The Cambridge History of English Literature

Preface

Volume I. 	From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance.

 * 1) The Beginnings
 * 2) Runes and Manuscripts
 * 3) Early National Poetry
 * 4) Old English Christian Poetry
 * 5) Latin Writings in England to the Time of Alfred
 * 6) Alfred and the Old English Prose of his Reign
 * 7) From Alfred to the Conquest
 * 8) The Norman Conquest
 * 9) Latin Chroniclers from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries
 * 10) English Scholars of Paris and Franciscans of Oxford
 * 11) Early Transition English
 * 12) The Arthurian Legend
 * 13) Metrical Romances, 1200–1500: I
 * 14) Metrical Romances, 1200–1500: II
 * 15) “Pearl,” “Cleanness,” “Patience” and “Sir Gawayne”
 * 16) Later Transition English: Legendaries and Chroniclers
 * 17) Later Transition English: Secular Lyrics; Tales; Social Satire
 * 18) The Prosody of Old and Middle English
 * 19) Changes in the Language to the Days of Chaucer
 * 20) The Anglo-French Law Language

II. 	The End of the Middle Ages.

 * 1) “Piers the Plowman” and its Sequence
 * 2) Religious Movements in the Fourteenth Century
 * 3) The Beginnings of English Prose
 * 4) The Scottish Language: Early and Middle Scots
 * 5) The Earliest Scottish Literature
 * 6) John Gower
 * 7) Chaucer
 * 8) The English Chaucerians
 * 9) Stephen Hawes
 * 10) The Scottish Chaucerians
 * 11) The Middle Scots Anthologies: Anonymous Verse and Early Prose
 * 12) English Prose in the Fifteenth Century, I: Pecock, Fortescue, The Paston Letters
 * 13) The Introduction of Printing into England and the Early Work of the Press
 * 14) English Prose in the Fifteenth Century, II: Caxton, Malory, Berners
 * 15) English and Scottish Education. Universities and Public Schools to the Time of Colet
 * 16) Transition English Song Collections
 * 17) Ballads
 * 18) Political and Religious Verse to the Close of the Fifteenth Century—Final Words

III. 	Renaissance and Reformation.

 * 1) Englishmen and the Classical Renaissance
 * 2) Reformation Literature in England
 * 3) The Dissolution of the Religious Houses
 * 4) Barclay and Skelton: Early German Influences on English Literature
 * 5) The Progress of Social Literature in Tudor Times
 * 6) Sir David Lyndsay (and the Later Scottish “Makaris”)
 * 7) Reformation and Renascence in Scotland
 * 8) The New English Poetry
 * 9) “A Mirror for Magistrates”
 * 10) George Gascoigne
 * 11) The Poetry of Spenser
 * 12) The Elizabethan Sonnet
 * 13) Prosody from Chaucer to Spenser
 * 14) Elizabethan Criticism
 * 15) Chroniclers and Antiquaries
 * 16) Elizabethan Prose Fiction
 * 17) The Marprelate Controversy
 * 18) “Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity”
 * 19) English Universities, Schools and Scholarship in the Sixteenth Century
 * 20) The Language from Chaucer to Shakespeare

IV. 	Prose and Poetry from Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton.

 * 1) Translators
 * 2) The “Authorised Version” and its Influence
 * 3) Sir Walter Ralegh
 * 4) The Literature of the Sea: From the Origins to Hakluyt
 * 5) Seafaring and Travel: The Growth of Professional Text-Books and Geographical Literature
 * 6) The Song-Books and Miscellanies
 * 7) Robert Southwell. Samuel Daniel
 * 8) Thomas Campion
 * 9) The Successors of Spenser
 * 10) Michael Drayton
 * 11) John Donne
 * 12) The English Pulpit from Fisher to Donne
 * 13) Robert Burton, John Barclay and John Owen
 * 14) The Beginnings of English Philosophy
 * 15) Early Writings on Politics and Economics
 * 16) London and the Development of Popular Literature: Character Writing, Satire, The Essay
 * 17) Writers on Country Pursuits and Pastimes
 * 18) The Book-Trade, 1557–1625
 * 19) The Foundation of Libraries

V. 	The Drama to 1642. Part I.

 * 1) Introductory: The Origins of English Drama
 * 2) Secular Influences on the Early English Drama: Minstrels, Village Festivals, Folk-Plays
 * 3) The Early Religious Drama: Miracle-Plays and Moralities
 * 4) Early English Tragedy
 * 5) Early English Comedy
 * 6) The Plays of the University Wits
 * 7) Marlowe and Kyd
 * 8) Shakespeare: Life and Plays
 * 9) Shakespeare: Poems
 * 10) Plays of Uncertain Authorship Attributed to Shakespeare
 * 11) The Text of Shakespeare
 * 12) Shakespeare on the Continent, 1660–1700
 * 13) Lesser Elizabethan Dramatists
 * 14) Some Political and Social Aspects of the Later Elizabethan and Earlier Stewart Period

VI. 	The Drama to 1642. Part II.

 * 1) Ben Jonson
 * 2) Chapman, Marston, Dekker
 * 3) Middleton and Rowley
 * 4) Thomas Heywood
 * 5) Beaumont and Fletcher
 * 6) Philip Massinger
 * 7) Tourneur and Webster
 * 8) Ford and Shirley
 * 9) Lesser Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists
 * 10) The Elizabethan Theatre
 * 11) The Children of the Chapel Royal and their Masters
 * 12) University Plays
 * 13) Masque and Pastoral
 * 14) The Puritan Attack upon the Stage

VII. Cavalier and Puritan.

 * 1) Cavalier Lyrists
 * 2) The Sacred Poets
 * 3) Writers of the Couplet
 * 4) Lesser Caroline Poets
 * 5) Milton
 * 6) Caroline Divines
 * 7) John Bunyan. Andrew Marvell
 * 8) Historical and Political Writings, I: State Papers and Letters
 * 9) Historical and Political Writings, II: Histories and Memoirs
 * 10) Antiquaries: Sir Thomas Browne, Thomas Fuller, Izaak Walton, Sir Thomas Urquhart
 * 11) Jacobean and Caroline Criticism
 * 12) Hobbes and Contemporary Philosophy
 * 13) Scholars and Scholarship, 1600–60
 * 14) English Grammar Schools
 * 15) The Beginnings of English Journalism
 * 16) The Advent of Modern Thought in Popular Literature: The Witch Controversy, Pamphleteers

VIII. The Age of Dryden.

 * 1) Dryden
 * 2) Samuel Butler
 * 3) Political and Ecclesiastical Satire
 * 4) The Early Quakers
 * 5) The Restoration Drama, I
 * 6) The Restoration Drama, II: Congreve, Vanbrugh, Farquhar, etc.
 * 7) The Restoration Drama, III: Tragic Poets
 * 8) The Court Poets
 * 9) The Prosody of the Seventeenth Century
 * 10) Memoir and Letter Writers
 * 11) Platonists and Latitudinarians
 * 12) Divines of the Church of England, 1660–1700
 * 13) Legal Literature
 * 14) John Locke
 * 15) The Progress of Science
 * 16) The Essay and the Beginning of Modern English Prose

IX. 	From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift.

 * 1) Defoe—The Newspaper and the Novel
 * 2) Steele and Addison
 * 3) Pope
 * 4) Swift
 * 5) Arbuthnot and Lesser Prose Writers
 * 6) Lesser Verse Writers
 * 7) Historical and Political Writers, I: Burnet
 * 8) Historical and Political Writers, II: Bolingbroke
 * 9) Memoir-Writers, 1715–60
 * 10) Writers of Burlesque and Translators
 * 11) Berkeley and Contemporary Philosophy
 * 12) William Law and the Mystics
 * 13) Scholars and Antiquaries
 * 14) Scottish Popular Poetry before Burns
 * 15) Education

X. 	The Rise of the Novel: Johnson and his Circle.

 * 1) Richardson
 * 2) Fielding and Smollett
 * 3) Sterne, and the Novel of His Times
 * 4) The Drama and the Stage
 * 5) Thomson and Natural Description in Poetry
 * 6) Gray
 * 7) Young, Collins and Lesser Poets of the Age of Johnson
 * 8) Johnson and Boswell
 * 9) Oliver Goldsmith
 * 10) The Literary Influence of the Middle Ages: Macpherson’s Ossian, Chatterton, Percy and the Wartons
 * 11) Letter-Writers
 * 12) Historians, I: Hume and Modern Historians
 * 13) Historians, II: Gibbon
 * 14) Philosophers: Hume, Smith and Others
 * 15) Divines
 * 16) The Literature of Dissent, 1660–1760
 * 17) Political Literature, 1755–75

XI. 	The Earlier Georgian Age.

 * 1) Edmund Burke
 * 2) Political Writers and Speakers
 * 3) Bentham and the Early Utilitarians
 * 4) William Cowper
 * 5) William Wordsworth
 * 6) Coleridge
 * 7) George Crabbe
 * 8) Southey; Lesser Poets of the Eighteenth Century
 * 9) Blake
 * 10) Burns; Lesser Scottish Verse
 * 11) The Prosody of the Eighteenth Century
 * 12) The Georgian Drama
 * 13) The Growth of the Later Novel
 * 14) Book Production and Distribution, 1625–1800
 * 15) The Bluestockings
 * 16) Children’s Books

XII. 	The Romantic Revival.

 * 1) Sir Walter Scott
 * 2) Byron
 * 3) Shelley
 * 4) Keats
 * 5) Lesser Poets, 1790–1837: Rogers, Campbell, Moore and Others
 * 6) Reviews and Magazines in the Early Years of the Nineteenth Century
 * 7) Hazlitt
 * 8) Lamb
 * 9) The Landors, Leigh Hunt, De Quincey
 * 10) Jane Austen
 * 11) Lesser Novelists
 * 12) The Oxford Movement
 * 13) The Growth of Liberal Theology
 * 14) Historians: Writers on Ancient and Early Ecclesiastical History
 * 15) Scholars, Antiquaries and Bibliographers

XIII. 	The Victorian Age. Part I.

 * 1) Carlyle
 * 2) The Tennysons
 * 3) Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 * 4) Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough, James Thomson
 * 5) The Rossettis, William Morris, Swinburne and Others
 * 6) Lesser Poets of the Middle and Later Nineteenth Century
 * 7) The Prosody of the Nineteenth Century
 * 8) Nineteenth-Century Drama
 * 9) Thackerey
 * 10) Dickens
 * 11) The Political and Social Novel: Disraeli, Charles Kingsley, Mrs. Gaskell, “George Eliot”
 * 12) The Brontës
 * 13) Lesser Novelists
 * 14) George Meredith, Samuel Butler, George Gissing

XIV. 	The Victorian Age. Part II.

 * 1) Philosophers
 * 2) Historians, Biographers and Political Orators
 * 3) Critical and Miscellaneous Prose: John Ruskin and Others
 * 4) The Growth of Journalism
 * 5) University Journalism
 * 6) Caricature and the Literature of Sport; “Punch”
 * 7) The Literature of Travel, 1700–1900
 * 8) The Literature of Science
 * 9) Anglo-Irish Literature
 * 10) Anglo-Indian Literature
 * 11) English-Canadian Literature
 * 12) The Literature of Australia and New Zealand
 * 13) South African Poetry
 * 14) Education
 * 15) Changes in the Language since Shakespeare’s Time