Emma Corbett: Or, the Miseries of Civil War (Broadview Editions)
"Emma Corbett is essential reading for anyone interested in the impact of the American revolutionary war on both sides of the Atlantic, and in the development of the novel as major vehicle for the cultural negotiation of pressing global political and social issues. Professor Bannet offers entirely new scholarly insight into the genesis and cultural context of this, the most popular and influential fictional attempt to come to terms with the War. Republication of Pratt's pioneering novel is long overdue, and this excellent edition makes it once again fresh, intelligible, and impossible to ignore." (Karen O'Brien, University of Birmingham)"Emma Corbett is one of what Eve Tavor Bannet terms 'transatlantic stories,' written in 1780 by Samuel Jackson Pratt, an English curate turned actor and poet. Bannet's supplementary material, especially the letters between Pratt and Benjamin Franklin, provides clues as to why he developed the themes he did in the book." (Carole Shammas, University of Southern California)