The Longman Anthology of British Literature

by David Damrosch, Peter J. Manning (Editor), Susan J. Wolfson (Editor)

The Fourth Edition of The Longman Anthology of British Literature continues its tradition of presenting works in the historical context in which they were written. This fresh approach includes writers from the British Isles, underrepresented female authors, “Perspectives” sectionsthatshed light on the period as a whole and link with immediately surrounding works to help illuminate a theme, “And Its Time” clusters that illuminate a specific cultural moment or a debate to which an author is responding, and “Responses” in which later authors respond to one or more texts from earlier works.

Genres: Fiction, Textbooks, Anthologies, Literature, School, Poetry

2904 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1998

About the author

A past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, David Damrosch has written widely on comparative and world literature from antiquity to the present. His books include The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature (1987), We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University (1995), What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and How to Read World Literature (2008). He is the founding general editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature (2004) and the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009) and co-editor of The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature (2009), The Routledge Companion to World Literature (2011), and Xin fangxiang: bijiao wenxue yu shijie wenxue duben [New Directions: A Reader of Comparative and World Literature], Peking U. P., 2010. He is presently completing a book entitled Comparing the Literatures: What Every Comparatist Needs to Know, and starting a book on the role of global scripts in the formation of national literatures.

Reviews

[Splen · Rating 5 out of 5]

1) BEOWULF [author unkonw], a verse translation by Michael Alexander [p32~]
2) Middle English Lyrics [p550~]
3) LANVAL, by Marie de France [p203~]
4) DREAM OF THE ROOD [unknown clerical author], [p148~]
5) SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, [p219~]
6) CANTERBURY TALES, by Chaucer, [p318~]
7) FAUSTUS, by Christopher Marlowe, [p1110~]
8) SONNETS, by William Shakespeare, [p1203~]
9) THE FLEA, by John Donne, [p1586]
10) PARADISE LOST: Books 1-12, by John Milton, [p1726~]
11) GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, by Jonathan Swift, [p2370~]
12) A MODEST PROPOSAL, by Jonathan Swift, [p2431~]

[C.B. Cook · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some inappropriate stuff, but it is college-level.