Longman Anthology of British Literature, The: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1C

by David Damrosch (Editor), Kevin J. H. Dettmar (Editor), Stuart Pratt Sherman (Editor)

The Fourth Edition of The Longman Anthology of British Literature continues its tradition of presenting works in the historical context in which they were written. This fresh approach includes writers from the British Isles, underrepresented female authors, “Perspectives” sectionsthatshed light on the period as a whole and link with immediately surrounding works to help illuminate a theme, “And Its Time” clusters that illuminate a specific cultural moment or a debate to which an author is responding, and “Responses” in which later authors respond to one or more texts from earlier works.

Genres: Fiction, Classics, Anthologies, Collections, Literature, Textbooks, Poetry

904 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1999

About the author

A past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, David Damrosch has written widely on comparative and world literature from antiquity to the present. His books include The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature (1987), We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University (1995), What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and How to Read World Literature (2008). He is the founding general editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature (2004) and the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009) and co-editor of The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature (2009), The Routledge Companion to World Literature (2011), and Xin fangxiang: bijiao wenxue yu shijie wenxue duben [New Directions: A Reader of Comparative and World Literature], Peking U. P., 2010. He is presently completing a book entitled Comparing the Literatures: What Every Comparatist Needs to Know, and starting a book on the role of global scripts in the formation of national literatures.

Reviews

[leni swagger]

logging this solely because I had to read poems from Aphra Behn and John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester... these people were FREAKS... never imagined to be reading about sperm on a friday night. WOW

[Dorothy Marcic · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was evidently written as a textbook, but don't let that discourage you. If you love the writing of British Restoration era and the Eighteenth Century, you'll want to read this book, which covers the periods of 1660 up to 1800. You will learn about styles of writing, about money, manners and monarchs, about life and politics as theater, about family relations including marriage and mistresses, about scandals and nervous disorders and dealing with death. You'll find excerpts from Alexander Pope, Mary Astrey's "Some Reflections upon Marriage," Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels, and Daniel Defoe's "The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe." The book is a delight.

[Kate · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a bad anthology but I seem to prefer the Norton editions. I did like how they were much more friendly to the spine than the beastly Nortons though. I found that the endnotes weren't as good though and they didn't explain things as much as I would have liked them to.

[Kathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

As good as you can expect from an anthology...

[Tina E. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Variety of great works from 17th century until the 18th Century. Takes awhile to get through but interesting if you really like the topic.

[Breanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some gorgeous pieces in here, read it for ENGL 2211

[Paula Soper · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think that I like the Norton anthologies better, and I will use the Norton from now on.