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Offers a selection of five short fictions by Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth - the best-known writers of the moral tale - prefaced by a critical introduction to the genre and its place in the complex and fascinating debates surrounding the writing and reading of fiction in the Romantic period.

Tells the story of the survivors of the Trojan War, the women and children taken into slavery by the victorious Greek army. Through the tragedy's central character, the matriarch Hecuba, this late play (415 BCE) demonstrates Euripides' commitment to speaking on behalf of the less powerful and offers a scathing critique of Athenian behaviour.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us all to reflect on the bioethical issues it raises. In this timely book, Gregory Pence examines a number of relevant issues, including the fair allocation of scarce medical resources, immunity passports, discrimination against minorities and the disabled, and the myriad issues raised by vaccines.

Combining reality and magic, Shakespeare creates in The Tempest an uncanny but morally coherent world through the play's genre, design, themes, and characters. This edition features a variety of interleaved materials that expand upon allusions in the play and explore elements of its stagecraft.

Offers introduction to academic writing in different disciplines. This title focuses on writing as a diverse and collaborative, rather than rule-bound and goal-oriented, activity, and includes discussions of genre and audience. It contains sections on ethics in research and in disciplines.

English drama between the late fifteenth century and the late sixteenth centuries is as diverse as it is engaging. This anthology brings together eighteen of the most interesting and important dramatic works from the period.

With efforts by feminist scholars and theatre artists to rediscover the work of forgotten women writers, Githa Sowerby and her dramas have secured renewed interest. This Broadview edition provides historical contexts for Sowerby's dramas, and demonstrates the ongoing cogency of these dynamic, insightful, and engaging plays.

Offers an exciting new approach for teaching academic research writing to introductory students by drawing on communication ethics. The book is geared to helping students discover the key ethical practices of dialogue - receptivity and responsivity - as they join a research conversation.

Deeply engaged in women's rights debates and discussions of the 'third sex', Are They Women? is about the lively communities of lesbians across turn-of-the-century Central Europe. It is one of the first lesbian novels written in German - indeed, in any language.

A work that defies conventional categorization; however, one might best capture Dreams unique formal structure by construing it as a series of prose poems or narrative paintings, a starkly modern text inflected by the far older tradition of the medieval dream vision poem.

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins's first serial novel, published in the Boston-based Colored American Magazine (1901-1902). The novel itself features concealed and mistaken identities, dramatic revelations, and extraordinary plot twists.

The Alchemist has long been admired as one of Ben Jonson's best dramas. This edition includes an introduction to the play, offering discussion of its performance history and background information on alchemy. Thorough annotations to the text are also provided, as are contextual materials.

Recent debates over immigration have given rise to a complex spectrum of opinions, attitudes, and emotions. In fact, these debates have been a hallmark of American history. James Pula provides a selection of primary documents that illuminate immigration as one of the defining features of the American social, cultural, and political landscape.

Designed to teach students essential reading and writing skills, using media examples to help explain academic concepts and provide opportunities for practice. Write Here provides examples that are interesting to students, while allowing them to connect to the subject matter on a more personal level.

The Victorian writer George Meredith completed Modern Love, his most famous poem, in the months following his wife's death in 1861. The series of 16-line sonnets (a stanzaic form Meredith invented) depicts isolated scenes in an unhappy marriage as both partners take lovers.

In this 1874 novella, the celebrated British writer of sensation fiction tells the tale of two brothers sentenced to be executed for having committed a murder that never occurred, and of the efforts of the energetic Naomi Colebrook to ferret out the truth and save the two innocents.

This new edition of Homer's epic poem is designed with the needs of undergraduate students in mind. The selections include all the most famous and most frequently taught episodes. The edition features explanatory footnotes, a wide-ranging introduction, and a range of background materials.

Provides an up-to-date and concise introduction to Canada's political institutions, processes, and issues. The text integrates theory, history, Census data, and current affairs to give students an orderly picture of the wide-ranging landscape of Canadian government and politics.

In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation approving the construction of the O'Shaughnessy Dam to inundate the Hetch Hetchy Valley inside Yosemite National Park. This book captures the tensions animating the long-running controversy and places them in their historical context.

This thematic reader offers a selection of expository prose on current and historical issues facing African Americans.

Offers a satirical take on marriage and the bourgeois nuclear family. This new edition offers a fresh translation, an illuminating brief introduction, and a selection of background materials that help to set the play in context.

The titular Roaring Girl of Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker's comedy is Moll Cutpurse, a fictionalized version of a real person, Mary Frith, who attained legendary status in London by flouting gendered dress conventions, illegally performing onstage, and engaging in all sorts of transgressive behaviour.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the many ethical and legal issues that arise in the practice of nursing. Ethical analysis is supplemented with the rigorous discussion of precedents from the American legal system as well as the requirements of professional codes operating at the national and state levels.

The only Platonic dialogue that takes as its central theme the fundamental Socratic question of the good, understood as that which makes for the best or happiest life. Following the translation is an appendix of parallel passages from other Platonic dialogues as well as related material from Aristotle, the Stoics, and Epicurus.

A collection of in-depth case studies from around the world covering all major areas of business ethics. Thirty-six cases are included, with a broad range of topics such as the ethics of entrepreneurship and finance, the challenges that diversity raises for business, and the moral issues involved in selling cannabis.

As George Orwell wrote in 1940, ""Everyone who has ever read When the Sleeper Wakes remembers it."" Graham, the ""sleeper"" of the title, falls into a cataleptic trance in 1897. Graham will survive on life support for 203 years, suddenly waking in 2100.

Traces the history of medicine and medical practice from Ancient Egypt through to the end of the Middle Ages. Featuring nearly one hundred primary documents and images, this book introduces students and scholars to the words and ideas of prominent physicians and humble healers, men and women, from across Europe and the Mediterranean.

An accessible, engaging introduction to philosophical issues falling under six broad themes: reasoning, free will, religious belief, ethics, well-being, and society. Each topic is thoughtfully introduced and discussed in a way that is easily intelligible and relatable yet philosophically rigorous.

"Robert Irvine's edition of Pride and Prejudice is a wonderfully illuminating text of an often misunderstood classic." -- John Richetti, University of Pennsylvania