The Norton Introduction to Literature / Edition 12

by Kelly J. Mays

Overview

The most trusted guide for helping students read critically and write carefully.

The Norton Introduction to Literature presents an engaging, balanced selection of literature to suit any course. Offering a thorough treatment of historical and critical context, the most comprehensive media package available, and a rich suite of tools to encourage close reading and thoughtful writing, the Shorter Twelfth Edition is unparalleled in its guidance of understanding, analyzing, and writing about literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393938937
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	10/03/2016
Edition description:	Portable Twelfth Edition
Pages:	1472
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Kelly J. Mays has taught writing and literature courses for 25 years — at Stanford University (where she earned her Ph.D.), in the Harvard Expository Writing Program, at New Mexico State University, and (since 2001) at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, where she is now an Associate Professor of English.  A British literature specialist whose work has appeared in Victorian Studies, Victorian Poetry, Critical Inquiry, and other major scholarly journals, she is currently at work on a book exploring when and why nineteenth-century Britons began to label their age, their literature, and even themselves "Victorian."