Robert Demaria

British Literature 1640-1789 (eBook, ePUB)

Keywords

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Produktbeschreibung

An indispensable reference for scholars and students of eighteenth-century English literature This addition to the celebrated Wiley-Blackwell Keywords series explores the meanings of fifty-eight of the most important words in British literature of the period 1640-1789. Professor DeMaria focuses on words used with frequency and urgency throughout the works of most major and several minor writers of the British Neoclassical era, with the occasional reach back to the early seventeenth century for a definitive usage found in Francis Bacon, for instance, and look forward to the nineteenth century to the works of Wordsworth, Austen, and Keats. Through discussions of words such as atom, economy, humanity, labor, machine, slavery, society, and system he reveals underlying assumptions about the way writers of the period thought about the physical and social world. Likewise, considerations of words such as happiness, passion, truth, and virtue shed light on the ethical and moral commitments of the age. Unlike dictionaries and many big-data semantics projects, this book brings forth the ambiguities, nuances, and ironies that accrued to word usages during the period through a heightened awareness of the contexts in which they occurred. * Highlights and exposes the salient cultural and literary debates and metamorphic moments of cultural thought * Reveals an increase in irony and a decrease in allegorical usage as an important trend in the evolution of literary language during the Neoclassical period * Stresses the contexts within which words or phrases appear in order to offer a fuller understanding of their meanings and significance than available from digital databases * Draws upon a vast compilation of sources from one of the most transformative eras of English literature Rigorous in its scholarship and historical reach, British Literature 1640-1789: Keywords is an indispensable resource which scholars and students of British Neoclassical literature will want to keep close at hand. It is certain to become a fixture of most university reference libraries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119208518
• Artikelnr.: 57005944

Autorenporträt

Robert DeMaria, Jr. is the Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English Literature at Vassar College where he has taught since 1975. He is the author of three monographs on Samuel Johnson and the general editor of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, in which he has co-edited three volumes. He has also edited and co-edited several collections for Wiley Blackwell, including British Literature 1640-1789, 4th Edition; Classical Literature and Its Reception; and The Blackwell Guide to British Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Authors xvii

Chronology xix

Thematic Table of Contents xxvi

Introduction xxxvi

Editorial Principles xlv

Preface to the Fourth Edition xlvii

Acknowledgments xlix

Ballads and Newsbooks from the Civil War (1640-1649) 1

The World is Turned Upside Down (1646) 1

The King's Last farewell to the World, or The Dead King's Living Meditations, at the approach of Death denounced against Him (1649) 3

The Royal Health to the Rising Sun (1649) 6

from A Perfect Diurnal of Some Passages in Parliament (1649) 7

Number 288, 29 January-5 February 1649 7

from Mercurius Pragmaticus (1649) 8

Number 43, 30 January-6 February 1649 8

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) 10

from Leviathan (1651) 10

Chapter XIII: Of the NATURAL CONDITION of Mankind, as concerning their Felicity, and Misery 10

Robert Herrick (1591-1674) 14

from Hesperides (1648) 14

The Argument of His Book 14

To Daffodils 15

The Night-piece, to Julia 15

The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home 16

Upon Julia's Clothes 17

When he would have his verses read 18

Delight in Disorder 18

To the Virgins, to make much of Time 18

His Return to London 19

The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad 19

The Pillar of Fame 20

John Milton (1608-1674) 21

from The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce; Restored to the Good of Both Sexes, From the bondage of Canon Law, and other mistakes, to Christian freedom, guided by the Rule of Charity. Wherein also many places of Scripture, have recovered their long-lost meaning. Seasonable to be now thought on in the Reformation intended. (1643) 23

Book I: The Preface 23

from Chapter I 26

from Chapter VI 26

from Areopagitica; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England (1644) 27

from Poems (1673) 44

Sonnet 18 (1655) On the Late Massacre in Piemont 44

Sonnet 19 (1652?) "When I Consider how my Light is Spent" 44

Sonnet 16 [To the Lord General Cromwell, 1652] 45

from Paradise Lost (1667) 45

The Verse 47

Book I 47

Book II 66

Book IV 91

Book IX 116

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) 145

Anacreontiques: Or, Some Copies of Verses Translated Paraphrastically out of Anacreon 145

To the Royal Society 152

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) 157

from Miscellaneous Poems (1681) 158

The Coronet 158

The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers 158

Bermudas (1653?) 159

The Mower to the Glo-Worms (1651-2?) 161

An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland (1650) 161

The Garden (1651-2?) 164

On a Drop of Dew (1651-2?) 167

To his Coy Mistress (c.1645) 168

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) 170

from Poems and Fancies (1653) 170

Poets have most Pleasure in this Life 170

from The Description of a New World, called the Blazing World (1666) 171

John Bunyan (1628-1688) 179

from Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666) 179

John Dryden (1631-1700) 183

To My Honoured Friend, Dr Charleton, on his learned and useful Works; and more particularly this of STONE-HENGE, by him Restored to the true

Founders (1663) 184

Mac Flecknoe (1676?) 186

Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem (1681) 192

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham (1684) 217

To the Pious Memory

Rezensionen

"This is a magisterial anthology, skilfully selected and rigorously edited by Robert DeMaria, with crisp, authoritative explanatory material. The fourth edition of British Literature 1640-1789 retains the exciting openness of earlier editions to voices from the margins while intensifying its focus on the major authors and works as we teach them today." Thomas Keymer, University of Toronto

"Already the gold standard for this period, British Literature 1640-1789 keeps getting better. The range and inclusiveness of genres and authors is remarkable and inventive - no instructor will be at a loss for the canon or the non-canonical. In fact, this anthology helps reshape the canon. No such collection can ever be perfect, but this one comes as close to perfection as the form allows. Headnotes are superb and succinct, the layout and design eminently inviting to the eye." James Engell, Harvard University