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 text that suits your course needs.
Please note: This list is meant to provide options for instructors assembling custom texts, and it is not intended to be used in its entirety.
Selections from other Broadview books can also be added to your custom text. This includes material from other Broadview anthologies, as well as selections from any of our more than 400 stand-alone editions, from Frankenstein to The Island of Doctor Moreau and from The Beetle to The Metamorphosis and Other Stories. You can add selections from these other books by navigating through the titles listed under the “Books” tab at top. If the selection or book you wish to add is not listed there (or if you’d rather work directly with a person to assemble your custom text), please contact our Custom Text Coordinator at custom@broadviewpress.com.
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Beowulf & In Context: Background Materials
Joseph Black et al.
52 pages @ $0.12/page
$6.24
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Marie de France: Bisclavret (The Werewolf )
Marie de France
9 pages @ $0.12/page
$1.08
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Sir Orfeo
Anonymous
12 pages @ $0.12/page
$1.44
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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight & In Context: Background Materials
Joseph Black et al.
68 pages @ $0.12/page
$8.16
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Edmund Spenser, from The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser
123 pages @ $0.12/page
$14.76
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Contexts: Culture: A Portfolio; The Supernatural and the Miraculous
Joseph Black et al.
4 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.48
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Sir Walter Ralegh: Letter to His Wife
Sir Walter Ralegh
2 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.24
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from William Shakespeare: The Tempest; from Act 1, Scene 2, from Act 2, Scene 1
William Shakespeare
3 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.36
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Christopher Marlowe: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (“A” Text)
Christopher Marlowe
34 pages @ $0.12/page
$4.08
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John Milton: Paradise Lost and In Context Materials
John Milton
123 pages @ $0.12/page
$14.76
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John Milton: Samson Agonistes
John Milton
26 pages @ $0.12/page
$3.12
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Contexts: Mind And God, Faith And Science: Philosophical Transactions; An Account of a Very Odd Monstrous Calf
Joseph Black et al.
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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Contexts: Mind And God, Faith And Science: From Voltaire, Micromegas
Joseph Black et al.
7 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.84
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Jonathan Swift: The Progress Of Beauty
Jonathan Swift
2 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.24
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Jonathan Swift: The Lady’s Dressing Room
Jonathan Swift
3 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.36
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Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels and In Context Readings
Jonathan Swift
135 pages @ $0.12/page
$16.20
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The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century: Popular Ballads
Joseph Black et al.
5 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.60
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Horace Walpole: The Castle Of Otranto Ch 1-5 and In Context Materials
Horace Walpole
52 pages @ $0.12/page
$6.24
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Robert Burns: Halloween & Address to the De’il
Robert Burns
7 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.84
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Contexts: Gothic Literature, from Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, Chapter 1
Horace Walpole
4 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.48
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Contexts: Gothic Literature, from Anna Laetitia Aikin and John Aikin, On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, a Fragment
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
4 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.48
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from William Beckford: Vathek
William Beckford
3 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.36
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Walter Scott: William and Helen
Walter Scott
6 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.72
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Anne Bannerman: The Dark Ladie
Anne Bannerman
3 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.36
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from Mary Shelley: Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, Chapter 3 & Chapter 4
Mary Shelley
5 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.60
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from Charles Maturin: Melmoth the Wanderer, Chapter 3
Charles Maturin
2 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.24
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Joanna Baillie: The Ghost of Fadon
Joanna Baillie
5 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.60
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William Taylor: Ellenore
William Taylor
7 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.84
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James Hogg, The Brownie of the Black Haggs
James Hogg
10 pages @ $0.12/page
$1.20
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
10 pages @ $0.12/page
$1.20
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Phantom
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Anaconda
Matthew Gregory Lewis
30 pages @ $0.12/page
$3.60
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George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Giaour
George Gordon, Lord Byron
24 pages @ $0.12/page
$2.88
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George Gordon, Lord Byron, Manfred, A Dramatic Poem
George Gordon, Lord Byron
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Byronic Hero, from The Corsair: A Tale from Lara: A Tale
George Gordon, Lord Byron
8 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.96
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Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Triumph of Life
Percy Bysshe Shelley
10 pages @ $0.12/page
$1.20
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John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci & La Belle Dame sans Mercy
John Keats
2 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.24
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John Keats, Lamia
John Keats
11 pages @ $0.12/page
$1.32
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John William Polidori, The Vampyre: A Tale
John William Polidori
12 pages @ $0.12/page
$1.44
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Mary Shelley, The Transformation
Mary Shelley
10 pages @ $0.12/page
$1.20
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Mary Shelley, The Mortal Immortal
Mary Shelley
8 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.96
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Thomas Lovell Beddoe, Old Adam, the Carrion Crow & Squats on a Toadstool
Thomas Lovell Beddoe
3 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.36
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Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
44 pages @ $0.12/page
$5.28
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Matthew Arnold, The Forsaken Merman
Matthew Arnold
3 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.36
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Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and In Context Materials
Christina Rossetti
9 pages @ $0.12/page
$1.08
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Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll
1 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.12
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Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dolores
Algernon Charles Swinburne
7 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.84
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Vernon Lee, Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady
Vernon Lee
25 pages @ $0.12/page
$3.00
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Rudyard Kipling, The Mark of the Beast
Rudyard Kipling
8 pages @ $0.12/page
$0.96
