Università Roma Tre

The module aims to offer an organic panorama of the main literary movements of the "longseven hundred" (from the Restoration to Romanticism - from 1660 to 1830), analyzing the evolution of thevarious genres and, in the specific cultural context, the poetics of the most representative authors. the course,
Furthermore, it is proposed to provide the critical tools to enable the student to orient himself in the field ofcultural and literary studies related to the period. taking into account the objectives specified above, texts from the restoration and romance will be read, analyzed and contextualized.

Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy; John Dryden “macflecknoe” (extract); Alexander Pope, “The
Dunciad” (extract); Jonathan Swift, “The lady's dressing room”; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,
“The reasons that induced dr s to write a poem call'd the lady's dressing room”;
Thomas Gray, “ode on the death of a favourite cat”; Oliver Goldsmith, “an elegy on the death of a
mad dog”, “the deserted village” (extract); Jonathan Swift, a modest proposal literary history
(restoration, enlightenment, romanticism); Paul Poplawski, English literature in context
(Cambridge: Cambridge university press, 2008). In alternativa, a scelta A. Sanders, the short Oxford
history of English literature, Clarendon press, 1994; ed. italiana a cura di A. Anzi, storia della
letteratura inglese, 2 volumi, Mondadori università, 2001, oppure P. Bertinetti (a cura di), storia
della letteratura inglese, 2 volumi, Enaudi, 2000.