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British Literature 1640–1789: An Anthology covers the period between the British Civil War and the French Revolution. It includes the works of a great many authors and provides an invitingly wide variety of genres, forms, opinions, viewpoints, and styles. Canonical literary works are extensively represented and most texts are reprinted in their entirety including, for example, Aphra Behn′s Oronooko and John Milton′s Paradise Lost from first editions, or in the earliest recoverable versions. Other major works include: Daniel Defoe′s T he Shortest Way with Dissenters, Oliver Goldsmith′s The Deserted Village, Alexander Pope′s The Rape of the Lock and The Dunciad, Jonathan Swift′s A Tale of a Tub and A Modest Proposal, Samuel Johnson′s The History of Rasselas. Selections from contemporary documents (such as court reports) are used to illuminate important cultural and social issues at particular points of history.
A central aim has been to represent the period in a way that would have been more recognizable to people who lived at the time than the more conventional collection of great works of literature might do. By including the literature of private life and public life – letters, political ballads, broadsides, mock–epic poetry – DeMaria helps us to revise our sense of seventeenth– and eighteenth–century literature.
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contains a wide range of expected work (or samples of it, like three books from Paradise Lost, Marvell s To His Coy Mistress , Blake s The Tyger and Burns s To a Mouse ) but also a representative selection of literature from women writers (the problematic of regarding literature by gender is itself of interest) and enough of a general context to give a coherent impression over a period often compartmentalized differently (say, into centuries).
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The editor provides a helpful introduction with historical and cultural background. There is a select bibliography at the end, along with an index of titles and first lines. The editorial stance has been to modernize where necessary but not arbitrarily. Text and notes are well displayed on the page. A thematic index (gender, aesthetics, race/slavery, pastoral etc) is a useful feature. You get a lot for your money The paperback is sturdily–bound and should survive regular consultation. Looking across the period from the Civil War to Romanticism opens up perspectives unknown to silo–thinking by period, and it is a rich and varied period with more than a few things to delight and surprise.
Stuart Hannabuss, Gray′s School of Art, Aberdeen
This is a collection of writings from the period between the English "Rebellion" and the French Revolution. The anthology includes the works of many authors, and provides a wide variety of genres, forms, opinions, viewpoints and styles. Extensive coverage is given to literature that concerns issues of gender, sexuality, health, slavery, colonialism, crime and law. Most texts are reprinted in their entirety from first editions, or in the earliest recoverable versions, with original spelling and capitalization. Extracts, not always avoidable, are kept to a minimum, but selections from contemporary documents (such as newspaper and court reports) are used to illuminate important cultural and social issues at particular points of history. A central aim of this anthology is to represent the period in a way that would have been more recognizable to people who lived at the time than the conventional collection of great works of literature. Including the literature of private life and public life - the full range of writing from diary entries and domestic ballads to political pamphlets and mock-epic poetry - the book should revise the reader's sense of 18th-century literature.Instead of a high court presided over by a few great authors, it presents the literary life of the period as a more populous and more diverse concourse of writers. Among the writers represented are: Joseph Addison, Mary Astell, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Aphra Behn, Jeremy Bentham, William Blake, James Boswell, John Bunyan, Edmund Burke, Robert Burns, Elizabeth Carter, Margaret Cavendish, Susan Cenilivre, Thomas Chatterton, George Cheyne, Sarah Churchill, Charlotte Clarke, Jane Collier, Mary Collier, George Crabbe, Daniel Defoe, John Dryden, Sarah Egerton, Equiano, Henry Fielding, Sarah Fielding, Anne Finch, John Gay, Thomas Gray, Eliza Haywood, David Hume, Lucy Hutchinson, Richard Jago, Samuel Johnson, Mary Leapor, John Locke, Delariviere Manley, Andrew Marvell, John Milton, Mary Monck, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Samuel Pepys, Katherine Philips, Laetitia Pilkington, John Pomfret, Alexander Pope, Matthew Prior, Clara Reeve, Joshua Reynolds, Samuel Richardson, Richard Savage, Anna Seward, Christopher Smart, Adam Smith, Charlotte Smith, Jonathan Swift, Horace Walpole, Edward Ward, John Wesley, John Wilmot, Mary Wroth, Ann Yearsley and Edward Young.
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- PublisherWiley–Blackwell
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0631195270
- ISBN 13 9780631195276
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages1248
- EditorDeMaria Jr. Robert
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