Introduction:Jane Barker, Exilius (1715)

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Note on the Text

The present edition of Jane Barker's Exilius (1715) is still in its project status. The version presented needs to be checked against the first edition. Contact us at verlagshaus@pierre-marteau.com if you are reading Barkers Exilius and think you can help us with a proof reading. We will provide you with paper copies of the first edition you can compare with the text presented (which stems from a later edition). The present text is revised with the aim to offer the original preface in a course on the rise of the novel at the university of Oldenburg. Some emendations have been made, original page ornaments have been inserted; the pagination has been added to allow comparisions with the first edition, yet the text cannot be quoted at this stage as text of the first edition.

Textual Commentary

Jane Barker's Exilius did indeed open with the frontispiece Curll had used before in the publication of Delarivier Manley's Adventures of Rivella (1714). An introduction covering this detail will follow at a later stage.

Literature

• King, Kathryn R./ Medoff, Jeslyn, "Jane Barker and Her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record," Eighteenth-Century Life, 21:3 (1997 Nov), pp. 16-38.

• Simons, Olaf, Marteaus Europa, oder Der Roman, bevor er Literatur wurde (Amsterdam, 2001).

• Delaney, Elizabeth, "Radical Moments: Jane Barker and Mary Shelley on Incest," in: Messier, Vartan P./ Batra, Nandita (eds.), Transgression and Taboo: Critical Essays. Mayagüez, Puerto Rico: College English Association-Caribbean Chapter [CEA-CC], (2005), pp. 29-50.