The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2C: The Twentieth Century

by David Damrosch, Kevin J.H. Dettmar, Jennifer Wicke

Volume 2 The 20th Century of The Longman Anthology of British Literature is a comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged anthology that offers a rich selection of major British authors throughout the 20th Century. The anthology includes Perspectives and Companion Readings, which show how major literary writings interrelate with and respond to various social, historical, and cultural events of Great Britain in the 20th Century. With a generous representation of fiction, drama, and poetry, the second edition includes major additions of important works and an expanded illustration program. Fresh and up-to-date introductions and notes are written by an editorial team whose members are all actively engaged in teaching and in current scholarship, and illustrations show both artistic and cultural developments of the period. For those interested in British Literature of the Twentieth Century.

Genres: Classics, Literature, Fiction, Anthologies, College, Textbooks, School

1040 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

A past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, David Damrosch has written widely on comparative and world literature from antiquity to the present. His books include The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature (1987), We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University (1995), What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and How to Read World Literature (2008). He is the founding general editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature (2004) and the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009) and co-editor of The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature (2009), The Routledge Companion to World Literature (2011), and Xin fangxiang: bijiao wenxue yu shijie wenxue duben [New Directions: A Reader of Comparative and World Literature], Peking U. P., 2010. He is presently completing a book entitled Comparing the Literatures: What Every Comparatist Needs to Know, and starting a book on the role of global scripts in the formation of national literatures.

Reviews

[Ana Mardoll · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Longman Anthology of British Literature, 2C / 0-321-10580-X

This anthology belongs to the three-volume set of The Longman Anthology of British Literature (Volumes 2A, 2B, 2C). Each volume contains gorgeous color plates of contemporary artwork and portraits. The authors are arranged not only by the dates they represent, but also by the causes that they provide perspective on. This arrangement makes the literary selections more meaningful when read as a group, and provides a great deal of insight on pertinent issues which influenced the authors' writings. This arrangement does mean, however, that many selections are scattered throughout the work, so if you wish to read all the selections by a specific author, then you will have to wade through the index to find the three or four places where their writings are located.

The authors represented in this volume are:
- Auden, W.H.
- Beckett, Samuel
- Boland, Eavan
- Bowen, Elizabeth
- Brooke, Rupert
- Carter, Angela
- Churchill, Caryl
- Churchill, Sir Winston
- Collins, Michael
- Conrad, Joseph
- Dhomhnaill, Nuala Ni
- Eliot, T.S.
- Gordimer, Nadine
- Graves, Robert
- Greene, Graham
- Gunn, Thom
- Hardy, Thomas
- Heaney, Seamus
- Hughes, Ted
- Jones, David
- Joyce, James
- Kelman, James
- Larkin, Philip
- Lawrence, D.H.
- Mansfield, Katherine
- Muldoon, Paul
- Naipaul, V.S.
- Parnell, Charles Stewart
- Plath, Slyvia
- Orwell, George
- Owen, Wilfred
- Rhys, Jean
- Rosenberg, Isaac
- Rushdie, Salman
- Sackville-West, Vita
- Sassoon, Siegfried
- Shaw, Bernard
- Smith, Stevie
- Spender, Stephen
- Thiong'o, Ngugi Wa
- Thomas, Dylan
- Walcott, Derek
- Waugh, Evelyn
- West, Rebecca
- Wodehouse, P.G.
- Woolf, Virginia
- Yeats, William Butler

~ Ana Mardoll

[Kristi]

A wonderful anthology! I thought the wide array of selections were great and informative! I especially liked the "responses to" section after most of the major works. Dettmar and Wicke do a wonderful job of introducing not only the authors and their own personal background, but also the cultural context surrounding the time period. This helped me place each text in a cultural context as well as analyze the different societal factors that played a role in the work.

A wonderful overview of 20th Century British Literature. Authors ranged from Conrad, Shaw, Eliot, and Woolfe to Beckett, Orwell, Rushdie, and Heaney.

[Meen]

I can't resist picking up the random anthologies professors put out on the "free books" tables in the departments!

[Megan · Rating 3 out of 5]

*3.5*

The modernists are quite the interesting group of people.