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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Grao en Galego e Portugués: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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| Literatura Inglesa 2 |
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| Identifying Data | 2021/22 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Literatura Inglesa 2 | Code | 613G02017 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Second | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| 1. The English novel in the 18th century. | 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: The tale of a tub. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders. (passages) 1.2.- Jonathan Swift. Gulliver Travels (The voyage to Lilliput). 1.3.-Samuel Johnson in context. (The story of Rasselas, Life of the English poets: passages). 1.4. Stern. Tristran Shandy (passages). A sentimental journey (passages). 1.5. Other relevant 18th century authors (passages from the works, where appropriate). For example, Burke, Walpole, Fielding, Alexander Pope, Richardson, Tobias Smollett, etc. |
| 2. English Romanticism | 2.1 Introduction. Romantic writers. 2.2 Poetry: Wordsworth (poems), Keats (poems) and Coleridge. (The Rime of the ancient mariner, full poem). 2.3 The Brontës: Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (full novel) 2.4. Introduction to the Gothic novel. 2.5. Novel: Frankenstein Mary Shelley (full novel) |
| 3.- Victorian Novel and Culture | 3.1 Introduction. Supernatural Nature and Science. realist novel, naturalist novel, crime, social melodrama, etc. 3.2 Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (full text) 3.3 Dickens. Great Expectations (full text) 3.4. Carroll: Alice in Wonderland (excerpts). |
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