This is my list of books for my comps exam in May. Those titles that are in green are those that I've already read but need to revisit before the exam. Those that are linked are read and have notes compiled.
Seventeenth Century Literature Major List
Drama
1. William
Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
a. Hamlet(1601) Cross-listed with Early Modern list
b. Twelfth Night (1601)
c. Othello (1604)
d. King Lear (1606)
e. Antony and Cleopatra (1606)
f. The Winter’s Tale (1609)
g. The Tempest (1611) Cross-listed with Ecocriticism list
2. Ben
Jonson (1572 – 1637)
a. Every Man Out of his Humour (1599)
b. Volpone (1606)
c. The Masque of Blackness (1605)
d. The Masque of Beauty (1608)
e. Epicene (1609)
f. The Alchemist (1610)
g. The Staple of News (1625)
h. Bartholomew Fair (1614)
3. Thomas
Dekker (1572-1632)
a. The Roaring Girl with Middleton (1607?)
b. The Witch of Edmonton with Ford and
Rowley (1621)
4. John
Fletcher (1579 – 1625)
a. The Faithful Shepherdess (1606)
b. The Maid’s Tragedy with Beaumont (1611?)
Cross-listed with Early Modern list
c. A King and No King with Beaumont (1611?)
Cross-listed with Early Modern list
1. Thomas
Middleton (1580 – 1627)
a. A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (1613)
b. The Changeling with Rowley(1622)
2. John
Webster (1580-1625)
a. The Duchess of Malfi (1614)
7. Francis
Beaumont (1584 – 1616)
a. The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1607)
8. John
Ford (1585 – 1639)
a. ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (1629)
9. Richard
Brome (1590 – 1652)
a. Antipodes (1638)
10. James
Shirley (1596 – 1666)
a. Hyde Park (1632)
11. John
Dryden (1631 – 1700)
a. Enchanted Island with Davenant (1667)
b. All for Love (1677)
12. Aphra
Behn (1640-1689)
a. The Rover (1677)
13. William
Wycherley (1641 – 1716)
a. The Country Wife (1675)
Poetry
1. William
Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
a. Sonnet
15 “When I consider everything that grows”
b. Sonnet
18 “Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?”
c. Sonnet
25 “Le those who are in favour with their stars”
d. Sonnet
60 “Like as waves make towards the pebbl’d shore”
e. Sonnet
97 “How like a winter hath my absence been”
f. Sonnet
146 “Poor soul, the centre of my sinful Earth”
2. Ben
Jonson (1572 – 1637)
a. Epigrams (1612): “To Fine lady Would-Be,”
“On Something that Walks Somewhere,” “Inviting a Friend to Supper,” “On my
First Son,” “On my First Daughter,” “To William, Earl of Pembroke,” and “To
Mary Lady Wroth”
b. The Forest (1616): “To Penshurst” and “Epode”
c. Underwoods (1640): “An Ode. To Himself,” “A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme,” “An Epistle
Answering to One that Asked to be Sealed of the Tribe of Ben,” To the Immortal
Memory and Friendship of that noble pair, Sir Lucious Cary and H. Morison,” “Execration
upon Vulcan,” and “The Picture of the Body”
d. Misc. (1621):
“Ode. To Himself” (Come, leave the loathed stage)
3. John
Donne (1573 – 1631)
e. The Flea
f. A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the
Shortest Day
g. The Bait
h. The Apparition
i. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
j. The Ecstasy
k. Elegy
8: To His Mistress Going to Bed
4. Mary
Wroth (1587 -1651/53)
a. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus: Sonnet 4
“Forbeare dark night, my joyes now budd againe,” Sonnet 14 “Am I thus conquered,”
Sonnet 22 “Like to the Indians scorched with the Sun,” and Song “The Springtime
of my first Loving”
5. Robert
Herrick (1591 – 1674)
a. Hesperides (1640): “Discontents in
Devon,” “Delight in Disorder,” Corinna’s Going a maying,” “To the Virgins, To
make much of time,” “The Hock-Cart, or the Harvest Home,” “His Return to
London,” “Upon Prue, His Maid,” Upon Ben Jonson,” “The Pillar of Fame”
b. Noble Numbers (1648): “Rex Tragicus”
6. George
Herbert (1593 – 1633)
a. “Jordan
[1]” (1648)
b. “Jordan
[2]”
c. “The
Bag”
d. “The
Collar”
e. “Love
[3]”
f. “Easter
Wings”
g. “Church
Monuments”
7. Thomas
Carew (1595 - 1640)
a. “An
Elegy upon the Death of Dr. Donne, Dean of Paul’s” (1642)
b. “A
Rapture”
8. Richard
Lovelace (1618 – 1657)
a. “The
Grasshopper”
b. “To
Lucasta, Going to the Wars”
c. “To
Althea, from Prison”
9. Katherine
Philips (1632 – 1664)
a. From
Poems (1667): “An Answer to Another
Persuading a Lady to Marriage,” “Epitaph,” “Friendship’s Mystery, To my Dearest
Lucasia,” and “To Mrs. M.A. Upon my Absence”
1. Margaret
Cavendish (1632 – 1664)
a. “World
in an Earring”
1.
John Milton (1608 – 1674)
a.
Paradise
Lost (1667) Cross-listed with
Ecocriticism
b.
Paradise
Regained (1671) Cross-listed with
Ecocriticism
c.
“On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity”
d.
Sonnet 7 (“How Soon Hath Time…”
e.
Sonnet 16 (“When I consider”)
f.
Sonnet 19 (“Methought I saw…”)
g.
“L’Allegro”
h.
“Il Penseroso”
i.
“On Shakespeare”
j.
Lycidas
k.
Comus
l.
“Arcades”
m.
Samson
Agonistes
1. Sir
John Suckling (1609 – 1643)
a. “Out
upon it! I have loved”
b. “A
Ballad upon a Wedding”
1. John
Denham (1614/15 – 1669)
a. “Cooper’s
Hill” (1642)
1. Andrew
Marvell (1621 – 1678)
a. “Bermudas”
b. “The
Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn”
c. “Damon
the Mower”
d. “The
Mower’s Song”
e. “The
Mower against Gardens”
f. “The
Mower to the Glo-Worms”
g. “To
His Coy Mistress”
h. Upon Appleton House
i. “Horation
Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland”
1. Henry
Vaughn (1621 – 1695)
a. “Regeneration”
b. “The
Retreat”
c. “The
World”
d. “Childhood”
1. John
Dryden (1631 – 1700)
a. Absalom and Achitophel
b. “Song
for St. Cecilia’s Day”
1. John
Wilmot (1647 – 1680)
a. “The Imperfect Enjoyment”
b. “To
his Mistress”
c. “Upon
Nothing”
Prose
1.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
a.
Advancement
of Learning (1605)
b.
New
Atlantis (1627) Cross-listed with
Ecocriticism
c.
Essays
d.
Novum
Organum (1620) Cross-listed with
Ecocriticism
2. Sir
Thomas Overbury (1581 – 1613)
a. Characters (1614): “A Roaring Boy,” “A
Distaster of the Time,” “A Divellish Usurer,” “An Excellent Actor,” and “A
Purveiour of Tobacco”
3. Thomas
Hobbes (1588 – 1679)
a. Leviathan Books 1 and 2 (1651)
4. Sir
Robert Filmer (1590 – 1653)
a. Patriarcha (1680): Chapter 1
5. John
Earle (1600? – 1665)
a. Microcosmography (1633): “A Young Raw
Preacher,” “A Player,” “A Tobacco Seller,” “A Skeptick in Religion,” and “A
Prison”
6. Sir
Thomas Brown (1605 – 1682)
a. Hydriotaphia: Chapter 1 and 4 (1658) Cross-listed with Early Modern
7. Margaret
Cavendish (1632 – 1664)
a. Blazing World (1666) Cross-listed with
Ecocriticism
b. The Contract (1667)
8. John
Dryden (1631 – 1700)
a. Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1666)
b. Of Heroic Plays (1670)
9. Thomas
Sprat (1635 – 1713)
a. History of the Royal Society of London (1667)
1. Henry
Neville
a. The Isle of the Pines (1668)
1. Samuel
Pepys (1633 – 1703)
a. Selections
from The Diary
Secondary
1. Jonas
A Barish – The Antitheatrical Prejudice
Drama, religion, and
politics in the early modern period Secondary List
1. Desiderius Erasmus (1466 –
1536)
a. Enchiridion
b. Paraclesis
2. Machiavelli (1469 – 1527)
a. The
Prince
(1532)
3. Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1532)
a. Utopia
(1516)
b. The
History of King Richard the Third (1513-1518)
4. Martin Luther (1483 – 1546)
a. The
Freedom of a Christian
5. William Tyndale (1494 – 1536)
a. Obedience
of a Christian Man
6. John Calvin (1509 – 1564)
a. Institutes
of the Christian Religion
(1536)
7. John Foxe (1516 – 1587)
a. Actes
and Monuments (1563)
8. Edmund Spenser (1522 – 1599)
a. Faerie
Queene Book
1 (1590)
9. Christopher Marlowe (1564 –
1593)
a. Dr.
Faustus (1588)
b. The
Jew of Malta
(1589-90)
1. James VI (I) (1566 – 1625)
a. Basilikon
Doron (1599)
1. Ben Jonson (1572 – 1637)
a. Sejanus
(1605)
1. John Donne (1573 – 1631)
a. Biathanatos (1608)
b. Pseudo-Martyr
(1610)
c. Ignatius
His Conclave (1611)
d. Devotions
upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
e. Meditation
XVII
f. Sermon
XXVII (for
whom the bell tolls)
g. Death’s Duell, or, a
Consolation to the Soule
1. Philip Massinger (1583 –
1640)
a. The
Renegado (1630)
1. Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679)
a. Leviathan (1651)
1. John Winthrop (1588 – 1649)
a. From “A Modell of Christian
Charity”
1. King Charles I (1600 – 1649)
a. Eikon
Basilike (1649)
1. Beaumont and Fletcher
a. A
King and No King (1610)
Cross-listed with Seventeenth-Century
list
b. The
Maid’s Tragedy (1619)
Cross-listed with Seventeenth-Century
list
1. Sir Thomas Browne (1605 –
1682)
a. Religio
Medici Part
1 (1643)
b. Hydriotaphia,
Urn-Burial (1658)
1. Robert Daborne
a. A
Christian Turn’d Turk (1612)
2. John Milton (1608 – 1674)
a. Areopagitica
b. Samson
Agonistes Cross-listed with
Seventeenth-Century list
c. Eikonoklastes
e. Paradise
Lost Cross-listed with Seventeenth-Century list
f. Paradise
Regained Cross-listed with
Seventeenth-Century list
2. Lucy Hutchinson (1620 –
1675?)
a. On
the Principles of Christian Religion
b. On
Theology
2. Elizabeth Cary (1585 – 1639)
a. The
Tragedy of Mariom, the Fair Queen of Jewry (1613)
2. John Locke (1632 – 1704)
a. A
Letter Concerning Toleration (1689)
b. Two
Treatises of Government (1689)
c. The
Reasonableness of Christianity, as Delivered in the Scriptures (1695)
22. Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
a. Henry
IV part 1
b. Richard
III
c. Measure
for Measure
d. Merchant
of Venice
e. Sir
Thomas More with
Munday, Dekker, et al.
f. Macbeth
(1606)
g. Coriolanus
(1608)
h. Henry
VIII (1612)
i. Hamlet
(1600)
j. The
Taming of the Shrew
(1590)
Secondary:
1. Paula Backsheider – Spectacular Politics: Theatrical Power and
Mass Culture in Early Modern England (Chapter 1 “Charles II’s London
as National Theater”)
2.
Debora
Shuger – Political Theologies in
Shakespeare’s England
3.
Shakespeare and Early Modern
Political Thought
ed. David Armitage, Conal Condren, and Andrew Fitzmaurice
4.
Religion and Drama in Early
Modern England: The Performance of Religion on the Early Modern Stage
ed. Jane Hwang Degenhardt and Elizabeth Williamson
Early American
literature and ecocriticism Secondary
1. Native
American Culture/Myth/Legend:
a. “The
Origin Myth of Acoma”
b. Selections
from Popol Vuh
2. Sir
Walter Raleigh (1554 – 1618)
a. The Discovery of Guiana (1596)
3. Thomas
Harriot (1560 – 1621)
a. Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land
of Virginia (1588)
4. Francis
Bacon (1561-1626)
a. New Atlantis (1627) Cross-listed with Seventeenth-Century List
b. Novum Organum (1620) Cross-listed with Seventeenth-Century List
5. William
Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
a. The Tempest (1610) Cross-listed with Seventeenth-Century List
6. King
James VI & I (1566 – 1625)
a. Counterblaste to Tobacco (1604)
b. His Majesty’s Gracious Letter to the Earl of
Southampton…Commanding the Present Setting up of Silkworks and Planting of
Vines in Virginia (1622)
7. William
Strachey (1572 – 1621)
a. True Repertory of the Wrack (1625)
8. Samuel
Purchas (1577? – 1626)
a. Purchas His Pilgrimage: or Microcosmus
(1613)
9. Thomas
Morton (1579? – 1647?)
a. New English Canaan (1637)
1. John
Smith (1580 – 1631)
a. General History of Virginia (1624)
1. Richard
Ligon (1585? – 1662)
a. True and Exact History of the Island of
Barbados (1657)
1. William
Bradford (1590 – 1657)
a. History of Plymouth Plantation (1630)
1. Edward
Winslow (1595-1655)
a. Good News from New England (1622)
1. Edward
Johnson (1598 – 1672)
a. Wonder-Working Providence (1654)
1. John
Milton (1608 – 1674)
a. Paradise Lost (1667) Cross-listed with Seventeenth-Century List
b. Paradise Regained (1671) Cross-listed with Seventeenth-Century List
1. Anne
Bradstreet (1612 – 1672)
a. The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America (1650)
1. John
Dryden (1631 – 1700)
a. The Indian Queen (1664)
b. The Indian Emperor (1665)
1. Margaret
Cavendish (1632 – 1664)
a. Blazing World (1666) Cross-listed with Seventeenth-Century
List
1. Mary
Rowlandson (1635 – 1678?)
a. The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (1682)
2. Increase
Mather (1639 – 1723)
a. Kometographia: Or a discourse concerning
comets (1683)
b. A Discourse concerning Earthquakes (1706)
2. Aphra
Behn (1640 – 1689)
a. Oroonoko (1688)
b. The Widow Ranter (1689)
2. Maria
Sibylla Merian (1647 – 1717)
a. Metamorphosis insectorum Suirnamensium
(1705)
2. Sir
Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753)
a. Voyage to Jamaica (selections) (1725)
2. Cotton
Mather (1663 – 1728)
a. The Wonders of the Invisible World (1693)
b. The Short History of New England (1694)
c. Magnalia Christi Americana (1702)
(selections)
d. The
hatchets, to hew down the tree of sin, which bears the fruit of death. Or, The
laws, by which the magistrates are to punish offences, among the Indians, as
well as among the English (1705)
2. William
Byrd II (1674 – 1744)
a. History of the Dividing Line Between
Virginia and North Carolina (1728)
2. Mark
Catesby (1682 – 1749)
a. Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and
the Bahama Islands (1747)
2. John
Gay (1685 – 1732)
a. Polly (1729)
2. Jonathan
Edwards (1703 – 1758)
a. The Beauty of the World (1725)
b. Personal Narrative (1739)
2. George
Whitefield (1714 – 1770)
a. How
to Hear Sermons (1740)
b. A Journal of a Voyage from Gibraltar to
Georgia (1740) selections
c. Sermon:
“On Regeneration”
d. Sermon:
“Christians, Temples of the Living God”
3. James
Grainger (1721 – 1766)
a. The
Sugar-Cane (1764)
3. Samson
Occom (1723 – 1792)
a. Herbs and Roots (1750s)
3. Mercy
Otis Warren (1728 – 1814)
a. The Group (1775)
3. Louis
Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811)
a. Adventures in the Wilderness (1756-1760)
3. J.
Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735 – 1813)
a. Letters from an American Farmer (1782)
3. William
Bartram (1739 – 1823)
a. The Travels of William Bartram (1791)
3. Thomas
Jefferson (1743 – 1826)
a. Notes
on the State of Virginia (1781)
3. Philip
Freneau (1752 – 1832)
a. The
House of Night (1779)
b. On
the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country (1785)
c. The
Wild Honey Suckle (1786)
d. The
Indian Burying Ground (1795)
3. John
Marrant (1755 – 1791)
a. The Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John
Marrant (1785)
3. Charles
Brockden Brown (1771 – 1810)
a. Edgar Huntly (1799)
4. Phillis
Wheatley (1753 – 1784)
a. On
Being Brought from Africa to America (1773)
b. To
Maecenas (1773)
c. On
the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770 (1770)
d. Thoughts
on the Works of Providence (1773)
e. To
a Lady on her Remarkable Preservation in a Hurricane in North-Carolina (1773)
f. On
Imagination (1773)
g. A
Hymn to Morning (1773)
h. To
a Lady on the Death of her Husband (1773)
i. A
Funeral Poem on the Death of C.E. (1773)
j. To
a Lady on Coming to America with her Son, for the Recovery of her Health (1773)
4. Alexander
von Humboldt (1769 – 1859)
a. Personal Narrative of a Voyage to the
Equinoctial Regions (1799 – 1804)
4. Leonora
Sansay (1773 – 1821)
a. The Secret History, or, the Horrors of Santo
Domingo (1808)
4. James
Fenimore Cooper (1789 – 1851)
a. The Pioneers (1823)
Secondary:
1. Joseph
Roach Circum-Atlantic Performance: Cities
of the Dead
2. Elizabeth
Maddock Dillon New World Drama
3. Monique
Allewaert – Ariel’s Ecology
4. Laura
Dassow Walls Passage to Cosmos (early
chapters on Humboldt)
5. Cristobal
Silva Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology
of New England Narrative
6. Laurence
Buell The Environmental Imagination
7. Michael
Ziser Environmental Practice and Early
American Literature
8. Chris
Iannini Fatal Revolutions
9. Susan
Scott Parris – American Curiosity
1. Londa
Schiebinger Plants and Empire
1. Timothy
Sweet – American Georgics: Economy and
Environment in American Literature 1580 – 1864 (First three chapters)
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