Temas Subtemas
1. A novela no século XVIII. 1.1.Introduction to realism. Narrative technique.
1.2 The Birth of the Novel in the English Language. Periodicals
1.2. Swift, Defoe and Sterne.
1.3. Charlotte Lennox
Readings: Robinson Crusoe, Swift´s Poems; Tristram Shandy, The Female Quixote (chapters).
2.A novela no século XIX (I). Poesía. 2.1.The Regency Period.Jane Austen
2.2. Maria Edgeworth.
2.2. The Brontës.
2.3. George Eliot.
2.4.Poetry. Characteristics.
2.5 Gothic Romance.
Readings: Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights; Villette, The Mill on the Floss. Middlemarch (chapters). Selection of Poems.
3.A novela no século XIX(II). Época victoriana.Fin de siècle 3.1 Introduction to Victorianism. Context.
3.2. Charles Dickens. Hard Times
3.3. The Problem novel.
3.4. The fin de siècle:The New Woman.Decadentism.
3.5. Popular culture. Detective, mistery, adventure fiction. R.L. Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Rider Haggard.
3.6. Drama.
Readings: Hard Times. Excerpts by H. G. Wells, Rider Haggard.