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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…
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The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother
This Broadview edition pairs the first Gothic novel with the first Gothic drama, both by Horace Walpole. Published on Christmas Eve, 1764, on Walpole’s private…
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The Father and Daughter with Dangers of Coquetry
The Father and Daughter was one of the most widely read novels of the early nineteenth century, captivating readers with its pathos and melodrama. It…
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The Good Soldier
One of the most important works of twentieth-century British literature, The Good Soldier addresses the lives and interrelationships between two couples: one American, one British.…
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Deductive Logic in Natural Language
This text offers an innovative approach to the teaching of logic, which is rigorous but entirely non-symbolic. By introducing students to deductive inferences in natural…
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News from Nowhere
Written in 1890, at the close of William Morris’s most intense period of political activism, News from Nowhere is a compelling articulation of his mature…
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A Known Scribbler
Frances Burney’s journals and letters, composed between 1768 and 1839, contain a unique account of the creative, social, and commercial ambitions and achievements of an…
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The Old Manor House
In The Old Manor House (1794), Charlotte Smith combines elements of the romance, the Gothic, recent history, and culture to produce both a social document…
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The Siege of Valencia
This parallel text edition of Felicia Hemans’s important dramatic poem presents the 1823 publication alongside a transcription of the original manuscript, offering a unique glimpse…
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The Witlings and The Woman-Hater
This Broadview edition pairs two of Frances Burney’s linked comedies. They both present the character of Lady Smatter, a “femme savante” whose lineage may be…
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Fair Liberty’s Call
A United Empire Loyalist family flees from Boston to New Brunswick during the American Revolution. In late October, 1785, they host a reunion, and are…
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Logic With Added Reasoning
This concise text treats logic as a tool, “generated so that half the work involved in thinking is done for you by somebody else (the…
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Essays on Race and Empire
This edition assembles the major essays on race and imperialism written by Nancy Cunard in the 1930s and 1940s. As a British expatriate living in…
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King Solomon’s Mines
When first published, King Solomon’s Mines (1885) was an enormous popular success. The narrative follows the explorations of Allan Quatermain, a fortune hunter who travels…
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Set in the fictional landscape of Mariposa on the shores of Lake Wissanotti in Missinaba County, Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is an…
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The Coming Race – Encore Edition
“As I drew near and nearer to the light, the chasm became wider, and at last I saw, to my unspeakable amaze, a broad level…
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Some Assembly Required
Some Assembly Required, Eugene Stickland’s lighthearted but deeply moving portrayal of a dysfunctional family at Christmas, was first produced in 1994 at Alberta Theatre Projects;…