ENGLISH LITERATURE 2
Stampa
Enrollment year
2017/2018
Academic year
2018/2019
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
L-LIN/10 (ENGLISH LITERATURE)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
Curriculum
Linguistico-filologico-letterario
Year of study
Period
1st semester (24/09/2018 - 09/01/2019)
ECTS
9
Lesson hours
54 lesson hours
Language
English
Activity type
ORAL TEST
Teacher
GRANATA SILVIA (titolare) - 9 ECTS
Prerequisites
The course is devoted to second and third year students. 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.
All students should be familiar with the main events of British history from the Restoration to the late 19th century.
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to teach students how to read, translate and analyse a literary text. Great attention will be devoted to the relationship between the novels of the 18th and 19th century and the historical and cultural context in which they were written.
Course contents
The module explores the birth and evolution of the English novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; particular attention will be devoted to the historical and cultural context in which the novel developed and to the interaction between literary texts and critical production. Some lectures (delivered by Dr. Annachiara Cozzi) will be devoted to coauthored novels and the late Victorian literary market.
We will read extracts from novels and coeval critical texts. Students are also asked to read five novels, in English, among those listed below.
Materials for the course, to be prepared for the exam, are on sale at CLU bookstore
Teaching methods
Lectures in English, with the aid of Powerpoint presentations. During classes we will also read, translate and analyse extracts from the primary texts indicated in the reading list.
Reccomended or required readings
PRIMARY SOURCES:

Students will read FIVE novels, in English, choosing two novels from group a), two novels from group b), and one novel from group c).

Group a).
Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719).
Jonathan Swift, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver (1726)
Samuel Richardson, Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740)
Henry Fielding, The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews (1742)
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1767)
Ann Radcliffe, The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents (1797)

Group b).
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero (1847-1848)
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre. An Autobiography (1847)
Elizabeth Gaskell, North & South (1855)
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1859-1860)
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1860-1861)
George Eliot, Middlemarch. A Study of Provincial Life (1871-71)

Group c).
Walter Besant and James Rice, Ready-Money Mortyboy, 1872
H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang, The World’s Desire, 1890
Helen Mathers, Justin McCarthy, Mrs. Trollope, Arthur Conan Doyle, May Crommelin, F.C. Philips, ‘Rita’, Joseph Hatton, Mrs. Lovett Cameron, Bram Stoker, Florence Marryat, Frank Danby, Mrs. Edward Kennard, Richard Dowling, Mrs. Hungerford, Arthur A’Beckett, Jean Middlemass, Clement Scott, Clo. Graves, H.W. Lucy, Adeline Sergeant, G. Manville Fenn, ‘Tasma’, and F. Anstey, The Fate of Fenella, 1892
Somerville and Ross, The Real Charlotte, 1894

SECONDARY SOURCES:

Chapter 4 of Rosamaria Loretelli, L'invenzione del romanzo: dall'oralità alla lettura silenziosa (2010), pp. 124-183.
Michael McKeon, "Generic Transformation and Social Change: Rethinking the Rise of the Novel", Cultural Critique 1 (1985), pp. 159-181.
“Introduction”, in Terry Eagleton, The English Novel. An Introduction (2005), pp. 1-21.
“Introduction”, in Gail Marshall, Victorian Fiction (2002), pp. 1-18.
Kate Flint, “The Victorian Novel and its Readers”, in Deirdre David (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (2000), pp. 17-34.

Essays 2-5 are included in the Materials on sale at CLU bookshop.


NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS

Non-attending students will read SIX novels instead of five. Furthermore, non-attending students are required to add the following:

Manuale di letteratura e cultura inglese (2009):
- Lia Guerra, “Il romanzo del Settecento”, pp. 143-153.
- Beatrice Battaglia, “La narrativa nell'età delle rivoluzioni”, pp. 219-239.
- Susan Payne, “Il romanzo vittoriano”, pp. 283-295.

“Introduction”, in John Richetti, The English Novel in History, 1700-1780 (1999), pp. 1-16.

“Chapter 1. Critics and Theorists”, in John Skinner, An Introduction to Eighteenth-century Fiction: Raising the Novel (2001), pp. 3-28.

Fiona Robertson, “Novels”, in I. McCalman (ed.), An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age (1999), pp. 286-295.

Simon Eliot, “The Business of Victorian Publishing”, in Deirdre David (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel (2000), pp. 37-60.

All students (both attending and non-attending) are required to prepare the Materials for the course on sale at CLU bookshop.
Assessment methods
Oral exam, in English. During the exam, students will be asked to:
- Summarize the main historical events of the period under examination
- Discuss cultural and literary trends
- Read, translate and analyze primary texts
Further information
Students should check KIRO (http://idcd.unipv.it/studenti/) for additional information or materials
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