New to the second edition of volume four of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature are works of short fiction by Mary Shelley ("The Mortal Immortal"), James Hogg ("The Expedition to Hell") and Matthew "Monk" Lewis (“The Anaconda”). Thomas Paine appears in the anthology for the first time, and Sir Walter Scott is now included in the bound book rather than the website component; a Scott short story ("The Eve of St. John") has been added. Other additions include Blake's "The Song of Liberty," several poems by Anna Letitia Barbauld, and "Contexts" sections of background materials on "The Natural, The Beautiful, and the Sublime" and "The Industrial Revolution."

Jerome J. McGann is John Stewart Bryan University Professor at the University of Virginia; of the ten general editors, he has focused on volume 4 particularly.

Our Editorial Team:

Joseph Black, University of Massachusetts

Leonard Conolly, Trent University

Kate Flint, Rutgers University

Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta

Roy Liuzza, University of Tennessee

Jerome McGann, University of Virginia

Anne Prescott, Barnard College

Barry Qualls, Rutgers University

Claire Waters, University of California at Davis

Comments on the First Edition:

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