English literature

Indice volume From origins to eighteenth century

Introduction;

Part one. Intertwinings. Old English literature (sixth century-1066):

• 1. Three peoples in a boat towards Engla-lond;
• 2. The triple intertwining: Celts, Romans, and Germanics;
• 3. The precariousness of the text;
• 4. Common traits of poetry;
• 5. Religious literature;
• 6. Secular literature;
• 7. Erased palimpsests: women;

Part two. Bloomings and resurgences. Middle English renascences (1066-1485):

• 1. Bloomings and resurgences;
• 2. The Middle English literature of the first period (1100-1250);
• 3. Saints, loves and knights;
• 4. The Ricardian flowering (1377-99);
• 5. The “man of gret auctorite”: Chaucer;
• 6. The fifteenth century;

Part three. Maps. Reforms and renaissances in early modernity (1485-1625):

• 1. The new cultural maps in the first half of the sixteenth century;
• 2. The Age of Elizabeth I and James I;
• 3. The drama of the Shakespearean age;
• 4. Our inventor: William Shakespeare;
• 5. Shakespeare’s contemporaries;
• 6. Exceptions to silence: women;

Part four. Revolutions. The sacred and the profane in the seventeenth century:

• 1. From Charles I (1625-1649) to the Civil War and Restoration (1660);
• 2. The Return of the Stuarts and the Glorious Revolution;

Part five. Sense, satire and sentiment in the eighteenth century (1690-1780):

• 1. Sense and satire in the first half of the eighteenth century;
• 2. The birth of the modern novel;
• 3. The bourgeois and moralistic novel;
• 4. Elegance and Satire in Poetry;
• 5. Early eighteenth century theatre;
• 6. Toward sensibility;
• 7. Sensibility and sentiment before 1789;
• 8. Poetry: rhapsody and fragment;
• 9. The novel between Orientalism, Gothic and sentiment;
• 10. Late eighteenth-century drama;
• Bibliography;

Name index.

Indice volume From Romanticism to the present

Introduction; Part six. Spirit. Romanticism (1780-1830):

• 1. The French Revolution and Napoleon;
• 2. Nature, history, spirit: the Romantic culture;
• 3. Vision and memory in the early Romantic poets;
• 4. Gothic, history, and sentiment in prose;
• 5. Divine ecstasy and irony: the second generation of Romantic poets;
• 6. Romantic drama;
• Bibliography;

Part seven. Networks. The Rise of the Victorian Empire (1830-1880):

• 1. Goods and machines;
• 2. Respectable and radical: Victorian culture;
• 3. Victorian prose;
• 4. Love, death, and pleasure in poetry;
• 5. Victorian drama;
• 6. Nonsense;
• Bibliography;

Part eight. Decadence. The late Victorian and Edwardian era (1880-1914):

• 1. Colonial wars and the crisis of the Empire;
• 2. Late century twilight culture;
• 3. Prose and dissociation;
• 4. End-of-century drama;
• 5. From late Romanticism to experimentation in poetry;
• Bibliography;

Part nine. Fragments. Avant-garde, Modernism, and Dystopias (1914-1945):

• 1. The Great War and the conflicts (1914-1929);
• 2. Avant-garde and modernism;
• 3. Modernism in Poetry;
• 4. Modernist prose;
• 5. Regimes at war: the Thirties and Forties;
• 6. Satire and dystopia in prose;
• 7. Drama;
• Bibliography;

Part ten. Post. From 1945 to now:

• 1. From the Cold War to ’68;
• 2. The absurd, protest, and contestation: mass pop culture;
• 3. Theatre between commitment, anger, and absurdity;
• 4. Prose from 1945 to 1968;
• 5. Everyday life and nature in poetry;
• 6. Rites of passage: The Beatles and the birth of pop;
• 7. From 1968 to Brexit;
• 8. Directions of the Extreme Contemporary;
• Bibliography;

Name index