The course is designed to enable students to acquire hermeneutic skills and to develop critical viewpoints.
The course is divided into 4 small parts preceded by a brief introduction on critical theories.
Introduction:
Types of Literature -
Timeline -

Section 1: "The Elizabethan World Order,"
The origins of drama; -
Elizabethan theatre;-
Shakespeare inventor of the human;
Fate and free will;
Shahespeare: Julius Caesar
C. Marlowe: Doctor Faustus (English-Italian edition)

Section 2: "Enlightenment or Romantic?"
Humanitarianism
Nature
Enlightenment or Sensibility

Section 3:"Theoretical Approaches to Women Writings".
Mary Wollstonecraft: Vindication of the Rights of women; (passi tratti dall'opera)
Mary Wollstonecraft: Maria, or the wrongs of women.
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

Section 4: "Economic Thought and Literary and Linguistic Matters in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations"
This section seeks to investigate the relationship between thought and matter by focusing on economic thought and literary and linguistic matters in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations starting from the formal similarities between metaphorization (which characterizes all language and literature) and economic representation and exchange.
The argument of this section is not that money is talked about in particular works of literature (which is certainly the case), but that money talks in and through discourse in general: language, texts, social structures, and cultural relationships can be construed in the dynamic terms made available by the metaphor of economy, and, more specifically, the economy of metaphor.