The first edited and fully annotated edition of Robert Bage's Hermsprong or Man As He Is Not (1796), this book will make accessible in accurate form an English

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This collection of authoritative essays represents the latest scholarship on topics relating to the themes, movements, and forms of English fiction, while chron