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In 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 matters such as race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. The full anthology comprises six bound volumes, together with an extensive website component; the latter is accessible by using the passcode obtained with the purchase of one or more of the bound volumes. Volume 4: The Age of Romanticism offers expansive representation of the era’s poets from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and William Wordsworth to Anna Laetitia Barbauld, James Macpherson, and John Clare. The volume also features a broad sampling of important longer works including Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Castle Rackrent, Lady Susan, The History of Mary Prince, The Giaour, and Hyperion: A Fragment. Key currents in the literature and culture of the period are highlighted in “Contexts” sections addressing such topics as “The French Revolution,” “Gothic Literature,” “Reading, Writing, Publishing,” “The Natural and the Sublime,” and “Slavery and Its Abolition.” A two-volume Concise Edition and a one-volume Compact Edition are also available.

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Comments on The Broadview Anthology of British Literature .. .an exciting achievement ... it sets a new standard by which all other anthologies of British literature will now have to be measured. - Graham Hammill, University of Notre Dame .. .I have been using The Broadview Anthology of British Literature for three years now. I love it--and so do my students! I'll say too that the support for instructors is excellent. - Martha Stoddard-Holmes, University of California, San Marcos .. .an excellent anthology. Good selections (including some nice surprises), just the right level of annotation, affordable--and a hit with my students. I will definitely use it again. - Ira Nadel, University of British Columbia With the publication of the 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. 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

Comments on The Broadview Anthology of British Literature .. .an exciting achievement ... it sets a new standard by which all other anthologies of British literature will now have to be measured. - Graham Hammill, University of Notre Dame .. .I have been using The Broadview Anthology of British Literature for three years now. I love it--and so do my students! I'll say too that the support for instructors is excellent. - Martha Stoddard-Holmes, University of California, San Marcos .. .an excellent anthology. Good selections (including some nice surprises), just the right level of annotation, affordable--and a hit with my students. I will definitely use it again. - Ira Nadel, University of British Columbia With the publication of the 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. 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

...an exciting achievement ... it sets a new standard by which all other anthologies of British literature will now have to be measured. - Graham Hammill, University of Notre Dame ...I have been using The Broadview Anthology of British Literature for three years now. I love it-and so do my students! I'll say too that the support for instructors is excellent. - Martha Stoddard-Holmes, University of California, San Marcos ...an excellent anthology. Good selections (including some nice surprises), just the right level of annotation, affordable-and a hit with my students. I will definitely use it again. - Ira Nadel, University of British Columbia With the publication of the 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. 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

Since the publication of the first edition in 2006, the Broadview Age of Romanticism has outstripped all competitors in its cultural richness and array of conceptual offerings. This new third edition extends the lead in that area, with exciting new entries and course-ready units that help reframe key topics.... The Broadview provides great access to texts (thanks for The Giaour and Castle Rackrent!), but more than that, it is the kind of anthology that may shape innovative and necessary new thinking about the role played by Romantic literary, cultural, and material production at the onset of our contemporary world moment. -- Eric Lindstrom, University of Vermont I love the changes to the third edition! Adding excerpts from Macpherson's Poems of Ossian allows students to engage with one of the least accessible but most immediately influential texts of the Romantic era; likewise, adding Byron's The Giaour gives students a clearer sense of how the most charismatic Romantic poet established his reputation for dashing, exotic glamor. -- Evan Gottlieb, Oregon State University The new Broadview Anthology of British Literature: The Age of Romanticism includes a range of rich contextual materials, including sections devoted to print culture, the gothic, slavery, and the sublime. These materials ... invite students to see beyond the anthology format and understand literature's interactions with technology, politics, and the environment. The editors have judiciously attended to the significant contributions of Irish and Scottish authors.... In addition, the anthology and the accompanying website document literature's role in shaping and critiquing the British Empire. -- JoEllen DeLucia, Central Michigan University .. . Finally, instructors and students of British Romanticism have an anthology that addresses our needs in the 21st century. There is a fine balance between male and female writers, and the plethora of ancillary material that is available through the text's website is unparalleled. The affordable price makes the Broadview the natural choice for instructors; I am excited to use it my classroom. -- Peter Francev, Victor Valley College

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General Editors: Joseph Black, University of Massachusetts Kate Flint, University of Southern California Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta Wendy Lee, New York University Don LePan, Broadview Press Roy Liuzza, University of Tennessee Jerome J. McGann, University of Virginia Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College Jason R. Rudy, University of Maryland, College Park Claire Waters, University of California, Davis Associate General Editors: Leonard Conolly, Trent University Barry V. Qualls, Rutgers University

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