{"product_id":"the-broadview-anthology-of-british-literature-volume-4-the-age-of-romanticism-second-edition","title":"The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 4: The Age of Romanticism - Second Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 second edition of volume 4: The Age of Romanticism includes James Hogg  Matthew Gregory Lewis  and John Polidori as well as new selections by Mary Shelley  Sir Walter Scott  Maria Edgeworth  Anna Laetitia Barbauld  and Percy Shelley. The new edition also includes two new sections of contextual materials. New to the bound book is The Natural  The Human  The Supernatural  and the Sublimea section that includes not only a good selection of material from writers such as Edmund Burke and artists such as J.M.W. Turner but also material that may be less well known on topics such as changing human attitudes towards non-animals. New to the website is a wide-ranging selection of contextual materials on the Industrial Revolution  entitled Steam Power and the Machine Age. Additional highlights of this volume include: Jane Austens Lady Susan  a lesser-known but wonderfully readable epistolary short novel; A Hymn to Narayena by Sir William Jones; and  in an exception to the anthologys general policy of including works in their entirety  Mary Shelley is represented by the last two chapters of The Last Man and by a selection of letters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44958206853173,"sku":"ByrdShop_1551114046","price":36.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781551114040.jpg?v=1770369162","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-broadview-anthology-of-british-literature-volume-4-the-age-of-romanticism-second-edition","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}