The Norton Anthology of Western Literature, Volume 2
Heather James, Ph.D. Berkeley,  is Associate Professor of English at the  University of Southern California. She is the  author of Shakespeare’s Troy: Drama,  Politics, and the Translation of Empire.Sarah Lawall, Ph.D. Yale, is  Professor of Comparative Literature at the  University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her  publications include Critics of  Consciousness: The Existential Structures of  Literature and Reading World  Literature: Theory, History, Practice.Lee Patterson, Ph.D. Yale, is F. W. Hilles Professor of English at Yale  University. He is the author of Chaucer and  the Subject of History; Literary  Practice and Social Change in Britain,  1380–1530; and Negotiating the Past:  The Historical Understanding of Medieval  Literature.Patricia Meyer Spacks, Ph.D. Berkeley, is Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Her publications include An Argument of Images: The Poetry of Alexander Pope; The Female Imagination; The Adolescent Idea: Myths of Youth and the Adult Imagination; Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels; and Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind.William G. Thalmann, Ph.D. Yale, is Professor of Classics at the University of  Southern California. His publications include  The Swineherd and the Bow: Representations  of Class in the Odyssey.