Judiciously selected from the full Broadview Anthology of British Literature, this Compact Edition distills the full sweep of British literature into a single volume. The most essential works and writers are represented—from Beowulf to Zadie Smith—with enough breadth to offer instructors flexibility without overwhelming students.
The Broadview Anthology of British Literature is acclaimed for its inclusiveness and its deep attention to literature’s historical and cultural contexts, reflecting the latest scholarship in British literary studies. The anthology 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 that serve to support readers’ appreciation and understanding of British literature.
The second edition features several authors new to the bound portion of the Compact anthology—among them Phillis Wheatley, Mary Shelley, Angela Carter, and Chimamanda Adichie. Also new to the bound book are several exciting omnibus sections addressing topics such as “The Supernatural and the Occult” in the early modern era, “Modernism and Modernity,” and recent work by poets such as Imtiaz Dharker, Patience Agbabi, Harry Josephine Giles, and Warsan Shire.
While the bound-book portion of this second edition is even more streamlined than the first, the anthology’s website component continues to grow, offering instructors a truly extraordinary range of options in the selection of authors and works. Among the materials new to the website for this edition are omnibus sections on early modern exploration and colonization, and on Enlightenment thought; also new are facing-column translations of portions of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, with versions in modern English appearing opposite the original text.
INTRODUCTION TO THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE AND OF PRINT AND MANUSCRIPT CULTURE (online)
BEDE (online)
EARLY IRISH LYRICS
EXETER BOOK ELEGIES
THE DREAM OF THE ROOD
EXETER BOOK RIDDLES
BEOWULF
ÆLFRIC OF EYNSHAM (online)
THE FOUR BRANCHES OF THE MABINOGI (online)
FEAST OF BRICRIU (FLED BRICREND) (online)
MARIE DE FRANCE
MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS
THE CRISES OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
SIR ORFEO (online)
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
JULIAN OF NORWICH (online)
MARGERY KEMPE
RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL LIFE (online)
THE WAKEFIELD MASTER, The Second Shepherds’ Play (online)
EVERYMAN
MANKIND (online)
SIR THOMAS MALORY
GWERFUL MECHAIN
INTRODUCTION TO THE RENAISSANCE AND THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE AND OF PRINT CULTURE (online)
SIR THOMAS MORE (online)
WILLIAM TYNDALE
SIR THOMAS WYATT (online)
HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (online)
THE EARLY MODERN SONNET AND LYRIC
LITERATURE IN IRELAND, SCOTLAND, AND WALES (online)
EDMUND SPENSER
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
ELIZABETH I, QUEEN OF ENGLAND
CULTURE: A PORTFOLIO (online)
AEMILIA LANYER
SIR WALTER RALEGH (online)
OTHER LANDS, OTHER CULTURES (online)
FRANCIS BACON (online)
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
THE SUPERNATURAL AND THE OCCULT
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
BEN JONSON (online)
JOHN DONNE
LADY MARY WROTH
THOMAS HOBBES (online)
ROBERT HERRICK (online)
GEORGE HERBERT
ANDREW MARVELL (online)
KATHERINE PHILIPS
JOHN MILTON
INTRODUCTION TO THE RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE AND OF PRINT CULTURE (online)
JOHN DRYDEN
SAMUEL PEPYS
APHRA BEHN
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY (online)
JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER
DANIEL DEFOE
ANNE FINCH (online)
JONATHAN SWIFT
THE ENLIGHTENMENT (online)
ALEXANDER POPE
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU
ELIZA HAYWOOD
PRINT CULTURE, STAGE CULTURE (online)
JAMES THOMSON (online)
SAMUEL JOHNSON
THOMAS GRAY
CHRISTOPHER SMART (online)
OLAUDAH EQUIANO OR GUSTAVUS VASSA
EMPIRE AND ENTERPRISE (online)
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN (online)
PHILLIS WHEATLEY
INTRODUCTION TO THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM
HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE AND OF PRINT CULTURE (online)
ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD
CHARLOTTE SMITH
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
WILLIAM BLAKE
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
WOMEN AND SOCIETY
ROBERT BURNS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
READING, WRITNG, PUBLISHING (online)
GOTHIC LITERATURE 1764-1830 (online)
THE NATURAL, THE HUMAN, THE SUPERNATURAL, AND THE SUBLIME (online)
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
JANE AUSTEN (online)
MARY PRINCE
SLAVERY AND ITS ABOLITION
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
FELICIA HEMANS
JOHN KEATS
JOHN WILLIAM POLIDORI (online)
MARY SHELLEY
INTRODUCTION TO THE VICTORIAN ERA
THE HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE AND PRINT CULTURE (online)
THOMAS CARLYLE (online)
IRELAND, SCOTLAND, AND WALES: LITERARY CURRENTS IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY (online)
URBAN WORK AND POVERTY
MARY SEACOLE (online)
WOMEN IN SOCIETY
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
CHARLES DARWIN
ELIZABETH GASKELL
ROBERT BROWNING
CHARLES DICKENS
THE NEW ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY (online)
JOHN RUSKIN (online)
MATTHEW ARNOLD
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (online)
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
LEWIS CARROLL (online)
AUGUSTA WEBSTER (online)
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (online)
THOMAS HARDY
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
“MICHAEL FIELD”—KATHARINE BRADLEY AND EDITH COOPER (online)
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
OSCAR WILDE
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (online)
RUDYARD KIPLING
BRITAIN, EMPIRE, AND A WIDER WORLD
INTRODUCTION TO THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY: FROM 1900 TO MID-CENTURY
HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE AND OF PRINT CULTURE (online)
BERNARD SHAW (online)
JOSEPH CONRAD
A.E. HOUSMAN
SIEGFRIED SASSOON (online)
WILFRED OWEN
WORLD WAR I
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
MODERNISM AND MODERNITY
VIRGINIA WOOLF
JAMES JOYCE
KATHERINE MANSFIELD
T.S. ELIOT
W.H. AUDEN
WORLD WAR II
INTRODUCTION TO THE LATE TWENTIETH AND EARLY TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES:
DYLAN THOMAS
PHILIP LARKIN
CHINUA ACHEBE
SEAMUS HEANEY
NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O
ANGELA CARTER
SALMAN RUSHDIE
KAZUO ISHIGURO
CAROL ANN DUFFY
ZADIE SMITH
CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE
POETRY IN THE LATE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES
APPENDICES
General Editors:
Joseph Black, University of Massachusetts
Kate Flint, University of Southern California
Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta
Wendy Lee, New York University
Don LePan, Broadview Press
Roy Liuzza, University of Tennessee
Jerome J. McGann, University of Virginia
Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College
Jason R. Rudy, University of Maryland, College Park
Claire Waters, University of California, Davis
Associate General Editors:
Leonard Conolly, Trent University
Barry V. Qualls, Rutgers University
