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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.

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.

- Features

Annotated Texts and Contexts grouped by topic
Over 1000 Illustrations
Over 300 Explorations to stimulate critical thinking and generate paper topics
Hundreds of Annotated Links to related sites
Cross-references to the Norton Anthology of English Literature
Connections with the Norton Anthology of English Literature
Comprehensive Search
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
Seamus Heaney's introduction to his new verse translation of Beowulf

- Review Materials and Other Useful Resources

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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Web Site Overview for Students
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- Web Site Contents in Brief (* denotes a new Topic)

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 *
 
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*
 
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*
 
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*
 
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*
 
THE VICTORIAN AGE
  Prepared by Carol T. Christ & Kelly Hurley
  Industrialism: Progress or Decline?
  The Woman Question
  The Painterly Image in Poetry
  Victorian Imperialism*
 
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND AFTER
  Representing the Great War
Prepared by Jahan Ramazani and Jason Coats
 

Modernist Experiment
Prepared by Jahan Ramazani and Mogan Myers

  Imagining Ireland
Prepared by Jahan Ramazani and Omaar Hena