English Literature II - Prof. Elisa Lima Abrantes - elisa.abrantes2012@gmail.

com
Mondays and Wednesdays - 1800 -2000- room 121 (PAT)

Tentative Syllabus

August

28 - Course Presentation - Literature from the Restoration and 18 th century (printed

text)
30 - Thomas More Utopia (1516)

September

04 - Thomas More Utopia (1516)

06 - Thomas More Utopia (1516)
11 -Metaphysical Poetry
13 - John Donne poems (selection)
18 - John Miltons Paradise Lost
20 - John Miltons Paradise Lost
25 - Eighteenth-century literature - Alexander Pope's essays (Essay on Man, An
Essay on Criticism)
27- Eighteenth-century literature and the rise of the novel (The Novel, history and
theory and The Rise of the Novel (chapter 2)

October

02 Oroonoko, Or the Royal Slave (excerpt) by Aphra Ben - slave narrative

04 - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
09 - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
11 - The Romantic period (printed text). Wordsworths Preface to the Lyrical
Ballads
16 - Romantic poetry - Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge (selected poems)
18 - Romantic poetry - Shelley, Keats and Byron (selected poems)
23 The Romantic novel (printed text), Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice or other
romantic novel chosen by students
25 - Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice or other romantic novel chosen by students
30 - Test 1
November

01 Victorian Age (printed text), Charles Dickens Great Expectations

06 - Charles Dickens Great Expectations
13 -Oscar Wildes The Importance of Being Earnest
15 - Oscar Wildes The Importance of Being Earnest
20 - Modernism James Joyce Dubliners (selected short stories)
22 - Modernism James Joyce Dubliners (selected short stories)
27 - Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
29 - Samuel Beckett's End Game

December

04 - Seminars
06 - Seminars
11 flexibility
13 - flexibility
18 - Optional Test (All course content)