British Literature: Restoration and Eighteenth Century
Period Reading List for Part One Exam
Mary Astell, selections from Norton*
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko
Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess
Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote
Clara Reeve, The Progress of Romance
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
Mary Wollstonecraft, selections from Norton*
Alexander Pope, selections from Norton*
Dryden, selections from Norton*
Defoe, Moll Flanders
Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Sterne, Tristam Shandy
Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
Johnson, selections from Norton*
Boswell, Life of Johnson (Penguin, abridged)
Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Richardson, Pamela
Delarivier Manley, The Adventures of Rivella
Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho
* all selections in the most recent edition of the Norton Anthology of English Literature
Selected Text for Part Two Exam
The next time the comprehensive examination in this period is offered, the Part Two text will be
Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews