Johnson as Critic (NIVEL AVANZADO)

A two-part lecture on Johnson as critic, by Bhim Singh Dahiya:

Loreena McKennitt - Prospero's speech (from The Tempest)

Felices Navidades, y un Próspero:

The Age of Johnson

The Age of Pope

Sterne (NIVEL AVANZADO)

- Sterne como novelista experimental y paradójico:
La aporía temporal de la narración en Tristram Shandy.

- Una adaptación cinematográfica: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story:




(Hay otros capítulos disponibles en YouTube).

— Half a lecture on Sterne's Tristram Shandy.

— A tutorial on the narrative technique of Tristram Shandy.

Samuel Johnson (NIVEL AVANZADO)

Samuel Johnson @ Wikipedia


Un documental de la BBC sobre Samuel Johnson: The Dictionary Man









And a lecture on Rasselas:






Will Durant, "The Life of Samuel Johnson." Audio.
    https://youtu.be/zyB1Pp5V0d8

David Hume - NIVEL AVANZADO

David Hume  (1711-1776)

_____. (Anonymous pub.). A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects. London, 1739-1740. 1748, 1758.
_____. Essays Moral, Political and Literary. 1741-2. (16 eds. with different titles and selections up to 1776). ("Of Essay writing." "Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth." "Of Civil Liberty." "Of Commerce." "Of Superstition and Enthusiasm." "Of the First Principles of Government." "Of the Origin of Government." "Of the Original Contract." "The Sceptic." Etc.).
_____. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. 1748.
_____. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.  Written 1751. Pub. 1779.
_____. Political Discourses. London, 1752.
_____. Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. 1752.
_____. Four Dissertations. 1757.
_____. The Natural History of Religion. 1757.
_____. History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688. 8 vols. 1763, etc.
_____. Two Essays. ("Of Suicide." "Of the Immortality of the Soul."). Written c. 1755. Pub. 1777.
_____. The Life of David Hume, Esq., Written by Himself. 1777. (In most eds. of the Essays  thereafter).





 



Hume, más introductorio:

David Hume (Wikipedia)

Fernando SAVATER. "David Hume por Fernando Savater en 'La Aventura del Pensamiento'" (VIDEO): https://youtu.be/u9zx_VtKVBs


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Nivel avanzado:


Bragg, Melvyn, et al. "David Hume, the Great Empiricist and Skeptic." BBC (In Our Time). Online audio at YouTube (Brad Younger) 27 Sept. 2015.*
    https://youtu.be/Sai1s0ShldE
    2015

The Scottish Enlightenment (BBC audio).


Daniel DENNETT. "Dennett on Hume's Strange Inversion."
http://youtu.be/wY9Xm5xgiEE

Dennett es uno de los grandes predicadores del escepticismo contemporáneo, en la tradición de Hume.

Poetry After Pope (NIVEL AVANZADO)

NIVEL AVANZADO: La poesía después de Pope -


James Thomson  (1700-1748)
_____. The Seasons.  Poem. 1726-30.
_____. Sophonisba. Tragedy. 1730.
_____. Agamemnon. Tragedy. 1738.
_____. The Castle of Indolence.  1748.
_____. Tancred and Sigismunda.  Tragedy. 1745.







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 A famous patriotic poem by James Thomson, "Rule, Britannia" —set by Thomas Arne:









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Edward Young  (1683-1765)
_____. The Brothers. Tragedy.
_____. The Last Day. Poem. 1713.
_____. Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. Satirical poems. 1725-8.
_____. The Complaint: or, Night Thoughts. Poem. 1742-45.
_____. Conjectures on Original Composition. Essay. 1759.
_____. Poetical Works. 2 vols.  1741.  4 vols.  1757.

—& other poems from the "Graveyard School":

Thomas Parnell. Night-piece on Death. 1721.
Robert Blair. The Grave. Poem. 1743.
James Hervey. Meditations among the Tombs. 1746.
Thomas Warton. The Pleasures of Melancholy. 1747. 


Other minor poets:

 
John Dyer (1700-1758)
_____. "Grongar Hill." Topographic poem. (From pastoral to pre-Romanticism)
_____. The Ruins of Rome.  1740.
_____. The Fleece. 1757.

Charles Churchill (1731-1764)
_____. The Rosciad.  Satire against actors.
_____. The Prophecy of Famine. Satire against Scotland.
_____. An Epistle to William Hogarth. Satire.
_____. The Author. Satire (vs. Smollett).


Warton, Joseph.  (1722-1800).
_____. The Enthusiast: or the Lover of Nature.  Poem. 1744.
_____.  An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Mr Pope.  2 vols.  London, 1756, 1782.

Warton, Thomas (Jr.). (1728-1790).
_____. The Pleasures of Melancholy. 1747.
_____.  Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser.  1754. 
_____. The History of English Poetry.  3 vols.  1774, 1778, 1781.










William Collins  (1721-1759)
_____. Persian Eclogues. 1742.
_____. "Ode on the Poetical Character."
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173257
_____. Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegorical Subjects. 1746.
_____. Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland. (unfinished). 1750, pub. 1788.

 

 

 

 

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Editors & collectors: Percy and Brooke

Percy, Thomas (Bishop) (1729-1811), ed.  Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.  1765. 

Brooke, Charlotte. (1740-1793), ed. Reliques of Irish Poetry.  1789.






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Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/

Richardson (NIVEL AVANZADO)

Nivel avanzado:
Un serial televisivo basado en Richardson:
Clarissa. (BBC, 1996). Aquí en varios episodios:















An essay on Richardson's epistolary technique.

 
Clarissa Harlowe

- A note on Richardson's Clarissa as a 'self-begetting novel'.

- Chamberlain, Shannon. "Clarissa Explains It All: Adam Smith and the Eighteeenth-century Novel in Letters." Adam Smith Works 4 Dec. 2019.*

         https://www.adamsmithworks.org/documents/clarissa-explains-it-all-adam-smith-and-the-eighteenth-century-novel-in-letters

         2022

Congreve - The Way of the World (NIVEL AVANZADO)

Alexander Pope (In Our Time)

Bragg, Melvyn, et al:

 

 

 "Pope." BBC4 (In Our Time) 9 Nov. 2006.*

         https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0038x97

         2021

 

 "The Scriblerus Club." BBC4 (In Our Time) 9 June 2005.*

         http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9cm

         2014

 

NIVEL AVANZADO: Alexander Pope

NIVEL AVANZADO: Pope y más siglo XVIII

 
The Rape of the Lock website.
    http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/sconstan/
   
And an analysis by Philip Mallett: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~pvm/Lock.html
 
  

 

A lecture on Pope's Essay on Criticism:

 

 

Recordad que hay más materiales para el estudio de la literatura del siglo XVIII aquí: 18th-century Resources - Literature. Ed. Jack Lynch 
http://jacklynch.net/18th/lit.html

NIVEL AVANZADO: Jonathan Swift

An introduction to Swift's A Modest Proposal (audio—In Our Time): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00h3650



Louis Cazamian: Universal Criticism: Arbuthnot and Swift.

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Una conferencia de Leopold Damrosch sobre la vida y mundo de Swift.





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La curiosa anécdota de Swift y las lunas marcianas.


Había una edición en red del Journal to Stella, convertido en blog—una forma bastante adecuada. Pero desapareció. Ahora tenemos el texto en Project Gutenberg.
 

Y aquí una (mala) edición en red de Gulliver's Travels en Project Gutenberg—uno de esos sitios web a los que hay que volver continuamente en esta carrera.

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La Academia de Proyectistas—una sátira

 

 

 

 

Y una analogía:


The Machine Stops y The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit.

NIVEL AVANZADO: Daniel Defoe

- Daniel Defoe: The Collection of the Lilly Library: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/defoe/

- Si alguien hace el trabajo sobre Defoe, hay bibliografías críticas más completas sobre él (y sobre todos los demás autores que vemos) aquí:
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology: http://bit.ly/abiblio



- Un audio de la BBC sobre Robinson Crusoe

 
- Un capítulo de Ian Watt sobre Defoe como novelista. 


- Related works: Robinsonade

Campe, J. H. The New Robinson. 1779.
Wyss, Johann R. The Swiss Family Robinson. Zurich, 1813.
Ballantyne, R. M. The Coral Island. 1858.
Verne, Jules. Deux ans de vacances. 1891.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. 1954.




- Otras "memorias" tras Defoe...
 

Cleland, John (1710-1789).  Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (or, Fanny Hill). Novel. 1748-49.
_____.  Memoirs of a Coxcomb. Novel. 1751.
_____.  The Surprises of Love. Novel. 1764.
_____.  The Woman of Honor. Novel. 1768.


Y un Robinson de fantasía, también muy colonialista, con isleños alados y voladores:

Robert Paltock (1697-1767). TheLife and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornishman. 1751.