English Department - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Reading List 2011-2012– Restoration and Eighteenth-Century
British Literature
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Drama
Aphra Behn
The Rover
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The School for Scandal**
Eliza Haywood
Love in Excess
Sarah Fielding
The History of Ophelia
Richard Steele
The Spectator: Number 11 – March 13, 1711*
[Inkle and Yariko]
Poetry
Mary Wortley Montagu
“The Lover: A Ballad”
William Cowper
“The Negro’s Complaint”**
“To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut on which I Dined this Day”**
John Dryden
“Mac Flecknoe”**
Jonathan Swift
“A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed”**
Alexander Pope
“Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”
Anne Finch
“The Spleen: A Pindaric Poem.”**
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
“A Satyr against Reason and Mankind”**
“A Satyr on Charles II”**
Non-Fiction Prose
Mary Astell
Extract from A Serious Proposal to the Ladies**
Samuel Johnson
Extract from the Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language**
Daniel Defoe
Extract from An Essay upon Projects**
Jonathan Swift
A Tale of a Tub**
John Locke
Extract from An Essay Concerning the True Extent and End of Civil Government**
Secondary Works
Michael McKeon, “Historicizing Patriarchy: The Emergence of Gender Difference in England, 1660-1760”, Eighteenth-Century Studies (Spring 1995)*
Nicholas Hudson, “From “rank” to “class”: The Changing Structures of Social Hierarchy.” (Chapter 1) Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England. Cambridge University Press, 2003.*
