1
PhD
Examination
Reading
List
Georgian
Literature
(18th
century)
The
following
is
a
fundamental
reading
list
for
doctoral
candidates
to
use
as
a
guide
in
preparing
for
their
comprehensive
examination
in
the
field
of
Georgian
Literature.
Students
are
expected
to
be
thoroughly
familiar
with
the
major
works
and
writers,
to
have
a
solid
understanding
of
ways
these
writers
and
texts
are
located
in
eighteenth‐century
history
and
culture,
to
appreciate
the
ongoing
impact
of
Georgian
literature
and
culture,
and
to
be
familiar
with
the
theoretical
and
critical
literature
(in
books
and
journals)
pertinent
to
Georgian
literature
and
culture
in
general
and
to
their
specialty
interests
in
particular.
Because
Georgian
literature
and
culture
takes
its
name
from
the
reigns
of
the
first
three
English
kings
named
George,
it
subdivides
into
the
three
times
of
their
reigns.
Alternatively,
one
may
study
the
entire
Georgian
period
from
one
of
several
literary
perspectives.
Therefore,
each
student
is
encouraged
to
work
with
her
or
his
committee
on
studies
to
focus
the
reading
list,
which
is
suggestive
rather
than
definitive.
Also,
it
may
be
supplemented
by
works
that
the
student
and
the
committee
agree
on
as
especially
relevant
to
the
student’s
research
interest.
The
list
has
five
major
sections:
DRAMA
POETRY
PROSE:
Non
Fiction
Prose
FICTION
Contemporary
CRITICISM
&
THEORY
NOTE:
**
indicates
that
PhD
students
need
to
be
familiar
with
an
item
regardless
of
their
specific
research
interests.
Also,
the
item
may
be
selected
by
the
graduate
committee
for
the
master’s
reading
list
/
exam.
Most
items
are
widely
available.
Items
not
included
in
the
Norton
Anthology
of
English
Literature
may
be
found
in
one
of
the
following:
Women
Critics
1660­1820,
ed
Folger
Collective
(Indiana,
1995)
[abbrev
as
WC];
18th­Century
Women
Poets,
ed.
Roger
Lonsdale
(Oxford,
1989)
[abbrev
as
WP];
British
Literature
1640­1789,
ed
Robert
DeMaria
(Blackwell,
1996)
[abbrev
as
BL];
Eighteenth­Century
Poetry,
2nd
ed,
ed
David
Fairer
&
Christine
Gerrard
[abbrev
as
ECP];
Longman
Anthology
British
Literature:
Restoration
&
18th
Century
[abbrev
as
Longman:
Professor
Woodward
has
copies].
·
·
·
·
·
2
DRAMA
LATE
RESTORATION
AND
EARLY
GEORGIAN
COMEDY
**William
Congreve,
The
Way
of
the
World
George
Farquhar,
The
Beaux'
Stratagem
**Susanna
Centlivre,
The
Wonder:
A
Woman
Keeps
a
Secret
**John
Gay,
The
Beggar's
Opera
Henry
Fielding,
Tom
Thumb:
The
Tragedy
of
Tragedies
COMEDY,
LATER
GEORGIAN
Frances
Sheridan,
The
Discovery
**Richard
Brinsley
Sheridan,
The
Rivals
Richard
Brinsley
Sheridan,
The
School
for
Scandal
**Oliver
Goldsmith,
She
Stoops
to
Conquer
ON
THE
TOWN:
A
NIGHT
AT
THE
THEATRE
David
Garrick
&
George
Colman,
The
Clandestine
Marriage
George
Villiers,
Duke
of
Buckingham,
The
Rehearsal
Catherine
Clive,
The
Rehearsal,
or
Bays
in
Petticoats
Isaac
Bickerstaff
&
Thomas
Arne,
Love
in
a
Village
[consult
Prof
Woodward
re:
finding
these
texts]
POETRY
AUGUSTAN
MODES
Anne
Finch,
from
The
Spleen.
A
Pindaric
Poem
[WP]
**Jonathan
Swift,
"Verses
on
the
Death
of
Dr.
Swift"
**John
Gay,
Trivia,
book
1
Mary
Wortley
Montagu
"Saturday:
The
Small‐Pox"
"A
Receipt
to
Cure
the
Vapours"
**from
Verses
Addressed
to
the
Imitator
of
Horace
[WP]
Alexander
Pope
**"The
Rape
of
the
Lock"
"Epistle
to
Arbuthnot"
**from
Epistles
to
Several
Persons
(aka
Moral
Essays):
"Epistle
2.
To
a
Lady"
**The
Dunciad,
Book
4
**"The
First
Satire
of
the
2nd
Book
of
Horace,
Imitated"
**Mary
Leapor,
from
"Mira's
Picture.
A
Pastoral"[WP]
Samuel
Johnson
"The
Vanity
of
Human
Wishes"
**"London"
Elizabeth
Moody,
"The
Housewife's
Prayer
...
To
Economy"[WP]
THE
POETRY
OF
SENSIBILITY
3
Anne
Finch
"To
the
Nightingale,"
**"A
Nocturnal
Reverie"[WP]
**James
Thomson,
The
Seasons:
"Winter"
**Thomas
Gray,
"Elegy
Written
in
a
Country
Churchyard"
**William
Cowper,
"The
Castaway"
**Charlotte
Smith,
from
Elegaic
Sonnets:
"Written
at
the
Close
of
Spring,"
"Written
in
the
Church‐Yard
at
Middleton
in
Sussex"[WP]
Ellen
Taylor,
"Written
by
the
Barrow
Side,
Where
She
Was
Sent
to
Wash
Linen"[WP]
POETRY:
THE
POETRY
OF
PROTEST
Mary
Wortley
Montagu:
"The
Lover:
A
Ballad"
and
"An
Answer
to
a
Love‐Letter
in
Verse"[WP]
**Stephen
Duck,
"The
Thresher's
Labour"[ECP]
**Mary
Collier,
'"The
Woman's
Labour"[ECP]
**Oliver
Goldsmith,
"The
Deserted
Village"
George
Crabbe,
The
Village,
book
1
CRITICISM
AND
THEORY
IN
THE
POETIC
MODE
**Anne
Finch,
"The
Introduction"
Alexander
Pope
**"Essay
on
Criticism,"
"Essay
on
Man"
**William
Collins,
"Ode
on
the
Poetical
Character"
**Elizabeth
Moody,
"Sappho
Burns
Her
Books
and
Cultivates
the
Culinary
Arts"
[WP]
PROSE,
NON
FICTION
A
student
is
to
choose
four
(4)
of
the
following
sections:
(1)
CONDUCT
LITERATURE
&
SATIRES
OF
CONDUCT
LITERATURE
George
Savile,
Marquis
of
Halifax
"The
Lady's
New‐Year
Gift:
Or,
Advice
to
a
Daughter"
Daniel
Defoe,
"Conjugal
Lewdness,
Or,
Matrimonial
Whoredom"
Dr.
John
Gregory,
"A
Father's
Legacy
to
His
Daughters"
Hester
Mulso
Chapone,
"Letters
on
the
Improvement
of
the
Mind
...
to
a
Young
Lady."
Daniel
Defoe,
"Every‐Body's
Business,
is
No‐Body's
Business"
Eliza
Haywood,
"A
Present
for
a
Servant‐Maid"
Jonathan
Swift,
"Directions
to
Servants"
**Jane
Collier,
The
Art
of
Ingeniously
Tormenting
4
(2)
TREATISES
ON
HUMAN
NATURE
AND
SOCIETY
With
the
exception
of
Hume,
these
selections
are
from
the
Restoration
period.
However,
they
influence
Georgian
literature
strongly.
Thomas
Hobbes,
Leviathan:
"Introduction,"
"Of
Commonwealth"
**John
Locke,
An
Essay
Concerning
Human
Understanding:
Book
1,
chapter
1;
Book
2,
chapters
1‐3
David
Hume,
"Of
the
Original
Contract"
Mary
Astell:
A
Serious
Proposal
to
the
Ladies
[Zimmerman
has
Broadview
edition]
Some
Reflections
Upon
Marriage
[Norton
selection
is
too
brief:
Zimmerman
has
edition
by
Bridget
Hill]
(3)
TREATISES
ON
POLITICS
Jonathan
Swift:
**"A
Modest
Proposal,"
"Argument
Against
Abolishing
Christianity"
**Sophia,
Woman
Not
Inferior
to
Man
and
Woman's
Superior
Excellence
to
Man
Zimmerman has a copy (HQ1150 S66 1975)
Edmund
Burke,
from
"Reflections
on
the
Revolution
in
France"
[BL]
Thomas
Paine,
from
The
Rights
of
Man
[BL]
Samuel
Johnson,
“A
Brief
to
Free
a
Slave”
(4)
TREATISES
ON
LANGUAGE
AND
AESTHETICS
Elizabeth
Elstob,
“An
Apology
for
the
Study
of
Northern
Antiquities”
[1715;
Professor
Damico
has
a
copy]
**David
Hume,
"On
Taste"
Sarah
Fielding
and
Jane
Collier,
The
Cry,
Introduction
[See
Professor
Woodward]
**Samuel
Johnson,
Preface
to
A
Dictionary
of
the
English
language
Joshua
Reynolds,
Discourses
#7
&
9
**Ann
Radcliffe,
"On
the
Supernatural
in
Poetry"
[WC]
**Edmund
Burke,
Inquiry
into
the
Origin
of
Our
Ideas
of
the
Sublime
and
the
Beautiful
(5)
PERIODICAL
LITERATURE
Richard
Steele
&
Joseph
Addison:
**Spectator
2,
10,
62,
112,
122,
267,
519;
Tatler
21,
25
**Eliza
Haywood:
from
The
Female
Spectator,
3
selections
[Longmans]
**Samuel
Johnson:
The
Rambler
4,
5,
60,
100,
113,
141,
200
(6)
DIARY
AND
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
James
Boswell:
London
Journal
1762­63
**Life
of
Johnson
Charlotte
Charke,
A
Narrative
of
the
Life
of
Mrs.Charlotte
Charke
**Olaudah
Equiano,
The
Interesting
Narrative
of
the
Life
of
Olaudah
Equiano
(7)
CRITICISM
AND
THEORY
5
Jeremy
Collier,
"A
Short
View
of
the
Immorality
and
Profaneness
of
the
English
Stage"
[See
Professor
Woodward]
**Sarah
Fielding
"Remarks
on
Clarissa"
(Clark
Library
reprint,
ed.
Peter
Sabor,
1985)
Samuel
Johnson:
The
Lives
of
the
Poets:
Cowley,
Pope,
Collins,
Gray;
**Preface
to
Shakespeare
Elizabeth
Montagu,
"Essay
on
the
Writings
and
Genius
of
Shakespeare"[WC]
**Oliver
Goldsmith,
"An
Essay
on
the
Theatre;
or,
A
Comparison
between
Laughing
and
Sentimental
Comedy"
Anna
Laetitia
Barbauld,
from
“Preface
to
Fielding”
in
The
British
Novelists[WC]
(8)
WRITINGS
ON
EMPIRE,
SLAVERY
&
ABOLITION
1.
Selections
from
accounts
by
English
men
published
between
1767
and
1788
of
their
adventures
and
explorations
along
the
Pacific
coast
of
South
America
and
in
and
around
Tahiti
and
New
Zealand:
Exploration
&
Exchange:
A
South
Seas
Anthology
1680­1900,
ed.
Jonathan
Lamb
et
al
(U
Chicago
Pr,
2000),
pp.
38‐116;
2.
Selections
from
accounts
of
and
responses
to
Britain’s
engagement
with
West
Africa
in
the
“triangular
trade”
(money
from
England
to
Africa,
the
forced
transportation
of
Africans
to
America,
sugar
to
England),
1734‐87:
“West
Africa
in
the
Triangular
Trade,”
in
Aphra
Behn,
Oroonoko,
ed
Catherine
Gallagher
(Bedford
Cultural
Edition,
2000),
pp.
259‐309.
**Olaudah
Equiano
The
Interesting
Narrative
of
the
Life
of
Olaudah
Equiano
Thomas
Clarkson,
“The
Substance
of
the
Evidence
of
Sundry
Persons
on
the
Slave‐Trade,
Collected
in
[...]
the
Year
1788”
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/RomCD/ClarksonFrame.htm
PROSE
FICTION
Daniel
Defoe
Moll
Flanders
Robinson
Crusoe
**Roxana
Eliza
Haywood
**Fantomina
Anti­Pamela
The
History
of
Miss
Betsy
Thoughtless
Jonathan
Swift
**Gulliver's
Travels
A
Tale
of
a
Tub
Samuel
Richardson
**Pamela
**Clarissa
6
Henry
Fielding
**Tom
Jones
Shamela
**Amelia
**Charlotte
Lennox,
The
Female
Quixote
**Sarah
Fielding,
The
History
of
the
Countess
of
Dellwyn
**Laurence
Sterne,
Tristram
Shandy
Frances
Sheridan,
The
Memoirs
of
Miss
Sidney
Bidulph
**Horace
Walpole,
The
Castle
of
Otranto
Tobias
Smollett,
Humphry
Clinker
**Frances
Bumey,
Cecilia
**Ann
Radcliffe,
The
Italian
**Jane
Austen,
Northanger
Abbey
CONTEMPORARY
CRITICISM
AND
THEORY
Aravamudan,
Srinivas.
Tropicopolitans:
Colonialism
and
Agency,
1688­1804.
Duke,
1999.
Armstrong,
Nancy.
How
Novels
Thinks:
The
Limits
of
Individualism
from
1719
to
1900.
Columbia,
2005.
Chapters
through
Austen.
Benedict,
Barbara.
Curiosity:
A
Cultural
History
of
Early
Modern
Inquiry.
Chicago,
2002.
Binhammer,
Katherine.
The
Seduction
Narrative
in
Britain,
1740­1800.
Cambridge,
2009.
Bowers,
Toni.
The
Politics
of
Motherhood,
British
Writing
and
Culture
1680­1760.
Cambridge
1996.
**
Brewer,
John.
The
Pleasures
of
the
Imagination:
English
Culture
in
the
Eighteenth
Century.
Farrar,
Straus,
Giroux:
1997.
Cheek,
Pamela.
Enlightenment
Globalization
and
the
Placement
of
Sex.
Stanford,
2003.
**
Colley,
Linda.
Britons:
Forging
the
Nation
1707­1837.
Yale,
1992.
**
Eighteenth­Century
Fiction
12,
2
(2000)–“Reconsidering
the
Rise
of
the
Novel”:
articles
by
Alter,
Davis,
Folkenflik,
Hunter,
Lynch,
McKeon,
and
Zimmerman.
**
Festa,
Lynn.
Sentimental
Figures
of
Empire
in
Eighteenth­Century
Britain
and
France.
Johns
Hopkins,
2006.
Goring,
Paul.
The
Rhetoric
of
Sensibility
in
Eighteenth­Century
Culture.
Cambridge,
2005.
Griffin,
Dustin,
ed.
Literary
Patronage
in
England
1650­1800.
Cambridge,
1997.
Griffin,
Robert.
Wordsworth's
Pope.
Cambridge,
1997.
Harvey,
Karen.
Reading
Sex
in
the
Eighteenth
Century:
Bodies
and
Gender
in
English
Erotic
Culture.
Cambridge,
2005.
Jones,
Vivien.
Women
and
Literature
in
Britain
1700­1800.
Cambridge
UP,
2000.
Lamb,
Jonathan.
Preserving
the
Self
in
the
South
Seas,
1680­1840.
Chicago,
2001.
**
McGann,
Jerome.
The
Poetics
of
Sensibility.
Oxford,
1997.
Nussbaum,
Felicity.
The
Limits
of
the
Human:
Fictions
of
Anomaly,
Race
&
Gender
in
the
Long
Eighteenth
Century.
Cambridge,
2003
7
Pearson,
Jacqueline.
Women’s
Reading
in
Britain,
1750­1835:
A
Dangerous
Recreation.
Cambridge,
2005.
Porter,
Roy.
The
Creation
of
the
Modern
World:
The
Untold
Story
of
the
British
Enlightenment.
Norton,
2000.
Sabor,
Peter,
and
Paul
Yachnin,
eds.
Shakespeare
and
the
Eighteenth
Century.
Ashgate,
2008.
Schellenberg,
Betty.
The
Professionalization
of
Women
Writers
in
Eighteenth­
Century
Britain.
Cambridge
2005.
Sherman,
Stuart.
Telling
Time:
Clocks,
Diaries,
and
English
Diurnal
Form,
1660­1785.
Chicago,
1997.
**
Siskin,
Clifford.
The
Work
of
Writing:
Literature
and
Social
Change
in
Britain,
1700­
1830.
Johns
Hopkins,
1999.
Sorenson,
Janet.
The
Grammar
of
Empire
in
Eighteenth­Century
British
Writing.
Cambridge,
2000.
Spacks,
Patricia
Meyer.
Privacy:
Concealing
the
Eighteenth­Century
Self.
Chicago,
2003.
Spencer,
Jane.
Literary
Relations:
Kinship
and
the
Canon.
Oxford,
2005.
**
Staves,
Susan.
A
Literary
History
of
Women’s
Writing
in
Britain,
1660­1789.
Cambridge,
2006.
Wall,
Cynthia.
The
Prose
of
Things:
Transformations
of
Description
in
the
Eighteenth
Century.
Chicago,
2006.
**
Watt,
Ian.
The
Rise
of
the
Novel.
Berkeley:
U
California,
1957.
[Chapters
1,
2,
and
10.]
**
Wheeler,
Roxann.
The
Complexion
of
Race:
Categories
of
Difference
in
Eighteenth­
Century
British
Culture.
U.Penn
Press,
2000.
Wilson,
Kathleen.
The
Island
Race:
Englishness,
Empire
and
Gender
in
the
Eighteenth
Century.
Routledge
2002.
Ph.D.
students
will
be
expected
to
demonstrate
familiarity
with
the
critical
tradition
as
well
as
with
the
most
recent
critical
discourse—including
articles—pertaining
to
Georgian
literature
and
culture.
Texts
that
may
serve
to
introduce
students
to
cultural,
historical,
and
critical‐theoretical
issues
are
listed
below,
as
well
as
some
texts
of
a
particularly
specialized
focus.
Students
are
encouraged
to
use
these
as
helps
to
pursue
their
research.
Backscheider,
Paula
R,
and
Catherine
Ingrassia.
Companion
to
the
eighteenth­
century
English
novel
and
culture.
Blackwell,
2005.
Benedict,
Barbara.
Framing
Feeling:
Sentiment
and
Style
in
English
Prose
Fiction,
1745­1800.
AMS
Press,
1994.
Chard,
Chloe.
Pleasure
and
Guilt
on
the
Grand
Tour:
Travel
Writing
and
Imaginative
Geography
1600­1830.
Manchester
UP;
St
Martin’s
Press,
1999.
Donague,
Emma.
Passions
between
Women:
British
Lesbian
Culture
1668­1801.
Harper,
1996.
Johnson,
Claudia
L.
and
Clara
Tuite.
A
Companion
to
Jane
Austen.
Blackwell,
2009.
Johns,
Alessa.
Women’s
Utopias
of
the
Eighteenth
Century.
Illinois,
2003.
Joseph,
Betty.
Reading
the
East
India
Company
1720­1840:
Colonial
Currencies
of
Gender.
Chicago
2003.
8
Keymer,
Tom,
and
Jon
Mee
The
Cambridge
Companion
to
Literature,
1740­1830.
Cambridge
University
Press,
2004.
Jones,
Robert.
Gender
and
the
Formation
of
Taste
in
Eighteenth­Century
Britain:
The
Analysis
of
Beauty.
Cambridge,
1998.
Looser,
Devoney.
British
Women
Writers
and
the
Writing
of
History
1670­1820.
Johns
Hopkins,
2005.
**
Moody,
Jane
and
Daniel
O’Quinn.
The
Cambridge
Companion
to
British
Theatre
1730­1830.
Cambridge,
2007.
Nussbaum,
Felicity,
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