The Literature of the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century III. [antikvár]

PrefaceThis volume is one of four reprints of the sections of a comprehensive History of English Literature prepared under the general editorship of Hardin Craig and published by Oxford University Press in 1950. The other sections being republished by Collier Books in this series are: George K. Anderson, Old and Middle English Literature from the Beginnings to 1485; Hardin Craig, The Literature of the English Renaissance, 1485-1660; and Joseph Warren Beach, English Literature of the Nineteenth and the Early Twentieth Centuries, 1798 to the First World War.It was the aim of the authors to produce a history of English Literature that would be at once useful and interesting. It was hoped that the work would be valuable to college and university students and teachers, and also to general readers. It should serve also as a work of reference, as it contains elementary facts about books, writers, groups of schools of writers, secular and religious history, literary movements, and literary influences.In the last fifty years scholarship and criticism have made important contributions to our knowledges of the eighteenth century and to our understanding of its aims and achievements. The author hopes that the present work reflects these newer approaches to the period.The biblography has been revised and somewhat enlarged to include some additional important titles.Louis I. Bredvold