MA Reading List
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
Poetry:
John Dryden:
Absalom and Achitophel
MacFlecknoe
Alexander Pope:
Essay on Criticism
The Rape of the Lock
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
The Dunciad, Books I and IV
Lord Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester:
The Imperfect Enjoyment
A Satire Against Reason and Mankind
Jonathan Swift:
The Progress of Poetry
On Poetry: A Rapsody
Description of a City Shower
The Lady’s Dressing-Room
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift
Drama:
Aphra Behn:
The Rover
William Wycherley:
The Country Wife
William Congreve:
The Way of the World
Henry Fielding:
The Author’s Farce
John Gay:
The Beggar’s Opera
Richard Brinsley Sheridan:
The School for Scandal
Novels:
Daniel Defoe:
Moll Flanders
Samuel Richardson:
Pamela
Henry Fielding:
Tom Jones
Laurence Sterne:
Tristram Shandy
Jane Austen:
Persuasion