In addition to an illuminating introduction, this edition includes a variety of background materials that help to set this extraordinary work in its literary and historical context.
Pam Perkins, a Professor in the English Department at the University of Manitoba, has published widely on eighteenth and nineteenth century fiction; she has previously edited two volumes in the Broadview Editions series (Robert Bage’s Hermsprong and Elizabeth Hamilton’s Letters of a Hindoo Rajah).