The Norton anthology of english literature / Stephen Greenblatt, [and] M. H. Abrams

Includes index.

The Victorian Age (1830-1901)-- Introduction -- Timeline -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) -- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) -- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) -- Pre-Raphaelitism: Charles Dickens, John Rushkin, William Michael Rossetti ; Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) -- Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) -- William Morris (1834-1896) -- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) -- Walter Pater (1839-1894) -- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) -- Victorian issues: Evolution, Industrialism: progress and decline?, The "woman question": the Victorian debate abour gender, Empire and national identity ; Late Victorians. Michael Field (Katharine Bradley, 1846-1914 and Edith Cooper, 1862-1913) -- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) ; Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -- Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) -- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) -- Ernest Dowson (1867-1900).

The ninth edition offers more complete works, more teachable groupings than ever before and the apparatus teachers trust. Read by more than 8 million students, The Norton Anthology of English Literature sets the standard. New longer texts include: 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' in Simon Armitage's new translation, Sidney's 'Defense of Poetry', Wycherley's 'The Country Wife', Joyce's 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', Woolf's 'Mrs Dalloway' and Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot' (exclusive to Norton)