ABSTRACT

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).

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PART I. THE RISE OF CLASSICISM

chapter I|11 pages

The Spirit of the Restoration

chapter II|12 pages

Literary Criticism of the Restoration

chapter III|11 pages

The Poetry of Dryden

chapter VI|18 pages

Restoration Drama: II. Comedy

chapter VII|13 pages

Patterns in Historical Writing

chapter VIII|13 pages

Types of Prose Fiction

chapter IX|14 pages

The Essay and Allied Forms

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PART II. CLASSICISM AND JOURNALISM

chapter I|10 pages

Eighteenth-Century Quality

chapter III|10 pages

Defoe and Journalism

chapter IV|13 pages

Jonathan Swift

chapter V|13 pages

Addison, Steele, and the Periodical Essay

chapter VI|15 pages

The Drama, 1700–1740

chapter VII|17 pages

Traditions in Early Eighteenth-Century Poetry

chapter VIII|18 pages

Pope and His Group

chapter IX|17 pages

New Voices in Poetry

chapter X|15 pages

The Mid-Century Novel

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PART III. THE DISINTEGRATION OF CLASSICISM

chapter I|10 pages

Accentuated Tendencies

chapter III|16 pages

Dr. Johnson

chapter IV|16 pages

Mid-Century Poets

chapter V|14 pages

The Novel After 1760

chapter VI|15 pages

The Drama, 1740–1785

chapter VII|13 pages

The Periodicals and Oliver Goldsmith

chapter IX|14 pages

Intellectual Prose

chapter X|14 pages

Cowper and Burns