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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 1 (Second Edition): The Medieval Period

The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 1 (Second Edition): The Medieval Period

by Leonard Conolly (Editor), Anne Lake Prescott (Editor), Claire Waters (Editor), Don Lepan (Editor), Claire Waters (Editor), Leonard Conolly (Editor), Anne Lake Prescott (Editor), Kate Flint (Editor), Jerome J. McGann (Editor), Isobel Grundy (Editor), Joseph Black (Editor), Roy Liuzza (Editor), Barry V. Qualls (Editor)

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    Paperback 2009

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Synopsis

This second edition of the very popular Broadview Anthology of British Literature: The Medieval Period offers expanded selections from authors such as Chaucer and Langland and also includes material from new authors such as Gower. The second edition of volume one of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature will include considerably more of Langland's Pier's Plowman than appears in the first edition, and will include for the first time the work of John Gower. Also new to the bound book component of the anthology will be the York Crucifixion Play, and additional work by Chaucer. With this volume as with the others, material continues to be added on an ongoing basis to the website component of the anthology. The website component allows access to even more works than the already generous selection in the bound volume. This title provides works from both canonical and lesser known authors. It is competitively priced. It includes valuable introductory and contextual material.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 920
 Edition: 2nd Revised Edition
 Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 01 Jun 2009
ISBN 10: 155111965X
ISBN 13: 9781551119656

Media Reviews
The Broadview Anthology of British Literature is a marvellously rich anthology with many complete, well-annotated works, a better representation of important figures than any of its competitors, fascinating 'cultural portfolios, ' real attention to book- and print-culture, and great examples of transatlantic and postcolonialist literatures. ELIZABETH HODGSON, University of British Columbia
Broadview's recent Anthology of British Literature is an exciting achievement. Broadview has accomplished what no other anthology to date has been able to do. In its selection of materials, the anthology successfully integrates significant but only recently acknowledged works alongside more familiar greats. Its introductory essays and useful appendices successfully reflect current scholarship while remaining student centred. And its generous, wide-ranging contextualizing material will allow instructors to teach surveys of British literature with strong and serious attention to material culture. With an impressive selection of literary works, an equally impressive collection of visual images, and an exemplary emphasis on print culture and history of the language, The Broadview Anthology [...] sets a new standard by which all other anthologies of British Literature will now have to be measured. GRAHAM HAMMILL, University of Buffalo, SUNY
Broadview has done an exquisite job in assembling this exceptional and exhaustive collection. Very nice indeed! NAT HARDY, Rogers State University
With the publication of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, teachers and students in survey and upper-level undergraduate courses have a compelling alternative to the established anthologies from Norton and Longman. Having adopted the first two volumes for an early period survey course last year, I had no hesitation in repeating the experience this year. The medieval volume, in particular, is superb, with its generous representation of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman literary culture, as well as its growing collection of texts from the too little-known fifteenth century. This is a very real intellectual, as well as pedagogical, achievement. Nicholas Watson, Harvard University
The simple fact is that a major work of student-centered scholarship has arrived in the field of English studies, and The Broadview Anthology of British Literature is no mere pretender to the throne long held by the Norton: it is the new standard. RICHARD NORDQUIST, Director of Liberal Studies, Armstrong Atlantic State University
Author Bio
Two of the general editors have volume 1 as their particular focus. Roy Liuzza is a professor in the English Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Claire Waters is an associate professor in the English Department at the University of California, Davis.