Longman new editions

Two new editions of Longman books have Brontë references:

A press release from Pearson Education presents the Fourth Edition of The Longman Anthology of British Literature (David Damrosch and Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Editors).

The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume II, 4/E

David Damrosch, Columbia University
Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Pomona College
Christopher Baswell, Barnard College
Clare Carroll, Queens College, City University of New York
Andrew David Hadfield, University of Sussex
Heather Henderson, Barnard College
Peter J. Manning, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Anne Howland Schotter, Wagner CollegeUniversity
Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University

ISBN-10: 020565519X
ISBN-13: 9780205655199

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2010
Format: Paper; 2880 pp

Important new texts have been added, such as William Baldwin's Beware the Cat, which has been hailed as the first English novel, books six and seven of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Othello and King Lear, the poetry of Emily Brontë, the works of Carol Ann Duffy, a new section on contemporary British fiction, and many more. (...)
Volume Two takes readers from the Romantics to the Twenty-First Century. Romantic luminaries such as Coleridge, Wollstonecraft, Shelley, and Blake; the timeless texts written during the Victorian Era by Tennyson, Dickens, the Brownings, the Brontës, Kipling, and Wilde; and modern masterpieces by Shaw, Hardy, Joyce, Yeats, Woolf, Gordimer, and Rushdie are just a few of the highlig
William Chapman Sharpe, Barnard College
Stuart Sherman, Fordham hted works. (...)
As with the previous three incarnations, The Longman Anthology of British Literature continues to offer extended selections from a wide range of women writers, including Margery Kempe, Lady Mary Wroth, Joanne Baillie, Anne and Charlotte Brontë, and Carol Anne Duffy.

And the second edition of The Longman Companion to Victorian Literature is reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement:

The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction
2nd Edition
John Sutherland
Jan 2009, Paperback, 736 pages
ISBN13: 9781408203903
ISBN10: 1408203901

Sutherland’s brusque style works less well with more complex novels, where corner-cutting becomes evident. Take, for instance, this rapid conspectus of Jane Eyre: “Jane discovers that Adele is the offspring of one of his former mistresses” (well, maybe: Rochester denies it); Grace Poole is “a servant known to drink” (not known to Jane when she hears the strange laughter); “Mrs Reed’s own children have gone to the bad” (strictly, only John has); Rochester keeps Bertha “locked in the attic” (strictly, in a room on the third storey). What is happening here is not misunderstanding but inaccuracy caused by extreme compression. (...)
eedless to say, errors remain and scholars indebted to Sutherland’s labours can continue to enjoy detecting them: that Gaskell’s Ruth ends with Bradshaw adopting Leonard, that Helen in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall “was cajoled into marriage by an aunt” (she marries in spite of her aunt’s disapproval), that Dora Copperfield dies “weakened by pregnancy” (she has a miscarriage or a stillbirth). (David Grylls)

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