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Lady Audley’s Secret
Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) was one of the most widely read novels in the Victorian period. The novel exemplifies “sensation fiction” in featuring a beautiful…
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An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting
Perhaps the first extended non-fiction prose satire written by an English woman, Jane Collier’s An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (1753) is a…
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Emmeline
The plot of Charlotte Smith’s autobiographical first novel Emmeline (1788) includes the usual thrills of the eighteenth-century courtship novel: abduction, duels, and a “fairy tale…
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The Broadview Anthology of Drama, Volume 1: From Antiquity Through the Eighteenth Century
The Broadview Anthology of Drama: Plays from the Western Theatre is a chronological presentation of 43 plays in two volumes, ranging from the ancient theatre…
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The Broadview Anthology of Drama, Volume 2: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The Broadview Anthology of Drama: Plays from the Western Theatre is a chronological presentation of 43 plays in two volumes, ranging from the ancient theatre…
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When Catherine returns home on the eve of ceremonies honouring her physician father, she unleashes a kaleidoscope of memories as father and daughter attempt to…
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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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My Ántonia
Willa Cather’s My Ántonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great migration west to settle…
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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…