Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1C, The

List of contents

*** denotes selection is new to this edition.
 
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  
fromLetters 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  fromThe Complaint  
William Collins  Ode to Evening  • Ode Occasioned by the Death of Mr. Thomson  
William Cowper  fromThe 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  

About the author

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-volumeLongman 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.
         

Summary

The Longman Anthology of British Literatureis 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.

Product details

• Authors: David Damrosch, Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Stuart Sherman
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2009
• EAN: 9780205655274
• ISBN: 978-0-205-65527-4
• No. of pages: 846
• Series: Longman; Longman
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies