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."
zlib_text: THE NORTON INTRODUCTION TO
  LITERATURE
  SHORTER T WELF TH EDITION
  
  THE NORTON INTRODUCTION TO 
  LITERATURE
  SH O RTER T WELF TH EDITIO N
  KELLY J. MAYS
  U N I V E R S I T Y  O F  N E VA DA ,  L A S  V E G A S
  B  W .  W .  N O R T O N  &  C O M P A N Y  
  N e w  Y o r k ,  L o n d o n
  
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