Testi di riferimento
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.
Aphra Behn, pp. 2307-2309.
William Congreve, pp. 2359-2360.
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.
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1740-1830, T. Keymer; J. Mee (eds.), C.U.P., 2004.
Chapter 1. “Readers, Writers, Reviewers, and 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.
Ogni studente leggerà individualmente due romanzi dei seguenti autori, uno per ciascun gruppo, e una tra le opere teatrali indicate.
Romanzi:
- Fanny Burney, Tobias Smollett, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Charlotte Smith, Walter Scott.
- Mary E. Braddon, Ellen Wood, Anthony Trollope, H. Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson.
Opere teatrali:
- Aphra Behn, The Rover; William Congreve, The Way of the World; Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer; Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal; Edward Bulwer Lytton, Money; T.W. Robertson, Society.
PROGRAMMA AGGIUNTIVO PER NON FREQUENTANTI
Oltre a quanto elencato sopra coloro che non possono frequentare le lezioni dovranno leggere:
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.
Chapter 4. "Theatrical Culture 1: politics and theatre", pp. 82-103.
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.