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| The following list is work in progress. To be added: a list of [[Titles by Topics: Reading List II]].
| | *[https://uol.de/fileadmin/user_upload/anglistik/download/BM7/materials/2019_10_10_Lektuereliste_Anglistik_Oldenburg.pdf General Reading List: British and Anglophone Literatures] |
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| ==Before 1450==
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| * Chaucer, ''Canterbury Tales'' (1386-1400)
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| '''plus one of the following'''
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| * Beowulf (in modern translation)
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| * ''Sir Gawayn and the Green Night''
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| * Mandeville; ''Travels'' (1370)
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| ==1450 - 1499==
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| * Malory, ''Le Morte Darthur'' (London William Caxton, 1485).
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| '''plus one of the following'''
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| * Sir John Mandeville, ''Travels'' (early printed edition)
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| ==1500 - 1549==
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| *Thomas Morus, ''Utopia'' (1515)
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| '''plus one of the following'''
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| ==1550 - 1599==
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| *Thomas Kyd, ''The Spanish Tragedie: or, Hieronimo is Mad Againe'' (c. 1590).
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| *Christopher Marlowe, ''The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is a play by Christopher Marlowe'' (1594 [published in 1604]).
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| '''plus one of the following'''
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| ==1600 - 1649==
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| *William Shakespeare, ''Anthony and Cleopatra'' (c. 1607 [published in 1623]).
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| '''plus one of the following'''
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| *John Fletcher, ''The Wild Goose Chase'' (c.1621 [published in 1652]).
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| ==1650 - 1699==
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| *John Bunyan, ''The Pilgrim's Progress'' (1678).
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| *Aphra Behn, ''Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister'' (1684).
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| '''plus one of the following'''
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| *Richard Head, ''The English Rogue'' vol.1 (1665).
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| *William Congreve, ''The Country Wife'' (1675).
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| *John Milton, ''Paradise Lost'' (1667).
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| *John Donne - Selected Poems
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| ==1700 - 1749==
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| *Daniel Defoe, ''Robinson Crusoe'' (1719).
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| *Samuel Richardson, ''Pamela'' (1740).
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| '''plus one of the following'''
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| *Eliza Haywood, ''Love in Excess'' (1719-1720).
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| *Richard Steele, ''The Conscious Lovers'' (1722).
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| *Jonathan Swift, ''A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick'' (1729).
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| *Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733).
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| *Alexander Pope, ''Essay on Man'' (1734).
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| *John Cleland, ''Fanny Hill'' (1748).
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| ==1750 - 1799==
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| *Laurence Sterne, ''A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy'' (1768).
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| *James McPherson, ''Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem [...] composed by Ossian [...], translated from the Gaelic Language'' (1761).
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| '''plus one of the following'''
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| ==1800 - 1849==
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| *Mary Shelley, ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1819).
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| *Charles Dickens, ''Oliver Twist'' (1838).
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| '''plus one of the following'''
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| *Walter Scott, ''Waverley'' (1814).
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| *James Fenimore Cooper, ''The Last of the Mohicans'' (1826).
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| *Mary Shelley, ''The Last Man'' (1828).
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| *Jane Austen, ''Pride and Prejudice'' (1813).
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| *Edgar Allan Poe, ''Tales of Mystery and Imagination'' (?)
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| ==1850 - 1899==
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| *Henry David Thoreau, ''Walden; or, Life in the Woods'' (1854).
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| *Oscar Wilde, ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (1890, revised edition: 1891)
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| *H. G. Wells, ''The Time Machine'' (1895).
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| '''plus one of the following'''
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| *Herman Melville, ''Moby-Dick'' (1851).
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| *Harriet Beecher Stowe, ''Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly'' (1852).
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| *Walt Whitman, ''Leaves of Grass'' (1855).
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| *George Eliot, ''Middlemarch'' (1871-72).
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| *Mark Twain, ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876).
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| *Robert Louis Stevenson, ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' (1886).
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| *Mark Twain, ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' (1889).
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| *Edward Bellamy, ''Looking Backward: 2000-1887'' (1888).
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| *Oscar Wilde, ''The Importance of Being Ernest'' (1895).
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| ==1900 - 1949==
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| *T.S. Eliot, ''The Waste Land'' (1922).
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| *Ernest Hemingway, "Hills like White Elephants" and "The Killers" from ''Men Without Women'' (1927).
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| *George Orwell, ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' (1949).
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| '''plus one of the following'''
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| *D. H. Lawrence, ''The Rainbow'' (1915).
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| *James Joyce, ''Ulysses'' (1922).
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| *John Dos Passos, ''U.S.A.'' trilogy, comprising: ''The 42nd Parallel'' (1930), ''Nineteen Nineteen'' (1932), and ''The Big Money'' (1936).
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| *Virginia Woolf, ''Mrs Dalloway'' (1925).
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| *Aldous Huxley, ''Brave New World'' (1932).
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| ==1950 - 1999==
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| *Samuel Beckett, ''Waiting for Godot'' [originally written in 1948/49 under the title ''En attendant Godot''] (1952).
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| *David and Janet Peoples [authors], Terry Gilliam [director], ''Twelve Monkeys'' [movie] (1995).
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| '''plus one of the following'''
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| *Vladimir Nabokov, ''Lolita'' (1955).
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| *Salman Rushdie, ''Satanic Verses'' (1988).
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| ==2000 - Today==
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