Letteratura Inglese

In the 18th century with the revaluation of supernatural it acquires a positive mean in contrast with reason and rationality of the Enlightment.

Themes
The main themes of the author in this period are:
• Individual relation between Man and Nature
• Imagination as a way to escape from the real World
• Artist as an original crea

Shelley è contro il re e i principi e attacca la cultura del tempo.
Il re ( Giorgio III) muore nel 1819 e viene sostituito dai figli.
È contro la politica agricola perché la “CORN LAW” imponeva il pagamento dei dazi per il grano proveniente dall’America; gli inglesi morivano di fame ed erano costretti a comprare il grano inglese che comunque ave

• A growing interest in humble and everyday life.
• Great attention to the country.
• The rediscovery of the art and popular traditions of the Middle Ages (Gothic vogue: horrific, irrational, supernatural).
• A child was very pure, because he wasn’t still civilisation and he was closer to God.
• The Imagination was a way to express emot

IV. Sotto quegli scabri olmi, all’ombra di quel tasso, dove la zolla si solleva in molti tumuli che si sgretolano, ciascuno steso per sempre nella stretta cella , dormono i rudi progenitori del villaggio.
V. Il freddo richiamo del mattino profumato d’incenso, la rondine che cinguetta dal capanno di foglie, l’acuto suono del gallo o l’eco del corvo d

di stanche granate che cadevano lontane indietro.
Il GAS! IL GAS! Svelti ragazzi! - Come in estasi annasparono,
infilandosi appena in tempo i goffi elmetti;
ma ci fu uno che continuava a gridare e a inciampare
dimenandosi come in mezzo alle fiamme o alla calce...
Confusamente, attraverso l'oblò di vetro appannato e la densa luce verd

Plot
John Harker, a young lawyer, was sent in Transylvania by Mr Hawkins to sign a contract with Count Dracula, who lived in an isolated castle situated on a mountain.
Before he arrived at the castle, he stayed for a period in a small village situated under the mountain. In this village he noted a strange comportment of the villains, which

After Mina’s best friend Lucy came to visit her in the town of Whitby many strange things happened.First, there was a hreat storm, and then that night Mina found Lucy on a bench with something black with red, shining eyes bending over Lucy’s body.After that night on the bench, Lucy got increasingly ill. Arthur asked Dr Seward for help, and Dr Seward c

The novel deals with the theme of the double in human nature; in fact both good and evil are in each human being. In the story good Is represented by Dr Jekyll and evil by Mr Hyde. Their physical aspect reflects moral characteristics: Jekyll has always been virtues and so he is handsome, his body is well-proportioned and his hands are white and well-sho

CHRISTMAS CAROL
True Humanity
Scholar Michael Patrick Hearn, in The Annotated Christmas Carol (1976; New York: Norton, 2004), notes that Dickens was a Unitarian. Unitarian Christianity, in Dickens’ day, focused more on morality and ethics than on traditional theology. Dickens wrote in one of his letters, “I have always striven in my writings to

• Health: he suffered from pneumonia which would eventually lead to tuberculosis and to a premature death.
• Love: he had an intense emotional tie with his mother who influenced his love relationship; Jessie Chambers (Miriam in “Sons and Lovers”) encouraged him to write; Frieda von Richthofen (the German lover) they fled to Germany and later married