Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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4313157 Advanced English Studies | OT | 0 | 0 |
Apart from the general requirements for the MA admission, students taking this course should be interested in early modern literature. Basic notions will be introduced in the course so that students can engage in research in this area if they decide to do so.
This course traces throughout the eighteenth century what has come to be termed the ‘rise’ of the English Novel, offering both a chronological overview of the nature and concern of novelistic fiction during that century and complementing this with a critical evaluation of the many—sometimes conflictive—contemporary theories on the forces that gave shape to the growth of this now-dominating literary genre. Attention will also be given to the question of the canon, and how its construction, expectations and consequences have influenced and perhaps obscured a more balanced and open-minded understanding of writers conventionally seen as less central to the consolidation of the Novel, very particularly a number of women writers active in the last part of the century.
1. Introduction. Theoretical and Contextual Perspectives.
Late Restoration Drama (I).
Text: William Congrave. The Way of the World. Margaret Cavendish. The Blazing World (selections)
Selection of secondary sources
2. Late Restoration Drama.
Text: William Congrave. The Way of the World. Margaret Cavendish. The Blazing World (selections)
Selection of secondary sources
3. The Discourses of Virtue and the mid-18th Century Novel (I)
Text: Samuel Richardson: Pamela
Selection of secondary sources
4. The Discourses of Virtue and the mid-18th Century Novel (II)
Text: Samuel Richardson: Pamela
Selection of secondary sources
5. Feeling and Sentiment (I)
Text: Laurence Sterne: A Sentimental Journey
Selection of secondary sources
6. Feeling and Sentiment (II)
Text: Laurence Sterne: A Sentimental Journey
Selection of secondary sources
7. Gothic leanings (I)
Text: Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto
Selection of secondary sources
8. Gothic leanings (II)
Text: Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto
Selection of secondary sources
9. Women writers and the 18th century novelistic market (I)
Text: Fanny Burney: Evelina
Selection of secondary sources
10. Women writers and the 18th centurynovelistic market (II)
Selection of secondary sources
11. Women writers and the 18th century novelistic market (III)
Text: Elizabeth Inchbald: A Simple Story
Selection of secondary sources
12. Women writers and the 18th century novelistic market (IV)
Text: Elizabeth Inchbald: A Simple Story
Selection of secondary sources
Summary, Conclusions and Final Perspectives.
There will be a series of lectures to introduce theoretical basic concepts, class discussions on set readings, as well as practical cases and exercises.
The subject is run as a seminar and its sessions will be based on in-class discussions of the texts. There will also be presentations, an in-class exercise and several assignments which will be returned by the professor with comments and suggestions. We expect students to:
--Read all the texts (both primary and secondary sources)
--Participate in class discussions
--Prepare the activities properly, using bibliography and reliable sources.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Supervised Activities | 50 | 2 | 2, 1, 6, 8, 10 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Formative Activities | 15 | 0.6 | 2, 1, 6, 8, 10 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Autonomous Activities | 40 | 1.6 | 2, 1, 6, 8, 10 |
2 Papers 40% 10 hs
Class Debates 20% 20 hs
Final Paper 40% 15 hs
VERY IMPORTANT: Total or partial plagiary of any of the exercises will automatically be considered “fail” (0) for the plagiarized item. Plagiary is copying one or more sentences from unidentified sources, presenting it as original work (THIS INCLUDES COPYING PHRASES OR FRAGMENTS FROM THE INTERNET AND ADDING THEM WITHOUT MODIFICATION TO A TEXT WHICH IS PRESENTED AS ORIGINAL). Plagiarism is a serious offense. Students must learn to respect the intellectual property of others, identifying any source they may use, and take responsibility for the originality and authenticity of the texts they produce.
Re-assessment
Re-assessment for this subject requires a content-synthesis test, for which 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 equal to or higher than 3.5.
-The student must previously have passed 50% of the subject’s assessment requirements.
-The maximum grade than can be obtained through re-assessment is 7.0.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Class Debates | 20% | 5 | 0.2 | 2, 1, 6, 8, 7, 10 |
Final Paper | 40% | 20 | 0.8 | 2, 1, 3, 4, 9, 5, 6, 8, 7, 10 |
Paper 1 | 20% | 15 | 0.6 | 2, 1, 3, 4, 9, 5, 6, 8, 7, 10 |
Paper 2 | 20% | 5 | 0.2 | 2, 1, 3, 4, 9, 5, 6, 8, 7, 10 |
Some basic bibliography includes (please note that more extensive and specific bibliography will be provided throughout the course):
Armstrong, Nancy, Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. Oxford: OUP, 1987.
Eger, Elizabeth. Bluestockings: Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism. London: Palgrave, 2012.
Looser, Devoney. British Women Writers and the Writing of History. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Richetti, John. A History of Eighteenth-century British Literature. London: Blackwell, 2016.
Schofield, Mary Anne, and Cecelia Macheski. Fetter'd or Free?: British Women Novelists, 1986.
Schellenberg, Betty. The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain. London, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Spender, Dale. Mothers of the Novel. London: Pandora, 1987.
Todd, Janet. The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing and Fiction, 1660-1800. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
Uphaus, Robert W., ed. The Idea of the Novel in the Eighteenth Century. Michigan: Colleagues Press, 1988.
Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel, California: University of California Press, 2001 (1957).