History of English Literature, Volume 3

Franco Marucci is a former Professor of English at the Universities of Siena, Florence and Venice Ca’ Foscari. His publications include Il senso interrotto. Autonomia e codificazione nella poesia di Dylan Thomas (1976), The Fine Delight that Fathers Thought: Rhetoric and Medievalism in Gerard Manley Hopkins (1994), L’inchiostro del mago. Saggi di letteratura inglese dell’Ottocento (2009) and Joyce (2013). His Storia della letteratura inglese in eight volumes was published by Le Lettere, Florence, 2003–2017. As a creative writer he is the author of Pentapoli (2011), followed by Il Michelin del sacro (2012). He runs the blog , with comments and features on literature and music, and a weekly sports page.

CONTENTS: The Stuart century – Literary genres up to the Restoration – The Spenserians – Wither – William Browne – Drummond of Hawthornden – The Fletchers – Suckling – Lovelace – Carew – Herrick – Herbert – Herbert of Cherbury – Crashaw – Vaughan – Traherne – Quarles – King – Cowley – Cleveland – Marvell – Waller – Denham – The homilists. Andrewes, Taylor – The Authorized Version – Milton – Minor poets up to 1660 – Bacon – Burton – Thomas Browne – Other prose writers – Restoration literature – The re-opening of the theatres – Dryden – Lee – Otway – Etherege – Wycherley – Congreve – Shadwell – Vanbrugh – Farquhar – Rochester – Samuel Butler – Oldham – Restoration historians. Clarendon, Burnet – Pepys – Evelyn – Temple – Hobbes, Locke – Bunyan – Early feminism – England from the Glorious Revolution to 1745 – The Enlightenment in England – Pope – Prior – Gay – Dennis – Arbuthnot – Bolingbroke – Defoe – Swift – Addison – Steele – Shaftesbury – Berkeley – Joseph Butler – Mandeville – Law – Other deists – Lady Winchilsea – Thomson – Dyer – Young – Minor anti-Popian poets – England from 1745 to 1789 – The eighteenth century comes of age – Goldsmith – Richardson – Fielding – Smollett – Sterne – Gray – William Collins – Churchill – Johnson – Boswell – Wilkes, Junius – Letter-writers – Hume –Robertson – Gibbon – Mid-eighteenth-century drama – Sheridan – Walpole – Radcliffe – Beckford – Other exponents of the novel of terror – Burke – Macpherson – Percy and the Reliques of English Poetry – Chatterton – Cowper – Smart – Crabbe – Wesley and Methodism – The Scottish awakening – Hogg – Mackenzie – From the Napoleonic wars to the Age of Equipoise – English Romanticism – Burney – Austen – Edgeworth – Galt – Other late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novelists – Paine – Godwin – Mary Wollstonecraft – Burns – Blake – Wordsworth – Coleridge –Shelley – Keats – Byron – Scott – Mary Shelley – Polidori – Southey – Landor – Campbell – Rogers – Moore – Clare – Beddoes, Darley – Keble – Hemans, L. E. L. – Humorous poets – Lamb – De Quincey – Hazlitt – Smith – Hunt – Peacock – Cobbett – Romantic drama.