The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1B: The Early Modern Period (4th Edition)
David Damroschis Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, and has written widely on world literature from antiquity to the present. His books includeWhat Is World Literature?(2003),The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh(2007), andHow to Read World Literature(2009). He is the founding general editor of the six-volumeLongman Anthology of World Literature, 2/e(2009) and the editor ofTeaching World Literature(2009). Kevin J. H. Dettmaris W. M. Keck Professor and Chair, Department of English, at Pomona College, and Past President of the Modernist Studies Association.  He is the author ofThe Illicit Joyce of PostmodernismandIs Rock Dead?, and the editor ofRereading the New: A Backward Glance at Modernism; Marketing Modernisms: Self-Promotion, Canonization, and Rereading; Reading Rock & Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics;the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of James Joyce’sA Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManandDubliners;andThe Blackwell Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture,and co-general editor ofThe Longman Anthology of British Literature.                    Clare Carrollis Director of Renaissance Studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York and Professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College and at The Graduate Center, CUNY.  Her research is in Renaissance Studies, with particular interests in early modern colonialism, epic poetry, historiography, and translation. She is the author ofThe Orlando Furioso: A Stoic Comedy, and editor of Richard Beacon's humanist dialogue on the colonization of Ireland,Solon His Follie. Her most recent book isCirce's Cup: Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Ireland. She has received Fulbright Fellowships for her research and the Queens College President's Award for Excellence in Teaching. Andrew Hadfieldis Professor of English at The University of Sussex. He is the author of a number of books, includingShakespeare and Republicanism(2005), which was awarded the 2006 Sixteenth-Century Society Conference Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature;Literature, Travel and Colonialism in the English Renaissance, 1540-1625(1998); and Spenser'sIrishExperience: Wilde Fruyt andSalvage Soyl(1997). He has also edited a number, most recently, with Matthew Dimmock,Religions of the Book: Co-existence and Conflict, 1400-1660(2008), and with Raymond Gillespie,The OxfordHistory of the Irish Book, Vol. III: The Irish Book in English, 1550-1800(2006). He is a regular reviewer for the TLS. Constance Jordanis Professor Emerita of English at Claremont Graduate University. She is the author ofRenaissance Feminism:  Literary Texts and Political Models, andShakespeare's Monarchies:  Ruler and Subject in the Romances, and co-editor with Karen Cunningham of a forthcoming collection of essays on the Law in Shakespeare. She has received Fellowships from the ACLS, the NEH, and the Folger and the Huntington Libraries.  Her interests include the literature of contact in the Atlantic World, 1500-1680.