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  Common Sense

  When Common Sense was published in January 1776, it sold, by some estimates, a stunning 150,000 copies in the colonies. What exactly made this pamphlet…

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  The Meanings of “Beauty and the Beast”

  Using Beaumont’s classic story as a touchstone, this work shows how “Beauty and the Beast” takes on different meanings as it is analyzed by psychologists,…

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  Revolutions in Romantic Literature

  This concise Broadview anthology of primary source materials is unique in its focus on Romantic literature and the ways in which the period itself was…

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  Between Two Worlds

  Set in Soweto outside Johannesburg, Between Two Worlds is one of the most important novels of South Africa under apartheid. Originally published under the title…

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  Fantomina and Other Works

  This collection of early works by Eliza Haywood includes the well-known novella Fantomina (1725) along with three other short, highly engaging Haywood works: The Tea-Table…

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  Unhomely States

  Unhomely States is the first collection of foundational essays of Canadian postcolonial theory. The essays span the period from 1965 to the present day and…

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  The Aesthetics of Natural Environments

  The Aesthetics of Natural Environments is a collection of essays investigating philosophical and aesthetics issues that arise in our appreciation of natural environments. The introduction…

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  Anti-Pamela and Shamela

  Published together for the first time, Eliza Haywood’s Anti-Pamela and Henry Fielding’s An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews are the two most…

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  The Story of a Modern Woman

  Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The Story of a Modern Woman originally appeared in serial form in the women’s weekly The Lady’s Pictorial. Like Hepworth Dixon herself,…

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  The Type-Writer Girl

  Juliet Appleton is an officer’s daughter who is forced to make her own way in the world after her father’s death. Having been trained in…

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  The Wonder

  Susanna Centlivre’s play The Wonder (1714) was one of the most popular works on the eighteenth-century English stage. Set in Lisbon, the plot interweaves two…

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  Blind Love

  Blind Love is Wilkie Collins’s final novel. Although he did not live to complete the work, he left detailed plans for the last third of…