English literature from Dryden to Burns. [print]

Preface Political history (1660-1702) ; Social history (1660-1702) ; Seventeenth-century thought Science Literary types and standards John Dryden: Dryden's satires; Of Dramatic Poesy Samuel Butler John Oldham Sedley, Dorset, and Rochester Sir William Temple John Bunyan Samuel Pepys John Evelyn Restoration drama Heroic play and tragedy: Thomas Otway; Nathaniel Lee Comedy: George Etherege; William Wycherley; William Congreve; Sir John Vanbrugh; George Farquhar; Thomas Shadwell Reformation of manners Political history (1702-1760) ; Social history (1702-1789) ; The country and the provinces London life and the world of fashion The lower classes: philanthropy and reform Standards of living Army and navy Education Eighteenth-century thought Deism Ethics: Shaftesbury; Mandeville Jonathan Swift: A Tale of a Tub; Gulliver's Travels Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe Early periodicals Richard Steele Joseph Addison Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism; The Rape of the Lock; The Dunciad; An Essay on Man Bolingbroke John Dennis Mary Wortley Montagu Matthew Prior John Gay John Arbuthnot James Thomson: The Seasons Mark Akenside Edward Young The Church: Methodism Romanticism and changing taste William Collins Thomas Gray The Wartons William Shenstone Robert Dodsley Newspapers, magazines, and reviews The fine arts: painting, architecture, landscape gardening; William Hogarth Sentimentalism The approach to the novel Samuel Richardson Henry Fielding Tobias George Smollett Laurence Sterne The later novel: Fanny Burney; The novel of sentiment; Gothic and historical romance Eighteenth-century drama Tragedy: Nicholas Rowe; George Lillo Comedy: Colley Cibber; Steele's plays Pantomime and opera Later comedy Later tragedy David Garrick Shakespeare in the Restoration and eighteenth century

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