הספרים של הוצאת Broadview Press
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Elizabeth Bennet is Austen’s most liberated and unambiguously appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austen’s most popular novel. The story turns on the marriage prospects of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet: Elizabeth forms a prejudi...
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The second edition of Jack Crumley's "An Introduction to Epistemology" strikes a balance between the many issues that engage contemporary epistemologists and the contributions of the major historical figures. He shows not only how philosophers such as Descartes, Hume, Locke, Berkeley, and Kant foreg...
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This masterpiece of political fiction is one of Joseph Conrad's most important late novels. Joseph Conrad's last overtly political novel, "Under Western Eyes" is considered to be one of his greatest works. Set in pre-Revolutionary Russia, the novel tells the story of a young student involuntarily in...
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What most differenttiates this edition of "Heart of Darkness" from the many others available is the extent to which it is devoted to placing the text in context. To this end the reader will find a chronology of Conrad's life, a chronology of the Congo, a select bibliography, and - perhaps most impor...
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The Broadview Anthology of Drama: Plays from the Western Theatre is a chronological presentation of 43 plays in two volumes, ranging from the ancient theatre world to the present day. Each chapter focuses on a specific period and begins with an insightful introduction sketching the historical an...
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Brennan and Stainton's anthology brings together a selection of seminal work on the epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical questions surrounding death. Philosophical reflection on death dates back to ancient times, but death remains one of the most profound, puzzling topics. Samantha Brennan and...
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Though disparaged by literary critics of her day, Marie Corelli was one of the most popular novelists of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Wormwood (1890) is a lurid tale of unrequited love, betrayal, vengeance, murder, suicide, and addiction. The novel recounts the degeneration of Gaston Be...
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"Is that a Fact?" teaches students how to think critically about scientific and statistical information. The goal of the text is not only to teach readers how to identify misleading use of statistics, but also to give readers the understanding necessary to evaluate and use statistical and statistica...
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Prolific even by eighteenth-century standards, Eliza Haywood was the author of more than eighty titles, including short fiction, novels, periodicals, plays, poetry, and a political pamphlet for which she was briefly jailed. From her early successes (most notably Love in Excess) to later nove...
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"Tales of Wonder" is an eclectic collection of stories and ballads gathered by an early master of Gothic horror. In the late eighteenth century, Matthew Gregory 'Monk' Lewis, a notorious author of lurid Gothic novels and plays, began to gather this collection of horror ballads. Including original an...
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Published together for the first time, Eliza Haywood’s Anti-Pamela and Henry Fielding’s An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews are the two most important responses to Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela. Anti-Pamela comments on Richardson’s representations of work, virtue, and gender, wh...
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This popular, student-friendly, and comprehensive introduction to academic writing in different disciplines now includes more exercises and a new section on research ethics. "Academic Writing: An Introduction" is a concise version of the complete Academic Writing, designed to be more compact and acc...
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"The Basset Table" has been widely performed in recent years because of its lively and positive representation of independent women: the gambling widow Lady Reveller and the female scientist, Valeria. The play follows the fortunes of Lady Reveller, who runs a table where her friends play the card ga...
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