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  Diana of Dobson’s

  Very successful when first performed in London in 1908, Diana of Dobson’s introduces its audience to the overworked and underpaid female assistants at Dobson’s Drapery…

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  Life in the Sick-Room

  Believing herself to be suffering from an incurable condition, Harriet Martineau wrote Life in the Sick-Room in 1844. In this work, which is both memoir…

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  Pink Snow

  Drawing on recent developments in gay studies and queer theory, Pink Snow: Homotextual Possibilities in Canadian Fiction offers new interpretations that focus on homoerotic resonances…

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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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  A Christmas Carol

  Emerging from Dickens’s preoccupation in the early 1840s with issues of poverty, ignorance, and cruelty, this classic story of Ebeneezer Scrooge, visited by four ghosts…

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  My Ántonia

  Willa Cather’s My Ántonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great migration west to settle…

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  Logicism and the Philosophy of Language

  Logicism and the Philosophy of Language brings together the core works by Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell on logic and language. In their separate efforts…

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  Blindsight and the Nature of Consciousness

  Ever since its discovery nearly thirty years ago, the phenomenon of blindsight—vision without visual consciousness—has been the source of great controversy in the philosophy of…

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  Lessons of Kosovo

  International law makes it explicit that states shall not intervene militarily of otherwise in the affairs of other states; it is a central principle of…

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  A Serious Occupation

  This anthology of literary criticism by Victorian women of letters brings together a wealth of difficult-to-find writings. Originally published from the 1830s through the 1890s,…

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  Humanitarian Intervention

  International law makes it explicit that states shall not intervene militarily or otherwise in the affairs of other states; it is a central principle of…

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  Philosophy and the Emotions

  While philosophical speculation into the nature and value of emotions is at least as old as the Pre-Socratics, William James’ “What is an emotion?” reinvigorated…