The Norton Anthology of English Literature 9th Edition by M H Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt ISBN 0393913007 9780393913002

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ISBN 13: 9780393913002
Author: M H Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt

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The Norton Anthology of English Literature 9th Table of contents:

Volume A: The Middle Ages

• General Introduction: The Middle Ages
  • (An extensive essay on the historical, cultural, linguistic, and literary contexts of the period, including Old English, Middle English, and the transition between them.)
  • Major literary movements and forms (e.g., epic, lyric, romance, morality play, religious prose).
• Old English Period (c. 450-1066)
  • Selections from:
    • Beowulf (excerpt or full poem)
    • “Caedmon’s Hymn”
    • “The Dream of the Rood”
    • Riddles
    • “The Wanderer,” “The Seafarer” (Elegiac poems)
    • Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People (excerpts)
    • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (excerpts)
• Middle English Period (c. 1066-1485)
  • Selections from:
    • Marie de France, Lanval
    • Lyric Poems (various anonymous examples)
    • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
    • Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (Prologue, Miller’s Tale, Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, Nun’s Priest’s Tale, Pardoner’s Tale, etc.)
    • William Langland, Piers Plowman (excerpts)
    • Julian of Norwich, A Book of Showings (excerpts)
    • Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe (excerpts)
    • Morality plays (e.g., Everyman)
    • Ballads
  • Contexts sections often included:
    • The Norman Conquest
    • Medieval Society and Culture
    • Religion and Pilgrimage
    • Chivalry and Romance

Volume B: The Sixteenth Century / The Early Seventeenth Century

• General Introduction: The Sixteenth Century
  • (Historical, cultural, and literary overview of the Tudor period, Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, and the development of the English language and literature.)
• Selections from:
  • Sir Thomas More, Utopia (excerpts)
  • Sir Thomas Wyatt
  • Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
  • Queen Elizabeth I (speeches, poems)
  • Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, The Defence of Poesy (excerpts)
  • Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (selections), Sonnets
  • Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
  • William Shakespeare, Sonnets, and typically one or two plays (e.g., Twelfth Night, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello – often one tragedy and one comedy/romance)
• General Introduction: The Early Seventeenth Century
  • (Overview of the Jacobean and Caroline periods, the rise of Puritanism, the English Civil War, and changes in literary style.)
• Selections from:
  • John Donne (Songs and Sonnets, Holy Sonnets)
  • Ben Jonson (lyrics, short poems)
  • Aemilia Lanyer
  • George Herbert
  • Robert Herrick
  • Andrew Marvell
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost (selections), selected shorter poems (e.g., “Lycidas,” sonnets)
• Contexts sections often included:
  • The English Reformation
  • Exploration and Empire
  • The Renaissance Court
  • Science and Philosophy
  • Civil War and Revolution

Volume C: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century / The Romantic Period

• General Introduction: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
  • (Overview of the Restoration, Augustan Age, and Age of Sensibility; emphasis on wit, satire, reason, the rise of the novel, and Enlightenment thought.)
• Selections from:
  • John Dryden
  • Aphra Behn
  • Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (selections), A Modest Proposal
  • Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, An Essay on Man (excerpts)
  • Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (excerpts)
  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  • Samuel Johnson (essays, Rasselas excerpts)
  • Thomas Gray
  • Oliver Goldsmith
  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative (excerpts)
• General Introduction: The Romantic Period
  • (Historical and literary overview of the period of revolution, individualism, nature, emotion, and the imagination.)
• Selections from:
  • William Blake (Songs of Innocence and Experience, prophetic books excerpts)
  • William Wordsworth (Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude excerpts, shorter poems)
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge (“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” “Kubla Khan,” Biographia Literaria excerpts)
  • Lord Byron (Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Don Juan excerpts, shorter poems)
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley (“Ode to the West Wind,” “To a Skylark,” Prometheus Unbound excerpts)
  • John Keats (Odes, sonnets)
  • Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility (excerpts or full novel depending on overall anthology length)
  • Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (excerpts or full novel)
• Contexts sections often included:
  • The Glorious Revolution
  • Science and Industry
  • The Rise of Empire
  • The French Revolution and its aftermath
  • The Picturesque and the Sublime

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