esame orale in inglese

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a) Daniel Defoe, The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton
b) Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting narrative and other writings
c) a selection of poems (A. Pope; J. Swift; S. Johnson; T. Gray; W. Cowper) – see The Norton Anthology

a) John Sitter (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth Century Poetry, CUP, 2001
b) Lia Guerra, Il Settecento, Introduzione, in L.M. Crisafulli e K. Elam (eds) Manuale di Letteratura e Cultura Inglese, Bologna, BUP, 2009
c) Lia Guerra, Il Romanzo del Settecento, Ibid
d) Lia Guerra, La Stampa periodica e altra prosa, Ibid
e) Laura Bandiera, La Poesia del Settecento fino al 1785, Ibid
f) M.E. Novak, Realism, Myth, and History in Defoe’s Fiction, University of Nebraska Press, 1983 (chapter 1)
g) L. De Michelis, “A tale-gathering in those idle desarts”: movements as improvement in Defoe’s Captain Singleton, in M. Bignami (ed), Wrestling with Defoe: approaches from a workshop on Defoe’s prose, Cisalpino, 1997
h) J. Thompson, Models of Value, Eighteenth-Century Political Economy and the Novel, Duke University Press, 1996
i) B. Carey, British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility. Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760-1807, palgrave Macmillan, 2005
l) F. A. Nussbaum, The Autobiographical Subject. Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England, The Johns Hopkins University press, (1989)1995 (Introduction)