History of English Literature, Volume 3: From the Metaphysicals to the Romantics 1789971764, 9781789971767

Table of contents :
Contents
List of abbreviations
Part I: Jacobean, Caroline and Republican Poetry and Prose
§ 1. The Stuart century
§ 2. Literary genres up to the Restoration
§ 3. The Spenserians
§ 4. Wither
§ 5. William Browne
§ 6. Drummond of Hawthornden
§ 7. The Fletchers
§ 8. Suckling
§ 9. Lovelace
§ 10. Carew
§ 11. Herrick
§ 12. Herbert I: The quintessence of Anglican spirituality
§ 13. Herbert II: ‘The Temple’. The builder of temples
§ 14. Herbert III: ‘A Priest to the Temple’. A vicar’s prayer book
§ 15. Herbert of Cherbury
§ 16. Crashaw I: The English apotheosis of continental Baroque1
§ 17. Crashaw II: Cupid desensualized
§ 18. Vaughan
§ 19. Traherne I: A foretaste of Paradise
§ 20. Traherne II: ‘Centuries of Meditations’
§ 21. Quarles
§ 22. King
§ 23. Cowley
§ 24. Cleveland
§ 25. Marvell I: Cromwell’s regime. Justification and nostalgia
§ 26. Marvell II: Return to Eden
§ 27. Waller
§ 28. Denham
§ 29. The homilists. Andrewes, Taylor
§ 30. The ‘Authorized Version’
§ 31. Milton I: The uncreated idiom1
§ 32. Milton II: Early works
§ 33. Milton III: ‘Comus’
§ 34. Milton IV: The enslaved voice
§ 35. Milton V: ‘Paradise Lost’ I. Genesis, allegory and theology of the poem
§ 36. Milton VI: ‘Paradise Lost’ II. Satan’s dynamism and God’s response
§ 37. Milton VII: ‘Paradise Lost’ III. Man’s redemption
§ 38. Milton VIII: ‘Paradise Regained’. The new Adam
§ 39. Milton IX: ‘Samson Agonistes’
§ 40. Minor poets up to 1660
§ 41. Bacon
§ 42. Burton
§ 43. Thomas Browne
§ 44. Other prose writers
Part II: The Restoration
§ 45. Restoration literature
§ 46. The re-opening of the theatres
§ 47. Dryden I: The re-consecration of Stuart civilization
§ 48. Dryden II: Early poetry. Elegiac, encomiastic, celebrative
§ 49. Dryden III: The comedies
§ 50. Dryden IV: Genesis, development and limits of Dryden’s heroic tragedy
§ 51. Dryden V: Satirical and theological poems
§ 52. Lee
§ 53. Otway
§ 54. Etherege
§ 55. Wycherley
§ 56. Congreve
§ 57. Shadwell I: Farces against foreign fads
§ 58. Shadwell II: ‘The Libertine’
§ 59. Vanbrugh
§ 60. Farquhar
§ 61. Rochester
§ 62. Samuel Butler
§ 63. Oldham
§ 64. Restoration historians. Clarendon, Burnet
§ 65. Pepys
§ 66. Evelyn
§ 67. Temple
§ 68. Hobbes, Locke
§ 69. Bunyan I: ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’
§ 70. Bunyan II: Other works on the contest between God and the devil
§ 71. Early feminism
Part III: The Augustan Age
§ 72. England from the Glorious Revolution to 1745
§ 73. The Enlightenment in England
§ 74. Pope I: A ‘re-maker’ of genius
§ 75. Pope II: Poetic experiments up to the Homeric translations
§ 76. Pope III: Hordes of disorder
§ 77. Prior
§ 78. Gay
§ 79. Dennis
§ 80. Arbuthnot
§ 81. Bolingbroke
§ 82. Defoe I: The growth of the novelist
§ 83. Defoe II: ‘Robinson Crusoe’. Ambition, initiative and divine approval of the entrepreneur
§ 84. Defoe III: ‘Captain Singleton’
§ 85. Defoe IV: ‘Moll Flanders’. Moral balancing acts in a monetized society
§ 86. Defoe V: ‘A Journal of the Plague Year’
§ 87. Defoe VI: ‘Colonel Jack’
§ 88. Defoe VII: ‘Roxana’. A more polished portrait
§ 89. Swift I: Anathema of the monster and pitfalls of Swiftian irony1
§ 90. Swift II: Satires against ‘enthusiasm’
§ 91. Swift III: Paradigmatic pamphlets
§ 92. Swift IV: ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ I. Travel literature revisited
§ 93. Swift V: ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ II. The enigma of Part IV
§ 94. Swift VI: ‘Journal to Stella’
§ 95. Swift VII: Swift the poet
§ 96. Addison
§ 97. Steele I: Apostle to the gentiles
§ 98. Steele II: The newspaper man
§ 99. Shaftesbury
§ 100. Berkeley
§ 101. Joseph Butler
§ 102. Mandeville
§ 103. Law
§ 104. Other deists
§ 105. Lady Winchilsea
§ 106. Thomson I: The theophany of nature
§ 107. Thomson II: ‘The Castle of Indolence’. England aroused from sloth
§ 108. Dyer
§ 109. Young
§ 110. Minor anti-Popian poets
Part IV: The Eighteenth Century Comes of Age
§ 111. Britain from 1745 to 1789
§ 112. The eighteenth century comes of age
§ 113. Goldsmith I: Patriarchal society: nostalgia and defence
§ 114. Goldsmith II: ‘The Vicar of Wakefield’
§ 115. Goldsmith III: The plays. Psycho-social mechanisms unmasked and exorcized
§ 116. Richardson I: Case histories and objectives of the seduction triptych
§ 117. Richardson II: ‘Pamela’ I. Letter-mad maidservant redeems rake
§ 118. Richardson III: ‘Pamela’ II. Degenerate nobility reformed from below
§ 119. Richardson IV: ‘Clarissa’
§ 120. Richardson V: ‘Sir Charles Grandison’
§ 121. Fielding I: Richardson parodied
§ 122. Fielding II: ‘Jonathan Wild’
§ 123. Fielding III: ‘Tom Jones’. A justified sinner
§ 124. Fielding IV: ‘Amelia’
§ 125. Smollett I: Transplant and growth of the English picaresque
§ 126. Smollett II: ‘Humphry Clinker’. Turning towards the extravaganza
§ 127. Sterne I: ‘Tristram Shandy’, or concerning relations
§ 128. Sterne II: ‘A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy’
§ 129. Gray
§ 130. William Collins
§ 131. Churchill
§ 132. Johnson I: Rise and fall of the artist as creator
§ 133. Johnson II: The three monuments to knowledge
§ 134. Boswell
§ 135. Wilkes, Junius
§ 136. Letter-writers
§ 137. Hume
§ 138. Robertson
§ 139. Gibbon
§ 140. Mid-eighteenth-century drama
§ 141. Sheridan
§ 142. Walpole
§ 143. Radcliffe
§ 144. Beckford
§ 145. Other exponents of the novel of terror
§ 146. Burke
§ 147. Macpherson
§ 148. Percy and the ‘Reliques of English Poetry’
§ 149. Chatterton
§ 150. Cowper
§ 151. Smart
§ 152. Crabbe
§ 153. Wesley and Methodism
§ 154. The Scottish awakening
§ 155. Hogg
§ 156. Mackenzie
Part V: Romanticism
§ 157. From the Napoleonic wars to the Age of Equipoise
§ 158. English Romanticism
§ 159. Burney
§ 160. Austen I: Janeites and Austenophobes
§ 161. Austen II: Gothic vaccination
§ 162. Austen III: ‘Mansfield Park’. A thoughtful diagnosis of modern youth
§ 163. Austen IV: ‘Emma’. The masochism of match-making
§ 164. Austen V: ‘Persuasion’
§ 165. Austen VI: ‘Juvenilia’ and fragments
§ 166. Edgeworth
§ 167. Galt
§ 168. Other late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novelists
§ 169. Paine
§ 170. Godwin
§ 171. Mary Wollstonecraft
§ 172. Burns
§ 173. Blake I: The first English multi-media artist
§ 174. Blake II: Biography and intellectual growth
§ 175. Blake III: The contrary states of the human soul
§ 176. Blake IV: The Satanic verses
§ 177. Blake V: The Prophetic Books
§ 178. Wordsworth I: The dialogue of the soul with itself in the presenceof nature
§ 179. Wordsworth II: The ‘loco-descriptive poems’
§ 180. Wordsworth III: ‘Lyrical Ballads’
§ 181. Wordsworth IV: The major phase
§ 182. Wordsworth V: ‘The Prelude’
§ 183. Coleridge I: From the epistemic context to symbolic recreation
§ 184. Coleridge II: Conversation pieces
§ 185. Coleridge III: The demonic triptych I. ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’
§ 186. Coleridge IV: The demonic triptych II. ‘Kubla Khan’
§ 187. Coleridge V: The demonic triptych III. ‘Christabel’
§ 188. Coleridge VI: ‘Biographia Literaria’ and Shakespearean criticism
§ 189. Shelley I: Poetry to break the chains of the world
§ 190. Shelley II: Action and introspection in the early Shelley
§ 191. Shelley III: ‘Prometheus Unbound’ and ‘The Cenci’
§ 192. Shelley IV: Other ‘Italian’ poems
§ 193. Shelley V: ‘The Triumph of Life’. A critical and phantasmagoric diagnosis of the Enlightenment
§ 194. Shelley VI: ‘A Defence of Poetry’
§ 195. Keats I: The uncertain plenitude of myth
§ 196. Keats II: ‘Endymion’ and other oneiric rhapsodies
§ 197. Keats III: The two ‘Hyperions’
§ 198. Keats IV: Poems of death-bearing and life-bringing love
§ 199. Keats V: The great odes
§ 200. Byron I: Phases and forms of Byron’s self-fashioning
§ 201. Byron II: The anathema of Romanticism
§ 202. Byron III: ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’. The ‘grand tour’ of an eccentric Englishman
§ 203. Byron IV: Oriental tales
§ 204. Byron V: Disputes and dilemmas in the dramas
§ 205. Byron VI: ‘Don Juan’. Mimesis and estrangement of Donjuanism
§ 206. Scott I: Range and critical fortunes of Scott’s fiction
§ 207. Scott II: The poetry
§ 208. Scott III: The Scottish historical novels I. The founding trilogy
§ 209. Scott IV: The Scottish historical novels II. The last Jacobite
§ 210. Scott V: ‘Ivanhoe’
§ 211. Scott VI: The last phase
§ 212. Mary Shelley
§ 213. Polidori
§ 214. Southey
§ 215. Landor
§ 216. Campbell
§ 217. Rogers
§ 218. Moore
§ 219. Clare
§ 220. Beddoes, Darley
§ 221. Keble
§ 222. Hemans, L. E. L.
§ 223. Humorous poets
§ 224. Lamb
§ 225. De Quincey
§ 226. Hazlitt
§ 227. Smith
§ 228. Hunt
§ 229. Peacock
§ 230. Cobbett
§ 231. Romantic drama
Index of names
Thematic index

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