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

ISBN: 9780321067661 | 0321067665
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Pub. Date: 8/1/1999

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SummaryTable of Contents
"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 Bri... MORE
Prefacexiv
The Victorian Age1032(420)
Thomas Carlyle
1057(36)
Sartor Resartus
... MORE(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 Fiction1452(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 Orders1989(6)
Money, Weights, and Measures1995(2)
Literary and Cultural Terms1997(24)
Bibliography2021(16)
Acknowledgments2037(4)
Credits2041(1)
Index2042

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