The course is divided into three sections which will be organized as follows:
Part 1 (5 ECTS):
Science and pseudoscience in the eighteenth-century English novel.
Primary texts:
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, any edition in the original language.
Daniel Defoe, Lady Roxana, any edition in the original language.
Daniel Defoe, The Storm, any edition in the original language.
The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe, ed. John Richetti, Cambridge University Press, 2008;
Miriam Sette, Il Fantastico in Robinson Crusoe. Daniel Defoe e la Ragione trasfiguratrice, Carocci, Rome 2010.
Part 2 (1 ECTS):
The Long Eighteenth Century
Reference texts:
Arturo Cattaneo, A Short History of English Literature, Mondadori University, Milan 2011, voll. 1.
