2013/2014

2015/2016

DM270

L-LIN/10 (ENGLISH LITERATURE)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

LINGUISTICO-FILOLOGICO-LETTERARIO

3°

1st semester (21/09/2015 - 23/12/2015)

9

54 lesson hours

ENGLISH

ORAL TEST

GRANATA SILVIA (titolare) - 9 ECTS

All students must have completed the English exams (both language and literature) of the previous year before sitting for this exam. A good knowledge of English is required to follow lectures, to read texts and to sit the exam in English.

The aim of this course is to guide students into the analysis of the relationships existing between literary British texts and their cultural context.

The module aims at creating a basic understanding of the period under examination (the 18th and 19th centuries) through the careful analysis of poetical texts. Students are also asked to read three novels on their own. A list of the texts analysed during classes will be available at the beginning of the course.

Lectures

Bibliography

The Norton Anthology of English Literature (9th edition), volumes C, D, E.

The Restoration and the 18th century, Volume C:
The Restoration and the 18th Century, pp. 2177-2205.
Jonathan Swift, pp. 2464-2466.
Alexander Pope, pp. 2665-2669.
James Thomson, p. 3044.
William Cowper, pp. 3071-3072.

The Romantic Period, Volume D:
The Romantic Period, pp. 3-27.
Anna L. Barbauld, pp. 39-40.
Charlotte Smith, pp. 53-54.
William Blake, pp. 112-116.
The Revolution Controversy, pp. 183-184.
W. Wordsworth, pp. 270-272.
D. Wordsworth, pp. 402-404.
S.T. Coleridge, pp. 437-439.
The Gothic and the Development of a Mass Readership, pp. 584-585.
Lord Byron, pp. 612-616.
P.B. Shelley, pp. 748-751.
John Keats, pp. 901-903.

The Victorian Age, Volume E:
The Victorian Age, pp. 1017-1041.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, pp. 1156-1159.
Robert Browning, pp. 1275-1278.
Matthew Arnold, pp. 1369-73.
Gerard Manley Hopkins, pp. 1546-1548.


The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1740-1830, T. Keymer; J. Mee (eds.), C.U.P., 2004.
Chapter 1. “Readers, Writers, Reviewers, an the Professionalisation of Literature”, pp. 3-20.

Roy Porter. Enlightenment. Britain and the Creation of the Modern World. Penguin, 2000.
Chapter 13. “Nature”, pp. 295-319.

The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, Stuart Curran (ed.), C.U.P., 2010.
Chapter 3. “Poetry in an Age of Revolution”, pp. 56-80.

An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age. Iain McCalman (gen. ed.), O.U.P., 1999.
Chapter 34. “Natural Philosophy”, pp. 320-328.

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry, Joseph Bristow (ed.), C.U.P., 2000.
Chapter 4. “The Dramatic Monologue”, pp. 67-85.
Chapter 7. “Victorian Poetry and Science”, pp. 137-158.


Each student will read three novels, to be selected among the following groups of authors - one novel for each group:

- Fanny Burney, Tobias Smollett, Walter Scott.

- Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Charlotte Smith.

- Mary E. Braddon, H. Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy.


Students who do not intend to come to classes will follow the program above plus the following:

Manuale di letteratura e cultura inglese, a cura di L.M. Crisafulli e K. Elam, BUP, 2009.

Il Settecento:
“Introduzione”, Lia Guerra, pp. 139-141.
“La poesia del Settecento fino al 1785”, Laura Bandiera, pp. 163-170.

Il Romanticismo:
"Introduzione", L.M. Crisafulli e D. Saglia, pp. 181-184.
"La poesia del Romanticismo", L.M. Crisafulli, pp. 185-218.

I Vittoriani:
"Introduzione", S. Payne, pp. 281-282.
"La poesia vittoriana", G. Silvani, pp. 307-319.

The Cambridge Companion to English literature, 1650-1740, Steven N. Zwicker (ed.). C.U.P., 1998.
Chapter 1. "England 1649–1750: differences contained?” pp. 3-28.

The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1740-1830, T. Keymer and J. Mee (eds.), C.U.P., 2004.
Chapter 2. “Criticism, taste, aesthetics”, pp. 24-40.

The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, Stuart Curran (ed.), C.U.P.,2010.
Chapter 1. “Romanticism and the 'schools' of criticism and theory”, pp. 1-32.

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry, Joseph Bristow (ed.), C.U.P., 2000.
Chapter 1. “Reforming Victorian poetry: poetics after 1832”, pp. 1-22.

Marcello Pagnini, Il Romanticismo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1986.
Introduzione, pp. 7-23.

Oral exam

Oral exam