Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500245 English Studies | OB | 2 | 2 |
2501902 English and Catalan | OB | 2 | 2 |
2501907 English and Classics | OB | 2 | 2 |
2501910 English and Spanish | OB | 2 | 2 |
2501913 English and French | OB | 2 | 2 |
In order to take this subject, it is recommended that you should previously have taken "Literatura Anglesa del s. XX" (C20 English Literature), a first-year subject in the Degree of English Studies, and “Literatura Victoriana” (Victorian Literature) in the first semester of the second year of study for this degree.
It is also recommended that you should at all times keep in mind the content taught in the first-year subject “Història i Cultura de les Illes Britàniques” (The History and Culture of the British Isles).
An initial level of English of between C1 (Advanced) and C2 (Proficiency) of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is required for this subject. With C1, students can understand a broad range of extended and complex texts, and recognise the implicit meaning of such texts; express themselves with fluency and spontaneity without having to evidently search for words or expressions sense; use the language in a flexible and efficient way for social, academic and professional purposes; produce clear, well-structured and detailed texts on complex subjects, and demonstrate a controlled use of organizational structures, connectors and mechanisms of coherence. With C2, students can understand practically anything that they read or hear without effort; summarise information deriving from diverse written or spoken sources; reconstruct facts and arguments, and present these in a coherent fashion; express themselves spontaneously, with fluency and precision, distinguishing subtle nuances of meanings even in the most complex of situations.
Literatura del Romanticisme Anglès (British Romanticism) provides an introduction both to English poetry produced during the period of Romanticism in the UK (c.1780 to c.1830) and to representative works of English novelistic fiction written in the same period. The subject involves the reading, analysis, debate and interpretation of the selected works. The academic preparation deriving from this subject is essential for all subsequent courses in this degree relating to English Literature in the sense that the principal aim of this subject is to prepare students to be competent and effective readers.
On successfully completing Literatura del Romanticisme Anglès, students will be able to:
• Demonstrate a good level of reading knowledge as regards the key literary works of English Romanticism
• Produce basic literary criticism through essays and presentations.
• Use the resources of any university library relating to material on the literature of the English Romanticism.
• Express an informed opinion on the literary texts studied throughout this course.
UNIT 1: First-Generation Romantic Poets (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge)
UNIT 2: Second-Generation Romantic Poets (Byron, Shelley, Keats)
UNIT 3: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
UNIT 4: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
1 ECTS credit = 25 teaching hours > 6 credits = 150 hours
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
In-class reading and debate | 15 | 0.6 | 7, 15, 16 |
Individual study | 25 | 1 | 8, 9, 10, 13 |
Lectures | 30 | 1.2 | 5, 13, 16 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Commentary writing | 25 | 1 | 3, 4, 10, 15, 14, 11, 17 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Individual reading | 55 | 2.2 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 13 |
Assessment is based on the following:
With the exception of the essay-proposal submission, all definitive assessment dates will be published in the class calendar at the start of the course.
The critical commentary will require students to write a critical appreciation (350-500 words) of (i) a first-generation and (ii) a second-generation Romantic poem. Alternatively, one of these commentaries may be replaced by a translation The alternative translation (into Catalan or Spanish) will be of a short poem—typically of sonnet-like length—from the poems studied in the first two units.
The short writing activity (Shelley) requires a text of 500-1000 word that provides a personal and less formal view by the student on this novel (specific task to be confirmed).
The essay on Austen is a text of 1000 words (approx.), duly supported by cited critical sources (a minimum of three); its bibliography must be correctly formatted. The topic is chosen from a list of possible questions. An abstract proposal must be submitted before writing the final paper. This must be correctly formatted and structured, and coherently argued.
Grades awarded for certain assessment activities may, with thelecturer’s approval, be improved if the student records brief related video content for the department’s YouTube channel. Thiswill be confirmed in class during the course.
ALL OBLIGATORY READING MUST BE DULY CARRIED OUT. Any indication that a student has not diligently completed the course reading may negatively affect final assessment.
Assessment is continuous; level of English will be taken into account in all written work and for the final-assessment grade.
All assessment activities are OBLIGATORY; failure to submit any assignment may result in a “Not Assessable” as the course-final grade (please see “Reassessment”).
Procedure for reviewing submitted work:
All students have the right to a personalised tutorial (in the lecturer’s office) in order to review their submitted work. If requested by the student, this must take place within two weeks of the activity in question. However, students lose the right to this review if they do not collect this work within the two-week period. At the time of each activity, the lecturer will inform the class (by Moodle) of the procedure and dates of the review process.
Reassessment:
Reassessment for this subject requires a content-synthesis exam (date confirmed during the course), for which all the following conditions are applicable:
• The student must previously have submitted a minimum of two-thirds of the course-assessment items.
• The student must previously have obtained an average overall grade of 3.5. or higher.
• The maximum grade than can be obtained through reassessment is 5.0.
Reassessment is available ONLY to students who have failed initial assessment; it is NOT available to students who have passed but wish to improve their final grade.
On presentation of a doctor's note, students may be given the chance to do the reassessment exam ona date andat atime arranged with the lecturer.
Plagiarism:
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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1. Take-home critical commentary/translation of first- and second-generation Romantic poetry | 25% | 0 | 0 | 2, 3, 4, 8, 10, 15, 12, 6, 13, 11, 17 |
2. Short take-home writing assignment on Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" | 20% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 7, 3, 4, 9, 10, 15, 12, 6, 13, 14, 11, 17 |
3. Essay on Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" | 45% | 0 | 0 | 1, 7, 3, 4, 9, 10, 15, 12, 13, 14, 11, 17 |
4. Participation in class discussion and debates | 10% | 0 | 0 | 10, 15, 12, 6, 5, 16, 17 |
UNITS 1-2 (Romantic Poetry):
Abrams, M. H. (ed.), The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume 2, Norton & Company, 1986.
Webs
UNIT 3 (Mary Shelley): Frankenstein. (Oxford University Press, 2008 [1818], Ed. M. K. Joseph). http://bit.ly/FKNSTN.
UNIT 4: (Jane Austen). Pride and Prejudice. (Oxford University Press, 2008 [1813], Ed. James Kinsley). http://bit.ly/PR_PR.
All texts read on this course can be found in electronic format on the Digital Bibliography for Romanticism through the following link: http://blogs.uab.cat/romanticismbibliography
Other Recommened Texts
Annotated Anthologies of Romantic Literature
Kermode, Frank et. al. (eds.), The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, volume II. “1800 to the Present”, OUP, 1973.
Martin, Brian (ed.), “The Nineteenth Century (1798-1900)”, Macmillan Anthologies of English Literature, volume4, Macmillan, 1989.
Histories of English Literature
Baugh, Albert C. et al, A Literary History of England, 1967.
Ford, Boris (ed.), From Blake to Byron, the New Pelican Guide to English Literature, volume 5, Penguin Books, 1982.
Sanders, Andrew, The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Clarendon Press, 1994.
Contexts
Briggs, Asa, A Social History of England, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994.
Butler, Marilyn, Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries, OUP, 1981.
Furet, François (ed.), El Hombre Romántico, Alianza Editorial, 1995.
Hobsbawm, Eric, The Age of Revolution, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972.
Morgan, Kenneth O. (ed.), The Oxford History of Britain, OUP, 1984.
Paz, Octavio, Los Hijos del Limo, Seix Barral, 1987.
Criticism
Abrams. M.H. (ed.), English Romantic Poets. Modern Essays in Criticism, OUP, London, 1975.
Bloom, Harold, The Visionary Company, Cornell University Press, 1971.
Frye, Northrop, Fearful Symmetry. A Study of William Blake, Princeton University Press, 1969.
Jones, AlunR.and Tydeman, William (eds.), Coleridge: The Ancient Mariner and Other Poems, Casebook Series, Macmillan, 1990.
———. Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads,Casebook Series, Macmillan, 1988.
Kraft, Elizabeth. "Anna Letitia Barbauld's 'Washing-Day' andthe Montgolfier Balloon."Literature and History 4.2 (1995): 25-41.
"Observations on Female Literature in General, Including Some Particulars Relating to Mrs. Montagu and Mrs. Barbauld." The Westminster Magazine (June 1776): 283-285.
Vargo, Lisa. "TheCase of Anna Laetitia Barbauld's "To Mr C[olerid]ge." The Charles Lamb Bulletin New Series No. 102 (April 1998): 55-63.
Watson, J. R., English Poetry of the Romantic Period 1789-1830, Longman Literature in English Series, Longman, 1992.
Wu, Duncan (ed.), A Companion to Romanticism, Blackwell, 1998.
Jane Austen: Selected Biographies & Critical Studies
Shields, Carol. Jane Austen. London: Phoenix, 2001.
Spence, Jon. Becoming Jane Austen: A Life. London and New York: Hambledon and London, 2003.
Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen: A Life. (Revised & Updated Edition). London: Penguin, 2000.
Butler, Marilyn. Jane Austen and the War of Ideas. (1987 edition with a revised introduction). Oxford, UK: Oxford UP, 1987.
Copeland, Edward and McMaster, Juliet (Eds). The CambridgeCompanion to Jane Austen. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1997.
Gard, Roger. Jane Austen’s Novels: The Art of Clarity. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1992.
Tanner, Tony. Jane Austen. Hampshire & London: Macmillan Education LTD,1986.
Historical Context (History, Society, Politics, Religion and Literary Traditions)
Copeland, Edward.“Money”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen.Copeland, Edward, and McMaster, Juliet (Eds). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1997.
———. Women Writing about Money. Women’s Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1995
Grundy, Isobel. “Jane Austen and Literary Traditions”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen. Copeland, Edward and McMaster, Juliet (Eds). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1997.
Kelly, Garry. English Fictionof the Romantic Period, 1789-1830. London & New York: Longman, 1989.
———. “Religion and Politics”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen. Copeland, Edward, and McMaster, Juliet (Eds). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1997.
———. “Romantic Fiction”. Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. Stuart Curran (Ed). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1993.
Pool, Daniel. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Sales, Roger. Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England. London and New York: Routledge, 1994.