Students are required to be largely competent about the main cultural and literary English productions between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century. They are expected to show advanced analytical skills and an original approach to the texts proposed by the course. Their competence should be sustained by mature conversation and expression skills.
Students need to have a good knowledge of the English language in order to read and analyze the literary texts proposed. They are required to possess a solid competence in the main cultural and historical trends which characterized European culture during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth century.
Students are highly recommended to attend the lessons. The texts and the issues proposed will be discussed at length during the classes, and moments of collective discussion and confrontation will be much welcome.
The final exam is an oral exam, which can partly be taken in written form. Students have to show full and mature analytical knowledge of the texts and cultural contexts proposed by the course. Their expressive qualities and communicative skills will be graded according to the Italian University system from 18 to 30.
All students are required to study:
CONTENTS
Course Title: English texts and contexts in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
1. Literary Genres in the Eighteenth Century
2. European and English Enlightenment
3. Colonialism and the modern novel: a globalized perspective
4. Robinson Crusoe and the myth of the wild man;
5. Jonathan Swift e la satira del colonialismo
6. The sentimental novel
7. The Gothic novel
8. Women and literature: a gender issue
9. Preromantic and Romantic culture
10. Anti-industrialism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
11. Victorian novels and short-stories
Italian
Students are warmly required to attend
