PAMLA Member Lila Marz Harper’s New Edition of Flatland Published

Lila Marz Harper has published an edition of Edwin Abbott’s 1884 Flatland with Broadview Press. This edition provides context for the book’s references to Victorian culture and religion, mathematical history, and the history of philosophy. Details of the contents can be found at:
 
http://www.broadviewpress.com/product.php?productid=983
 
“Among the most enduring works of Victorian fiction, Flatland justly continues to attract both popular and scholarly attention. Lila Marz Harper’s richly annotated edition rewards readers by illuminating a variety of perspectives that can be profitably adopted when exploring Abbott’s imaginative worlds today. Her introduction effectively contextualizes Flatland as reflecting mathematical innovations, progressive hermeneutics, spiritualism, social institutions, and national identity in nineteenth-century England. The meticulously compiled appendices are invaluable for providing contemporaneous responses and intellectual alternatives to, as well as appropriations of, Abbott’s genre-defying work. Harper has made an outstanding, multidimensional contribution to Flatland scholarship.” – K. G. Valente, Colgate University