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The new edition of this successful anthology continues to challenge the boundaries of eighteenth–century literary study whilst thorough revisions make it even more useful to teachers and students. Includes more Dryden and Behn, as well as Congreve′s The Way of the World . Retains the historical span and range of texts, canonical and previously marginalised, that made the first edition so attractive. Continues to represent many texts in their entirety, including Samuel Johnson′s Rasselas , Jonathan Swift′s A Tale of a Tub , Eliza Haywood′s Fantomina , Aphra Behn′s Oronooko , Alexander Pope′s Rape of the Lock and Daniel Defoe′s Shortest Way with the Dissenters . An edited volume of critical essays, British Literature 1640–1789: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Publishers, 1999), accompanies this anthology providing the material for a complete course.
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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
The second edition of this successful anthology continues to challenge the boundaries of eighteenth–century literary study whilst thorough revisions make it even more useful to teachers and students. Changes for the second edition include: Dryden′s major political poem, Absalom and Achitophel is now included, as is Aphra Behn′s The Golden Age . Restoration drama is newly represented in Congreve′s The Way of the World . Four key books (Books 1–2 and 9–10) of Milton′s Paradise Lost are included instead of the full 12–book version. At the same time, the features that made the anthology appealing in its first edition have been retained. The exceptional historical range of the texts, which span the period from the British Civil War to the French Revolution, and the inclusion of women writers have made this the anthology of choice for many courses. Alongside the extensive representation of canonical texts, many reprinted in their entirety from earliest recoverable versions, DeMaria offers a selection of the literature of private and public life – court reports, letters, political ballads, and broadsides – illuminating the historical and cultural contexts in which the literary works were created.
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- PublisherWiley–Blackwell
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0631217681
- ISBN 13 9780631217688
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
- Number of pages976
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