Western Literature in a World Context, Vol. 1: The Ancient World through the Renaissance

A two-volume anthology that places the Western literary tradition and its canon within a world context. Selections are divided into 6 major literary periods, with each period subdivided into Representative Texts, Western Texts, The World Context, and Background Texts.

• Art & Visual Culture 1850-2010: Modernity to Globalization
• The Vinland Sagas (Penguin Classics)
• Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo (Hackett Classics)
• King Lear
• Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
• King Lear (Signet Classics)
• Western Literature in a World Context: Volume 2: The Enlightenment through the Present (Western Literature in Context)
• Henry IV, Part 1 (Folger Shakespeare Library)
• Albinus on Anatomy (Dover Anatomy for Artists)
• After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art--Revised and Expanded Edition