Responding to major shifts in literary studies over the past thirty years, The Longman Anthology of British LIterature was the first collection to pay sustained attention to the contexts within which literature is produced, even as it broadened the scope of that literature to embrace the full cultural diversity of the British Isles. Within its pages, canonical authors mingle with newly visible writers; English accents are heard next to Anglo-Norman, Welsh, Gaelic, and Scottish ones; female and male voices are set in dialogue; literature from the British Isles is integrated with post-colonial writing; and major works are illumined by clusters of shorter texts that bring literary, social, and historical issues vividly to life. Volume 2B focuses on the literature of the Victorian Age.
- ISBN10 0205655262
- ISBN13 9780205655267
- Publish Date 1 October 2009 (first published 22 September 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson
- Edition 4th edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 920
- Language English