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Product details
- ISBN 9781118952481
- Weight: 1837g
- Dimensions: 170 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 12 Feb 2016
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Spanning the period from the British Civil War to the French Revolution, the fourth edition of this successful anthology increases its coverage of canonical writings, plays, and of the development of British Literature in the American colonies.
- A thoroughly updated new edition of this popular anthology which focuses firmly on the eighteenth century without neglecting the seventeenth century
- Contains new texts including the play Rover by Aphra Behn, and Beggars' Opera by John Gay; increased canonical works, including works by Dryden, Pope, and Johnson; and historical contextual materials, with particualr attention to the Americas
- Features updated introductions throughout, taking into acccount recent critical works and editions
- Includes useful resources such as an alternative list of contents by theme, and a chronolgy of literary and political events, providing valuable historical and cultural context
Robert DeMaria, Jr is the Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English Literature at Vassar College, USA. He is the General Editor of the Yale edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, and editor of the Johnsonian News Letter. He is the author of numerous books including The Life of Samuel Johnson (Wiley Blackwell, 1993), and Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading (1997); and is the editor of British Literature 1640-1789: A Critical Reader (1998), Classical Literature and Its Reception: An Anthology (with Robert D. Brown, 2007), and A Companion to British Literature in four volumes (with Heesok Chang and Samantha Zacher, 2014), all published by Wiley Blackwell.
