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

by Damrosch, David; Henderson, Heather; Sharpe, William Chapman

• ISBN13: 9780321106698
• ISBN10: 0321106695
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

Volume 2B: The Victorian Age of The Longman Anthology of British Literature is a comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged anthology that offers a rich selection of major British authors throughout the Victorian age. The anthology includes Perspectives and Companion Readings which show how major literary writings interrelate with and respond to various social, historical, and cultural events of Great Britain in the Victorian period. With a generous representation of fiction, drama, and poetry, the second edition includes major additions of important works and an expanded illustration program. 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 illustrations show both artistic and cultural developments of the period. For those interested in British Literature of the Victorian Period.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xvii
Preface	xix
Acknowledgments	xxv
Political and Religious Orders	xxviii
The Victorian Age	1008	(39)
Thomas Carlyle	1033	(14)
Past and Present	1035	(12)
Midas [The Condition of England]	1035	(3)
from Gospel of Mammonism [The Irish Widow]	1038	(1)
from Labour [Know Thy Work]	1039	(1)
from Democracy [Liberty to Die by Starvation]	1040	(2)
Captains of Industry	1042	(5)
PERSPECTIVES The Industrial Landscape	1047	(226)
The Steam Loom Weaver	1049	(1)
Fanny Kemble	1050	(1)
from Record of a Girlhood	1050	(1)
Thomas Babington Macaulay	1051	(2)
from A Review of Southey's Colloquies	1051	(2)
Parliamentary Papers (``Blue Books'')	1053	(2)
Testimony of Hannah Goode, a Child Textile Worker	1054	(1)
Testimony of Ann and Elizabeth Eggley, Child Mineworkers	1054	(1)
Charles Dickens	1055	(4)
from Dombey and Son	1056	(1)
from Hard Times	1057	(2)
Benjamin Disraeli	1059	(1)
from Sybil	1059	(1)
Friedrich Engels	1060	(8)
from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844	1060	(8)
Henry Mayhew	1068	(5)
from London Labour and the London Poor	1068	(5)
John Stuart Mill	1073	(32)
On Liberty	1075	(11)
from Chapter 2. Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion	1075	(3)
from Chapter 3. Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being	1078	(8)
The Subjection of Women	1086	(9)
from Chapter 1	1086	(9)
Statement Repudiating the Rights of Husbands	1095	(1)
Autobiography	1095	(10)
from Chapter 1. Childhood, and Early Education	1095	(3)
from Chapter 5. A Crisis in My Mental History. One Stage Onward	1098	(7)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1105	(31)
To George Sand: A Desire	1107	(1)
To George Sand: A Recognition	1107	(1)
A Year's Spinning	1107	(1)
Sonnets from the Portuguese	1108	(4)
1 (``I thought once how Theocritus had sung'')	1108	(1)
13 (``And wilt thou have me fashion into speech'')	1109	(1)
14 (``If thou must love me, let it be for nought'')	1109	(1)
21 (``Say over again, and yet once over again'')	1109	(1)
22 (``When our two souls stand up erect and strong'')	1110	(1)
24 (``Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife'')	1110	(1)
28 (``My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!'')	1110	(1)
32 (``The first time that the sun rose on thine oath'')	1111	(1)
38 (``First time he kissed me, he but only kissed'')	1111	(1)
43 (``How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'')	1111	(1)
Aurora Leigh	1112	(21)
Book 1	1112	(1)
[Self-Portrait]	1112	(2)
[Her Mother's Portrait]	1114	(1)
[Aurora's Education]	1115	(3)
[Discovery of Poetry]	1118	(2)
Book 2	1120	(1)
[Woman and Artist]	1120	(3)
[No Female Christ]	1123	(1)
[Aurora's Rejection of Romney]	1124	(4)
Book 3	1128	(1)
[The Woman Writer in London]	1128	(3)
Book 5	1131	(1)
[Epic Art and Modem Life]	1131	(2)
from A Curse for a Nation	1133	(2)
A Musical Instrument	1135	(1)
The Best Thing in the World	1136	(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1136	(94)
The Kraken	1139	(1)
Mariana	1139	(2)
The Lady of Shalott	1141	(5)
The Lotos-Eaters	1146	(4)
Ulysses	1150	(2)
Tithonus	1152	(1)
Break, Break, Break	1153	(1)
The Epic [Morte d'Arthur]	1154	(2)
The Eagle: A Fragment	1156	(1)
Locksley Hall	1156	(5)
The Princess	1161	(1)
Sweet and Low	1161	(1)
The Splendour Falls	1162	(1)
Tears, Idle Tears	1162	(1)
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal	1163	(1)
Come Down, O Maid	1163	(1)
[The Woman's Cause Is Man's]	1164	(1)
from In Memoriam A. H. H.	1165	(30)
The Charge of the Light Brigade	1195	(1)
Idylls of the King	1196	(32)
The Coming of Arthur	1196	(9)
Pelleas and Ettarre	1205	(13)
The Passing of Arthur	1218	(10)
The Higher Pantheism	1228	(1)
Flower in the Crannied Wall	1229	(1)
Crossing the Bar	1229	(1)
Edward Fitzgerald	1230	(13)
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur	1231	(12)
Charles Darwin	1243	(30)
The Voyage of the Beagle	1245	(9)
from Chapter 10. Tierra Del Fuego	1245	(6)
from Chapter 17. Galapagos Archipelago	1251	(3)
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection	1254	(5)
from Chapter 3. Struggle for Existence	1254	(5)
The Descent of Man	1259	(6)
from Chapter 21. General Summary and Conclusion	1259	(6)
from Autobiography	1265	(8)
PERSPECTIVES Religion and Science	1273	(242)
Thomas Babington Macaulay	1274	(1)
from Lord Bacon	1274	(1)
Charles Dickens	1275	(3)
from Sunday Under Three Heads	1275	(3)
David Friedrich Strauss	1278	(3)
from The Life of Jesus Critically Examined	1278	(3)
Charlotte Bronte	1281	(2)
from Jane Eyre	1281	(2)
Arthur Hugh Clough	1283	(2)
Epi-strauss-ium	1283	(1)
The Latest Decalogue	1284	(1)
from Dipsychus	1284	(1)
John William Colenso	1285	(2)
from The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined	1286	(1)
John Henry Cardinal Newman	1287	(7)
from Apologia Pro Vita Sua	1288	(6)
Thomas Henry Huxley	1294	(6)
from Evolution and Ethics	1295	(5)
Sir Edmund Gosse	1300	(5)
from Father and Son	1300	(5)
Robert Browning	1305	(50)
Porphyria's Lover	1308	(1)
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister	1309	(2)
My Last Duchess	1311	(1)
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix	1312	(2)
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad	1314	(1)
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea	1314	(1)
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church	1315	(3)
Meeting at Night	1318	(1)
Parting at Morning	1318	(1)
A Toccata of Galuppi's	1318	(2)
Memorabilia	1320	(1)
Love Among the Ruins	1321	(2)
``Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came''	1323	(5)
Fra Lippo Lippi	1328	(8)
The Last Ride Together	1336	(3)
Andrea del Sarto	1339	(6)
Two in the Campagna	1345	(1)
A Woman's Last Word	1346	(2)
Caliban Upon Setebos	1348	(6)
Epilogue to Asolando	1354	(1)
Charles Dickens	1355	(58)
A Christmas Carol	1357	(48)
from A Walk in a Workhouse	1405	(8)
Companion Readings
Dickens at Work: Recollections by His Children and Friends	1409	(2)
Kate Field: Dickens Giving a Reading of A Christmas Carol	1411	(2)
Popular Short Fiction	1413	(1)
Elizabeth Gaskell	1413	(16)
Our Society at Cranford	1414	(15)
Thomas Hardy	1429	(18)
The Withered Arm	1429	(18)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	1447	(16)
A Scandal in Bohemia	1448	(15)
Edith Nesbit	1463	(10)
Fortunatus Rex & Co.	1463	(10)
John Ruskin	1473	(24)
Modern Painters	1474	(2)
from Definition of Greatness in Art	1474	(1)
from Of Water, As Painted by Turner	1475	(1)
The Stones of Venice	1476	(9)
from The Nature of Gothic	1476	(9)
from Modern Manufacture and Design	1485	(3)
Praeterita	1488	(9)
Preface	1488	(1)
from The Springs of Wandel	1489	(2)
from Heme-Hill Almond Blossoms	1491	(2)
from Schaffhausen and Milan	1493	(1)
from The Grande Chartreuse	1494	(2)
from Joanna's Care	1496	(1)
Florence Nightingale	1497	(18)
Cassandra	1498	(17)
PERSPECTIVES Victorian Ladies and Gentlemen	1515	(190)
Frances Power Cobbe	1517	(4)
from Life of Frances Power Cobbe As Told by Herself	1517	(4)
Sarah Stickney Ellis	1521	(3)
from The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits	1521	(3)
Charlotte Bronte	1524	(2)
from Letter to Emily Bronte	1524	(2)
Anne Bronte	1526	(1)
from Agnes Grey	1526	(1)
John Henry Cardinal Newman	1527	(1)
from The Idea of a University	1527	(1)
Caroline Norton	1528	(3)
from A Letter to the Queen	1529	(2)
George Eliot	1531	(5)
Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft	1531	(5)
Thomas Hughes	1536	(2)
from Tom Brown's School Days	1536	(2)
Isabella Beeton	1538	(2)
from The Book of Household Management	1538	(2)
Queen Victoria	1540	(5)
Letters and Journal Entries on the Position of Women	1540	(5)
Charles Kingsley	1545	(1)
from Letters and Memories	1545	(1)
Sir Henry Newbolt	1546	(1)
Vitai Lampada	1546	(1)
Matthew Arnold	1547	(52)
Isolation. To Marguerite	1550	(1)
To Marguerite---Continued	1551	(1)
Dover Beach	1551	(1)
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens	1552	(1)
The Buried Life	1553	(2)
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse	1555	(5)
The Scholar-Gipsy	1560	(6)
East London	1566	(1)
West London	1567	(1)
Thyrsis	1567	(6)
from The Function of Criticism at the Present Time	1573	(10)
Culture and Anarchy	1583	(10)
from Sweetness and Light	1583	(2)
from Doing as One Likes	1585	(4)
from Hebraism and Hellenism	1589	(1)
from Porro Unum Est Necessarium	1590	(2)
from Conclusion	1592	(1)
from The Study of Poetry	1593	(6)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti	1599	(12)
The Blessed Damozel	1601	(3)
The Woodspurge	1604	(1)
The House of Life	1604	(2)
The Sonnet	1604	(1)
4. Lovesight	1605	(1)
6. The Kiss	1605	(1)
Nuptial Sleep	1605	(1)
The Burden of Nineveh	1606	(5)
Christina Rossetti	1611	(22)
Song (``She sat and sang alway'')	1612	(1)
Song (``When I am dead, my dearest'')	1612	(1)
Remember	1613	(1)
After Death	1613	(1)
A Pause	1613	(1)
Echo	1614	(1)
Dead Before Death	1614	(1)
Cobwebs	1615	(1)
A Triad	1615	(1)
In an Artist's Studio	1615	(1)
A Birthday	1616	(1)
An Apple-Gathering	1616	(1)
Winter: My Secret	1617	(1)
Up-Hill	1618	(1)
Goblin Market	1618	(12)
``No, Thank You, John''	1630	(1)
Promises Like Pie-Crust	1631	(1)
In Progress	1631	(1)
What Would I Give?	1632	(1)
A Life's Parallels	1632	(1)
Later Life	1632	(1)
17. (``Something this foggy day, a something which'')	1632	(1)
Sleeping at Last	1633	(1)
William Morris	1633	(18)
The Defence of Guenevere	1634	(7)
The Haystack in the Floods	1641	(4)
from The Beauty of Life	1645	(6)
Algernon Charles Swinburne	1651	(12)
The Leper	1652	(4)
The Triumph of Time	1656	(1)
I Will Go Back to the Great Sweet Mother	1656	(1)
Itylus	1657	(1)
Hymn to Proserpine	1658	(3)
A Forsaken Garden	1661	(2)
The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell	1663	(1)
Walter Pater	1663	(14)
The Renaissance	1665	(6)
Preface	1665	(3)
from Leonardo da Vinci	1668	(1)
Conclusion	1669	(2)
from The Child in the House	1671	(6)
Gerard Manley Hopkins	1677	(12)
God's Grandeur	1679	(1)
The Starlight Night	1679	(1)
Spring	1680	(1)
The Windhover	1680	(1)
Pied Beauty	1681	(1)
Hurrahing in Harvest	1681	(1)
Binsey Poplars	1681	(1)
Duns Scotus's Oxford	1682	(1)
Felix Randal	1682	(1)
Spring and Fall: to a young child	1683	(1)
As Kingfishers Catch Fire	1683	(1)
[Carrion Comfort]	1684	(1)
No Worst, There Is None	1684	(1)
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day	1684	(1)
That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection	1685	(1)
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord	1686	(1)
from Journal [On ``Inscape'' and ``Instress'']	1686	(2)
from Letter to R. W. Dixon [On Sprung Rhythm]	1688	(1)
Lewis Carroll	1689	(16)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	1691	(6)
Down the Rabbit-Hole	1691	(3)
from Chapter 2. The Pool of Tears	1694	(2)
You are old, Father William	1696	(1)
The Lobster-Quadrille	1697	(1)
Through the Looking Glass	1697	(8)
Child of the pure unclouded brow	1697	(1)
Jabberwocky	1698	(1)
[Humpty Dumpty on Jabberwocky]	1699	(1)
The Walrus and the Carpenter	1700	(2)
The White Knight's Song	1702	(3)
PERSPECTIVES Imagining Childhood	1705	(67)
Charles Darwin	1709	(3)
from A Biographical Sketch of an Infant	1709	(3)
Moral Verses	1712	(3)
Table Rules for Little Folks	1712	(1)
Eliza Cook: The Mouse and the Cake	1713	(1)
Heinrich Hoffmann: The Story of Augustus who would Not have any Soup	1714	(1)
Thomas Miller: The Watercress Seller	1714	(1)
William Miller: Willie Winkie	1715	(1)
Edward Lear	1715	(7)
[Selected Limericks]	1716	(2)
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat	1718	(1)
The Jumblies	1719	(2)
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!	1721	(1)
Christina Rossetti	1722	(4)
from Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book	1722	(4)
Robert Louis Stevenson	1726	(4)
from A Child's Garden of Verses	1726	(4)
Hilaire Belloc	1730	(3)
from The Bad Child's Book of Beasts	1730	(2)
from Cautionary Tales for Children	1732	(1)
Beatrix Potter	1733	(2)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit	1734	(1)
Daisy Ashford	1735	(8)
from The Young Visiters; or, Mr Salteena's Plan	1736	(7)
Henry James	1743	(4)
from What Maisie Knew	1744	(3)
Rudyard Kipling	1747	(25)
Without Benefit of Clergy	1749	(14)
Just So Stories	1763	(1)
How the Whale Got His Throat	1763	(2)
How the Camel Got His Hump	1765	(2)
Gunga Din	1767	(2)
The Widow at Windsor	1769	(1)
Recessional	1770	(1)
If---	1771	(1)
PERSPECTIVES Travel and Empire	1772	(167)
Frances Trollope	1773	(6)
from Domestic Manners of the Americans	1773	(6)
Thomas Babington Macaulay	1779	(5)
from Minute on Indian Education	1780	(4)
Alexander William Kinglake	1784	(7)
from Eothen	1784	(7)
Sir Richard Francis Burton	1791	(5)
from A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah	1791	(5)
Isabella Bird	1796	(7)
from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains	1796	(7)
Sir Henry Morton Stanley	1803	(7)
from Through the Dark Continent	1803	(7)
Mary Kingsley	1810	(8)
from Travels in West Africa	1810	(8)
Rudyard Kipling	1818	(1)
The White Man's Burden	1818	(1)
Robert Louis Stevenson	1819	(41)
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	1821	(39)
Oscar Wilde	1860	(79)
Impression du Matin	1862	(1)
The Harlot's House	1863	(1)
Symphony in Yellow	1864	(1)
from The Decay of Lying	1864	(15)
from The Soul of Man Under Socialism	1879	(4)
Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray	1883	(1)
The Importance of Being Earnest	1884	(40)
Aphorisms	1924	(2)
from De Profundis	1926	(13)
Companion Reading
from The Trials of Oscar Wilde	1933	(6)
H. Montgomery Hyde
PERSPECTIVES Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Fin De Siecle	1939	(51)
W. S. Gilbert	1942	(2)
If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line	1943	(1)
James Abbott Mcneill Whistler	1944	(5)
from Mr. Whistler's ``Ten O'Clock''	1945	(4)
``Michael Field'' (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper)	1949	(2)
La Gioconda	1950	(1)
A Pen-Drawing of Leda	1950	(1)
``A Girl''	1951	(1)
Ada Leverson	1951	(5)
Suggestion	1952	(4)
Arthur Symons	1956	(4)
Pastel	1957	(1)
White Heliotrope	1957	(1)
from The Decadent Movement in Literature	1958	(1)
from Preface to Silhouettes	1959	(1)
Richard Le Gallienne	1960	(2)
A Ballad of London	1961	(1)
Lionel Johnson	1962	(3)
The Destroyer of a Soul	1962	(1)
The Dark Angel	1963	(1)
A Decadent's Lyric	1964	(1)
Lord Alfred Douglas	1965	(3)
In Praise of Shame	1965	(1)
Two Loves	1966	(1)
Impression de Nuit	1967	(1)
Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas)	1968	(2)
The Masquerade	1969	(1)
Statues	1969	(1)
The White Witch	1970	(1)
Max Beerbohm	1970	(20)
Enoch Soames	1971	(19)
Literary and Cultural Terms	1990	(20)
Bibliography	2010	(17)
Credits	2027	(1)
Index	2028