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  Human Rights

  Winner: 2002 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award What are human rights? What justifies us in believing we have them? What are rights-holders and duty-bearers? Who…

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  Knowledge and Inquiry

  This anthology focuses on three areas in the theory of knowledge: epistemic justification; analyses of knowledge and scepticism; and recent developments in epistemology. Each of…

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  The Philosopher’s Dictionary – Third Edition

  The central aim of The Philosopher’s Dictionary is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date guide of philosophical terms. Definitions are brief, clear, and user-friendly. Notes…

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  Infelicia and Other Writings

  Adah Isaacs Menken was the most highly paid and most scandalous stage performer of the 1860s. She is also one of the most fascinating and…

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  Northanger Abbey – Second Edition

  First accepted by a publisher in 1803, Northanger Abbey was eventually published posthumously in 1818. In it Austen weaves a romance full of suspense and…

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  Phoebe Junior

  Margaret Oliphant, one of the most prolific and popular Victorian novelists, essayists, and reviewers, has been compared both in her day and our own to…

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  The Rebel of the Family

  The Rebel of the Family (1880) is the first New Woman novel by Eliza Lynn Linton. Perdita Winstanley, the novel’s protagonist, struggles to balance the…

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  A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

  Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies is one of the most important and neglected works advocating the establishment of women’s academies. Its reception…

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  Academic Reading – Second Edition

  This reader has been designed to accompany Giltrow’s Academic Writing, one of the key principles of which is that there is a close connection between…

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  Academic Writing – Third Edition

  Academic Writing is a unique introduction to the subject. As the author puts it in her preface, “this book develops from a strong claim: namely,…

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  Marcella

  Marcella, young and with a new-womanly independence, has a yearning to help the poor. When a gamekeeper is murdered near where she lives, Marcella finds…

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  The Age of Innocence

  The Age of Innocence marks the pinnacle of Edith Wharton’s career as one of the finest American novelists of her era. The narrative follows Newland…

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  Midlife

  [I tell her] “golf is sacred. Holy. Sacrosanct.” I like that. Sacrosanct. So she tells me about this article she read, about the attitude of…

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  Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions

  Written during the English Civil War and Interregnum when the public theatres were closed and Margaret Cavendish was living away from England in exile, Bell…

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  Zastrozzi and St. Irvyne

  In 1810, while still at Eton, Percy Bysshe Shelley published Zastrozzi, the first of his two early Gothic prose romances. He published the second, St.…

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  Hermsprong

  Robert Bage’s Hermsprong satirizes English society of the 1790s targeting, in particular, corrupt clergymen, grasping lawyers and wicked aristocrats. The protagonist, a European raised among…

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  The Missionary

  Set in seventeenth-century India, The Missionary focuses on the relationship between Hilarion, a Portuguese missionary to India, and Luxima, an Indian prophetess. Both are aristocratic,…

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  Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose and Letters

  Felicia Hemans was the most widely read woman poet in the nineteenth-century English-speaking world. Broadview’s edition shows why she was one of the few standard…

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  A History of Old English Literature

  Alexander’s A History of Old English Literature is an outstanding introduction to a difficult period of literary history. It provides a simple historical and cultural…

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  The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant

  After the death of Margaret Oliphant—the prolific nineteenth-century novelist, biographer, essayist, reviewer, and prominent voice on the “woman question”—two well-intending relatives took the autobiographical manuscripts…

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  Wuthering Heights – Ed. Heywood

  Critics often comment on the importance of landscape in Wuthering Heights, and in this edition, Christopher Heywood locates the text more precisely than previous editions…

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  My Mother’s Voice

  Named Honor Book of the Year by the Children’s Literature Association Winner: 2003 Canadian Jewish Book Award for scholarship on a Jewish subject Finalist: 2003…

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  A Room of One’s Own

  “But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction—what has that got to do with a room of one’s own? I…

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  Visions and Revisions

  This anthology takes a unique approach to the process of poetry. Each poem included in the book is followed by at least one earlier draft…