The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 3: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century - Second Edition

Joseph Black, Leonard Conolly, Kate Flint, Isobel Grundy, Wendy Lee, Don LePan, Roy Liuzza, Jerome McGann, Anne Lake Prescott, Barry Qualls, Jason Rudy, Claire Waters

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781770483484
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

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.)

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
• History of the Language and of Print Culture
• Margaret Cavendish
• John Bunyan
• John Dryden
• Samuel Pepys
• Contexts: Mind and God, Faith and Science
• Aphra Behn
• William Wycherley
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
• Daniel Defoe
• Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
• Mary Astell
• Jonathan Swift
• Joseph Addison
• Alexander Pope
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
• Eliza Haywood
• Contexts: Print Culture, Stage Culture
• Contexts: Eighteenth-Century Periodicals and Prints
• James Thomson
• Henry Fielding
• Samuel Johnson
• Thomas Gray
• Popular Ballads
• Christopher Smart
• Contexts: Transatlantic Currents
• Oliver Goldsmith
• William Cowper
• Laboring-Class Poets
• Contexts: Town and Country
• Hester Thrale Piozzi
• Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• Phillis Wheatley
• Reading Poetry
• Maps
• Monarchs and Prime Ministers
• Glossary of Terms
• Permissions Acknowledgments
• Index of First Lines
• Index of Authors and Titles