Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume D, The: 17th and 18th Centuries

by Damrosch, David; Alliston, April; Brown, Marshall; duBois, Page; Hafez, Sabry; Heise, Ursula K.; Kadir, Djelal; Pike, David L.; Pollock, Sheldon; Robbins, Bruce; Shirane, Haruo; Tylus, Jane; Yu, Pauline

• ISBN13: 9780321169808
• ISBN10: 0321169808
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

"The Longman Anthology presents a diverse range of the world's great literature. A team of editors has developed introductions, informative notes and glosses, scores of maps and illustrations, and a wealth of supporting material to illuminate the works included here and to connect them across regions and periods. This presentation links past and present, East and West, and literary and cultural contexts across a full span of the world's literature."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xi
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xix
About the Editors	xxv
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	1	(12)
TIMELINE	5	(8)
CROSSCURRENTS
Courts and Commoners	13	(178)
THE WORLD THE MUGHALS MADE	13	(33)
ZAHIRUDDIN MUHAMMAD BABUR (1483-1530)	16	(4)
from The Memoirs of Babur (trans. Wheeler M. Thackston)	16	(4)
JAHANGIR (1569-1627)	20	(7)
from The Memoirs of jahangir (trans. Wheeler M. Thackstou)	21	(6)
MIRZA MUHAMMAD RAFI "SAUDA" (1713-1781)	27	(4)
from Satires [How to Earn a Living in Hindustan] (trans. Ralph Russell and Khurshidul Islam)	28	(3)
MIR MUHAMMAD TAQI "MIR" (1723-1810)	31	(7)
Selected Couplets (trans. Ralph Russell and Kburshidul Islam)	31	(2)
from The Autobiography (trans. C.M. Nairn)	33	(5)
BANARASIDAS (Mid-17th Century)	38	(8)
from Half a Tale ( trans. Mukund Lath)	38	(8)
CHIKAMATSU MON'ZAEMON (1653-1725)	46	(27)
The Love Suicides at Amijima (trans. Donald Keene)	48	(25)
RESONANCE
Hozumi Ikan: Chikamatsu on the Art of Puppet Theatre ( trans. Brownstein)	70	(3)
IHARA SAIKAKU (1642-1693)	73	(4)
from Japan's Eternal Storehouse (trans, G.W. Sargent)	74	(3)
CAO XUEQIN (c. 1715-1763)	77	(89)
from The Story of the Stone (trans. David Hawkes)	80	(86)
RESONANCE
Shen Fu: from Six Records of a Floating Life (trans. Pratt and Su-hui)	152	(14)
THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE	166	(38)
MIHRI KHATUN (1445-1512)	168	(1)
I opened my eyes from sleep (trans. Walter Andrews et al.)	168	(1)
At times, my longing for the beloved slays me	169	(1)
My heart burns in flames of sorrow	169	(1)
FUZULI (1480-1556)	169	(4)
Oh God, don't let anyone be like me (trans. Walter Andrews et al.)	170	(1)
If my heart were a wild bird	171	(1)
For long years we have been haunting the quarter	172	(1)
The pointed reproach of the enemy	172	(1)
NEDYM (1681-1730)	173	(5)
At the gathering of desire (trans. Walter Andrews et al.)	174	(1)
When the east wind leaves that curl	174	(1)
As the morning wind blows	175	(1)
Take yourself to the rose-garden	176	(1)
Delicacy was drawn out like the finest wine	177	(1)
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (1689-1762)	178	(28)
The Turkish Embassy Letters	179	(1)
To Alexander Pope (1 April 1717)	179	(1)
To Sarah Chiswell (1 April 1717)	184	(1)
To Lady Mar (18 April 1717)	185	(6)
The Age of the Enlightenment	191	(486)
JEAN-BAPTISTE POQUELIN [MOLIÈRE] (1622-1673)	204	(53)
The School for Wives (trans. Ranjit Bolt)	206	(51)
RESONANCE
Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor: The Enchantments of Love (trans. Boyer)	252	(5)
PERSPECTIVES
Court Culture and Female Authorship	257	(44)
MADELEINE DE SCUDÉRY (1608-1701)	260	(4)
from Clélie (trans. April Alliston)	261	(3)
MARIE-MADELEINE PIOCHE DE LA VERGNE, COMTESSE DE LAFAYETTE (1634-1693)	264	(8)
The Countess of Tende (trans. April Alliston)	265	(7)
MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL, MARQUISE DE SÉVIGNÉ (1626-1696)	272	(3)
from Selected Letters (trans. Leonard Tancock)	273	(2)
ELISABETH CHARLOTTE VON DER PFALZ, DUCHESSE D'ORLÉANS (1652-1722)	275	(8)
from Letters (trans. Maria Kroll)	277	(6)
KATHERINE PHILIPS (1631-1664)	283	(2)
To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship	284	(1)
An Answer to Another Persuading a Lady to Marriage	284	(1)
MARY, LADY CHUDLEIGH (1656-1710)	285	(1)
from The Ladies Defence	285	(1)
ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA (1661-1720)	286	(6)
The Introduction	287	(1)
Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia	288	(1)
Irvin The Spleen	289	(3)
JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)	292	(4)
The Lady's Dressing Room	293	(3)
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (1689-1762)	296	(3)
The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called The Lady's Dressing Room	296	(3)
ANN YEARSLEY (1752-1806)	299	(3)
To Mr.an Unlettered Poet, on Genius Unimproved	299	(2)
APHRA BEHN (1640-1689)	301	(48)
Oroonoko	302	(47)
RESONANCE
George Warren: from An Impartial Description of Surinam	345	(4)
JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)	349	(50)
Gulliver's Travels	351	(48)
Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms	352	(47)
PERSPECTIVES
Journeys in Search of the Self	399	(65)
EVLIYA ÇELEBI(1611-1684)	400	(10)
from The Book of Travels (trans. Robert Daizkoff and Robert Elsie)	401	(9)
MATSUO BASHO (1644-1694)	410	(20)
[Selected Haiku] (trans. Haruo Shirane)	412	(3)
from Narrow Road to the Deep North (trans. Hat-no Shirane)	415	(15)
CHARLES DE SECONDAT, BARON DE LA BREDE ET DE MONTESQUIEU (1689-1755)	430	(7)
from Persian Letters (trans.]. Robert Loy)	431	(6)
FRANÇOISE DE GRAFFIGNY (1695-1758)	437	(10)
from Letters of a Peruvian Woman (trans. David Kornacker)	438	(9)
DENIS DIDEROT (1713-1784)	447	(8)
from Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville (trans. John Hopet1lason and Robert Wokler)	448	(7)
OLAUDAH EQUTANO (c. 1745-1797)	455	(11)
from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano	455	(9)
FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET [VOLTAIRE] (1694-1778)	464	(139)
Candide (trans. Roger Pearson)	466	(66)
RESONANCES
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leihniz: from Theodicy (trans. FTumard)	526	(2)
Alexander Pope: limn An Essay on Man	528	(4)
ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)	532	(23)
The Rape of the Lock	534	(21)
LORENZO DA PONTE (1749-1838)	555	(48)
Libretto to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni (trans. Lionel Salter)	556	(47)
RESONANCE
Giovanni Giacomo Casanova: from the History of My Life (trans. Bask)	596	(7)
PERSPECTIVES
Liberty and Libertines	603	(74)
IHARA SAIKAKIT (1642-1693)	604	(17)
from Life of a Sensuous Woman (tarns. Chris Drake)	605	(16)
TSANGYANG GYATSO (1683-1706)	621	(3)
from Love Poems of the Sixth Dalai Lama (trans. Rick Fields et al.)	622	(2)
JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER (1647-1680)	624	(7)
The Imperfect Enjoyment	624	(2)
A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind	626	(5)
ELIZA HAYWOOD (c. 1693-1756)	631	(18)
Fantomina: or, Love in a Maze	631	(18)
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU (1712-1778)	649	(6)
from The Social Contract (trans. Christopher Betts)	650	(5)
DONATIEN-ALPHONSE-FRANCOIS, MARQUIS DE SADE (1740-1814)	655	(8)
from Philosophy in the Boudoir (trans. April Alliston)	656	(7)
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759-1797)	663	(6)
from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	663	(6)
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825)	669	(1)
The Rights of Woman	669	(1)
IMMANUEL KANT (1724-1804)	670	(7)
An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (trans. Mary) Gregor)	671	(6)
Bibliography	677	(10)
Credits	687	(4)
Index	691