The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1C: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

by Damrosch, David; Sherman, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9780321333933
• ISBN10: 0321333934
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

"Volume 1C: The Restoration and the 18th Century 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 Restoration and the 18th Century. The book includes Perspectives, Companion Readings, and "and Its Time" sections which show how major literary writings interrelate with and respond to various social, historical, and cultural events of Great Britain in the 18th Century. 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 Restoration and 18th Century.

Table of Contents

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The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

The Diary

First Entries

The Coronation of Charles II

The Plague Year

The Fire of London

Companion Reading

From Kalendarium

The Royal Society

Theater and Music

Response

From Samuel Pepys

Perspectives: The Royal Society and the New Science

From The History of the Royal Society of London

Philosophical Transactions

From Philosophical Transactions

From Micrographia

From Brief Lives

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

Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem

Companion Reading

Charles II: His Majesty's Declaration

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady

Fables Ancient and Modern

From Preface

The Secular Masque

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

Oroonoko: A Tragedy

Perspectives: Coterie Writing

Lady Chudleigh

To the Ladies

To Almystrea

Countess of Winchelsea

The Introduction

Friendship

Between Ephelia and Ardelia

A Nocturnal Reverie

A Ballad to Mrs. Catherine Fleming in London

Mary Leapor

The Headache

Mira to Octavia To Aurelia

An Epistle to Artemisia: On Fame

Advice to Sophronia

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