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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 Austen’s novels, including critical articles, visual materials, and interactive timelines and maps. A selection of over thirty critical articles and chapters balances classic interpretations with more contemporary approaches, including feminist,…

Jane Eyre, the story of a young girl and her passage into adulthood, was an immediate commercial success at the time of its original publication in 1847. Its representation of the underside of domestic life and the hypocrisy behind religious enthusiasm drew both praise and bitter criticism, while Charlotte Brontë’s striking exposé of poor living…

When Jane Austen died, at the age of 41, she left behind her not only six novels but a large number of manuscripts, ranging from juvenile works to the novel that she was writing at the time of her final illness. The six published novels are now undisputed classics. The manuscripts, however, despite the extraordinary…

Mansfield Park is Jane Austen’s darkest, and most complex novel. In contrast to the confident and vivacious heroines of Emma and Pride and Prejudice, its central character, Fanny Price, is a shy and vulnerable poor relation who finds the courage to stand up for her principles and desires. Fanny comes to live at Mansfield Park,…

First accepted by a publisher in 1803, Northanger Abbey was eventually published posthumously in 1818. In it Austen weaves a romance full of suspense and comedy around the heroine Catherine Morland”s first foray into society. The style of the novel is a unique hybrid; along the way Austen parodies the eighteenth-century novel of manners, the…

This modified eBook is intended for readers outside of the United States and Canada. If you are within the United States or Canada, please see the print and eBook options available on this page. For copyright reasons, some readings are omitted from this modified eBook. However, it includes 88% of the material available in the…

Package ISBN: 9781488112478 / 1488112479 This Broadview bundle offers the following Austen titles at a discounted package price: Emma, edited by Kristin Flieger Samuelian (ISBN: 978-1-55111-321-0) Northanger Abbey, second edition, edited by Claire Grogan (ISBN: 978-1-55111-479-8) Pride and Prejudice, edited by Robert Irvine (ISBN: 978-1-55481-489-3 ) Jane Austen’s Manuscript Works, edited by Linda Bree, Peter…

This modified ebook version of The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought: From Machiavelli to Nietzsche  includes 90% of the material available in the print version. See the “Contents” tab for the ebook’s table of contents, or click here to see a list comparing the print book’s contents to the ebook. This volume contains many…

This is a special Trade eBook edition of a new translation of Erich Maria Remarque’s classic of World War I, All Quiet on the Western Front; it is the first new translation of Remarque’s novel in thirty years. The release of Edward Berger’s film version of All Quiet on the Western Front (nominated in 2023…

This is a special Trade eBook edition of Kirsten Lodge’s acclaimed translation of Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories. A separate teaching edition of these translations—with contextualizing appendices, extensive annotations, and an introduction—is also available in both print and eBook formats. This is a special Trade eBook edition of Kirsten Lodge’s…

Package ISBN: 9781554023189 / 1554023181 This Broadview bundle offers the following Austen titles at a discounted package price: Mansfield Park, edited by June Sturrock (ISBN: 978-1-55111-098-1) Persuasion, edited by Linda Bree (ISBN: 978-1-55111-131-5) Sense and Sensibility, edited by Kathleen James-Cavan (ISBN: 978-1-55111-125-4) You may order this package with Jane Austen Package B to purchase all 6…

Package ISBN: 9781488112461 / 1488112460 This Broadview bundle offers the following Austen titles at a discounted package price: Emma, edited by Kristin Flieger Samuelian (ISBN: 978-1-55111-321-0) Northanger Abbey, second edition, edited by Claire Grogan (ISBN: 978-1-55111-479-8) Pride and Prejudice, Second Edition, edited by Robert Irvine (ISBN: 978-1-55481-489-3) You may order this package with Jane Austen…

We imagine that you would be hard pressed to find a university campus in North America where Jane Austen is not taught. Indeed, the Broadview editions that we offer of her novels are among the most popular books that we publish. Because our Austen editions were published over a wide span of years, the covers―while…

Israel Zangwill, an Anglo-Jewish author and son of immigrants, wrote The Melting-Pot to demonstrate how immigrants could become good American citizens, hoping to forestall the kinds of restrictions—particularly against Russian Jews—that had been enacted in his home country. In 1908, when the play first appeared on an American stage, many Americans feared that these particular…

In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, the anthology takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors, and includes a wide selection of work by lesser-known writers. The anthology also provides wide-ranging coverage of…

This Broadview bundle offers the following titles at a discounted package price: 9781554814893 – Pride and Prejudice – Second Edition 9781551113210 – Emma 9781551111315 – Persuasion 9781554814398 – Broadview Online: Jane Austen in Context Package ISBN: 978-1-0393-0442-0 Please note that additional discounts and/or Broadview coupon codes may not be applied to package orders. Course Information Professor: Roxanne Eberle School: University of Georgia Course…

Jane Austen’s Emma (1816) tells the story of the coming of age of Emma Woodhouse, “handsome, clever, and rich,” who “had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.” Typical for the novel’s time, Emma’s transition to womanhood is accomplished through courtship—both of those around her and, ultimately,…

Perhaps the first extended non-fiction prose satire written by an English woman, Jane Collier’s An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (1753) is a wickedly satirical send-up of eighteenth-century advice manuals and educational tracts. It takes the form of a mock advice manual in which the speaker instructs her readers in the arts of…

This Broadview bundle offers the following titles at a discounted package price: Pride and Prejudice, Second Edition (1554814898) Emma (155111321X) Mansfield Park (1551110989) Persuasion (1551111314) Broadview Online: Jane Austen in Context (1554814391) Package ISBN: 978-1-4881-1370-3 Course Information: Professor: Jo Ann Citron School: Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement Term: Spring 2021 Please note that additional…

This Broadview bundle offers the following titles at a discounted package price: Jane Austen’s Manuscript Works Emma Northanger Abbey, Second Edition Pride and Prejudice, Second Edition Sense and Sensibility Persuasion Package ISBN: 978-1-0393-0494-9 Please note that additional discounts and/or Broadview coupon codes may not be applied to package orders. Course Information Professor: Laura George School:…

The fourteenth-century Middle English poem Pearl is one of the best dream vision poems ever written, yet its language (the Northwest Midlands dialect of late-medieval England) and literary allusions (to biblical, mythological, and medieval works) make it difficult for modern readers to understand. This new dual-language edition of Pearl provides the original Middle English with…

The Basset Table follows the fortunes of Lady Reveller, who runs a table where her friends play the card game basset, and her struggle to avoid marrying Lord Worthy. Meanwhile, Lady Reveller’s cousin, Valeria, spends her time conducting scientific experiments and dissections, but her father intends to marry her off to the bluff sea-captain Hearty.…