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A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, this is the classic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.
With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamas Heaney's award-winning translation of Beowulf, Milton's Paradise Lost, and More's Utopia to the great poets and prose writers of the nineteenth century—Blake and Austen, Wordsworth and Byron, Tennyson and Barrett Browning—to twentieth-century classics of a truly global English literature—Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and Friel's Translations, to name but a few. Color plates—over 75 in all—and thematic clusters of brief and historically significant texts bring to life the cultural concerns of each period. Concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines, and selected bibliographies help readers understand and enjoy the rich diversity of English literature.
Customer Reviews:
One big book........2007-09-21
There seems to be nothing wrong or displeasing about this book aside from its overall dimensions. The stories are assembled well. There is even a nice history about the authors in some instances. Like I said previous, its one gigantic book. I think it would have been perfect to maybe cut it in half, labling them "volume 1a" and "volume 1b". Oh well, its still a pretty good book.
30% saved.......2007-09-18
I saved at least 30% on this book compaird to the schools' bookstore asking price.
What can I say..........2007-08-26
This is the definitive collection of what is widely regarded as the best early English literature. How can this not get a five? Beowulf to Milton.
A Steal ..........2007-07-03
No doubt, this is an excellent value ... although if you've studied Eng Lit at all, there will obviously be duplicates of your past experience. Personally, I've found Norton a much more reliable 'Name' than the more famous Oxford and Cambridge brands, that is if you're interested in actually 'thinking' v. tenure.
Norton Anthology 8th Ed........2007-02-12
The 8th Edition of the Norton Anthology was just what I expected and was the perfect addition to my educational library.
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This is the first new full-scale anthology of Restoration and eighteenth-century drama in over sixty years. Concentrating on plays from the heyday of 1660-1737, it focuses especially on Restoration drama proper (1660-1688) and Revolution drama (1689-1714), with a smaller selection of plays from the early Georgian period (1715-1737) and a glimpse at the later Georgian period's "laughing comedy" (1770s and 80s). It includes nine sub-genres (heroic romance, political tragedy, personal tragedy, tragicomic romance, social comedy, subversive comedy, corrective satire, menippean satire, and laughing comedy), with the preponderance of exposure given to the jewel of this theatre, its comedy. The core canonical plays from the era - from Dryden's 'All for Love' and Behn's 'The Rover' to Congreve's 'The Way of the World' and Sheridan's 'School for Scandal' - are all here, but so are a remarkably wide range of non-canonical works. There are many more plays by women than in any previous general anthology of the drama of the period. Also included are a number of works from the neglected 1660s, whose comedies feature delightful, subversive, levelling folk elements. In all there are forty-one plays; each is fully annotated and prefaced with an historical introduction. Also included are a general introduction, head-notes for each genre, and a glossary.
Customer Reviews:
A broad selection of Restoration drama.......2006-03-07
This selection consists of nearly 2,000 pages of some of the best drama of the English Restoration, through the Glorious Revolution, and into the Georgian Period. The editors break up the works into categories, which are not always appropriate and are sometimes biased. The bulk of the book, however, consists of the works themselves along with brief introductions to the author and the play. The following plays are included in this selection:
"The History of Henry the Fifth" by Roger Boyle, First Earl of Orrery
"Tamerlane" by Nicholas Rowe
"Lucius, The First Christian King of Britain" by Delarivier Manley
"The Unhappy Favorite" by John Banks
"Lucius Junius Brutus" by Nathanial Lee
"Cato" by Joseph Addison
"All of Love" by John Dryden
"The Fair Penitent" by Nicholas Rowe
"The London Merchant" by George Lillo
"Marriage a la Mode" by John Dryden
"Oroonoko" by Thomas Southerne
"The Conscious Lovers" by Richard Steele
"The Committee" by Sir Robert Howard
"The Man of Mode" by George Etherege
"The Rover" by Aphra Behn
"City Politics" by John Crowne
"Love's Last Shift" by Colley Cibber
"The Way of the World" by William Congreve
"The Beau Defeated" by Mary Pix
"Love at a Loss" by Catharine Trotter
"A Bold Stroke for a Wife" by Susanna Centlivre
"The Old Troop" by John Lacy
"The Careless Lovers" by Edwards Ravenscroft
"The Country Wife" by William Wycherley
"Friendship in Fashion" by Thomas Otway
"A True Widow" by Thomas Shadwell
"Sir Anthony Love" by Thomas Southerne
"The Beaux' Stratagem" by George Farquhar
"The Beggar's Opera" by John Gay
"The Princess of Cleves" by Nathanial Lee
"The Lucky Chance" by Aphra Behn
"The Relapse" by John Vanbrugh
"Polly" by John Gay
"The Rump" by John Tatham
"A Fond Husband" by Thomas Durfey
"Venice Preserved" by Thomas Otway
"Amphitryon" by John Dryden
"The Author's Farce" by Henry Fielding
"The Belle's Stratagem" by Hannah Cowley
"She Stoops to Conquer" by Oliver Goldsmith
"The School for Scandal" by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I recommend this book to Restoration and early eighteenth-century students. Theater troupes looking for unique plays may find this collection useful as well.
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With adoptions at over 1,300 colleges and universities in its first semester; the Seventh Edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature continues to be the indispensable anthology. Like its predecessors, the Seventh Edition offers the best in English literature from the classic to the contemporary in a readable, teachable format. More selections by women and twentieth-century writers, a richer offering of contextual writings and apparatus fully revised to reflect today's scholarship make the Seventh Edition the choice for breadth, depth, and quality.
For the first time ever, the acclaimed Norton Anthology of English Literature is available in six separate volumes, each of which cover a specific period of English lit and focus on the wide range of writers and literature, with full annotation and commentary. Adapted unabridged from the full Norton Anthology, this volume is ideal for focused study or specific coursework in the period.
Customer Reviews:
Informative, but not what I expected........2006-03-25
I found this book to be quite useful for studying the 18th century, but it is not what I expected. I am more familiar with the Prentice Hall version of this type of textbook. I did like that this book was a little easier to work with because of its size.
The book did include the most relevant authors of the period, and the information on the works was plentiful. The book serves the purpose, for sure.
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Volume 1C: The Restoration and the 18th Century of The Longman Anthology of British Literature is a comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged anthology that offers a rich selection of major British authors throughout the Restoration and the 18th Century. The book includes Perspectives, Companion Readings, and "and Its Time" sections which show how major literary writings interrelate with and respond to various social, historical, and cultural events of Great Britain in the 18th Century. With a generous representation of fiction, drama, and poetry, the second edition includes major additions of important works and an expanded illustration program. Fresh and up-to-date introductions and notes are written by an editorial team whose members are all actively engaged in teaching and in current scholarship, and illustrations show both artistic and cultural developments of the period. For those interested in British Literature of the Restoration and 18th Century.
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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.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Resource.......2007-03-09
I ordered this book for my literature studies and it is an excellent resource or English poetry, prose and literature. Not only was it more economical to order from Amazon, but it came sooner than expected. If you want one of the best companions for lit, this it the one.
A Great Compilation.......2006-11-23
This set contains many essential pre-romanticism texts that most college British literature classes cover. It includes many valuable works, including the full text of Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, excerpts from The Book of Margery Kempe, Utopia, Donne's Holy Sonnets, Astrophil & Stella, King Lear, Gulliver's Travels and much, much more. The printing is beautiful and the binding is very high quality. I bought this book for college and, as a teacher and grad student I have come back to it many times for material or just for enjoyable reading.
Book Description
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.
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The Longman Anthology of British Literature is the most comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged book on the market. Approaching literature from a broad cultural perspective, the anthology offers a rich selection of fiction, drama, and poetry by major British authors. The second edition of The Longman Anthology of British Literature includes key major additions of important works, an expanded illustration program, and new translation of Beowulf. Fresh and up-to-date introductions and notes are written by an editorial team whose members are all actively engaged in teaching and in current scholarship, and one hundred illustrations show both artistic and cultural developments from the medieval period through the 18th Century. Perspectives sections shed light on individual periods, but are also positioned to link with surrounding works. Companion readings provide additional context for and special insight into key readings.
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The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, Concise Edition, with twenty-one plays, is half the length of the full anthology without compromising its breadth. Concentrating on plays from the heyday of 1660-1737, it focuses on Restoration drama proper and Revolution drama, with a selection from the early Georgian period and the later Georgian period's "laughing comedy." Seven of the nine sub-genres (personal tragedy, tragicomic romance, social comedy, subversive comedy, corrective satire, menippean satire, and laughing comedy) of the full anthology are represented, with the preponderance of exposure given to the jewel of this theatre, its comedy.
Each play is fully annotated and prefaced with an historical introduction. Also included are a general introduction, a statement of procedures, and a glossary.
Customer Reviews:
Superb Resource.......2007-01-03
This new anthology is extremely valuable in its inclusion of not only the canonized texts from the period but other, more difficult to obtain, texts. Among the 41 full texts are expected plays by Dryden, Lillo, Behn, Sheridan, etc., but also historically important works such as Boyle's THE HISTORY OF HENRY THE FIFTH,plays by female authors including Pix, Trotter, Centlivre, and Cowley, and secondary texts by major authors incoluding Gay's POLLY,
Dryden's AMPHITRYON, and Behn's THE LUCKY CHANCE. Valuable organizational charts and introductions add to the usefulness. It is a joy to have all of these works in one volume.
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Women performers and writers gained unprecedented access to the stage with the restoration of Charles II to the English throne in 1660. This volume gathers the best work of professional female dramatists of the period: The Feigned Courtesans (1679) by Aphra Behn, She Ventures and He Wins (1695) by "Ariadne," The Beau Defeated (1700) by Mary Pix, The Basset Table (1705) and The Busybody (1709) by Susanna Centlivre.
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Wonderful reading.......2007-05-08
I got this book for an English Romanticism class, and apart from assigned readings by the teacher, the book also has biographies of the poets and writers -- really interesting read!
A great anthology!.......2007-02-28
I'm using the Longman Anthology of the Romantics and their Contemporaries (3d edition) for the first time in my 3d-year Romantics course (enrolment 88 and counting!) -- I would like to thank the editors for doing a fantastic job -- the introductory essay (pp. 3-29) is truly unparallelled for clarity, scope, and intelligence -- absolutely filled to the brim with great, challenging ideas. The headnotes provide a meaningful, detailed historical background. Excellent, well annotated selections -- the notes are great too -- not condescending, not entirely ruled by the editors' obsessions, finely articulated. What a sane, sensible, well balanced, erudite anthology! Congratulations and thank you !
Good Book.......2006-11-10
I had this book for a class, it is good and explains the periods and some major authors
Not very good.......2003-12-04
I'm not a huge fan of Medieval literature, and perhaps this book is to blame. I think I've been spoiled by the Norton and Bevington anthologies I've used in other classes, because this was truly a let-down. If you're a prof looking for a good book to use for class, have your students spend the extra twenty-spot and get a Norton.
dont get me started.......2003-02-12
otherwise its a great collection of texts. 3 books too.
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