The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Concise Volume B - Second Edition: The Age of Romanticism - The Victorian Era - The Twentieth Century and Beyond / Edition 2

by Joseph Black, Leonard Conolly, Kate Flint, Isobel Grundy, Don LePan

Overview

In all six of its volumes The Broadview Anthology of British Literature presents British literature in a truly distinctive light. Fully grounded in sound literary and historical scholarship, the anthology takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors, and includes a wide selection of work by lesser-known writers. The anthology also provides wide-ranging coverage of the worldwide connections of British literature, and it pays attention throughout to issues of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. It includes comprehensive introductions to each period, providing in each case an overview of the historical and cultural as well as the literary background. It features accessible and engaging headnotes for all authors, extensive explanatory annotations, and an unparalleled number of illustrations and contextual materials. Innovative, authoritative and comprehensive, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature has established itself as a leader in the field.

The full anthology comprises six bound volumes, together with an extensive website component; the latter has been edited, annotated, and designed according to the same high standards as the bound book component of the anthology, and is accessible by using the passcode obtained with the purchase of one or more of the bound volumes.

The two-volume Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Concise Edition provides an attractive alternative to the full six-volume anthology. Though much more compact, the Concise Edition nevertheless provides instructors with substantial choice, offering both a strong selection of canonical authors and a sampling of lesser-known works. With an unparalleled number of illustrations and contextual materials, accessible and engaging introductions, and full explanatory annotations, this edition of the acclaimed Broadview Anthology provides concise yet wide-ranging coverage for British literature survey courses.

Sylvia Townsend Warner, Stevie Smith, J.M. Coetzee, Eavan Boland, and Zadie Smith are among those given full author entries for the first time. There are also new selections by a number of authors who were already included in the anthology—among them Seamus Heaney, Margaret Atwood, and Carol Ann Duffy. There are new contextual materials as well—including material on “The Natural, the Supernatural, and the Sublime” in the Age of Romanticism section, and material on “The New Art of Photography” in The Victorian Era. The new edition concludes with a new section offering a range of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction prose under the heading “Literature, Politics, and Cultural Identity in the Late Twentieth- and Early Twenty-first Centuries.”

The Concise edition will also now include a substantial website component, providing for much greater flexibility. And an increasing number of works from the full six-volume anthology (or from its website component) are being made available in stand-alone Broadview Anthology of British Literature editions. (Tennyson’s In Memoriam, for example, which was previously included in these pages, will now be available both as part of a stand-alone Broadview Anthology of British Literature edition of Tennyson’s selected poetry and as part of the website component of the anthology’s Concise Edition.)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781554811335
Publisher:	Broadview Press
Publication date:	08/20/2013
Edition description:	Concise
Pages:	1694
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

General Editors:

Joseph Black, University of Massachusetts
Leonard Conolly, Trent University
Kate Flint, University of Southern California
Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta
Don LePan, Broadview Press
Roy Liuzza, University of Tennessee
Jerome J. McGann, University of Virginia
Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College
Barry V. Qualls, Rutgers University
Claire Waters, University of California, Davis

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM
Introduction to The Age of Romanticism
Political Parties and Royal Allegiances
Imperial Expansion
The Romantic Mind and Its Literary Productions
The Business of Literature
“Romantic”
A Changing Language
History of the Language and of Print Culture
ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD
*Summer Evening’s Meditation (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
*The Groans of the Tankard (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
*To the Poor (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Washing Day
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem
*On the Death of the Princess Charlotte
*To a Little Invisible Being Who is Expected Soon to Become Visible (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
*Life (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
*The Rights of Woman
*The Baby-House
*The First Fire, October 1st, 1815 (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
*The Caterpillar
*CHARLOTTE SMITH
from Elegiac Sonnets
1 (“The partial Muse, has from my earliest hours”)
2 Written at the Close of Spring
11 To Sleep
39 To Night
44 Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex
59 Written September 1791
70 On being cautioned against walking on an headland overlooking the sea
74 The Winter Night
84 To the Muse
Beachy Head (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
*CONTEXTS: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
from Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France from Thomas Paine, Rights of Man from Richard Price, A Discourse on the Love of Our Country
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Letter to Charles Heath, 29 August 1794
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Pantisocracy”
Robert Southey, “On the Prospect of Establishing a Pantisocracy in America”
from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Once a Jacobin Always a Jacobin”
Thomas Spence, “The Rights of Man for Me: A Song”
*CONTEXTS: THE NAPOLEONIC ERA
from The Preface (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Chapter 18: 1799
from Chapter 22: 1799
from Chapter 28: 1800
from Barry Edmund O’Meara, Letter to Sir Hudson Lowe, 28 January 1817 (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Madame (Germaine) de Staël, Considerations of the Principal Events of the French Revolution (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Chapter 4: The Advance of Bonaparte’s Absolute Power from Chapter 8: On Exile from Chapter 19: Intoxication of Power; Bonaparte’s Reverses and Abdication from Chapter 13: Bonaparte’s Return from The Corsican: A Diary of Napoleon’s Life in his Own Words (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte” (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Hallam’s Constitutional History” (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
*GEORGE CRABBE (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from The Borough
The Poor of the Borough: Peter Grimes
Arabella
WILLIAM BLAKE
from Songs of Innocence and of Experience from Songs of Innocence
Introduction
The Ecchoing Green
The Lamb
The Little Black Boy
The Chimney Sweeper
The Divine Image
Holy Thursday
Infant Joy
Nurse’s Song
*In Context: Charles Lamb, the Praise of Chimney Sweepers (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Songs of Experience
Introduction
The Clod & the Pebble
Holy Thursday
The Chimney Sweeper
The Sick Rose
The Fly
The Tyger
Ah! Sun-Flower
The Garden of Love
London
The Human Abstract
Infant Sorrow
A Poison Tree
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
*“A Song of Liberty”
*America (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
*In Context: A Most Extraordinary Man (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
*from Charles Lamb, Letter to Bernard Barton, 15 May 1824
*from John Thomas Smith, Nollekens and His Times
*MARY ROBINSON (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
January, 1795
from Sappho and Phaon
4 (“Why, when I gaze on Phaon’s beauteous eyes”)
12 (“Now, o’er the tessellated pavement strew”)
18 (“Why art thou chang’d? O Phaon! Tell me why?”)
30 (“O’er the tall cliff that bounds the billowy main”)
37 (“When, in the gloomy mansion of the dead”)
The Haunted Beach
All Alone
London’s Summer Morning from A Letter to the Women of England
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Introduction
Chapter 2: The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed from Chapter 3: The Same Subject Continued
In Context: Contemporary Reviews of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman from The Analytical Review 12
from The Critical Review 4
from Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman
Chapter 5
*CONTEXTS: WOMEN AND SOCIETY
from William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book 1, Chapter 15, “Of Husband and Wife”
from Catharine Macaulay, Letters on Education from Letter 21, “Morals Must be Taught on Immutable Principles”
from Letter 22, “No Characteristic Difference in Sex”
from Olympe de Gouges, The Rights of Woman from Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Practical Education, Prudence and Economy from Priscilla Wakefield, Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex; With Suggestions for Its Improvement from Chapter 3
from Chapter 6
from Richard Polwhele, “The Unsexed Females: a Poem, Addressed to the Author of The Pursuits of Literature”
from Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education from Volume 1, Chapter 4: “Comparison of the Mode of Female Education in the Last Age with the Present Age”
from Volume 1, Chapter 6: “On the Early Forming of Habits. On the Necessity of Forming the Judgment to Direct those Habits”
from William Thompson and Anna Wheeler, Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, To Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil And Domestic Slavery from Introductory Letter to Mrs. Wheeler from Part 2
ROBERT BURNS
To a Mouse, On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough
The Fornicator
Halloween (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Address to the De’il (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Flow gently, sweet Afton
Ae Fond Kiss
Robert Bruce’s March To Bannockburn
A Man’s A Man For A’ That
Comin’ thro’ the Rye
A Red, Red Rose
Auld Lang Syne
Love and Liberty. A Cantata (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
*MARIA EDGEWORTH (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
The Grateful Negro
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
from Lyrical Ballads, 1798
Advertisement
We Are Seven
Lines Written in Early Spring
The Thorn
Expostulation and Reply
The Tables Turned
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey from Lyrical Ballads, 1800, 1802
Preface
[There was a Boy]
[Strange fits of passion I have known]
Song [She dwelt among th’untrodden ways]
[A slumber did my spirit seal]
Lucy Gray
Nutting
Michael, A Pastoral Poem
[I Griev’d for Buonaparté]
Ode to Duty
Resolution and Independence
Composed upon Westminster Bridge
[The world is too much with us]
[It is a beauteous Evening]
London, 1802
The Solitary Reaper
[My heart leaps up]
In Context: “I wandered lonely as a cloud”: Stages in the Life of a Poem from Dorothy Wordsworth, Grasmere Journal (15 April 1802)
[I wandered lonely as a Cloud] 1807
[I wandered lonely as a Cloud] facsimile
[I wandered lonely as a Cloud] transcription
[I wandered lonely as a Cloud] 1815
Elegiac Stanzas
Ode [Intimations of Immortality]
from The Excursion
[The Ruined Cottage]
Surprised by Joy
Mutability
Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways
In Context: Visual Depictions of “Man’s Art”
*The Prelude
The Two-Part Prelude of 1799
First Part
Second Part from The Fourteen-Book Prelude of 1850
from Book First, Introduction, Childhood, and School-time from Book Fifth, Books from Book Sixth, Cambridge, and the Alps from Book Thirteenth, Subject concluded from Book Fourteenth, Conclusion
CONTEXTS: READING, WRITING, PUBLISHING
from Daniel Isaac Eaton, The Pernicious Effects of the Art of Printing Upon Society, Exposed
Thomas Spence, “Examples of Safe Printing,” from Pig’s Meat
Joshua, “Sonnet: The Lion,” from Moral and Political Magazine from Anonymous, “On the Characteristics of Poetry” No. 2, from Monthly Magazine from Anonymous, Letter to the Monthly Magazine from Samuel Pratt, Gleanings in England: Descriptive of the Countenance, Mind, and Character of the Country from Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education, from Chapter 8: On Female Study from Charles and Mary Lamb, “Preface,” Tales from Shakespeare (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from an advertisement in The Times for Thomas Bowdler’s The Family Shakespeare (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, “On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing” (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Isaac D’Israeli, The Case of Authors Stated, Including the History of Literary Property (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
William Hazlitt, “A Review of The St. James Chronicle, The Morning Chronicle, The Times, The New Times, The Courier, &c., Cobbett’s Weekly Journal, The Examiner, The Observer, The Gentleman’s Magazine, The New Monthly Magazine, The London, &c., &c.,” from The Edinburgh Review (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from John Stuart Mill, “The Present State of Literature”
*Copyright and the Growth of “a Reading Age”
from Copyright Act of 1709 (the Statute of Anne)
from Millar v. Taylor (1769)
Hinton v. Donaldson (Scotland, 1773); Donaldson v. Beckett (England, 1774)
from Catharine Macaulay, A Modest Plea for the Property of Copyright from Robert Southey, “Inquiries Concerning the Proposed Alteration of the Laws of Copyright, as It Affects Authors and the Universities,” Quarterly Review (January 1819)
from Thomas Babington Macaulay, Speech to House of Commons, 5 February 1841
SIR WALTER SCOTT (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
The Eve of St. John
Glenfinlas; or Lord Ronald’s Coronach from Thomas the Rhymer
Proud Maisie
In Context: Sir Walter Scott and The Keepsake for 1829
My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from The Grasmere Journal
Grasmere—A Fragment
Thoughts on My Sick-bed
*CONTEXTS: THE NATURAL, THE HUMAN, THE SUPERNATURAL, AND THE SUBLIME
from Dionysius Longinus, On the Sublime
Section 1
Section 8
from Joseph Addison, The Pleasures of the Imagination from The Spectator, No. 411 (21 June 1712)
from The Spectator, No. 412 (23 June 1712)
from The Spectator, No. 413 (24 June 1712)
from The Spectator, No. 414 (25 June 1712) (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from The Spectator, No. 420 (2 July 1712)
from Sir Jonathan Richardson the Elder, An Essay on the Theory of Painting
Of the Sublime from Thomas Hartley, Observations on Man (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Of the pleasures and pains of imagination
Of the pleasures arising from the beauty of the natural world
Of the beauties of the works of art from Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language from Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful from Part 1 (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Part 2
from Part 3
from Part 4 (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Part 5
from Immanuel Kant, Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime from Section 1: Of the Distinct Objects of the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime from Section 4: Of National Characteristics, So Far as They Depend upon the Distinct Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime from Sir William Chambers, A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Helen Maria Williams, Letters Written in France (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Letter 2
Letter 9
Letter 10
Letter 26
from Helen Maria Williams, A Tour of Switzerland
Chapter 4
Chapter 11
Chapter 40
from Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men from William Giplin, Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty
Painting the Natural, the Human, the Supernatural and the Sublime
French Painting
German Painting
British Painting from Sir Uvedale Price, An Essay on the Picturesque, as Compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful; and On the Use of Studying Pictures (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Chapter 4
from Chapter 5
from Richard Payne Knight, An Analytical Inquiry in the Principles of Taste (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from John Ruskin, Modern Painters, Volume 1 (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Section 1, Chapter 6: “Of Ideas of Beauty”
Section 2, Chapter 3: “Of the Sublime”
The Place of Humans and Non-Human Animals in Nature from William Godwin, Fleetwood: or, the New Man of Feeling from John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, Section 116
from William Hogarth, The Four Stages of Cruelty
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, “The Mouse’s Petition”
from Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Lessons for Children
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “To a Young Ass, Its Mother Being Tethered Near It”
Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Vindication of Natural Diet from “An Act to Prevent the Cruel and Improper Treatment of Cattle”
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
The Eolian Harp
Fears In Solitude
Frost at Midnight from The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in Seven Parts (1798) (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In Seven Parts (1817)
In Context: The Origin of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, Chapter 14
from A letter from the Rev. Alexander Dyce to Hartley Coleridge
The Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
Christabel
Dejection: An Ode
Work Without Hope
Kubla Khan, Or, A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment
Epitaph (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
On Donne’s Poetry (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Lectures and Notes On Literature (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
[Definition of Poetry]
from Notes on Lear from [On the English Language]
[Mechanic Vs. Organic Form]
from Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life and Opinions from Chapter 1 (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Reception of the Author’s First Publication
The Effect of Contemporary Writers on Youthful Minds
Bowles’s Sonnets from Chapter 4: Mr. Wordsworth’s Earlier Poems from Chapter 11: An affectionate exortation to those who in early life feel themselves disposed to become authors (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Chapter 13: On the Imagination, or Esemplastic Power
Chapter 14: Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads from Chapter 17: Examination of the Tenets Peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth
*from Table Talk (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
[On Various Shakespearean Characters]
[The Ancient Mariner]
[On Borrowing]
[On Metre]
[On Women]
[On Corrupt Language]
[On Milton]
[The Three Most Perfect Plots]
*CONTEXTS: INDIA AND THE ORIENT (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Sir William Jones, “A Discourse on the Institution of a Society for Inquiring into the History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences and Literature of Asia”
Edmund Burke and the Impeachment of Warren Hastings from Edmund Burke, Speech on the Impeachment of Warren Hastings from Warren Hastings, Address in His Defence from Elizabeth Hamilton, Translations of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah from Anonymous, ”Review of Translations of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah,” from The Analytical Review
Tipu Sultan and the British from Letter from Tipu Sultan to the Governor General from Declaration of the Right Honourable the Governor-General-in-Council from Mary Robinson, “The Lascar”
from Thomas Macaulay, Minute on Indian Education
Roger Fenton, Orientalist Studies from Col. Henry Yule and A.C. Burnell, Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical, and Discursive
JANE AUSTEN
*Lady Susan (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Pride and Prejudice
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
*In Context: Austen’s Letters (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
*CHARLES LAMB (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Old China from On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, Considered with Reference to Their Fitness for the Stage
Representation
WILLIAM HAZLITT (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from The Spirit of the Age; or Contemporary Portraits
Mr. Coleridge
Mr. Wordsworth
*THOMAS DE QUINCEY (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
To the Reader
Preliminary Confessions from Part 2
The Pleasures of Opium
Introduction to the Pains of Opium
The Pains of Opium from Suspira de Profundis
Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
The Apparition of the Brocken from The Poetry of Pope
Literature of Knowledge and Literature of Power
[The complete Confessions of an English Opium Eater is also available at http://www.broadviewpress.com/babl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=42]
MARY PRINCE
The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself
In Context: Mary Prince and Slavery (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Mary Prince’s Petition Presented to Parliament on June 24, 1829
from Thomas Pringle, Supplement to The History of Mary Prince from The Narrative of Ashton Warner
CONTEXTS: THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY
from John Newton, A Slave Trader’s Journal from Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species from Alexander Falconbridge, Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa
William Cowper, “Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce, or, The Slave-Trader in the Dumps”
from William Wilberforce, “Speech to the House of Commons,” 13 May 1789
Proponents of Slavery from Rev. Robert Boncher Nicholls, Observations, Occasioned by the Attempts Made in England to Effect the Abolition of the Slave Trade from Anonymous, Thoughts on the Slavery of Negroes, as it Affects the British Colonies in the West Indies: Humbly Submitted to the Consideration of Both Houses of Parliament from Gordon Turnbull, An Apology of Negro Slavery; or, the West India Planters Vindicated from the Charge of Inhumanity from Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, “Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade”
William Blake, Images of Slavery from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, On the Slave Trade from William Earle, Obi; or, the History of Three-Fingered Jack
Mary Robinson, Poems on Slavery
“The African”
“The Negro Girl”
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON
Sun of the Sleepless
She walks in beauty
When we two parted
Stanzas for Music
*from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Canto the Third from Canto the Fourth
Darkness
Prometheus
So, we’ll go no more a roving
When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home
January 22nd 1842. Missolonghi
Epistle to Augusta from Don Juan (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Dedication
Canto 1
Canto 2
from Canto 3
from Canto 7
from Canto 11
In Context: Don Juan (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
“Remarks on Don Juan,” from Blackwood’s Magazine
Selected Letters (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from a letter To Francis Hodgson
To Lady Byron
To Augusta Leigh
To Douglas Kinnaird from a letter To John Murray
*In Context: The Byronic Hero from Eastern Tales
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
To Wordsworth
Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
Mutability
Mont Blanc. Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Ozymandias
Ode to the West Wind
The Cloud
To a Skylark
*Prometheus Unbound (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Act 1
Act 2
Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats from Hellas (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Chorus (“Worlds on worlds are rolling ever”)
Chorus (“The world’s great age begins anew”)
Mutability (“The flower that smiles to-day”)
Stanzas, Written in Dejection - December 1818, near Naples
Sonnet [Lift Not the Painted Veil] (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
To Night (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
To — (“Music, when soft voices die”) (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
The Mask of Anarchy (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Song to the Men of England
England in 1819
from A Defence of Poetry
*In Context: The Peterloo Massacre (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Robert Shorter, The Bloody Field of Peterloo! A New Song
Anonymous, A New Song
Hibernicus, Stanzas Occasioned by the Manchester Massacre!
Anonymous, The Peterloo Man from Samuel Bamford, Passages in the Life of a Radical
Chapter 28
Chapter 35
from Chapter 36
from Chapter 39
from John Tyas, An account of the events leading up to the massacre
*In Context: Youth and Love (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Letter to T.J. Hogg, Field Place, 3 January 1811
Letter to T.J. Hogg, 1811
Letter to William Godwin, Keswick, 10 January 1812
*In Context: Shelley and Keats (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Letter to the Editor of the Quarterly Review
Leigh Hunt on “Mr. Shelley’s New Poem Entitled Adonais”
FELICIA HEMANS
The Homes of England
The Land of Dreams
Evening Prayer at a Girls’ School
Casabianca
Corinne at the Capitol
The Effigies
The Image in Lava
Properzia Rossi
Woman and Fame
*JOHN CLARE (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Written In November
Remembrances from The Flitting
The Badger
Written in a Thunder storm July 15th 1841
from Child Harold
Don Juan A Poem
Sonnet [I am]
“I Am”
Clock A Clay
To Mary
An Invite to Eternity
JOHN KEATS
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
On the Grasshopper and Cricket
Sleep and Poetry
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be
Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds
To Homer
The Eve of St. Agnes
Bright Star
La Belle Dame sans Merci
La Belle Dame sans Mercy
Incipit altera Sonneta
Ode to Psyche
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
Ode on Indolence
To Autumn
Lamia (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
*The Fall of Hyperion, A Dream (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Canto 1
Canto 2
This Living Hand
Selected Letters
To Benjamin Bailey (22 November 1817)
To George and Thomas Keats (December 1817)
To John Hamilton Reynolds (3 February 1818)
To John Taylor (27 February 1818)
To Benjamin Bailey (13 March 1818)
To Benjamin Bailey (18 July 1818)
To Richard Woodhouse (27 October 1818)
To George and Georgiana Keats (14 February - 3 May 1819)
To Fanny Brawne (25 July 1819)
To Percy Bysshe Shelley (16 August 1820)
To Charles Brown (30 November 1820)
In Context: Politics, Poetry, and the “Cockney School Debate”
from Leigh Hunt, “Young Poets”
from John Lockhart (“Z.”), “On the Cockney School of Poetry, No. 1”
from John Lockhart (“Z.”), “On the Cockney School of Poetry, No. 4”
*In Context: The Elgin Marbles (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Selected Photographs from William Hazlitt, “Sir Joshua Reynold’s Discourses”
from William Hazlitt, “Report on the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Elgin Marbles”
from B.R. Haydon, “On the Judgement of Connoisseurs Being Preferred to that of Professional Men—Elgin Marbles etc.”
*In Context: The Death of Keats (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Joseph Severn to Charles Brown, 27 February 1821
*JOHN WILLIAM POLIDORI (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
The Vampyre: A Tale
MARY SHELLEY
from The Last Man
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
In Context: The “Last Man” Theme in the Nineteenth Century
Thomas Campbell, “The Last Man”
from Thomas Campbell’s letter to the editor of The Edinburgh Review, 28 February 1825
*In Context: Shelley’s Life and The Last Man (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Selected Letters
To Thomas Jefferson Hogg, 6 March 1815
To Thomas Jefferson Hogg, 25 April 1815
To Maria Gisborne, 2 Nov. 1818
To Maria Gisborne, c. 3 Dec. 1818
To Maria Gisborne, 9 April 1819
To Marianne Hunt, 29 June 1819
To Maria Gisborne, 2 June 1822
To Maria Gisborne, 15 August 1822
*The Transformation (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
*The Mortal Immortal (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
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*LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Lines Written Under a Picture of a Girl Burning a Love Letter
A Child Screening a Dove From a Hawk
Love’s Last Lesson
Lines of Life
Revenge
The Little Shroud
The Fairy of the Fountains
*CONTEXTS: STEAM POWER AND THE MACHINE AGE (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Humphrey Davy, A Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry
Luddite Documents
Declaration, November 1811
Letter to Mr. Kirby, Cotton Master at Candis his factory, Ancoates (1812)
“General Justice,” Letter to Mr. Garside, 19 April 1812
Industrialization in Canada from Quebec Mercury, 6 November 1809
from Montreal Gazette, 6 November 1822
from The Times, London, Tuesday, 29 November 1814
from Robert Owen, Observations on the Effects of the Manufacturing System from Thomas Babington Macaulay, A Review of Southey’s Colloquies from Fanny Kemble, Letter to H., 26 August 1830
from Harriet Martineau, A Manchester Strike from Chapter 1: The Week’s End from Chapter 5: No Progress Made from Orestes Brownson, “The Laboring Classes”
from George Ripley, Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Boston, 9 November 1840
THE VICTORIAN ERA
Introduction to the Victorian Era
A Growing Power
Grinding Mills, Grinding Poverty
Corn Laws, Potato Famine
“The Two Nations”
The Politics of Gender
Empire
Faith and Doubt
Victorian Domesticity
Cultural Trends
Technology
Cultural Identities
Realism
The Victorian Novel
Poetry
Drama
Prose Non-Fiction and Print Culture
The English Language in the Victorian Era
History of the Language and of Print Culture
THOMAS CARLYLE
from Sartor Resartus (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Book 2
Chapter 6: Sorrows of Teufelsdræckh from Book 3
Chapter 8: Natural Supernaturalism from Past and Present from Book 1
Chapter 1: Midas
Chapter 6: Hero-Worship from Book 3
Chapter 2: Gospel of Mammonism
Chapter 13: Democracy from Book 4
Chapter 4: Captains of Industry
CONTEXTS: WORK AND POVERTY
Anonymous, “The Steam Loom Weaver”
from Elizabeth Bentley, Testimony before the 1832 Committee on the Labour of Children in Factories from Andrew Ure, The Philosophy of Manufactures from William Dodd, A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd, Factory Cripple, Written by Himself from Joseph Adshead, Distress in Manchester, Chapter 3: “Narratives of Suffering”
Thomas Hood, “Song of the Shirt”
Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Chapter 3, “The Great Towns”
*from Reverend Sidney Godolphin Osborne, Letters of S.G.O.
from Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton, Chapter 6
from Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Chapter 5: The Key-Note
*from Henry Morley, “Ground in the Mill,” Household Words [22 April 1854]
from Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, “Boy Crossing-Sweepers and Tumblers”
JOHN STUART MILL
from The Subjection of Women
Chapter 1
CONTEXTS: THE PLACE OF WOMEN IN SOCIETY
from Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Daughters of England: Their Position in Society, Character and Responsibilities from Anonymous, “Hints on the Modern Governess System,” Fraser’s Magazine from Harriet Taylor, The Enfranchisement of Women from Coventry Patmore, The Angel in the House
The Wife’s Tragedy
The Foreign Land
*from William Rathbone Greg, “Why Are Women Redundant?”
*from Frances Power Cobbe, “What Shall We Do with Our Old Maids?”
from Eliza Lynn Linton, “The Girl of the Period,” Saturday Review, March 1868
from Frances Power Cobbe, “Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors,” Fraser’s Magazine, December 1868
*May Probyn, “The Model” (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from “Between School and Marriage,” The Girl’s Own Paper, Vol. 7
from Emma Brewer, “Our Friends the Servants,” The Girl’s Own Paper, Vol. 14
*from Grant Allen, “Plain Words on the Woman Question,” Fortnightly Review 46 (October 1889)
from Sarah Grand, “The New Aspect of the Woman Question,” North American Review 158 (March 1894)
from Mona Caird, “Does Marriage Hinder a Woman’s Self-Development?” Lady’s Realm (March 1899)
*Prostitution and the Contagious Diseases Act (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Thomas Hood, “The Bridge of Sighs”
from Henry Mayhew, “Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts,” The Morning Chronicle (1849)
from W.R. Grieg, “Prostitution,” Westminster Review (January 1850)
from The Contagious Diseases Act from Harriet Martineau, “The Contagious Diseases Acts – II,” Daily News (29 December 1869)
from Josephine Butler, Personal Remembrances of a Great Crusade from Josephine Butler, Some Thoughts on the Present Aspect of the Crusade Against the State Regulation of Vice from Sarah Grand, The Beth Book
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
The Cry of the Children
To George Sand: A Desire
To George Sand: A Recognition
A Year’s Spinning
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point from Sonnets from the Portuguese
1 (“I thought once how Theocritus had sung”)
7 (“The face of all the world is changed, I think”)
13 (“And wilt thou have me fasten into speech”)
21 (“Say over again, and yet once over again”)
22 (“When our two souls stand up erect and strong”)
24 (“Let the world’s sharpness, like a clasping knife”)
26 (“I lived with visions for my company”)
28 (“My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!”)
43 (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”)
from Aurora Leigh (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
Book 1
from Book 2
from Book 5
A Curse for a Nation (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
A Musical Instrument (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
In Context: Books on Womanhood (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Catherine Napier, Woman’s Rights and Duties
In Context: Children in the Mines (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Richard Hengist Horne, Report of the Children’s Employment Commission
In Context: The Origin of “the Finest Sonnets” (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Edmund Gosse, Critical Kit-Kats
In Context: Images of George Sand (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Mariana
The Palace of Art
The Lady of Shalott
The Lotos-Eaters
Ulysses
The Epic [Morte d’Arthur]
Morte d’Arthur
[Break, break, break]
Locksley Hall from The Princess
[Sweet and Low]
[The Splendour Falls]
[Tears, Idle Tears]
[Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal]
[Come Down, O Maid]
[The Woman’s Cause is Man’s]
In Memoriam A.H.H. (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
The Eagle
The Charge of the Light Brigade
*Maud (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
from Idylls of the King (www.broadviewpress.com/babl)
The Holy Grail
[Flower in the Crannied Wall]
Vastness
Crossing the Bar
In Context: Images of Tennyson from Thomas Carlyle, Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 5 August 1844
In Context: Victorian Images of Arthurian Legend
In Context: Crimea and the Camera
Roger Fenton, Selected Photographs
*CHARLES DARWIN
from The Voyage of the Beagle from Chapter 10: Tierra del Fuego
from Chapter 17: Galapagos Archipelago
In Context: Images from The Beagle from On the Origin of Species
Introduction from Chapter 3: Struggle for Existence
from Chapter 14: Recapitulation and Conclusion from The Descent of Man from Chapter 19: Secondary Sexual Characters of Man from Chapter 21: General Summary and Conclusion
In Context: Defending and Attacking Darwin from Thomas Huxley, “Criticisms on The Origin of the Species”
from Thomas Huxley, “Mr. Darwin’s Critics”
from Punch
In Context: Darwin and Human Societies from Herbert Spencer, Social Statistics: or, the Conditions Essential to

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