Commands a central place in the history of the English Jacobin novel. Published in 1796, the story explores the opposition between the upbringing and actions of Henry Norwynne, an unspoiled "child of nature" who has been reared without books on an African island, and the corrupt conduct of his aristocratic older cousin, William. Inchbald was one of the best-known writers of her time, and Nature and Art represents her most concerted attempt to analyze the effects of education, power, and privilege on human behaviour.

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

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Elizabeth Inchbald: A Brief Chronology

33

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A Note on the Text

37

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Nature and Art

39

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Appendix A: The Composition of the Novel and the Art of Novel Writing

155

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Textual Changes from First (1796) to Second (1797) Edition, with Passages Deleted from Second Edition

155

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Passage deleted from Chapter 30

155

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Passage deleted from Chapter 44

156

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Conclusion to the First Edition

156

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Letters between Inchbald and William Godwin

157

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Letter to Godwin Describing the Travails of Novel Writing (November 1792)

157

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Two undated letters to Godwin on Reading Proofs of his Caleb Williams [1794]

158

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Undated letter to Godwin Describing his Reading of Her Manuscript, probably ``A Satire on the Times'' (1794/5)

159

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Letter from Godwin to Inchbald (1 December 1817)

160

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Inchbald's Essay on Novel Writing from The Artist (1807)

160

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Appendix B: ``The Prejudice of Education'': Philosophical Influences

167

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From Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, ou de l'Education (1762)

167

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From Thomas Day, The History of Sandford and Merton (1783-89)

171

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From William Godwin, The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature in a Series of Essays (1797)

175

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Appendix C: Literary Cross-Currents: Political Critique in Inchbald's Jacobin Contemporaries

179

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The ``Noble Savage'' and the British Aristocracy, from Robert Bage, Hermsprong (1796)

179

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Corruption in Church and State

181

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From Thomas Holcroft, The Adventures of Hugh Trevor (1794-97)

182

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From Robert Bage, Hermsprong (1796)

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Seduction and Prostitution

193

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From Mary Wollstonecraft, The Wrongs of Woman: or, Maria (1798)

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From Mary Hays, The Victim of Prejudice (1799)

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Appendix D: Africa and the Sierra Leone Colony

207

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From Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789)

208

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Letter from First Governors of Sierra Leone Settlement (1788)

210

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The Sierra Leone Company's Declaration (1791)

211

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From Anna Maria Falconbridge, Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone, During the Years 1791-92-93 (1794)

212

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Appendix E: Contemporary Reviews and Critical Preface

219

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[Mary Wollstonecraft], Analytical Review (January--June 1796)

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Monthly Mirror (March 1796)

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Critical Review (March 1796)

220

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Monthly Review (April 1796)

221

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The Moral and Political Magazine (June--September 1796)

221

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Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Preface to The British Novelists Series, Vol. 27 (1810)

235

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Select Bibliography

237

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