Gary Kelly

University of Alberta, English and Film Studies, Faculty Member

University of Alberta, Comparative Literature Program, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, Faculty Member

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born Toronto, Canada; educated Bloor Collegiate Institute, University of Toronto (Victoria College, BA History and English), Oxford University (Worcester College, BA and DPhil English), employed University of New Brunswick (Canada), University of Alberta (Canada), Keele University (England), University of Alberta again; Canada Research Chair 2000-2007, Distinguished University Professor 2008-
Address: Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E5

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English Fiction of the Romantic Period Longman Literature in English Series General Editors

English Fiction of the Romantic Period, 1789-1830, 1989

An account of English fiction of the Romantic period in literary, social, political, and cultural... more

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Sixpenny Romanticism, in progress

Converging history of the social and cultural meanings of money, print culture, popular entertain... more

History of Fun, in progress

An account of fun, its meanings, varieties, uses, and media during the onset of modernity

Romanticism and Modernity, in progress

What did most people read during the Romantic period? Where and how did they get it? Where did it... more

Romantic Chronotopes, in progress

Collision, contradiction, collusion, or collaboration? The ordnance survey and cadastral mapping ... more Collision, contradiction, collusion, or collaboration? The ordnance survey and cadastral mapping on the one hand, Sentimental topography (text and images) and antiquarianism on the other.
Rise of Watercolour, Aquatint, Steel engraving: Topography in the Field and in the Parlour
Modernization and the Antiquarian Topography Craze
Staffage: The Reduction of the People to Landscape Ornament; Rise of "Folklore"; Marginalization of Popular Knowledges in "British" Time-Space
Scott: The Scottish Enlightenment and the Creation of a Chronotope for Modernity
Technologies of the Modern Chronotope (from surveying equipment through sketching and watercolouring equipment to printing and graphic arts)

Women, Learning, and Lore, in progress

Romantic Apocalypse: Reading the Course of Time, in progress

Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, general editor, in progress

Two volumes published (America Civil War to WW I, British Isles to 1660); one in preparation (Ame... more Two volumes published (America Civil War to WW I, British Isles to 1660); one in preparation (America to the Civil War); three in planning (20th Century America), 19th Century British Isles, 18th Century British Isles; emphasis is on popular print in English, with associated languages where appropriate; will eventually cover Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture Volume One: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660, edited by Joad Raymond, published

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture Volume Six: US Popular Print Culture 1860-1920, edited by Christine Bold, published

Newgate Narratives, edited by Gary Kelly, 5 vols, Pickering and Chatto, published

Varieties of Female Gothic, edited by Gary Kelly, 6 vols, Pickering and Chatto, published

Lydia Sigourney: Poetry and Prose, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, published

The most widely read American woman poet in the English-speaking world before the end of the Civi... more

Felicia Hemans: Poetry and Prose, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, published

The most widely read woman poet in the nineteenth-century English-speaking world.

Sarah Scott, Millenium Hall, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, published

Bluestocking Feminism 1738-1785, 6 vols, set and two vols (novels of Sarah Scott) edited by Gary Kelly; other vol editors Elizabeth Eger, Judith Hawley, Jennifer kelly, Rhoda Zuk; Pickering and Chatto, published

Selected works of members and associates of the eighteenth-century "Bluestocking circle" of women... more

Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827, Oxford, published

Accounts of Helen Maria Williams, Mary Hays, and Elizabeth Hamilton in relation to the crisis of ... more

Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft, Macmillan, published

An account of the intellectual, social, and cultural formation of the feminist writer of the late... more

English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830, Longman, published

A temporized or historicized taxonomy of the varieties of prose fiction created during this perio... more

Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary and The Wrongs of Woman, edited by Gary Kelly, Oxford, published

Annotated edition (revised) of the pioneering feminist's two novels

English Fiction of the Romantic Period Longman Literature in English Series General Editors

English Fiction of the Romantic Period, 1789-1830, 1989

An account of English fiction of the Romantic period in literary, social, political, and cultural... more

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Sixpenny Romanticism, in progress

Converging history of the social and cultural meanings of money, print culture, popular entertain... more

History of Fun, in progress

An account of fun, its meanings, varieties, uses, and media during the onset of modernity

Romanticism and Modernity, in progress

What did most people read during the Romantic period? Where and how did they get it? Where did it... more

Romantic Chronotopes, in progress

Women, Learning, and Lore, in progress

Romantic Apocalypse: Reading the Course of Time, in progress

Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, general editor, in progress

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture Volume One: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660, edited by Joad Raymond, published

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture Volume Six: US Popular Print Culture 1860-1920, edited by Christine Bold, published

Newgate Narratives, edited by Gary Kelly, 5 vols, Pickering and Chatto, published

Varieties of Female Gothic, edited by Gary Kelly, 6 vols, Pickering and Chatto, published

Lydia Sigourney: Poetry and Prose, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, published

The most widely read American woman poet in the English-speaking world before the end of the Civi... more

Felicia Hemans: Poetry and Prose, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, published

The most widely read woman poet in the nineteenth-century English-speaking world.

Sarah Scott, Millenium Hall, edited by Gary Kelly, Broadview, published

Selected works of members and associates of the eighteenth-century "Bluestocking circle" of women... more

Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827, Oxford, published

Accounts of Helen Maria Williams, Mary Hays, and Elizabeth Hamilton in relation to the crisis of ... more

Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft, Macmillan, published

An account of the intellectual, social, and cultural formation of the feminist writer of the late... more

English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830, Longman, published

A temporized or historicized taxonomy of the varieties of prose fiction created during this perio... more

Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary and The Wrongs of Woman, edited by Gary Kelly, Oxford, published

Annotated edition (revised) of the pioneering feminist's two novels

Wordsworth and Coleridge: The Radical Years. Nicholas Roe.The Early Life of William Wordsworth 1770-1798: A Study of the Prelude, second editon. Émile Legouis, J. W. Matthews, trans., and Nicholas Roe

The Wordsworth Circle, 1990

Quotations in Mary Wollstonecraft

Notes and Queries, 1975

English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830

English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 (Longman Literature In English Series) Gary Kell... more English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 (Longman Literature In English Series) Gary Kelly English Fiction of the Romantic Period 1789-1830 is the first comprehensive historical survey of fiction from that period for many decades. It combines a clear awareness of the period's social history with recent developments in literary criticism, theory and history, and explains the astounding variety of forms in Romantic fiction in terms of the various cultural, political, social, regional and gender conflicts of the time. It provides a broad-ranging survey from the major authors and works through to the sub-genres of the period. Jan Austin and Sir Alter Scott are discussed alongside the Gothic Romance, political and feminist fiction, social satire and regional, rural and historical novels. It also provides a comparison of the methods of distribution and marketing and the availability of books then and now; examines cheap popular fiction and children's fiction, and considers the recent debate about the place of prose fiction in a Romantic literature hitherto dominated by poetry.

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Conclusion: The Limits of Romantic Fiction

from Sir Richard Phillips, A Letter to the Livery of London, Relative to the Views of the Writer in Executing the Office of Sheriff (London: T. Gillet, 1808), pp. 76–101

from Henry Grey Bennet, A Letter to the Common Council and Livery of the City of London, on the Abuses Existing in Newgate, Showing the Necessity of an Immediate Reform in the Management of that Prison (London: James Ridg way, 1818), pp. 40–79

from [Martin Madan], Thoughts on Executive Justice, with Respect to Our Criminal Laws, Particularly on the Circuits. Dedicated to the Judges of Assize; and Recommended to the Perusal of all Magistrates; and to all Persons Who Are liable to Serve on Crown Juries. By a Sincere Well-wisher to the Pu...

from Thomas Wontner, Old Bailey Experience: Criminal Jurisprudence and the Actual Working of Our Penal Code of Laws; also, An Essay on Prison Discipline, to Which Is Added a History of the Crimes Committed by the Offenders in the Present Day (London: James Fraser, 1833), pp. 37–58, 294–303, 307–1...

History and Romance: Sir Walter Scott

Fiction and British Society 1789–1830

Anti-Jacobin Novels

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Feb 6, 2020

Holcroft, Thomas (1745–1809), writer

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Sep 23, 2004

Romanticism and the Feminist Uses of History

Women, Writing and Revolution, 1790-1827

Studies in Romanticism, 1995

Part 1 Women and writing in the Revolutionary decade: feminizing revolution - Helen Maria William... more Part 1 Women and writing in the Revolutionary decade: feminizing revolution - Helen Maria Williams Mary Hays and revolutionary sensibility Elizabeth Hamilton and counter-revolutionary feminism. Part 2 Women, writing and the Revolutionary aftermath: Helen Maria Williams in post-Revolutionary France Mary Hays - women, history and the state Elizabeth Hamilton - domestic woman and national reconstruction.

Sarah Scott & Clara Reeve

Pickering & Chatto eBooks, 1999

Volume 1 Elizabeth Montagu: An Essay on the writings and Genius of Shakespear - compared with the... more Volume 1 Elizabeth Montagu: An Essay on the writings and Genius of Shakespear - compared with the Greek and French dramatic Poets (1769) Dialogues with the Dead (1760) Selected Letters. Elizabeth Montagu was famous in her lifetime as a letter-writer, Shakespeare critic and patron of the arts. Known as the 'Queen of the Blues', she hosted regular parties attended by the most celebrated writers of the day, among them Johnson, Burke and Hume. She was sister of Sarah Scott, the novelist and historian, and a life-long friend of Elizabeth Carter. A keen promoter of the idea of the intellectual female as a morally serious and useful member of society, she invested much of her fortune in cultural patronage and granted several female writers annuities. Volume 2 Elizabeth Carter: All the Works of Epictetus (1758) Essays from Rambler, no. 44 & 100 Selected Letters and Poetry Elizabeth Carter, poet, translator, essayist and letter-writer, was undoubtedly the most learned of the Bluestockings. Considered something of a prodigy, she lived an independent life in London in the 1730s, contributing poetry to the influential Gentleman's Magazine and forming connections with Johnson and Richardson among others. Her ground-breaking translation of Epictetus earned her - apart from financial security - many admirers, including Elizabeth Montagu. The Stoical philosophy of Epictetus formed a vital part of the Bluestockings' political and moral thinking and arguably underpins Carter's conservatism and retreat from the competitive world of publishing. Volume 3 Hester Chapone: Letters on the Improvement of the Mind (1733) Advice to a New Married Lady (1777) Letters on Filial Obedience Selected Poems, Essays & Letters Catherine Talbot: Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week (1770) A Fairy Tale, Selected Poems, Essays & Letters. Dubbed 'the little spitfire' by Samuel Richardson, Hester Mulso Chapone published letters, tales and poetry encouraging women to develop their rational potential. The success of Letters on the Improvement of the Mind was such that it ran into 25 editions. Catherine Talbot was commonly known in literary society as 'the learned Miss Talbot' although she chose to publish little during her lifetime. Her letters to Elizabeth Carter concerning women's social position gained particular recognition for their wit, passion and clarity. Volume 4 Anna Seward: Selected Poems, including Elegy on Captain Cook, Monody on the Death of Major Andre, Llangollen Vale and the poetical novel Louisa Selected Letters. Anna Seward, a leading woman poet of her day, is generally associated with the culture of sensibility. Yet she was also closely associated with key figures of the Midlands Enlightenment, as her work, both poetry and prose, reflects. She grew up in Lichfield, one of the major provincial literary centres in the later eighteenth-century, in a family much involved in the literary circles of Samuel Johnson, Thomas Day and Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Her letters, some of which were intended for publication, cover a wide range of topics in literature, music and religion, social criticism and the leading events of her time. Volumes 5 and 6 Sarah Scott: A Journey through Every Stage of Life (1754) The Test of Filial Duty in a Series of Letters, 1772 (1757) Clara Reeve: The Progress of Romance (1785) Sarah Scott, sister of Elizabeth Montagu, was the leading fiction writer of the first-generation Bluestocking circle and also, if one includes her works of history, the most prolific. Her novels are distinctive, and the two novels presented here are original, lively and engaging representations of the same feminist issues that Scott presented in her utopian novel of 1762, Millenium Hall. Clara Reeve was a prolific novelist and critic. The Progress of Romance was a major work of literary history and the leading defence of women's reading in the eighteenth-century.

Varieties of Female Gothic Vol 1

Newgate Narratives Vol 1

Newgate Narratives Vol 5

Bluestocking Work

Routledge eBooks, Mar 3, 2016

‘A Solitary Wanderer’

By the time An Historical and Moral View of the … French Revolution was published Wollstonecraft’... more By the time An Historical and Moral View of the … French Revolution was published Wollstonecraft’s relationship with Imlay was disintegrating. She thought she had found with him a revolutionary domesticity and sexuality based on ‘mind’ and supporting her public identity and professional career. She could not believe that her revolution was over and continued to pursue the ideal and Imlay. Even her next book was a by-product of that pursuit.

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