British Literature 1640 - 1789: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies)

The new edition of this successful anthology continues to challenge the boundaries of eighteenth-century literary study whilst thorough revisions make it even more useful to teachers and students.

• Includes more Dryden and Behn, as well as Congreve's The Way of the World.
  
  
• Retains the historical span and range of texts, canonical and previously marginalised, that made the first edition so attractive.
  
  
• Continues to represent many texts in their entirety, including Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub, Eliza Haywood's Fantomina, Aphra Behn's Oronooko, Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock and Daniel Defoe's Shortest Way with the Dissenters.
  
  
• An edited volume of critical essays, British Literature 1640-1789: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Publishers, 1999), accompanies this anthology providing the material for a complete course.