Longman Anthology of British Literature The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

Name: Longman Anthology of British Literature The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
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ISBN: 9780321067647

ISBN-10: 0321067649

ISBN-13: 9780321067647

Edition: 1999

Authors: David Damrosch, Stuart Sherman

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Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Longman Publishing
Publication date: 8/4/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 950
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.25" long x 3.64" tall
Weight: 1.738
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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The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century


The Diary



First Entries


The Coronation of Charles II


The Plague Year


The Fire of London


Companion Reading


From Kalendarium



The Royal Society


Theater and Music


Response



From Samuel Pepys



Perspectives: The Royal Society and the New Science


From The History of the Royal Society of London



Philosophical Transactions


From Philosophical Transactions


From Micrographia



From Brief Lives



Duchess of Newcastle



Poems and Fancies


The Poetress's Hasty Resolution


The Poetress's Petition


An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book


The Hunting of the Hare


From A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life


Observations upon Experimental Philosophy


Of Micrography, and of Magnifying and Multiplying Glasses


The Description of a New Blazing World


From To the Reader


Creating Worlds


Empress, Duchess, Duke


Epilogue


Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem



Companion Reading


Charles II: His Majesty's Declaration


To the Memory of Mr. Oldham



To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady



Fables Ancient and Modern



From Preface


The Secular Masque


The Disappointment



To Lysander, on Some Verses He Writ


To Lysander at the Music-Meeting


A Letter to Mr. Creech at Oxford


To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More than Woman


Oroonoko


Response


Oroonoko: A Tragedy



Perspectives: Coterie Writing


Lady Chudleigh



To the Ladies


To Almystrea


Countess of Winchelsea



The Introduction


Friendship


Between Ephelia and Ardelia


A Nocturnal Reverie


A Ballad to Mrs. Catherine Fleming in London


Mary Leapor


The Headache


Mira to Octavia To Aurelia


An Epistle to Artemisia: On Fame


Advice to Sophronia