English 362: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
DRAFT Reading List 2015
Please Note: All Readings are Subject to Change
From Sherman, Stuart (ed). The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1C: The Restoration and the 18th Century. 4ed.:
Thomas Sprat, from The History of the Royal Society of London
Robert Hooke, from Micrographia
John Dryden, “Absalom and Achitophel”
Aphra Behn, from Poems on Several Occasions
Daniel Defoe, from A Journal of the Plague Year
Jonathan Swift, “A Description of a City Shower”; “A Modest Proposal”
Alexander Pope, “An Essay on Criticism”; “The Rape of the Lock”
Mary Montague, from “The Turkish Embassy Letters”
William Hogarth, “A Rake’s Progress”
Joseph Addison, from Spectator
Thomas Gray, Poems
Samuel Johnson, “The Vanity of Human Wishes”
James Boswell, from “London Journal”
Hester Piozzi, from “The Family Book”