Reading List:
Primary: All texts can be downloaded from gutenberg.org, etext.virginia.org, or LION (only from Unical intranet) Suggested published versions: Oxford University Press, Penguin
Keats, J., “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Collins, W., The Moonstone
Dickens, C., The Old Curiosity Shop
Trollope, A., The Eustace Diamonds
Doyle, A. C., “Lot 249”
Wells, H. G., Tono-Bungay
Critical works:
Cattaneo, A. A Short History of English Literature, Milano, Mondadori, vol. 1, chapters on the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries
Freedgood, E. The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006 (selected parts)
Parlati, M., Oltre il moderno. Orrori e tesori del lungo Ottocento inglese, Milano, Mimesis, 2012
Scanlan, J., On Garbage, London, Reaktion Books, 2005 (introduction, chapter 1, 2)
Materials on each literary text will be suggested during the course. Some variations and integrations in the bibliography may occur. Students will be duly informed.
4 CFU
Primary
Keats, J., “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Collins, W., The Moonstone
Dickens, C., The Old Curiosity Shop
Trollope, A., The Eustace Diamonds
Critical works
Cattaneo, A. A Short History of English Literature, Milano, Mondadori, vol. 1, chapters on the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries Freedgood, E. The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006 (introduction)
Parlati, M., Oltre il moderno. Orrori e tesori del lungo Ottocento inglese, Milano, Mimesis, 2012
NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS 9 cfu
Keats, J., “Ode on a Grecian Urn” Collins, W., The Moonstone Dickens, C., The Old Curiosity Shop Trollope, A., The Eustace Diamonds Doyle, A. C., “Lot 249” H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay
Critical works: Cattaneo, A. A Short History of English Literature, Milano, Mondadori, vol. 1, chapters on the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries
Freedgood, E. The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006 (introduction)
Parlati, M., Oltre il moderno. Orrori e tesori del lungo Ottocento inglese, Milano, Mimesis, 2012
Scanlan, J., On Garbage, London, Reaktion Books, 2005
David, D. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, Cambridge UP, 2004 (available on line from Unical intranet)
4 CFU (non-attending students)
Keats, J., “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Collins, W., The Moonstone
Dickens, C., The Old Curiosity Shop
Trollope, A., The Eustace Diamonds
Doyle, A. C., “Lot 249”
H. G. Wells, Tono-Bungay
Cattaneo, A. A Short History of English Literature, Milano, Mondadori, vol. 1, chapters on the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries
Parlati, M., Oltre il moderno. Orrori e tesori del lungo Ottocento inglese, Milano, Mimesis, 2012
David, D. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, Cambridge UP, 2004 (available on line from unical intranet)