COURSE: ENGLISH LITERATURE.

THE RESTORATION AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT

YEAR OF STUDY: 1
SEMESTER: 2
LECTURER: Mihaela Ogășanu
NUMBER OF HOURS/ WEEK: 2
NUMBER OF CREDITS: 3 ECTS

CONTENT:
LECTURE SEMINAR
1.The End of the Renaissance 1. Introductory Seminar. A Glossary of
a. Shakespeare’s Contemporaries and Immediate Successors (1603 Literary Terms
-1660). 2. Ben Jonson’s Comedy of Humours
b. The Puritan Attack upon the Stage. 3. Metaphysical Conceit with John Donne
2. Poetry from1625 to 1660. and Andrew Marvell
a.The Metaphysical Manner 4. “Paradise Lost” – A Christian
b. Religious Poetry. Humanist’s Meditation on the Bible
3. John Milton.a. A Humanist and Puritan. 5. Restoration Comedy with William
b.Milton’s Great Works of Maturity Wycherley
4.The Restoration Period (1660- 1702) a. Poetry. Drama. Prose . 6. The Development of the Novel: Daniel
b. The Comedy of Manners :Hard and Bright. Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding,
Witty and Heartless Laurence Sterne
5. Neo- classicism (1702-1740):a. Poetry, 7. William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence”
b. The Tradition of Satire with Jonathan Swift and “Songs of Experience”
6. The English Literature between 1740 and 1770. a.The Poetry of
Sentiment.
b.The Development of the Novel: The Novel of Sentiment.The Self-
Reflective Novel and the Anti-Novel.
7.The Gothic Novel a.The Novel of Terror
b.The Pre-Romantic Poetry: The Spell of Romanticism

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London: Cornell University Press.
4. Bevis, Richard W. (1988) English Drama: Restoration and Eighteenth Century 1660-1789, London: Longman.
5. Daiches, David (1991), A Critical History of English Literature, London: Secker and Warburg.
6. Ford, Boris, ed. (1990) The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, vols. 3, 4, London: Penguin Books Ltd.
7. Gower, Roger (1995) Past into Present, London: Longman.
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