Università Roma Tre

Aims: Students will develop a good knowledge of English literature and culture from the
Restoration (1660) to Romanticism (1830). T

Programme: This course provides an overview of English literature through the study of a variety
of texts by some of the most representative authors of the British canon

Poetry
John Milton, “Lycidas”, Sonnets (“Piedmont”),
Andrew Marvell,
Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1714)
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751)
Poeti

John Milton
Andrew Marvell
John Dryden
Jonathan Swift
Alexander Pope
Thomas Gray
William Cowper
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Samuel T. Coleridge
P. B. Shelley
George Byron, Lord
Walter Scott, Sir
John Keats


Novels
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Reading List,
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)

The course will offer an historical and literary overview of the Long Eighteenth Century in which the most important cultural trends of the Restoration, the Enlightenment and Romanticism will be highlighted through the analysis of a number of meanignful texts by different authors and genres (prose, poetry, drama). In the second part of the module will focus on the second-generation Romantics and Italy.

An anthology of texts and a number of critical essay will be uploaded on the module convenor's webpage (Materiali didattici 2016-17)
P. Bertinetti, English Literature. A Short History, Einaudi, Torino 2010 (Chapters v, vi, vii)

Primary sources
Shelley, Keats e Byron. I ragazzi che amavano il vento, traduzione di Roberto Mussapi, Feltrinelli, MIlano 2009

Critical texts
Marcello Pagnini (a cura di), Il Romanticismo, Il Mulino, Bologna 1986 (selected chapters)
Keymer T, and J. Mee, The Cmabridge Companion to English Literature 1740-1830, CUP 2004 (selected Chapters)