1. Restoration
theatre.
2. Versions of comedy
in the 18th and 19th centuries.
3. The poetry of the
Restoration Period.
4. The Neo-Classical
poetics of Alexander Pope.
5. The birth of the English
Novel.
6. The innovations of
Richardson and Fielding.
7. Sentimental
poetry: Thomas Gray and his precursors.
8. The two extremes
of late-18th-century poetry: Samuel Johnson and William Cowper.
9. Fiction around the
turn of the century: Sterne, Scott, and Austen.
10. The roots of
Romanticism: Burns, Macpherson, Blake.
11. The first
generation of Romanticism.
12. The second
generation of Romanticism.
13. Women's fiction
in the 19th century: Mary Shelley and the Brontë sisters.
14. Victorian
fiction: Dickens and Hardy.
15. Victorian poetry
with the Pre-Raphaelites.