The Selected Works of Delarivier Manley

<p> A modern critical edition of the works of Delarivier Manley, providing complete texts of all works, re-set with scholarly annotation. Her work bridges the sphere of literary and political history and this edition should be of interest to academics in women's writing and history, eighteenth-century studies and the history of journalism. Manley is on the cusp of rediscovery, as over the last decade and a half, scholars have touched on her significance as a political journalist, playwright and novelist and examined her work within its political and historical contexts. An annotated edition of <em> The New Atalantis </em> is reprinted here along with current findings on Manley's work as a political propagandist and the most recent scholarship on her part in the history of the novel. <ul> <li> Includes all of Manley's known journalism </li> <li> Brings scholarship up to date on <em> The New Atlantis </em> , first republished over ten years ago by Pickering &amp; Chatto </li> </ul></p>