Description
Appendices in this edition include: contemporary responses; writings on the genre debate by Anna Letitia Barbauld, John Moore, and Walter Scott; and historical documents focusing on property laws as well as the American and French revolutions.
About the Author
Jacqueline M. Labbe is a Reader in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of The Romantic Paradox: Love, Violence, and the Uses of Romance, 1760-1830 (Palgrave Macmillan,2000).
Reviews
"Labbe's celebratory introduction to The Old Manor House emphasizes Charlotte Smith's literary modernity; the notes and appendices amplify Smith's references to property law, revolutionary politics, and warfare. By implication, Smith's novel is revealed as an extension of-rather than a mere reflection of-the contemporaneous debates that are so well represented in the scholarly apparatus. This is another excellent Broadview edition." - Angela Keane, University of Sheffield
"Masquerading as a romance set in the 1770s, The Old Manor House satirizes characters who invoke feudal codes to mark the despotic authority of property over those who lack it but can imagine no other mode of genteel existence. Jacqueline Labbe's new edition creates a valuable array of supplementary documents for reading the subtle politics of this novel and its negotiations with the terms of fictional romance." - Theresa M. Kelley, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Book Information
ISBN 9781551112138
Author Charlotte Smith
Format Paperback
Page Count 587
Imprint Broadview Press Ltd
Publisher Broadview Press Ltd
Weight(grams) 699g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 22mm
