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Book SynopsisIn all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, the anthology takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors, and includes a wide selection of work by lesser-known writers. The anthology also provides wide-ranging coverage of the worldwide connections of British literature, and it pays attention throughout to issues of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. It includes comprehensive introductions to each period, providing in each case an overview of the historical and cultural as well as the literary background. It features accessible and engaging headnotes for all authors, extensive explanatory annotations, and an unparalleled number of illustrations and contextual materials. Innovative, authoritative and comprehensive, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature has established itself as a leader in the field.
The full anthology comprises six bound volumes, together with an extensive website component; the latter has been edited, annotated, and designed according to the same high standards as the bound book component of the anthology, and is accessible by using the passcode obtained with the purchase of one or more of the bound volumes.
For the third edition of this volume a considerable number of changes have been made. Newly prepared, for example, is a substantial selection from Baldassare Castiglione’s The Courtier, presented in Thomas Hoby’s influential early modern English translation. Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy is another major addition. Also new to the anthology are excerpts from Thomas Dekker’s plague pamphlets. We have considerably expanded our representation of Elizabeth I’s writings and speeches, as well as providing several more cantos from Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene and adding selections from Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia. We have broadened our coverage, too, to include substantial selections of Irish, Gaelic Scottish, and Welsh literature. (Perhaps most notable of the numerous authors in this section are two extraordinary Welsh poets, Dafydd ap Gwilym and Gwerful Mechain.) Mary Sidney Herbert’s writings now appear in the bound book instead of on the companion website. Margaret Cavendish, previously included in volume 3 of the full anthology, will now also be included in this volume; we have added a number of her poems, with an emphasis on those with scientific themes.
The edition features two new Contexts sections: a sampling of “Tudor and Stuart Humor,” and a section on “Levellers, Diggers, Ranters, and Covenanters.” New materials on emblem books and on manuscript culture have also been added to the “Culture: A Portfolio” contexts section.
There are many additions the website component as well—including Thomas Deloney’s Jack of Newbury also published as a stand-alone BABL edition). We are also expanding our online selection of transatlantic material, with the inclusion of writings by John Smith, William Bradford, and Anne Bradstreet.
Trade ReviewComments on the Broadview Anthology of Literature:
“ … sets a new standard by which all other anthologies of British literature will now have to be measured.” — Graham Hammill, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
“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 by Norton and Longman…. This is a very real intellectual, as well as pedagogical, achievement.” — Nicholas Watson, Harvard University
“Forty-five years [after publication], the Norton remains the 800 lb. gorilla in the classroom. But it faces vigorous and growing competition from other anthologies, notably The Longman Anthology of British Literature and The Broadview Anthology of British Literature…. The most recent entry in the field, the Broadview, [is distinguished by its] selections, longer introductions, more visual material, and … Web component.” — The Chronicle of Higher Education
“… I have been using The Broadview Anthology of British Literature for three years now. I love it—and so do my students!” — Martha Stoddard-Holmes, California State University, San Marcos
“After twenty years of teaching British literature from the Norton anthologies, I’m ready to switch to the Broadview. The introductions to each period are key to teaching a survey course, and those in the Broadview seem to me to be both more accessible to students and more detailed in their portraits of each era than are those of the Norton. And Broadview’s selection of authors and texts includes everything I like to teach from the Norton, plus a good deal else that’s of real interest.” — Neil R. Davison, Oregon State University
“Norton’s intros are good; Broadview’s are better, with greater clarity and comprehension, as well as emphasis upon how the language and literature develop, both reacting or responding to and influencing or modifying the cultural, religious/philosophical, political, and socio-economic developments of Britain. The historian and the linguist in me thoroughly enjoyed the flow and word-craftsmanship. If you have not considered the anthology for your courses, I recommend that you do so.” — Robert J. Schmidt, Tarrant County College
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- The Renaissance and the Early Seventeenth Century
- History of the Language and of Print Culture
- John Skelton
- Sir Thomas More
- William Tyndale
- Contexts: Religion and Devotional Life
- Sir Thomas Wyatt
- John Foxe
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
- The Elizabethan Sonnet and Lyric
- Anne Lock
- Literature in Ireland, Gaelic Scotland, and Wales
- The Cornish Ordinalia
- Baldassare Castiglione/Thomas Hoby
- Lady Jane Grey
- Thomas Deloney
- Edmund Spenser
- Sir Philip Sidney
- Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
- Elizabeth I, Queen of England
- Contexts: Culture: A Portfolio
- Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
- King James Vi
- Aemilia Lanyer
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Contexts: Other Lands Other Cultures
- George Peele
- Thomas Kyd
- Francis Bacon
- Robert Southwell
- Christopher Marlowe
- Contexts: Tudor and Stuart Humor
- William Shakespeare
- Contexts: The Theater in Shakespeare's Time
- Thomas Campion
- Thomas Nashe
- Isabella Whitney
- Contexts: "Unconstant Women," "Excellent Women": A Seventeenth Century Debate
- Ben Jonson
- Thomas Dekker
- Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker
- John Donne
- Thomas Coryate
- Robert BurtonJ
- John Webster
- John Smith
- Wahunsonacock (Powhatan)
- Elizabeth Cary (Viscountess Falkland)
- Mary Ward
- Lady Mary Wroth
- Thomas Hobbes
- John Winthrop
- William Bradford
- Contexts: Governance, Obedience, Dominion
- Anne Clifford
- Robert Herrick
- George Herbert
- Thomas Browne
- Roger Williams
- Anne Bradstreet
- Andrew Marvell
- Margaret Cavendish
- Katherine Philips
- Royalist and "Cavalier" Poetry
- Izaak Walton
- John Milton
- Contexts: Levellers, Diggers, Ranters, and Covenanters
- Contexts: Civil War
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Indexes
