Universidad de Jaén

1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE SUBJECT 1.1. What is literature? 1.2. English literature vs.literature in English. 1.2. The Canon. 1.4. Theoretical issues in CriticalStudies. 2. RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURYLITERATURE 2.1. Social and HistoricalContext. 2.2 Restoration Literature(1660-1700). 2.3. Poetry in the Age ofReason. 2.4. Prose in the Age ofReason. 3. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1789-1832) 3.1. Social and HistoricalContext. 3.2. The Romantic Poets. 3.3. The Novel. 4. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1832-1890) 4.1. Social and historicalcontext. 4.2. The Victorian Poetry. 4.3. The Novel. LECTURAS OBLIGATORIAS: - "A Modest Proposal" (Swift). - "The Rape of the Lock" (Pope),canto 1, versos 120-147. -"Elegy Written in a CountryChurchyard" (Gray). - Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe), extracto capítulo11. - Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne), extractoscapítulos 1 y 2. - "Holy Thursday", en Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience (Blake). - Preface to Lyrical Ballads y The Prelude (Wordsworth), párrafos 1-22. - "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"(Coleridge), partes 1-4. -"England in 1819" (Shelley). - "Ode to the Nightingale"(Keats). - In Memoriam (secciones 2-7-119) (Tennyson). - A Christmas Carol (Dickens), extractos: "Marley's Ghost","The First of the Three Spiritis", "The Second of the ThreeSpirits" y "The Last of the Spirits". OBRAS PARA LECTURA Y ELABORACIÓN DE ENSAYO FINAL (A ESCOGER UNA): - Robinson Crusoe (1719), by Daniel Defoe. - Gulliver's Travels (1727), by Jonathan Swift. - Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740), by SamuelRichardson. - The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), by Ann Radcliffe. - Sense and Sensibility (1811), by Jane Austen. - Frankestein (1831), by Mary Shelley. - Wuthering Heights (1847), by Emily Bronte. - Jane Eyre (1848), by Charlotte Bronte. - David Copperfield (1850), by Charles Dickens. - The Woman in White (1860), by Wilkie Collins. - Alice in Wonderland (1865), by Lewis Carroll. - The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), by Oscar Wilde.

Apart from the specific approach to the different characteristics and relevant aspects defining each period within the syllabus (theoretical background), the student will have to work on the extracts selected for practice, as well as do a guided research on one of the books included in the compulsory Reading list, a pillar for their marks.

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Participation and active involvement of the students in both the theoretical and practical sessions will be appreciated (20% of the final mark). 2.Exam, comprising questions about the main authors and literary trends of the period and evaluating the students' capability tocritically analyze literary texts (15%). 3. Essay-like commentary on a book chosen by the student (65%).