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Critical editions: Innovative critical approaches to works of fiction and nonfiction that steer away from the historicist tradition in book editing. Universitas favors editions that look at texts from postcolonial, feminist, queer, and other contemporary perspectives.


Scholarly editions: Modern approaches to editing and annotating classics, to favor an extensive reading, with contextualized information relevant to today’s reader.
The History of Emily Montague
The Piazza Tales
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Dracula: The Postcolonial Edition
The Trail of the Serpent
American Notes for General Circulation
Featured title
Editeb by Cristina Artenie


 


190 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2


8 b&w illus.,


Release Date: Feb 27 2023,


Hardcover, ISBN:9781988963426


Paperback, ISBN:9781988963433


 


True crime non-fiction first published in 1817 about a famous confidence man who eluded law enforcement in both Canada and the United States. Walter Bates was the one who captured this notorious criminal when he was sheriff of King’s County, New Brunswick. Bates conducted interviews with the man who escaped from custody on more than one occasion and with eye witnesses. His memoir, at the time a best selling account, occupies a special place in Canadian writing.
Featured title
Editeb by Henry M. Wallace


 


240 pages, 6 x 9


Hardcover


Release Date:15 Jan 2023


ISBN:9781988963396


Impressions of Theophrastus Such is the last and perhaps the most personal book written by George Eliot. An unconventional counterpart and an edifying conclusion to her novels, it illustrates and interprets the moral history of her times.


Part autobiography, part satire, part social analysis, Impressions takes a hard look at all classes and professions, with a special place reserved to authors. Eliot’s gaze moves from a peaceful, rural England in the first chapters to England as a ruthless colonising power in the last. Written by one of the sharpest minds of the nineteenth century, this is the perfect introduction to the intellectual life of Victorian England.


This is the first contemporary scholarly edition of the novel. It is a tribute to Eliot’s writing and a literary rescue operation.


 
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  • Monographs and collections of essays that engage with issues upfront and that offer ways to understand the world, be it the past or the present.
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UP is an indepedent publisher, peer-reviewed, and employee-owned.  established in 2014 in Montreal, Canada. 
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