The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume D The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
ISBN: 9780205625901 | 0205625908
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 7/2/2008
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The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume D,offers a fresh and highly teachable presentation of the varieties of world literature from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The editors of the anthology have sought to find ways to place major texts within their cultural contexts and have selected and grouped materials in ways intended to foster connections and conversations across the anthology, between eras as well as regions. The anthology includes epic and lyric poetry, drama, and prose narrative, with many works in their entirety... MORE
| Additional Audio and Online Resources | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xv |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxi |
| About the Editors | p. xxv |
| The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | p. 1 |
| Illustration. Anonymous drawing of Louis XIV as the "Sun King" | p. xxx |
| Bishan Das (attributed to). Birth of a Prince | |
| Guler School, Lady with a Hawk | |
| Illuminated tughra (signature) of ... MORE | |
| Portrait of a Nobleman and His Wife | |
| Marcellus Laroon, Charles II as President of the Royal Society | |
| Carle Van Loo, Madame de Pompadour as a Sultana | |
| Johann Zoffany, Queen Charlotte with Her Two Eldest Sons | |
| Independence des Etats-Unis | |
| An Army of Jugs | |
| Map. The World in 1700 | p. 4 |
| Timeline | p. 6 |
| The World the Mughals Made | p. 13 |
| Illustration. The Taj Mahal | p. 12 |
| Map: The Mughal Empire | p. 13 |
| Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur (1483-1530) | p. 14 |
| from The Memoirs of Babur (trans. Wheeler M. Thackston) | p. 15 |
| Jahangir (1569-1627) | p. 19 |
| from The Memoirs of Jahangir (trans. Wheeler M. Thackston) | p. 19 |
| Mirza Muhammad Rafi "Sauda" (1713-1781) | p. 25 |
| from Satires [How to Earn a Living in Hindustan] (trans. Ralph Russell and Khurshidul Islam) | p. 26 |
| Mir Muhammad Taqi "Mir" (1723-1810) | p. 29 |
| Selected Couplets (trans. Ralph Russell and Khurshidul Islam) | p. 29 |
| from The Autobiography (trans. C. M. Naim) | p. 31 |
| Banarasidas (mid-17th century) | p. 36 |
| from Half a Tale (trans. Mukund Lath) | p. 36 |
| Chikamatsu Mon'Zaemon (1653-1725) | p. 44 |
| Illustration. Puppeteers performing The Love Suicides at Amijima | p. 45 |
| The Love Suicides at Amijima (trans. Donald Keene) | p. 46 |
| Resonance | |
| Chikamatsu on the Art of Puppet Theatre (trans. Michael Brownstein) | p. 68 |
| Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-1763) | p. 71 |
| from The Story of the Stone (trans. David Hawkes) | p. 74 |
| Resonance | |
| from Six Records of a Floating Life (trans. Leonard Pratt and Chiang Su-hui) | p. 146 |
| The Ottoman Empire | p. 160 |
| Map. The Ottoman Empire, 1672 | p. 161 |
| Mihri Khatun (1445-1512) | p. 162 |
| I opened my eyes from sleep (trans. Walter Andrews et al.) | p. 162 |
| At times, my longing for the beloved slays me | p. 163 |
| My heart burns in flames of sorrow | p. 163 |
| Fuzuli (1480-1556) | p. 163 |
| Oh God, don't let anyone be like me (trans. Walter Andrews et al.) | p. 164 |
| If my heart were a wild bird | p. 165 |
| For long years we have been haunting the quarter | p. 166 |
| The pointed reproach of the enemy | p. 166 |
| Nedim (1681-1730) | p. 167 |
| At the gathering of desire (trans. Walter Andrews et al.) | p. 168 |
| When the east wind leaves that curl | p. 168 |
| As the morning wind blows | p. 169 |
| Take yourself to the rose-garden | p. 170 |
| Delicacy was drawn out like the finest wine | p. 171 |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) | p. 172 |
| Illustration. Title page of Baudier's General History of the Seraglio and of the Court of the Noble Lord Emperor of the Turks | p. 173 |
| The Turkish Embassy Letters | p. 173 |
| To Alexander Pope (1 April 1717) | p. 173 |
| To Sarah Chiswell (1 April 1717) | p. 178 |
| To Lady Mar (18 April 1717) | p. 179 |
| The Age of the Enlightenment | p. 185 |
| Illustration. Execution of Louis XVI | p. 184 |
| Map. Europe in 1714, After the Treaty of Utrecht | p. 186 |
| Illustration. An Emblematical View of the Constitutions of England and France | p. 188 |
| Illustration. Babylonian and Egyptian antiquities | p. 190 |
| Jean-Baptiste Poquelin [Moliere] (1622-1673) | p. 199 |
| Tartuffe (trans. Richard Wilbur) | p. 201 |
| Perspectives: Court Culture and Female Authorship | p. 253 |
| Illustration. Art d'Ecrire | p. 254 |
| Madeleine de Scudery (1607-1701) | p. 256 |
| from Clelie (trans. April Alliston) | p. 257 |
| Illustration. La Carte du pays de Tendre, from Madeline de Scudery's Clelie | p. 258 |
| Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, Comtesse de Lafayette (1634-1693) | p. 260 |
| The Countess of Tende (trans. April Alliston) | p. 261 |
| Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne (1626-1696) | p. 268 |
| from Selected Letters (trans. Leonard Tancock) | p. 269 |
| Elisabeth Charlotte von Der Pfalz, Duchesse D'Orleans (1652-1722) | p. 271 |
| from Letters (trans. Maria Kroll) | p. 273 |
| Katherine Philips (1631-1664) | p. 279 |
| To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship | p. 280 |
| An Answer to Another Persuading a Lady to Marriage | p. 280 |
| Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656-1710) | p. 281 |
| from The Ladies Defence | p. 281 |
| Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720) | p. 282 |
| The Introduction | p. 283 |
| Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia | p. 284 |
| from The Spleen | p. 285 |
| Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) | p. 288 |
| The Lady's Dressing Room | p. 289 |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) | p. 292 |
| The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called The Lady's Dressing Room | p. 292 |
| Ann Yearsley (1752-1806) | p. 295 |
| To Mr. ****, an Unlettered Poet, on Genius Unimproved | p. 295 |
| Crosscurrents | |
| Court Culture and Female Authorship | p. 297 |
| Aphra Behn (1640-1689) | p. 298 |
| Oroonoko | p. 299 |
| Illustration. Frontispiece to Thomas Southerne's play Oroonoko: A Tragedy | p. 300 |
| Resonance | |
| from An Impartial Description of Surinam | p. 342 |
| Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) | p. 346 |
| Gulliver's Travels | p. 348 |
| Illustration. James Gillray, The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver | p. 349 |
| Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms | p. 349 |
| Perspectives: Journeys in Search of the Self | p. 395 |
| Evliya Celebi (1611-1684) | p. 396 |
| from The Book of Travels (trans. Robert Dankoff and Robert Elsie) | p. 397 |
| Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) | p. 406 |
| Illustration. Morikawa Kyoriku, haiga (haikai sketch) | p. 408 |
| [Selected Haiku] (trans. Haruo Shirane) | p. 409 |
| from Narrow Road to the Deep North (trans. Haruo Shirane) | p. 412 |
| Map. Basho's Journey | p. 414 |
| Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu (1689-1755) | p. 426 |
| from Persian Letters (trans. J. Robert Loy) | p. 427 |
| Denis Diderot (1713-1784) | p. 433 |
| from Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville (trans. John Hope Mason and Robert Wokler) | p. 434 |
| Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-1797) | p. 441 |
| from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano | p. 441 |
| Map. Triangular Trade | p. 442 |
| Crosscurrents | |
| Journeys in Search of the Self | p. 450 |
| Francois-Marie Arouet [Voltaire] (1694-1778) | p. 451 |
| Candide (trans. Roger Pearson) | p. 453 |
| Resonances | |
| from Theodicy (trans. E. M. Huggard) | p. 513 |
| from An Essay on Man | p. 515 |
| Translations | |
| Voltaire's Candide | p. 519 |
| Alexander Pope (1688-1744) | p. 521 |
| The Rape of the Lock | p. 523 |
| Perspectives: Liberty and Libertines | p. 544 |
| Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693) | p. 545 |
| from Life of a Sensuous Woman (trans. Chris Drake) | p. 546 |
| Tsangyang Gyatso (1683-1706) | p. 558 |
| from Love Poems of the Sixth Dalai Lama (trans. Rick Fields et al.) | p. 559 |
| John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) | p. 561 |
| The Imperfect Enjoyment | p. 562 |
| A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind | p. 563 |
| Eliza Haywood (c. 1693-1756) | p. 568 |
| Fantomina: or, Love in a Maze | p. 569 |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) | p. 586 |
| from The Social Contract (trans. Christopher Betts) | p. 587 |
| Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) | p. 592 |
| from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | p. 592 |
| Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825) | p. 598 |
| The Rights of Woman | p. 598 |
| Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) | p. 599 |
| An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (trans. Mary J. Gregor) | p. 600 |
| Crosscurrents | |
| Liberty and Libertines | p. 604 |
| Bibliography | p. 607 |
| Credits | p. 617 |
| Index | p. 621 |
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