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SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE AN ANTHOLOGY

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Valencia, 2013

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TO THE READER Dear Reader: Let this emblem be our guide, both in study and in life. Let the texts herein contained lead us to this noble end. P. R.

[Study and Fame. George Wither. A Collection of Emblems, 1635]

Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century English Literature 4th year compulsory subject (35339) 6 ETCS Prof. Purificaci贸n Ribes

TO THE READER.............................................................................. 7 I. TEXT SELECTION......................................................................... 13 II. REFERENCES................................................................................ 19 UNIT 1. LATE ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN COMEDY.......... 27 UNIT 2. JACOBEAN TRAGEDY........................................................ 63 UNIT 3. THE TRIBE OF BEN AND THE CAVALIER POETS........ 117 UNIT 4. METAPHYSICAL POETRY................................................. 143 UNIT 5. JOHN MILTON.................................................................... 177 UNIT 6. RESTORATION DRAMA.................................................... 199 UNIT 7. AUGUSTAN POETRY AND PROSE................................... 223 UNIT 8. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PROSE FICTION.................... 301 UNIT 9. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY.................................. 353 UNIT 10. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DRAMA................................. 379

CONTENTS UNIT 1. LATE ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN COMEDY Dekker’s “merry conceited comedy”: The Shoemakers’ Holiday. Jonson’s satiric depiction of human greed: Volpone, or the Fox. UNIT 2. JACOBEAN TRAGEDY Jacobean Tragedy of State. Shakespeare’s ambivalent representation of kingship: King Lear. Jacobean Revenge Tragedy. Webster’s morally confused world: The White Devil. UNIT 3. THE TRIBE OF BEN AND THE CAVALIER POETS Ben Jonson and the tradition of the Country Estate Poem. To Penshurst: in praise of the learned aristocracy. Richard Lovelace’s fully committed Royalism. Robert Herrick’s anti-puritanical “Corinna”. John Suckling’s rakish pose. UNIT 4. METAPHYSICAL POETRY Metaphysical Poetry: half a century worth of intellectual excitement. John Donne’s subjugating voice. George Herbert’s spiritual calmness. Andrew Marvell’s sophisticated wit. Henry Vaughan’s mystical yearning. UNIT 5. JOHN MILTON John Milton: in defence of political and spiritual freedom. Milton’s genuine commitment to the Republican cause. Areopagitica: a masterful defence of intellectual freedom. Paradise Lost: renewed hope after the Fall. Close-reading of Books IX and X. UNIT 6. RESTORATION DRAMA Charles II’s love of drama and the rebirth of English theatre. The invaluable testimony of Pepys’ Diary. Physical and intellectual hedonism wins the stage. Patriarchal codes of behaviour remain unchallenged. Cynical wit unveils social hypocrisy. Close-reading of Wycherley’s The Country Wife UNIT 7. AUGUSTAN POETRY AND PROSE Dryden takes pride in national drama: An Essay of Dramatic Poesy. The Exclusion Crisis and ironic subtlety: Absalom and Achitophel. Dryden’s devastating attack on literary dullness: Mack Flecknoe. Jonathan Swift’s anatomy of religious division: A Tale of a Tub. Pope’s programmatic Essay on Criticism. Pope’s feminized mockepic: The Rape of the Lock. The first periodical publications and the formation of the canon: The Spectator’s middle-browed guide to literary, social and intellectual taste. Samuel Johnson’s seriously committed assessment of literary excellence: A Preface to Shakespeare and Lives of the English Poets. UNIT 8. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PROSE FICTION Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction: the rise of a new genre. Daniel Defoe’s traveladventure narrative: Robinson Crusoe. Jonathan Swift’s satiric inventiveness:

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Gulliver’s Travels. Samuel Richardson’s moral respectability: Pamela. Henry Fielding’s good natured humour: Tom Jones. Laurence Sterne’s experimental fiction: Tristam Shandy. Horace Walpole’s Gothic Novel: The Castle of Otranto. UNIT 9. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY Early Eighteenth-Century Poetry: James Thomson’s God-ordered nature: The Seasons. Britain’s imperialistic anthem: Rule Britannia. Thomas Gray’s new sensibility: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Late Eighteenth Century Poetry. The Enclosure Acts and Oliver Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village: the hardships of city life; George Crabbe’s The Village: a realistic picture of country life; William Cowper’s The Task, or the therapeutic effects of rural peace. UNIT 10. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DRAMA Eighteenth-Century Drama. The stage’s increasing morality: from Jeremy Collier’s “On the Immorality and Profanenness of the English Stage” to Cumberland’s The West Indian. John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera: a happy combination of homely tunes and good humoured satire. The Theatrical Licensing Act (1737) and mid-century drama. Late Eighteenth-Century Laughing Comedy: O. Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer and R. Sheridan’s The Rivals.

I. TEXT SELECTION UNIT 1 LATE ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN COMEDY 1.1. CITIZEN COMEDIES. THOMAS DEKKER’S THE SHOEMAKER’S HOLIDAY................................................................................................. 29 1.1.1. To All Good Fellows, Professors of the Gentle Craft................ 29 1.1.2. From The Shoemaker’s Holidady, Act I, Scene , 1-50.................... 31 1.1.3. From The Shoemaker’s Holidady, Act V, Scene , 1-195................. 34 1.2. SATIRIC COMEDIES. BEN JONSON’S VOLPONE.............................. 43 1.2.1. Epistle to the Most Honourable and Most Equal Sisters......... 43 1.2.2. Prologue...................................................................................... 48 1.2.3. From Volpone Act I, Scene I, 1-90............................................... 50 1.2.4. From Volpone: Act V, Scene xii, 43-151 and Epilogue............... 54 UNIT 2 JACOBEAN TRAGEDY 2.1. TRAGEDY OF STATE. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S KING LEAR...... 65 2.1.1. From King Lear, Act I, Scene i, 1-309......................................... 65 2.1.2. From King Lear, Act I, Scene ii, 1-22.......................................... 81 2.1.3. From King Lear, Act III, Scene ii, 1-95....................................... 83 2.1.4. From King Lear, Act IV, Scene ii, 1-29....................................... 88 2.1.5. From King Lear, Act IV, Scene vi, 128-183................................. 90 2.1.6. From King Lear, Act IV, Scene vii, 23-51.................................... 93 2.2. REVENGE TRAGEDY. JOHN WEBSTER’S THE WHITE DEVIL......... 95 2.2.1. To the Reader............................................................................. 95 2.2.2. From The White Devil, Act III, Scene ii, 1-292............................ 97 2.2.3. From The White Devil, Act V, Scene vi, 193-273......................... 110

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THE TRIBE OF BEN AND THE CAVALIER POETS 3.1. BEN JONSON (1572-1637)................................................................... 119 3.1.1. Song to Celia........................................................................... 119 3.1.2. To Penshurst........................................................................... 120

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3.2. ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674).......................................................... 125 3.2.1. Corinna’s Going a-Maying........................................................ 125 3.2.2. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time........................................ 128 3.3. RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1657)..................................................... 129 3.3.1. To Lucasta, Going to the Wars................................................... 129 3.3.2. To Althea, from Prison.............................................................. 130 3.4. SIR JOHN SUCKLING (1609-1642)...................................................... 133 3.4.1. Why so Pale and Wan Fond Lover?............................................ 133 3.4.2. Out upon it............................................................................. 134 3.5. THOMAS CAREW (1595-1640)............................................................ 135 3.5.1. Elegy upon the Death of St. Paul’s, Dr. John Donne....................... 135 3.5.2. To Ben Jonson......................................................................... 138

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METAPHYSICAL POETRY 4.1. JOHN DONNE (1572-1631).................................................................. 145 4.1.1. The Sun Rising....................................................................... 145 4.1.2. The Good Morrow.................................................................... 147 4.1.3. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.......................................... 148 4.1.4. The Canonization...................................................................... 150 4.1.5. The Indifferent........................................................................ 152 4.1.6. The Flea.................................................................................. 154 4.1.7. The Apparition........................................................................ 156 4.1.8. Batter my Heart....................................................................... 157 4.2. GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633)......................................................... 159 4.2.1. Easter Wings........................................................................... 159 4.2.2. Prayer..................................................................................... 160 4.3. HENRY VAUGHAN (1622-1695)........................................................... 161 4.3.1. The Retreat.............................................................................. 161 4.3.2. The Night............................................................................... 163 4.4. ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678)........................................................ 167 4.4.1. To his Coy Mistress................................................................... 167 4.4.2. Upon Appleton House............................................................... 169

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UNIT 5

JOHN MILTON (1608-1674) 5.1.1. From Paradise Lost Book IV........................................................ 179 5.1.2. From Paradise Lost, Book IX....................................................... 181 5.1.3. From Paradise Lost, Book X........................................................ 184 5.2.1. When I Consider how my Light is Spent....................................... 189 5.3.1. From Areopagitica [Against Censorship]................................. 190 5.3.2. From Areopagitica [On Free Will]........................................... 191 5.3.3. From Areopagitica [On Personal Faith].................................. 193 5.4.1. From The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce............................... 194

UNIT 6

RESTORATION DRAMA W. WYCHERLEY’S THE COUNTRY WIFE 6.1. From Act II, Scene I, 495-572................................................................ 201 6.2. From Act IV, Scene iii, 154-227.............................................................. 205 6.3. From Act V, Scene iv 1-185..................................................................... 211

UNIT 7

AUGUSTAN POETRY AND PROSE 7.1. JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)................................................................. 225 7.1.1. From Absalom and Achitophel (ll. 1-85)....................................... 225 7.1.2. From An Essay of Dramatic Poesie............................................. 228 7.1.3. From Mac Flecknoe....................................................................... 230 7.2. ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)......................................................... 233 7.2.1. From The Rape of the Lock Canto I.............................................. 233 7.2.2. From The Rape of the Lock, Canto II............................................ 238 7.2.3. From The Rape of the Lock, Canto III.......................................... 239 7.2.4. From The Rape of the Lock, Canto IV........................................... 242 7.2.5. From The Rape of the Lock, Canto V............................................ 244 7.2.6. From An Essay on Criticism..................................................... 246 7.3. SAMUEL PEPYS (1633-1703)................................................................ 249 7.3.1. From his Diary....................................................................... 249 7.4. JONATHAN SWIFT (1707-1754).......................................................... 255 7.4.1. From A Tale of a Tub [On Catholicism].................................. 255 7.4.2. From A Tale of a Tub [On Lutheranism & Calvinism]............. 267 7.4.3. From A Tale of a Tub [On Fops]............................................. 276

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7.5. JOSEPH ADDISON (1672-1719)........................................................... 287 7.5.1. From The Spectator No. 275......................................................... 287 7.5.2. From The Spectator No. 357.................................................... 292 7.6. SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1774)........................................................ 293 7.6.1. From “Life of Addison” Lives of the English Poets..................... 293 7.6.2. From Preface to his Edition of Shakespeare’s Plays......................... 294

UNIT 8

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PROSE FICTION 8.1. DANIEL DEFOE (1660-1731)............................................................... 303 8.1.1. From Robinson Crusoe Title Page, The Preface.......................... 303 8.1.2. From Robinson Crusoe Chapters 1, 4........................................... 305 8.1.3. From Robinson Crusoe Chapter 15.............................................. 309 8.1.4. From Robinson Crusoe Chapter 16.............................................. 315 8.2. JONATHAN SWIFT (1707-1754).......................................................... 317 8.2.1. From Gulliver’s Travels, Chapter 5.............................................. 317 8.3. SAMUEL RICHARDSON (1689-1761)................................................. 320 8.3.1. From Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded Letters I & II.......................... 320 8.4. HENRY FIELDING (1707-1754)........................................................... 325 8.4.1. From The History of Tom Jones, Chapter 6................................ 325 8.4.2. From The History of Tom Jones, Book 18, Chapter I.................. 327 8.4.3. From The History of Tom Jones, Chapter the last....................... 329 8.5. LAURENCE STERNE (1713-1768)....................................................... 337 8.5.1. From The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, vol. 1, Ch. 22, Vol. 2, Ch. 4, 8, 11, 19; Vol. 3, Ch. 12..................................... 337 8.5.2. From The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Vol. 3, Ch. 15, 16, 17; Vol. 4, Ch. 9............................................................... 344 8.6. HORACE WALPOLE (1707-1754)........................................................ 347 8.6.1. From The Castle of Otranto...................................................... 347

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EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY 9.1. JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)........................................................... 355 9.1.1. From The Seasons: Winter........................................................ 355 9.1.2. Rule, Britannia....................................................................... 358 9.2. THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771)................................................................ 361 9.2.1. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard....................................... 361 9.3. OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1730-1774)..................................................... 367 9.3.1. From: The Deserted Village............................................................ 367 9.4. GEORGE CRABBE (1754-1832)............................................................ 371 9.4.1. From The Village, Book 1............................................................ 371 9.5. WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800)......................................................... 375 9.5.1. From The Task, Book 1............................................................... 375 UNIT 10 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DRAMA 10.1. BALLAD OPERA. JOHN GAY’S THE BEGGAR’S OPERA.................... 381 10.1.1. From The Beggar’s Opera, Act I, Scene i...................................... 381 10.2. LAUGHING COMEDY. RICHARD B. SHERIDAN’S THE RIVALS..... 385 10.2.1. From The Rivals, Preface............................................................ 385 10.2.2. From The Rivals, Prologue......................................................... 387 10.2.3. From The Rivals, Act I, Scene ii [On Circulating Libraries].... 390 10.2.4. From The Rivals, Act I, Scene ii [On Marriage]........................ 393 10.2.5. From The Rivals, Act I, Scene ii [On Female Literacy]............ 399 10.2.6. From The Rivals, Act IV, Scene ii; Act V, Scene i....................... 401

II. REFERENCES 1. REQUIRED READING 1.1. Primary Texts RIBES, Purificaci贸n (ed.) 17th and 18th Century English Literature: An Anthology. Valencia: Tirant Humanidades, 2013. (Text selection for analysis and discussion) SHAKESPEARE, William. King Lear (Foakes, R. A. ed.) London: Methuen. The Arden Shakespeare. Third Series. 2004 (1997) JONSON, Ben. Volpone (Philip Brockbank, ed.) London: A & C Black, 1997. 12th imp. MILTON, John, Paradise Lost, Books IX and X (Houghton, R. E. C. ed.) Oxford, O. U. P. 1990. POPE, Alexander, The Rape of the Lock (Gurr, Elizabeth, ed.) Oxford: O. U. P. 2007. WYCHERLEY, William. The Country Wife (James Ogden, ed.) London: A & C Black, 1997. SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley. The Rivals (Elizabeth Duthie, ed.) London: A & C Black, 1994.

1.2. Secondary Texts RIBES, Purificaci贸n (comp.) 17th and 18th Century English Literature: A Critical Reader (To be read in preparation for class. Available at the Faculty Copy Shop) DAEMS, Jim. Seventeenth-Century Literature and Culture. London, Continuum, 2006. GORING, Paul. Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture. London, Continuum, 2008.

2. RECOMMENDED READING The following texts are recommended as useful reading.

2.1. Primary Texts JONSON, Ben. Poems (Johnston, George Burke, ed.) London: Routledge, 1980. MACLEAN, Hugh, ed. Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets: Authoritative Texts. New York: W. W. Norton, 1919. DONNE, John. The Complete English Poems. (A. J. Smith, ed.) Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1971. BOOTY, John, ed. John Donne. Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions and Prayers. New York: Paulist, 1990.

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GRIERSON, Herbert, J. C. (ed.), Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to Butler, Oxford University Press, 1987. MARVELL, Andrew (Wilcher, Robert, ed.), Andrew Marvell: Selected Poetry and Prose, London, Methuen, 1986. VAUGHAN, Henry, (Dixon, Christopher, ed.) A Selection from Henry Vaughan, London, Longman, 1974. DEKKER, Thomas, The Shoemakers’ Holiday. (Anthony Parr, ed.) London: A & C Black, The New Mermaids. 1990, 2nd ed. reimp. 2002. WEBSTER, John. The White Devil. (Elizabeth M. Brennan, ed.) The New Mermaids. London: A & C. Black, 1994. 8th imp. MILTON, John, (Teskey, Gordon, ed.) John Milton: Paradise Lost. London, Norton, 2005. MILTON, John, (Davies, Tony, ed.) John Milton: Selected Longer Poems and Prose, London, Routledge, 1992. DRYDEN, John (Grant, Douglas; Salgado, Gamini eds.) Dryden: Poems and Prose, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1985. DRYDEN, John (McHenry, Robert W., ed.) Absalom and Achitophel. Hamden: Archon Books, 1986. POPE, Alexander. The Major Works. (Rogers, Pat, ed.) Oxford: O. U. P., 2006. SWIFT, Jonathan. A Tale of a Tub and Other Satires (Williams, Kathleen, ed.) London: Dent, 1982. GAY, John. The Beggar’s Opera. (Edgar V. Roberts, ed.) London: Edward Arnold, 1982. DEFOE, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. (Angus Ros, ed.) Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1965. SWIFT, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels (Foot, Michael, ed.) Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1985. RICHARDSON, Samuel. Pamela. (Peter Sabor, ed.) Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1980. FIELDING, Henry. Tom Jones. (R. P. C. Mutter, ed.) Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1966 STERNE, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy (Graham Petrie, ed.) Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1967. PEPYS, Samuel. Passages from the Diary of Samuel Pepys (Latham, Robert and Linnet, eds.) London: Harper Collins, 2000. EVELYN, John, The Diary (Bédoyère, Guy de la, ed.) Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 1997. ADDISON, Joseph; STEELE, Richard, Critical Essays from the Spectator, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1970. JOHNSON, Samuel. The Major Works. (Greene, Donald, ed.) Oxford: O. U. P.: 2000. JOHNSON, Samuel. The Lives of the English Poets: A Selection. (Lonsdale, Roger, ed.) Oxford: O. U. P., 2009. JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: An Anthology (Crystal, David, ed.) London: Penguin, 2006.

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BOSWELL, James. Life of Johnson. (Roberts, Sydney, ed.) London: J. M. Dent, 1962-63. GRAY, Thomas & William COLLINS. Poetical Works (Lonsdale, Roger, ed.) Oxford, O. U. P.: 1985. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. A Selection (Mack, Robert L. ed.) London, Everyman, 1977. COWPER, William. The Poetical Works (Milford, H. S. ed.) Oxford, O. U. P., 1934 CRABBE, George. A Selection (Lucas, John, ed.) London, Longman, 1975.

2.2. Anthologies CUMMINGS, Robert, ed. Seventeenth-Century Poetry. An Annotated Anthology. Oxford, Blackwell, 2000. RUMRICH, John P. & Gregory CHAPLIN, eds. Seventeenth-Century British Poetry, 1603-1660. N. York: Norton, 2006. DEMARIA, Robert Jr., ed. British Literature 1640-1789. An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999 FAIRER, David & Christine GERRARD, eds. Eighteenth-Century Poetry. An Annotated Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. LONSDALE, Roger, ed. The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse. Oxford, O. U. P. 1988. DAVISON, Dennis, ed. The Penguin Book of Eighteenth-Century English Verse. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1983. GREENBLATT, Stephen, ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, N. York, W. W. Norton & Co. 8th edition, 2006, Vol. I. V.V.A.A., The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 1973, Vol. I. GROSS, John, ed. The New Oxford Book of English Prose, Oxford Univ. Press, 1998 KINNEY, Arthur, ed. Renaissance Drama. An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments. Oxford, Blackwell, 1999. GREENBLATT, Stephen, ed. The Norton Shakespeare. Based on the Oxford Edition. N. York, W. W. Norton, 1997. WOMERSLEY, David, ed. Restoration Drama. An Anthology. Oxford, Blackwell, 2000. McMILLIN, Scott, ed. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy. Authoritative Texts of The Country Wife, The Man of Mode, The Way of the World, The Conscious Lovers, The School for Scandal. New York: W. W. Norton, 1973.

2.3. Literary Histories RICHETTI, John, The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780. Cambridge: C. U. P., 2005. LOEWENSTEIN, David and Janel MUELLER, The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature, Cambridge: C. U. P., 2006. SANDERS, Andrew, The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford, O. U. P., 2000.

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DAY, Gary & Bridget KEEGAN, The Eighteenth-Century Literature Handbook. London, Continuum, 2009. VARNEY, Andrew Eighteenth-Century Writers in their World. A Mighty Maze. Houndmills, Macmillan, 1999. POPLAWSKI, Paul. English Literature in Context. Cambridge. C. U. P., 5th printing 2011. BAUGH, Albert C., A Literary History of England, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977 (1967), 4 vols. DAICHES, David, A Critical History of English Literature, London, Secker and Warburg, 1983 (1960), 4 vols. GILLIE, Christopher, The Longman Companion to English Literature, London, Longman, 1972. FORD, Boris, The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1983-1988, 9 vols. HARVEY, Paul, The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Oxford, Clarendon, 1962. DOBRﾃ右, Bonamy, DAVIS, N. eds. Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford, Clarendon, 1965, 12 vols. BARNARD, Robert, A Short History of English Literature, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1984. BURGESS, Anthony, English Literature. A Survey for Students, London, Longman, 1974 (1958). COOTE, Stephen, The Penguin Short History of English Literature, London, Penguin, 1993. ROGERS, Pat, An Outline of English Literature, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992. BRADBURY, Malcolm, Ronald CARTER and John McRAE, The Routledge History of Literature in English, London, Routledge 2nd ed. 2001.

2.4. Introductions and Overviews 2.4.1. General PARRY, Graham. The Seventeenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1603-1700. London: Longman, 1987. WALL, Cynthia, ed. A Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. Malden: Blackwell, 2005. HATTAWAY, Michael, ed. A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture. Malden: Blackwell, 2003. WOMERSLEY, David, ed. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. KEEBLE, N. H. ed. The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution. Cambridge: C. U. P., 2001 ZWICKER, Steven N., The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1650-1740, Cambridge: C. U. P., 2000.

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KEYMER, Thomas and Jon MEE, eds. The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830. Cambridge: C. U. P., 2004. VARNEY, Andrew, Eighteenth-Century Writers in their World. A Mighty Maze. Houndmills, Macmillan 1999.

2.4.2. Poetry POST, Jonathan F. S. English Lyric Poetry: The Early Seventeenth Century. London: Routledge 1999. HARP, Richard & Stanley STEWART, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson. Cambridge: C. U. P., 2000. GUIBBORY, Achsah, ed. The Cambridge Companion to John Donne. Cambridge: C. U. P., 2006. CORNS, Thomas N. The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell. Cambridge: C. U. P., 1994 NORBROOK, David. Writing the English Republic. Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics 16271660. Cambridge: C. U. P., 1999. CORNS, Thomas N. ed. A Companion to Milton. Malden, MA., Blackwell, 2003. DANIELSON, Dennis, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Milton. Cambridge: C. U. P., 1989. BRADFORD, Richard. The Complete Critical Guide to John Milton. London: Routledge, 2001. ROGERS, Pat, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope. Cambridge: C. U. P., 2007. SITTER, John, The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry, Cambridge: C. U. P., 2001. McCARTHY, Eugene B. Thomas Gray: The Progress of a Poet. London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997. WATSON, J. R., ed. Pre-Romanticism in English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century: The Poetic Art and Significance of Thomson, Gray, Collins, Goldsmith, Cowper and Crabbe. Casebook Series. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1989. CRAWFORD, Rachel. Poetry, Enclosure and the Vernacular Landscape, 1700-1830. Cambridge: C. U. P., 2002.

2.4.3. Drama MILLING, Jane and Peter THOMSON, eds. The Cambridge History of British Theatre. Vol 1. Origins to 1660. Cambridge: C. U. P., 2004. DONOHUE, Joseph, ed. The Cambridge History of British Theatre. Vol. 2 1660 to 1895. Cambridge: C. U. P., 2004. KINNEY, Arthur F. ed. A Companion to Renaissance Drama. Malden: Blackwell, 2002. OWEN, Susan, ed. A Companion to Restoration Drama. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. OWEN, Susan J. Perspectives on Restoration Drama. Manchester: M. U. P., 2002. PAYNE FISK, Deborah, ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre. Cambridge: C. U. P., 2000.

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BRAUNMULLER, A. R. and Michael HATTAWAY, eds. The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama. Cambridge: C. U. P., 1990. SMITH, Emma & Garrett A. SULLIVAN Jr. eds. The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy. Cambridge: C. U. P., 2010. KASTAN, David Scott & Peter STALLYBRASS, eds. Staging the Renaissance: Reinterpretation of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. New York: Routledge, 1991. THOMSON, Peter, The Cambridge Introduction to English Theatre, 1660-1900 Cambridge C. U. P., 2006. TRUSSLER, Simon, ed., The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre. Cambridge: C. U. P. 2000. STYAN, John L. The English Stage: A History of Drama and Performance. Cambridge: C. U. P., 1996. BRAUNMULLER, A. R. and J. C. BULMAN, eds. Comedy from Shakespeare to Sheridan: Change and Continuity in the English and European Dramatic Tradition. Essays in Honour of Eugene M. Waith. Newark: University of Delaware Presses, 1986. LEGGATT, Alexander. English Stage Comedy, 1490-1990: Five Centuries of a Genre. London: Routledge, 1998. McLUSKIE, Kathleen. E. Dekker and Heywood: Professional Dramatists. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1994. LOXLEY, James. The Complete Critical Guide to Ben Jonson. London: Routledge, 2000. SANDERS, Julie, ed. Ben Jonson in Context. Cambridge: C. U. P., 2010. McEACHERN, Claire, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy. Cambridge: C. U. P., 2002. BROWN, John Russell. King Lear. A Guide to the Text and the Play in Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009. KAHAN, Jeffrey, ed. King Lear. New Critical Essays. New York: Routledge, 2008. WYMER, Rowland. Webster and Ford. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995. KACHUR, Barbara A., Etherege and Wycherley. London: Macmillan, 2004. WORTH, Katharine. Sheridan and Goldsmith. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992.

2.4.4. Fictional Prose RICHETTI, John. The English Novel in History 1700-1780. London, Routledge, 1999. RICHETTI, John, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge, C. U. P., 1998. SKINNER, John. An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Houndmills, Palgrave, 2001. PROBYN, Clive T. English Fiction of the Eighteenth Century 1700-1789. London, Longman, 1987. HAMMOND, Brean and Shaun REGAN. Making the Novel. Fiction and Society in Britain, 1660-1789. Houndmills, Palgrave, 2006. VARNEY, Andrew. Eighteenth-Century Writers in their World. A Mighty Maze. Houndmills, Macmillan, 1999.

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2.4.5. Non-fictonal Prose POOLEY, Roger, English Prose of the Seventeenth Century, 1590-1700, Longman Literature in English Series, 2001. NELSON, Brent. Holy Ambition: Rhetoric, Courtship and Devotion in the Sermons of John Donne. Tempe, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. KEEBLE, N. H. ed. The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution. Cambridge: C. U. P., 2001. McINTOSH, Carey, The Evolution of English Prose, 1700-1800: Style, Politeness and Print Culture, Cambridge: C. U. P., 1998. WERTH GELBER, Michael. The Just and the Lively: the Literary Criticism of John Dryden. Manchester: M. U. P., 2002. CLINGHAM, Greg ed. The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson. Cambridge: C. U. P., 1999.

3. WEB-BASED RESOURCES 3.1. Electronic Resources OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY ONLINE (OED) (Electronic resource available at the University of Valencia. All entries provide examples of historical usage)

3.2. Databases MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY (MLAIB) (Subscription-based online database available at the University of Valencia. This site gives a classified listing of books and articles on literature, linguistics and culture)

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EARLY ENGLISH BOOKS ONLINE (EEBO) (Subscription-based online database available at the University of Valencia) Useful resource for a wide variety of primary documents from 1473-1700. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION FULL-TEXT DATABASE Chadwyck-Healey (Subscription-based online database available at the University of Valencia). It includes 96 complete works of English prose from the period 1700-1780. LITERARY THEORY FULL-TEXT DATABASE Chadwyck-Healey (Subscriptionbased online database available at the University of Valencia) Useful resource for a wide variety of primary documents. ENGLISH DRAMA (VERSE AND PROSE) DATABASE Chadwyck-Healey (Subscription-based online database available at the University of Valencia) A Collection of more than 3,900 plays in verse and prose tracing the development of drama in English from the medieval mystery cycles to the comedies of Oscar Wilde.

3.3. Web Sites http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library) Useful collection of electronic texts. http://www.gutenberg.org/ (Project Gutenberg) http://luminarium.org/sevenlit/ (The Luminarium Site) contains works of individual authors, critical essays, and links to Seventeenth-Century resources. http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/indexpoet.html (Representative Poetry Online, University of Toronto) includes 4.079 English poems by 618 poets from Caedmon to the work of living poets. http://library.utoronto.ca/display-rpo/poetterm.cfm (Representative Poetry On-line: Glossary of Poetic Terms) http://www.literature-compass.com (Literature Compass) provides reviews of recent publications on Seventeenth-Century Literature. http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/index.html provides links to different websites devoted to the study of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture.