English Studies
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Coming SoonCanadian Literatures in English, Volume One – Second Edition
The long-awaited second edition of Canadian Literatures in English has been updated throughout to include recent scholarship and fresh literary works. As with the previous…
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Coming SoonThe Broadview Anthology of British Literature: One-Volume Compact – Second Edition
Judiciously selected from the full Broadview Anthology of British Literature, this Compact Edition distills the full sweep of British literature into a single volume. The…
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Coming SoonThe Essential Táin Bó Cúailnge and Other Stories from the Ulster Cycle
Táin Bó Cúailnge (“TOYN boh KOOL-nyuh”), “The Cattle-Raid of Cooley,” frequently referred to as the Táin, is one of the most important works of medieval…
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Victorian Poetry: An Anthology
The first new anthology of its kind in twenty years, Victorian Poetry provides generous selections of poetry both by well-known Victorian poets (Alfred Tennyson, Robert…
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The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
For more than two hundred years, Robinson Crusoe’s story was encountered by generations of readers as one text in two parts, such that the second…
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The Secret Garden
The New York Times wrote of The Secret Garden, “Many authors can write delightful books for children; a few can write entertaining books about children…
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The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama – Second Edition
This exciting second edition provides an exceptional range of plays edited by leading scholars of Restoration and eighteenth-century theatre. In addition to fifteen plays from…
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The Power of Sympathy and Other Writings
Eighteenth-century readers were just as interested in gossip—especially about the rich and powerful—as contemporary readers. This volume contains the full text of William Hill Brown’s…
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Reading Young Adult Literature: A Critical Introduction
Reading Young Adult Literature is the most current, comprehensive, and accessible guide to this burgeoning genre, tracing its history and reception with nuance and respect.…
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novel of World War I, All Quiet on the Western Front, was an international sensation. Celebrated by countless readers for its…
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Antigone
Sophokles’ Antigone is an ancient play that speaks directly to contemporary issues. From conflicts between authoritarian regimes and those who protest them to struggles over…
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Crafting Poems: A Guide to Creative Writing
Crafting Poems demystifies the genre through diverse examples, clear instruction, and emphases on practice, enjoyment, and developing a distinct voice. By connecting reading with writing…
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Crafting Stories: A Guide to Creative Writing
Portable, accessible, affordable, and packed with engaging examples, Crafting Stories is a friendly introduction to writing short fiction. It encourages students to read fiction actively,…
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The Pedro Gorino
Captain Harry Foster Dean’s 1929 memoir The Pedro Gorino is the extraordinary story of his time in southern Africa around the turn of the twentieth…
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Vampire Literature
As Nina Auerbach argues in her introduction to Our Vampires, Ourselves, vampires are “personifications of their age.” Vampire Literature: An Anthology is the first anthology…
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Writing on Fire
What’s the best way to write a paper that analyzes a novel, a poem, a work of art, a film, or a set of historical…
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz first appeared in print in September 1900 and has since become a classic in the world of…
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Concise Edition, Volume A – Fourth Edition
The two-volume Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Concise Edition provides an attractive alternative to the full six-volume anthology. Though much more compact, the concise edition…
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway’s first major novel, The Sun Also Rises follows American and British expatriates in France and Spain in the years following World War I.…
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Patience
Patience is currently the only one of the four poems in British Library MS Cotton Nero A.x that has not been translated into modern idiomatic…
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Lynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays
Lynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays bundles critically edited texts of three thematically allied plays with an extensive primary, secondary, and textual apparatus. The Cherokee Night…
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Walt Whitman: Selected Poetry and Prose
This compact edition offers a substantial selection of Whitman’s writing. Highlights include the full text of the 1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass, the 1855…
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Black in America – Second Edition
Black in America samples the breadth of nonfiction writing on African American experiences in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. The…
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A Youth in Germany
This is the first critical, contextualized edition in English of Eine Jugend in Deutschland (1933), the remarkable autobiographical account of Ernst Toller (1893–1939), one of…