Selena by Mary Tighe: A Scholarly Edition

Mary Tighes unpublished courtship novel Selena is one of the great unknown treasures of British Romanticism. Based on the only known copy of the manuscript, housed in the National Library of Ireland, Harriet Kramer Linkins scrupulously annotated edition traces the works long journey from manuscript to print and establishes Selenas importance for understanding the history of the novel, fiction by women, Anglo-Irish fiction, silver-fork novels and the Romantic period.