Period List: Restoration/18th Century
1. Virgil (trans. Dryden, 1697) Georgics
2. Abu Jaafar Ebn Tophail (trans. Ockley? 1708), The Improvement of Human Reason, Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan
*3. Miguel de Cervantes (trans. Smollett, 1755) Don Quixote
Intellectual Prose: Philosophical, Religious, Political
4. 1651 Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
5. 1690 John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding
6. 1738 William Keith, History of the British Plantations in America: Part I, “History of Virginia”
7. 1739 David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature
Criticism and Aesthetics
8. 1668 John Dryden, An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
9. 1711-12 Addison and Steele, selections from The Spectator
#62 "True Wit"
#160 "Genius"
#249 "Laughter and Ridicule"
#409 "Taste"
#411-#421 "Pleasures of the Imagination"
#303, #309, #315, #321, #327, #333 on Books I-VI of Paradise Lost
10. 1759 Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments
11. 1785 Clara Reeve, The Progress of Romance
Biographical, Autobiographical, and Personal Prose
12. [later 17th century] Lucy Apsley Hutchinson, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson
13. [1660-69] Samuel Pepys, Diary
14. 1725 Eliza Heywood, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
15. 1763 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters Written during her Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa
Poetry
16. 1642 John Denham, Cooper’s Hill
17. 1667 John Milton, Paradise Lost
18. 1681 Andrew Marvell, Upon Appleton House
19. 1703 Sarah Fyge Egerton, “On my leaving London” and “The Liberty”
20. 1709 Edward Ward, The Rambling Fuddle-Caps: or a Tavern Struggle for a Kiss
21. 1731 Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
22. 1768 Thomas Gray, "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes," "Ode on a Distant prospect of Eton College," "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," "A Long Story"
23. 1785 William Cowper, The Task
Drama
24. 1641 Ben Jonson, Bartholmew Fair
25. 1675 William Wycherly, The Country Wife
26. 1677 John Dryden, All for Love
27. 1700 William Congreve, Way of the World
29. 1737 Henry Brooke, Gustavus Vasa
30. 1773 Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
Prose Fiction
31. 1678 John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress
32. 1688 Aphra Behn, Oroonoko
*33. 1719 Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
34. 1726 Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
*35. 1740 Samuel Richardson, Pamela
*36. 1741 Henry Fielding, Shamela
37. 1744 Sarah Fielding, The Adventures of David Simple
38. 1745 Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random
39. 1761 Frances Sheridan, Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
*40. 1761 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Julie: Or the new Heloise
*41. 1764 Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
42. 1766 Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
*43. 1768 Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
*44. 1778 Fanny Burney, Evelina
Secondary Reading
44. 1876 Leslie Stephen, The History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century
45. 1966 Foucault, The Order of Things
46. 1976 Patricia Meyer Spacks, Imagining a Self
47. 1987 Michael McKeon, Origins of the English Novel
48. 1992 J. Paul Hunter, Before Novels
49. 2006 Cynthia Wall, The Prose of Things
Field List: Novel: Themed as 'SELVES AND OTHERS'
Seventeenth Century
*1. 1605 Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (trans. Tobias Smollett, 1755)
*2. 1678 John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress
Eighteenth Century
3. 1719 Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
*4. 1740 Samuel Richardson, Pamela
5. 1741 Henry Fielding, Shamela
*6. 1761 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Julie: Or the New Heloise
7 1768 Laurence Sterne, Sentmental Journey
8. 1778 Frances Burney, Evelina
Gothic
9. 1764 Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
Nineteenth Century
10. 1814 Walter Scott, Waverley
11. 1818 Jane Austen, Persuasion
12. 1850 Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
13. 1851 Nathaniel Hawthorne, House of the Seven Gables
14. 1852 Herman Melville, Pierre
15. 1853 Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
16. 1853 Charlotte Brontë, Villette
*17. 1857 Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
18. 1857 Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers
*19. 1869 Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
20. 1872 George Eliot, Middlemarch
Turn of the Century
21. 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
22. 1895 Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
23. 1897 Henry James, What Maisie Knew
24. 1902 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
25. 1911 Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
26. [1913?] pub. 1971 E.M. Forster, Maurice
Modern
27. 1922 James Joyce, Ulysses
*28. 1925 Franz Kafka, The Trial
29. 1929 D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
30. 1929 William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
31. 1929 Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica
32. 1933 Virginia Woolf, Flush
Recent
*33. 1946 Halldór Laxness, Independent People
34. 1952 Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
35. 1955 Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
*36. 1967 Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
37. 1968 Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark
38. 1981 Martin Amis, Other People
39. 1988 Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
*40. 2001 W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz
Criticism
Foundational Texts
41. E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel
42. Erich Auerbach, Mimesis
Narrative Theory, Genre Studies
43. Lisa Zunshine, Why We Read Novels
44. Adam Newton, Narrative Ethics
Cultural and Literary History
45. R.F. Brissenden, Virtue in Distress: Studies in the Novel of Sentiment
46. Terry Eagleton, Origins of the English Novel
