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  King Lear – Ed. Best & Joubin

  King Lear is a play for our times. The central characters experience intense suffering in a hostile and unpredictable world. They face domestic cruelty, political…

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  Martin R. Delany: Selected Writings

  One of the most powerful and provocative voices to emerge from the social and political unrest preceding the Civil War, the abolitionist and political activist…

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  Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Selections

  Uncle Tom’s Cabin may well have excited more controversy than any other work of fiction in American history. Welcomed by many abolitionists and met with…

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  Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems and Letters

  This compact edition, designed for use in undergraduate courses, combines a substantial selection of Dickinson’s poems (including one complete fascicle) with a selection of letters…

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  Fanny Fern: Selected Writings

  Fanny Fern dominated the New York literary scene in the 1850s, garnering both esteem and, occasionally, derision for her witty and acerbic newspaper columns and…

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  Frederick Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches

  Universally recognized today as one of the most important and influential Americans of the nineteenth century, Frederick Douglass rose to prominence in the national abolitionist…

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  Letters from an American Farmer: Selections

  Letters from an American Farmer is increasingly recognized as one of the foundational texts in the study both of American literature and of American history.…

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  Moby-Dick; or, the Whale: Selections

  When Melville completed Moby-Dick, he wrote to Nathaniel Hawthorne that “I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as a lamb.” While it took…

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  Slaves in Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom

  As Americans began defining who was to be counted a citizen in their newly-established republic, Susanna Rowson’s comic opera Slaves in Algiers (1794) makes an…

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  Washington Irving: Selected Writings

  Two of Washington Irving’s works of short fiction from his 1819-20 work, The Sketch Book—Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow—are among the…

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  The Broadview Anthology of British Satire, 1660-1750

  The Broadview Anthology of British Satire, 1660–1750 provides instructors and students with a thorough introduction to the highpoint of British literary satire. Reflecting current pedagogical…

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  Applied Ethics Primer

  The Applied Ethics Primer offers a concise introduction to both basic argumentation and normative ethical theory. The concepts discussed reflect the ethical theories that currently…

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  The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 1: The Medieval Period – Revised Third Edition

  In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary…

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  Only by Experience: An Anthology of Slave Narratives

  Only by Experience: An Anthology of Slave Narratives collects, in whole or in part, sixteen of the most significant and influential slave narratives in English.…

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  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

  In 1861, Harriet Jacobs became the first formerly enslaved African American woman to publish a book-length account of her life. In crafting her coming-of-age story,…

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  Practical Bioethics

  Practical Bioethics offers a mix of theory and readings, presented in a format that is succinct and approachable. Each chapter begins and ends with a…

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  The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Concise Volume 1: Beginnings to Reconstruction

  About the Anthology Guided by the latest scholarship in American literary studies, and deeply committed to inclusiveness, social responsibility, and rigorous contextualization, The Broadview Anthology…

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  The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing – Fifth Canadian Edition

  The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing presents essential material from the full Broadview Guide to Writing. Included are key grammatical points, a glossary of usage,…

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  Women and Economics and Other Writings

  This new edition of Women and Economics highlights the importance of Charlotte Perkins Gilman as a leading public intellectual of the Progressive Era. It contains…

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  Experiencing Philosophy – Second Edition

  Experiencing Philosophy begins with the assumption that philosophy is not merely something you know but also something you experience and participate in. The book presents…

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  Liza of Lambeth

  Following the publication of Liza of Lambeth, W. Somerset Maugham would go on to establish himself as one of the best-selling and most prolific novelists…

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  Of One Blood

  The Afrofuturist plot of Pauline E. Hopkins’s Of One Blood (1902–03) weaves together a lost African city, bigamy, incest, murder, ancient prophecies, a thwarted leopard…

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  The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations

  First published in the height of the “yellow nineties” and in the shadow of the Oscar Wilde trials, Arthur Machen’s The Three Impostors (1895) remains…

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  A New Form-Function Grammar of English

  This book approaches the structure of English from a form-function perspective that is both theoretical and practical. It asks learners to consider meaning, structure, and…