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The Western Literary Tradition Anthologies
The Western Literary Tradition Anthology
Edited, with Introductions and Notes, by Margaret L. King
Anthology and eBook-only selections from volume 1 information page.
The Western Literary Tradition: Volume 1: The Hebrew Bible to John Milton is available now in both print and eBook formats. Visit the main volume title page here to read more about the complete volume, including the full Table of Contents. In addition to being available as a single volume The Western Literary Tradition: Volume 1 is also available in four chronologically organized and affordably priced ($9.95 each) eBook-only selections.
- Antiquity: Foundations of Western Literature
- The Middle Ages: The Formation of the Western Literary Tradition
- Renaissance Revisions: Recovery and Renewal
- Early Modern: New Horizons
Each eBook-only selection includes the same chapter introductions and selected works for its chapter subset from the main book and adds new volume introductions. Read more about what's included in each eBook selection in the title descriptions in the list below. The eBook selections are available exclusively for student purchase and instructor preview through RedShelf and VitalSource, two of Hackett's eBook sales partners that specialize in eTextbooks for students and instructors, as well as participating Barnes and Noble and Follett college bookstores that sell eBooks.
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The Western Literary Tradition, Volume 2: Jonathan Swift to George OrwellThis compact anthology—the second volume in Margaret L. King’s masterful introduction to the Western literary tradition—offers, in whole or in part, eighty key literary works of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. The texts provided here represent an unusually broad array of languages and traditions, ranging across a variety of genres such as verse, drama, philosophy, short- and long-form fiction, and non-fiction (including autobiography, speech, journalism, and essay). This second volume shares with the first a focus on works by women; numerous texts by Latin American writers are included here as well. King’s clear, engaging introductions and notes support an informed reading of the texts while extending students’ knowledge of particular authors and problems of interest. The Western Literary Tradition’s modest length and cost allow for the use of full-length works—many of which are available in Hackett Publishing’s own well-regarded and inexpensive translations and editions—alongside the anthology without adding undue cost to a student’s total textbook fees.
See the complete Table of Contents for volume 2 here (PDF).
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The Western Literary Tradition, Volume 1: The Hebrew Bible to John MiltonThis compact anthology provides a thorough introduction to the major works of the Western literary tradition from Antiquity to 1700 covering the Hebrew Bible to John Milton (see the full Table of Contents in the link below). It includes excerpts from seventy texts translated from eight ancient and modern languages in genres as diverse as epic, lyric, and dramatic verse; prose narrative including story, romance, and novel; and nonfiction prose including autobiography, biography, letter, speech, dialogue, and essay. Further distinguishing this collection is the inclusion of works by women writers often overlooked in other literary anthologies. Margaret L. King's clear, engaging introductions and notes support an informed reading of the texts while extending students’ knowledge of particular authors and problems of interest.
Table of Contents: Click here to see the full Table of Contents for The Western Literary Tradition, Volume 1 (PDF)
Ebook flexibility: Find the The Western Literary Tradition eBook solution that best fits your syllabus. In addition to being available as a complete volume in print and eBook formats The Western Literary Tradition: Volume 1 is also available in four affordable ($9.95 each) eBook-only selections: Antiquity: Foundations of Western Literature, The Middle Ages: The Formation of the Western Literary Tradition, Renaissance Revisions: Recovery and Renewal, and Early Modern: New Horizons. Click here to learn more about the eBook-only selections, and to request instructor eBook exam copies.
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