The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2B: The Victorian Age

by Damrosch, David; Manning, Peter; Henderson, Heather; Schotter, Anne; Sharpe, William; Sherman, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9780321067661
• ISBN10: 0321067665
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

"The Longman Compact Anthology of British Literature" is a concise and thoughtfully arranged survey of British literature. 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. Readers interested in British Literature.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiv
The Victorian Age	1032	(420)
Thomas Carlyle	1057	(36)
Sartor Resartus	1059	(23)
The Everlasting No	1059	(4)
Centre of Indifference	1063	(7)
The Everlasting Yea	1070	(6)
Natural Supernaturalism	1076	(6)
Past and Present	1082	(11)
Midas (The Condition of England)	1082	(3)
from Gospel of Mammonism (The Irish Widow)	1085	(1)
from Labour (Know Thy Work)	1086	(1)
from Democracy (Liberty to Die by Starvation)	1087	(2)
Captains of Industry	1089	(4)
Perspectives: The Industrial Landscape	1093	(2)
The Steam Loom Weaver	1095	(1)
Fanny Kemble	1096	(2)
from Record of a Girlhood	1097	(1)
Thomas Babington Macaulay	1098	(2)
from A Review of Southey's Colloquies	1098	(2)
Parliamentary Papers (``Blue Books'')	1100	(2)
Testimony of Hannah Goode, a Child Textile Worker	1100	(1)
Testimony of Ann and Elizabeth Eggley, Child Mineworkers	1101	(1)
Charles Dickens	1102	(3)
from Dombey and Son	1102	(1)
from Hard Times	1103	(2)
Benjamin Disraeli	1105	(1)
from Sybil	1105	(1)
Friedrich Engels	1106	(8)
from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844	1106	(8)
Henry Mayhew	1114	(6)
from London Labour and the London Poor	1114	(6)
John Stuart Mill	1120	(31)
On Liberty	1121	(11)
from Chapter 2. Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion	1121	(3)
from Chapter 3. Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being	1124	(8)
The Subjection of Women	1132	(9)
from Chapter 1	1132	(9)
Statement Repudiating the Rights of Husbands	1141	(1)
Autobiography	1142	(9)
from Chapter 1. Childhood, and Early Education	1142	(2)
from Chapter 5. A Crisis in My Mental History. One Stage Onward	1144	(7)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1151	(33)
To George Sand: A Desire	1153	(1)
To George Sand: A Recognition	1153	(1)
A Year's Spinning	1154	(1)
Sonnets from the Portuguese	1155	(3)
1 (``I thought once how Theocritus had sung'')	1155	(1)
13 (``And wilt thou have me fashion into speech'')	1155	(1)
14 (``If thou must love me, let it be for nought'')	1155	(1)
21 (``Say over again, and yet once over again'')	1156	(1)
22 (``When our two souls stand up erect and strong'')	1156	(1)
24 (``Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife'')	1156	(1)
28 (``My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!'')	1157	(1)
32 (``The first time that the sun rose on thine oath'')	1157	(1)
38 (``First time he kissed me, he but only kissed'')	1157	(1)
43 (``How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.'')	1158	(1)
Aurora Leigh	1158	(24)
Book 1	1158	(1)
(Self-Portrait)	1158	(2)
(Her Mother's Portrait)	1160	(1)
(Aurora's Education)	1161	(5)
(Discovery of Poetry)	1166	(2)
Book 2	1168	(1)
(Woman and Artist)	1168	(3)
(No Female Christ)	1171	(1)
(Aurora's Rejection of Romney)	1172	(4)
Book 3	1176	(1)
(The Woman Writer in London)	1176	(3)
Book 5	1179	(1)
(Epic Art and Modern Life)	1179	(3)
from A Curse for a Nation	1182	(1)
A Musical Instrument	1183	(1)
The Best Thing in the World	1184	(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1184	(98)
The Kraken	1187	(1)
Mariana	1187	(2)
The Lady of Shalott	1189	(5)
The Lotos-Eaters	1194	(4)
Ulysses	1198	(2)
Tithonus	1200	(1)
Break, Break, Break	1201	(1)
The Epic (Morte d'Arthur)	1202	(2)
The Eagle: A Fragment	1204	(1)
Locksley Hall	1204	(6)
The Princess	1210	(1)
Sweet and Low	1210	(1)
The Splendour Falls	1210	(1)
Tears, Idle Tears	1211	(1)
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal	1211	(1)
Come Down, O Maid	1212	(1)
(``The Woman's Cause Is Man's'')	1213	(1)
from In Memoriam A. H. H.	1214	(29)
The Charge of the Light Brigade	1243	(2)
Idylls of the King	1245	(35)
The Coming of Arthur	1245	(12)
Pelleas and Ettarre	1257	(13)
The Passing of Arthur	1270	(10)
The Higher Pantheism	1280	(1)
Flower in the Crannied Wall	1281	(1)
Crossing the Bar	1281	(1)
Charles Darwin	1282	(31)
The Voyage of the Beagle	1283	(10)
from Chapter 10. Tierra del Fuego	1283	(6)
from Chapter 17. Galapagos Archipelago	1289	(4)
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection	1293	(5)
from Chapter 3. Struggle for Existence	1293	(5)
The Descent of Man	1298	(6)
from Chapter 21. General Summary and Conclusion	1298	(6)
from Autobiography	1304	(9)
Perspectives: Religion and Science	1313	(1)
Thomas Babington Macaulay	1314	(1)
from Lord Bacon	1314	(1)
Charles Dickens	1315	(3)
from Sunday Under Three Heads	1315	(3)
David Friedrich Strauss	1318	(3)
from The Life of Jesus Critically Examined	1318	(3)
Charlotte Bronte	1321	(2)
from Jane Eyre	1321	(2)
Arthur Hugh Clough	1323	(2)
Epi-strauss-ium	1323	(1)
The Latest Decalogue	1324	(1)
from Dipsychus	1324	(1)
John William Colenso	1325	(2)
from The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined	1326	(1)
John Henry Cardinal Newman	1327	(7)
from Apologia Pro Vita Sua	1328	(6)
Thomas Henry Huxley	1334	(6)
from Evolution and Ethies	1335	(5)
Sir Edmund Gosse	1340	(5)
from Father and Son	1340	(5)
Robert Browning	1345	(49)
Porphyria's Lover	1348	(1)
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister	1349	(2)
My Last Duchess	1351	(1)
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix	1352	(2)
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad	1354	(1)
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea	1354	(1)
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church	1355	(3)
Meeting at Night	1358	(1)
Parting at Morning	1358	(1)
A Toccata of Galuppi's	1358	(2)
Memorabilia	1360	(1)
Love Among the Ruins	1360	(2)
``Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came''	1362	(5)
Fra Lippo Lippi	1367	(8)
The Last Ride Together	1375	(3)
Andrea Del Sarto	1378	(6)
Two in the Campagna	1384	(1)
A Woman's Last Word	1385	(2)
Caliban Upon Setebos	1387	(6)
Epilogue to Asolando	1393	(1)
Charles Dickens	1394	(58)
A Christmas Carol	1396	(48)
from A Walk in a Workhouse	1444	(8)
Dickens at Work: Recollections by His Children and Friends	1448	(2)
Kate Field: Dickens Giving a Reading of A Christmas Carol	1450	(2)
Popular Short Fiction	1452	(537)
Elizabeth Gaskell	1452	(15)
Our Society at Cranford	1453	(14)
Robert Louis Stevenson	1467	(9)
Thrawn Janet	1468	(8)
Thomas hardy	1476	(19)
The Withered Arm	1477	(18)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	1495	(15)
A Scandal in Bohemia	1495	(15)
Edith Nesbit	1510	(11)
Fortunatus Rex & Co.	1511	(10)
George Eliot	1521	(32)
Brother Jacob	1522	(26)
Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft	1548	(5)
John Ruskin	1553	(30)
Modern Painters	1554	(6)
from Definition of Greatness in Art	1554	(1)
from Of Water, As Painted by Turner	1555	(1)
from Of Modern landscape	1556	(4)
The Stones of Venice	1560	(10)
from The Nature of Gothic	1560	(10)
from Modern Manufacture and Design	1570	(3)
Praeterita	1573	(10)
Preface	1573	(1)
from The Springs of Wandel	1574	(2)
from Herne-Hill Almond Blossoms	1576	(2)
from Schaffhausen and Milan	1578	(2)
from The Grande Chartreuse	1580	(2)
from Joanna's Care	1582	(1)
Florence Nightingale	1583	(17)
Cassandra	1583	(17)
Perspectives: Victorian Ladies and Gentlemen	1600	(2)
Francis Power Cobbe	1602	(4)
from Life of Frances Power Cobbe As Told by Herself	1602	(4)
Sarah Stickney Ellis	1606	(3)
from The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits	1606	(3)
Charlotte Bronte	1609	(2)
from Letter to Emily Bronte	1609	(2)
Anne Bronte	1611	(1)
from Agnes Grey	1611	(1)
John Henry Cardinal Newman	1612	(1)
from The Idea of a University	1612	(1)
Caroline Norton	1613	(3)
from A Letter to the Queen	1614	(2)
Thomas Hughes	1616	(2)
from Tom Brown's School Days	1616	(2)
Harriet Martineau	1618	(3)
from What Women Are Educated For	1618	(3)
Isabella Beeton	1621	(2)
from The Book of Household Management	1621	(2)
Queen Victoria	1623	(5)
Letters and Journal Entries on the Position of Women	1623	(5)
Charles Kingsley	1628	(1)
from Letters and Memories	1628	(1)
Sir Henry Newbolt	1629	(1)
Vitai Lampada	1629	(1)
Matthew Arnold	1630	(63)
Isolation. To Marguerite	1632	(1)
To Marguerite---Continued	1633	(1)
Dover Beach	1634	(1)
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens	1635	(1)
The Buried Life	1636	(2)
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse	1638	(5)
The Scholar-Gipsy	1643	(6)
East London	1649	(1)
West London	1649	(1)
Thyrsis	1650	(6)
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time	1656	(17)
Culture and Anarchy	1673	(14)
from Sweetness and Light	1673	(2)
from Doing as One Likes	1675	(6)
from Hebraism and Hellenism	1681	(2)
from Porro Unum Est Necessarium	1683	(3)
from Conclusion	1686	(1)
from The Study of Poetry	1687	(6)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti	1693	(12)
The Blessed Damozel	1694	(4)
The Woodspurge	1698	(1)
The House of Life	1699	(1)
The Sonnet	1699	(1)
4. Lovesight	1699	(1)
6. The Kiss	1699	(1)
Nuptial Sleep	1700	(1)
The Burden of Nineveh	1700	(5)
Christina Rossetti	1705	(22)
Song (``She sat and sang alway'')	1706	(1)
Song (``When I am dead, my dearest'')	1706	(1)
Remember	1707	(1)
After Death	1707	(1)
A Pause	1707	(1)
Echo	1708	(1)
Dead Before Death	1708	(1)
Cobwebs	1709	(1)
A Triad	1709	(1)
In an Artist's Studio	1709	(1)
A Birthday	1710	(1)
An Apple-Gathering	1710	(1)
Winter: My Secret	1711	(1)
Up-Hill	1712	(1)
Goblin Market	1712	(12)
``No, Thank You, John''	1724	(1)
Promises Like Pie-Crust	1725	(1)
In Progress	1725	(1)
What I Would Give?	1726	(1)
A Life's Parallels	1726	(1)
Later Life
17 (``Something this foggy day, a something which'')	1726	(1)
Sleeping at last	1727	(1)
William Morris	1727	(18)
The Defence of Guenevere	1728	(7)
The Haystack in the Floods	1735	(4)
from The Beauty of Life	1739	(6)
Algernon Charles Swinburne	1745	(13)
The Leper	1746	(4)
The Triumph of Time	1750	(1)
I Will Go Back to the Great Sweet Mother	1750	(1)
Itylus	1751	(1)
Hymn to Proserpine	1752	(3)
A Forsaken Garden	1755	(2)
The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell	1757	(1)
Walter pater	1758	(19)
The Renaissance	1759	(6)
Preface	1759	(3)
from Leonardo da Vinci	1762	(1)
Conclusion	1763	(2)
from The Child in the House	1765	(6)
Appreciations	1771	(6)
from Syle	1771	(6)
Gerard Manley Hopkins	1777	(12)
God's Grandeur	1778	(1)
The Starlight Night	1779	(1)
Spring	1779	(1)
The Windhover	1780	(1)
Pied Beauty	1780	(1)
Hurrahing in Harvest	1780	(1)
Binsey Poplars	1781	(1)
Duns Scotus's Oxford	1781	(1)
Felix Randal	1782	(1)
Spring and Fall: to a young child	1782	(1)
As Kingfishers Catch Fire	1783	(1)
(Carrion Comfort)	1783	(1)
No Worst, There Is None	1784	(1)
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day	1784	(1)
That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection	1784	(1)
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord	1785	(1)
from Journal (On ``Inscape'' and ``Instress'')	1786	(2)
from Letter to R.W. Dixon (On Sprung Rhythm)	1788	(1)
Rudyard Kipling	1789	(24)
Without Benefit of Clergy	1790	(14)
Just so Stories	1804	(1)
How the Whale Got His Throat	1804	(2)
How the Camel Got His Hump	1806	(2)
Gunga Din	1808	(2)
The Widow at Windsor	1810	(1)
Recessional	1811	(1)
If---	1812	(1)
Perspectives: Travel and Empire	1813	(1)
Frances Trollope	1814	(6)
from Domestic Manners of the Americans	1814	(6)
Alexander William Kinglake	1820	(7)
from Eothen	1820	(7)
Sir Richard Francis Burton	1827	(5)
from A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah	1827	(5)
Isabella Bird	1832	(7)
from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains	1832	(7)
Sir Henry Morton Stanley	1839	(7)
from Through the Dark Continent	1839	(7)
Mary Kingsley	1846	(8)
from Travels in West Africa	1846	(8)
Oscar Wilde	1854	(82)
Impression du Matin	1856	(1)
The Harlot's House	1857	(1)
Symphony in Yellow	1858	(1)
from The Decay of Lying	1858	(15)
from The Soul of Man Under Socialism	1873	(8)
Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray	1881	(1)
The Importance of Being Earnest	1882	(40)
Aphorisms	1922	(2)
from De Profundis	1924	(12)
from The Trials of Oscar Wilde	1931	(5)
H. Montgomery Hyde
Perspectives: Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Fin De Siecle	1936	(2)
W.S. Gilbert	1938	(2)
If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line	1938	(2)
James Abbott Mcneill Whistler	1940	(5)
from Mr. Whistler's ``Ten O'Clock''	1941	(4)
``Michael Field''(Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper)	1945	(2)
La Gioconda	1946	(1)
A Pen-Drawing of Leda	1946	(1)
``A Girl''	1946	(1)
Ada Leverson	1947	(5)
Suggestion	1947	(5)
Arthur Symons	1952	(4)
Pastel	1953	(1)
White Heliotrope	1953	(1)
from The Decadent Movement in Literature	1954	(1)
from Preface to Silhouettes	1955	(1)
Richard Le Gallienne	1956	(1)
A Ballad of London	1956	(1)
Lionel Johnson	1957	(3)
The Destroyer of a Soul	1958	(1)
The Dark Angel	1958	(2)
A Decadent's Lyric	1960	(1)
Lord Alfred Douglas	1960	(3)
In Praise of Shame	1961	(1)
Two Loves	1961	(2)
Impression de Nuit	1963	(1)
Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas)	1963	(3)
The Masquerade	1964	(1)
Statues	1965	(1)
The White Witch	1965	(1)
Aubrey Beardsley	1966	(3)
The Ballad of a Barber	1966	(3)
Max Beerbohm	1969	(20)
Enoch Soames	1969	(20)
Political and Religious Orders	1989	(6)
Money, Weights, and Measures	1995	(2)
Literary and Cultural Terms	1997	(24)
Bibliography	2021	(16)
Acknowledgments	2037	(4)
Credits	2041	(1)
Index	2042