The Vicar of Wakefield

AUTHOR DECEASED. PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO CONTACT. Aileen Douglas is author of Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing, 1690-1840 (2017). A general editor of the Early Irish Fiction, 1680–1820 series (2010-), she has published widely on eighteenth-century fiction and women's writing. She is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at Trinity College Dublin. Ian Campbell Ross is author of Laurence Sterne: A Life (2001) and editor of Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1983; new ed. 2009). A general editor of the Early Irish Fiction, 1680–1820 series (2010-), he has written extensively on eighteenth-century Irish and British literature. He is Emeritus Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at Trinity College Dublin.

• Introduction; The Vicar of Wakefield; Long notes; Textual introduction; Copy text and list of editions collated; Emendations to the copy text; Historical collation; Line-end hyphenation; Select bibliography; Index.

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