The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, the anthology features an extraordinarily wide-ranging canon, with close attention paid throughout to issues such as race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. It offers a fuller range of contextual materials than any competing anthology, including extensive illustrations throughout each volume. The introductions to authors and periods are superb and comprehensive, and annotations provide the information students need without interfering with their interpretation of the text. Innovative, authoritative, and comprehensive, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature has established itself as a leader in the field.

In addition to the full six-volume anthology, the Broadview Anthology is available in two condensed forms: a two-volume Concise edition (about 3600 pages total) and a single-volume Compact version (2100 pages). All versions of the anthology are accompanied by an extensive website component that includes hundreds of additional readings and other interactive material. The website content has been edited, annotated, and designed according to the same high standards as the bound book component of the anthology, and can be accessed using the passcode obtained with the purchase of one or more of the bound volumes.

Features New to the Third Edition

- New longer texts including Dickens's performance reading of "David Copperfield," Gaskell's The Manchester Marriage, Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Beckett's Endgame
- New short selections from longer works including Eliot's Middlemarch, Shelley's Frankenstein, Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, and Tennyson's In Memoriam A.H.H.
- New bound-book author entries for Dorothy Wordsworth, John Clare, Emily Bronte, Thomas de Quincey, Walter Pater, Isaac Rosenberg, Tomson Highway, Derek Walcott, Jeanette Winterson, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- New selections representing "Literary Currents in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales in the Long Nineteenth Century"
- New "Contexts" section on "Gothic Literature" including materials by Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, and Jane Austen
- "Literature, Politics, and Cultural Identity" section includes numerous new authors and pieces, including work by Sorely MacLean, James Kelman, Gillian Clarke, Kamau Brathwaite, Kim Moore, and Warsan Shire