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Author:   Helen Maria Williams ,  Paula Feldman
Publisher:   Broadview Press Ltd
Imprint:   Broadview Press Ltd
Edition:   Critical ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.280kg
ISBN:  

9781554811281

ISBN 10:   1554811287
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   08 December 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgements Introduction Helen Maria Williams: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Texts ""Peru"" ""Peruvian Tales"" Appendix A: Related Poetic Works by Helen Maria Williams 1. Helen Maria Williams, ""An Ode on the Peace"" (1783) 2. ""A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade"" (1788) Appendix B: Williams's Historical and Literary Sources 1. Joseph Warton, ""The Dying Indian"" (1744) and ""The Revenge of America"" (1755) 2.William Hayley, An Essay on Epic Poetry (1782) and translation of Alonso de Ercilla's La Arauncana (1782) 3. Françoise de Graffigny, Letters Written by a Peruvian Princess (1747) 4. Abbé Raynal, A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies (1776) 5. William Robertson, History of America (1777) 6. Jean-François Marmontel, The Incas; or, The Destruction of the Empire of Peru (1777) Appendix C: Poetic Responses to Helen Maria Williams 1. Anna Seward, ""Sonnet to Miss Williams, on her Epic Poem Peru"" (1784) 2. Eliza, ""To Miss Helen Maria Williams: on her Poem of Peru"" (1784) 3. E., ""Sonnet to Miss Helen Maria Williams, on her Poem of Peru"" (1786) 4. J. B-o, ""Sonnet. To Miss Helena-Maria Williams"" (1787) 5. William Wordsworth, ""Sonnet on Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress"" (1787) 6. Richard Polewhele, from ""The Unsex'd Females: A Poem"" (1798) Appendix D: Contemporary Critical Reviews of ""Peru"" and of ""Peruvian Tales"" 1. From The New Annual Register (1784) 2. From The Critical Review (1784) 3. From The English Review (1784) 4. From the Monthly Review (1784); reprinted in the London Magazine (1784) 5. From Town and Country Magazine (1784) 6. From The English Review (1786) 7. From The European Magazine and London Review (1786) 8. From the Monthly Review (1786) 9. From the New Review (1786) 10. From the New Annual Register (1786) 11. From The English Lyceum (1787) 12. From The European Magazine and London Review (1823) 13. From The Literary Gazette (1823) 14. From The Monthly Review (1823) Select Bibliography"

Reviews

Comments: “Paula R. Feldman’s edition of Williams’ poem and related works is impeccably presented; the apparatus is erudite yet accessible. More important, Peru is a fascinating and satisfying read, worthy of the impressive treatment afforded it here. This edition makes available an important poem in the history of the epic and of European colonialism and provides a wealth of contextual material that shows just how necessary this book is for readers, students, and instructors of British Romanticism.” — Daniel Robinson, Homer C. Nearing Jr. Distinguished Professor of English at Widener University “Paula R. Feldman and her collaborators are to be congratulated for this exemplary edition of Helen Maria Williams’s Peru and Peruvian Tales. They have advanced our understanding of Romantic-period women writers, of the history of the epic, and of Frankenstein’s Creature’s wish to retire to the ‘vast wilds of South America.’” — Jeanne Moskal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Editor of the Keats-Shelley Journal

Paula R. Feldman and her collaborators are to be congratulated for this exemplary edition of Helen Maria Williams's Peru and Peruvian Tales. They have advanced our understanding of Romantic-period women writers, of the history of the epic, and of Frankenstein's Creature's wish to retire to the 'vast wilds of South America.'--Jeanne Moskal, Editor of the Keats-Shelley Journal

Author Information

Paula R. Feldman is the C. Wallace Martin Professor of English and the Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina. She is the editor of the Broadview Encore Edition of The Keepsake for 1829, a literary annual.

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