Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
Subjects |
English Literature (18th and 19th Centuries) |
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Identifying Data | 2018/19 | |||||||||||||
Subject | English Literature (18th and 19th Centuries) | Code | 613G03036 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Fourth | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
1. The Novel in the 18th Century. | 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. |
2. The novel in the 19th century.Poetry. | 2.1.The Regency Period.Jane Austen 2.2. Maria Edgeworth. 2.2. The Brontës. 2.3. George Eliot. Readings: Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Villette, The Mill on the Floss.Middlemarch (chapters). 2.4.Poetry. Characteristics. 2.5 Gothic Romance. |
3. The novel in the late 19th century. High Victorianism. 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: Short fiction by George Egerton, George Gissing, Sarah Grand. |
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