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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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| English Literature (18th and 19th Centuries) |
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| Identifying Data | 2021/22 | |||||||||||||
| 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. Periodicals and the Birth of the Novel in the English Language 1.2. Swift, Defoe and Sterne. 1.3. Charlotte Lennox Readings: Robinson Crusoe, Swift´s Poems; Tristram Shandy, The Female Quixote (chapters). |
| 2. The novel in the early 19th century. Romantic Poetry. | 2.1.The Regency Period 2.2. Jane Austen 2.2. The Brontës 2.3. George Eliot 2.4. Romantic Poetry 2.5 Gothic Romance Readings: Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, The Mill on the Floss. Middlemarch (chapters). Selection of Poems. |
| 3. The novel in the mid- and late-19th century. High Victorianism. Fin de siècle. | 3.1 Victorianism 3.2. The Problem novel: Charles Dickens 3.3. The fin de siècle: the New Woman and decadentism. 3.4. Popular culture: Detective, mistery, adventure fiction. R.L. Stevenson, H.G. Wells, Rider Haggard Readings: Hard Times |
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