Topics in Literature
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Great Expectations
Originally published in serial form from December 1860 to August 1861, Great Expectations is the ‘autobiography’ of Pip, as he transformed from apprentice village blacksmith…
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Aurora Floyd
Aurora Floyd is one of the leading novels in the genre known as ‘sensation fiction’—a tradition in which the key texts include Wilkie Collins’s The…
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
In Oscar Wilde’s famous novel, Dorian Gray is tempted by Henry Wotton to sell his soul in order to hold on to beauty and youth.…
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Dracula
To borrow a phrase used by one of the characters in the novel, Dracula is “nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance.” In her introduction to…
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon – Selected Writings
The work of ‘L.E.L.’ began to be published when she was only seventeen, and in her early twenties Landon had already achieved considerable renown. As…
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Zofloya
The protagonist of Charlotte Dacre’s best known novel, Zofloya, or the Moor (1806) is unique in women’s Gothic and Romantic literature, and has more in…
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Nostromo
Nostromo, first published in 1904, is arguably Conrad’s greatest and most complex novel. A compelling adventure story, it is also a novel of profound psychological…
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Lodore
Beset by jealousy over an admirer of his wife’s, Lord Lodore has come with his daughter Ethel to the American wilderness; his wife Cornelia, meanwhile,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Animals: 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…
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Death, Loss, and Mourning: Themed Custom Text
Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for courses focused on the representation of death, loss, and mourning in literature. If you are teaching a course in…
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Disability and Sickness: Themed Custom Text
Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for courses focused on the representation of disability and sickness in literature. If you are teaching a course in this area,…
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Feminism: Themed Custom Text
Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for courses focused on feminist and proto-feminist thought and/or literature. If you are teaching a course in this area,…
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Gothic: Themed Custom Text
Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for literature courses focused on the Gothic. If you are teaching a course in this area, we invite you…
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Government and Politics: Themed Custom Text
Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for courses focused on the representation of government and politics in literature. If you are teaching a course in…
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Literature and the Environment: Themed Custom Text
Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for courses focused on literature and nature, non-human animals in literature, and/or literature and the environment. If you are…