The Longman Anthology of British Literature
Subtitle: Volume 2B: The Victorian Age
By: [compiled by] Heather Henderson and William Sharpe.
Contributors: Henderson, Heather, 1955-; Sharpe, William.
Publisher: Longman
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780321067661
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Literary collections
Other titles: Victorian age
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sartor Resartus [excerpts] ; Past and present [excerpts] / Thomas Carlyle; title: Perspectives: The industrial landscape; title: The steam loom weaver; title: From Record of a girlhood / Fanny Kemble; title: From A review of Southey's colloquies / Thomas Babington Macaulay; title: Testimony of Hannah Goode, a child textile worker; title: Testimony of Ann and Elizabeth Eggley, child mineworkers; title: From Dombey and Son ; From Hard times / Charles Dickens; title: From Sybil / Benjamin Disraeli; title: From The condition of the working class in England in 1844 / Friedrich Engels; title: From London labour and the London poor / Henry Mayhew; title: On liberty [excerpts] ; The subjection of women [excerpt] ; Statement repudiating the rights of husbands ; Autobiography [excerpts] / John Stuart Mill; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: Perspectives: Religion and science; title: From Lord Bacon / Thomas Babington Macaulay; title: From Sunday under three heads / Charles Dickens; title: From The life of Jesus critically examined / David Friedrich Strauss; title: From Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë; title: Epi-strauss-ium ; The latest decalogue ; from Dipsychus / Arthur Hugh Clough; title: From The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua critically examined / John William Colenso; title: From Apologia pro vita sua / John Henry Cardinal Newman; title: From Evolution and ethics / Thomas Henry Huxley; title: From Father and son / Sir Edmund Gosse; title: 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; title: A Christmas carol ; From A walk in a workhouse / Charles Dickens; title: Popular short fiction; title: Our society at Cranford / Elizabeth Gaskell; title: Thrawn Janet / Robert Louis Stevenson; title: The withered arm / Thomas Hardy; title: A scandal in Bohemia ; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; title: Fortunatus Rex & Co. / Edith Nesbit; title: Brother Jacob ; Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft / George Eliot; title: Modern painters [excerpts] ; The stones of Venice [excerpt] ; From Modern manufacture and design ; Praeterita [excerpts] / John Ruskin; title: Cassandra / Florence Nightingale; title: Perspectives: Victorian ladies and gentlemen; title: From Life of Frances Power Cobbe as told by herself; title: From The women of England: their social duties and domestic habits / Sarah Stickney Ellis; title: From Letter to Emily Brontë / Charlotte Brontë; title: From Agnes Grey / Anne Brontë; title: From The idea of a university / John Henry Cardinal Newman; title: From A letter to the queen / Caroline Norton; title: From Tom Brown's school days / Thomas Hughes; title: From What women are educated for / Harriet Martineau; title: From The book of household management / Isabella Beeton; title: Letters and journal entries on the position of women / Queen Victoria; title: From Letters and memories / Charles Kingsley; title: Vitaï Lampada / Sir Henry Newport; title: 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; title: The blessed Damozel ; The woodspurge ; The house of life [excerpts] ; The burden of Nineveh / Dante Gabriel Rossetti; title: 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; title: The defence of Guenevere ; The haystack in the floods ; From The beauty of life / William Morris; title: The leper ; The triumph of time [excerpt] ; Itylus ; Hymn to Proserpine ; A forsaken garden ; The higher pantheism in a nutshell / Algernon Charles Swinburne; title: The renaissance [excerpts] ; From The child in the house ; Appreciations [excerpt] / Walter Pater; title: 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; title: Without benefit of clergy ; Just so stories [excerpts] ; Gunga Din ; The widow at Windsor ; Recessional ; If- / Rudyard Kipling; title: Perspectives: Travel and empire; title: From Domestic manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope; title: From Eothen / Alexander William Kinglake; title: From A personal narrative of a pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah / Sir Richard Francis Burton; title: From A lady's life in the Rocky Mountains / Isabella Bird; title: From Through the dark continent / Sir Henry Morton Stanley; title: From Travels in West Africa / Mary Kingsley; title: 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; title: Perspectives: Aestheticism, decadence, and the Fin de Siècle; title: If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line / W.S. Gilbert; title: From Mr. Whistler's "Ten o'clock" / James Abbott McNeill Whistler; title: La Gioconda ; A pen-drawing of Leda ; "A girl" / "Michael Field" (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper); title: Suggestion / Ada Leverson; title: Pastel ; White heliotrope ; From The decadent movement in literature ; From Preface to silhouettes / Arthur Symons; title: A ballad of London / Richard Le Gallienne; title: The destroyer of a soul ; The dark angel ; A decadent's lyric / Lionel Johnson; title: In praise of shame ; Two loves ; Impression de nuit / Lord Alfred Douglas; title: The masquerade ; Statues ; The white witch / Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas); title: The ballad of a barber / Aubrey Beardsley; title: Enoch Soames / Max Beerbohm