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At the 7 Nov 2024 book launch celebrating the publication of her new edition, Katharina Rout spoke about All Quiet on the Western Front to an audience of about 45 people at The Attic in the historic railway station building in Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. Excerpts from her wide-ranging address are presented here. On language, and…

Philosophy is apparently without any boundaries to its object of study. Knowledge, reality, goodness, love, art, death, food, science, God… It would seem that nothing is off limits for philosophy or, more appropriately, for the philosophically-minded. If we can think about it, we can think about it philosophically. One of my go-to points when students…

Trent University and Peterborough-based Broadview Press have announced a new agreement that will provide more publishing opportunities for Trent faculty, give students real-world publishing experience, and create a new academic prize to be awarded every year for scholarly work in the humanities or social sciences.  The 10-year agreement, which takes effect June 1, 2024, was…

Fans of Broadview Editions rejoice! With the click of a button, readers can access over 330 of our acclaimed editions of British literature for only $45* through the Broadview British Bookshelf! Broadview’s editions have been warmly welcomed into countless classrooms since the inaugural volumes were published in 1994. They are valued among experts, students, and…

Broadview Press CEO and Company Founder Don LePan today made the following announcement regarding management changes at the company, all of which are to take effect July 1. Leslie Dema, Broadview’s President since 2014, has decided for personal reasons to step down from that role. She will remain a valued member of Broadview’s Board of…

Alexa Alice Joubin In the beginning of the tragedy, Shakespeare’s King Lear famously announces his abdication and decision to pass on the duty of governance to his daughters: “Divided in three our kingdom.” The scene of regal abdication of King Lear is folkloric in origin. Structurally, when the scene begins, there are other divisions paralleling…

Evan R. Davis; Nicholas D. Nace Are human beings nothing more than machines? Broadview is happy to offer this contrarian argument that we are, in fact, broomsticks. We look forward to the publication of The Broadview Anthology of British Satire, 1660-1750, edited by Evan R. Davis and Nicholas D. Nace.

Todd H.J. Pettigrew One of the great satisfactions of scholarship is discovering texts with which one is wholly unfamiliar and yet which one feels a real human connection. From the dim reaches of ages past, a voice finds its way to you, and you realize you have a friend who has not walked this earth…

Jason Holt Though the discipline of philosophy has been around for thousands of years, the philosophy of sport, as a distinct subdiscipline, is younger than I am, only about 50 years old. This is unsurprising if you consider the oddity of “philosophizing about sport.” Although it was about two and a half millennia ago that…

Here at Broadview, we’ve seen an enormous shift toward digital adoptions over the last two years. A significant portion of these are what are commonly called “Inclusive Access” or “First Day” adoptions. In this sales model the cost of digital texts is included in a student’s course fees and the texts are made available to…

Ethel Rackin A distinguishing feature of Crafting Poem and Stories: A Guide to Creative Writing is the pairing of historically important literary models next to notable contemporary ones. In a chapter on traditional form, for instance, a section on sonnets includes historical background, definitions, and a pairing of traditional models with contemporary ones, demonstrating the…

Megan Cavell, editor and translator of The Medieval Bestiary in English I came to the Physiologus tradition partly through my love of Old English literature (who couldn’t love a tradition that has the devil wandering around in a heoloþ‏‏helm “helmet of invisibility”?!) and partly through my love of animals (as my rabbit friend, Max, can…

In light of the ongoing epidemic of gun violence in America, we are choosing to make the chapter on gun violence from Julius Bailey’s Racism, Hypocrisy, and Bad Faith: A Moral Challenge to the America I Love available for free on our website (opens as a PDF). For a short excerpt from the beginning of…

[Melissa Edmundson, editor of our new edition of Charlotte Riddell’s The Uninhabited House (1875), shares the following excerpt from Helen C. Black’s interview with Riddell, published in Notable Women Authors of the Day (1893).] Helen C. Black’s interview with Charlotte Riddell provides a fascinating insight into the author’s private life and professional career. Black visited…

It’s that time of year again! We’re looking back at 2021 and taking a moment to reflect on the impact our business has on those around us, what we’re doing to help create a better world, and the ways in which we might improve in the future. We believe that ethical conduct is not only…

Jonathan Beecher Field, Clemson University I teach Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette whenever I can, because it is one of those 1790 epistolary novels that remains sadly relevant to the lives of my students. If you have not had the pleasure, it’s a novel about a young woman named Eliza Wharton. At the beginning of…

Susan Nance In finding and curating the collection of sources in the Broadview Sources Series title Ranching and the American West I looked at hundreds of primary sources about rural life in the west, and the people, lands, and animals there. That process thus presented some serious dilemmas. There are countless items available, especially for…

Katharina Rout When I first read Emmy Hennings’s Branded, I was struck by its intimacy: a woman who talks with breathtaking honesty about her poverty, despair, and sexual exploitation. It was startling to hear her tell her story with so much wit, humor, and irony, but also to watch her struggle with religious beliefs so…

Dr. Dan Lawrence When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the United States Congress in April, 2018, it was clear that many lawmakers didn’t understand how Facebook makes its money. Zuckerberg clarified: the platform sells advertisements. Now as we roll along into 2022 and beyond, Facebook is transforming into Meta and is attempting to reshape…

Joyce Kinkead One of the standout features of A Writing Studies Primer is the emphasis on hands-on activities, framed as DIY—do it yourself—activities. Students in my history of writing class uniformly cite this approach as one of their favorites, noting how these tactile exercises cement concepts in the development of writing systems around the globe.…

We want to give you the chance to get to know the excellent team of general editors that we have assembled to develop the forthcoming Broadview Anthology of American Literature. We asked each of the editors working on this exciting new anthology to tell us a little bit about themselves and how they teach American…

Jack S. Crumley II’s new book, An Introduction to Metaphysics features original illustrations by Guelph, Ontario artist, Gillian Wilson, alongside the text. These illustrations are meant to both instruct and delight: they help to reinforce the central ideas in each chapter and entertain the reader. Below are some samples of the illustrations along with their…

Brian Clack Producing an abridgement of Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France was among the most absorbing experiences of my academic career. It also posed a notable set of challenges. Burke’s text has never before been abridged. True, weighty selections from it have been included in anthologies on conservative thought and in the…

Anne H. Stevens I began the task of revising my book Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction for a second edition knowing that there were a few areas I needed to add or expand. I had completed the manuscript of the first edition in August 2014, the same month that saw civil unrest in Ferguson,…