The course will analyse the cultural background and the literature of the 18th century in order to highlight the coexistance of rationality (the age of Enlightenment) and sensibility (the Pre-romantic age). Both these will contribute to a personal and unique subjective perception of the world which will culminate in the individualistic spirit characteristic of the pre-Romantic and Romantic period.
Course Title:
18th-century English Literature: The Modern Self
Choose 1 of these groups of three novels:
- Samuel Richardson, Pamela or Virtue Rewarded, Oxford, Cambridge, or Penguin
- Henry Fielding, An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, Oxford, Cambridge, or Penguin
- Eliza Haywood, The Anti-Pamela; or Feign'd Innocence Detected, 1741
- Lawrence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, Oxford, Cambridge, or Penguin
- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Oxford, Cambridge, or Penguin
- Oliver Goldsmith, A Citizen of the World, Oxford, Cambridge, or Penguin
- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Oxford, Cambridge, or Penguin,
- Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, Oxford, Cambridge, or Penguin.
- William Godwin, Caleb Williams, Oxford, Cambridge, or Penguin
BIBLIOGRAFIA:
- Y. Bezrucka, Genio ed immaginazione nel Settecento inglese, Unversità di Verona, Valdonega 2002, II parte
- I. Watt, The Rise of the Novel, first three chapters
- E. MARKMAN, The Politics of Sensibility, CUP 1996, one ch. of choice, un cap. a scelta.
- J. RICHETTI, The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel, CUP, one ch. of choice, un cap. a scelta.
- Spacks, Patricia Meyer, Novel Beginnings: Experiments in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction, Yale UP, Yale 2006, pp. 127-253.
- Wahrman Dror, Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in 18th-Cenuty England, Yale UP, 2004, one ch. of choice, un cap. a scelta
MANUALI E REPERTORI
Manuali di riferimento per la storia della letteratura e il contesto storico-letterario, 1700-1810 sono:
- Norton Anthology of English Literature, Norton, New York, ult. ediz.
- Mario Praz, Storia della Letteratura inglese, Sansoni.
Si consigliano inoltre i seguenti ausili:
- J.C. Wells, Longman Pronouncing Dictionary, Harlow, Pearson, 2000;
- Collins Cobuilt, English Language Dictionary, Collins, 2001;
- F. Picchi, Grande dizionario Inglese/Italiano, Italiano/Inglese, Hoepli, 1999.
Impartito in lingua inglese
ORAL EXAMINATION.
