An edition of The Longman Anthology of British Literature - Volume 2B - The Victorian Age
(1999)
The Longman Anthology of British Literature
Volume 2B: The Victorian Age
by Heather Henderson, William Sharpe, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and David Damrosch
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The Longman Anthology of British Literature: Volume 2B: The Victorian Age
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Table of Contents
Sartor Resartus [excerpts] ; Past and present [excerpts] / Thomas Carlyle
Perspectives: The industrial landscape
The steam loom weaver
From Record of a girlhood / Fanny Kemble
From A review of Southey's colloquies / Thomas Babington Macaulay
Testimony of Hannah Goode, a child textile worker
Testimony of Ann and Elizabeth Eggley, child mineworkers
From Dombey and Son ; From Hard times / Charles Dickens
From Sybil / Benjamin Disraeli
From The condition of the working class in England in 1844 / Friedrich Engels
From London labour and the London poor / Henry Mayhew
On liberty [excerpts] ; The subjection of women [excerpt] ; Statement repudiating the rights of husbands ; Autobiography [excerpts] / John Stuart Mill
To George Sand: a desire ; To George Sand: a recognition ; A year's spinning ; Sonnets from the Portuguese [excerpts] ; Aurora Leigh [excerpts] ; From A curse for a nation ; A musical instrument ; The best thing in the world / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The kraken ; Mariana ; The lady of Shallot ; The lotos-eaters ; Ulysses ; Tithonos ; Break, break, break ; The epic [Morte d'Arthur] ; The eagle: a fragment ; Locksley Hall ; The princess [excerpts] ; From In memoriam A.H.H. ; The charge of the light brigade ; Idylls of the king [excerpts] ; The higher pantheism ; Flower in the crannied wall ; Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The voyage of the Beagle [excerpts] ; On the origin of species by means of natural selection [excerpt] ; The descent of man [excerpt] ; From Autobiography / Charles Darwin
Perspectives: Religion and science
From Lord Bacon / Thomas Babington Macaulay
From Sunday under three heads / Charles Dickens
From The life of Jesus critically examined / David Friedrich Strauss
From Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë
Epi-strauss-ium ; The latest decalogue ; from Dipsychus / Arthur Hugh Clough
From The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua critically examined / John William Colenso
From Apologia pro vita sua / John Henry Cardinal Newman
From Evolution and ethics / Thomas Henry Huxley
From Father and son / Sir Edmund Gosse
Porphyria's lover ; Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister ; My last duchess ; How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix ; Home-thoughts, from abroad ; Home-thoughts, from the sea ; The bishop orders his tomb at Saint Praxed's Church ; Meeting at night ; Parting at morning ; A toccata of Galuppi's ; Memorabilia ; Love among the ruins ; "Childe Roland to the dark tower came" ; Fra lippo lippi ; The last ride together ; Andrew Del Sarto ; Two in the Campagna ; A woman's last word ; Caliban upon Setebos ; Epilogue to Asolando / Robert Burns
A Christmas carol ; From A walk in a workhouse / Charles Dickens
Popular short fiction
Our society at Cranford / Elizabeth Gaskell
Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson
The withered arm / Thomas Hardy
A scandal in Bohemia ; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Fortunatus Rex & Co. / Edith Nesbit
Brother Jacob ; Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft / George Eliot
Modern painters [excerpts] ; The stones of Venice [excerpt] ; From Modern manufacture and design ; Praeterita [excerpts] / John Ruskin
Cassandra / Florence Nightingale
Perspectives: Victorian ladies and gentlemen
From Life of Frances Power Cobbe as told by herself
From The women of England: their social duties and domestic habits / Sarah Stickney Ellis
From Letter to Emily Brontë / Charlotte Brontë
From Agnes Grey / Anne Brontë
From The idea of a university / John Henry Cardinal Newman
From A letter to the queen / Caroline Norton
From Tom Brown's school days / Thomas Hughes
From What women are educated for / Harriet Martineau
From The book of household management / Isabella Beeton
Letters and journal entries on the position of women / Queen Victoria
From Letters and memories / Charles Kingsley
Vitaï Lampada / Sir Henry Newport
Isolation, to Marguerite ; To Marguerite: continued ; Dover Beach ; Lines written in Kensington Gardens ; The buried life ; Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse ; The scholar-gipsy ; East London ; West London ; Thyrsis ; The function of criticism at the present time ; Culture and anarchy [excerpts] ; From The study of poetry / Matthew Arnold
The blessed Damozel ; The woodspurge ; The house of life [excerpts] ; The burden of Nineveh / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Song ("She sat and sang alway") ; Song ("When I am dead, my dearest") ; Remember ; After death ; A pause ; Echo ; Dead before death ; Cobwebs ; A triad ; In an artist's studio ; A birthday ; An apple-gathering ; Winter: my secret ; Up-hill ; Goblin Market ; "No, thank you, John" ; Promises like pie-crust ; In progress ; What I would give? ; A life's parallels ; Later life [excerpt] ; Sleeping at last / Christina Rossetti
The defence of Guenevere ; The haystack in the floods ; From The beauty of life / William Morris
The leper ; The triumph of time [excerpt] ; Itylus ; Hymn to Proserpine ; A forsaken garden ; The higher pantheism in a nutshell / Algernon Charles Swinburne
The renaissance [excerpts] ; From The child in the house ; Appreciations [excerpt] / Walter Pater
God's grandeur ; The starlight night ; Spring ; The windhover ; Pied beauty ; Hurrahing in harvest ; Binsey poplars ; Duns Scotus's Oxford ; Felix Randal ; Spring and fall: to a young child ; As kingfishers catch fire ; [Carrion comfort] ; No worst, there is none ; I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day ; That nature is a Heraclitean fire and of the comfort of the resurrection ; Thou art indeed just, Lord ; From Journal [On "Inscape" and "Instress"] ; From Letter to R.W. Dixon [On sprung rhythm] / Gerard Manley Hopkins
Without benefit of clergy ; Just so stories [excerpts] ; Gunga Din ; The widow at Windsor ; Recessional ; If- / Rudyard Kipling
Perspectives: Travel and empire
From Domestic manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope
From Eothen / Alexander William Kinglake
From A personal narrative of a pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah / Sir Richard Francis Burton
From A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains / Isabella Bird
From Through the dark continent / Sir Henry Morton Stanley
From Travels in West Africa / Mary Kingsley
Impression du matin ; The harlot's house ; Symphony in yellow ; From The decay of lying ; From The soul of man under socialism ; Preface to The picture of Dorian Gray ; The importance of being earnest ; Aphorisms ; From De Profundis / Oscar Wilde
Perspectives: Aestheticism, decadence, and the Fin de Siècle
If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line / W.S. Gilbert
From Mr. Whistler's "Ten o'clock" / James Abbott McNeill Whistler
La Gioconda ; A pen-drawing of Leda ; "A girl" / "Michael Field" (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper)
Suggestion / Ada Leverson
Pastel ; White heliotrope ; From The decadent movement in literature ; From Preface to silhouettes / Arthur Symons
A ballad of London / Richard Le Gallienne
The destroyer of a soul ; The dark angel ; A decadent's lyric / Lionel Johnson
In praise of shame ; Two loves ; Impression de nuit / Lord Alfred Douglas
The masquerade ; Statues ; The white witch / Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas)
The ballad of a barber / Aubrey Beardsley
Enoch Soames / Max Beerbohm
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Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
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