The Norton Anthology of English Literature: 2 8th Edition by Stephen Greenblatt (PDF)

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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-12-11 Pages: 3052 Language: English Publisher: WW Norton & Company A best-seller for more than forty years. this is the survey of English literature 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 Seamus Heaneys translation of Beowulf to global twentieth-century classics. Over 75 colour plates 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.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, he is the author of eleven books, including Tyrant, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story that Created Us,The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (winner of the 2011 National Book Award and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize); Shakespeare’s Freedom; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World; Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture; and Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. He has edited seven collections of criticism, including Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto, and is a founding coeditor of the journal Representations. His honors include the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize, for both Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England and The Swerve, the Sapegno Prize, the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, the Wilbur Cross Medal from the Yale University Graduate School, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, the Erasmus Institute Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Berkeley. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.Carol T. Christ (Ph.D. Yale) is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and President of Smith College. She is the author of The Finer Optic: The Aesthetic of Particularity and Victorian Poetry and Victorian and Modern Poetics and editor of the Norton Critical Edition of The Mill on the Floss and, with John Jordan, Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination. She is the recipient of an NEH Fellowship and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Deidre Shauna Lynch is Chancellor Jackman Professor and Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Economy of Character, which was awarded the MLA’s Prize for a First Book, and editor of Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees and, with William B. Warner, Cultural Institutions of the Novel. She is also an editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Humanities Center and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, of the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and of the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools’ Graduate Faculty Teaching Award.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. He is the author of Transnational Poetics, which won the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, and of Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English and Yeats and the Poetry of Death: Elegy, Self-Elegy, and the Sublime. He is coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Ramazani is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a Rhodes Scholarship, and the William Riley Parker Prize of the Modern Language Association.Catherine Robson (Ph.D. UC Berkeley) is Associate Professor of English at New York University and a faculty member of the Dickens Project. She is the author of Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman and Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem (forthcoming), and has received fellowships from the NEH, the Guggenheim Foundation, the University of California, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐This anthology has almost everything that an English major could desire to read of British literature from the 18th to 20th century. I think the editors at Norton did a very good job of choosing what to include in this volume. Everything you’d expect to see is here (Wordsworth, Tennyson, Wilde, Shelley, etc.) and some additional lesser-known works round out this anthology. It is an indispensable resource for passionate undergrads and grad students.The typeface is small, the pages are translucently thin, and the book is very heavy. These are all drawbacks to this text, but I believe it’s worth it for the tremendous amount and variety of material it contains.If you plan to keep this book for a long time (and not just use it for one semester), I highly recommend getting the hardcover edition. Considering how heavy and fat the book is, the paperback is very flimsy. Also, if this is a required text for one class and you’re pretty sure you’ll never need it again afterward, don’t buy it. Much of the material in this book is public domain and can be found online for free.

⭐I studied this book back in one of my English lit classes and unfortunately sold it back to the bookstore when I should’ve kept it. It took me approximately 12 years to locate and I am very happy with the purchase. It covers a lot of the romantic era but unfortunately I haven’t worked my way through the entire book. I recommend searching for the title to get more of a synapse on the book. In my opinion it is a must-have for any English loving studious mind, whether you’re a teacher or not.

⭐The binding was somewhat broken when I got it and it didn’t take long for it to fall apart into 2 pieces. By the end of the semester it was in 3 pieces and I had to use a rubber band to keep it together. So I think the book’s condition wasn’t rated quite right however, it was one of the lowest priced books at the time I bought it.

⭐Norton is the best provider of anthologies in my opinion. there are many stories and poems, so you can.t pick “complex” for a description of the characters, when there are many stories with many different characters.

⭐Great over view of English literature from the Romantics to now. It contains many well-known and often-reference texts. If you are looking for in-depth discussion of any one author, then this is not the book for you. It will give you a solid, base understanding of literature movements and the key figures in them.

⭐Can you believe I purchased this required textbook as a hardcover version for less than the paperback. This is a large book so having the extra support of a hardcover is great. It truly doesn’t add much weight because the book is already heavy. Buying textbooks on Amazon is easy and you save lots of money. Most of the time I can purchase a new edition much cheaper than my college bookstore’s (Follett) used price.

⭐I bougth this book out of necessity, because is obligated for my English class this semester. It turn out to be pretty good. It is all poetry from the romantic period to our time. It has great writers, so as T. S. Eliot and more. I got to admmit it thought it will be dull but I was wrong. It is a great book. One thing is for sure, half the poems that I read so far are all related to death, for some reason.

⭐Every Norton collection is predictable, nostalgic, slow and one-dimensional. That is what they are supposed to be, and that is why they are so useful, so helpful and so worthwhile–but unless you are buying them for a class, buy them second-hand.

⭐This book is VERY heavy (almost annoyingly so), so hard to carry in a shoulder bag, but has been very useful to be as an English student. I would definitely recommend buying it if you need it for your course instead of borrowing it from the library

⭐great

⭐A must have for a literature fan!

⭐Great quality, great price, and quick delivery. Bought from RevivalBooks previously, and delivery was slow. This time, no such problem! Quality is always as described, if not better.

⭐Excellent

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