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The Idea of Being Free
Mary Hays (1759-1843) is often best remembered for her early revolutionary novels The Memoirs of Emma Courtney and The Victim of Prejudice. In this collection,…
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano was a key work of nineteenth-century slave narrative autobiography. Written and published by Equiano, a former…
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The Logic of Our Language Student Website Access
The Logic of Our Language includes a companion website for students that hosts practice exercises that correspond to the practice exercises in the book. An access code…
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The Long Revolution
Raymond Williams, whose other works include Keywords, The Country and the City, Culture and Society, and Modern Tragedy, was one of the world’s foremost cultural…
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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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The Odd Women
George Gissing’s The Odd Women dramatizes key issues relating to class and gender in late-Victorian culture: the changing relationship between the sexes, the social impact…
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The Price of Compassion
This important book includes a compelling selection of original essays on euthanasia and associated legislative and health-care issues, together with important background material for understanding…
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The Romance of the Forest
Adeline, the protagonist of Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest, became a model for later Gothic heroines. Passionate, imaginative, and sensitive, in the course…
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The Siege of Jerusalem
The Siege of Jerusalem (c. 1370-90 CE) is a difficult text. By twenty-first-century standards, it is gruesomely violent and offensive. It tells the story of…
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The Sign of Four
Arthur Conan Doyle’s second Sherlock Holmes novel is both a detective story and an imperial romance. Ostensibly the story of Mary Morstan, a beautiful young…
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The Tragedy of Mariam
First published in 1613, The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is probably the first play in English known to have been authored…
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The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman
The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman (1778) tells the story of a fictional midshipman abandoned in Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand, after a battle with Maori…
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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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The York Corpus Christi Play: Selected Pageants
The York Corpus Christi Play as we know it consists of 47 surviving individual plays or “pageants,” 27 of which are included in this volume;…
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Understanding the Essay
This is a book on how to read the essay, one that demonstrates how reading is inextricably tied to the art of writing. It aims…
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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…
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Walt Whitman: Selected Poetry and Prose
This compact edition offers a substantial selection of Whitman’s writing. Highlights include the full text of the 1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass, the 1855…
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We
Yevgeny Zamyatin’s novel We is one of the great classics of dystopian fiction. Experimental and provocative in both style and content, it was the first…
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Working-Class Women Poets in Victorian Britain
Though working-class women in the nineteenth century included many accomplished and prolific poets, their work has often been neglected by critics and readers in favour…
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Write Moves: A Creative Writing Guide and Anthology
Write Moves is an invitation for the student to understand and experience creative writing in the larger frame of humanities education. The practical instruction offered…
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Writing Essays About Literature: A Brief Guide for University and College Students – Second Edition
This book gives students an answer to the question, “What does my professor want from this essay?” Using a single poem by William Carlos Williams…
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Writing for Today’s Healthcare Audiences – Second Edition
This reorganized and updated edition of Writing for Today’s Healthcare Audiences provides new digital supports for students and course instructors. Designed primarily for students seeking…
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Zofloya
The protagonist of Charlotte Dacre’s best known novel, Zofloya, or the Moor (1806) is unique in women’s Gothic and Romantic literature, and has more in…