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.
作者简介:
Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University Yale Ph.D. Author of nine books, including Will inthe World: How
Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, Hamlet in Purgatory, Practicing New Historicism, Marvelous Possessions.The Wonder of the New World, and Learning to Curse: Essays in Earlv Modern Culture. Editor of six collections of criticism, including Redrawing the Boundaries.-The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies, with
Giles Gunn. Founding coeditor of the journal Representations. Received the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize for Shakespearean Negotiattion.The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England. Received Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon
Foundation and the Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California,Berkeley. General Editor of The Norton Shakespeare,Based on the Oxford Edition. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
PREFACE TO THE EIGHTH EDITION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Middle Ages(to ca.–1830)
Introduction
Timeline
ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE
ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE
MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT(1375-1400)
WILLIAM LANGLAND(1330-1387)
WILLAM LANGLAND
MIDDLE ENGLISH INCARNATION AND CRUCIFIXION LYRICS
JULIAN OF NORWICH(1342-1416)
MARGERY KEMPE(1373-1438)
THE YORK PLAY OF THE CRUCIFIXION(1425)
MYSTERY PLAYS
MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS
SIR THOMAS MALORY(1405-1471)
ROBERT HENRYSON(1425-1500)
EVERYMAN(1485)
THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY(1485-1603)
INTRODUCTION
TIMELINE
JOHNSKELTON(1460-1529)
SIR THOMAS MORE(1478-1535)
SIR THOMAS WYATT THE ELDER(1503-1542)
HENRY HOWARD,EARL OF SURREY(1517-1547)
THE ENGLISH BIBLE
WILLIAM TYNDALE:THE OBEDIENCE OF A CHRISTIAN MAN
THOMAS MORE:A DIALOGUE COMCERNING HERESIES
JOHN CALVIN:THE INSTITUTION OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION
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PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX