The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 3: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century - Second EditionJoseph Black, Leonard Conolly, Kate Flint, Isobel Grundy, Don LePan, Roy Liuzza, Jerome McGann, Anne Lake Prescott, Barry Qualls, Claire Waters In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, the anthology takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors, and includes a wide selection of work by lesser-known writers. The anthology also provides wide-ranging coverage of the worldwide connections of British literature, and it pays attention throughout to issues of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. It includes comprehensive introductions to each period, providing in each case an overview of the historical and cultural as well as the literary background. It features accessible and engaging headnotes for all authors, extensive explanatory annotations, and an unparalleled number of illustrations and contextual materials. Innovative, authoritative and comprehensive, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature has established itself as a leader in the field. The full anthology comprises six bound volumes, together with an extensive website component; the latter has been edited, annotated, and designed according to the same high standards as the bound book component of the anthology, and is accessible by using the passcode obtained with the purchase of one or more of the bound volumes. For the second edition of this volume a considerable number of changes have been made. Henry Fielding’s Tragedy of Tragedies has been added, as has a new section of material from eighteenth-century periodicals. A new Contexts section entitled “Transatlantic Currents” includes writings by such figures as Paine, Franklin, and Price, as well as material on the slave trade. The Contexts sections on “Town and Country” and on “Mind and God, Faith and Science” have also been expanded; a variety of writings on the Royal Society and other scientific matters have been added to the latter. Additional chapters from Equiano’s Interesting Narrative have been added, and there are new selections by Samuel Johnson (including his “Letter to Lord Chesterfield” and facsimile pages from the Dictionary). Book 3 from Gulliver’s Travels has been added; that work now appears in its entirety. There are also additional selections by Pope, Pepys, and Astell. The Castle of Otranto and The Witlings have been moved from the bound book to the website component of the anthology. (Both are available as volumes in the Broadview Editions series, and may be added at a very modest additional cost in a shrink-wrapped combination package.) |
Contents
PREFACE | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | |
The RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | |
Benjamin Franklin Remarks Concerning | |
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY | |
WILLIAM COLLINS www broadviewpress combabl | |
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN | |
HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE AND OF PRINT CULTURE | |
ANNE FINCH COUNTEss OF WINCHILSEA | |
from A True Relation of My Birth Breeding and Life | |
from The Female T atler No 1 Introduction Advertisment | |
Richard Steele The Spectator No 11 Inkle and Yarico | |
ELIZA HAYWOOD | |
PRINT CULTURE STAGE CULTURE | |
CONTEXTSI EIGHTEENTHCENTURY PERIODICALS AND PRINTS | |
Joseph Addison The Spectator No 112 Sir Roger | |
JOHN DRYDEN | |
SAMUEL PEPYS | |
MIND AND GOD FAITH AND SCIENCE | |
from Thomas Sprat The History of the Royal Society | |
Lower to Be Made by Him for the Improvement | |
from Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin | |
from The Introduction | |
Or Some Physiological | |
from Observation 1 Of the Point of a Small Sharp | |
from Margaret Cavendish Observations upon Experimental | |
from Voltaire Micromegas | |
What happened to them in their | |
from Sir Isaac Newton Letter to Richard Bentley | |
Mark Akenside Hymn to Science | |
from Benjamin Franklin Letter to Joseph Priestley | |
Understanding | |
APHRA BEHN | |
or The Royal Slave A True History | |
DANIEL DEFOE | |
FRANCES BURNEY www broadviewpress combabl | |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu The Nonsense of Common | |
from Eliza Haywood The Female Spectator Book 1 The | |
Samuel Johnson The Rambler No 148 On Parental | |
from Samuel Richardson The Rambler No 97 Change | |
JOHN AUBREY www br0adviewpress combabl | |
JOHN BUNYAN | |
CHRISTOPHER SMART | |
TRANSATLANTIC CURRENTS | |
American Independence | |
William Wordsworth Complaint of a Forsaken Indian | |
from Chapter 1 | |
from Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin | |
Thomas Jefferson A Declaration by the Representatives | |
from Thomas Paine The American Crisis | |
HESTER THRALE PIOZZI | |
OLAUDAH EQUIANO OR GUSTAVUS VASSA | |
Reactions tO Olaudah Equianos Work | |
PHILLIS WHEATLEY | |
Daniel Defoe Introduction A Weekly Review of | |