History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. This reference work provides insightful and often revisionary readings of core texts in the English literary canon. Richly informative analyses are framed by the biographical, historical and intellectual context for each author. Volume 3 begins with Jacobean poetry and prose, explores Milton's great biblical epic and moves on to the licentious court poetry of the Restoration period. The early and mid-eighteenth century came then to be dominated by the Neo-Classical and the Augustan style. A few decades later, the novel debuted with Defoe and underwent a rapid development with a range of proposals of astonishing difference and divergence, such as those of Swift, Fielding and Sterne. At the end of the century the Romantic poets gave rise to the densest period of great figures and great works in English literature since the Elizabethan age.

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From the metaphysicals to the romantics Book 2

Marucci, Franco

Hachette Groupe Livre

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Peter Lang Group, Oxford, 2019

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Contents 7
List of abbreviations 21
Part I: Jacobean, Caroline and Republican Poetry and Prose 25
§ 1. The Stuart century 27
§ 2. Literary genres up to the Restoration 43
§ 3. The Spenserians 52
§ 4. Wither 54
§ 5. William Browne 56
§ 6. Drummond of Hawthornden 58
§ 7. The Fletchers 61
§ 8. Suckling 64
§ 9. Lovelace 68
§ 10. Carew 71
§ 11. Herrick 77
§ 12. Herbert I: The quintessence of Anglican spirituality 84
§ 13. Herbert II: ‘The Temple’. The builder of temples 90
§ 14. Herbert III: ‘A Priest to the Temple’. A vicar’s prayer book 94
§ 15. Herbert of Cherbury 96
§ 16. Crashaw I: The English apotheosis of continental Baroque1 98
§ 17. Crashaw II: Cupid desensualized 102
§ 18. Vaughan 108
§ 19. Traherne I: A foretaste of Paradise 114
§ 20. Traherne II: ‘Centuries of Meditations’ 119
§ 21. Quarles 120
§ 22. King 122
§ 23. Cowley 124
§ 24. Cleveland 128
§ 25. Marvell I: Cromwell’s regime. Justification and nostalgia 130
§ 26. Marvell II: Return to Eden 139
§ 27. Waller 146
§ 28. Denham 149
§ 29. The homilists. Andrewes, Taylor 150
§ 30. The ‘Authorized Version’ 153
§ 31. Milton I: The uncreated idiom1 155
§ 32. Milton II: Early works 163
§ 33. Milton III: ‘Comus’ 169
§ 34. Milton IV: The enslaved voice 170
§ 35. Milton V: ‘Paradise Lost’ I. Genesis, allegory and theology of the poem 175
§ 36. Milton VI: ‘Paradise Lost’ II. Satan’s dynamism and God’s response 185
§ 37. Milton VII: ‘Paradise Lost’ III. Man’s redemption 187
§ 38. Milton VIII: ‘Paradise Regained’. The new Adam 191
§ 39. Milton IX: ‘Samson Agonistes’ 193
§ 40. Minor poets up to 1660 195
§ 41. Bacon 197
§ 42. Burton 203
§ 43. Thomas Browne 211
§ 44. Other prose writers 216
Part II: The Restoration 221
§ 45. Restoration literature 223
§ 46. The re-opening of the theatres 225
§ 47. Dryden I: The re-consecration of Stuart civilization 229
§ 48. Dryden II: Early poetry. Elegiac, encomiastic, celebrative 239
§ 49. Dryden III: The comedies 241
§ 50. Dryden IV: Genesis, development and limits of Dryden’s heroic tragedy 245
§ 51. Dryden V: Satirical and theological poems 250
§ 52. Lee 256
§ 53. Otway 259
§ 54. Etherege 265
§ 55. Wycherley 271
§ 56. Congreve 280
§ 57. Shadwell I: Farces against foreign fads 289
§ 58. Shadwell II: ‘The Libertine’ 294
§ 59. Vanbrugh 299
§ 60. Farquhar 304
§ 61. Rochester 309
§ 62. Samuel Butler 314
§ 63. Oldham 320
§ 64. Restoration historians. Clarendon, Burnet 323
§ 65. Pepys 326
§ 66. Evelyn 331
§ 67. Temple 335
§ 68. Hobbes, Locke 337
§ 69. Bunyan I: ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ 342
§ 70. Bunyan II: Other works on the contest between God and the devil 347
§ 71. Early feminism 350
Part III: The Augustan Age 361
§ 72. England from the Glorious Revolution to 1745 363
§ 73. The Enlightenment in England 367
§ 74. Pope I: A ‘re-maker’ of genius 378
§ 75. Pope II: Poetic experiments up to the Homeric translations 383
§ 76. Pope III: Hordes of disorder 390
§ 77. Prior 395
§ 78. Gay 400
§ 79. Dennis 408
§ 80. Arbuthnot 409
§ 81. Bolingbroke 411
§ 82. Defoe I: The growth of the novelist 413
§ 83. Defoe II: ‘Robinson Crusoe’. Ambition, initiative and divine approval of the entrepreneur 421
§ 84. Defoe III: ‘Captain Singleton’ 427
§ 85. Defoe IV: ‘Moll Flanders’. Moral balancing acts in a monetized society 428
§ 86. Defoe V: ‘A Journal of the Plague Year’ 431
§ 87. Defoe VI: ‘Colonel Jack’ 433
§ 88. Defoe VII: ‘Roxana’. A more polished portrait 435
§ 89. Swift I: Anathema of the monster and pitfalls of Swiftian irony1 438
§ 90. Swift II: Satires against ‘enthusiasm’ 446
§ 91. Swift III: Paradigmatic pamphlets 448
§ 92. Swift IV: ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ I. Travel literature revisited 452
§ 93. Swift V: ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ II. The enigma of Part IV 458
§ 94. Swift VI: ‘Journal to Stella’ 465
§ 95. Swift VII: Swift the poet 466
§ 96. Addison 468
§ 97. Steele I: Apostle to the gentiles 474
§ 98. Steele II: The newspaper man 480
§ 99. Shaftesbury 482
§ 100. Berkeley 483
§ 101. Joseph Butler 487
§ 102. Mandeville 489
§ 103. Law 492
§ 104. Other deists 493
§ 105. Lady Winchilsea 494
§ 106. Thomson I: The theophany of nature 497
§ 107. Thomson II: ‘The Castle of Indolence’. England aroused from sloth 505
§ 108. Dyer 508
§ 109. Young 511
§ 110. Minor anti-Popian poets 517
Part IV: The Eighteenth Century Comes of Age 525
§ 111. Britain from 1745 to 1789 527
§ 112. The eighteenth century comes of age 530
§ 113. Goldsmith I: Patriarchal society: nostalgia and defence 534
§ 114. Goldsmith II: ‘The Vicar of Wakefield’ 541
§ 115. Goldsmith III: The plays. Psycho-social mechanisms unmasked and exorcized 544
§ 116. Richardson I: Case histories and objectives of the seduction triptych 549
§ 117. Richardson II: ‘Pamela’ I. Letter-mad maidservant redeems rake 556
§ 118. Richardson III: ‘Pamela’ II. Degenerate nobility reformed from below 563
§ 119. Richardson IV: ‘Clarissa’ 567
§ 120. Richardson V: ‘Sir Charles Grandison’ 572
§ 121. Fielding I: Richardson parodied 577
§ 122. Fielding II: ‘Jonathan Wild’ 586
§ 123. Fielding III: ‘Tom Jones’. A justified sinner 587
§ 124. Fielding IV: ‘Amelia’ 595
§ 125. Smollett I: Transplant and growth of the English picaresque 600
§ 126. Smollett II: ‘Humphry Clinker’. Turning towards the extravaganza 608
§ 127. Sterne I: ‘Tristram Shandy’, or concerning relations 617
§ 128. Sterne II: ‘A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy’ 629
§ 129. Gray 636
§ 130. William Collins 645
§ 131. Churchill 650
§ 132. Johnson I: Rise and fall of the artist as creator 652
§ 133. Johnson II: The three monuments to knowledge 660
§ 134. Boswell 667
§ 135. Wilkes, Junius 669
§ 136. Letter-writers 671
§ 137. Hume 674
§ 138. Robertson 677
§ 139. Gibbon 678
§ 140. Mid-eighteenth-century drama 682
§ 141. Sheridan 686
§ 142. Walpole 692
§ 143. Radcliffe 699
§ 144. Beckford 706
§ 145. Other exponents of the novel of terror 710
§ 146. Burke 717
§ 147. Macpherson 721
§ 148. Percy and the ‘Reliques of English Poetry’ 724
§ 149. Chatterton 726
§ 150. Cowper 729
§ 151. Smart 735
§ 152. Crabbe 737
§ 153. Wesley and Methodism 742
§ 154. The Scottish awakening 743
§ 155. Hogg 746
§ 156. Mackenzie 751
Part V: Romanticism 753
§ 157. From the Napoleonic wars to the Age of Equipoise 755
§ 158. English Romanticism 760
§ 159. Burney 770
§ 160. Austen I: Janeites and Austenophobes 776
§ 161. Austen II: Gothic vaccination 783
§ 162. Austen III: ‘Mansfield Park’. A thoughtful diagnosis of modern youth 790
§ 163. Austen IV: ‘Emma’. The masochism of match-making 794
§ 164. Austen V: ‘Persuasion’ 796
§ 165. Austen VI: ‘Juvenilia’ and fragments 797
§ 166. Edgeworth 799
§ 167. Galt 804
§ 168. Other late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novelists 807
§ 169. Paine 811
§ 170. Godwin 812
§ 171. Mary Wollstonecraft 817
§ 172. Burns 820
§ 173. Blake I: The first English multi-media artist 828
§ 174. Blake II: Biography and intellectual growth 836
§ 175. Blake III: The contrary states of the human soul 843
§ 176. Blake IV: The Satanic verses 847
§ 177. Blake V: The Prophetic Books 853
§ 178. Wordsworth I: The dialogue of the soul with itself in the presenceof nature 857
§ 179. Wordsworth II: The ‘loco-descriptive poems’ 865
§ 180. Wordsworth III: ‘Lyrical Ballads’ 866
§ 181. Wordsworth IV: The major phase 871
§ 182. Wordsworth V: ‘The Prelude’ 876
§ 183. Coleridge I: From the epistemic context to symbolic recreation 881
§ 184. Coleridge II: Conversation pieces 887
§ 185. Coleridge III: The demonic triptych I. ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ 890
§ 186. Coleridge IV: The demonic triptych II. ‘Kubla Khan’ 896
§ 187. Coleridge V: The demonic triptych III. ‘Christabel’ 899
§ 188. Coleridge VI: ‘Biographia Literaria’ and Shakespearean criticism 901
§ 189. Shelley I: Poetry to break the chains of the world 906
§ 190. Shelley II: Action and introspection in the early Shelley 915
§ 191. Shelley III: ‘Prometheus Unbound’ and ‘The Cenci’ 920
§ 192. Shelley IV: Other ‘Italian’ poems 925
§ 193. Shelley V: ‘The Triumph of Life’. A critical and phantasmagoric diagnosis of the Enlightenment 931
§ 194. Shelley VI: ‘A Defence of Poetry’ 934
§ 195. Keats I: The uncertain plenitude of myth 937
§ 196. Keats II: ‘Endymion’ and other oneiric rhapsodies 946
§ 197. Keats III: The two ‘Hyperions’ 954
§ 198. Keats IV: Poems of death-bearing and life-bringing love 956
§ 199. Keats V: The great odes 961
§ 200. Byron I: Phases and forms of Byron’s self-fashioning 969
§ 201. Byron II: The anathema of Romanticism 977
§ 202. Byron III: ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’. The ‘grand tour’ of an eccentric Englishman 981
§ 203. Byron IV: Oriental tales 984
§ 204. Byron V: Disputes and dilemmas in the dramas 989
§ 205. Byron VI: ‘Don Juan’. Mimesis and estrangement of Donjuanism 995
§ 206. Scott I: Range and critical fortunes of Scott’s fiction 1005
§ 207. Scott II: The poetry 1014
§ 208. Scott III: The Scottish historical novels I. The founding trilogy 1017
§ 209. Scott IV: The Scottish historical novels II. The last Jacobite 1025
§ 210. Scott V: ‘Ivanhoe’ 1032
§ 211. Scott VI: The last phase 1036
§ 212. Mary Shelley 1046
§ 213. Polidori 1051
§ 214. Southey 1053
§ 215. Landor 1060
§ 216. Campbell 1067
§ 217. Rogers 1069
§ 218. Moore 1070
§ 219. Clare 1074
§ 220. Beddoes, Darley 1078
§ 221. Keble 1081
§ 222. Hemans, L. E. L. 1083
§ 223. Humorous poets 1088
§ 224. Lamb 1091
§ 225. De Quincey 1100
§ 226. Hazlitt 1107
§ 227. Smith 1113
§ 228. Hunt 1113
§ 229. Peacock 1120
§ 230. Cobbett 1126
§ 231. Romantic drama 1128
Index of names 1131
Thematic index 1159

History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. Volume 3 includes an exploration of Milton’s great biblical epic and traces the rise of the novel under Defoe, Swift, Fielding and Sterne. It ends with the Romantic poets.

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