Update: 1999-2000
Noncanonical Texts
By Romantic-Era Writers
and Where to Get Them
For information beyond items listed below, see Updates
1 and
2 as well.
I. Texts On Line
http://www.wwp.brown.edu
The latest newsletter from the Brown
Women Writers Project contains an interesting
discussion
of using online editions of noncanonical texts in the classroom and in research.
The Brown University Women Writers Project
conducted a survey of those who subscribe to their database, asking them
questions about its use. The Table of Contents for Brown's Women Writers on
line is restricted to subscribers to the database. However, one can get a good
sense of what's available from the
Women Writers Project
Text List, which lists publications that can be ordered in paper form, at:
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/texts/textlist.html
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/mirrors/romnet/wp1800/
Currently featuring plays by Jane Scott, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Sophia Lee,
this site will shortly contain plays written by Mariana Starke, Hannah Cowley,
Frances Burney, and Joanna Baillie.
Co-editors Thomas Crochunis Michael Eberle-Sinatra have written a
thought-provoking essay about
editing
women's writings on line, at
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/mirrors/romnet/wp1800/mes1.html , which provides a
nice counterpoint to the concerns about online editors uncovered by the Brown
survey (see A above).
II. New Editions, by Publisher
- The Works of Maria Edgeworth, Gen. ed. Marilyn Butler, W. J.
McCormack, Mitzi Myers, 12 vols. $1100
- Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation, Gen. ed. Peter Kitson,
Debbie Lee, 8 vols. $950
- Volume titles include: Debate on Abolition of the Slave Trade,
Debate on Emancipation of Slaves in the Colonies, The
Colonial Encounter.
- Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle,
1738-1790, Gen. ed. Gary Kelly, 6 vols. $795
- Writers included: Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Carter, Hester Chapone,
Catherine Talbot, Anna Seward, Sarah Scott, Sarah Fielding, Clara Reeve, Ellis
Cornelia Knight.
- SERIES: Pickering Women's Classics, ed. Janet Todd. Novels,
memoirs, poems, and plays by Joanna Baillie, Frances Burney, Lady Morgan, Hannah
More, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Inchbald, Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, and
others are priced at $50 each.
Pickering & Chatto are distributed in the USA by Ashgate Publishing
Company: (802) 276-3162; info@ashgate.com
For examination copies, send $2.00 per book to Director of Trade Paperbacks,
Oxford Univ. Press, 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10016-4314, including the
title, author, and APS code of the book (listed here), title of your course,
expected enrollment, date of your decision on the book.
- Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology, ed.
Roger Lonsdale, APS WOMPOE
- Vathek, William Beckford (ed. Lonsdale), APS WC645
- Camilla, Frances Burney (ed. Bloom and Bloom), APS WC66S
- Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress, Frances Burney (ed.
Sabor), APS WC742
- Evelina, Frances Burney (ed. Bloom), APS WC133
- The Wanderer, Frances Burney (ed. Doody, Mack, Sabor), APS
WC133
- The Adventures of David Simple, Sarah Fielding (ed. Kelsall),
APS WC766
- Memoirs of Emma Courtney, Mary Hays (ed. Eleanor Ty), APS
WCHAYS
- The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Eliza Haywood (ed.
Tobin), APS WCHAYW
- A Simple Story, Elizabeth Inchbald (ed. Tompkins), APS WC849
- The Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox (ed. Dalziel), APS WC765
- Mary and The Wrongs of Woman, Mary
Wollstonecraft (ed. Kelly), APS WC527
- The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, Ann Radcliffe (ed.
Milbank), APS WCATHL
- The Italian, Ann Radcliffe (ed. Garber), APS OWCRAD
- The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe (ed. Dobrée),
APS RADMYS
- The Romance of the Forest, Ann Radcliffe (ed. Chard), APS
WC712
- A Sicilian Romance, Anne Radcliffe (ed. Milbank), APS WCSICI
- Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine, ed. Robert
Morrison and Chris Baldick, APS WCTERR
- Zofloya, or The Moor, Charlotte Dacre (ed. Michasiw), APS
WCDACR
- Belinda, Maria Edgeworth (the important, earlier edition, ed.
Kirkpatrick), APS WCBELI
- Castle Rackrent, Maria Edgeworth (ed. Kirkpatrick), APS
WCRAC2
- The Absentee, Maria Edgeworth (ed. McCormack and Walker), APS
WC682
- St. Leon, William Godwin (ed. Clemit), APS WCLEON
- The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner,
James Hogg (ed. Carey), APS WC556
- The Monk, Matthew Lewis (ed. Anderson), APS WCMON2
- Journal of a West India Proprietor, Matthew Lewis (ed.
Terry), APS OWCLEW
- The Mary Shelley Reader, eds. Betty Bennett and Charles
Robinson, APS SHELL
- Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text, Mary
Shelley (ed. Butler), APS WCFRA2
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (ed. Joseph), APS WC532
- The Last Man, Mary Shelley (ed. Paley), APS WCLAST
- The Grasmere Journals, Dorothy Wordsworth (ed. Woof), APS
WORGRA
Other Novels in the World Classics Series, by ISBN:
- Lady Sydney Owenson Morgan , The Wild Irish Girl : A National Tale
(ed. Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick) ISBN: 0192832832
Five of Chadwyck-Healey's databases relevant to the field of Romanticism,
until now available on CD-ROM, are now available on line as part of their
Literature
Online: The English Poetry Full-Text Database, English Verse Drama, English
Prose Drama, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction.
D. University
of Kentucky Press (http://www.uky.edu/UniversityPress/). Phone orders:
1-800-839-6855
1. Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women Series
- Charlotte Smith, The Young Philosopher, ed. Elizabeth Kraft
(ISBN: 0813109620; paper)
- Elizabeth Griffith, The Delicate Distress, ed. Cynthia
Riciardi and Susan Staves (ISBN: 0813109256; paper)
- Sarah Scott, The History of Sir George Ellison, ed. Betty
Rizzo (ISBN: 0813108497; paper)
- Eliza Haywood, The Injur'd Husband : Or, the Mistaken Resentment and
: Lasselia : Or, the Self-Abandon'd (ISBN: 0813109612; paper)
- Frances Brooke, The Excursion, ed. Paula Backscheider (ISBN:
0813108810; paper)
- Sophia Lee, The Recess, Or, a Tale of Other Times, ed. April
Alliston (forthcoming, April 2000; ISBN: 0813109787; paper)
2. Poetry
- Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman, With Other Poems, ed. Paula
Feldman ($17.95 paper; ISBN: 0-8131-0964-7)
3. Anthologies
- Vincent Carretta, ed., Unchained Voices : An Anthology of Black
Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century (ISBN:
0813108845; paper)
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1
A Note on the Texts and Editorial Policy
17
A
Note on Money
18
Notes on the Illustrations
19
Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of
Briton Hammon, A Negro Man / Briton Hammon
20
Poems:
An Evening Thought / Jupiter Hammon
26
An Address to Miss
Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess / Jupiter Hammon
A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James
Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, An African Prince, As related by Himself /
James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
32
Poems: An Elegiac Poem,
on the Death of...George Whitefield / Phillis Wheatley
59
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral / Phillis Wheatley
"To
His Excellency General Washington" / Phillis Wheatley
"An
Ode" / Francis Williams
72
Letters of the Late
Ignatius Sancho, an African, in Two Volumes, to which are Prefixed, Memoirs of
his Life / Ignatius Sancho
77
A Narrative of the
Lord's wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black / John Marrant
110
The Life and Confession of Johnson Green, Who Is to Be Executed
this day, August 17th, 1786, for the Atrocious Crime of Burglary; Together
with His Last and Dying Words / Johnson Green
134
"Petition
of an African Slave, to the Legislature of Massachusetts" (1782), from The
American Museum, or Repository of Ancient and Modern Fugitive Pieces,
Prose and Poetical. For June 1787 / Belinda
142
Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery
and Commerce of the Human Species, Humbly Submitted to the Inhabitants of
Great-Britain, by Ottobah Cugoano, a Native of Africa / Quobna Ottobah
Cugoano
145
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of
Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself /
Olaudah Equiano
185
Copy of a Letter from Benjamin Banneker
to the Secretary of State, with His Answer / Benjamin Banneker
319
"An Account of several Baptist Churches, consisting chiefly of
Negro Slaves: particularly of one at Kingston, in Jamaica; and another at
Savannah in Georgia" / George Liele
325
"An
Account of the Life of Mr. David George, from Sierra Leone in Africa; given by
himself in a Conversation with Brother Rippon of London, and Brother
Pearce of Birmingham" / David George
333
"Memoirs
of the Life of Boston King, a Black Preacher. Written by Himself, during his
Residence at Kingswood-School" / Boston King
351
A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of
Africa: But resident above sixty years in the United States of America.
Related by Himself / Venture Smith
369
1. New Single-Author Texts from Broadview (see also previous Updates
1 and
2:
- Mary Robinson, Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, ed. Judith
Pascoe (ISBN 1-55111-201-9; paper)
- Mary Hays, Memoirs of Emma Courtney, ed. Marilyn Brooks (ISBN
1-55111-155-1)
- Elizabeth Hamilton, Memoirs of Modern Philosophers, ed.
Claire Grogan (ISBN 1-55111-148-9; paper)
2. Anthologies:
- Thomas J. Collins and Vivienne J. Rundle, eds., The Broadview
Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory (ISBN 1-55111-100-4;
paper.
- Broadview is currently in the process of publishing a Concise
Anthology of Victorian Poetry as well. Contact
Frances Brennan
for more information.
- COMING SOON!!!: The Broadview Anthology of Literature of the
Revolutionary Period, 1770-1832; a Transatlantic collection of political
prose and verse.
F. Cambridge University
Press (http://www.cup.org); phone orders 1-800-872-7423
The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM. Ed. David
Eltis, David Richardson, Stephen Behrendt, Herbert S. Klein. 1998
This database contains the records of 25,000 transatlantic slave ship
voyages made between 1595 and 1866 from all over Europe.
III. Teaching Romanticism
Approaches to Teaching British Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Ed. Stephen C. Behrendt, Harriet Kramer Linkin (New York: MLA Press, 1997);
ISBN 744-5 [AP60P]; phone orders (212) 614-6382
IV. Important Critical Editions
A. Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 1780-1830
Ed. Tim Fulford, Peter J. Kitson (Cambridge Univ. Press); ISBN 0-521-59143-0
[for ordering info., see above]
B. Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture
Ed. Alan Richardson, Sonia Hofkosh (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1996)
C. Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception
Ed. Harriet Kramer Linkin, Stephen C. Behrendt (Lexington: Univ. Press of
Kentucky, 1999); ISBN 0-8131-2107-8 [for press info., see above]