Norton Anth of English Literature 8e Volume 2 pa (ISBN=9780393925326)

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　　A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, this is the classic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.
　　With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens its representation of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamas Heaney's award-winning translation of Beowulf, Milton's Paradise Lost, and More's Utopia to the great poets and prose writers of the nineteenth century—Blake and Austen, Wordsworth and Byron, Tennyson and Barrett Browning—to twentieth-century classics of a truly global English literature—Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and Friel's Translations, to name but a few. Color plates—over 75 in all—and thematic clusters of brief and historically significant texts bring to life the cultural concerns of each period. Concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines, and selected bibliographies help readers understand and enjoy the rich diversity of English literature.
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　　Stephen Greenblatt
　　Stephen Greenblatt born November 7, 1943, is an award-winning literary critic, theorist and scholar. Greenblatt is regarded by many as the “father” of new historicism, a set of critical practices that he often refers to as "cultural poetics;" his works have been highly influential since the early 1980s when he introduced the term. Greenblatt has written and edited numerous books and articles relevant to new historicism, the study of culture, Renaissance studies and Shakespeare studies and is considered to be an expert in these fields. He is also co-founder of the literary-cultural journal Representations, which often publishes articles by new historicists. Educated at Yale University and Pembroke College, Greenblatt was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley for 28 years before taking his current position at Harvard University. He has guest lectured at universities around the world. Greenblatt shares many anecdotes about his academic and non-academic experiences in interviews and in his writing.