Temas Subtemas
1. A literatura no século XVIII. 1.1.Introduction to realism. Periodicals and the Birth of the Novel in the English Language
1.2. Swift, Lady May Wortley Montagu and Defoe.
1.3. Charlotte Lennox
Readings: "The True-born Englishman", Swift´s Poems; "", and "The Female Quixote" (chapters).
2.A novela a principios do século XIX. A poesía romántica. 2.1.The Regency Period
2.2. Jane Austen
2.3. Romantic Poetry
Readings: "Pride and Prejudice", Selection of Poems.
3. A novela na metade e no final do século XIX. A época victoriana. Fin de siècle 3.1 Victorianism
3.2. Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell
3.3.The Brontës
3.4. George Eliot
3.5. The fin de siècle: the New Woman.
3.6. Joseph Conrad
Readings: "Wuthering Heights", "The Mill on the Floss". "Middlemarch" (chapters) "Hard Times", "The Secret Agent".