"One can only hope that this edition becomes standard in colleges and universities." -- Irving Louis Horowitz, Rutgers University

Originally published in 1799, Ormond was inspired by enlightenment philosophers and Gothic writers.

A novel, in which Charles Gould returns to South America determined to make a success of the inheritance left to him by his father, the San Tome mine. But his dreams are thwarted as the country is plunged into revolution.

"McLeod's skillful edition includes a thought-provoking compendium of 18th-century views of beauty and ugliness." -- Jennifer Thorn, Duke University

In 1906, two years after the appearance of her best-known novel, The Imperialist , Duncan published its darker twin, an Anglo-Indian novel which returns to political themes but with a deeper and more clinical irony than in her previous work. Set in Authority is about illusions: the imperial illusions of those who rule and are ruled; the illusions of families about their members; the illusions of men and women about each other. The setting moves between the political drawing rooms of London and the English station at Pilaghur in the province of Ghoom, where the murder of a native by an English...

This edition is arranged chronologically, opening with Wollstonecraft's other vindication. It also includes a wide range of other relevant documents in appendices as well as a comprehensive introduction, chronology and full index.

Mary Robinson''s work has started to assume a central place in criticism and anthologies of romanticism. A writer of the 1790s, Robinson''s poems chroniclethe major events of the day and participate un the chief aesthetic innovations.'

In 1832, Harold Transome arrives home from the East to inherit the family estate, and startles his family by standing as a Radical candidate. He is well-intentioned but misguided, and his character is contrasted with idealistic artisan, Felix Holt.'

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