Programa Literatura en Inglés IV 2017 1

Programa Literatura en Inglés IV 2017-1

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 course will be organized by topics ranging from satire, the mock form, and the rise of the novel to urban life, travel literature, and the rise of popular culture and print.

1.      Introduction: England before and after the Civil War, the Restoration and the Glorious Revolution. (August 11)

2.      Politics and poetry: John Dryden, “Absolom and Achitophel”(August 18)

From An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, “Two Sorts of Bad Poetry”, “The Wit of the Ancients: The Universal”, “Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Compared”.

3.      Devotional Literature: John Bunyan, From The Pilgrims Progress, “Christian Sets out for the Celestial City”, “The Slough of Despond”, “Vanity Fair”, “The River of Death and the Celestial City” (August 25).

4.      Romance: Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave (September 1).

5.      Urban life, high society and mass culture:

Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock (September 8)

Jonathan Swift, satire and the mock form “The Lady’s Dressing Room”, “A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed”, “A Description of a City Shower”, “A Modest Proposal”. (September 22)

John Gay, from Trivia, Or the Art of Walking the Streets of London. (September 29)

6.      Epistolary Fiction and the Dismantelling of the “Femenine Voice”:

Alexander Pope, “Eloise to Abelard” (October 6)

Samuel Richardson, from Pamela, Letters 1-10. (October 13)

Eliza Haywood, selections from The Female Spectator. (October 20)

7.      Travel  Literature, Expansionism and the Construction of Empire:

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (October 27).

Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (November 3).

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, from The Turkish Embassy Letters.  

Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, “The Middle Passage”, “A Free Man” (November 10).

8.      The Cervantic Humour:

Henry Fielding, from Joseph Andrews. (November 17).

Laurence Sterne, from Tristram Shandy, A Sentimental Journey (November 24).

GRADING:

10% Attendance and involvement

30% ECCO research paper

60% Final paper