The Broadview Anthology of Literature of the Revolutionary Period 1770-1832 - Paperback

by D. L. MacDonald (Editor), Anne McWhir (Editor)

This groundbreaking and comprehensive new anthology broadens our understanding of Romantic-era literature without sacrificing coverage of major authors.

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The selections from 132 authors in this anthology represent gender, social class, and racial and national origin as inclusively as possible, providing both greater context for canonical works and a sense of the era's richness and diversity. In terms of genre, poetry, non-fiction prose, philosophy, educational writing, and prose fiction are included. Geographically, America, Canada, Australia, India, and Africa are represented along with Britain, emphasizing Romantic literature as a world literature. Biographical headnotes, explanatory footnotes, and an extensive bibliography clarify and illuminate the texts for readers.

Author Biography

D.L. Macdonald (1955-2010) was Professor of English at the University of Calgary, author of Poor Polidori (1991) and Monk Lewis: A Critical Biography (2000), and the co-editor with Kathleen Scherf of the Broadview Editions of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft's The Vindications, Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk, and John William Polidori's The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold.

Anne McWhir is Professor of English at the University of Calgary and the editor of the Broadview edition of Mary Shelley's The Last Man.