Identifying Data 2023/24
Subject (*) Literatura Inglesa 2 Code 613G03017
Study programme
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios
Descriptors Cycle Period Year Type Credits
Graduate 2nd four-month period
Second Obligatory 6
Language
English
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Filoloxía Inglesa
Letras
Coordinador
Gomez Blanco, Carlos Juan
E-mail
carlos.gomezb@udc.es
Lecturers
Alonso Giraldez, Jose Miguel
Clark Mitchell, David Mitchell
Gomez Blanco, Carlos Juan
E-mail
miguel.giraldez@udc.es
david.clark@udc.es
carlos.gomezb@udc.es
Web
General description Estudo panorámico da literatura inglesa dos seculos XVIII e XIX.

Study programme competencies
Code Study programme competences
A1 Coñecer e aplicar os métodos e as técnicas de análise lingüística e literaria.
A2 Saber analizar e comentar textos e discursos literarios e non literarios utilizando apropiadamente as técnicas de análise textual.
A7 Coñecer as literaturas en lingua galega, española e inglesa.
A8 Ter dominio instrumental oral e escrito dunha segunda lingua estranxeira.
A16 Ter un coñecemento avanzado das literaturas en lingua inglesa.
A17 Coñecer a historia e a cultura das comunidades anglófonas.
B1 Utilizar os recursos bibliográficos, as bases de datos e as ferramentas de busca de información.
B5 Relacionar os coñecementos cos doutras áreas e disciplinas.
B7 Ter capacidade de análise e síntese, de valorar criticamente o coñecemento e de exercer o pensamento crítico.
B8 Apreciar a diversidade.
C1 Expresarse correctamente, tanto de forma oral coma escrita, nas linguas oficiais da comunidade autónoma.

Learning aims
Learning outcomes Study programme competences
To understand aspects of the evolution of English literature. A1
A2
A7
A8
A16
A17
B5
B7
B8
Type A: Understanding the historical and cultural context of literary works. A17
To be able to recognise and analyse the ideological contens of texts. A1
A2
To understand the differing aspects of British society and culture. A1
A2
A7
A8
A16
A17
B1
B5
B7
B8
To learn and apply techniques of literary criticism. A2
B5
C1

Contents
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 (whole), Moll Flanders. (passages)
1.3.- Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels (whole 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.- Victorial 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)

Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies Ordinary class hours Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Practical test: A1 A8 8 10 18
Guest lecture / keynote speech A7 A17 B1 B5 B7 B8 C1 30 5 35
Seminar A1 A2 22 6 28
Mixed objective/subjective test A1 A2 A8 A16 B5 B7 C1 0 20 20
Workbook A16 0 45 45
 
Personalized attention 4 0 4
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies Description
Practical test: Written and oral exams and tests specifically on the course readings.
Guest lecture / keynote speech Explanation of topics.
Seminar In-depth discussion on topics. Interactive gropus to allow greater individual participation.
Mixed objective/subjective test Written exam with theoretical and practical contents,
Workbook Reading of texts supplied (fragments or complete works).

Personalized attention
Methodologies
Practical test:
Description
Oral and written, individual work based on texts and topics from this course.

Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Mixed objective/subjective test A1 A2 A8 A16 B5 B7 C1 Exams will include theoretical questions about the contents of the course and also some texts to be analysed by the students. The final examination (or mid-term examinations) will only be taken into account if the student obtains at least four points out of ten. In the event that the mark is lower than four, the student will have to retake the final exam or the mid-term exams. 50
Practical test: A1 A8 Written and oral exams and tests specifically on the course readings. 50
 
Assessment comments

Students must complete the proposed readings (see list of contents) always before they are analyzed or commented in class, so that interactivity and debate are possible. Likewise, the teacher may establish a test or a reading test, which will always be done in class, on each of the readings in progress, either at that time or later than those works had been analysed in the classroom. The readings are obligatory and all of them will be evaluated individually. The readings and their respective tests are part of the evaluation of the subject, in the Seminar section, as indicated above. Oral resentations, if it is the case, must be delivered in a timely manner before being presented orally, when applicable, along with the presentation (PPT). The teacher can ask students to present orally some of their works.

The written exam, which will consist of three parts, one for each teacher of the subject, will complete the evaluation of the subject. Students must obtain at least a 4 out of 10 in each of the parts iso that each grade can be taken into account in calculating the average grade.  If a 4 or more is not obtained in each of the parts, the student will have to pass that part of the exam in July.

In the July evaluation students will present some exercises or an essay on the texts studies (50%) and sit an examination (50%). Students who satisfactorily presented work throughout the course do not need to hand in any additional essay, unless otherwise indicated. Students who do not attend either of the two exams will be given the grade of "non presentado". Part-time and students with special dispensation must contat the teachers at the beginning of the course in order to plan each individual situation and the changes needed to compensate the percentages of the grade arising from directed discussion, reading and supervise projects.

Students who have been granted exemption, as specified in the university regulations, will be assessed according to the criteria applied in the July opportunity. Students who have been granted exemption can follow the course through the virtual campus of the UDC and maintain contact with the university professors via e-mail and Teams. 

Students sitting the December exam (final exam brought forward) will be assessed according to the criteria specified for the July opportunity.

Plagiarism

Written work may be tested through Turnitin in order to detect wrong citations, plagiarism or any other type of fraud. Should this occur, the rules for plagiarism will be applied. (Normas de avaliación, revisión e reclamación das cualificacións dos estudos de grao e mestrado universitario). Turnitin recognises papers previously turned in by other people (or the student him/herself) at this university or other universities, as well as other material found on Internet. 

Any plagiarized exercise or test will result in a failing grade (0) in this subject in accord with article 11, section 4b, of the  "Regulamento disciplinar do estudantado da UDC": “Cualificación de suspenso na convocatoria en que se cometa a falta e respecto da materia en que se cometese: o/a estudante será cualificado con “suspenso” (nota numérica 0) na convocatoria correspondente do curso académico, tanto se a comisión da falta se produce na primeira oportunidade como na segunda. Para isto, procederase a modificar a súa cualificación na acta de primeira oportunidade, se fose necesario”. 

In accordance with the various regulations governing university teaching, it is necessary to incorporate a gender perspective into this subject. This includes, among other measures, the use of non-sexist language, bibliographies that are inclusive from a gender perspective, and encouraging participation from all students in class, regardless of their gender.

-We will pay particular attention to identifying and addressing sexist prejudices and attitudes. We will actively work towards the modification of this environment and the promotion of values of respect and equality. 

-Our efforts will focus on detecting cases of gender discrimination and implementing appropriate actions to rectifysuch cases. 

Diversity and adaptation. The subject may be adapted to students who require the adoption of measures aimed at supporting diversity in accordance with the indications of the Diversity Attention Unit (https://www.udc.es/cufie/adi/), which must be contacted within the deadlines established by this unit. The advice of the faculty's ADI tutor is also available.


Sources of information
Basic Brantlinger, P. y Thesing, W. (eds) (2005). A Companion to the Victorian Novel . Oxford:Blackwell
Showalter, Elaine (1989). A Literature of their Own. From Brontë to Lessing. London: Routledge
Stevenson, Randall (1993). A Reader`s Guide to the 20th Century Novel in Britain. London: Harvester
Ruthven, K.K. (1984). Feminist Literary Studies. An Introduction. Cambridge: CUP
Ledger, Sally (1997). Fiction and Feminism at the fin de siècle. Manchester: Manchester UP
Álvarez Amorós et al (1998). Historia crítica de la novela inglesa . Salamanca:Ediciones Colegio de España
Johnson, Claudia (1990). Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel. University of Chicago Press
Lorenzo Modia, M.J. (1998). Literatura inglesa del siglo XVIII. A Coruña: Universidade da Coruña
Butler, Marilyn (1981). Rebels and Revolutionaries: English Literature and its Background, 1760-1830 . Londres y Oxford: O.U.P.
Gómez Blanco, Carlos (1993). Story and History: Jane Austen and the Politics of Fiction.. https://revistas.uvigo.es/index.php/AFIAL/article/view/109
Liggins, Emma; Maunder, A.; Robins, R. (eds) (2011). The British Short Story. London: Palgrave
Copeland, E. & Mc Master, J. (eds) (2001). The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen. Cambridge: CUP
Marcus,L. and Nicholls (2005). The Cambridge History of Twentieth Century English Literature. Cambridge: CUP
Head, Dominic (2002). The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction 1950-2000. Cambridge: CUP
Rogers, P. (ed.) (1978). The Eighteenth Century. The Context of English Literature. London: Methuen
Stone, Lawrence (1990). The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800. Harmondsworth: Penguin
Miles, Rosalind (1987). The Female Form. Women Writers and the Conquest of the Novel. London: Routledge
Damrosch , D y Dettmar, K (eds) (2009). The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2C: The Twentieth Century and Beyond (4th Edition). Londres: Longman
Gilbert, S. and Gubar, S. (2000). The Madwoman in the Attic. Yale UP
Chris, Carol T. et al (Eds) (2006). The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol 2. New York & London: Norton
Greenblatt, Stephen et al (eds) (2005). The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Victorian Age. New York: Norton
Thomson, D. (1981). The Pelican History of England in the Twentieth Century. Harmondsworth: Penguin
Spencer, Jane (1986). The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen. Oxford: Blackwell
Sanders, Andrew (1994). The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford: Clarendon
Todd, Janet (1992). The Sign of Angellica. Women, Writing and Fiction 1600-1800. Columbia UP
Wollstonecraft, Mary (2004). Vindicacion dos dereitos da muller. Santiago de Compostela: Sotelo Blanco

List of readings (most of them will be excerpts from the novels and also poems).


The 18th century

Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe. (full novel)

Jonathan Swift Gulliver`s Travels, (full novel)

Other primary sources: fragments from novels or poetry by Defoe, Swift, Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Goldsmith etc. 

Jane Austen. Northanger Abbey,  (full novel)


The 19th century

 

Romantic Poets (Poems by Keats, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron e Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner). Women poets (poems). 

Frankenstein, de Mary Shelley. (full novel)

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations

Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights.

Robert Louis Stevenson: The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 

Complementary Pyckett, Lynn (1995). Engendering Fictions. The English Novel in the Early 20th Century. London: Arnold
Eagleton, Mary (1998). Feminist Literary Criticism. London: Longman
Todd, Janet (1988). Feminist Literary History. London: Polity Press
Hanson, Clare (1987). Short Stories, Short Fiction 1880-1980. London: MacMillan
Bell, Michael (1980). The Context of English Literature. London: Methuen


Recommendations
Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously

Subjects that continue the syllabus
Introdución aos Estudos Literarios/613G03005
Literatura Inglesa 1/613G03010

Other comments


(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.