Longman Anthology of British Literature, The, Volume 1

by David Damrosch, Kevin Dettmar, Christopher Baswell

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.

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

2853 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.