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Tables of Contents for The Longman Anthology of British Literature
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
xvii
Preface
xix
Acknowledgments
xxv
Political and Religious Orders
xxviii
The Victorian Age
1008
39
Thomas Carlyle
1033
14
Past and Present
1035
12
Midas [The Condition of England]
1035
3
from Gospel of Mammonism [The Irish Widow]
1038
1
from Labour [Know Thy Work]
1039
1
from Democracy [Liberty to Die by Starvation]
1040
2
Captains of Industry
1042
5
PERSPECTIVES The Industrial Landscape
1047
226
The Steam Loom Weaver
1049
1
Fanny Kemble
1050
1
from Record of a Girlhood
1050
1
Thomas Babington Macaulay
1051
2
from A Review of Southey's Colloquies
1051
2
Parliamentary Papers (``Blue Books'')
1053
2
Testimony of Hannah Goode, a Child Textile Worker
1054
1
Testimony of Ann and Elizabeth Eggley, Child Mineworkers
1054
1
Charles Dickens
1055
4
from Dombey and Son
1056
1
from Hard Times
1057
2
Benjamin Disraeli
1059
1
from Sybil
1059
1
Friedrich Engels
1060
8
from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844
1060
8
Henry Mayhew
1068
5
from London Labour and the London Poor
1068
5
John Stuart Mill
1073
32
On Liberty
1075
11
from Chapter 2. Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion
1075
3
from Chapter 3. Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being
1078
8
The Subjection of Women
1086
9
from Chapter 1
1086
9
Statement Repudiating the Rights of Husbands
1095
1
Autobiography
1095
10
from Chapter 1. Childhood, and Early Education
1095
3
from Chapter 5. A Crisis in My Mental History. One Stage Onward
1098
7
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1105
31
To George Sand: A Desire
1107
1
To George Sand: A Recognition
1107
1
A Year's Spinning
1107
1
Sonnets from the Portuguese
1108
4
1 (``I thought once how Theocritus had sung'')
1108
1
13 (``And wilt thou have me fashion into speech'')
1109
1
14 (``If thou must love me, let it be for nought'')
1109
1
21 (``Say over again, and yet once over again'')
1109
1
22 (``When our two souls stand up erect and strong'')
1110
1
24 (``Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife'')
1110
1
28 (``My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!'')
1110
1
32 (``The first time that the sun rose on thine oath'')
1111
1
38 (``First time he kissed me, he but only kissed'')
1111
1
43 (``How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'')
1111
1
Aurora Leigh
1112
21
Book 1
1112
1
[Self-Portrait]
1112
2
[Her Mother's Portrait]
1114
1
[Aurora's Education]
1115
3
[Discovery of Poetry]
1118
2
Book 2
1120
1
[Woman and Artist]
1120
3
[No Female Christ]
1123
1
[Aurora's Rejection of Romney]
1124
4
Book 3
1128
1
[The Woman Writer in London]
1128
3
Book 5
1131
1
[Epic Art and Modem Life]
1131
2
from A Curse for a Nation
1133
2
A Musical Instrument
1135
1
The Best Thing in the World
1136
1
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1136
94
The Kraken
1139
1
Mariana
1139
2
The Lady of Shalott
1141
5
The Lotos-Eaters
1146
4
Ulysses
1150
2
Tithonus
1152
1
Break, Break, Break
1153
1
The Epic [Morte d'Arthur]
1154
2
The Eagle: A Fragment
1156
1
Locksley Hall
1156
5
The Princess
1161
1
Sweet and Low
1161
1
The Splendour Falls
1162
1
Tears, Idle Tears
1162
1
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
1163
1
Come Down, O Maid
1163
1
[The Woman's Cause Is Man's]
1164
1
from In Memoriam A. H. H.
1165
30
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1195
1
Idylls of the King
1196
32
The Coming of Arthur
1196
9
Pelleas and Ettarre
1205
13
The Passing of Arthur
1218
10
The Higher Pantheism
1228
1
Flower in the Crannied Wall
1229
1
Crossing the Bar
1229
1
Edward Fitzgerald
1230
13
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur
1231
12
Charles Darwin
1243
30
The Voyage of the Beagle
1245
9
from Chapter 10. Tierra Del Fuego
1245
6
from Chapter 17. Galapagos Archipelago
1251
3
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
1254
5
from Chapter 3. Struggle for Existence
1254
5
The Descent of Man
1259
6
from Chapter 21. General Summary and Conclusion
1259
6
from Autobiography
1265
8
PERSPECTIVES Religion and Science
1273
242
Thomas Babington Macaulay
1274
1
from Lord Bacon
1274
1
Charles Dickens
1275
3
from Sunday Under Three Heads
1275
3
David Friedrich Strauss
1278
3
from The Life of Jesus Critically Examined
1278
3
Charlotte Bronte
1281
2
from Jane Eyre
1281
2
Arthur Hugh Clough
1283
2
Epi-strauss-ium
1283
1
The Latest Decalogue
1284
1
from Dipsychus
1284
1
John William Colenso
1285
2
from The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined
1286
1
John Henry Cardinal Newman
1287
7
from Apologia Pro Vita Sua
1288
6
Thomas Henry Huxley
1294
6
from Evolution and Ethics
1295
5
Sir Edmund Gosse
1300
5
from Father and Son
1300
5
Robert Browning
1305
50
Porphyria's Lover
1308
1
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
1309
2
My Last Duchess
1311
1
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix
1312
2
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
1314
1
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea
1314
1
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
1315
3
Meeting at Night
1318
1
Parting at Morning
1318
1
A Toccata of Galuppi's
1318
2
Memorabilia
1320
1
Love Among the Ruins
1321
2
``Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came''
1323
5
Fra Lippo Lippi
1328
8
The Last Ride Together
1336
3
Andrea del Sarto
1339
6
Two in the Campagna
1345
1
A Woman's Last Word
1346
2
Caliban Upon Setebos
1348
6
Epilogue to Asolando
1354
1
Charles Dickens
1355
58
A Christmas Carol
1357
48
from A Walk in a Workhouse
1405
8
Companion Readings
Dickens at Work: Recollections by His Children and Friends
1409
2
Kate Field: Dickens Giving a Reading of A Christmas Carol
1411
2
Popular Short Fiction
1413
1
Elizabeth Gaskell
1413
16
Our Society at Cranford
1414
15
Thomas Hardy
1429
18
The Withered Arm
1429
18
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1447
16
A Scandal in Bohemia
1448
15
Edith Nesbit
1463
10
Fortunatus Rex & Co.
1463
10
John Ruskin
1473
24
Modern Painters
1474
2
from Definition of Greatness in Art
1474
1
from Of Water, As Painted by Turner
1475
1
The Stones of Venice
1476
9
from The Nature of Gothic
1476
9
from Modern Manufacture and Design
1485
3
Praeterita
1488
9
Preface
1488
1
from The Springs of Wandel
1489
2
from Heme-Hill Almond Blossoms
1491
2
from Schaffhausen and Milan
1493
1
from The Grande Chartreuse
1494
2
from Joanna's Care
1496
1
Florence Nightingale
1497
18
Cassandra
1498
17
PERSPECTIVES Victorian Ladies and Gentlemen
1515
190
Frances Power Cobbe
1517
4
from Life of Frances Power Cobbe As Told by Herself
1517
4
Sarah Stickney Ellis
1521
3
from The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits
1521
3
Charlotte Bronte
1524
2
from Letter to Emily Bronte
1524
2
Anne Bronte
1526
1
from Agnes Grey
1526
1
John Henry Cardinal Newman
1527
1
from The Idea of a University
1527
1
Caroline Norton
1528
3
from A Letter to the Queen
1529
2
George Eliot
1531
5
Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft
1531
5
Thomas Hughes
1536
2
from Tom Brown's School Days
1536
2
Isabella Beeton
1538
2
from The Book of Household Management
1538
2
Queen Victoria
1540
5
Letters and Journal Entries on the Position of Women
1540
5
Charles Kingsley
1545
1
from Letters and Memories
1545
1
Sir Henry Newbolt
1546
1
Vitai Lampada
1546
1
Matthew Arnold
1547
52
Isolation. To Marguerite
1550
1
To Marguerite---Continued
1551
1
Dover Beach
1551
1
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
1552
1
The Buried Life
1553
2
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
1555
5
The Scholar-Gipsy
1560
6
East London
1566
1
West London
1567
1
Thyrsis
1567
6
from The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
1573
10
Culture and Anarchy
1583
10
from Sweetness and Light
1583
2
from Doing as One Likes
1585
4
from Hebraism and Hellenism
1589
1
from Porro Unum Est Necessarium
1590
2
from Conclusion
1592
1
from The Study of Poetry
1593
6
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1599
12
The Blessed Damozel
1601
3
The Woodspurge
1604
1
The House of Life
1604
2
The Sonnet
1604
1
4. Lovesight
1605
1
6. The Kiss
1605
1
Nuptial Sleep
1605
1
The Burden of Nineveh
1606
5
Christina Rossetti
1611
22
Song (``She sat and sang alway'')
1612
1
Song (``When I am dead, my dearest'')
1612
1
Remember
1613
1
After Death
1613
1
A Pause
1613
1
Echo
1614
1
Dead Before Death
1614
1
Cobwebs
1615
1
A Triad
1615
1
In an Artist's Studio
1615
1
A Birthday
1616
1
An Apple-Gathering
1616
1
Winter: My Secret
1617
1
Up-Hill
1618
1
Goblin Market
1618
12
``No, Thank You, John''
1630
1
Promises Like Pie-Crust
1631
1
In Progress
1631
1
What Would I Give?
1632
1
A Life's Parallels
1632
1
Later Life
1632
1
17. (``Something this foggy day, a something which'')
1632
1
Sleeping at Last
1633
1
William Morris
1633
18
The Defence of Guenevere
1634
7
The Haystack in the Floods
1641
4
from The Beauty of Life
1645
6
Algernon Charles Swinburne
1651
12
The Leper
1652
4
The Triumph of Time
1656
1
I Will Go Back to the Great Sweet Mother
1656
1
Itylus
1657
1
Hymn to Proserpine
1658
3
A Forsaken Garden
1661
2
The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell
1663
1
Walter Pater
1663
14
The Renaissance
1665
6
Preface
1665
3
from Leonardo da Vinci
1668
1
Conclusion
1669
2
from The Child in the House
1671
6
Gerard Manley Hopkins
1677
12
God's Grandeur
1679
1
The Starlight Night
1679
1
Spring
1680
1
The Windhover
1680
1
Pied Beauty
1681
1
Hurrahing in Harvest
1681
1
Binsey Poplars
1681
1
Duns Scotus's Oxford
1682
1
Felix Randal
1682
1
Spring and Fall: to a young child
1683
1
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
1683
1
[Carrion Comfort]
1684
1
No Worst, There Is None
1684
1
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day
1684
1
That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection
1685
1
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord
1686
1
from Journal [On ``Inscape'' and ``Instress'']
1686
2
from Letter to R. W. Dixon [On Sprung Rhythm]
1688
1
Lewis Carroll
1689
16
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1691
6
Down the Rabbit-Hole
1691
3
from Chapter 2. The Pool of Tears
1694
2
You are old, Father William
1696
1
The Lobster-Quadrille
1697
1
Through the Looking Glass
1697
8
Child of the pure unclouded brow
1697
1
Jabberwocky
1698
1
[Humpty Dumpty on Jabberwocky]
1699
1
The Walrus and the Carpenter
1700
2
The White Knight's Song
1702
3
PERSPECTIVES Imagining Childhood
1705
67
Charles Darwin
1709
3
from A Biographical Sketch of an Infant
1709
3
Moral Verses
1712
3
Table Rules for Little Folks
1712
1
Eliza Cook: The Mouse and the Cake
1713
1
Heinrich Hoffmann: The Story of Augustus who would Not have any Soup
1714
1
Thomas Miller: The Watercress Seller
1714
1
William Miller: Willie Winkie
1715
1
Edward Lear
1715
7
[Selected Limericks]
1716
2
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
1718
1
The Jumblies
1719
2
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!
1721
1
Christina Rossetti
1722
4
from Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book
1722
4
Robert Louis Stevenson
1726
4
from A Child's Garden of Verses
1726
4
Hilaire Belloc
1730
3
from The Bad Child's Book of Beasts
1730
2
from Cautionary Tales for Children
1732
1
Beatrix Potter
1733
2
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
1734
1
Daisy Ashford
1735
8
from The Young Visiters; or, Mr Salteena's Plan
1736
7
Henry James
1743
4
from What Maisie Knew
1744
3
Rudyard Kipling
1747
25
Without Benefit of Clergy
1749
14
Just So Stories
1763
1
How the Whale Got His Throat
1763
2
How the Camel Got His Hump
1765
2
Gunga Din
1767
2
The Widow at Windsor
1769
1
Recessional
1770
1
If---
1771
1
PERSPECTIVES Travel and Empire
1772
167
Frances Trollope
1773
6
from Domestic Manners of the Americans
1773
6
Thomas Babington Macaulay
1779
5
from Minute on Indian Education
1780
4
Alexander William Kinglake
1784
7
from Eothen
1784
7
Sir Richard Francis Burton
1791
5
from A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah
1791
5
Isabella Bird
1796
7
from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
1796
7
Sir Henry Morton Stanley
1803
7
from Through the Dark Continent
1803
7
Mary Kingsley
1810
8
from Travels in West Africa
1810
8
Rudyard Kipling
1818
1
The White Man's Burden
1818
1
Robert Louis Stevenson
1819
41
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
1821
39
Oscar Wilde
1860
79
Impression du Matin
1862
1
The Harlot's House
1863
1
Symphony in Yellow
1864
1
from The Decay of Lying
1864
15
from The Soul of Man Under Socialism
1879
4
Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
1883
1
The Importance of Being Earnest
1884
40
Aphorisms
1924
2
from De Profundis
1926
13
Companion Reading
from The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1933
6
H. Montgomery Hyde
PERSPECTIVES Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Fin De Siecle
1939
51
W. S. Gilbert
1942
2
If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line
1943
1
James Abbott Mcneill Whistler
1944
5
from Mr. Whistler's ``Ten O'Clock''
1945
4
``Michael Field'' (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper)
1949
2
La Gioconda
1950
1
A Pen-Drawing of Leda
1950
1
``A Girl''
1951
1
Ada Leverson
1951
5
Suggestion
1952
4
Arthur Symons
1956
4
Pastel
1957
1
White Heliotrope
1957
1
from The Decadent Movement in Literature
1958
1
from Preface to Silhouettes
1959
1
Richard Le Gallienne
1960
2
A Ballad of London
1961
1
Lionel Johnson
1962
3
The Destroyer of a Soul
1962
1
The Dark Angel
1963
1
A Decadent's Lyric
1964
1
Lord Alfred Douglas
1965
3
In Praise of Shame
1965
1
Two Loves
1966
1
Impression de Nuit
1967
1
Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas)
1968
2
The Masquerade
1969
1
Statues
1969
1
The White Witch
1970
1
Max Beerbohm
1970
20
Enoch Soames
1971
19
Literary and Cultural Terms
1990
20
Bibliography
2010
17
Credits
2027
1
Index
2028