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Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios
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  Literatura Inglesa 2
   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)
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