Clara Reeve's early gothic novel, The Old English Baron (1778), is paired with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764), the work that inspired it. Hers is the story of Edmund, the peasant-hero, who discovers his rightful heritage through mysterious portents, and whose loyalty and integrity are put to the test in bringing the villain to justice. With an emphasis on probability and domestic virtue, The Old English Baron plays an important role in the transformation of the gothic genre. While the Castle of Otranto initiates a tradition of horror, with violent deaths, tyrannical power and tragic doom. The Old English Baron redirects the gothic towards homosocial bonding, paternal goodness and, ultimately, sentimental domesticity. The College publishing edition includes a substantial introductory essay on historical and literary contexts, with additional "links" or short essays situated throughout the text, exploring subjects such as chivalry, younger sons, women and law, anti-Catholicism, gothic architecture, and the supernatural. The appendix includes eighteenth-and nineteenth century reviews of both novels.

The Old English Baron / The Castle of Otranto (Eighteenth-Century Literature Series)

Literature & Fiction

Walpole, Horace

REEVE, CLARA

Runge, Laura L.

History & Criticism

College Publishing

Prime Time Politics explores how television is driven by a very simple logic: In order to succeed television needs an audience. This simple logic has a profound impact on our political world. It affects the way we choose our leaders, the way our leaders lead, and the policies we enact. Beyond examining how television interacts with the audience to shape the workings of elections, the presidency, and Congress, Prime Time Politics also examines how the Internet differs from television and the potential it has to alter our political landscape.

Prime Time Politics

Politics & Social Sciences

Sanders, Arthur

Politics & Government

The Structure of English for Readers, Writers, and Teachers is a survey of the vocabulary, spelling system, and grammatical structure of English, with application to the study of literary style, composition, dialect variation, and language development in children. The explanations are interspersed with exercises that ask the reader to apply each concept to the analysis of a literary passage, a child's speech or writing, or a piece of the reader's own prose. The presentation is couched within the framework of contemporary linguistic theory, but in a non-technical, very accessible form. This is an ideal text for undergraduate students of English language, literature, or composition and for future teachers of English in the public schools.

The Structure of English for Readers, Writers, and Teachers

Reference

Clark, Mary Morris

English as a Second Language

This collection of four revenge tragedies is the first in a series of Shakespeare in context volumes, which considers the plays of William Shakespeare as part of the intellectual climate of his day and here presents his Hamlet with Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, Cyril Tourneur's The Revenger's Tragedy, and Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy. The first part of the general introduction explores Renaissance revenge tragedy's relationship to Seneca's revenge drama and traces the development of the genre; the second part presents the reader with the theatrical climate of the times and gives an overview of the actual stage and its possibilities. The four plays and their playwrights are individually introduced, and all texts are newly edited, annotated, and modernized. A short section of contemporary views on revenge and a glossary at the end of the book should prove helpful for students exploring the revenge tragedy sub-genre.

Revenge Tragedies

Tourneur, Cyril

Kyd, Thomas

Beaumont, Francis

FLETCHER, John

Shakespeare., William

Dramas & Plays

This book represents for the first time The Wrongs of Woman; or Maria and Memoirs of the Author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" have been published in the same volume, but their history and reception have been inextricably linked since the publication of both in January 1798, less than five months after Mary Wollstonecraft's tragic early death. Designed as the fictional embodiment of Wollstonecraft's notions against patriarchy and for the rational and emotional independence of women, The Wrongs of Women tells the story of Maria, who makes a disastrous marriage and then must undergo confinement in a madhouse for her rebellion against it. Godwin's Memoirs of the Author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" honored Wollstonecraft's memory with a frank and detailed account of her life and death, but instead of the profound admiration he hoped to invoke, most contemporary readers felt shock at Wollstonecraft's sexual freedom and an odd mix of pity and wonder at Godwin's willingness to share such details of his wife's life with the world. The College Publishing edition includes an erudite and accessible introduction detailing the changing critical fortunes of both works, and in order to gain an appreciation for the rich cultural contexts of these texts, a selection of contemporary reviews appears in the appendix. In addition, Wollstonecraft and Godwin's other works and, uniquely, Gilbert Imlay's novel The Emigrants, are judiciously excerpted. Short essays throughout the text provide critical background material on such subjects as maternal breastfeeding, Gilbert Imlay, employment opportunities for lower-and middle-class women, marriage laws, and childbirth in the eighteenth century.

The Wrongs of Woman; or Maria and Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Eighteenth Century Literature)

Biographies & Memoirs

WOLLSTONECRAFT, MARY

Godwin, William

Richards, Cynthia

Community & Culture

Writing Style and Standards in Undergraduate Reports was developed to provide students with guidance for models of experimental reporting and to fully explain to students how they might produce such reports using their own data. The book presents models that represent the full diversity of experimental engineering reports. Examples range from simple industrial testing documents to complex research reports. All the examples resemble student reports, not professional level work, so students will have familiar examples of undergraduate level results that are reported as concisely, concretely and specifically as possible. In these model reports, as in so much of professional life, communication is driven by data. This book addresses the importance of data by providing detailed explanations of the standards that apply to graphical data displays and by explaining some of the tricks that professionals use to integrate their data displays into reports.

Writing Style and Standards in Undergraduate Reports

Donnell, Jeffrey

Jeter, Sheldon

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Asia in the New Millennium introduces students to the major nations of Asia, focusing on China, North and South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Pakistan, and India. The book explores the political, economic, cultural, and historical forces that help explain how these nations are coping in the modern world. The book is ideal for beginning students of Asian politics and studies, and for teachers in schools and universities who desire to add an Asian component to their curriculum. Students will find numerous maps of the region, tables offering comparative data, and photographic essays of important Asian leaders to aid their study.

Asia in the New Millennium

History

Neher, Clark D.

Asia

This edition pairs Mary Hays's Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) with Amelia Alderson Opie's Adeline Mowbray; or the Mother and the Daughter (1804). Emma Courtney represents the radical side of the debates in England about appropriate behavior for women in love at the end of the eighteenth century. Adeline Mowbray has been more often read as a warning about the dangers of putting into practice the radical reforms advocated by women like Hays. Reading together these novels by women who were both close friends and associates of Mary Wollstonecraft in the heady revolutionary days complicates their easy division into "radical" and "conservative" or "Jacobin" and "anti-Jacobin" categories. Debates of the time on abolition, childhood education, rakish masculinity, and the consequences for women of sexuality outside of marriage are central to both of these novels, and readily explored by offering both under a single cover. The College Publishing edition includes an introductory essay detailing the importance and problems of biographical approaches to these two novels in particular, and works by women writers in general. Additional short essays are interpolated throughout, providing helpful contextual material, while the varied responses of eighteenth and nineteenth-century readers are represented by a selection of contemporary reviews of each novel in the appendix.

Memoirs of Emma Courtney and Adeline Mowbray; or the Mother and the Daughter

Hays, Mary

Opie, Amelia Alderson

Classics

English and French medieval literature is best known to modern readers through two genres that dominate its early and later history: epic poetry and romance. In modern English versions by two award-winning translators and scholars of the period, this volume makes available for the first time under a single cover four of the major texts of these traditions: Beowulf, The Song of Roland, Chretien de Troyes' Yvain or The Knight with the Lion, and the complete Lais of Marie de France. In addition, Medieval Epic and Romance contains some less known but eminently worthy works that illustrate the variety and depth of medieval epic and romance as literary forms: Havelok, Guillaume de Machaut's The Taking of Alexandria (a Lengthy selection), and The Chatelaine de Vergi. Like its companion volume, Medieval Legends (also from College Publishing), this book includes an extensive apparatus designed to assist the beginning and advanced student of the literary Middle Ages.

Medieval Epic and Romance: An Anthology of English and French Narrative

R. Barton Palmer

Literary

Fate and Transport of Contaminants in the Environment was developed to provide non-specialists with an understanding of how chemicals behave in the environment. The text grew out of class notes used to teach students from a wide variety of scientific backgrounds majoring in environmental engineering, biology, chemistry, physics, and environmental science. The focus is on understanding the most important processes controlling the spread of chemicals, their movement through the environment, and where they end up. Openness to diversity of student background requires inclusion of introductory materials on how air and water behave in the environment as well as the concepts and equations for contaminant transport, partitioning, and reactions. Simplified mathematical predictors for assessing environmental trarnsport and human or ecological exposure are also presented. The equations are designed to help students form an understanding of the assumptions and limitations present in the constantly changing abundance of computer codes found in environmental literature and to give them a basis for assessment. This book aims to provide students with instinctive as well as conceptual grasps of the major forces at play in chemical contamination. Each chapter includes real examples encountered by the author, along with example and homework problems intended to illustrate key conepts covered in the text.

Fate and Transport of Contaminants in the Environment

Science & Math

John C. Walton

Physics

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