'Contextualizing Smith as a writer in various genres - poetry, novels, plays, children's literature, letters - and as a major voice in Romanticism, Labbe has put together an accessible collection that attempts to unite the multifaceted public personas of Smith and illuminate the many narrative personas of her oeuvre. Recommended.' CHOICE

• Introduction , Jacqueline Labbe; Chapter 1 ‘Herself … Fills The Foreground’: Negotiating Autobiography in The Elegiac Sonnets and The Emigrants, Kerri Andrews; Chapter 2 From Nosegay to Specimen Cabinet: Charlotte Smith and The Labour of Collecting, Dahlia Porter; Chapter 3 The Figure of the Hermit in Charlotte Smith’s Beachy Head, Kari Lokke; Chapter 4 The Subject of Beachy Head, Christoph Bode; Chapter 5 ‘The Slight Skirmishing of A Novel Writer’: Charlotte Smith and the American War of Independence, Barbara Tarling; Chapter 6 Charlotte Smith, The Godwin Circle, and the Proliferation of Speakers in The Young Philosopher, A. A. Markley; Chapter 7 The Alien Act and Negative Cosmopolitanism in The Letters of A Solitary Wanderer, Amy Garnai; Chapter 8 Narrating Seduction: Charlotte Smith and Jane Austen, Jacqueline Labbe; Chapter 9 Charlotte Smith’s The Banished Man in French Translation; or the Politics Of Novel-Writing During the Revolution, Katherine Astbury; Chapter 10 ‘This Village Wonder’: Charlotte Smith’s ‘What is She?’ and the Ideological Comedy of Curiosity, Diego Saglia; Chapter 11 Recovering Charlotte Smith’s Letters: A History, With Lessons, Judith Phillips Stanton; Chapter 12 Charlotte Smith: Intertextualities, Stuart Curran; Chapter 13 Charlotte Smith, Women Poets and The Culture of Celebrity, Stephen C. Behrendt; Chapter 14 ‘Tell My Name to Distant Ages’: The Literary Fate of Charlotte Smith, Louise Duckling;