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The 20th Century Queer American History Reader is an innovative resource designed to guide scholars, students, and enthusiasts through the field of queer studies. This reader serves as a guide to exploring both queer history and the ongoing narrative of LGBTQ+ experiences. At the heart of this reader is a curated collection of detailed guides to various queer archives throughout the United States and the greater Boston area. These summaries provide essential insights into each archive's holdings, special collections, and unique materials, making it easier to locate and access pivotal documents and artifacts that chronicle the queer community's history. Accompanying this guide is a queer history timeline. This feature allows users to highlight the critical periods, events and milestones that have shaped the queer movement. From the early days of advocacy to recent legislative victories and cultural achievements, the timeline offers a structured and engaging way to understand the evolution of queer rights and identities. Moreover, 20th Century Queer American History Reader includes an extensive compilation of secondary sources encompassing a wide array of scholarly works and interpretations of queer history.

The 19th Century British novel continues to delight readers and populate syllabi of survey courses as well as specialized electives. Because there is such a tremendous volume of literature that emerged from England during this century, this volume offers a guided, chronological tour through the century, featuring authors including Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, and many more. This volume is meant to provide a reading list for students and educators interested in these texts, including excerpts, images (some of which are taken from the novels themselves), external online resources, and appendices. In addition, this volume features links to essays by 19th century authors contemplating their own work and position in their moment, as well as suggested reading lists for contemporary scholarship on the novel broadly construed. As an educational resource, this volume contains many of the tools and texts that are important for new readers of the 19th century British novel as well as educators building survey courses or specialized electives with an eye towards accessibility and convenience.

Conventional literary anthologies are often cost prohibitive and contain far more material than the average student needs for a given class, and first-time instructors teaching from anthologies may find the variety and quantity of material overwhelming. The purpose of this volume is to provide a curated set of abstracts from canonical texts significant to global anglophone modernisms and global modernities so that students might approach these significant literary and cultural movements more readily. Each excerpt is framed with a short introduction meant to get students up to speed before reading the primary text, and each section, divided by prose and poetry and by period, provides a similar short introduction. In addition to these excerpts, links to external web repositories are included that offer students the full text of significant literary documents for further reading or for courses that require more substantial engagement with one or more of the modernist texts in the reader. Through this more easily accessible format, and by the inclusion of the appendices and supplementary secondary readings, students might better approach the nuance and difficulty of the texts contained within the reader.