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The Octoroon
Regarded by Bernard Shaw as a master of the theatre, Dion Boucicault was arguably the most important figure in drama in North America and in…
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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 Philanderer
The second of Shaw’s “unpleasant” plays, written in 1893, published in 1898, but not performed until 1905, The Philanderer is subtitled “A Topical Comedy.” The…
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The Piazza Tales
Herman Melville’s The Piazza Tales is the only collection of short fiction that he published in his lifetime, and it includes his two most famous…
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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 Ring and the Book
In June, 1860, Browning purchased an “old yellow book” from a bookstall in Florence. The book contained legal briefs, pamphlets, and letters relating to a…
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The Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary in Philosophy
The boundary between semantics and pragmatics has been important since the early twentieth century, but in the last twenty-five years it has become the central…
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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 Sorceress of the Strand and Other Stories
In 1898, The Strand Magazine, one of the most influential publications of the Victorian fin de siècle, deemed best-selling author and editor L.T. Meade a…
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë’s second and last novel was widely and contentiously reviewed upon its 1848 publication, in part because its subject matter domestic violence, alcoholism, women’s…
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
In 1898, Henry James wrote a novella that would become one of the most famous and critically discussed ghost stories ever written, The Turn of…
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The Warden
The first of Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, The Warden concerns the moral dilemma of the Reverend Septimus Harding, who finds himself at the centre of a…
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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 Works of Gwerful Mechain
All of Gwerful Mechain’s known work is included here—as are several poems of uncertain authorship, and a selection of other works that help to fill…
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The World is a Text: Writing About Visual and Popular Culture
Wherever we look today, popular culture greets us with “texts” that make implicit arguments; this book helps students to think and write critically about these…
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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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Vampire Literature
Vampire Literature: An Anthology is the first anthology of vampire literature designed specifically for use in the higher education classroom. As Nina Auerbach argues in…
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Walsingham
Walsingham is both a lively story and a commentary by Mary Robinson on her society’s constraints upon women. The novel follows the lives of two…
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Well and Good – Fourth Edition
Well and Good presents a combination of classic and little-known cases in health care ethics. These cases, accompanied by information about the major ethical theories,…
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What Should I Believe?
This book is unique in its treatment of critical thinking not as a body of knowledge but instead as a subject for critical reflection. The…
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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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Writing Wrongs
Writing Wrongs is a concise and thoughtful guide to common errors in English. It covers frequently confused and misused words along with problems of grammar,…