Description:
Guided by the latest scholarship, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature is acclaimed for its inclusiveness and its deep attention to literature's historical and cultural contexts. The Broadview is structured to meet the needs of today's students, with an unparalleled selection of illustrations and contextual materials, accessible and engaging introductions, and full explanatory annotations.
The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Concise Edition, Volumes A and B offers breadth and depth of coverage for survey courses, providing a thoughtful balance of well-established canonical authors and a diverse array of lesser-known works. It is a more comprehensive alternative to the Compact Edition, Volumes A and B, which covers the same periods but is half the length.
All Broadview Anthology of British Literature volumes include a substantial website component, greatly expanding the range of texts that are available to teach. Many longer works are also available from the publisher in separate volumes that may at the instructor's request be bundled together with this anthology.
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Comments on the The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Concise Edition, Volume B
"[Broadview's anthology] responds to the changing expectations of the contemporary classroom, offering a nice balance between print and online sources, and between the literary canon and diversity. ... The coverage is excellent, all literary genres are amply represented, and the selections are judicious. ... This anthology should prove to be an invaluable resource for teachers and students alike." -- Jonathan Bolton, Auburn University
Comments on The Broadview Anthology of British 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
"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