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  Human Rights

  Winner: 2002 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award What are human rights? What justifies us in believing we have them? What are rights-holders and duty-bearers? Who…

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  Knowledge and Inquiry

  This anthology focuses on three areas in the theory of knowledge: epistemic justification; analyses of knowledge and scepticism; and recent developments in epistemology. Each of…

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  The Philosopher’s Dictionary – Third Edition

  The central aim of The Philosopher’s Dictionary is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date guide of philosophical terms. Definitions are brief, clear, and user-friendly. Notes…

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  Infelicia and Other Writings

  Adah Isaacs Menken was the most highly paid and most scandalous stage performer of the 1860s. She is also one of the most fascinating and…

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  Northanger Abbey – Second Edition

  First accepted by a publisher in 1803, Northanger Abbey was eventually published posthumously in 1818. In it Austen weaves a romance full of suspense and…

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  Phoebe Junior

  Margaret Oliphant, one of the most prolific and popular Victorian novelists, essayists, and reviewers, has been compared both in her day and our own to…

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  The Rebel of the Family

  The Rebel of the Family (1880) is the first New Woman novel by Eliza Lynn Linton. Perdita Winstanley, the novel’s protagonist, struggles to balance the…

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  A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

  Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies is one of the most important and neglected works advocating the establishment of women’s academies. Its reception…

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  Academic Reading – Second Edition

  This reader has been designed to accompany Giltrow’s Academic Writing, one of the key principles of which is that there is a close connection between…

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  Academic Writing – Third Edition

  Academic Writing is a unique introduction to the subject. As the author puts it in her preface, “this book develops from a strong claim: namely,…

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  Marcella

  Marcella, young and with a new-womanly independence, has a yearning to help the poor. When a gamekeeper is murdered near where she lives, Marcella finds…

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  The Age of Innocence

  The Age of Innocence marks the pinnacle of Edith Wharton’s career as one of the finest American novelists of her era. The narrative follows Newland…