title: The Norton Introduction to Literature (Portable Eleventh Edition)
author:  Kelly J. Mays 
description: 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."
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  AUTHOR’S NOTE
   
  This book is about my work with twentysomethings, as a clinical
  psychologist in private practice in Charlottesville, Virginia, and as a clinical
  professor at the University of Virginia, and previously as a clinician in
  Berkeley, California, and a lecturer at University of California, Berkeley.
  Throughout these pages, I do my best to tell the personal, and sometimes
  poignant, stories of the clients and students who taught me about the
  twentysomething