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James Fitzjames Stephen:
A selected edition in 11 volumes
(to be published by Oxford University Press)
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1829–1894) is one of the great Victorian commentators
whose writing deserves to be better known Today, his most frequently cited works are
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873, 1874), the first sustained attack on J S Mill’s On Liberty; the 3-volume History of the Criminal Law of England (1883); and the Stephen
Code, his attempt to codify English criminal law, which failed in England but was
adopt-ed elsewhere (including Canada, New Zealand, and parts of Australia) Less known is his prolific activity as reviewer and journalist, often in periodicals with a policy of anonym-ity, on subjects ranging from fiction to prizefighting, national character to blasphemy As well as being the pre-eminent legal historian and legal thinker of his age, an authority on such matters as capital punishment, evidence, criminal responsibility, and fugitive slaves,
he added his forceful voice to contemporary debates on social, cultural, and literary topics It is time that the best of his writing – much of it unavailable for over a century – was republished in an authoritative edition
The Editorial Institute at Boston University is preparing an annotated 11-volume
edi-tion, which aims to make a discriminating choice of Stephen’s most significant writings,
to which will be added introductions, notes, ancillary material (including extracts from
letters, legal opinions, and reviews of Stephen’s work), and indexes The History and the General View of the Criminal Law of England (1863) will be included, as will his study
of part of the Warren Hastings affair: The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey There will also be four volumes of Stephen’s best shorter pieces, and the edition will include Leslie Stephen’s Life of his brother, supported by other biographical
material, much of it previously unpublished The volumes and editors are listed overleaf
The preparation of the edition is generously supported by the Andrew W Mellon Foun-dation through their Distinguished Achievement Award to Professor Christopher Ricks
The General Editors, Christopher Ricks and Frances Whistler, can be contacted at:
editinst@bu.edu
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(General Editors: Christopher Ricks and Frances Whistler,
Editorial Institute, Boston University)
A General View of the Criminal Law of England (first edn., 1863)
Editor: K J M Smith (Cardiff University), author of James Fitzjames Stephen: Portrait of a
Victorian Rationalist (Cambridge University Press, 1988).
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (revised edn., 1874)
Editor: Roger Kimball, Managing Editor of The New Criterion and editor of Walter Bagehot:
Physics and Politics (Ivan R Dee, 2000)
A History of the Criminal Law of England, 3 volumes (1883)
Editors: Jula Hughes, Karen Pearlston, et al (University of New Brunswick).
The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey (1885)
Editor: Lisa Rodensky (Wellesley College), author of The Crime in Mind (Oxford University
Press, 2003)
The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1895), by his brother Leslie Stephen
Editors: (Biographical Introduction) Hermione Lee, Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature
and Fellow of New College, Oxford; and (Annotation) Christopher Tolley, author of Domestic
Biography: The Legacy of Evangelicalism in Four 19th-Century Families [Macaulay, Stephen,
Wilberforce, and Thornton] (Oxford University Press, 1997).
Essay volumes:
On Empire and History
Editor: Sandra den Otter (Queen’s University, Ottawa), author of British Idealism and Social
Explanation: A Study in Late Victorian Thought (Oxford University Press, 1996).
On Justice and Jurisprudence
Editors: Michael Lobban, Professor of Legal History at Queen Mary College, University of London, and Paul Mitchell, King’s College London.
On the Novel and Journalism
Editor: Christopher Ricks, William M and Sara B Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston
University and editor of The Poems of Tennyson (revised edn., 1987).
On Society, Religion, and Government
Editors: Thomas E Schneider, Visiting Professor, Bowdoin College, and Alan Ryan, Warden of
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