Identifying Data 2023/24
Subject (*) English Literature (18th and 19th Centuries) Code 613G03036
Study programme
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios
Descriptors Cycle Period Year Type Credits
Graduate 1st four-month period
Fourth Obligatory 6
Language
English
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Letras
Coordinador
Lorenzo Modia, Maria Jesus
E-mail
maria.lorenzo.modia@udc.es
Lecturers
Lorenzo Modia, Maria Jesus
E-mail
maria.lorenzo.modia@udc.es
Web
General description Estudo panorámico da literatura inglesa dos séculos 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.
A3 Coñecer as correntes teóricas da lingüística e da ciencia literaria.
A6 Ter un dominio instrumental avanzado oral e escrito da lingua inglesa.
A7 Coñecer as literaturas en lingua galega, española e inglesa.
A8 Ter dominio instrumental oral e escrito dunha segunda lingua estranxeira.
A9 Elaborar textos orais e escritos de diferente tipo en lingua galega, española e inglesa.
A10 Ter capacidade para avaliar criticamente o estilo dun texto e para formular propostas alternativas e correccións.
A11 Ter capacidade para avaliar, analizar e sintetizar criticamente información especializada.
A15 Ser capaz de aplicar os coñecementos lingüísticos e literarios á práctica.
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.
B2 Manexar ferramentas, programas e aplicacións informáticas específicas.
B3 Adquirir capacidade de autoformación.
B4 Ser capaz de comunicarse de maneira efectiva en calquera contorno.
B5 Relacionar os coñecementos cos doutras áreas e disciplinas.
B6 Ter capacidade de organizar o traballo, planificar e xestionar o tempo e resolver problemas de forma efectiva.
B7 Ter capacidade de análise e síntese, de valorar criticamente o coñecemento e de exercer o pensamento crítico.
B8 Apreciar a diversidade.
B10 Comportarse con ética e responsabilidade social como cidadán/á e profesional.
C2 Dominar a expresión e a comprensión de forma oral e escrita dun idioma estranxeiro.
C4 Desenvolverse para o exercicio dunha cidadanía aberta, culta, crítica, comprometida, democrática e solidaria, capaz de analizar a realidade, diagnosticar problemas, formular e implantar solucións baseadas no coñecemento e orientadas ao ben común.

Learning aims
Learning outcomes Study programme competences
To be familiar with the evolution of English literature A1
A3
A6
A8
A9
A15
B1
B3
B7
B8
C2
C4
To learn how to use literary analysis techniques A1
A2
A3
A7
A10
A11
A15
A16
B6
B7
C2
To be familiar with various aspects of the history and culture of Great Britain A1
A2
A3
A7
A15
A17
B1
B2
B4
B10
C4
To be able to recognize and analyze ideology in texts A1
A2
A7
A17
B1
B3
B5
B8
B10
C4

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1. Literature in the 18th Century. 1.1.Introduction to realism. Periodicals and the Birth of the Novel in the English Language
1.2. Swift and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Defoe.
1.3. Charlotte Lennox
Readings: "The True-Born Englishman", Swift´s Poems; and "The Female Quixote" (chapters).
2. The novel in the early 19th century. Romantic Poetry. 2.1.The Regency Period
2.2. Jane Austen
2.3. Romantic Poetry
Readings: "Pride and Prejudice", Selection of Poems.
3. The novel in the mid- and late-19th century. High Victorianism. 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".

Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies Ordinary class hours Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Directed discussion A2 A3 A8 B4 B10 14 6 20
Supervised projects A1 A6 A7 B1 B2 B5 B6 B7 0 29 29
Guest lecture / keynote speech A9 A10 A11 21 21 42
Seminar A15 A16 A17 12 0 12
Workbook B3 B8 C2 C4 0 43 43
 
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
Directed discussion Classroom discussion of previously read texts.
Supervised projects Individual or small group projects.
Guest lecture / keynote speech Introduction to each of the units.
Seminar In-depth discussion of topics and readings.
Workbook The Complementary Bibliography section includes a list of mandatory literary readings (4 full novels + a selection of poems). Additional excerpts will be seen in class in order to widen the overall view of the period.

Personalized attention
Methodologies
Supervised projects
Description
Students, in small groups or individually, will prepare an oral presentation about different literary topics from the syllabus.

Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Guest lecture / keynote speech A9 A10 A11 One tests (on the official final exam date) to assess the students' understanding of the course's contents and skills practised in the large-, mid- and small- group sessions. A minimum of 5 out of 10 must be obtained in order for the rest of the course grades to be computed. 50
Supervised projects A1 A6 A7 B1 B2 B5 B6 B7 Individual and / or in small groups. Written and oral.
All relevant information will be provided at the beginning of the course in Moodle and in the classroom.
30
Directed discussion A2 A3 A8 B4 B10 Active and continued student participation will be taken into account.
20
 
Assessment comments

In the second opportunity, in July, students will have to write an essay about the texts studied (4-6 pages, 60% of the final grade) and the exam (40% of the final grade). Students who have submitted satisfactory work during the course will not be required to submit any additional work in the second opportunity.

Turnitin may be used to check the originality of work completed outside of the classroom, including wrong citations, plagiarism or any other type of academic fraud. Should this occur, penalties for plagiarism will be applied (Normas de avaliación, revisión e reclamación das cualificacións dos estudos de grao e mestrado universitario).

Students who do not show up at either of the tests will be marked "Absent" ("Non presentado") if they have not turned in more than 50% of the gradable activities.

Students officially registered as part time students and who have been granted permission not to attend clases (academic exemption), as stipulated in the regulations of this University, will be assessed in either of the opportunities according to the same criteria specified for the second opportunity.

Students sitting the December exam will be assessed according to the criteria specified for the July opportunity.

Diversity: This module can be adapted to students who need support for their particular situation (physical,visual, auditory, cognitive, learning process, or related to mental health). If necessary, students should contact the services available in UDC/in their school or faculty, or the Unidad de Atención ala Diversidad (ADI) at the beginning of each academic semester in the timeframe officially established (https://www.udc.es/cufie/adi/apoioalumnado/);alternatively, they can contact the ADI tutor in the Faculty of Philology at the following address: pat.filoloxia@udc.gal ).

According to rules and regulations in university teaching the gender perspective must be included in this subject (non sexist language will be used as well as bibliography by male and female authors. In class both male and female students will be encouraged to participate)

-Prejudices and sexist attitudes will be identified and modified by means of supporting values of respect and equality.

-Unequality gender situations must be detected and corrected.


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
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
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.
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
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
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
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

 

Complementary 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


Reading list: The True-Born Englishman. Pride and Prejudice. Wuthering Heights. Hard Times.

Selection of Poems


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
English Literature (20th and 21st Centuries)/613G03040
English Literature and Gender/613G03043

Other comments
Recommended: Introduction to Literary Studies 613G03005 English Literature 1 613G03010 English Literature(XX and XXI) 613G03040 English Literature and Gender 613G03043


(*)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.