18th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE

COURSE PROFESSOR: DRAGO IVANA

SEMINAR INSTRUCTOR: DRAGO MANEA
dc_manea@yahoo.com
Seminar Requirements:
Final test to be taken during the last meeting.
Attendance
All students should attend no less than 75% of all classes. As there will be seven meetings, this
means that you should be present for at least five of them. If you attend only four classes, you
will get a one point deduction. If you attend less than four, you will not be allowed to take the
final test and you will fail this seminar.
Grading
Students may earn a maximum of two extra points. You may be awarded one point for doing a
competent presentation of one of the mandatory readings (as long as you do not plagiarize) and
one point for perfect attendance and good class participation.
Seminar Structure and List of Required Readings:
1.

Introduction.

2.

Neoclassical Approaches to Philosophy and Criticism. The Great Chain of Being.

- Joseph Addison,The Aims of the Spectator(Spectator # 10)
- Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, An Essay on ManEpistles I and II.

3.18th Century Satire.

- Jonathan Swift, Gullivers Travels
4.The Picaresque
- Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
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7.

Romantic Approaches to the Imagination

- WilliamWordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Tintern Abbey
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (chap. 13), Kubla Khan
Romantic Visions
- William Wordsworth Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early
Childhood
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dejection: An Ode
- Percy Bisshey Shelley, Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Romantic Approaches to Nature. Final Test.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind
- John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn