Mill predicted that "[t]he Liberty is likely to survive longer than anything else that I have written...because
the conjunction of [Harriet Taylor�s] mind with mine has rendered it a kind of philosophic text-book of a single
truth, which the changes progressively taking place in modern society tend to bring out in ever greater relief."
Indeed, On Liberty is one of the most influential books ever written and remains a foundational document
for the understanding of vital issues such as individual rights and sexual difference. The new Broadview Literary
Texts edition includes a chronology, bibliography, and lengthy introduction which describes Mill�s entire life
and works and sets his magnum opus of 1859 in the context of both his own intellectual development and the Victorian
play of ideas and political forces.
"With an impressively compact and engaging introduction and a well-chosen selection of ancillary materials,
Edward Alexander's edition of On Liberty is an excellent choice for undergraduate courses, and will please
nineteenth-century specialists as well."
--Eileen Gillooly, Columbia University.
"Edward Alexander's work is not just another edition of Mill's On Liberty. In addition to a solid introduction
and the text itself, the reader encounters a wealth of material essential to placing the work in its historical
and philosophical context �.Alexander should be commended for making this invaluable material accessible to scholars
and students of Mill, of liberalism, of political philosophy, and of the history of ideas."
--Maria H. Moralies, Florida State University.
Table of Contents
Appendices:
A: Preludes to On Liberty
1. de Tocqueville Democracy in America
2. Early essays by Mill
B: Comments by Mill about On Liberty
C: Comments by Contemporaries about On Liberty and Mill
1. Caroline Fox
2. Thomas Carlyle
3. Thomas Hardy
4. John Ruskin
5. Matthew Arnold
6. George Eliot
D: Contemporary Reviews and Critiques
1. The Atheneum
2. The Saturday Review, Part One
3. The Saturday Review, Part Two
4. Thomas Arnold, Jr. The Rambler
5. British Quarterly Review
6. R.W. Church, Bentley�s Quarterly Review
7. Edward Lucas, The Dublin Review
8. James Fitzjames Stephen, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
9. John Morley, The Fortnightly Review
10. Charles de Remusat, Revue des Deux Mondes
11. Alexander Herzen, My Past and Thoughts
12. Constantine N, Leontyev, "The Average European . . . ."
13. [A.T. Bledsoe] The Southern Review
