2nd Edition

The Literary History of England Vol 3: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1660-1789)

Edited By Donald F. Bond, G. Sherburn Copyright 1959
    486 Pages
    by Routledge

    488 Pages
    by Routledge

    The paperback edition, in four volumes, of this standard work will make it readily available to students.

    The scope of the work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with another and placing each author clearly in the setting of his time.

    Reviewing the first edition, The Times Literary Supplement commented: ‘in inclusiveness and in judgment it has few rivals of its kind’.

    This third volume covers the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660-1789) and is co-authored by George Sherburn and Donald F. Bond (both at the University of Chicago).

    Part 1 The Rise of Classicism; Chapter 1 The Spirit of the Restoration; Chapter 2 Literary Criticism of the Restoration; Chapter 3 The Poetry of Dryden; Chapter 4 Minor Poets of the Restoration; Chapter 5 Restoration Drama: I.Heroic Plays and Tragedies; Chapter 6 Restoration Drama: II. Comedy; Chapter 7 Patterns in Historical Writing; Chapter 8 Types of Prose Fiction; Chapter 9 The Essay and Allied Forms; Part 2 Classicism and Journalism; Chapter 10 Eighteenth-Century Quality; Chapter 11 The Critical Temper and Doctrine, 1700–1750; Chapter 12 Defoe and Journalism; Chapter 13 Jonathan Swift; Chapter 14 Addison, Steele, and the Periodical Essay; Chapter 15 The Drama, 1700–1740; Chapter 16 Traditions in Early Eighteenth-Century Poetry; Chapter 17 Pope and His Group; Chapter 18 New Voices in Poetry; Chapter 19 The Mid-Century Novel; Part 3 The Disintegration of Classicism; Chapter 20 Accentuated Tendencies; Chapter 21 Opinions of Critics; Chapter 22 Dr. Johnson; Chapter 23 Mid-Century Poets; Chapter 24 The Novel After 1760; Chapter 25 The Drama, 1740–1785; Chapter 26 The Periodicals and Oliver Goldsmith; Chapter 27 Biography and Letter-Writing; Chapter 28 Intellectual Prose; Chapter 29 Cowper and Burns BOOK III. THE RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1660–1789) Index;

    Biography

    George Sherburn, Donald F. Bond