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  Passing

  Written at the height of the Harlem Renaissance (the first sustained artistic movement by African Americans) and of Jim Crow (one of this cultural group’s…

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  The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature

  This teaching anthology collects texts from the vast archive of medieval Arthurian literature. It includes selections from mainstream canonical authors, such as Geoffrey of Monmouth…

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  The Essays Only You Can Write

  The Essays Only You Can Write offers a perspective on essay writing that spotlights a writer’s uniqueness. Resisting the perception that personal and academic writing…

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  Beyond the Binary: Thinking about Sex and Gender – Second Edition

  How are sex and gender related? Are they the same thing? What exactly is gender? How many genders are there? What is the science on…

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  The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition – MLA 2021 Update

  Considering the composition classroom as a mad scientist’s laboratory, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition introduces different kinds of writing as experiments. Writing an essay…

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  The Romance of the Forest

  Adeline, the protagonist of Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest, became a model for later Gothic heroines. Passionate, imaginative, and sensitive, in the course…

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  The Noble Slaves

  This is the first ever critical edition of Penelope Aubin’s The Noble Slaves, a novel that shows women as both moral exemplars and independent adventurers…

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  Ways of Being in the World

  Ways of Being in the World is an anthology of the Indigenous philosophical thought of communities across Turtle Island, offering readings on a variety of…

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  On the Genealogy of Morality

  On the Genealogy of Morality is a history of ethics, a text about interpreting that history, and a primer on interpretation in general. It also…

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  Paradise Lost

  Reviled as a regicide, isolated in a personal darkness, and aging, John Milton did not relinquish his voice. He somehow used that tireless voice, rather,…

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  AI and Writing

  AI and Writing is an introduction to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and its emergent role as a tool for academic, professional, civic, and personal writing.…

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  How to Think Critically: A Concise Guide – Second Edition

  How to Think Critically begins with the premise that we are all, every day, engaged in critical thinking. But just as we may develop bad…

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  The Life of Madame de Beaumount and The Life of Charlotta du Pont

  The prose fiction of Penelope Aubin offers a delightful and provocative challenge to many of our standard ways of thinking about both the “rise of…

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  Knowing Reality

  Knowing Reality is a guided introduction to metaphysics and epistemology. Each of the book’s twelve chapters contains extended excerpts from influential historical and contemporary philosophers,…

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  A Treatise of Human Nature

  In his autobiography, David Hume famously noted that A Treatise of Human Nature “fell dead-born from the press.” Yet it is now widely regarded as…

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  King Lear – Ed. Best & Joubin

  King Lear is a play for our times. The central characters experience intense suffering in a hostile and unpredictable world. They face domestic cruelty, political…

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  Martin R. Delany: Selected Writings

  One of the most powerful and provocative voices to emerge from the social and political unrest preceding the Civil War, the abolitionist and political activist…

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  Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Selections

  Uncle Tom’s Cabin may well have excited more controversy than any other work of fiction in American history. Welcomed by many abolitionists and met with…

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  Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems and Letters

  This compact edition, designed for use in undergraduate courses, combines a substantial selection of Dickinson’s poems (including one complete fascicle) with a selection of letters…

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  Fanny Fern: Selected Writings

  Fanny Fern dominated the New York literary scene in the 1850s, garnering both esteem and, occasionally, derision for her witty and acerbic newspaper columns and…

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  Frederick Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches

  Universally recognized today as one of the most important and influential Americans of the nineteenth century, Frederick Douglass rose to prominence in the national abolitionist…

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  Letters from an American Farmer: Selections

  Letters from an American Farmer is increasingly recognized as one of the foundational texts in the study both of American literature and of American history.…

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  Moby-Dick; or, the Whale: Selections

  When Melville completed Moby-Dick, he wrote to Nathaniel Hawthorne that “I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as a lamb.” While it took…

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  Slaves in Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom

  As Americans began defining who was to be counted a citizen in their newly-established republic, Susanna Rowson’s comic opera Slaves in Algiers (1794) makes an…