English Studies

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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

  Guided by the latest scholarship, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature is acclaimed for its inclusiveness and its deep attention to literature’s historical and cultural…

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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…

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  A Doll’s House

  This edition of one of the Western canon’s most iconic plays brings back into print the pivotal 1890 translation by William Archer. It was this…

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  Hadji Murat

  Based on historical events, Tolstoy’s beloved final novella tells the story of the rebel leader Hadji Murat—whom Tolstoy described as “the leading daredevil of the…

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  Passing

  Written at the height of the Harlem Renaissance (the first sustained artistic movement by African Americans) and of Jim Crow (one of this cultural group’s…

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  The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature

  This teaching anthology collects texts from the vast archive of medieval Arthurian literature. It includes selections from mainstream canonical authors, such as Geoffrey of Monmouth…

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  The Romance of the Forest

  Adeline, the protagonist of Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest, became a model for later Gothic heroines. Passionate, imaginative, and sensitive, in the course…

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  The Noble Slaves

  This is the first ever critical edition of Penelope Aubin’s The Noble Slaves, a novel that shows women as both moral exemplars and independent adventurers…

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  Paradise Lost

  Reviled as a regicide, isolated in a personal darkness, and aging, John Milton did not relinquish his voice. He somehow used that tireless voice, rather,…

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  The Life of Madame de Beaumount and The Life of Charlotta du Pont

  The prose fiction of Penelope Aubin offers a delightful and provocative challenge to many of our standard ways of thinking about both the “rise of…

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  King Lear – Ed. Best & Joubin

  King Lear is a play for our times. The central characters experience intense suffering in a hostile and unpredictable world. They face domestic cruelty, political…

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  Martin R. Delany: Selected Writings

  One of the most powerful and provocative voices to emerge from the social and political unrest preceding the Civil War, the abolitionist and political activist…

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  Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Selections

  Uncle Tom’s Cabin may well have excited more controversy than any other work of fiction in American history. Welcomed by many abolitionists and met with…

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  Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems and Letters

  This compact edition, designed for use in undergraduate courses, combines a substantial selection of Dickinson’s poems (including one complete fascicle) with a selection of letters…

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  Fanny Fern: Selected Writings

  Fanny Fern dominated the New York literary scene in the 1850s, garnering both esteem and, occasionally, derision for her witty and acerbic newspaper columns and…

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  Frederick Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches

  Universally recognized today as one of the most important and influential Americans of the nineteenth century, Frederick Douglass rose to prominence in the national abolitionist…