texts has been newly augmented with the alliterative poem Judith and with King Alfred's preface to the Pastoral Care. The Anglo-Norman section?a key bridge between the Anglo-Saxon period and the time of Chaucer?-includes two clusters of texts: 'Legendary Histories of Britain' traces the origins of Arthurian romance in the accounts of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace, and Layamon. 'Celtic Contexts' explores the complex multilingual situation of the period, represented by the Old Irish 'Exile of the Sons of Uisliu'; newly added, the conclusion of Thomas of England's Le Roman de Tristan, which comes from Irish, Welsh, and Breton sources and was written down in Old French; and Marie de France's magnificent Breton lay Lanval, one of the period's principal texts, as well as her Chevrefoil, in a new verse translation by Alfred David. A tale from the Confessio Amantis of John Gower, a new author, complements the generous selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. We have added new selections from the remarkable Margery Kempe and from Langland's Piers Plowman and an important new topical cluster, 'Christ's Humanity.' Our representation of medieval drama has been strengthened by the addition of the powerful York Play of the Crucifixion.
The Sixteenth Century.. For the first time with this edition, the anthology includes the whole of Thomas More's Utopia, the visionary masterpiece that helped to shape the modern world. Edited by George Logan and Stephen Greenblatt, this period includes five other complete longer texts: Book 1 of Spenser's Faerie Queene, Marlowe's Hero and Leander and Doctor Faustus, and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and King Lear. The selection of poems offers new works by Wyatt, five additional sonnets by Sidney, five additional sonnets by Shakespeare, and two sonnets by a poet introduced here for the first time, Richard Barnfield. In addition we provide modern prose translations of several of Petrarch's rime in order to show their close relationship with sonnets by Wyatt, Sidney, and Ralegh. The cluster on the period's bitter religious contro
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versies, 'Faith in Conflict,' has been redesigned in order to better represent the Catholic as well as the Protestant position. A new cluster, 'Women in Power,' greatly expands the selections from Queen Elizabeth and sets her writings alongside those of three compelling new figures: Mary Tudor ('Bloody Mary'), Lady Jane Grey, the tragic queen for nine days, and Mary, Queen of Scots, Elizabeth's cousin and prisoner. The topic as a whole provides insight into the strange position of female rulers attempting to shape their public performances in a society that ordinarily allowed little scope for women's shaping power.
The Early Seventeenth Century. At the heart of this section, edited by Barbara Lewalski and Katharine Eisaman Maus, is John Milton's Paradise Lost, presented in its entirety. Other complete longer works include John Donne's soul-searching Satire 3, Aemilia Lanyer's country-house poem 'The Description of Cookham,' three major works by Ben Jonson (The Masque of Blackness, Volpone [freshly edited by Katharine Eisaman Maus], and the Cary-Morison ode), John Webster's tragedy The Duchess of Malfi, and Milton's Lycidas. Significant additions have been made to the works of Donne, Jonson, Bacon, Carew, and Hobbes. Three newly conceived topical clusters will help teachers organize the rich profusion of seventeenth-century texts. 'The Gender Wars' offers the stark contrast between Joseph Swetnam's misogynistic diatribe and Bachel Speght's vigorous response. 'Forms of Inquiry' represents the vital intellectual currents of the period by bringing together reselected texts by Bacon, Burton, Browne, and Hobbes. And introducing riveting reports on the trial and execution of Charles I, political writings by the conservative Filmer and the revolutionaries Milton and Winstanley, and searching memoirs by Lucy Hutchinson, Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, Lady Anne Halkett, and Dorothy Waugh, 'Crisis of Authority' shows how new literary forms arose out of the trauma of political conflict.
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century. In response to widespread demand and our own sense of its literary merit, the editors, Lawrence Lipking and James Noggle, include the complete text of Samuel Johnson's philosophical fable Rasselas. We introduce as well Fantomina, a novella of sexual role- playing by an author new to the anthology, Eliza Haywood. Other complete longer texts in this section include Dryden's satires Ahsolom and Achitophel and MacFlecknoe, Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko, Congreve's comedy The Way of the World, Pope's Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, and Epistle to Dr. Ahuthnot, Gay's Beggar's Opera, Hogarth's graphic satire 'Marriage A-la- Mode,' Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes, Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,' and Goldsmith's 'The Deserted Village.' Additions have been made to the works of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Bochester, and Mary Leapor, and the selection from Joseph Addison and Sir Bichard Steele has been recast. 'Liberty,' a new thematic cluster on freedom and slavery, brings together texts by John Locke, Mary Astell, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury, David Hume, Edmund Burke, and others.
The Romantic Period. The principal changes introduced by the editors, Jack Stillinger and Deidre Shauna Lynch, center on significantly increased attention to women writers of both poetry and prose. There are more poems by Anna Letitia Barbauld, Charlotte Smith (including the great long work Beachy Head and a substantial selection from The Emigrants), Mary Bobinson, Joanna Baillie, and Felicia Hemans. Mary Wollstonecraft and Dorothy Wordsworth are now joined by two new woman authors, Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen. Mary Shelley is represented by two works, her introduction to The Last Man
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and her story 'The Mortal Immortal' (Frankenstein, formerly in the anthology, is now available in a Norton Critical Edition). There are additional poems by Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats and new prose pieces by Sir Walter Scott, Charles Lamb, and John Clare. A new topic, 'The Gothic and the Development of a Mass Readership,' focuses on the controversial history of a genre that continues to shape popular fiction and films. Writings by Horace Walpole, William Beckford, Ann Radcliff, and 'Monk' Lewis, together with commentaries and reviews by contemporaries such as Anna Barbauld and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, illuminate the promise and menace that this period saw in a mode of writing that opened up a realm of nightmarish terror to literary exploration.
The Victorian Age. Among the major additions to this section, edited by Carol Christ and Catherine Bobson, are Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; two new long poems?Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Jenny; a new complete text of FitzGerald's The Rubaiydt of Omar Kayyam; and Rudyard Kipling's The White Man's Burden and If. Kipling's novella The Man Who Would Be King and Oscar Wilde's comedy The Importance of Being Earnest continue to be featured, as does the poetry of Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, and others. Along with the widely assigned 'Victorian Issues' clusters (Evolution, Industrialism, and the 'Woman Question'), we present the topic 'Empire and National Identity.' This is an innovative and highly teachable sequence of paired texts, grappling with fiercely contentious issues that repeatedly arose across the empire's vast extent.
The Twentieth Century and After. A host of new writers and topics mark this major revision by the editors, Jon Stallworthy and Jahan Ramazani. The section now features two brilliant plays, Brian Friel's Translations and Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, both of which have vital connections to literary and cultural issues that extend throughout these volumes. The many writers introduced to the anthology for the first time include the Indian poet A. K. Ramanujan, the Canadian poet Anne Carson, and the English poet Carol Ann Duffy. There are new stories by E. M. Forster and Jean Rhys, a new selection from J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians, and new poems by W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden, Derek Walcott, and Ted Hughes. There is, as before, a remarkable array of complete longer texts, including Hardy's 'On the Western Circuit,' Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Eliot's The Waste Land, Mansfield's 'The Garden Party' and 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel,' Beckett's Endgame,
