This Third Edition (2025) is based on the original text and includes Rae Greiner's revised and expanded explanatory notes plus material new to Norton's Critical Edition. Includes the two canceled chapters. Context: Steel's Original and Correct list of the Navy (1802) and the 1814 Navy List; selected Jane Austen letters; Anna Laetitia Barbauld's From Corsica, Epistle to William Wilberforce on the Rejection of the Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and an excerpt from On the Origin and Progress of Novel Writing; three pieces by Charlotte Dacre. Excerpts from the following works: John Bickall and Thomas Day, The Dying Negro; The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France; James Stephen's The Crisis of the Sugar Colonies; Byron's The Corsair; Robert Hay's Memoirs; Captain A. T. Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1787-1812; C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins. Reception: Maria Jane Jewsbury, Margaret Oliphant, Charles Beecher Hogan, and Ian Watt. Criticism: Essays by Morgan, Pinch, Lynch, Benedict, Galperin, Favret, Dow, Hume, and Looser. Chronology and bibliography. Norton. Paper. 2025. NEW. $21.00
