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The diverse readings in this unique anthology give students a sense of early black feminism across regions, movements and organizations.

Provocative and nuanced, these essays, newly written for this anthology, offer fresh perspectives on Aboriginal literatures today.

"This volume is a magnificent teaching tool, which offers even experienced readers of Mark Twain a compelling reason to return to his first important work of fiction." - Henry B. Wonham, University of Oregon

"No one working on Wharton today places her so accurately as Nowlin." - Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

An engaging short novel by an important American realist, An Imperative Duty addresses the topic of interracial marriage.

"Heretofore only available to scholars working in research libraries, The Autobiography of Ashley Bowen can now become essential reading in undergraduate courses." - Robert A. McCaughey, Columbia University  

"Joseph Dimuro has produced a critical edition of Bertram Cope's Year that is lucid and well-researched; it is a fitting study of an important novel. Adding previously unpublished material from Fuller's journals and--excitingly--from the novel itself makes this edition a delight for readers, c...

"Dawson's edition of Black Oxen should help the novel enjoy the rejuvenation it deserves." - Meredith Goldsmith, Ursinus College

"This new edition of Clarence continues the important resurrection of Sedgwick's writing for the use of both scholarship and teaching. The editors and press have done an excellent job of constructing a user-friendly edition of this important novel." - Philip Gould, Brown University ...

"Broadview has done it again. Joseph Dimuro's expertly assembled edition of Henry Blake Fuller's The Cliff-Dwellers places this important novel--one of the first representations of the modern American city--in a set of productive and provocative historical, literary, visual, and socio-cultural...

"This is an indispensable critical edition for scholars, teachers, and readers interested in women's culture and women in the culture of the early Republican period." - Ivy Schweitzer, Dartmouth College

This new edition of a beloved American story cycle includes a rich selection of appendices on the work's literary, critical, and biographical contexts.

"Everything about this edition commends it to instructors, students, and general readers alike. Kristin Boudreau's authoritative introduction provides an excellent orientation, no less for seasoned scholars than for students discovering Henry James." - Daniel Mark Fogel, University of Vermont...

"Carefully selected, expertly edited, and judiciously annotated, James M. Hutchisson's Broadview Edition makes an excellent introduction to Poe's imaginative and critical writings." - Kevin Hayes, University of Central Oklahoma

"An impressive achievement!" - Denise D. Knight, State University of New York, Cortland

"Alger was one of the most popular American writers of the late 1800s [his] message was that 'anyone can make it in America, and make it big .'" - Michael Moore, Dude, Where's My Country?

" The Female American will invigorate any collection of colonial American literature." - Myra Jehlen, Rutgers University

" Glances Backward breaks new ground in gay studies. It offers the best introduction to the period when homosexuality was just finding its voice. A landmark text." - David Van Leer, University of California, Davis

"Canadian readers are indeed fortunate to have Michael Nowlin's extremely useful edition of The Great Gatsby ." - Jackson R. Bryer, University of Maryland

"While numerous editions of Herland have appeared in the years since the novel's recovery, Beth Sutton-Ramspeck's Herland and Related Writings will prove an invaluable resource for scholars and students alike." - Cynthia Davis, University of South Carolina, Columbia

"An invaluable literary document, Imre is also an unexpectedly absorbing fiction, here accompanied by an excellent scholarly apparatus." - John W. Crowley, editor of Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard

"This superb edition makes the powerful voice of Adah Isaacs Menken come alive for twenty-first century readers." - Kathryn Hellerstein, University of Pennsylvania

"Paul Gutjahr's edition of The Last of the Mohicans is a model text, ideally suited for the classroom or the general reader." - David J. Carlson, California State University, San Bernardino

"For the first time in one edition, we now have the complete story of the March family!" - Daniel Shealy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The editor provides a selection of poetry and prose which illustrates Lydia Huntley Sigourney's national vision and the diversity of forms she used to promote it. This edition contributes to the current recovery of her work and her republican vision.

"Adrian Hunter has provided a wonderfully nuanced and sophisticated analysis of this often neglected text." - Susan Castillo, King's College London

"This edition allows readers to see the novel as a complexly articulated response to the great issues and energies of America as it entered the modern age." - John Swift, Occidental College, Los Angeles

"This scrupulously prepared, thorough, and extremely useful edition of Poe's only novel will thrill students, instructors, and general Poe aficionados in equal measure." - Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan University

Originally published in 1799, Ormond was inspired by enlightenment philosophers and Gothic writers.

A huge success when it was first published in 1884, this novel is set among the California Spanish missions and tells the story of the young mixed-blood heroine, Ramona, and her Native American lover Alessandro, as they flee from the brutal violence of white settlers.

"With a critical yet lively introduction, this edition of Rights of Man is indispensable to anyone interested in understanding the development of 1790s radical thought and its relevance today." - Juan Luís Sánchez, University of California, Los Angeles

"John Stephen Martin's meticulously prepared edition of The Scarlet Letter establishes itself as the single best guide to this great American masterpiece." - Joel Porte, Cornell University

"Brady Harrison's excellent edition brilliantly situates the novel in relation to the Spanish-American War and the longer history of U.S. imperialism in the southern Americas." - Robert S. Levine, University of Maryland

James's most famous work is accompanied here by three other stories of obsession and the uncanny, as well as appendices focusing on his understanding of the supernatural.

Only available in the US. "...an excellent text for classroom use. Students will appreciate the notes, which provide helpful and straightforward guidance. ...The introductory material is clear and informative, and the contextual material gathered in the last section of the book would enrich...