Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Grao en Español: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
Subjects |
English Literature 2 |
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Identifying Data | 2023/24 | |||||||||||||
Subject | English Literature 2 | Code | 613G01017 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Second | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
1. The 18th Century (the Enlightenment) | 1.1. Introduction. The rise of the novel: the culture of the time. Newspapers and periodicals. Transformations in 18th century England. The nature of satire: Swift. 1.2.- Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (full text), Moll Flanders. (extracts) 1.3.- Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels (full text) 1.4. Fielding (bits) 1.5. Sterne. Tristram Shandy (extracts). A Sentimental Journey(bits). 1.6. Others (bits from Burke, Walpole, Fielding, Alexander Pope, Richardson, Tobias Smollett, Goldsmith, etc.) |
2. English Romanticism and the Regency | 2.1 The 18th-century Gothic novel introduced. Walpole and Anne Radcliffe (bits) 2.2 The "domestic" novel". Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey 2.3 The poets: Wordsworth (poems), Keats (poems), Percy B. Shelley (poems), Byron (poems) and Coleridge. (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, full text). Women poets in the Romantic Period. 2.4. The Gothic heritage: Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley (full) 2.5. Late Romanticism: The Brontë sisters: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (full) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson. (full) |
3.- Victorian novel and culture. | 3.1 Introduction. Supernatural Nature and Science. realist novel, naturalist novel, crime, social melodrama, etc. 3.2 Dickens. Great Expectations (full text) |
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