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Offers the first full-length bo ok treatment of professional storytelling in North America today. For some years there has been a major storytelling revival throughout the continent and Stone analyses these developments in this book.

Times change, lives change, and the terms we need to describe our literature or society or condition--what Raymond Williams calls "keywords"--change with them. Perhaps the most significant development in the quarter-century since Eli Mandel edited his anthology Contexts of Canadian Criticism has been the growing recognition that not only do different people need different terms, but the same terms have different meanings for different people and in different contexts. Nation, history, culture, art, identity--the positions we take discussing these and other issues can lead to conflict, but also hold the promise of a new sort of community. Speaking of First Nations people and their literature, Beth Brant observes that "Our connections ... are like the threads of a weaving. ... While the colour and beauty of each thread is unique and important, together they make a communal material of strength and durability." New Contexts of Canadian Criticism is designed to be read, to work, in much the same manner.

In 1906, two years after the appearance of her best-known novel, The Imperialist, Duncan published its darker twin, an Anglo-Indian novel which returns to political themes but with a deeper and more clinical irony than in her previous work. Set in Authority is about illusions: the imperial illusions of those who rule and are ruled; the illusions of families about their members; the illusions of men and women about each other. The setting moves between the political drawing rooms of London and the English station at Pilaghur in the province of Ghoom, where the murder of a native by an English soldier changes the lives of a cast of ruthlessly observed characters.

"Her Voice rises off the page as if she were telling the story beside us. It's a tone that is oral in its cadences, yet at the same time unobtrusively literary -- The voice of an enduring classic." -- Dennis Lee

William Beckford's Vathek is a touchstone of eighteenth-century Orientalism and of the Gothic novel. This Broadview edition, based on the 1823 edition - the last one edited by the author himself - introduces The Episodes in the order Beckford planned, and incorporates his final corrections.

Marking a central moment in late-Victorian literature, not only for its wit but also for its role in the shift from a Victorian to a modern consciousness, this play began its career as a biting satire directed at the very audience who received it so delightedly.

A Victorian philosophical/mathematical fantasy that simultaneously provides an introduction to non-Euclidean geometry and a satire on the Victorian class structure, issues of science and faith, and the role of women. It provides historical context for Victorian culture and religion, mathematical history, and the history of philosophy.

Includes the full text of More's 1516 classic, "Utopia", together with a wide range of background contextual materials.

Philosophical reflection on death dates back to ancient times, but death remains one of the most profound, puzzling topics. This anthology brings together a selection of seminal work on the epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical questions surrounding death.

Introduces Wittgenstein's philosophy to senior undergraduates and graduate students. This book examines Wittgenstein's discussions of naming, family resemblances, rule-following and private language in ""Philosophical Investigations"" as instances of this sort of method, as is his discussion of knowledge in ""On Certainty"".

Offering the readers a variation on the traditional captivity narrative of the time of Mohicans, this title features appendices that include illustrations, responses to the novel, historical sources, and documents on the Cherokee removal.

The doctrine of intelligent design has been maligned by atheists. This book intends to get people to take intelligent design seriously. It discusses the issue of what exactly the doctrine of intelligent design amounts to.

Presents the story of Mary Morstan, a beautiful young woman enlisting the help of Holmes to find her vanished father and solve the mystery of her receipt of a perfect pearl on the same date each year, it gradually uncovers a tale of treachery and human greed.

Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the realities of slavery into the nineteenth-century American home. This title offers various appendices that clarify the novel's participation in antebellum debates about domesticity, colonization, abolitionism, and the law, and includes a section on dramatic adaptations of the novel.

Includes Mill's writings on religion, his early influences, contemporary reviews, and other nineteenth-century writings on religion and science.

Though critics and literary historians have always had to admit that Susanna Centlivre's comedies were extremely popular, they have tended to devote themselves to a search for evidence in them of supposed deficiencies of 'the female pen,' and to pay as much attention to the playwright's marriages and amorous liasons than to the plays themselves.

Intrigue, investigations, thievery, drugs and murder all make an appearance in Collins's classic who-done-it, The Moonstone. Published in serial form in 1868, it was inspired in part by a spectacular murder case widely reported in the early 1860s.

"This book brings together an impressive collection of scholars working on environmental challenges facing the Global South in an age of globalization. An important contribution to the literature on global environmental policy and politics." - Jennifer Clapp, University of Waterloo

This text introduces university students to the philosophical ethos of critical thinking, as well as to the essential skills required to practice it. The authors believe that Critical Thinking should engage students with issues of broader philosophical interest while they develop their skills in reasoning and argumentation. The text is informed throughout by philosophical theory concerning argument and communication--from Aristotle's recognition of the importance of evaluating argument in terms of its purpose to Habermas's developing of the concept of communicative rationality. The authors' treatment of the topic is also sensitive to the importance of language and of situation in shaping arguments, and to the necessity in argument of some interplay between reason and emotion. Unlike many other texts in this area, then, Good Reasons for Better Arguments helps to explain both why argument is important and how the social role of argument plays an important part in determining what counts as a good argument. If this text is distinctive in the extent to which it deals with the theory and the values of critical thinking, it is also noteworthy for the thorough grounding it provides in the skills of deductive and inductive reasoning; the authors present the reader with useful tools for the interpretation, evaluation and construction of arguments. A particular feature is the inclusion of a wide range of exercises, rich with examples that illuminate the practice of argument for the student. Many of the exercises are self testing, with answers provided at the back of the text; others are appropriate for in-class discussion and assignments. Challenging yet accessible, Good Reasons for Better Arguments brings a fresh perspective to an essential subject.

Mary Hay''s first novel, Memoirs of Emma Courtney, transgresses literary and social conventions with its outspoken heroine who pursues the man she loves. It concerns itself with issues of female dependence, sexuality, and woman's role in society.

Critics often comment on the importance of landscape in Wuthering Heights, and in this edition, Christopher Heywood locates the text more precisely than previous editions amid Yorkshire's limestone north and moorland south, drawing out the importance of the region's slaveholding society.

The story of the disgraced Hester Prynne (who must wear a scarlet ""A"" as the mark of her adultery), of her illegitimate child, Pearl, and of the righteous minister Arthur Dimmesdale. Set in mid-seventeenth- century Boston, this powerful tale of passion, puritanism, and revenge is one of the classics of American literature.

Born to a petty thief in Newgate prison, Nell Flanders recounts her turbulent life in this classic novel. Appendices include related writings, and eighteenth-century documents on crime, prisons and the Virginia colony.

Landon was one of the most celebrated literary figures of 19th century British literature, by the age of 22 she had achieved considerable renown. Her poetry was largely forgotten however, and this is the first 20th century edition of her poems.

This collection of early works by Eliza Haywood includes the well-known novella Fantomina (1725) along with three other short, engaging Haywood works. Also includes an introduction that focuses on Haywood's life and career and on the status of prose fiction in the early eighteenth century, and appendices of contextual materials from the period.

What justifies us in believing we have them? What are rights-holders and duty-bearers? Who should bear the costs and responsibilities for making human rights real? Why have some criticized the human rights perspective? And how can those supportive of human rights best respond? These and other conceptual issues are discussed in full in the first part of this book. The second part offers a detailed account of how the human rights idea came to be such a powerful force in the contemporary world.

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, while also questioning the generic expectations of the novel that Pamela establishes, and it provides a vivid portrayal of the material realities of life for a woman in eighteenth-century London. Fielding's Shamela punctures both the figure Richardson established for himself as an author and Pamela's preoccupation with virtue. This Broadview edition also includes a rich selection of historical materials, including writings from the period on sexuality, women's work, Pamela and the print trade, and education and conduct.