Longman Anthology of British Literature, The

Longman Anthology of British Literature, The

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·   Generous coverage of fiction, drama, and poetry alike.  Major prose works are included in their entirety, together with a wealth of poetry and drama, from newspaper articles to Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels  to Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera–and beyond.

·   Cultural breadth. Regional as well as metropolitan perspectives, religious as well as secular writing, popular as well as elite productions, classic works, newly recovered texts, and Irish, Welsh, and Scottish writers all combine to represent the full scope of the British literary tradition.

·   Women’s writing. Extensive selections from a wide range of writers, fully integrated in each period, include such writers as Margaret Cavendish, Mary Astell, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Hester Salusbury Thrale Piozzi.

·   “Perspectives” sections. These groupings shed light on the period as a whole and link with immediately surrounding works to help illuminate a theme.

·   “…and Its Time” sections. These shorter groupings show major works in the context of their own era. For example, “”Gulliver’s Travels And Its Time: Letters on Gulliver’s Travels” 

·   Rich illustration program. An unrivalled collection of both black-and-white and color illustrations include portraits of major authors as well as images to illustrate artistic and cultural developments.

·   Complete Longer Works.  The Longman Anthology of British Literature contains a wide variety of complete longer works from all periods including The Country Wife, The Beggar’s Opera, and many more. 

 

·         New Fact Sheets. An informative fact sheet opens the volume, providing an easily digestible glimpse of daily life during the Restoration period. 

 

·         A newly edited section on Alexander Pope.  

 

·         Easier Navigation.  Revised indexes in the frontmatter and endmatter of the book link the Website, Audio CD, Longman Cultural Editions, and main text to make the complete range of resources better integrated and easier to use.

 

·         New Media Supplement.  A new Web site includes an archive of valuable texts that we were not able to include in the most recent edition, detailed bibliographies, an interactive timeline, and multiple choice comprehension quizzes, discussion questions, and web resources for major selections and authors.  These resources may be accessed by going to www.myliteraturekit.com 

 

·         New Longman Cultural Editions. One at no additional charge when bundled with the anthology, this series of supplemental texts presents key works from every era of the British literary tradition, introduced, annotated, and framed with contextual readings and illustrations by major scholars in the field. Recent new additions to the series include Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Forster’s Howards End, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, and collection of writings by Dorothy Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley. 

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THE RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

SAMUEL PEPYS

The Diary

[First Entries]

[The Coronation of Charles II]

[The Plague Year]

[The Fire of London]

Pepys’s Diary and Its Time

John Evelyn from Kalendarium

Response

Robert Louis Stevenson: from Samuel Pepys

PERSPECTIVES: THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND THE NEW SCIENCE

Thomas Sprat

from The History of the Royal Society of London

Philosophical Transactions

from Philosophical Transactions

Robert Hooke

from Micrographia

John Aubrey

from Brief Lives

MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE

Poems and Fancies

The Poetress’s Hasty Resolution

The Poetress’s Petition

An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book

The Hunting of the Hare

from A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life

Observations upon Experimental Philosophy

Of Micrography, and of Magnifying and Multiplying Glasses

The Description of a New Blazing World

from To the Reader

[Creating Worlds]

[Empress, Duchess, Duke]

Epilogue

JOHN DRYDEN

Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem

Mac Flecknoe

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

Alexander’s Feast

Fables Ancient and Modern

from Preface

The Secular Masque

APHRA BEHN

The Disappointment

To Lysander, on Some Verses He Writ

To Lysander at the Music-Meeting

A Letter to Mr. Creech at Oxford

To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More than Woman

Oroonoko

Response

Thomas Southerne: from Oroonoko: A Tragedy

PERSPECTIVES: COTERIE WRITING

Mary, Lady Chudleigh

To the Ladies

To Almystrea

Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

The Introduction

Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia

A Nocturnal Reverie

A Ballad to Mrs. Catherine Fleming in London from Malshanger Farm in Hampshire

Mary Leapor

The Headache. To Aurelia

Mira To Octavia

An Epistle to Artemisia. On Fame

Advice to Sophronia

The Epistle of Deborah Dough

JOHN WILMOT, EART OF ROCHESTER

Against Constancy

The Disabled Debauchee

Song (“Love a woman? You’re an ass!”)

The Imperfect Enjoyment

Upon Nothing

A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind

WILLIAM WYCHERLEY

The Country Wife

MARY ASTELL

from Some Reflections upon Marriage

DANIEL DEFOE

A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal

A Journal of the Plague Year

[At the Burial Pit]

[Encounter with a Waterman]

PERSPECTIVES: READING PAPERS

News and Comment

from Mercurius Publicus [Anniversary of the Regicide]

from The London Gazette [The Fire of London]

from The Daily Courant No. 1 [Editorial Policy]

Daniel Defoe: from A Review of the State of the British Nation, Vol. 4, No. 21 [The New Union]

Periodical Personae

Richard Steele: from Tatler No. 1 [Introducing Mr. Bickerstaff]

Joseph Addison: from Spectator No. 1 [Introducing Mr. Spectator]

from Female Spectator, Vol. 1, No. 1 [The Author’s Intent]

Richard Steele: from Tatler No. 18 [The News Writers in Danger]

Joseph Addison: from Tatler No. 155 [The Political Upholsterer]

Joseph Addison: from Spectator No. 10 [The Spectator and Its Readers]

Getting, Spending, Speculating

Joseph Addison: Spectator No. 69 [Royal Exchange]

Richard Steele: Spectator No. 11 [Inkle and Yarico]

Daniel Defoe: from A Review of the State of the British Nation, Vol. 1, No. 43 [Weak Foundations]

Advertisements from the Spectator

JONATHAN SWIFT

A Description of the Morning

A Description of a City Shower

Stella’s Birthday, 1719

Stella’s Birthday, 1727

The Lady’s Dressing Room

Response

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: The Reasons that induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called The Lady’s Dressing Room

Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.

Journal to Stella

from Letter 10

Gulliver’s Travels

from Part 3. A Voyage to Laputa

Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms

“Gulliver’s Travels” and Its Time

from Letters on Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift to Alexander Pope Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift John Gay to Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift to Alexander Pope “The Prince of Lilliput” to Stella

A Modest Proposal

“A Modest Proposal” and Its Time

William Petty from Political Arithmetic

ALEXANDER POPE

An Essay on Criticism

Windsor-Forest

The Rape of the Lock

The Iliad

from Book 12 [Sarpedon’s Speech]

Eloisa to Abelard

from An Essay on Man

Epistle 1

To the Reader

The Design

Argument

An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot

An Epistle To a Lady: Of the Characters of Women

Epistle 2. To a Lady: Of the Characters of Women

Response

Mary Leapor: An Essay on Woman

from The Dunciad

from Book the Fourth

[The Goddess Coming in Her Majesty]

[The Geniuses of the Schools]

[Young Gentlemen Returned from Travel]

[The Minute Philosophers and the Consummation of All]

LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU

from The Turkish Embassy Letters

To Lady–[On the Turkish Baths]

To Lady Mar [On Turkish Dress]

Letter to Lady Bute [On Her Granddaughter]

Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband

The Lover: A Ballad

JOHN GAY

The Beggar’s Opera

WILLIAM HOGARTH

A Rake’s Progress

PERSPECTIVES: MIND AND GOD

Isaac Newton

from Letter to Richard Bentley

John Locke

from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Isaac Watts

A Prospect of Heaven Makes Death Easy

The Hurry of the Spirits, in a Fever and Nervous Disorders

Against Idleness and Mischief

Man Frail, and God Eternal

Miracles Attending Israel’s Journey

Joseph Addison

Spectator No. 465

George Berkeley

from Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

David Hume

from A Treatise of Human Nature

from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Christopher Smart

from Jubilate Agno

William Cowper

Light Shining out of Darkness

from The Task

The Cast-away

JAMES THOMSON

from Winter. A Poem

[Autumn Evening and Night]

[Winter Night]

from The Seasons

from Autumn

Rule, Britannia

“The Seasons” and Its Time

Poems of Nightfall and Night

Edward Young from The Complaint

William Collins Ode to Evening • Ode Occasioned by the Death of Mr. Thomson

William Cowper from The Task

THOMAS GRAY

Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

SAMUEL JOHNSON

The Vanity of Human Wishes

A Short Song of Congratulation

On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet

The Rambler

No. 4 [On Fiction]

No. 5 [On Spring]

No. 60 [On Biography]

No. 170 [On Misella, a Prostitute]

No. 171 [Misella Continues]

No. 207 [Beginnings, Middles, and Ends]

The Idler

No. 31 [On Idleness]

No. 32 [On Sleep]

No. 84 [On Autobiography]

No. 97 [On Travel Writing]

A Dictionary of the English Language

from Preface

[Some Entries]

from The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

Chapter 8. The History of Imlac

Chapter 9. The History of Imlac Continued

Chapter 10. Imlac’s History Continued. A Dissertation upon Poetry

Chapter 11. Imlac’s Narrative Continued. A Hint on Pilgrimage

Chapter 12. The Story of Imlac Continued

from The Plays of William Shakespeare

Preface

[“Just Representations of General Nature”]

[Faults; The Unities]

[Selected Notes on Othello]

Lives of the Poets

from The Life of Milton

from The Life of Pope

Letters

To Lord Chesterfield (7 February 1755)

To Hester Thrale (19 June 1783)

To Hester Thrale Piozzi (2 July 1784)

To Hester Thrale Piozzi (8 July 1784)

JAMES BOSWELL

from London Journal

[A Scot in London]

[Louisa]

[First Meeting with Johnson]

An Account of My Last Interview with David Hume, Esq.

from The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

[Introduction; Boswell’s Method]

[Conversations about Hume]

[Dinner with Wilkes]

[Conversations at Streatham and the Club]

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The Deserted Village

Responses

George Crabbe: from The Village

George Crabbe: from The Parish Register

PERSPECTIVES: NOVEL GUISES

Daniel Defoe

from The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Eliza Haywood

Fantomina: Or, Love in a Maze

Samuel Richardson

from Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady

from The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Baronet

Henry Fielding

from An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews

Laurence Sterne

from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Frances Burney

from The Early Journals

from Evelina; or, the History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World Evelina to the Reverend Mr. Villars

Literature Association, and has written widely on world literature from antiquity to the present. His books include What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and How to Read World Literature (2009). He is the founding general editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature, 2/e (2009) and the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009).

Kevin J. H. Dettmar is W. M. Keck Professor and Chair, Department of English, at Pomona College, and Past President of the Modernist Studies Association. He is the author of The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism and Is Rock Dead?, and the editor of Rereading 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’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners; and The Blackwell Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture, and co-general editor of The Longman Anthology of British Literature.

Stuart Sherman is Associate Professor of English at Fordham University. He received the Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for his book Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660-1775, and is currently at work on a study called “News and Plays: Evanescences of Page and Stage, 1620-1779.” He has received the Quantrell Award for Undergraduate Teaching, as well as fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Chicago Humanities Institute, and Princeton University.

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