English Studies

  • Heart and Science

    Heart and Science

    Wilkie Collins’s later novels are often as concerned with social issues as they are with simple storytelling—but as more and more critics are suggesting, the…

  • Set in Authority

    Set in Authority

    In 1906, two years after the appearance of her best-known novel, The Imperialist, Duncan published its darker twin, an Anglo-Indian novel which returns to political…

  • The Last Man

    The Last Man

    Mary Shelley’s third published novel, The Last Man, is a disillusioned vision of the end of civilization, set in the twenty-first century. The book offers…

  • Something New

    Something New

    To be a heroine is to be beautiful—such has been the unstated assumption from the time of chivalric romance to that of Harlequin romance. But…

  • Hard Times

    Hard Times

    Despite the title, Dickens’s portrayal of early industrial society here is less relentlessly grim than that in novels by contemporaries such as Elizabeth Gaskell or…

  • The Cognitive Revolution in Western Culture

    The Cognitive Revolution in Western Culture

    Why are the plots of Shakespeare and his contemporaries so different from those of his predecessors? This book argues that the answer is in part…

  • The Clandestine Marriage

    The Clandestine Marriage

    David Garrick, the leading actor of his time, was also one of its most accomplished dramatists, and The Clandestine Marriage is perhaps his finest play.…

  • Millenium Hall

    Millenium Hall

    In 1750 at the age of twenty-seven Sarah Scott published her first novel, a conventional romance. A year later she left her husband after only…

  • Nineteenth-Century Stories by Women

    Nineteenth-Century Stories by Women

    “The female novelist of the nineteenth century may have frequently encountered opposition and interference from the male literary establishment, but the female short story writer,…

  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Facing Page Translation

    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Facing Page Translation

    The fourteenth-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the greatest classics of English literature, but one of the least accessible to…

  • The Dreamer Awakes

    The Dreamer Awakes

    The late Alice Kane was born in Ireland in 1908. Moving with her parents to Canada in 1921, she was educated in New Brunswick and…

  • A Bold Stroke for a Wife

    A Bold Stroke for a Wife

    Though critics and literary historians have always had to admit that Susanna Centlivre’s comedies were extremely popular, they have tended to devote themselves to a…

  • Improved by Cultivation

    Improved by Cultivation

    This anthology combines some of the finest writing by such well-known writers as Leacock, Moodie, Ernest Thompson Seton and Lucy Maud Montgomery with fascinating pieces…

  • The Broadview Anthology of Poetry

    The Broadview Anthology of Poetry

    “The purpose of The Broadview Anthology of Poetry is to present a wide range of poetry written in English. [Though the poems are arranged chronologically],…

  • The Evil Genius

    The Evil Genius

    Wilkie Collins is best known for his great mystery The Moonstone and The Woman in White—and for a life as sensational as are those novels.…

  • Age of Satire - SFA

    Age of Satire – SFA

    This Broadview bundle offers the following titles at a discounted package price: Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels ISBN: 9781551119793 Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews ISBN: 9781551112206 Jane…

  • Animals: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Themed Custom Text

    Animals: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Themed Custom Text

    Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for courses focused on the representation of animals in literature. If you are teaching a course in this area, we invite…

  • Broadview Anthology of Poetry 2e with How Poems Work package

    Broadview Anthology of Poetry 2e with How Poems Work package

    This discounted package contains The Broadview Anthology of Poetry 2e and access to the How Poems Work website for the discounted price. Package ISBN: 9781488103834 / 1488103836 Components: The…

  • Broadview Online: Bioethics in Context <p>Website Access

    Broadview Online: Bioethics in Context

    Website Access

    This online resource can be used on its own, or in conjunction with a bioethics textbook. Access is included free with every new copy of…

  • Broadview Online: Critical Thinking <p>Website Access

    Broadview Online: Critical Thinking

    Website Access

    Broadview's critical thinking textbooks include a companion website for students where question sets, flashcards, writing resources, and citation information can be found. An access code…

  • Broadview Online: How Poems Work <p>Website Access

    Broadview Online: How Poems Work

    Website Access

    This is an online resource to be used in the teaching of poetry. It may be used on its own, in conjunction with a Broadview…

  • Broadview Online: Jane Austen in Context

    Broadview Online: Jane Austen in Context

    Jane Austen in Context is a flexible and user-friendly online research tool that provides classrooms with a wide range of materials for the study of…

  • Bundle: Anthology of American Literature Concise Vol. 1: Beginnings to Reconstruction, Passing, and Lynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays

    Bundle: Anthology of American Literature Concise Vol. 1: Beginnings to Reconstruction, Passing, and Lynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays

    This Broadview bundle offers the following titles at a discounted package price: 9781554816194 – Broadview Anthology of American Literature Concise Volume 1: Beginnings to Reconstruction…