The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume D: 17th and 18th Centuries Book

Additional Audio and Online Resources     xi
Preface     xv
Acknowledgments     xxi
About the Editors     xxv
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries     1
Illustration. Anonymous drawing of Louis XIV as the "Sun King"     xxx
Bishan Das (attributed to). Birth of a Prince
Guler School, Lady with a Hawk
Illuminated tughra (signature) of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent
Portrait of a Nobleman and His Wife
Marcellus Laroon, Charles II as President of the Royal Society
Carle Van Loo, Madame de Pompadour as a Sultana
Johann Zoffany, Queen Charlotte with Her Two Eldest Sons
Independence des Etats-Unis
An Army of Jugs
Map. The World in 1700     4
Timeline     6
The World the Mughals Made     13
Illustration. The Taj Mahal     12
Map: The Mughal Empire     13
Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur (1483-1530)     14
from The Memoirs of Babur (trans. Wheeler M. Thackston)     15
Jahangir (1569-1627)     19
from The Memoirs of Jahangir (trans. Wheeler M. Thackston)     19
Mirza Muhammad Rafi "Sauda" (1713-1781)     25
from Satires [How to Earn a Living in Hindustan] (trans. Ralph Russell and Khurshidul Islam)     26
Mir Muhammad Taqi "Mir" (1723-1810)     29
Selected Couplets (trans. RalphRussell and Khurshidul Islam)     29
from The Autobiography (trans. C. M. Naim)     31
Banarasidas (mid-17th century)     36
from Half a Tale (trans. Mukund Lath)     36
Chikamatsu Mon'Zaemon (1653-1725)     44
Illustration. Puppeteers performing The Love Suicides at Amijima     45
The Love Suicides at Amijima (trans. Donald Keene)     46
Resonance
Chikamatsu on the Art of Puppet Theatre (trans. Michael Brownstein)   Hozumi Ikan     68
Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-1763)     71
from The Story of the Stone (trans. David Hawkes)     74
Resonance
from Six Records of a Floating Life (trans. Leonard Pratt and Chiang Su-hui)   Shen Fu     146
The Ottoman Empire     160
Map. The Ottoman Empire, 1672     161
Mihri Khatun (1445-1512)     162
I opened my eyes from sleep (trans. Walter Andrews et al.)     162
At times, my longing for the beloved slays me     163
My heart burns in flames of sorrow     163
Fuzuli (1480-1556)     163
Oh God, don't let anyone be like me (trans. Walter Andrews et al.)     164
If my heart were a wild bird     165
For long years we have been haunting the quarter     166
The pointed reproach of the enemy     166
Nedim (1681-1730)     167
At the gathering of desire (trans. Walter Andrews et al.)     168
When the east wind leaves that curl     168
As the morning wind blows     169
Take yourself to the rose-garden     170
Delicacy was drawn out like the finest wine     171
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)     172
Illustration. Title page of Baudier's General History of the Seraglio and of the Court of the Noble Lord Emperor of the Turks     173
The Turkish Embassy Letters     173
To Alexander Pope (1 April 1717)     173
To Sarah Chiswell (1 April 1717)     178
To Lady Mar (18 April 1717)     179
The Age of the Enlightenment     185
Illustration. Execution of Louis XVI     184
Map. Europe in 1714, After the Treaty of Utrecht     186
Illustration. An Emblematical View of the Constitutions of England and France     188
Illustration. Babylonian and Egyptian antiquities     190
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin [Moliere] (1622-1673)     199
Tartuffe (trans. Richard Wilbur)     201
Perspectives: Court Culture and Female Authorship     253
Illustration. Art d'Ecrire      254
Madeleine de Scudery (1607-1701)     256
from Clelie (trans. April Alliston)     257
Illustration. La Carte du pays de Tendre, from Madeline de Scudery's Clelie     258
Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, Comtesse de Lafayette (1634-1693)     260
The Countess of Tende (trans. April Alliston)     261
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne (1626-1696)     268
from Selected Letters (trans. Leonard Tancock)     269
Elisabeth Charlotte von Der Pfalz, Duchesse D'Orleans (1652-1722)     271
from Letters (trans. Maria Kroll)     273
Katherine Philips (1631-1664)     279
To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship     280
An Answer to Another Persuading a Lady to Marriage     280
Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656-1710)     281
from The Ladies Defence     281
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)     282
The Introduction     283
Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia     284
from The Spleen     285
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)     288
The Lady's Dressing Room     289
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)     292
The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called The Lady's Dressing Room      292
Ann Yearsley (1752-1806)     295
To Mr. ****, an Unlettered Poet, on Genius Unimproved     295
Crosscurrents
Court Culture and Female Authorship     297
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)     298
Oroonoko     299
Illustration. Frontispiece to Thomas Southerne's play Oroonoko: A Tragedy     300
Resonance
from An Impartial Description of Surinam   George Warren     342
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)     346
Gulliver's Travels     348
Illustration. James Gillray, The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver     349
Part 4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms     349
Perspectives: Journeys in Search of the Self     395
Evliya Celebi (1611-1684)     396
from The Book of Travels (trans. Robert Dankoff and Robert Elsie)     397
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)     406
Illustration. Morikawa Kyoriku, haiga (haikai sketch)     408
[Selected Haiku] (trans. Haruo Shirane)     409
from Narrow Road to the Deep North (trans. Haruo Shirane)     412
Map. Basho's Journey     414
Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu (1689-1755)     426
from Persian Letters (trans. J. Robert Loy)     427
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)     433
from Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville (trans. John Hope Mason and Robert Wokler)     434
Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-1797)     441
from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano     441
Map. Triangular Trade     442
Crosscurrents
Journeys in Search of the Self     450
Francois-Marie Arouet [Voltaire] (1694-1778)     451
Candide (trans. Roger Pearson)     453
Resonances
from Theodicy (trans. E. M. Huggard)   Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz     513
from An Essay on Man   Alexander Pope     515
Translations
Voltaire's Candide     519
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)     521
The Rape of the Lock     523
Perspectives: Liberty and Libertines     544
Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693)     545
from Life of a Sensuous Woman (trans. Chris Drake)     546
Tsangyang Gyatso (1683-1706)     558
from Love Poems of the Sixth Dalai Lama (trans. Rick Fields et al.)     559
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)     561
The Imperfect Enjoyment     562
A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind     563
Eliza Haywood (c. 1693-1756)     568
Fantomina: or, Love in a Maze     569
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)     586
from The Social Contract (trans. Christopher Betts)     587
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)     592
from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman     592
Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825)     598
The Rights of Woman     598
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)     599
An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (trans. Mary J. Gregor)     600
Crosscurrents
Liberty and Libertines     604
Bibliography     607
Credits     617
Index     621