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.

Top ?Applicable Courses

English, English Literature

Top ?Features

• Trusted Editorial Apparatus
  

  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.

Top ?Content Summary

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Top ?About the Authors

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.

Carol T. Christ (Ph.D. Yale) is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and President of Smith College.

Deidre Shauna Lynch is Chancellor Jackman Professor and Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto.

Jahan Ramazani (Ph.D. Yale and M.Phil. Oxford) is Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia, previously the Mayo NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor.

Catherine Robson (Ph.D. Berkeley) is Associate Professor of English and Chancellor's Fellow at the University of California, Davis, and a faculty member of the University of California Dickens Project.

Jon Stallworthy (M.A. and B.Litt. Oxford) is Senior Research Fellow at Wolfson College of Oxford University, where he is also Professor of English Literature.

Jack Stillinger (Ph.D. Harvard) is Center for Advanced Study Professor of English at the University of Illinois.

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