ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Faculty of Humanities
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
The students will learn about the main movements, authors and works of the period covered in this course.
The students will learn how to analyze a text from any of the works in the syllabus by means of a functional approach that will relate formal and semantic aspects.
UNIT 1
The Rise of the Novel
Historical and Social Background
The Rise of a New Social Class: the Bourgeoisie
The Novel: Realism as a Method
Formal Features of the Novel
“Preface” to Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders (1922)
An Introduction to Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders.
Individualism, Mercantilism and the ideology of the rising Middle Class
Moll Flanders: A Picaresque Novel?
UNIT 2
The Satirical Tradition in the British Isles I
Form and Content
Formal Features of the Satire
Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
UNIT 3
The Literature of the Romantic Period
Historical, Social, and Ideological Background
The French Revolution
Kantian Idealism
Romantic Poetics
The First Generation of Romantic Writers: William Blake, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, William Wordsworth
William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794)
The Poetics of Blake’s collection
“Introduction” to Songs of Innocence, “Introduction” to Songs of Experience
William Blake: The Contrary States of the Human Soul
“The Lamb”/”The Tyger”
“Infant Joy”/”Infant Sorrow”, “The Sick Rose” “The Chimney Sweeper/”The Chimney Sweeper”
“London”
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Poetics of “Introduction” to Lyrical Ballads (1800)
William Wordsworth’s “To the Cuckoo”
John Keats & Percy Bysshe Shelley The Ode
John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”, “Ode to a Grecian Urn”
Gothic Narratives. Ideology of the Genre. Formal Features
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818)
Narrative Framework
Themes of the Novel
UNIT 4
The “Sentimental” Novel
Jane Austen’s Emma (1815)
Structure of the Novel
Emma Woodhouse’s Psychological Development
Narrators and Focalisers
UNIT 5
The Brontë Sisters
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847)
Narrative Genre
Narrative Framework
Mirrors and Reflections: Symmetry in the Novel
Narrators: Reliability and Distance
Major Themes of Novel
Imagery of Novel
UNIT 6
Realism in the Novel: Charles Dickens
Labour Movements, Trade Unions, and the Working Class
Charles Dickens’s Hard Times (1853)
Laissez-faire and Utilitarianism
Education and Philanthropy
Structure of Novel: Christian Values
BASIC READING::
- Browne, Alice, The Eighteenth-Century Feminist Mind, CUP, Cambridge, 1987.
- Flynn, Carol H., The Body in Swift and Defoe, CUP, Cambridge, 1990.
- Lonsdale, Roger (ed.), The Penguin History of English Literature: Dryden to Johnson, vol. 4, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1971.
- Morgan, Kenneth, The Oxford History of Britain, OUP, Oxford, 1984.
- Pirie, David (ed.), The Penguin History of English Literature: The Romantic Movement, vol. 5, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1994.
- Spacks, Patricia M., Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels, U. of Chicago P., Chicago, 1990.
- Watson, J. R., English Poetry of the Romantic Period 1789-1830, Longman, Londres, 1985.
- Watt, Ian, The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fileding, Chatto & Windus, Londres, 1957.
- Williams, Raymond, Culture and Society: 1780-1850, Longman, Londres, 1959.
- Williams, Raymond, The Country and the City, Penguin, Londres, 1973.
FURTHER READING:
NINETEENTH-CENTURY ROMANTIC AND SOCIAL NOVEL:
- Browne, Alice, The Eighteenth-Century Feminist Mind, CUP, Cambridge, 1987.
- Flynn, Carol H., The Body in Swift and Defoe, CUP, Cambridge, 1990.
- Lonsdale, Roger (ed.), The Penguin History of English Literature: Dryden to Johnson, vol. 4, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1971.
- Morgan, Kenneth, The Oxford History of Britain, OUP, Oxford, 1984.
- Pirie, David (ed.), The Penguin History of English Literature: The Romantic Movement, vol. 5, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1994.
- Spacks, Patricia M., Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels, U. of Chicago P., Chicago, 1990.
- Watson, J. R., English Poetry of the Romantic Period 1789-1830, Longman, Londres, 1985.
- Watt, Ian, The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fileding, Chatto & Windus, Londres, 1957.
- Williams, Raymond, Culture and Society: 1780-1850, Longman, Londres, 1959.
- Williams, Raymond, The Country and the City, Penguin, Londres, 1973.
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT:
- Abrams, M.H. (ed.), English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism, OUP, Oxford, 1960.
- Abrams, M. H. (ed.), The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism, Norton, Nova York, 1984.
- Adams, Hazard (ed.), Critical Essays on William Blake, G.K. Hall.Boston, 1991.
- Ameida, Hermione (ed.), Critical Essas on John Keats, G. K. Hall, Boston, 1990.
- Barth, Robert e John Mahoney (eds.), Coleridge, Keats and the Imagination: Romanticism and Adam's Drea, U. of Missouri P., Londres, 1989.
- Bloom, Harold (ed.), The Ringers of the Tower: Studies in Romantic Tradition, U. of Chicago P., Chicago, 1970.
GOTHIC NARRATIVE
- Baldick, Chris. In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth, Monstruosity and Nineteenth-Century Writing. Oxford: OUP, 1987.
- Botting, Fred. Frankenstein: Creation and Monstruosity. London: Reaktion Books, 1994
- ----- . Gothic. London: Routledge, 1996.
JANE AUSTEN E 'EMMA'
- Butler, Marilyn. 'Jane Austen and the War of Ideas'. Oxford.
EMILY BRONTË'S 'WUTHERING HEIGHTS':
- Barbeito Varela, José Manuel. Las Brontë y su mundo. Madrid: Síntesis, 2006.
- Chitman, Edward 2001. The Birth of Wuthering Heights. London: Palgrave
- Mitchell, Harley. Readings on Wuthering Heights. San Diego: Greenhaven P., 1999.
CHARLES DICKENS'S 'HARD TIMES':
-Lucas, John. Charles Dickens: The Major Novels. London: Penguin, 1992.
-Price, Martin. Charles Dickens: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 196
- Solving problems related to English Literature of the 18th and 19th centuries.
- Mastery of the skills used to analyze written texts .
For students studying this subject as part of the Spanish Language and Literature Degree program, the skills that they will be developing in class are:
BASIC & GENERAL
CB1 – Students should be able to demonstrate that they understand and possess knowledge in an area of study that deals with basic areas of knowledge from a secondary school level, that is normally a level that well it might be based on advanced textbooks, also includes certain aspects that imply understanding that comes from the latest findings in their field of study.
CB2 – Students should be able to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way, and possess the competence to demonstrate this by elaborating and defending arguments as well as by solving problems in their field of study.
CB3 – Students should have the capacity to put together and interpret relevant data (normally in their field of study) in order to give opinions that include a reflection about relevant topics of social, scientific and ethical topics.
CB4 – Students should be able to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to a specialized or un-specialized audience.
CB5 – Students should have developed the learning abilities necessary to begin post graduate study with a high level of autonomy.
CG1 – Understanding and acquisition of knowledge, scientific methods and analysis resources for (a) the advanced linguistic and literary study of Spanish and Spanish literature; (b) the elementary / intermediate study of a second language and its literature, of the Romance Languages, of General Linguistics, or of Literary Theory and Compared Literature.
CG7 – Command of oral and written expression in Spanish and in other languages, in various contexts.
CG9 – Ability to work collaboratively in multicultural and multilingual contexts.
SPECIFIC
CE3 – Possess basic / intermediate knowledge of the grammar, literature, and culture of a second language (B2 level), or in the Romances languages.
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LECTURES (Docencia Expositiva): 32 h. (2h/per week). Students will be introduced to theoretical concepts, authors, literary background and movements. Special emphasis will be placed on the social, political and historical contexts in which these works were written.
SEMINARS (Docencia Interactiva): 16 h. (1 h/per week). Students will be required to carry out specific tasks, as agreed upon in class, assigned by the professors in charge of this course.
TUTORIALS:3 h. During each one of the tutorial sessions, students will organize the tasks to be carried out in the previous seminar and will program the specific presentations that have been assigned to them. Moreover, in the tutorial sessions students should present any specific questions, doubts or concerns they have about the official program to the professors in charge of this course.
The same Assessment System will be applied to both first-chance and second-chance exams (May and July).
Students will be assessed by their active participation in all areas of this course: reading, classroom discussions, quizzes carried out in class, assignments, oral presentations, essays and tests.
FINAL COURSE MARK
(A) Students who regularly attend classes:
Active in-class Participation and Assigned Homework: 45%
Planning, Realization and Oral presentation of Final Project: 55%
(B) For those students who have special permission not to attend class, their grade will be based on the continuous evaluation of activities carried out in the Virtual Classroom and on the execution and presentation of their final project; hence, the percentages will be the same as those expressed above.
Students who need to redo this course:
Students who need to redo this course, and who have passed the continuous evaluation part of the course from the work done in class during the academic term may keep this part of their mark accordingly.
Estimated study time (readings, preparation for seminars, assigned activities and quiz revision, etc.) : 105 hours
Attendance to both lectures and seminar is COMPULSORY.
Reading prior to SEMINARS is REQUIRED.
PLEASE NOTE:
The following novels are compulsory and must be read before attending the interactive sessions:
- 'Moll Flanders' (D. Defoe)
- 'Gulliver's Travels' (J. Swift)
- 'Emma' (J. Austen)
- 'Wuthering Heights' (E. Brontë)
The reading selection of excerpts from works on the list is also compulsory.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: In the USC Rules for Academic Performance (DOG 21 from 21 July, 2011, Art. 16) presenting fraudulent academic work for any type of final evaluation is penalized with a “Fail” in the corresponding exam period. Turning in this type of work may also result in a disciplinary process for the offender (1). Hence, any detection of plagiarism in any of the academic work turned in for grading in this subject will be penalized with a “Fail” in this subject, even when the student has passing marks in other areas of evaluation. As “plagiarism” we understand when an academic paper includes any partial or complete copy, in literal form or not, of content, or ideas published in other academic papers or in any other type of published format (paper or Internet), and where the student does not cite the source from which the said content or idea was taken. Students who fail because of plagiarism will not be allowed to take part in the second chance exam period.
All of the activities which are turned in should include the bibliographical sources that were consulted, as per any established academic method of bibliographical (and digital) quotation.
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Jodee Anderson Mcguire
- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- Phone
- 982824713
- jo.anderson [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
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