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

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;

George Sherburn, Donald F. Bond