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“The Literary Anthology, Revised and Excised”

January 14, 2008

Who gets to decide what goes in the Norton Anthology of English Literature, and what other choices do Brit-lit-survey instructors have? Do we still need anthologies anyway–and do students even know how to use them? I talked to editors and classroom types to get some answers.

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