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A Web Companion
to
The Norton Anthology of English
Literature, 8 th Edition
Explore English literature and culture
with Norton Topics Online.
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Instructors may access the 8e Course Guide. You must register for the Norton Instructor's Resource Library and request a password in order to access the Guide.
Prepared by the Norton Anthology editors,
this extensive, freely accessible Web resource
for The
Norton Anthology of English Literature offers
twenty-seven topics for
study and discussion.
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Annotated Texts and Contexts grouped
by topic |
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Over 1000 Illustrations |
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Over 300 Explorations to stimulate critical
thinking and generate paper topics |
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Hundreds of Annotated Links to related
sites |
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Cross-references to the Norton Anthology of
English Literature |
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Connections with the Norton Anthology of
English Literature |
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Comprehensive Search |
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The Norton Online Archive, a searchable
electronic library of over 150 literary
texts and downloadable audio files, annotated
by the editors, to supplement the Norton
Anthology |
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Seamus Heaney's introduction to his new
verse translation of Beowulf |
- Review Materials and Other Useful
Resources
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Review Materials include summaries
of the 7 Norton Anthology of
English Literature period introductions
and self-grading multiple-choice quizzes
on the 7 period introductions |
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Instructor's Online Resources (wwnorton.com/nrl)
with period and author notes, assignment
files, graphics, links, and syllabi |
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Web Site Overview
for Students |
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Web Site Overview
for Teachers |
- Web Site Contents in Brief (*
denotes a new Topic)
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THE
MIDDLE AGES |
| Prepared by Alfred David |
| Medieval
Estates and Orders: Making and Breaking
Rules |
| King
Arthur: Romancing Politics |
| The
First Crusade: Sanctifying War |
| The
Linguistic and Literary Contexts of Beowulf * |
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THE
SIXTEENTH CENTURY |
| Prepared by Stephen Greenblatt,
George Logan, & Philip Schwyzer |
| The
Magician, the Heretic, and the Playwright |
| Renaissance
Exploration, Travel, and the World Outside
Europe |
| Dissent,
Doubt, and Spiritual Violence in the
Reformation |
| Island
Nations* |
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THE
EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY |
| Prepared by Barbara K.
Lewalski & Philip Schwyzer |
| Gender,
Family, Household: Seventeenth-Century
Norms and Controversies |
| Paradise
Lost in Context |
| Civil
Wars of Ideas |
| Emigrants
and Settlers* |
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THE
RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY |
| Prepared by Lawrence Lipking
and Leslie Ritchie |
| A
Day in Eighteenth-Century London |
| Slavery
and the Slave Trade in Britain |
| The
Plurality of Worlds |
| Travel,
Trade, and the Expansion of Empire* |
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THE
ROMANTIC PERIOD |
| Prepared by Jack Stillinger
and M. H. Abrams |
| Tintern
Abbey, Tourism, and Romantic Landscape |
| The Gothic |
| The
French Revolution: Apocalyptic Expectations |
| Romantic
Orientalism* |
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THE
VICTORIAN AGE |
| Prepared by Carol T. Christ & Kelly
Hurley |
| Industrialism:
Progress or Decline? |
| The
Woman Question |
| The
Painterly Image in Poetry |
| Victorian
Imperialism* |
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THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY AND AFTER |
Representing the Great War
Prepared by Jahan Ramazani and Jason Coats |
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Modernist Experiment
Prepared by Jahan Ramazani and Mogan Myers |
Imagining Ireland
Prepared by Jahan Ramazani and Omaar Hena |
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