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Where There’s Smoke: A Spirited Early Defence of Tobacco

Todd H.J. Pettigrew One of the great satisfactions of scholarship is discovering texts with which one is wholly unfamiliar and yet which one feels a real human connection. From the dim reaches of ages past, a voice finds its way to you, and you realize you have a friend who has not walked this earth…

Animal Symbolism in the Old and Middle English “Physiologus”

Megan Cavell, editor and translator of The Medieval Bestiary in English I came to the Physiologus tradition partly through my love of Old English literature (who couldn’t love a tradition that has the devil wandering around in a heoloþ‏‏helm “helmet of invisibility”?!) and partly through my love of animals (as my rabbit friend, Max, can…

The Great American Tear: America and the Gun

In light of the ongoing epidemic of gun violence in America, we are choosing to make the chapter on gun violence from Julius Bailey’s Racism, Hypocrisy, and Bad Faith: A Moral Challenge to the America I Love available for free on our website (opens as a PDF). For a short excerpt from the beginning of…

How Can We Represent the Diversity of the Ranching West?

Susan Nance In finding and curating the collection of sources in the Broadview Sources Series title Ranching and the American West I looked at hundreds of primary sources about rural life in the west, and the people, lands, and animals there. That process thus presented some serious dilemmas. There are countless items available, especially for…

Updates to the Second Edition of Literary Theory and Criticism

Anne H. Stevens I began the task of revising my book Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction for a second edition knowing that there were a few areas I needed to add or expand. I had completed the manuscript of the first edition in August 2014, the same month that saw civil unrest in Ferguson,…

Toru Dutt – New to The Broadview Anthology of British Literature

The new third edition of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Volume 5: The Victorian Era is curated with an eye towards decolonizing the Victorian literature classroom. Throughout, it pays attention to matters such as race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. Included among the new additions to our Victorian era volume is Bengali poet, novelist,…