The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1C: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Cent...
ISBN: 9780321333933 | 0321333934
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2006
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"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.
| Denotes selection is new to this edition | |
| 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 | |
| Respon... MORE | |
| 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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