The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume Two
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Book Description
The Longman Anthology of British Literature is the first new anthology of British literature to appear in over 25 years. A major work of scholarship, it brings together an extraordinary collection of writings spanning some 1300 years of literary history from the Middle Ages to the present. Volume Two covers The Romantics and Their Contemporaries, The Victorian Age, and The Twentieth Century. The text aims to give a less monumental, more contextualized presentation of British literature. The traditional canonical writers are fully represented, with coverage of such central figures as Wordsworth, Conrad, and Joyce. But alongside these are numerous other literary voices, especially those of women. The most distinctive feature of the anthology are groupings of texts that allow contemporary social, political, and literary controversies to unfold in the voices of those who participated in them, thus enabling the great works of British literature to be taught in the context of their times.
From the Author
Too often, debate in the "culture wars" of recent years have assumed that there is an essential conflict between study of classics of earlier centuries and contemporary, multicultural writings. The Longman Anthology of British Literature shows that either/or choices do not need to be made: British literary culture has always been characterized by a dynamic mix of cultures -- English, Irish, Welsh, and Scottish. The great classics of British literature have come out of a rich cultural ferment that has always included popular as well as elite productions, women's writing as well as men's, secular as well as religious writing, regional as well as metropolitan perspectives, here seriously represented for the first time in a major anthology.
The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume Two
The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume Two,David Damrosch,Christopher Baswell,Clare Carroll,Kevin J. H. Dettmar,Heather Henderson,Longman Publishing Group,0321011740,19th Century English Literature,20th Century English Literature,Anthologies (multiple authors),English literature,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,General,Great Britain,Literary Criticism,Literary collections,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics
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