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  Good Reasons for Better Arguments

  This text introduces university students to the philosophical ethos of critical thinking, as well as to the essential skills required to practice it. The authors…

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  Set in Authority

  In 1906, two years after the appearance of her best-known novel, The Imperialist, Duncan published its darker twin, an Anglo-Indian novel which returns to political…

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  The Last Man

  Mary Shelley’s third published novel, The Last Man, is a disillusioned vision of the end of civilization, set in the twenty-first century. The book offers…

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  Something New

  To be a heroine is to be beautiful—such has been the unstated assumption from the time of chivalric romance to that of Harlequin romance. But…

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  Philosophical Perspectives on Language

  Philosophical theorizing about language now involves an increasing emphasis on empirical work and a renewed convergence with philosophy of mind, formal semantics and logic. This…

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  Hard Times

  Despite the title, Dickens’s portrayal of early industrial society here is less relentlessly grim than that in novels by contemporaries such as Elizabeth Gaskell or…

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  The Cognitive Revolution in Western Culture

  Why are the plots of Shakespeare and his contemporaries so different from those of his predecessors? This book argues that the answer is in part…

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  Her Kind

  Medea betrayed her father and left her homeland for the love of Jason. Then when he abandoned her, she murdered her children. But did she?…

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  The Clandestine Marriage

  David Garrick, the leading actor of his time, was also one of its most accomplished dramatists, and The Clandestine Marriage is perhaps his finest play.…

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  Millenium Hall

  In 1750 at the age of twenty-seven Sarah Scott published her first novel, a conventional romance. A year later she left her husband after only…

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  God, the Devil and the Perfect Pizza

  Can God’s existence be proven by logic? Are computers smart enough to follow rules—or to cheat? What is an out-of-body experience? How can tables be…

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  Nineteenth-Century Stories by Women

  “The female novelist of the nineteenth century may have frequently encountered opposition and interference from the male literary establishment, but the female short story writer,…

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  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Facing Page Translation

  The fourteenth-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the greatest classics of English literature, but one of the least accessible to…

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  The Broadview Book of Common Errors in English – ESL Edition

  The ESL edition of Common Errors in English offers a comprehensive survey of the sorts of difficulties second language learners most often experience with English—and…

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  The Magic of Unknowing

  The Magic of Unknowing is a unique philosophical and literary work. Cast in the dialogue form, it unfolds in the mood of soliloquy. Mervyn Sprung…

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  The Dreamer Awakes

  The late Alice Kane was born in Ireland in 1908. Moving with her parents to Canada in 1921, she was educated in New Brunswick and…

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  A Bold Stroke for a Wife

  Though critics and literary historians have always had to admit that Susanna Centlivre’s comedies were extremely popular, they have tended to devote themselves to a…

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  Improved by Cultivation

  This anthology combines some of the finest writing by such well-known writers as Leacock, Moodie, Ernest Thompson Seton and Lucy Maud Montgomery with fascinating pieces…

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  The Broadview Anthology of Poetry

  “The purpose of The Broadview Anthology of Poetry is to present a wide range of poetry written in English. [Though the poems are arranged chronologically],…

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  The Evil Genius

  Wilkie Collins is best known for his great mystery The Moonstone and The Woman in White—and for a life as sensational as are those novels.…

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  Age of Satire – SFA

  This Broadview bundle offers the following titles at a discounted package price: Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels ISBN: 9781551119793 Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews ISBN: 9781551112206 Jane…

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  Animals: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Themed Custom Text

  Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for courses focused on the representation of animals in literature. If you are teaching a course in this area, we invite…

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  Broadview Anthology of Poetry 2e with How Poems Work package

  This discounted package contains The Broadview Anthology of Poetry 2e and access to the How Poems Work website for the discounted price. Package ISBN: 9781488103834 / 1488103836 Components: The…