PROGRAMA LITERATURA EN INGLÉS IV (2015-1)

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.

Introduction: England before and after the Civil War through its poetry and literature.
Politics and poetry: John Milton, Paradise Lost vs. John Dryden, Absolom and Achitophel.
Satire and its tradition: Samuel Butler, Hudibras; Jonathan Swift, “Phyllis, Or, The Progress of Love”, “Cassinus and Peter”, A Modest Proposal.
Travel Literature and satire: Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Part IV.
Travel Literature and realism: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; Virginia Woolf, “Robinson Crusoe”; J.M. Coetzee, Foe.
Epistolary Novel: John Dryden, Heroides; Samuel Richardson, Pamela, Clarissa [selected letters].
The Influence of the Continent: the invention of the novel: Mateo Alemán, Guzmán de Alfarache I.
Urban Life: Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders.
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote de la Mancha I, chapters I-IX
The Cervantic Humour: Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews; Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
Sense and Sensibility: Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey. 




GRADING:
20% Attendance and involvement
30% Midterm ECCO exam
50% Final exam