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Overview
Based on Penn University's Reading List for c18 lit course:
- Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator (nb: these are VERY short essays) 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 26, 34, 50, 57, 66, 69, 81, 88, 106, 108, 109, 112, 113, 117, 119, 122, 130, 132, 137, 174, 189, 251, 261, 182, 203, 266, 276, 324, 335, 454, 517, 519
- Mary Astell, Reflections Upon Marriage (1700) and 1706 "Preface"
- Anna Barbauld, Poems (1773)
- Jane Barker, The Galesia Trilogy, Part 1 (i.e., "Love Intrigues" 1719), and "Selected Manuscript Poems," use Carol Shiner Wilson edition (Oxford)
- William Beckford, Vathek (1782-French, 1786-English)
- Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (1678)
- Aphra Behn, The Rover (1677-81)
- Aphra Behn, Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684-87)
- James Boswell, Life of Johnson (abridged) (1791)
- John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, Part I (1678)
- Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1756)
- Fanny Burney, Evelina (1778)
- Burns, "To a Mouse", "To a Louse", "The Holy Fair", "To a Mountain-Daisy", "John Barleycorn, A Ballad", "Epistle to J.L***k, an Old Scottish Bard", "Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet", "Holy Willie's Prayer", "Address to the Unco Guid", "Address to the Deil", "Songs: "It was upon a Lammas night", "Green Grow the Rushes", "John Anderson, My JO, "Ae Fond Kiss", "A Red, Red Rose", "Afton Water", "Ye Banks and Braes", "Open the Door To Me, Oh".
- Mary,Lady Chudleigh, "The Ladies Defence" (1700), "To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty" (the poem, not the dedication), "On the Death of his Highness the Duke of Glocester", "To the Ladies", "The Inquiry", "On the Death of My Honoured Mother", Essays in Prose and Verse: "Of Knowledge, To the Ladies", "Of Friendship", "Of Solitude"
- Cleland, Fanny Hill
- Coleman, George the Younger. Inkle and Yarico (1787)
- William Congreve, The Way of the World (1700)
- William Cowper, The Task "Expostulation," "Conversation", "Retirement", and "The Castaway"
- Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1722)
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)
- John Dryden, All For Love (1678)
- John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel" (1681) "Mac Flecknoe" (1684); "To the Pious Memory of ... Mrs. Anne Killigrew" (1685); "To The Duchess of Ormode," "Astraea Redux" (1660) "An Essay of Dramatic Poesy"(1688), "A "Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire" (1693); "Preface" to The Fables (1699)
- Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews (1742), Tom Jones (1749)
- Sarah Fielding, David Simple (1744)
- Ann Finch, selections from Miscellany Poems (1713): "Introduction," "The Apology," "On Myself," "The Bird and the Arras," "The Spleen," "To the Nightengale," "A Nocturnal Reverie," and "A Supplication for the Joys of Heaven" (1719), "Adam Pos'd"
- John Gay, The Beggar's Opera (1728)
- Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
- Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer (1773)
- Sheridan, The School of Scandal
- Gray, "The Bard", "The Progress of Poesy". : Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College","Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat", "Elegy Written in a County Church Yard," "Sonnet on the Death of Richard West"
- Collins, "Ode to Fear", "Ode on teh Poetical Character", "Ode to Evening", "An Ode on the Popular Susperstitions of the Highlands of Scotland"
- Haywood, Love in Excess; Fantomina
- Samuel Johnson, "Rasselas"
- Samuel Johnson, "Preface" to Shakespeare; "Preface to The Dictionary; selections from the Ramblerincluding 2, 3, 4, 14, 18, 21, 23, 37, 47, 58, 60, 63, 77, 134, 144, 154, 155, 160, 185, 196, 208; Lives of the Poets, Milton, Gray
- Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (1752)
- George Lillo, The London Merchant (1731)
- Dean Mahomet, The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth Century Journey Through India (1793)
- Delarivier Manley, The New Atalantis
- Delarivier Manley, The Power of Love (1720)
- Mary Wortley Montague, "Eclogues"(1747), "Court poems by a Lady of Quality" (1716)
- Thomas Otway, "Venice Preserved"(1682)
- Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (1791) and Edmund Burke, Reflection on the Revolution in France (1790)
- Alexander Pope (I), "An Essay on Criticism" (1711); "Rape of the Lock"(1714); "Windsor Forest" (1713); "An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" (1735); "Moral Essays" (1731-35)
- Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740-41)
- Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (1747-48) (abridgment okay)
- John Wilmot Rochester, selected poems: "The Imperfect Enjoyment," "Of Nothing," "A Satire Against Reason and Mankind" (1675), "Signior Dildo"
- Aphra Behn, "Love Armed," "The Disapointment," "On Desire," "On Her Loving Two Equally," and "to the Fair Clarinda."
- Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Friendship in Death (1728)
- Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno (1739) and Song to David (1763)
- Tobias Smollet, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
- Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1760-67)
- Laurence Sterne, Sentimental Journey; Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling (1771)
- Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters (1721), "A Modest Proposal" (1729); "An Argument Against the Abolishing of Christianity", and Selected Poems
- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726)
- Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub (1704)
- John Vanbrugh, "The Provok'd Wife" (1697)
- Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764) and "The Mysterious Mother" (1768)
- William Wycherley, The Country Wife (1671)
Romanticism
- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814)
- Jane Austen, Emma (1816)
- Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818)
- Robert Bage, Hermsprong; or, Man as He Is Not (1796)
- Joanna Baillie, A series of Plays...on the Passions (1798-1812)
- John Bell, ed. The British Album (1790)
- Anna Barbauld, Epistle to William Wilberforce (1793)
- Anna Barbauld, An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts (1792), Sins of the Fathers, Sins of the Nation (1795), and Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1812)
- William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789; 1794), Book of Thel (1789), Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793)
- William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790), America (1793), Europe (1794), Book of Urizen (1794)
- William Blake, Milton (1804)
- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- Edmund Burke, "Speech on Mr. Fox's East India Bill," and "Thoughts and Details on Scarcity" (1800)
- Hannah Cowley, The Runaway (1776), The Belle's Stratagem (1781), A Bold Stroke for a Husband (1783), and A Day in Turkey (1791)
- George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818)
- George Gordon Byron, The Giaour (1813) and The Corsair (1814)
- George Gordon Byron, Don Juan (1819-1824)
- George Gordon Byron, Manfred (1817), Cain (1821), and Sardanapalus (1821)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fears in Solitude, with France, an Ode and Frost at Midnight (1798), Remorse (1813), Christabel,Kubla Khan, and the Pains of Sleep (1816)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sybilline Leaves (1817)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (1817)
- Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants (1789)
- Thomas DeQuincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1822 or 1856)
- Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent (1800) and Ennui (1809)
- Maria Edgeworth, Belinda (1801)
- Olaudah Equiano, Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavaus Vassa, the African (1789)
- Susan Ferrier, Marriage (1818)
- William Godwin, Political Justice (1793)
- William Godwin, Caleb Williams (1794)
- William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age (1825)
- Felicia Hemans, Records of Women (1828)
- Elizabeth Inchbald, A Mogul Tale (1784), Such Things Are (1788), Everyone Has His Fault (1793), and Lovers' Vows (1798)
- Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story (1791)
- Francis Jeffrey, Edinburgh Review, Volume 1 (1802) and William Gifford, Quarterly Review, Volume 1 (1809)
- John Keats, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems (1820)
- Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia (1821)
- Matthew Lewis, The Monk (1796) and The Castle Spectre (1797)
- John Malthus, An Essay on Population (1798)
- Hannah More, Strictures on Female Education (1798)
- Amelia Opie, Adeline Mowbray: The Mother and Daughter (1804)
- Sydney Owenson, The Wild Irish Girl (1806)
- Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (1792)
- Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
- Ann Radcliffe, The Italian (1797)
- Mary Robinson, Poems (1791) and Memoirs (1801)
- Mary Robinson, Walsingham (1798)
- Mary Robinson, Lyrical Tales (1800)
- Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805) and Marmion (1808)
- Walter Scott, Waverley (1814)
- Walter Scott, A Tale of Old Mortality (1816)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)
- Mary Shelley, Valperga (1823)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci (1819) and Charles Robert Maturin, Bertram (1816)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unboundand other Poems (1820)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais (1821), "The Triumph of Life" (1824) and "A Defence of Poetry" (1821)
- Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (1784)
- Charlotte Smith, Desmond (1792)
- Charlotte Smith, The Emigrants (1793), Beachy Head and other Poems (1807)
- Robert Southey, Poems (1799)
- Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer (1801)
- The Anti-Jacobin or Weekly Examiner (1797-8)
- Helen Maria Williams, Poems (1786) and Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
- Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction (1787) and Maria; Or the Wrongs of Woman (1798)
- William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads (1798 and 1800)
- William Wordsworth, The Prelude (1799-1805; pub. 1850)
Long c18 Reading Challenge
7 participants (5 books)
Overview
Based on Penn University's Reading List for c18 lit course:
- Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator (nb: these are VERY short essays) 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 26, 34, 50, 57, 66, 69, 81, 88, 106, 108, 109, 112, 113, 117, 119, 122, 130, 132, 137, 174, 189, 251, 261, 182, 203, 266, 276, 324, 335, 454, 517, 519
- Mary Astell, Reflections Upon Marriage (1700) and 1706 "Preface"
- Anna Barbauld, Poems (1773)
- Jane Barker, The Galesia Trilogy, Part 1 (i.e., "Love Intrigues" 1719), and "Selected Manuscript Poems," use Carol Shiner Wilson edition (Oxford)
- William Beckford, Vathek (1782-French, 1786-English)
- Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (1678)
- Aphra Behn, The Rover (1677-81)
- Aphra Behn, Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684-87)
- James Boswell, Life of Johnson (abridged) (1791)
- John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, Part I (1678)
- Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1756)
- Fanny Burney, Evelina (1778)
- Burns, "To a Mouse", "To a Louse", "The Holy Fair", "To a Mountain-Daisy", "John Barleycorn, A Ballad", "Epistle to J.L***k, an Old Scottish Bard", "Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet", "Holy Willie's Prayer", "Address to the Unco Guid", "Address to the Deil", "Songs: "It was upon a Lammas night", "Green Grow the Rushes", "John Anderson, My JO, "Ae Fond Kiss", "A Red, Red Rose", "Afton Water", "Ye Banks and Braes", "Open the Door To Me, Oh".
- Mary,Lady Chudleigh, "The Ladies Defence" (1700), "To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty" (the poem, not the dedication), "On the Death of his Highness the Duke of Glocester", "To the Ladies", "The Inquiry", "On the Death of My Honoured Mother", Essays in Prose and Verse: "Of Knowledge, To the Ladies", "Of Friendship", "Of Solitude"
- Cleland, Fanny Hill
- Coleman, George the Younger. Inkle and Yarico (1787)
- William Congreve, The Way of the World (1700)
- William Cowper, The Task "Expostulation," "Conversation", "Retirement", and "The Castaway"
- Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (1722)
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)
- John Dryden, All For Love (1678)
- John Dryden, "Absalom and Achitophel" (1681) "Mac Flecknoe" (1684); "To the Pious Memory of ... Mrs. Anne Killigrew" (1685); "To The Duchess of Ormode," "Astraea Redux" (1660) "An Essay of Dramatic Poesy"(1688), "A "Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire" (1693); "Preface" to The Fables (1699)
- Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews (1742), Tom Jones (1749)
- Sarah Fielding, David Simple (1744)
- Ann Finch, selections from Miscellany Poems (1713): "Introduction," "The Apology," "On Myself," "The Bird and the Arras," "The Spleen," "To the Nightengale," "A Nocturnal Reverie," and "A Supplication for the Joys of Heaven" (1719), "Adam Pos'd"
- John Gay, The Beggar's Opera (1728)
- Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
- Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer (1773)
- Sheridan, The School of Scandal
- Gray, "The Bard", "The Progress of Poesy". : Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College","Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat", "Elegy Written in a County Church Yard," "Sonnet on the Death of Richard West"
- Collins, "Ode to Fear", "Ode on teh Poetical Character", "Ode to Evening", "An Ode on the Popular Susperstitions of the Highlands of Scotland"
- Haywood, Love in Excess; Fantomina
- Samuel Johnson, "Rasselas"
- Samuel Johnson, "Preface" to Shakespeare; "Preface to The Dictionary; selections from the Ramblerincluding 2, 3, 4, 14, 18, 21, 23, 37, 47, 58, 60, 63, 77, 134, 144, 154, 155, 160, 185, 196, 208; Lives of the Poets, Milton, Gray
- Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (1752)
- George Lillo, The London Merchant (1731)
- Dean Mahomet, The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth Century Journey Through India (1793)
- Delarivier Manley, The New Atalantis
- Delarivier Manley, The Power of Love (1720)
- Mary Wortley Montague, "Eclogues"(1747), "Court poems by a Lady of Quality" (1716)
- Thomas Otway, "Venice Preserved"(1682)
- Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (1791) and Edmund Burke, Reflection on the Revolution in France (1790)
- Alexander Pope (I), "An Essay on Criticism" (1711); "Rape of the Lock"(1714); "Windsor Forest" (1713); "An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" (1735); "Moral Essays" (1731-35)
- Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740-41)
- Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (1747-48) (abridgment okay)
- John Wilmot Rochester, selected poems: "The Imperfect Enjoyment," "Of Nothing," "A Satire Against Reason and Mankind" (1675), "Signior Dildo"
- Aphra Behn, "Love Armed," "The Disapointment," "On Desire," "On Her Loving Two Equally," and "to the Fair Clarinda."
- Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Friendship in Death (1728)
- Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno (1739) and Song to David (1763)
- Tobias Smollet, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
- Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1760-67)
- Laurence Sterne, Sentimental Journey; Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling (1771)
- Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters (1721), "A Modest Proposal" (1729); "An Argument Against the Abolishing of Christianity", and Selected Poems
- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726)
- Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub (1704)
- John Vanbrugh, "The Provok'd Wife" (1697)
- Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764) and "The Mysterious Mother" (1768)
- William Wycherley, The Country Wife (1671)
Romanticism
- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814)
- Jane Austen, Emma (1816)
- Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818)
- Robert Bage, Hermsprong; or, Man as He Is Not (1796)
- Joanna Baillie, A series of Plays...on the Passions (1798-1812)
- John Bell, ed. The British Album (1790)
- Anna Barbauld, Epistle to William Wilberforce (1793)
- Anna Barbauld, An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts (1792), Sins of the Fathers, Sins of the Nation (1795), and Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1812)
- William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789; 1794), Book of Thel (1789), Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793)
- William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790), America (1793), Europe (1794), Book of Urizen (1794)
- William Blake, Milton (1804)
- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- Edmund Burke, "Speech on Mr. Fox's East India Bill," and "Thoughts and Details on Scarcity" (1800)
- Hannah Cowley, The Runaway (1776), The Belle's Stratagem (1781), A Bold Stroke for a Husband (1783), and A Day in Turkey (1791)
- George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818)
- George Gordon Byron, The Giaour (1813) and The Corsair (1814)
- George Gordon Byron, Don Juan (1819-1824)
- George Gordon Byron, Manfred (1817), Cain (1821), and Sardanapalus (1821)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fears in Solitude, with France, an Ode and Frost at Midnight (1798), Remorse (1813), Christabel,Kubla Khan, and the Pains of Sleep (1816)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sybilline Leaves (1817)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (1817)
- Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants (1789)
- Thomas DeQuincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1822 or 1856)
- Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent (1800) and Ennui (1809)
- Maria Edgeworth, Belinda (1801)
- Olaudah Equiano, Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavaus Vassa, the African (1789)
- Susan Ferrier, Marriage (1818)
- William Godwin, Political Justice (1793)
- William Godwin, Caleb Williams (1794)
- William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age (1825)
- Felicia Hemans, Records of Women (1828)
- Elizabeth Inchbald, A Mogul Tale (1784), Such Things Are (1788), Everyone Has His Fault (1793), and Lovers' Vows (1798)
- Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story (1791)
- Francis Jeffrey, Edinburgh Review, Volume 1 (1802) and William Gifford, Quarterly Review, Volume 1 (1809)
- John Keats, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems (1820)
- Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia (1821)
- Matthew Lewis, The Monk (1796) and The Castle Spectre (1797)
- John Malthus, An Essay on Population (1798)
- Hannah More, Strictures on Female Education (1798)
- Amelia Opie, Adeline Mowbray: The Mother and Daughter (1804)
- Sydney Owenson, The Wild Irish Girl (1806)
- Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (1792)
- Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
- Ann Radcliffe, The Italian (1797)
- Mary Robinson, Poems (1791) and Memoirs (1801)
- Mary Robinson, Walsingham (1798)
- Mary Robinson, Lyrical Tales (1800)
- Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805) and Marmion (1808)
- Walter Scott, Waverley (1814)
- Walter Scott, A Tale of Old Mortality (1816)
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)
- Mary Shelley, Valperga (1823)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci (1819) and Charles Robert Maturin, Bertram (1816)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unboundand other Poems (1820)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais (1821), "The Triumph of Life" (1824) and "A Defence of Poetry" (1821)
- Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (1784)
- Charlotte Smith, Desmond (1792)
- Charlotte Smith, The Emigrants (1793), Beachy Head and other Poems (1807)
- Robert Southey, Poems (1799)
- Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer (1801)
- The Anti-Jacobin or Weekly Examiner (1797-8)
- Helen Maria Williams, Poems (1786) and Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
- Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction (1787) and Maria; Or the Wrongs of Woman (1798)
- William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads (1798 and 1800)
- William Wordsworth, The Prelude (1799-1805; pub. 1850)
