Books
Most of Broadview’s published material is available for inclusion in a Custom Course Text. Please click here for a list of our most relevant books not listed below. If the reading you are looking for is not listed here, please contact Broadview's Custom Text Coordinator, or fill out the appropriate field when completing your order.
Click on any of the following categories and books for a list of material available for use in the Custom Text Builder. If you are looking for a specific reading, or for works by a specific author, use the search bar at top right.
- The Broadview Anthology of British Literature
- The Broadview Anthology of American Literature
- Other British Literature
- Other American Literature
- Introduction to Literature
- Drama
- Poetry
- Writing and Composition
- Logic and Critical Thinking
We also offer a set of pre-selected Themed Custom Texts that you can adapt for your course needs. Topics include medieval women writers, postcolonial studies, queer literature, and slavery.
If you wish to include material from other Broadview books not listed below (excluding works that are still under copyright protection from other rights-holders), please contact our Custom Text Coordinator at custom@broadviewpress.com.
The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Volume A: Beginnings to 1820
Covering American literature from its pre-contact Indigenous beginnings through the Reconstruction period, the first two volumes of The Broadview Anthology of American Literature represent a substantial reconceiving of the canon of early…
Broadview Anthology of British Literature: The Medieval Period
For the third edition of this volume a number of changes have been made. The Old English material has been substantially revised and expanded, including new translations by Roy Liuzza of “Deor,” “Wulf and Eadwacer,”…
The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Volume B: 1820 to Reconstruction
Covering American literature from its pre-contact Indigenous beginnings through the Reconstruction period, the first two volumes of The Broadview Anthology of American Literature represent a substantial reconceiving of the canon of early…
Broadview Anthology of British Literature: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
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…
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
From its first appearance onward, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been both praised and condemned, enshrined as one of the world’s great novels and banned from libraries and classrooms. This new edition is designed to…
Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales
Edgar Allan Poe's stories and poems are among the most haunting and indelible in American literature, but critics for decades persisted in seeing Poe as an anomaly, or even an anachronism. His works, with their bizarrely motivated…
Slavery: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Themed Custom Text
Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for literature courses with a focus on slavery and/or abolition. If you are teaching a course in these areas, we invite you to pick and choose among the available readings to assemble a…
The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 2: The Renaissance and the Early Seventeenth Century - Third Edition
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…
The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 4: The Age of Romanticism - Third Edition
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…
The Broadview Anthology of Nineteenth-Century British Performance
This collection provides a representative set of theatrical performances popular on the nineteenth-century British stage. All are newly edited critical editions that account for variant sources reflecting the process of rehearsal,…
The Broadview Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose
The Broadview Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose makes available not only extensive selections from the works of canonical writers, but also substantial extracts from writers who have either been neglected in earlier…
Slavery: A Broadview Anthology of American Literature Themed Custom Text
Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for literature courses with a focus on slavery and/or abolition. If you are teaching a course in these areas, we invite you to pick and choose among the available readings to assemble a…
The Broadview Anthology of Drama (Volume I)
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…
The Broadview Anthology of Drama (Volume II)
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…
Old English Poetry
R.M. Liuzza's Broadview edition of Beowulf was published at almost exactly the same time as Seamus Heaney's; in reviewing the two together in July 2000 for The New York Review of Books, Frank Kermode concluded that both translations…
Communist Manifesto
L.M. Findlay's elegant new translation is a work of textual and historical scholarship. Few books have had as much of an impact on modern history as The Communist Manifesto. Since it was first published in 1848, it has become the…
Frankenstein
D.L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf's edition of Frankenstein has been widely acclaimed as an outstanding edition of the novel—for the general reader and the student as much as for the scholar. The editors use as their copy-text…
Le Morte Darthur: Selections
Arguably no medieval English literary work has had as far and wide a reach as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur; among the many adaptations are Tennyson's Idylls of the King, T.H. White's The Once and Future King, and the…
Essays and Arguments
How does one help undergraduate students learn quickly how to produce effectively organized, persuasive, well-reasoned essays? This book offers a straightforward, systematic introduction to some of the key elements of the construction of…
Academic Writing: An Introduction - Third Edition
Academic Writing has been widely acclaimed in all its editions as a superb textbook—and an important contribution to the pedagogy of introducing students to the conventions of academic writing. The book seeks to introduce student…
Critical Thinking: An Introduction to the Basic Skills
Critical Thinking is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the essential skills required to make strong arguments. The authors provide a thorough treatment of such topics as deductive and inductive reasoning, logical fallacies, the…
How to Think Critically
Jeff McLaughlin's How to Think Critically begins with the premise that we are all, every day, engaged in critical thinking. But as we may develop bad habits in daily life if we don't scrutinize our practices, so we are apt to…
Beowulf
R.M. Liuzza's translation of Beowulf, first published by Broadview in 1999, has been widely praised for its accuracy and beauty. The translation is accompanied in this edition by genealogical charts, historical summaries, and a…
Business Ethics
Business Ethics: An Interactive Introduction connects the academic to the practical, extracting the basic elements of rigorous philosophical ethics into a format that can be understood and applied in the business world. Concepts such…
BV Anthology of Lit of the Revolutionary Period 1770-1832
The selections from 132 authors in this anthology represent gender, social class, and racial and national origin as inclusively as possible, providing both greater context for canonical works and a sense of the era's richness and…
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 this edition Glennis Byron first discusses the famous novel as an expression not…
Heart of Darkness
The story of Marlow travelling upriver in central Africa to find Kurtz, an ivory agent as consumed by the horror of human life as he is by physical illness, has long been considered a classic, and continues to be widely read and studied.…
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan is the greatest work of political philosophy in English and the first great work of philosophy in English. In addition, it presents the fundamentals of his beliefs about language, epistemology, and an…
Literary Theory and Criticism
Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction provides an accessible overview of major figures and movements in literary theory and criticism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. It is designed for students at the undergraduate…
Nightwalkers
This anthology makes available for the first time a selection of narratives by and about prostitutes in the eighteenth century. These memoirs, some written by and some about eighteenth-century prostitutes, offer important insights into…
Philosopher's Dictionary, The
The central aim of The Philosopher's Dictionary is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date guide of philosophical terms. Definitions are brief, clear, and user-friendly. Notes on usage, spelling, and pronunciation are…
Rights of Man
Advocating equality, meritocracy, and social responsibility in plain language, Thomas Paine galvanized tens of thousands of readers and changed the framework of political discourse with this text. He was tried and convicted for sedition by…
Sign of Four
Arthur Conan Doyle's second Sherlock Holmes novel is both a detective story and an imperial romance. Ostensibly the story of Mary Morstan, a beautiful young woman enlisting the help of Holmes to find her vanished father and solve the…
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a masterpiece of medieval English literature and one of the finest Arthurian tales in any language. Though its ingenious plotting and verbal artistry continue to dazzle readers, it is written in a…
Strategic Guide to Technical Communication 2e (US)
A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication incorporates useful and specific strategies for writers, to enable them to create aesthetically appealing and usable technical documentation. These strategies have been developed and tested…
Theory after Theory
Theory After Theory provides an overview of developments in literary theory after 1950. It is intended both as a handbook for readers to learn about theory and an intellectual history of the recent past in literary criticism for those…
Introducing Philosophy
This book introduces the central issues of metaphysics and epistemology, from skepticism, justification, and perception to universals, personal identity, and free will. Though topically organized, the book integrates positions and examples…
Introducing Symbolic Logic
This accessible, SHORT introduction to symbolic logic includes coverage of sentential and predicate logic, translations, truth tables, and derivations. The author's engaging style makes this the most informal of introductions to formal…
Poetic Designs
There are numerous introductions to poetry and prosody available, but none at once so comprehensive and so accessible as this. With the increasing emphasis on free verse, the past generation has developed a widespread impression that the…
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
First published in 1886 as a "shilling shocker," Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde takes the basic struggle between good and evil and adds to the mix bourgeois respectability, urban violence, and class conflict. The result is a tale that has…
Writing About Literature 2e
Writing about Literature introduces students to critical reading and writing through a thorough and engaging discussion of the field, but also through exercises, interviews, exemplary student and scholarly essays, and visual material. It…
Writing Essays About Literature
This book gives students an answer to the question, "What does my professor want from this essay?" In lively, direct language, it explains the process of creating "a clearly-written argument, based on evidence, about the…
The Age of Authors
Eighteenth-century critics differed about almost everything, but if there was one point on which they almost universally agreed, it was that they were living through an age of extraordinary change. The texts in this collection respond to a…
The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy
The ten plays in this new collection show both the continuity and the changes in comedy over the course of the Restoration and eighteenth century. Each play includes its original prologue and epilogue, as well as an historical introduction…
The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Prose, 1832-1901
The Victorian era witnessed dramatic transformations in print culture, and this new anthology covers the exciting intellectual and social debates of the period. From first-person accounts of the lives of factory workers to Oscar…
The Broadview Guide to Writing: A Handbook for Students – Sixth Edition
Increasingly, writing handbooks are seen as over-produced and overpriced. One stands out: The Broadview Guide to Writing is published in an elegant but simple format, and sells for roughly half the price of its fancier-looking…
For the Sake of Argument
Academic philosophy can be puzzling to newcomers. The conventions, terms, and expectations entrenched among philosophers aren’t always clear from the outside. Why are philosophers so preoccupied with finding “the…
How to be Good With Words
In recent decades, the contested areas of English usage have grown both larger and more numerous. English speakers argue about whether we should say man or humanity, fisher or fisherman; whether we ought to…
The Victorian Art of Fiction
The Victorian Art of Fiction presents important Victorian statements on the form and function of fiction. The essays in this anthology address questions of genre, such as realism and sensationalism; questions of gender and authorship;…
Bioethics in Context
In this book, Gary Jones and Joseph DeMarco connect ethical theory, medicine, and the law, guiding readers toward a practical and legally-grounded understanding of key issues in health care ethics. Bioethics in Context covers a wide range…
A Writer's Handbook
Written collaboratively by writing instructors at the Queen's University Writing Centre, A Writer's Handbook is a compact yet thorough guide to academic writing for a North American audience. This clear and concise handbook outlines…
Critical Thinking, Canadian
Critical Thinking is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the essential skills of good reasoning, written by Canadian authors for Canadian readers. The book includes a thorough treatment of such central topics as deductive and…
Tell Me Something I Don't Know
Tell Me Something I Don?t Know is a collection of original dialogues in epistemology, suitable for student readers but also of interest to experts. Familiar problems, theories, and arguments are explored: second-order knowledge, epistemic…
Gothic Evolutions
The texts in this unique collection range from the Gothic Revival of the late eighteenth century through to the late Victorian gothic, and from the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge to the short fiction of H.G. Wells and Henry James.…
Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, lecturer, poet, and America?s first ?public intellectual,? Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803?82) is the central figure in nineteenth-century American letters and the leader (albeit reluctantly) of the Transcendental group. A literary…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings
This classroom edition includes On the Social Contract, the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, the Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and the Preface to Narcissus. Each text has been newly translated and includes a full complement…
Canadian Cases in the Philosophy of Law
This is a collection of Canadian legal decisions, primarily from the Supreme Court of Canada, along with international cases that have bearing on Canadian law. The selected cases raise and respond to current and controversial issues in…
Broadview Anthology of British Literature: The Twentieth Century and Beyond
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…
Writing Wrongs
Writing Wrongs is a concise and thoughtful guide to common errors in English. It covers frequently confused and misused words along with problems of grammar, punctuation, and style, and offers a brief and up-to-date guide to major citation…
Bioethics: Legal and Clinical Case Studies
Bioethics: Legal and Clinical Case Studies is a case-based introduction to ethical issues in health care. Through seventy-eight compelling scenarios, the authors demonstrate the practical importance of ethics, showing how the concerns at…
The Broadview Guide to Writing: Revised 6th Canadian Edition
Increasingly, writing handbooks are seen as over-produced and overpriced. One stands out: The Broadview Guide to Writing is published in an elegant but simple format, and sells for roughly half the price of its fancier-looking competitors.…
Formal Logic
Formal Logic is an undergraduate text suitable for introductory, intermediate, and advanced courses in symbolic logic. The book?s nine chapters offer thorough coverage of truth-functional and quantificational logic, as well as the basics of…
More Precisely: The Math You Need to Do Philosophy
More Precisely is a rigorous and engaging introduction to the mathematics necessary to do philosophy. Eric Steinhart provides lucid explanations of many basic mathematical concepts and sets out the most commonly used notational conventions.…
Philosophical Problems
Peter Alward's rigorous introductory text functions as a roadmap for students, laying out the key issues, positions, and arguments of academic philosophy. The book covers central topics in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and…
The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing: A Concise Handbook for Students 4/e
The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing: A Concise Handbook for Students presents essential material from the full Broadview Guide to Writing. Included are summaries of key grammatical points; a glossary of usage; advice on various forms of…
This Language, A River
This Language, A River is an introduction to the history of English that recognizes multiple varieties of the language in both current and historical contexts. Developed over years of undergraduate teaching, the book helps students both to…
Ancient Philosophy: A Companion to the Core Readings
Ancient Philosophy: A Companion to the Core Readings is designed as an approachable guide to the most important and influential works of ancient philosophy. The book begins with a brief overview of ancient Greek mythology and the…
The Argument Handbook
The Argument Handbook is a reference tool and classroom text designed to help students understand complex rhetorical situations and navigate the process of transforming private thoughts into persuasive, public statements. The book is…
Focus on Writing: What College Students Want to Know
This first-year composition rhetoric-reader uses a Writing about Writing (WAW) approach and a conversational style to help students engage in threshold concepts and transfer what they know about writing to new situations. Each chapter asks…
The World is a Text: Writing About Visual and Popular Culture
Wherever we look today, popular culture greets us with “texts” that make implicit arguments; this book helps students to think and write critically about these texts. The World Is a Text teaches critical reading, writing, and…
Postcolonial Studies: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Themed Custom Text
Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for literature courses on race, colonization, and postcolonial studies. If you are teaching a course in these areas, we invite you to pick and choose among the available readings to…
Medieval Women Writers: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Themed Custom Text
Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for literature courses on medieval women and/or medieval women writers. If you are teaching a course in this area, we invite you to pick and choose among the available readings to…
Queer Studies: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Themed Custom Text
Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for literature courses with a queer studies focus. If you are teaching a course in this area, we invite you to pick and choose among the available readings to assemble a custom text that…
Business and Professional Writing: A Basic Guide
Straightforward, practical, and focused on realistic examples, Business and Professional Writing: A Basic Guide is an introduction to the fundamentals of professional writing. The book emphasizes clarity, conciseness, and plain language.…
Writing Science in the Twenty-First Century
Writing Science in the Twenty-First Century offers guidance to help writers succeed in a broad range of writing tasks and purposes in science and other STEM fields. Concise and current, the book takes most of its examples and lessons from…
Monsters in Literature: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Themed Custom Text
Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for courses focused on the monstrous in literature. If you are teaching a course in this area, we invite you to pick and choose among the available readings to assemble a custom…
War: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Themed Custom Text
Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for courses with a focus on war writing and/or representations of war in literature. If you are teaching a course in these areas, we invite you to pick and choose among the available…
The Broadview Introduction to Literature: Short Fiction – Second Edition
Designed for courses taught at the introductory level in Canadian universities and colleges, this new anthology provides a rich selection of literary texts. Unlike many other such anthologies, it includes literary non-fiction as well as…
The Broadview Introduction to Literature: Poetry – Second Edition
Designed for courses taught at the introductory level in Canadian universities and colleges, this new anthology provides a rich selection of literary texts. Unlike many other such anthologies, it includes literary non-fiction as well as…
The Broadview Introduction to Literature: Drama – Second Edition
Designed for courses taught at the introductory level in Canadian universities and colleges, this new anthology provides a rich selection of literary texts. Unlike many other such anthologies, it includes literary non-fiction as well as…
The Broadview Introduction to Literature: Literary Non-Fiction – Second Edition
Designed for courses taught at the introductory level in Canadian universities and colleges, this new anthology provides a rich selection of literary texts. Unlike many other such anthologies, it includes literary non-fiction as well as…
Feminism: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature 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, we invite you to pick and choose among the available…
Gothic: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature 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 to pick and choose among the available readings to assemble a custom text that…
Death, Loss, and Mourning: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature 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 this area, we invite you to pick and choose among the…
Disability and Sickness: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature 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, we invite you to pick and choose among the…
Science and Technology: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Themed Custom Text
Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for courses ocused on the representation of science and technology in literature. If you are teaching a course in this area, we invite you to pick and choose among the available…
Religion: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Themed Custom Text
Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for courses focused on the representation of religion in literature. If you are teaching a course in this area, we invite you to pick and choose among the available readings to…
Government and Politics: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature 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 this area, we invite you to pick and choose among the…
Literature and the Environment: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature 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 teaching a course in these areas, we invite you to pick…
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 you to pick and choose among the available readings to…
Masculinity: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Themed Custom Text
Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for courses on focused on the representation of masculinity in literature. If you are teaching a course in this area, we invite you to pick and choose among the available…
Early Modern Philosophy
This new anthology of early modern philosophy enriches the possibilities for teaching this period by highlighting not only metaphysics and epistemology, but also new themes such as virtue, equality and difference, education, the passions,…
The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Volume 5: The Victorian Era - Third Edition
Shaped by sound literary and historical scholarship, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors and includes a broad selection of work by lesser-known writers. The anthology also provides…
Early Black American Literature: A Broadview Anthology of American Literature Themed Custom Text
Broadview anthologies include many readings suitable for literature courses focused on Black Literature. If you are teaching a course in this area, we invite you to pick and choose among the available readings to assemble a custom text…
Native American Writiting and Indigenous Literature
Guided by the latest scholarship in American literary studies, and deeply committed to inclusiveness, social responsibility, and rigorous contextualization, The Broadview Anthology of American Literature balances representation of widely…
