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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
The Fourth Edition of The Longman Anthology of British Literature continues its tradition of presenting works in the historical context in which they were written. This fresh approach includes writers from the British Isles, underrepresented female authors, “Perspectives” sectionsthatshed light on the period as a whole and link with immediately surrounding works to help illuminate a theme, “And Its Time” clusters that illuminate a specific cultural moment or a debate to which an author is responding, and “Responses” in which later authors respond to one or more texts from earlier works.
The Longman Anthology of British Literature is the most comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged text in the field, offering a rich selection of compelling British authors through the ages.
With its first edition, The Longman Anthology of British Literature created a new paradigm for anthologies. Responding to major shifts in literary studies over the past thirty years, it was the first collection to pay sustained attention to the contexts within which literature is produced, even as it broadened the scope of that literature to embrace the full cultural diversity of the British Isles. Within its pages, canonical authors mingle with newly visible writers; English accents are heard next to Anglo-Norman, Welsh, Gaelic, and Scottish ones; female and male voices are set in dialogue; literature from the British Isles is integrated with post-colonial writing; and major works are illuminated by clusters of shorter texts that bring literary, social, and historical issues vividly to life.
Fresh and up-to-date introductions and notes are written by an editorial team whose members are all actively engaged in teaching and in current scholarship, and 150 illustrations show both artistic and cultural developments from the medieval period to the present.
The Fourth Edition builds on the pioneering features of the previous three editions, expanding the strong core of frequently taught works while continuing to lead the way in responding to the shifting interests of the discipline.
· 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.
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.
· 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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| Subjects | Literature, english, British literature, higher education, Language Arts / Literacy |