Programa Literatura en Inglés IV (2014-1)

RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE

This course attempts to give an overview of the literature produced after the Restoration and throughout the eighteenth century before the advent of Romanticism. The selection of works tries to emphasize the importance of satire and the mock form; the rise of popular culture and print; its relationship to the development of the novel and the apparition of sentimentalism as the seed of Romanticism.

1. Introduction: England before and after the Civil War through its poetry and literature.
2. The Influence of the Continent: the invention of the novel and Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote de la Mancha I, chapters I-IX.
3. Politics and poetry: John Dryden, “Absolom and Achitophel”, “Mac Flecknoe”,“The Third Satire of Juvenal”.
4. The Mock Form: Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”.
5. Satire and its tradition: Jonathan Swift, “Phyllis, Or, The Progress of Love”, “Cassinus and Peter”, “A Modest Proposal”.
6. Travel Literature and satire: Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Part IV.
7. Travel Literature and realism: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; Virginia Woolf, “Robinson Crusoe”; J.M. Coetzee, Foe.
8. The Urban Scene: John Gay, The Beggar's Opera [filmed by Peter Brook].
9. Urban Life: Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders.
10. Epistolary Novel: John Dryden, Heroides; Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”; Samuel Richardson, Pamela, Clarissa [selected letters]; Eliza Haywood, Anti-pamela.
11. The Cervantic Humour: Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews; Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
12. Sense and Sensibility: Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey; Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”.

GRADING:

20% Attendance and involvement

30% ECCO research paper

50% Final paper