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'Franco Marucci's History of English Literature is unique in its field. There is no other book that combines such erudition and authority in such a compact format. An indispensable work of reference.'
— J. B. Bullen, Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, Oxford
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.
Contents
CONTENTS: The Stuart century - Literary genres up to the Restoration - The Spenserians - Wither - William Browne - Drummond of Hawthornden - The Fletchers - Suckling - Lovelace - Carew - Herrick - Herbert - Herbert of Cherbury - Crashaw - Vaughan - Traherne - Quarles - King - Cowley - Cleveland - Marvell - Waller - Denham - The homilists. Andrewes, Taylor - The Authorized Version - Milton - Minor poets up to 1660 - Bacon - Burton - Thomas Browne - Other prose writers - Restoration literature - The re-opening of the theatres - Dryden - Lee - Otway - Etherege - Wycherley - Congreve - Shadwell - Vanbrugh - Farquhar - Rochester - Samuel Butler - Oldham - Restoration historians. Clarendon, Burnet - Pepys - Evelyn - Temple - Hobbes, Locke - Bunyan - Early feminism - England from the Glorious Revolution to 1745 - The Enlightenment in England - Pope - Prior - Gay - Dennis - Arbuthnot - Bolingbroke - Defoe - Swift - Addison - Steele - Shaftesbury - Berkeley - Joseph Butler - Mandeville - Law - Other deists - Lady Winchilsea - Thomson - Dyer - Young - Minor anti-Popian poets - England from 1745 to 1789 - The eighteenth century comes of age - Goldsmith - Richardson - Fielding - Smollett - Sterne - Gray - William Collins - Churchill - Johnson - Boswell - Wilkes, Junius - Letter-writers - Hume -Robertson - Gibbon - Mid-eighteenth-century drama - Sheridan - Walpole - Radcliffe - Beckford - Other exponents of the novel of terror - Burke - Macpherson - Percy and the Reliques of English Poetry - Chatterton - Cowper - Smart - Crabbe - Wesley and Methodism - The Scottish awakening - Hogg - Mackenzie - From the Napoleonic wars to the Age of Equipoise - English Romanticism - Burney - Austen - Edgeworth - Galt - Other late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novelists - Paine - Godwin - Mary Wollstonecraft - Burns - Blake - Wordsworth - Coleridge -Shelley - Keats - Byron - Scott - Mary Shelley - Polidori - Southey - Landor - Campbell - Rogers - Moore - Clare - Beddoes, Darley - Keble - Hemans, L. E. L. - Humorous poets - Lamb - De Quincey - Hazlitt - Smith - Hunt - Peacock - Cobbett - Romantic drama.
