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The Norton Anthology of English Literature is an anthology of English literature published by W. W. Norton & Company, one of several such compendiums. First published in 1962, it has gone through ten editions; as of 2006 there are over eight million copies in print, making it the publisher's best-selling anthology.[1] M. H. Abrams, a critic and scholar of Romanticism, served as General Editor for its first seven editions, before handing the job to Stephen Greenblatt, a Shakespeare scholar and Harvard professor. The anthology provides an overview of poetry, drama, prose fiction, essays, and letters from Beowulf to the beginning of the 21st century.
The seventh edition was also sold in two volumes, which simply compressed six eras into two larger volumes, each volume comprising three eras. Volume 1 comprised the selection of literature from "'The Middle Ages" to the "English Restoration and the Eighteenth Century", while Volume 2 included the selection of literature from "The Romantic Period" to "The Twentieth Century and After".[citation needed]
The tenth edition of the anthology went on sale in June 2018 and has continued to be sold in the same format as its two prior editions, while adding a host of new writers to its already substantially eclectic range.[4]
Published in 1962, the first edition of Norton Anthology was based on an English literature survey course Abrams and fellow editor David Daiches taught at Cornell University.[5] The anthology underwent periodic revisions every few years. The fifth edition in 1986 included the addition of the full texts of James Joyce's "The Dead" and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. The sixth edition, published in 1993, included Nadine Gordimer and Fleur Adcock. The seventh edition added Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart.
The Longman Anthology of British Literature is also a competitor. Of this relationship, Joyce Jensen of The New York Times wrote in 1999, "The first stone in the war between Longman and W. W. Norton, the David and Goliath of the anthology publishing world, has been cast. With the recent publication of The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Longman has mounted a challenge to Norton to become the literary anthology of choice in colleges and universities around the country."[8] Longman Anthology editor David Damrosch commented on the seventh edition of The Norton Anthology, arguing:
Independent Canadian publisher Broadview Press also offers a six-volume anthology of British literature that competes with the Norton and Longman anthologies, and a two-volume Concise Edition that competes with Norton's two-volume Major Authors Edition and Longman's two-volume Masters of British Literature.[11] The editorial team for The Broadview Anthology of British Literature includes leading scholars such as Kate Flint, Jerome J. McGann, and Anne Lake Prescott and has in general been very well received, though its sales have yet to match those of the competitors from the two larger publishers.[citation needed]
In 2006, Rachel Donadio of The New York Times stated: "Although assailed by some for being too canonical and by others for faddishly expanding the reading list, the anthology has prevailed over the years, due in large part to the talents of Abrams, who refined the art of stuffing 13 centuries of literature into 6,000-odd pages of wispy cigarette paper."[1]
Sarah A. Kelen summarizes the changes to the NAEL's inclusions of medieval literature through successive editions, demonstrating the way the Anthology's contents reflect contemporary scholarship.[12]
Sean Shesgreen, an English professor at Northern Illinois University, published a critical history of the anthology in the Winter 2009 issue of Critical Inquiry, based on interviews with Abrams and examinations of the editor's NAEL files.[13] Norton president Drake McFeely forcefully denounced the article in a January 23, 2009 story in The Chronicle of Higher Education.[14]
The most trusted anthology for complete works, balanced selections and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with new complete major works, new contemporary writers and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources. New video modules help introduce students to literature in multiple exciting ways. These innovations make the Norton Anthology an even better teaching tool and an unmatched value for students.
In fact, there are many editors involved in the creation of the 6,000-page anthology, all of them distinguished scholars in their own right. Beside Greenblatt, the list includes two other Harvard English professors: Milton scholar Barbara Lewalski, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History and Literature and of English Literature; and medievalist James Simpson, professor of English and American literature and language.
Another process of give and take occurs over the issue of space limitations. Even with the ultrathin paper the anthology is printed on, there is a limit to the number of literary works, footnotes, and critical essays that can be crammed into the two fat volumes (or, if you prefer a more portable format, six smaller period volumes). In other words, if something is added, something else must go.
An anthology that fully reflects the diversity of British literature. The Broadview takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors and includes an extraordinarily wide selection of work by lesser-known writers. The anthology also provides extensive coverage of the worldwide connections of British literature.
Concise and Compact Editions. In addition to the full six-volume anthology, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature is available in two condensed forms: a two-volume Concise Edition (about 3600 pages total) and a single-volume Compact Edition (2100 pages).
Custom texts. Custom texts may be assembled from any materials drawn from the anthology or other Broadview texts (excepting those for which Broadview does not hold copyright) to create an attractively printed and cost-effective alternative to the traditional bound anthology.
But as yet, there has been very little hard data from which to discuss the extent of mis- or underrepresentation. Understandably so: such an undertaking would require a massive investment of time and resources. One manageable place to start, though, is to examine the textbook anthologies we offer American students. Indeed, these anthologies are often meant as snapshots of the canon, given to high-schoolers and undergraduates in literature survey courses nationwide. The most well-known of these is probably The Norton Anthology of American Literature.
I conducted this study not for any prescriptive means, nor as any sort of definitive yardstick on the condition of American letters. At most, the findings listed here may be viewed as a measure of currently accepted levels of representation in anthologies. The central impetus for this examination was simply to contribute a data set that offers a snapshot of one version of the American canon (the version most familiar to students and teachers of literature in American high school and university classrooms).
What follows are data visualizations of information compiled from biographical and critical research. The data gets much more complex and difficult to parse at its deeper, more intersectional levels, though I plan to continue with and add to this work (and welcome others to do the same). I hope these summaries provide a starting point to further statistical analyses of representation in American literature and that this information is helpful to anyone interested in our current and future trajectory toward literary diversity.
The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, edited by Jahan Ramazani, is a widely and wisely expanded version of Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair's classic The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. Separated into two volumes, Ramazani's anthology contains many tremendously influential poets that the previous edition did not, including Lorine Niedecker, George Oppen, Louis Zukofsky, May Swenson, Charles Wright, Lucille Clifton, Charles Simic, Robert Hass, Yusef Komunyakaa, Charles Bernstein, Jorie Graham, and Anne Carson. A form of Ellmann and O'Clair's original selection is still printed as Modern Poems: A Norton Introduction.
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The anthology includes texts in translation, which Levine has spent years collecting. Each section and selection has an introduction written by Levine, the David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of Humanities in the Department of English.
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Led by Martin Puchner of Harvard University, the editors of the Fourth Edition (2018) are experienced classroom teachers as well as accomplished scholars. For help in selecting the best texts and translations and revising the editorial apparatus for the twenty-first-century classroom, the editors solicited the advice of more than 500 world literature instructors and expert counsel from a world-class team of regional specialists. The result is an anthology that a scholar can respect, that a teacher can assign with confidence, and that students can read and study with pleasure.
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