British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0631217681 ISBN 13: 9780631217688

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2001

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Robert DeMaria Jr. is Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English at Vassar College. He is the editor of British Literature 1640-1789: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Publishers, 1999) which accompanies this anthology and the author of The Life of Samuel Johnson (Blackwell Publishers, 1993) in the Critical Biography series, and of several other books, including Johnson's Dictionary and the Language of Learning (1986).

Dalla quarta di copertina:

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0631217681
• ISBN 13: 9780631217688
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 946
• Redattore: Demaria Robert