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Longman Anthology of World Literature The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

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ISBN-10: 0205625908

ISBN-13: 9780205625901

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: David Damrosch, April Alliston, Marshall Brown, Sabry Hafez, Djelal Kadir

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The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume Doffers a fresh presentation of the varieties of world literature from the 17th and 18th centuries.The editors of the anthology have sought to find economical ways to place texts within their cultural contexts, and have selected and grouped our materials in ways intended to foster connections and conversations across the anthology, between eras as well as regions. The anthology includes epic, lyric poetry, drama, and prose narrative, with many works in their entirety. Classic major authors are presented together with more recently recovered voices as the editors seek to suggest something of the full literary dialogue of each region and…    
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List price: $106.65
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 7/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 656
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.10" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

David Damrosch is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of "The Narrative Covenant" and "We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University" and the general editor of "The Longman Anthology of British Literature".

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Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Illustration. Anonymous drawing of Louis XIV as the "Sun King"
Bishan Das (attributed to). Birth of a Prince
Guler School, Lady with a Hawk
Illuminated tughra (signature) of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent
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
Timeline
The World the Mughals Made
Illustration. The Taj Mahal
Map: The Mughal Empire
Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur (1483-1530)
from The Memoirs of Babur (trans. Wheeler M. Thackston)
Jahangir (1569-1627)
from The Memoirs of Jahangir (trans. Wheeler M. Thackston)
Mirza Muhammad Rafi "Sauda" (1713-1781)
from Satires [How to Earn a Living in Hindustan] (trans. Ralph Russell and Khurshidul Islam)
Mir Muhammad Taqi "Mir" (1723-1810)
Selected Couplets (trans. Ralph Russell and Khurshidul Islam)
from The Autobiography (trans. C. M. Naim)
Banarasidas (mid-17th century)
from Half a Tale (trans. Mukund Lath)
Chikamatsu Mon'Zaemon (1653-1725)
Illustration. Puppeteers performing The Love Suicides at Amijima
The Love Suicides at Amijima (trans. Donald Keene)
Resonance
Chikamatsu on the Art of Puppet Theatre (trans. Michael Brownstein)
Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-1763)
from The Story of the Stone (trans. David Hawkes)
Resonance
from Six Records of a Floating Life (trans. Leonard Pratt and Chiang Su-hui)
The Ottoman Empire
Map. The Ottoman Empire, 1672
Mihri Khatun (1445-1512)
I opened my eyes from sleep (trans. Walter Andrews et al.)
At times, my longing for the beloved slays me
My heart burns in flames of sorrow
Fuzuli (1480-1556)
Oh God, don't let anyone be like me (trans. Walter Andrews et al.)
If my heart were a wild bird
For long years we have been haunting the quarter
The pointed reproach of the enemy
Nedim (1681-1730)
At the gathering of desire (trans. Walter Andrews et al.)
When the east wind leaves that curl
As the morning wind blows
Take yourself to the rose-garden
Delicacy was drawn out like the finest wine
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
Illustration. Title page of Baudier's General History of the Seraglio and of the Court of the Noble Lord Emperor of the Turks
The Turkish Embassy Letters
To Alexander Pope (1 April 1717)
To Sarah Chiswell (1 April 1717)
To Lady Mar (18 April 1717)
The Age of the Enlightenment
Illustration. Execution of Louis XVI
Map. Europe in 1714, After the Treaty of Utrecht
Illustration. An Emblematical View of the Constitutions of England and France
Illustration. Babylonian and Egyptian antiquities
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin [Moliere] (1622-1673)
Tartuffe (trans. Richard Wilbur)
Perspectives: Court Culture and Female Authorship
Illustration. Art d'Ecrire
Madeleine de Scudery (1607-1701)
from Clelie (trans. April Alliston)
Illustration. La Carte du pays de Tendre, from Madeline de Scudery's Clelie
Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, Comtesse de Lafayette (1634-1693)
The Countess of Tende (trans. April Alliston)
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne (1626-1696)
from Selected Letters (trans. Leonard Tancock)
Elisabeth Charlotte von Der Pfalz, Duchesse D'Orleans (1652-1722)
from Letters (trans. Maria Kroll)
Katherine Philips (1631-1664)
To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship
An Answer to Another Persuading a Lady to Marriage
Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656-1710)
from The Ladies Defence
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)
The Introduction
Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia
from The Spleen
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
The Lady's Dressing Room
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called The Lady's Dressing Room
Ann Yearsley (1752-1806)
To Mr. ****, an Unlettered Poet, on Genius Unimproved
Crosscurrents
Court Culture and Female Authorship
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
Oroonoko
Illustration. Frontispiece to Thomas Southerne's play Oroonoko: A Tragedy
Resonance
from An Impartial Description of Surinam
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Gulliver's Travels
Illustration. James Gillray, The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver
Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
Perspectives: Journeys in Search of the Self
Evliya Celebi (1611-1684)
from The Book of Travels (trans. Robert Dankoff and Robert Elsie)
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)
Illustration. Morikawa Kyoriku, haiga (haikai sketch)
[Selected Haiku] (trans. Haruo Shirane)
from Narrow Road to the Deep North (trans. Haruo Shirane)
Map. Basho's Journey
Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
from Persian Letters (trans. J. Robert Loy)
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
from Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville (trans. John Hope Mason and Robert Wokler)
Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-1797)
from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Map. Triangular Trade
Crosscurrents
Journeys in Search of the Self
Francois-Marie Arouet [Voltaire] (1694-1778)
Candide (trans. Roger Pearson)
Resonances
from Theodicy (trans. E. M. Huggard)
from An Essay on Man
Translations
Voltaire's Candide
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
The Rape of the Lock
Perspectives: Liberty and Libertines
Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693)
from Life of a Sensuous Woman (trans. Chris Drake)
Tsangyang Gyatso (1683-1706)
from Love Poems of the Sixth Dalai Lama (trans. Rick Fields et al.)
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
The Imperfect Enjoyment
A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind
Eliza Haywood (c. 1693-1756)
Fantomina: or, Love in a Maze
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
from The Social Contract (trans. Christopher Betts)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
The Rights of Woman
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (trans. Mary J. Gregor)
Crosscurrents
Liberty and Libertines
Bibliography
Credits
Index