The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eighth Edition, Vol. 1
Status: Available Author: Greenblatt, Abrams, David, et al. ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-393-92531-9 Year: 2006 Description: Text / Softcover / / 3072 pages Instructor's Guide/Teacher's Resource: Available Subject: Advanced Placement, English Division: School Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Contact: Lindsay Sutherland
Overview
Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published.
Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies — thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible —The Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six new editors and six seasoned ones. Under the direction of Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor, the editors have reconsidered all aspects of the anthology to make it an even better teaching tool.
Norton Anthologies set the standard for editorial help that is right for undergraduate readers. The Eighth Edition demonstrates why this is so. Through the collaboration of new and seasoned editors, all apparatus have been freshly considered — period introductions and headnotes judiciously recast, thousands of annotations and glosses fine-tuned, timelines and bibliographies carefully updated, and appendixes and maps reconceived and rewritten — all with the goal of making these aids to reading and understanding as helpful as possible.
Complete Works
With each edition, the Norton Anthology has offered a broadened canon without sacrificing the complete works and major writers that teachers want to teach. Complete texts new to the Eighth Edition include the York Crucifixion play; More's Utopia, Johnson's Rasselas, Haywood's Fantomina, Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stoppard's Arcadia, and Friel's Translations. These important additions join Heaney's award-winning translation of Beowulf, Shakespeare's King Lear and Twelfth Night, Milton's Paradise Lost, Behn's Oroonoko, Woolf's A Room of One's Own, and Achebe's Things Fall Apart, among others.
Color Plates
Forty-eight pages of beautiful color plates featuring more than seventy works of art provide students with visual counterpoints to the literary works and further expand students' appreciation of the cultural milieu surrounding the literature. Captions draw attention to important details and cross-references related to literary works in the anthology. In addition to the color plates, black-and-white engravings and illustrations by Hogarth, Blake, and Rossetti provide examples of the hybrid art of the "visual narrative."
Lecture-Length Contextual Clusters
Each literary period includes two clusters of historically or culturally significant writings organized around a theme or topic that illuminates and expands on the literary selections. Eight clusters are entirely new, and all have been reconsidered to make them easier to teach in a lecture or two.
Global Literature in English
Building on the boundary-breaking Seventh Edition, the Eighth Edition reflects the editors' continued commitment to give full voice to global literature in English. Joining such writers as Heaney, Achebe, Rhys, Gordimer, Naipaul, Coetzee, Munro, and Rushdie are seven new writers whose origins range from Bridgetown, Barbados, to Mygore, India, to Toronto, Canada, as a well as new contextual cluster, "Nation and Language," with Brian Friel's powerful Translations as its centerpiece.
Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University.
M. H. Abrams (Founding Editor Emeritus; Ph.D. Harvard) is Professor of English, Emeritus at Cornell University.
Alfred David (Ph.D. Harvard) is Professor of English Emeritus at Indiana University.
Barbara K. Lewalski (Ph.D. Chicago) is William R. Kenan Professor of English and of History and Literature at Harvard University.
Lawrence Lipking (Ph.D. Cornell) is Professor of English and Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University.
George M. Logan (Ph.D. Harvard) is James Cappon Professor of English at Queen's University, Canada, where he is former head of the English Department and winner of the W. J. Barnes Teaching Excellence Award.
Katharine Eisaman Maus (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins) is James Branch Cabell Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
James Noggle (Ph.D. Berkeley) is Associate Professor of English and Whitehead Associate Professor of Critical Thought at Wellesley College.
James Simpson (Ph.D. Cambridge) is Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University and former Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge.
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