Table of Contents
IntroductionChapter 1 Autobiographers and DiaristsThomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-EaterFrederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassBenjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinHarriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave GirlJohn Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita SuaChapter 2 Biographers and History WritersJames Boswell, Life of Samuel JohnsonThomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in HistoryWinston Churchill, The Approaching ConflictThomas Babington Macaulay, Hallam’s HistoryGeorge Trevelyan, Life and Letters of Lord MacaulayChapter 3 CriticsMatthew Arnold, The Function of Criticism at the Current TimeRalph Waldo Emerson, Shakespeare; or, the PoetWilliam Hazlitt, On Poetry in GeneralWalter Pater, Studies in the History of the RenaissanceJohn Ruskin, Of the Pathetic FallacyChapter 4 Essayists and Fiction WritersJoseph Addison, True and False HumourFrancis Bacon, Of Marriage and Single LifeG. K. Chesterton, A Defence of Baby-WorshipCharles Lamb, The Two Races of MenMichel de Montaigne, Of the Punishment of CowardiceChapter 5 Journalists and Science and Nature WritersMargaret Fuller, At Home and Abroad; or, Things and Thoughts in America and EuropeH. L. Mencken, Europe After 8:15Charles Darwin, On the Origin of SpeciesThomas Henry Huxley, Science and CultureCharles Lyell, The Student’s Elements of GeologyChapter 6 Political WritersThomas Jefferson, Sixth State of the Union AddressJohn Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative GovernmentThomas Paine, Common SenseAlexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume 1Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of WomanChapter 7 16th and 17th CenturiesNiccolo Machiavelli, The PrinceThomas More, UtopiaThomas Hobbes, LeviathanJohn Milton, AreopagiticaMary Rowlandson, Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary RowlandsonChapter 8 18th CenturyEdward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireSamuel Johnson, Preface to a Dictionary of the English LanguageJohn Locke, Second Treatise on GovernmentJonathan Swift, A Modest ProposalRichard Steele, The TatlerChapter 9 19th CenturySamuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia LiterariaSusan B. Anthony, On Women’s Right to VoteFrancis Parkman, The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain LifeHenry David Thoreau, Civil DisobedienceOscar Wilde, De ProfundisChapter 10 20th CenturyWilla Cather, On the Art of FictionW. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black FolkCharlotte Perkins Gilman, The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric CultureGeorge Santayana, The Life of ReasonOlive Schreiner, Woman and LabourAnswers
