Modern Love and the Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads George Meredith, Rebecca N. Mitchell, Criscillia Benford

Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside occupies a distinctive and somewhat notorious place within George Meredith's already unique body of work. Modern Love is now best known for the emotionally intense sonnet cycle which Meredith's own contemporaries dismissed as scandalously confessional and indiscreet. While individual sonnets from the work have been anthologized, the complete cycle is rarely included and the original edition has not been reprinted since its first appearance in 1862. This edition restores the original publication and supplements it with a range of accompanying materials that will re-introduce Meredith's astonishing collection of poetry to a new generation of readers.

Criscillia Benford is a Scholar in Residence and Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow in the English Department at Duke University. Her research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, and Stanford University. She has published articles in Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies and Narrative.

Rebecca Mitchell is an assistant professor of English at The University of Texas-Pan American. Her research is focused on Victorian English literature, and comparative lit. She has published articles in Fashion Theory, Victorian Literature and Culture, Papers on Language and Literature, Neo-Victorian Studies, and The Wildean.

"Rebecca Mitchell and Criscillia Benford's important edition opens new possibilities in scholarship and classrooms by allowing readers to access Meredith's vibrant poetry in its cultural, publishing, and visual contexts."--Linda K. Hughes, author of "The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry"--Linda K. Hughes