Krueter asks in Leaving Other People Alone is what the books and authors studied reveal about the relationship between the Jewish diaspora, Israel, Zionism, and the ethical potential of diaspora. Isabelle Hesse, University of SydneyTable of Contentsix Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Playing Jewish Geography 1 | Philip Goes to Israel 27 Jewish Justice, Diasporism, Palestinian Voices, and Zionist Self-Censorship in Operation Shylock 2 | Herzl Meets Uris 77 Altneuland and Exodus in Diasporic Comparison 3 | Arab Jews, Polycentric Diasporas, Porous Borders 131 Israel/Palestine in the Short Fiction of Ayelet Tsabari 4 | “The Jewish Semitone” 189 Zionism and the Soviet Jewish Diaspora in The Betrayers Conclusion 237 Diasporic Heteroglossia, Second Cousins, Learning to Be Each Other’s Guests Notes 243 Works Cited 277 Index 293

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Book SynopsisSituated in the practice and expertise of close textual analysis, Alice Munro and the Art of Time explores notions of time in a selection of Munro's stories.

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Book SynopsisAna and Win find themselves stuck, lifting the weight of their pasts, while frustrated by their present jobs: photographing vacant lots and decayed industrial sites, cataloguing the decline of capitalist excess to digitally scrub away humanity, making way for more gentrification.When the pair is sent by their employers to a rustic island in the Pacific Northwest-home to hippies, runaways, and survivalist preppers-they meet Lena, an oceanographer and climate scientist, who has moved to the island in search of "the big one," the cataclysmic earthquake and tsunami that she knows is the island and the West Coast''s due; and Kitt, an athleisure clothing mogul, who is overseeing the construction of a vacation home that will serve as his apocalypse-shelter.These four people''s lives intertwine as a police investigation throws life on the island into disarray, as activists and agents provocateurs take action, as dormant fault lines begin to tremble.Andy Zuliani''s Last Tide is a vital debut novel is an edgy glimpse at a world just beyond tomorrow, and a sharp reminder of what society deems valuable.

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Book SynopsisRobert A. Heinlein began publishing in the 1940s at the dawn of the Golden Age of science fiction, and today he is considered one of the genre's 'big three' alongside Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov. His short stories were instrumental in developing its structure and rhetoric, while novels such as Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers demonstrated that such writing could be a vehicle for political argument.Heinlein’s influence remains strong, but his legacy is fiercely contested. His vision of the future was sometimes radical, sometimes deeply conservative, and arguments have flared up recently about which faction has the most significant claim on his ideas.In this major critical study, Hugo Award-winner Farah Mendlesohn carries out a close reading of Heinlein’s work, including unpublished stories, essays, and speeches. It sets out not to interpret a single book, but to think through the arguments Heinlein made over a lifetime about the nature of science fiction, about American politics, and about himself.Trade Review'The kind of book that a writer of [Heinlein's] stature deserves... Remarkable. It makes Heinlein seem like the most interesting science fiction author around, not just of his era, but of ours.' Locus magazine'An insightful addition to the academic study and appreciation of Heinlein’s body of work... does a fantastic job of looking at the major themes of Heinlein’s career. 9*' Starburst magazine

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Book SynopsisThe Short Story of the Novel is a new and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years. Simply constructed, the book explores 60 key novels from The Tale of Genji to My Brilliant Friend.In addition to enjoyable descriptions of the novels and concise explanations of why they are important, the book illuminates the most significant writing genres, themes and techniques.Accessible and fun to read, with a foreword by Professor Peter Boxall, this pocket guide will give readers a new way to enjoy their favourite books - and to discover new ones.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first full-length study of the life and work of novelist Gerald O’Donovan (1871–1942), a Catholic priest and social and cultural activist who, having abandoned the priesthood, became a writer and publisher. As a priest in Loughrea, Co. Galway, he was a very public figure in Irish life in several different areas. He was friendly with W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and George Moore and actively promoted the ‘Celtic Revival’. He was also a friend of Douglas Hyde and Sir Horace Plunkett and, for a number of years, he was a national figure in their respective organizations, the Gaelic League and the Co-operative Movement. After his marriage to Beryl Verschoyle, he moved to England and subsequently published six novels, the best-known and most controversial of which was Father Ralph (1913), a portrait of the artist as a priest. He also spent time working in the British Department of Propaganda under Lord Northcliffe, where H.G. Wells was one of his colleagues. This biography of an important and strangely neglected figure allows us new insights into a whole range of interesting cultural moments in twentieth-century Irish life, including the beginnings of literary modernism, the flourishing of the Irish literary revival and the emergence of a dissident strand within the Catholic clergy. Based on a rich and previously untapped array of archival material in Ireland, Britain and the US, the book provides both a much-needed reassessment of O'Donovan's work and also a history of Irish writing during those early decades of the twentieth century that saw the development of a new and powerful national literature.Trade Review‘[A] judicious, factual narrative of a fascinatingly original life… this will be the standard book on Gerald O’Donovan… a thing of wonder.’ Adrian Frazier, Irish TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Early Life and Progress through the Priesthood2. Cooperative Campaigns, the Gaelic League and the Irish Literary Revival3. Irish Art Revivalist4. Conflict with the Church Intensifies5. A New Life6. Life as a Novelist7. Wartime Service8. Publisher9. Return to Wartime Service and Rose Macaulay10. The Later Novels11. A Fractured Life12. The Declining YearsEpilogue

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Book SynopsisThis book explores contemporary ways of reading some important New Zealand literary works, all produced between 1910 and 1940. Interpretations of these texts have had a significant impact on New Zealanders'' ideas of themselves. The author argues that interpretation is a process which can never be completed, although at any one time there will be readings that are more significant than others. To illustrate her argument, Mary Paul discusses key works by two authors: Katherine Mansfield''s ''Bliss'' and ''Prelude'', Jane Mander''s The Story of a New Zealand River , and the work of Robin Hyde, poet, novelist and journalist. She opens up ways of reading these and other writers, using a variety of approaches and encouraging a greater self-awareness in the interpretation of New Zealand literature and culture.

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Book SynopsisFor better or worse, Far from the Madding Crowd was the novel Victorian readers wanted him to write over and over again. One early reviewer was delighted by the pastoral elements: “when the sheep are shorn in the ancient town of Weatherbury, the scene is one that Shakespeare or that Chaucer might have watched.” But what Hardy had promised as a quiet story took off in unexpected directions. Bathsheba is not merely tempted to make the wrong choice, but does so, and is only saved from the lifelong consequences of her mistake when a third suitor, Farmer Boldwood, murders the husband who torments her. Rather than a “pastoral tone and idyllic simplicity”, noted a critic in the Westminster Review, what marked Far from the Madding Crowd was its “violent sensationalism”: marital desertion, illegitimacy, death in childbirth, murder, attempted suicide and insanity. Yet this is not a dark novel. Nearly 30 years after its publication, Hardy wrote that it seemed to him “like the work of a youngish hand, though perhaps there is something in it which I could not have put there had I been older”. That “something” has been variously identified as charm, amplitude, richness of incident and humour, or, more broadly, the assurance that despite the sense that deep social and economic changes are imminent, the closing marriage will maintain the community and its traditional order a little longer. If even here, in the last work he was to write from his childhood home in Bockhampton, Hardy could not wholly ignore the darker aspects of rural life, Far from the Madding Crowd remains the warmest and most celebratory of farewells.

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Book SynopsisThis study examines three main aspects of Jorge Luis Borges's reading of Dante Alighieri, namely, poetic language, ethics and love. It attempts to reveal the ways in which Borges's interests in these issues manifested themselves in his appropriation of Dante and gained prominence within his work as a whole, paying particular attention to the years c.1920-c.1960. By developing each aspect in a comparative sequence the work illustrates the way in which these issues developed in Borges's work and, at the same time, provides a general perspective from which the reader can gauge their significance in Dante's thought. By establishing Borges as an ethical writer this book ventures into new and potentially controversial territory. However, even in the better-explored areas of poetic language and love, it presents new aspects of Borges's conception of literary activity and of his treatment of the erotic theme.

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Book SynopsisRobert McKelvey argues that John Bunyan wrote The Holy War as a warfare allegory symbolizing the salvation history of Scripture from a Calvinistic-covenantal perspective. In this cosmic drama of redemption, the "Histories That Mansoul, and her Wars Anatomize" include the individual-soteric-microcosmic level or ordo salutis unfolding analogous to the redemptive-historical-macrocosmic level or historia salutis. The eternal covenant of redemption provides the foundation for this history of salvation, which progresses from creation to the anticipation of consummation. This scheme finds its roots in the Puritan philosophy of "universal history" which sees all historical events serving God's redemptive purposes. The individual, through union with Christ founded on election, participates in the drama by inclusion within the trans-historical covenant of grace. As a depiction of cosmic war, The Holy War sets forth the enmity between the church and Antichrist, which is representative of the greater battle between Christ and the devil from Genesis to Revelation. As a pastoral guide to persecuted saints, Bunyan retrospectively rehearses the history of redemption to grant comfort. In addition, he prospectively reveals the consummation of redemption to encourage perseverance and instil eschatological hope. This thesis is substantiated contextually through Bunyan's life and writings, historiographically by surveying the history of Holy War interpretation, pre-textually by examining the introduction to the allegory, and textually by analyzing the allegory itself.

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Book SynopsisThree recent and commercially successful series of novels employ and adapt the resources of popular fantasy fiction to create visions of religious identity: J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter books, Phillip Pullmans Dark Materials and Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins Left Behind series. The act of creating fantasy counter-worlds naturally involves all three stories in the creation of what Mike Gray terms transfigurations of transcendence: hopeful albeit paradoxical encodings of the ambiguous, non-observable reality whose primary locus in modern society is the societally extra-systemic human individual. Popular fantasy fiction turns out to involve acts of world-creation that are inherently religious and inherently paradoxical.A substantive examination shows that all three are involved in more or less intentional re-narrations of traditional Christian beliefs and narratives. The "atheist" His Dark Materials series does not deny but re-imagines the Christian visions of selfhood; the "traditionalist" Left Behind series does not simply replicate but modifies its own declared values; the apparent secularity of the Harry Potter series is shaped by its creative reception of Christian patterns and narratives. While the stories visions of selfhood clearly clash, the basic paradoxes involved in their struggle to articulate transcendence expose significant parallels and a productive conversation with the Christian tradition.It is not simply that popular fantasy fiction is theologically relevant the Christian Heilsgeschichte, too, proves to be highly relevant in popular culture. However, while far from obsolescent, models of religious identity in contemporary society require criticism and creativity and, as evinced most powerfully in the Harry Potter stories, a flair for constructive engagement with paradox. Three recent and commercially successful series of novels employ and adapt the resources of popular fantasy fiction to create visions of religious identity: J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter books, Phillip Pullmans Dark Materials and Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins Left Behind series.The act of creating fantasy counter-worlds naturally involves all three stories in the creation of what Mike Gray terms transfigurations of transcendence: hopeful albeit paradoxical encodings of the ambiguous, non-observable reality whose primary locus in modern society is the societally extra-systemic human individual. Popular fantasy fiction turns out to involve acts of world-creation that are inherently religious and inherently paradoxical.A substantive examination shows that all three are involved in more or less intentional re-narrations of traditional Christian beliefs and narratives. The "atheist" His Dark Materials series does not deny but re-imagines the Christian visions of selfhood; the "traditionalist" Left Behind series does not simply replicate but modifies its own declared values; the apparent secularity of the Harry Potter series is shaped by its creative reception of Christian patterns and narratives. While the stories visions of selfhood clearly clash, the basic paradoxes involved in their struggle to articulate transcendence expose significant parallels and a productive conversation with the Christian tradition.It is not simply that popular fantasy fiction is theologically relevant the Christian Heilsgeschichte, too, proves to be highly relevant in popular culture. However, while far from obsolescent, models of religious identity in contemporary society require criticism and creativity and, as evinced most powerfully in the Harry Potter stories, a flair for constructive engagement with paradox.

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Book SynopsisGerrit Haas re-theorises the peculiar textual conduct of ficto/critical writing, which inextricably intersects fictional with critical discourses as well as aesthetics with poetics and ethics. The slash here signals the conjunction between a self-reflexive ficto-critical insight and a wider discursive ficto-critical motivation. In its refined form, this twofold trope shifts perspective from the prevalent generic between onto the meta-generic level of our textual practices. Ultimately, the ficto/critical is thus qualified as an unheard-of interventionist aesthetic of deconstruction directed at the ramifications of our textual cultures.Trade Review"The strengths of the work lie in the preparedness to take seriously and to interrogate existing material, whilst providing a genealogy, a set of potential definitions, and a record of key texts and authors. The work is an excellent study of how something comes into being and accounts for the many offshoots and ways of talking about ficto/criticism, which appears to have developed its own fixity." Rosslyn Prosser, TEXT 22/1 (2018)

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Book SynopsisQueer spaces are crucial for the construction of LGBTQ+ communities, as they constitute places where queer subjects can create political, social, and affective alliances. Júlia Braga Neves shows how these spaces are pivotal for the representation of queer history in the fictional works by the British authors Sarah Waters and Alan Hollinghurst, whose characters and plots are articulated through and within London's sexual geographies. Considering the intersection between gender, sexuality, and class, this study engages with spatial, queer, feminist, and Marxist theories as a means to reflect on London, queer historiography, and the relationship between subject and urban space.

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Book SynopsisWhat distinguishes an adventure novel from a historical novel? Can the same text belong to several genres? More to one than to another? Have some existing genres been overlooked? To answer these and similar questions, José Calvo Tello combines methods from Linguistics (lexicography), Literary Studies (genre theory), and Computer Science (machine learning, natural language processing). Located in the interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities, this study analyzes a newly developed corpus of 358 Spanish novels of the silver age (1880-1939), which includes authors like Baroja, Pardo Bazán, or Valle-Inclán. Calvo Tello's key result is a graph-based model of literary genre that reconciles recent theoretical approaches.

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Book SynopsisDuring the first mandatory lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens worldwide turned to ?pandemic fictions? or started to produce their own ?Corona Fictions? across different media. These accounts of (previously) experienced or imagined health crises feature a great variety of protagonists and their (re)actions in response to the exceptional circumstances. The contributors to this volume take a closer look at different pandemic protagonists in fictional narratives relating to the Covid-19 pandemic as well as in existing pandemic fictions. Thereby they provide new insights into pandemic narratives from a cultural, literary, and media studies perspective from antiquity to today.

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Book SynopsisContinually attacked by government officials and educators, installment or colportage novels fascinated their underprivileged readers. Melodrama and sensation were essential ingredients. The hurriedly written, rambling plots sought to electrify fantasies of women with new turn-of-the-century aspirations. They also fused raw political ideas offering populist and paternalist solutions to society's challenges and tensions. Through the study of one rare, surviving colportage novel, Peter S. Fisher offers an unusual mental and visual panorama of a nearly vanished Wilhelmine world.

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Book SynopsisPaola Brusasco's study offers an original insight into Sri Lankan literature in English and an exploration of cultural, social, and linguistic issues at the basis of the country's ethnic conflict. By focussing on two distinctive and representative writers, both Burghers, yet with different personal histories, Brusasco confronts issues of cartography, history, and language, all contributing to a specific definition of identity. Both Ondaatje and Muller are "outsiders", the former because of his diasporic existence, the latter because of his eccentricity within the reality of a divided country where the legacy of British colonialism and the process of redefinition following independence in 1948, as well as matters of geography and history, become crucial to writers.Trade Review"Brusasco achieves the aim of re-directing theoretical assumptions about the two authors' works to the benefit of both academic and non specialist audiences, thus re-positioning Sri Lankan literature in the ever-growing context of South Asian studies in English. Ondaatje's The English Patient, Running in the Family, and, most prominently, Anil's Ghost, as well as Muller's "Burgher trilogy" and Colombo: A Novel, are here analyzed in the light of the writings by Antonio Gramsci, Michel Foucault, Homi Bhabha, Edward Said, and Hayden White. Quite original is the discourse on language that is, translatability looked at from cross-cultural and deconstructionist perspectives which include the debate around domesticating and foreignizing otherness, the difficult relation between Sinhala and Tamil in Sri Lanka, the controversial local variety of English, and its implications at the social level." -- Professor Carmen Concilio, University of TurinTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface by Geetha Ganapathy-Dore Introduction 1. Cartography and Mapping 2. The Making of History 3. Language and Translation 4. Writing Within/Without/About Sri Lanka Conclusions Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAlexander Solzhenitsyn was one of the Cold War's most iconic writers. This book offers an in-depth analysis of his reception in the US, UK, and Germany before and after 1991. Elisa Kriza skilfully explores how Solzhenitsyn's work can be understood with the paradigm of witness literature and uncovers the dynamics behind the politicised reception of his writing. From the mid-1980s onwards, Solzhenitsyn's popularity dwindled -- was this for ideological reasons? What about the rumours linking him with Russian nationalism? This study does not shy away from stretching beyond anti-communism and touching more contentious subjects -- such as anti-feminism, anti-Semitism, and revisionism -- in Solzhenitsyn's work and reception. Bringing Solzhenitsyn back from his 'critical exile' and redefining his work as memory culture, Kriza's book is a crucial scholarly intervention, unveiling the mechanism that can transform a controversial figure into a moral icon.Trade Review"The merits of this book are several and decisive. First of all it shows a solid and comprehensive grasp of Solzhenitsyn's work in its entirety and the huge body of criticism it has fostered, from books to articles and from political statements to reviews and debates in various media. Second, the ambition of making a reception study that redefines the field and, at the same time, exemplifies it through an investigation of a vast and complex material is innovative and represents a real scholarly achievement. Third, the comparative and interdisciplinary approach is organically embedded in the chapters in their detailed readings, and documents Elisa Kriza`s capacity to master a differentiated use of the vast material." -- Svend-Erik Larsen, Professor of Comparative Literature, Aarhus University"Revising by nature, Elisa Kriza`s study re-examines selected principal tendencies of Solzhenitsyn`s reception in the Anglophone and German-speaking world since the 1960s, and contextualizes his oeuvre within the framework of witness literature and representations of confinement. The main (and timely) question she posits is: Political factors notwithstanding, should Solzhenitsyn still be read in the West todayand if yes, why and how?" -- Andrei Rogatchevski, Professor of Russian Literature and Culture, University of Tromsø, NorwayTable of ContentsForeword, by Andrei Rogatchevski Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Solzhenitsyn as a Writer and a Witness 3. Solzhenitsyn's Oeuvre between Aesthetics and Politics 4. Solzhenitsyn in History Conclusions Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe ground-breaking essays gathered in this volume argue that global paradigms of World Literature, often referencing the major metropolitan centres of cultural and literary production, do not always accommodate voices from the margins and writing within minority genres such as the short story. Katherine Mansfield is a supreme example of a writer who is positioned between a number of different borders and boundaries: between modernism and postcolonialism; between the short story and other genres (like the novella or poetry, or non-fiction, such as letters, diaries, reviews, and translations); between Europe and New Zealand. In pointing to the global production and dissemination of short stories, and in particular the growing reception of Mansfields work worldwide since her death in 1923, the volume shows how literary modernism can be read in a myriad of ways in terms of the contemporary category of new World Literature.Trade ReviewThis important collection gathers an international group of scholars to position Mansfields work in global literary frameworks. Lively, engaging, and timely interpretations emerge here, reading Mansfields writing alongside that of a range of authors with whom her work has not been compared before. Highly original and drawing on a dazzling range of reference, these essays offer new understandings not only of Mansfields life and work, but of the short storys history and place in world literature.Prof. Rishona Zimring, Lewis & Clark College

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