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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 issues of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. It
includes comprehensive introductions to each period, providing in
each case an overview of the historical and cultural as well as the
literary background. It features accessible and engaging headnotes
for all authors, extensive explanatory annotations, and an
unparalleled number of illustrations and contextual materials.
Innovative, authoritative and comprehensive, The Broadview
Anthology of British Literature has established itself as a leader
in the field.The full anthology comprises six bound volumes,
together with an extensive website component; the latter has been
edited, annotated, and designed according to the same high
standards as the bound book component of the anthology, and is
accessible by using the passcode obtained with the purchase of one
or more of the bound volumes. In the revised third edition of this
volume, the term 'Anglo-Saxon' has been removed from our editorial
apparatus - a change made in response to recent scholarly work that
has drawn attention to the term's historical and current usage by
white supremacists. We have also taken the opportunity to implement
a small number of additional improvements. We have also taken the
opportunity to implement a small number of additional improvements;
the pagination, however, remains the same.
New to the second edition of volume two of The Broadview Anthology
of British Literature is a revised translation of Thomas More's
Utopia, prepared by William P. Weaver of Baylor University. Other
additions include a number of sonnets from Sir Philip Sidney's
Astrophil and Stella and a selection of poems by Isabella Whitney.
Milton's Samson Agonistes is now included, and four books from
Paradise Lost are now included in their entirety. With this volume
as with the others, material continues to be added on an ongoing
basis to the website component of the anthology. Of the ten general
editors, Joseph Black and Anne Lake Prescott have focused on volume
2 particularly; they are professors at the University of
Massachusetts (Amherst) and at Barnard College, respectively.
This second edition of the very popular ""Broadview Anthology of
British Literature: The Medieval Period"" offers expanded
selections from authors such as Chaucer and Langland and also
includes material from new authors such as Gower. The second
edition of volume one of ""The Broadview Anthology of British
Literature"" will include considerably more of Langland's Pier's
Plowman than appears in the first edition, and will include for the
first time the work of John Gower. Also new to the bound book
component of the anthology will be the York Crucifixion Play, and
additional work by Chaucer. With this volume as with the others,
material continues to be added on an ongoing basis to the website
component of the anthology. The website component allows access to
even more works than the already generous selection in the bound
volume. This title provides works from both canonical and lesser
known authors. It is competitively priced. It includes valuable
introductory and contextual material.
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 issues of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. It
includes comprehensive introductions to each period, providing in
each case an overview of the historical and cultural as well as the
literary background. It features accessible and engaging headnotes
for all authors, extensive explanatory annotations, and an
unparalleled number of illustrations and contextual materials.
Innovative, authoritative and comprehensive, The Broadview
Anthology of British Literature has established itself as a leader
in the field.The full anthology comprises six bound volumes,
together with an extensive website component; the latter has been
edited, annotated, and designed according to the same high
standards as the bound book component of the anthology, and is
accessible by using the passcode obtained with the purchase of one
or more of the bound volumes. The two-volume Broadview Anthology of
British Literature, Concise Edition provides an attractive
alternative to the full six-volume anthology. Though much more
compact, the concise edition nevertheless provides instructors with
substantial choice, offering both a strong selection of canonical
authors and a sampling of lesser-known works. With an unparalleled
number of illustrations and contextual materials, accessible and
engaging introductions, and full explanatory annotations, the
concise edition of this acclaimed Broadview anthology provides
focused yet wide-ranging coverage for British literature survey
courses. Among the works now included for the first time in the
concise edition are Chaucer's The Prioress's Tale; the York
Crucifixion play; more poems from Sidney's Astrophil and Stella; an
expanded section of writings by Elizabeth I, more poems by Lady
Mary Wroth, and an expanded selection of work by Margaret
Cavendish. The literatures of Ireland, Gaelic Scotland, and Wales
are now much better represented, and a selection of work by
Laboring Class Poets is now included. There are also new contextual
materials-including a substantial section on "Transatlantic
Currents." In the case of several authors and texts (among them The
Four Branches of the Mabinogi, Julian of Norwich, Sir Thomas
Malory, and Phillis Wheatley), the new edition will incorporate
substantial improvements that have been made in the new editions of
the period volumes published in recent years. As before, the
Concise edition includes a substantial website component, providing
instructors with a great degree of flexibility. For the first time,
a selection of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales will be available online
in facing-column format (with versions in modern English included
opposite the original text).
In Samson Agonistes, Milton's last great work, he addresses
questions that pressed insistently on the imagination of all who
were unhappy with the changes wrought by the Restoration. How do we
respond to the experience of defeat and to fears of having been
abandoned by the divine? How do we know when our actions accord
with divine will or when they are fuelled instead by our fallen
desires and weaknesses? At what point do accommodation and
compromise with an enemy become a failure of will? What constitutes
true heroism? To what extent is violence justified in the cause of
freedom? In this dramatic poem, Milton abandons the regularly
maintained blank verse of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained and
employs varying line lengths, mixes blank verse with lyric rhyme
and takes such liberties with scansion that the poem often has the
feel of modern "free verse." To many scholars, the poetry of Samson
Agonistes seems the culminating literary expression of a poet who
had already demonstrated his mastery of traditional forms and felt
free to abandon convention to create the poetic effects he desired.
In addition to Samson Agonistes, this volume includes a selection
of Milton's best-known short poems (also taken from The Broadview
Anthology of British Literature). The biblical material concerning
Samson is also included in an appendix.
At Stowe, 250 acres of parkland off er a complex web of views,
pathways, statues, inscriptions, urns and ideas. Unlike its French
fl oricultural precursors, Stowe presents sudden shifts of scene,
abrupt revelations, as well as spots at which to stop to absorb the
visual eff ect. There is natural beauty in the gardens of Stowe,
but they serve a larger purpose than to please the eye. Beneath
this facade of bucolic idyll lies a deeply important suggestion of
man's relationship to nature. Accompanying an exhibition of
historic and contemporary art at Stowe House, The Garden at War
explores the gardens at Stowe, built by a general, as a site of
perpetual confl ict in which the preconditions of destruction and
creation are inescapable. If nature is understood to be original,
then the garden is an ordered but un-orderly condition; a
re-ordered vision of the natural order, a vision of nature
disciplined by human action in a attempt to advance and yield
control. Starting with works by the preeminent neoclassical
painters Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain - whose distinct
pictorial visions gave rise to an unmistakable relationship between
the garden, the viewer and the natural world - the publication
brings together an arrangement of interpretations and theories
exploring metaphors and meanings within the very practice of
gardening itself. An introduction by the pre-eminent critic Stephen
Bann and an essay by the foremost garden historian John Dixon Hunt
lead on to newly commissioned illustrations by artist Gary Hincks,
a previously unpublished interview with the Scottish conceptual
artist and gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay, and a new discussion of
confl ict in the work of Richard Long.
The third edition of the Victorian Era volume of The Broadview
Anthology of British Literature includes a number of changes and
new additions, including the complete texts of In Memoriam A.H.H.,
The Importance of Being Earnest, Carmilla, and Strange Case of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as well as Contexts sections on 'Work and
Poverty,' 'Women in Society,' 'Sexuality in the Victorian Era,'
'Nature and the Environment,' 'The New Woman,' and 'Britain,
Empire, and a Wider World.' The third edition also offers expanded
representation of writers of color, including Mary Prince, Mary
Seacole, Toru Dutt, Mary Ann Shadd, and Rabindranath Tagore.
These volumes provide an overview of British literature in its
social and historical context from the Anglo-Saxon period through
to the twenty-first century. They trace literary developments and
touch on key developments in the history of the language of print
culture. Additionally, they provide essential background for those
unfamiliar with the unfolding of British political, social,
economic, and cultural history during each of the six periods into
which the study of British literature is commonly divided. The
material for British Literature: A Historical Overview has been
drawn from the general introductions to the six volumes of the
acclaimed Broadview Anthology of British Literature.
This volume is ideally suited for use as a companion volume in
survey courses where the instructor has decided against using a
large anthology. It provides an overview of British literature in
its social and historical context from the age of Romanticism
through to the twentieth century and beyond. It traces literary
developments in all genres, and touches as well on key developments
in the history of the language and the history of print culture. It
also provides essential historical background for those unfamiliar
with the unfolding of British political, social, economic, and
cultural history during these periods. Included are a wide variety
of illustrations, 24 of which are color plates. The material for
British Literature: A Historical Overview has been drawn from the
general introductions to the six volumes of the acclaimed Broadview
Anthology of British Literature. A Historical Overview, Volume A is
also available; this covers the medieval period through the
eighteenth century.
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. A two-volume Concise Edition and a one-volume Compact
Edition are also available.
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 issues of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. It
includes comprehensive introductions to each period, providing in
each case an overview of the historical and cultural as well as the
literary background. It features accessible and engaging headnotes
for all authors, extensive explanatory annotations, and an
unparalleled number of illustrations and contextual materials.
Innovative, authoritative and comprehensive, The Broadview
Anthology of British Literature has established itself as a leader
in the field. The full anthology comprises six bound volumes,
together with an extensive website component; the latter has been
edited, annotated, and designed according to the same high
standards as the bound book component of the anthology, and is
accessible by using the passcode obtained with the purchase of one
or more of the bound volumes. Intended for courses that focus on
poetry during the Romantic period, this volume includes all the
poetry selections from Volume 4 of The Broadview Anthology of
British Literature, along with a number of works newly edited for
this volume. The Age of Romanticism: Poetry maintains the Broadview
Anthology of British Literature's characteristic balance of
canonical favorites and lesser-known gems, featuring a breadth of
poetry from William Blake to Phyllis Wheatley, from Ebenezer
Elliott to Felicia Hemans. "Contexts" sections provide valuable
background on cultural matters such as "The Natural and the
Sublime" and "The Abolition of Slavery," while the companion
website offers a wealth of additional resources and primary works.
Longer works newly prepared for the bound book include Byron's
Manfred and The Giaour, Keats's Hyperion, and substantial
selections from Wordsworth's fourteen-book Prelude; authors newly
added for this volume include Hannah Cowley, Hannah More, Ann
Yearsley, Robert Southey, and Thomas Moore.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++ Auserlesene Kleine Werke Dreyer Englischer Chimisten H.
Priestley, Henry Und Black, Die Schwangerung Des Gemeinen Wassers
Mit Fixer Luft, Die Magnesia Und Kalkerde, Die Faulungswidrige
Kraft Gewisser Artzneyen Und Andre Erhebliche Gegenstande
Betreffend Joseph Priestley, William Henry, Joseph Black
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Medical theory and
practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the
extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases,
their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology,
agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even
cookbooks, are all contained here.++++The below data was compiled
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LibraryT056673Edinburgh: printed for William Creech, Edinburgh; and
for T. Cadell, London, 1782. 137, 3]p.: ill; 8
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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