Making of Modernity

author, name of work, year of publication

A. Behn - 1688

Ooronoko A. Behn -

1710

“A Description of a city shower” J. Swift -

1717

Rape of the lock A. Pope -

1719

Robinson Crusoe D. Defoe -

1736

a treatise on human nature D. Hume. -

1738

“London: A Poem, In Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal” S. Johnson -

1751

"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" T. Gray -

1759

The Theory of Moral Sentiments Adam Smith -

1773

"On Being Brought from Africa to America" P. Wheatly -

1776 (late)

The Declaration of Independence T. Jefferson -

1776 (early)

Common Sense T. Paine -

1785

A narrative of the lord’s wonderful dealings with John Marrant, a black. J. Marrant -

1789

The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The african. O. Equiano -

1790

“Letters written in France, in the summer of 1790” H. M. Williams -

1790

Reflections on the revoluition in France E. Burke -

1792

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman  Mary Wollstonecraft -

x 1796

“the eolian harp” samuel taylor coleridge

1797

On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because it was Frequented by a Lunatic C. Smith -

1798

“Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman” (Lyrical Ballads). wordsworth -

1798

“Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey” (Lyrical Ballads). wordsworth -

1794

London” (Songs of Experience). blake -

1794

“The Tyger” (Songs of Experience). blake -

1789

“The Chimney Sweeper” (Songs of Innocence)blake -

wordsworth - 1799-1850

The prelude

1814

“She Walks in Beauty”(Hebrew Melodies). Lord Byron

1814

passages from Waverley  Walter Scott -

1817

“Mont Blanc” (History of a Six Weeks' Tour). Percy Bysshe Shelley -

1818

Northanger Abbey jane austen -

1819

“Ode on a Grecian Urn” (Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems). John Keats,

1821

autobiography Jefferson -

1824

, “The Indian Bride” (l’Improvisatrice) Letitia Elizabeth Landon -

1827

“the maniac widow” Derozio -

1830

“So we’ll go no more a-roving” byron -

c. 1832

“Remembrances” John Clare,

1838

“the aboriginal mother” Dunlop -

1837

“the american scholar” Emerson -

1855-1892

“Song of myself” Whitman -

1823

The pioneers - James Fenimoore Cooper