Book Description

The Norton Anthology of English Literature has been thoroughly re- shaped and expanded to take account of the needs of students and their professors at the dawn of the third millennium. The seventh edition's thoroughly revised text incorporates recent scholarly developments while retaining the elements that have made the book a classic. New features include a broader representation of women writers of all historical periods such as Marie de France, Frances Burney, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Gaskell and Eavan Boland; a richer treatment of post-Colonial writers such as Jean Rhys, Chinua Achebe, V.S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Les Murray, Salman Rushdie, J.M. Coetzee and Paul Muldoon; and a new set of cultural and thematic "Issues" such as "The Literature of the Sacred", "The Science of Self and World", "Slavery and Freedom" "Revolution, Rights and Liberation" and "The Rise and Fall of Empire". The period introductions, author headnotes, annotations and bibliographies have been thoroughly revised and many have been completely rewritten for the new edition. Capping it all is Seamus Heaney's wonderful new verse translation of Beowulf which has been eagerly awaited.

Synopsis

The Sixth Edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature continues to be the indispensable anthology. Like its predecessors, the Sixth 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, apparatus fully revised to reflect today's scholarship, and a new larger trim size make the Sixth Edition the choice for breadth, depth, and quality.

The Editors:

M. H. Abrams, General Editor, Emeritus, Cornell University

E. Talbot Donaldson, Late of Indiana University

Alfred David, Emeritus, Indiana University

Hallett Smith, Formerly with The Huntington Library

Barbara K. Lewalski, Harvard University

Robert M. Adams, Late of University of California, Los Angeles

George M. Logan, Queen's University

Samuel Holt Monk, Late of the University of Minnesota

Lawrence Lipking, Northwestern University

Jack Stillinger, University of Illinois

George H. Ford, Late of the University of Rochester

Carol T. Christ, University of California at Berkeley

David Daiches, Emeritus, University of Sussex

Jon Stallworthy, Oxford University

Book Dimension

length: (cm)23.3 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)14.1