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"McLean and Knezevich's editing is illuminating and thoughtful, without being obtrusive. Besides offering a text of the novel that is free of typographical and orthographical errors, the editors furnish an introduction, a note on the text, footnotes, and an appendix.--Joanna Rostek, University of Giessen ""Review 19 """

[T]his reprint is timely ... handsome, intelligent and well-appointed.--Min Wild ""The TLS"" McLean and Knezevich's editing is illuminating and thoughtful, without being obtrusive. Besides offering a text of the novel that is free of typographical and orthographical errors, the editors furnish an introduction, a note on the text, footnotes, and an appendix.--Joanna Rostek, University of Giessen ""Review 19"" Jane Porter's Thaddeus of Warsaw (1803) -- a pioneering historical novel of war, refugees, family, friendship, duty, and love--was a bestseller in its own day. It is now poised for a revival, thanks to editors Thomas McLean and Ruth Knezevich, who have produced a welcome first modern edition, richly annotated and beautifully introduced.-- ""Devoney Looser, Arizona State University""

McLean and Knezevich's editing is illuminating and thoughtful, without being obtrusive. Besides offering a text of the novel that is free of typographical and orthographical errors, the editors furnish an introduction, a note on the text, footnotes, and an appendix.--Joanna Rostek, University of Giessen Review 19

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Jane Porter (1776 - 1850) was an English historical novelist, dramatist and literary figure. Thomas McLean is Associate Professor of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author of The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire (2012) and editor of Further Letters of Joanna Baillie. He has written numerous articles on the life and work of Jane Porter, and he writes regularly on nation, migration, and many other aspects of nineteenth-century literature and culture. Ruth Knezevich is a Lecturer in English at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her research interests include women writers of the long eighteenth century (1700-1830); paratexts and footnotes; and the negotiations of historical, geographical, and cultural identity in British literatures.

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