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Sarasota News Leader December 7, 2012 Page 96 NEW COLLEGE PROFESSOR PUBLISHES BOOK ON HOLCROFT New College of Florida professor Miriam Wallace has co-edited a collection of essays titled, Re-Viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809: Essays on Thomas Holcroft's Works and Life, published by Ashgate. "melodrama" to Britain and was known as the playwright who brought Beaumarchais' Le Mariage de Figaro to the English stage as The Follies of a Day. He was also a victim of the 1794 London TreaThe book focuses on Holcroft, the self-edu- son Trials. cated son of a cobbler who became a popular Wallace is professor of English at New Col18th-century playwright, influential reformist lege, where she teaches courses on the Britnovelist and controversial political radical, a ish novel and literary theory with a particular New College news release says. interest in feminist and gender theories. As a Re-Viewing Thomas Holcroft is the first es- 2012 Lewis Walpole Library Fellow, she consay collection devoted to Holcroft's life and ducted research in Yale University's Walpole literary work, the release points out. "Wallace library collection for her project, Illustrating and her co-editor, A.A. Markley, have com- Speech: Depicting Professional, Popular, and piled essays that illustrate Holcroft's central Illicit Speaking. role among London's radical reformers and In 2002, she was awarded a National Endowintelligentsia as well as his theatrical innovament for the Humanities College Teacher Feltions within ongoing explorations of the late lowship for her book, Revolutionary Subjects 18th-century public sphere of letters and dein the English "Jacobin" Novel, 1790-1805. bate," the release adds. Holcroft introduced The cover of New College professor Miriam Wallace's book on Thomas Holcroft. Contributed photo Miriam Wallace/Contributed