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SETTECENTO

ALEXANDER POPE (poeta) 1688-1744

• Essay on criticism
• The rape of the lock
• Pastorals
• Windsor forest

JONATHAN SWIFT (satira politica) 1667-1754

• A tale of tub (favola della botte)
• I viaggi di gulliver (4 libri)
• The battle of the books

RICHARD STEELE                            1672-1729

• The Cristian Hero (trattato)
• fondatore de “The Tatler”
• collabora con Addison per lo “Spectator” (rivista che esalta i valori borghesi)

JOSEPH ADDISON (saggista) 1672-1719

• saggi del Sabato (argomento Milton)
• cofondatore dello “Spectator”
• incarna Mr Spectator

SAMUEL JOHNSON                 1709-1784

• critico e decano delle lettere del periodo
• fondatore Letterary Club
• The wonderer (poema)
• London: a poem (satira in versi)
• Dictionary of English Language
• Fondatore “The Rambler”
• edizione opere di Shakespeare con sua prefazione

JOHN GAY (ballad opera)1685-1732

• Beggars’s opera (opera parodica)

THE COMMEDY OF MANNERS

OLIVER GOLDSMITH                      1728-1774

• She stops to conquer (commedia ironica)
• The good nature’d man

RICHARD SHERIDAN                     1751-1816

• The rivals
• St. Patrick’s day
• The duenna
• A school for scandal

IL ROMANZO (novel)

DANIEL DEFOE                                  1660-1731

• True born Englishman (poema satirico)
• Robinson Crusoe (further adventures)
• Fondatore de “The Review”
• Moll Flanders
• Roxana
• Captain Singleton
• Colonel Jack
• Memoirs of a cavalier

SAMUEL RICHARDSON                    1689-1761

• Pamela
• Clarissa
• Sir Charles Grandison

HENRY FIELDING                             1707-1754

• Shamela (parodia Pamela)
• Joseph Andrews (comic epic poem in prose)
• Tom Jones
• Amelia

THOBIAS SMOLLET

• The adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
• The adventures of Peregrine Pickle
• The expedition of Humphry Clinker

LAURENCE STERNE

• Tristam Shandy
• A sentimental journey through France and Italy

ROMANZO GOTICO

HORACE WALPOLE

• The Castle of Otranto

MARY RADCLIFF

• The mistery of Udulpho

MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS

• The monk

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLY

• Frankenstein
• The last man

 ROMANZO FEMMINILE

FRANCES BURNEY

• Evelina
• Cecilia
• Camilla

CHARLOTTE LENNOX

• The female Quixote

SARAH FIELDING

• The adventures of David Simple

JANE AUSTIN

• Sense and sensibility
• Pride and prejudice
• Mansfield Park
• Emma
• Northanger Abbey
• Persuasion

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

• Vindication of the rights of woman
• Mary, a fiction

 ROMANTICISMO

PRE-ROMANTICISMO

LA SCUOLA SEPOLCRALE:

EDWARD YOUNG

• Night thoughts on life, death and immortality (poema religioso in 9 libri)

WILLIAM COLLINS (poeta)

• Odes on several descriptive and allegorical subjects
• Ode to fear

THOMAS GRAY

• Elegy written in a country churchyard

JAMES MaCPHERSON

• The works of Ossian 

ROBERT BURNS

• Poems chiefly in the scottish dialect
• To a mouse

WILLIAM BLAKE

• Poetical sketches (raccolta di poesie)
• Songs of innocence (The Lamb)
• Songs of experience (The Tiger)
• The prophetic books (the marriage of heaven and hell)

 LA PRIMA GENERAZIONE ROMANTICA

WORDSWORTH

• The prelude
• The excursion
• Salisbury plane
• The ruined cottage

WORDSWORTH E COLERIDGE

LYRICAL BALLADS:

Wordsworth

• We are seven
• Tintern Abbey
• Ode on  intimation of immortality

Coleridge

• The rime of the ancient mariner
• Kubla Khan
• Christabel
• Dejection: an ode

WALTER SCOTT

ballate:

• The Minstrelsy of the Scottish border
• The lay of the last Minstrel
• Marmion
• The lady of the lake

romanzi:

• Weverly, or ‘tiss sixty years since
• Guy mannering
• Ivanhoe
• The antiquary

L’ETA’ VITTORIANA

IL ROMANZO

CHARLES DICKENS

• Sketches by Boz
• The Pickwick Papers
• Oliver Twist
• David Copperfield
• Great Expectations
• Our mutual friend
• Hard Times

ELIZABETH GASKELL

• Mary Burton
• North and South

WILLIAM THACKERAY

• Vanity Fair
• Barry Lyndon

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

• Barsetshire (Cicli narrativi):  The Warden – The Last Chronicle of Barset

GEORGE ELIOT  (Marian  Evans)

• Felix Holt
• The Radical
• Middlemarch
• Adam Bede
• The Mill on the Floss
• Romola
• Daniel Deronda

GEORGE MEREDITH

• The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
• Diana of the Crossways

THOMAS HARDY

• Far from the Madding Crowd
• The Return of the Native
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles
• Jude the Obscure

GEORGE GISSING

• Odd women

ROMANCE AND NOVEL

CHARLOTTE BRONTE

• Jane Eyre
• Shirley

ANNE BRONTE

• Agnes Grey

EMILY BRONTE

• Cime Tempestose

 ROMANCE:  “TRA FIABA E GOTICO”

Gorge MacDonald

• Phantastes

LEWIS CARROLL

• Alice in Wonderland
• Through the Looking-Glass

 MARY BRADDON

• Lady Audley’s Secret

WILKIE COLLINS

• The Moonstone   (Detective story)

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

• Sherlock Holmes

BRAM STOKER

• Dracula

 ROMANZO DELL’IMMAGINARIO SCIENTIFICO

WILLIAM MORRIS

• News from Nowhere

H.G. WELLS

• The Time Machine
• The War of the Worlds
• The Island of Doctor Moreau

LA POESIA

CHARLES SWINBURNE

• Poems and ballads

ALFRED TENNYSON

• In memoriam

ROBERT BROWNING

• Men and women
• My last duchess (dramatic lyrics)

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

• Aurora leigh
• Sonnets from the Portuguese

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

• Goblin market
• The prince’s progress

GERALD MANLEY HOPKINS

• The wreck of the Deutschland

 PROSA

THOMAS CARLYLE

• Signs of the time
• Chartism
• Past and present

JOHN STUART MILL

• On liberty
• On the subjection of women
• Autobiography

I CRITICI

WALTER PATER

• Studies in the history of the renaissance
• Marius the epicurean

OSCAR WILDE

• The critic as artist
• The picture of Dorian Grey (romance gotico)

TEATRO

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

• Mrs warren’s profession
• Pygmalion