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  The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century Drama: Concise Edition

  The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, Concise Edition, with twenty-one plays, is half the length of the full anthology without compromising its…

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  The Broadview Book of Common Errors in English – Fifth Edition

  The Broadview Book of Common Errors in English offers full coverage of such common mistakes as commas splices, sentence fragments, words frequently confused, words frequently…

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  Grace Aguilar: Selected Writings

  For the first time in over a century, this edition makes available the work of the most important Jewish writer in early and mid-Victorian Britain.…

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  On the Origin of Species

  Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species, in which he writes of his theories of evolution by natural selection, is one of the most important…

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  The Dimensions of Ethics

  The Dimensions of Ethics offers a concise but wide-ranging introduction to moral philosophy. In clear and engaging fashion, the author first examines the scope of…

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  Diana of Dobson’s

  Very successful when first performed in London in 1908, Diana of Dobson’s introduces its audience to the overworked and underpaid female assistants at Dobson’s Drapery…

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  Life in the Sick-Room

  Believing herself to be suffering from an incurable condition, Harriet Martineau wrote Life in the Sick-Room in 1844. In this work, which is both memoir…

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  Pink Snow

  Drawing on recent developments in gay studies and queer theory, Pink Snow: Homotextual Possibilities in Canadian Fiction offers new interpretations that focus on homoerotic resonances…

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  The War of the Worlds

  H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, the first story to speculate about the consequences of aliens (from Mars) with superior technology landing on…

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  A Christmas Carol

  Emerging from Dickens’s preoccupation in the early 1840s with issues of poverty, ignorance, and cruelty, this classic story of Ebeneezer Scrooge, visited by four ghosts…

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  Logicism and the Philosophy of Language

  Logicism and the Philosophy of Language brings together the core works by Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell on logic and language. In their separate efforts…

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  Blindsight and the Nature of Consciousness

  Ever since its discovery nearly thirty years ago, the phenomenon of blindsight—vision without visual consciousness—has been the source of great controversy in the philosophy of…

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  Lessons of Kosovo

  International law makes it explicit that states shall not intervene militarily of otherwise in the affairs of other states; it is a central principle of…

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  A Serious Occupation

  This anthology of literary criticism by Victorian women of letters brings together a wealth of difficult-to-find writings. Originally published from the 1830s through the 1890s,…

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  Humanitarian Intervention

  International law makes it explicit that states shall not intervene militarily or otherwise in the affairs of other states; it is a central principle of…

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  Philosophy and the Emotions

  While philosophical speculation into the nature and value of emotions is at least as old as the Pre-Socratics, William James’ “What is an emotion?” reinvigorated…

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  The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama

  The London theatres arguably were the central cultural institutions in England during the Romantic period, and certainly were arenas in which key issues of the…

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  Trilby

  Du Maurier’s Trilby was the novel sensation of the 1890s. Du Maurier had spent a good deal of his life as a child and later…

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  The Story of an African Farm

  The Story of an African Farm (1883) marks an early appearance in fiction of Victorian society’s emerging New Woman. The novel follows the spiritual quests…

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  Walsingham

  Walsingham is both a lively story and a commentary by Mary Robinson on her society’s constraints upon women. The novel follows the lives of two…

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  A Letter to the Women of England and The Natural Daughter

  Mary Robinson’s A Letter to the Women of England (1799) is a radical response to the rampant anti-feminist sentiment of the late 1790s. In this…

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  Imre

  Winner of the 2003 Silver Medal for Gay/Lesbian Fiction, ForeWord Magazine Imre is one of the first openly gay American novels without a tragic ending.…

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  Looking Backward: 2000 – 1887

  Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888) is one of the most influential utopian novels in English. The narrative follows Julian West, who goes to sleep…

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  Mental Causation and the Metaphysics of Mind

  Since Descartes’s division of the human subject into mental and physical components in the seventeenth century, there has been a great deal of discussion about…