Schedule 2011 (First Semester)

1^st & 2^nd Weeks (April, 8^th,11^th 15^th)

• Introduction to the subject and period.

• “What is Literature?” by Terry Eagleton.

• Context previous to XVIII century

• Mercantilism

3^rd week (April,18^th)

• XVIII century England

• Jonathan Swift: The Battle of the Books.

4^th week (April 25^th ; 28^th)

• Periodical essays: “Westminster Abbey” and “A Country Sunday”

• The Enlightenment

• Ana Stuart

• Spanish Succession War

5^th week (May, 3^rd; 6^th )

• Louis XIV & European context

• The rise of the novel

• Robinson Crusoe by Defoe

6^th week (May, 10^th; 13th)

• Robinson Crusoe by Defoe

• George I

• George II

7^th week (May, 17^th; 20^th)

• The Sentimental novel: Pamela by Richardson (extracts)

• Pamela’s parody: Shamela by Fielding

8^th week (May, 24^th; 27^th)

• Pamela’s parody: Shamela by Fielding

• 1st written test

9^th week (May, 31^st; June, 3^rd)

• Austrian Succession War

• Seven Yeras’ War

• The Industrial Revolution

• Colonies (written assignment)=> time devoted to teacher’s guidance

10^th week (June, 7^th; 10^th)

• Colonies (written assignment)=> time devoted to teacher’s guidance

• Colonies (oral exposition and deadline- written assignement)

11^th week (June,14^th; 17^th)

• The Independence of the American colonies

• The French Revolution

• Blake:Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience (“The Tyger”; “The Lamb” and “Holy Thursday”)

12^th week (June, 21^st; 24^th)

• Preface to Lyrical Ballads.

• “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Coleridge.

13^th week (June, 28^th; July 1^st)

• Napoleonic wars

• Shelley and Keats (“Ode on a Grecian Urn” by Keats and “Summer and Winter” by Shelley).

• Gothic fiction: Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

14^th week (July 5^th ; 8^th)

• Gothic fiction: Frankenstein by Mary Shelly