Letteratura inglese II aa 2012-2013 Docente: Nancy Isenberg NOTA

Letteratura inglese II a.a. 2012-2013
Docente: Nancy Isenberg
NOTA BENE
Soltanto gli studenti che hanno seguito i corsi della Prof. Isenberg possono sostenere l’esame
con questo programma. Tutti gli altri studenti devono riferirsi ai programmi dell’anno scorso
o dell’anno in corso.
• CD: Lingue e Culture Straniere, curricula LCMC: modulo da 9 CFU.
(da integrare con il modulodel Prof. Mc Court da 3 CFU)
• CD: Lingue e Culture Straniere, curricula LTI: corso da 9 CFU
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• CD: Lingua e Linguistica: corso da 6 CFU
DETAILED PROGRAM (9 CFU)
LL (6 CFU) students eliminate items 13 - 14 (except Coleridge and Keats) – 15
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Items preceded by the symbol § are available in the Course Materials Packet which
can be obtained at Copyando, across from the main entrance to the Faculty in Via
Ostiense.
Items preceded by ♦ are available in the Faculty library
Items preceded by ◘ are available in the Multimedia Lab, Dipartimento di Letterature
Comparate
Items available though internet links are underlined or have a tab.
Introduction
1. Extracts from Roy Porter, Enlightenment. Britain and the Creation of the Modern World,
Penguin, 2001
§1.1.Introduction, pp. xvii-xxiv
§1.1.a. Outline notes to Introduction
§1.2.Ch. 1. A Blind Spot, pp. 1-23
§1.2.a. Outline notes to Chapter 1
§1.2.b. Glossary of terms for Chapter 1
§1.3.Ch. 4. Print Culture, pp. 72-95
§1.3.a. Study guide for Chapter 4
§1.4.Ch. 21. Lasting Light, pp. 476-484
Unit One: The ‘Enlightened’ World: Empire, War, Slavery
2. ◘ ‘The Wrong Empire, vol. IV, episode 11 of Simon Schama, A History of England, BBC,
2001 (especially the section on the Americas).
This material is also available on Youtube without subtitles:
2.1. “The Wrong Empire”
§2.1.1 Text of subtitles
§2.1.2. Study guide
3. ◘ Amazing Grace, directed by Michael Apted, 2007
§4. Selection of anti-slavery poems:
4.1. William Cowper, “Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce, or The Slave-Trader in the Dumps”.
4.2. Hannah Moore, “The Sorrows of Yamba or a Negro Woman’s Lamentation”.
4.3. Anna Laetitia Barbauld, “Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq, on the Rejection of the Bill for
Abolishing the Slave Trade”.
Unit Two: The ‘Enlightened’ Self: Happiness, Sensibility and narratives of seduction
5. Extracts from Roy Porter, Enlightenment. Britain and the Creation of the Modern World,
Penguin, 2001.
5.1. §Ch. 11. Happiness, pp. 258-275
7.1.1. §notes to Ch. 11;
5.2. §Ch. 12. From Good Sense to Sensibility, pp. 276-295
7.1.2. §notes to Ch. 12
6. Extract from Katherine Binhammer, The Seduction Narrative in Britain, 1747-1800
(Cambridge: CUP, 2009)
6.1.§ Chapter 1. “Knowing love: The epistemology of Clarissa”, pp. 20-39;
7. Frances Burney, Evelina, any edition;
9.1. Marianna D’Ezio,§ “Transcending National Identity: Paris and London in Frances Burney’s
Novels”, Synergies, 3 (2010), pp. 59-74.
8. Little anthology of narratives of / on seduction
8.1. Mary Jones, §“On Desire” (from Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by Mary Jones, Oxford,
1750)
8.2. Lady Mary Montagu (from The Poetical Works of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—
e, London, 1768)
8.2.1.§“An Answer to a Love-Letter”
8.2.2. §“The Lover: a Ballad”
8.2.3.§“The Lady’s Resolve”
8.2.4. §“The Gentleman’s Answer”
8.3. Countess Rosenberg Orsini (from Moral and Sentimental Essays on miscellaneous subjects,
written in retirement, on the banks of the Brenta, in the Venetian state by J. W. C—t—ss of R—s--g,
2 volumes, London, 1785)
8.3.1.§ “The First Step”
8.3.2. § “My First Travels”
8.3.3.§ “Convulsions”
8BIS Giustiniana Wynne, Caro Memmo, Mon cher frère (Elzeviro, 2010)
8.1. §Nancy Isenberg, “Without Swapping Her Skirt for Breeches: The Hypochondria of
Giustiniana Wynne, Anglo-Venetian Woman of Letters” in The English Malady: Enabling and
Disabling Fictions a cura di Glen Colburn. (Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008), pp. 154176.
Unit Three: Romanticisms
9. ♦Aiden Day, Romanticism (Routledge, 1995): Introduction; Chapter 1 (all); Chapter 2
(Introduction, Politics and Literature); Chapter 3 (Introduction, Politics and Spirituality,
Romanticism and Conservatism); Chapter 4 (all).
NB (28.03.2013): The Faculty library copy of Day’s Romanticism is missing pgs 191-192. Here are
the missing pages: pgs. 191-192
10. ◘ Simon Schama, A History of England, vol. IV, episodio12 “The Forces of Nature” (BBC,
2002). (also available without subtitles on Youtube:
11. ♦S.T. Coleridge
11.1 Rime of the Ancient Mariner (versione del 1817) (NOTA BENE: This electronic version
replaced the book version no longer in print, material update 02.2013)
11.1.1 N. Isenberg, “Repurposing Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the Postmodern Age” in
Intermediality and Literary Practice. ed. by Maddalena Pennacchia, (Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 183200.
11.1.2. ◘ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, regia Larry Jordan, narratore Orson Wells (Facets,1977)
This item is also available on Youtube:
11.1.3. ◘ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, canzone heavy metal di Iron Maiden (sul DVD
Powerslave, 1984) This item is also available on Youtube:
11.1.4 (optional) Gustav Doré’s engravings: http://www.artsycraftsy.com/dore_mariner.html
11.2 Selected poems by Coleridge (see Anthology below, item 17)
11.2.1 (optional) Coleridge, Kathleen M. Wheeler, “ ‘Kubla Kahn’ and the Art of Thingifying”,
Romanticism. A Critical Reader ed. by Duncan Wu (Blackwell, 1995), pp. 123-150. (available
through Prof. Isenberg)
12. J. Keats,
12.1. ♦Lamia, (Marsilio, con testo a fronte, a cura di S. Sabadini)
12.2. Selected poems (see Little Anthology below, item 17)
12.3. ◘Bright Star, regia Jane Campion (20th Century Fox, 2009)
12.4. (optional) ♦Anne K. Mellor, “Ideological Cross-Dressing: John Keats/Emily Brontë”,
Romanticism & Gender (Routledge, 1993), pp. 171-186;
12.5. (optional) Leon Waldoff, “Imagination and Growth in the Great Odes”, Romanticism. A
Critical Reader ed. by Duncan Wu (Blackwell, 1995), pp. 291-339. (available through Prof.
Isenberg)
12.6. (optional) Denise Gigante, “The Monster in the Rainbow: Keats and the Science of Life”,
PMLA, Vol. 117, No. 3 (May, 2002), pp. 433-448. (Available online through Univ. di Roma Tre
library at http://www.jstor.org/stable/823143).
13. ♦Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (any edition)
13.1. Richard Holmes, Chapter 7. “Dr Frankenstein and the Soul”, The Age of Wonder: How the
Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Harper, 2009), pp. 305-336.
14. Little Anthology of Poems pdf
Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Rights of Woman, To Mr Coleridge, Inscription for an Ice-House
Byron: Beppo. A Venetian Story
Coleridge: The Dungeon, Kubla Kahn
Keats: Ode to Psyche, Ode to a Nighingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode on Melancholy, Ode to
Autumn, La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Shelley: Adonais
(optional) James A. W. Heffernan, “Adonais: Shelley’s Consumption of Keats”, Romanticism. A
Critical Reader ed. by Duncan Wu (Blackwell, 1995), pp. 173-191. (available through Prof.
Isenberg)
Wordsworth: Alice Fell, Tinturn Abbey, Female Vagrant, Goody Blake and Harry Gill
15. One work of choice from the following list:
Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe… (1719);
Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano…, the African, Written
by Himself (1789);
John Keats, Lettere sulla poesia (a cura di N. Fusini, Mondadori, 2005);
Charlotte Lenox, The Female Quixote (1752);
Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk (1796);
Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794);
Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (1748; any abridged edition);
Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (1819);
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Ontranto (1764);
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792);
William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (edizione del 1800)
16. Literary History (Restoration, Enlightenment, Romanticism):
Paul Poplawski, English Literature in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.