The Speedy Extinction of Evil and Misery: Selected Prose of James Thomson (B. V.)

The Speedy Extinction of Evil and Misery: Selected Prose of James Thomson (B.V.), edited by William David Schaefer, offers the first truly representative collection of Thomson’s prose, rescuing a neglected body of work from obscurity and scattered editions. While Thomson’s poetry—most notably The City of Dreadful Night—has ensured him a place in Victorian literature, his prose has long remained inaccessible, surviving mainly in rare volumes or ephemeral periodicals such as the National Refo...