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LITERATURAINGLESAII:ILUSTRACIN,ROMANTICISMOYPOCAVICTORIANA
1.- WORK PLAN
Literatura Inglesa II: Ilustracin, Romanticismo y poca Victoriana is divided into SEVEN STUDY UNITS (see
TABLE 1 below), each one covering between two and three weeks. In general terms, the units follow a
chronological order. Successful completion of Literatura Inglesa II will give you 10 ECTS, or the equivalent
of 250 study hours spread over the whole academic year.
Each unit covers texts by critical and literary authors included in the Norton Anthology of English Literature,
vols. I & II, together with three separate novels (there being two other novels suggested as optional reading),
as well as selected chapters from the course text book, English Literature in Context. All texts are explored
through related exercises or activities. These activities can be used in tutorials, group discussions (face-toface or online) or for the purposes of self-assessment. The curso virtual will provide you with the answers.
Each Unit will be organized as follows:
Ability to analyse introductory and theoretical texts and answer questions on them in English
Ability to read/analyse literary texts in English from differing critical and cultural perspectives
Ability to write in English about literary texts from differing critical and cultural perspectives
General familiarity with concepts and vocabulary in English associated with critical reading and commentary
TABLES 1 & 2 below give you a breakdown of specific learning outcomes and activities. A suggested plan for
distributing and managing your time is also included (the February exam period is not taken into
consideration). Study hours devoted to the various activities will necessarily vary depending on the length and
difficulty of the reading material, though you should aim to keep to the number of hours indicated for each
entire unit.
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TABLE 1
UNIT NUMBER
AND TITLE
1
The Turn of the Century: From
Comedy to Satire (1660-1780)
2
The Rise of the Novel:
Literature and Socialization
3
Pre-Romantic and Gothic
Echoes/Contributions:
Imagination and Improbability
4
Women Novelists and the
Transformation of Fiction:
Feminizing Culture
LEARNING OUTCOMES
SPECIFIC TO EACH UNIT
Demarcating satire as a literary figure, genre or
mode.
Distinguishing how satire is used in verse, prose
and drama.
Connecting the use of satire with a specific political /
social situation.
Identifying the defining traits of two important
genres: the satirical pamphlet and the ballad opera.
Becoming aware of the importance of journalism in
18th century England.
Realising the weight of classical references in 18th
century English literature.
Learning about the social context in which the
modern English novel appeared.
Recognising how the trend of sensibility influenced
18th century fiction.
Judging Defoes Moll Flanders as a good example
of the early English novel.
Demarcating the Gothic as a literary genre or mode.
Establising connections between Gothic fiction and
Graveyard Poetry.
Comparing Grays Elegy with neoclassical poetic
models.
Understanding why poets like Gray and Thomson
are considered pre-romantic.
Considering whether Shelleys Frankenstein is the
culmination of the Gothic in fiction.
Viewing the Gothic as an antecedent of
Romanticism.
Identifying the general characteristics and main
themes of Romantic fiction or romance.
Becoming familiar with certain 18th / 19th century
narrative texts that reflect the social situation of
women.
Studying how women novelists make their voices
heard and vindicate their rights through fiction in the
early 19th century, in England.
Examining the most relevant aspects of Jane
Austens Pride and Prejudice: characterisation, irony
and social satire.
Discussing why Elizabeth Bennet is a modern
heroine.
FINISH
UNIT BY
End of
October
approx.
End of
November
approx.
Mid
December
approx.
End of
January
approx.
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5
Poetry in an Age of
Revolution. Romanticism
(1780-1832).
6
The Victorian Age
(1832-1901):
The Victorian Novel
7
The Victorian Age
(1832-1901):
Victorian Poetry
End of March
approx.
End of April
approx.
Mid May
approx.
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TABLE 2
SECTIONS COMMON
TO UNITS 1-10
APPROXIMATE STUDY
HOURS NEEDED
A) Reading introductory
and theoretical texts
4 hours
B) Self-assessment
exercises (on introductory
and theoretical texts)
3 hours
D) Self-assessment
exercises (on primary
texts)
3 hours
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LITERARY TEXTS
Here you will be asked to
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read the texts actively, establishing connections with other readings, taking notes, making sure
that you have acquired a clear understanding of them;
answer questions on the texts literary devices, figurative language, formal aspects;
The Gua de Estudio, parts I and II (available through the UNED web site and the curso virtual
aLF respectively).
The commitment to use your own wordswhen completing the self-assessment exercises
and in the examand avoid plagiarism.
LITERARY TEXTS
The Norton Anthology
(vol. 1, 9th ed.)
Introduction to the 18th
century (pp. 2177-2205)
Introductions to Jonathan
Swift (pp. 2464-2466).
Introduction to Addison
and Steele (pp. 26392641).
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Introductions to
Alexander Pope (pp. 26652669) and to The Rape of
the Lock (pp. 2685-2686).
Introduction to John Gay
(pp. 2787-2788)
Reading guides for The Rape of the Lock and The Beggars Opera will be provided in the curso virtual aLF.
We recommend that you do the self-assessment exercises in the curso virtual aLF.
UNIT 2. THE RISE OF THE NOVEL: LITERATURE AND SOCIALIZATION
INTRODUCTORY AND THEORETICAL TEXTS
English Literature
The Norton Anthology (vol. 1, 9th ed.)
in Context
Revise the information
Introduction to Aphra Behn (pp. 2307on the origins of the
2309).
English novel (pp. 255 Introductions to Samuel Johnson (pp.
259).
2841-2843) and Rasselas (p. 2856 Revise the section on
2857).
Samuel Johnsons
Dictionary (pp. 277-279).
Revise the section on
Aphra Behns Oroonoko
(pp. 281-285).
Revise the section on
Daniel Defoes Robinson
Crusoe (pp. 285-290).
Revise the section on
Samuel Richardsons
Clarissa (pp. 297-300).
Read the short text on
Sensibility (grey box on
p. 329).
LITERARY TEXTS
Daniel Defoes Moll Flanders. An
additional and detailed analysis of
the novel will be provided in the
curso virtual aLF.
A reading guide for Moll Flanders will be provided in the curso virtual aLF.
We recommend that you do the self-assessment exercises in the curso virtual aLF.
UNIT 3. PRE-ROMANTIC
IMPROBABILITY
AND
GOTHIC
ECHOES/CONTRIBUTIONS:
IMAGINATION
AND
LITERARY TEXTS
From The Norton Anthology
(vol. 1, 9th ed.): Thomas Grays
Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard (pp. 3051-3054).
Optional reading of Mary
Shelleys Frankenstein. Suggestions
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392).
Reading guides for both Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Frankenstein will be provided in the
curso virtual aLF.
We recommend that you do the self-assessment exercises in the curso virtual aLF.
UNIT 4. WOMEN NOVELISTS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF FICTION: FEMINIZING CULTURE
INTRODUCTORY AND THEORETICAL TEXTS
English Literature
The Norton Anthology
in Context
(vols. 1 & 2, 9thed.)
Read the section
Introductions to Frances Burney (1, pp.
Gender and Sexuality
2992-2993) Charlotte Smith (2, pp. 53(pp. 361-364).
54) and Jane Austen (2, pp. 523-525).
LITERARY TEXTS
Jane Austens Pride and
Prejudice. An additional and detailed
analysis of the novel will be provided
in the curso virtual aLF.
A reading guide for Pride and Prejudice will be provided in the curso virtual aLF.
We recommend that you do the self-assessment exercises in the curso virtual aLF.
UNIT 5. POETRY IN AN AGE OF REVOLUTION: ROMANTICISM (1780-1832)
INTRODUCTORY AND THEORETICAL TEXTS
English Literature
The Norton Anthology (vol. 2, 9th ed.)
in Context
Introductory sections of Introduction to the Romantic period
Chapter 4 (The Romantic (pp. 3-27).
Period, 1780-1832), by
Introduction to Mary Wollstonecraft (pp.
Peter Kitson (pp. 306208-211).
372, except pp. 331,
Introductions to William Blake (pp. 112361-364 and the short
116), William Wordsworth (pp. 270-272),
text on Sensibility on Samuel Taylor Coleridge (pp. 437-439),
p. 329, required reading Lord Byron (pp. 612-616), Percy Bysshe
in previous units.
Shelley (pp. 748-751), John Keats (pp.
The section on William 901-903).
Wordsworths Tintern
Introduction to Lord Byrons Don Juan
Abbey (pp. 372-377).
(pp. 672-673).
The section on Lord
Byrons The Giaour (pp.
382-386).
LITERARY TEXTS
From The Norton Anthology
(vol. 2, 9th ed.):
William Blakes Infant Joy (pp.
123-124), Infant Sorrow (p. 134)
and The Tyger (pp. 129-130).
William Wordsworths I wandered
lonely as a cloud (pp. 334-335),
Lines Composed a Few Miles above
Tintern Abbey (pp. 288-292), the
introduction to and extracts from the
Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (pp.
292-304).
Samuel Taylor Coleridges The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (pp.
443-459).
Lord Byrons stanzas 1-94 of the
Canto I of Don Juan (pp. 673-687).
P. B. Shelleys poems To a
Skylark (pp. 834-836) and Ode to
the West Wind (pp. 791-793).
John Keatss Ode to a
Nightingale (pp. 927-929), Ode to a
Grecian Urn (pp. 930-931) and To
Autumn (pp. 951).
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Reading guides for the poems listed above will be provided in the curso virtual aLF.
We recommend that you do the self-assessment exercises in the curso virtual aLF.
UNIT 6. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1832-1901): THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
INTRODUCTORY AND THEORETICAL TEXTS
LITERARY TEXTS
English Literature
The Norton Anthology (vol. 2, 9th ed.)
in Context
Charlotte Bronts Jane Eyre.
General introductory
Introduction to the Victorian period (pp. Optional reading of Charles
epigraphs of Chapter 5,
1017-1041).
Dickens Great Expectations.
The Victorian Age, 1832- The epigraph Industrialism: Progress
1901, by Maria Frawley
or Decline? (pp. 1580-1581).
(pp. 403-488).
Introductions to Thomas Carlyle (pp.
The section on
1044-1047), John Henry Newman (pp.
Dickenss Bleak House
1076-1078) and Matthew Arnold (pp.
(pp. 492-496).
1369-1373).
The analysis of
Introductions to Elizabeth Gaskell (pp.
Charlotte Bronts Jane
1259-1260) and George Eliot (pp. 1353Eyre (pp. 488-492).
1355).
The analysis of Robert The epigraph The Woman Question:
Louis Stevensons Dr
The Victorian Debate about Gender (pp.
Jekyll and Mr Hyde (pp.
1607-1610).
499-503).
A reading guide for Jane Eyre will be provided in the curso virtual aLF.
We recommend that you do the self-assessment exercises in the curso virtual aLF.
UNITS 7. THE VICTORIAN AGE (1832-1901): VICTORIAN POETRY
INTRODUCTORY AND THEORETICAL TEXTS
English Literature
The Norton Anthology (vol. 2, 9th ed.)
in Context
The brief analysis of
Introduction to Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(pp. 1156-1159).
Christina Rossettis
Goblin Market (pp. 496- Introductions to Christina Rossetti (pp.
499).
1489-1490), to Elizabeth Barrett
Browning (pp. 1123-1124), Robert
Browning (pp. 1275-1278) and Gerard
Manley Hopkins (pp. 1546-1548).
LITERARY TEXTS
From The Norton Anthology
(vol. 2, 9th ed.):
Tennysons Mariana (pp. 11591161) and The Lady of Shallot (pp.
1161-1166).
Rossettis After Death (p. 1491),
Winter: My Secret (pp. 1494-1495),
and Up-Hill (p. 1495-1496).
The extract of Book I of E. B.
Brownings Aurora Leigh entitled
The Feminine Education of Aurora
Leigh (pp. 1138-1143).
R. Brownings My Last Duchess
(pp. 1282-1283).
Hopkinss Gods Grandeur, The
Starlight Night and The Windhover
(pp. 1548-1549, 1550).
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A reading guide the poems listed above will be provided in the curso virtual aLF.
We recommend that you do the self-assessment exercises in the curso virtual aLF.
3.3.-EVALUATION
You will be assessed in various ways by your local tutor or course supervisor throughout the course.
Assessment is based mainly on:
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Pruebas de Evaluacin Continua. There are two Pruebas de Evaluacin Continua (PECs),
one for each term. These assignments are optional students can choose to be assessed on
the basis of the exam and aspire to a maximum mark of 10. PECs reproduce exactly the exam
format and are assessed out of 10. If a student chooses to submit PECs, the marks obtained
are converted, so that they represent 20% of each term mark. However, PEC marks are only
added to the exam mark if this is 5 or more. Submitting one of the PECs does not commit a
student to submit the other: different options can be chosen in each term. Deadlines are
announced on the online course at the beginning of the academic year.
Final evaluation in the form of exams or pruebas presenciales (the 1st P.P. covers units 1-4
and the 2nd P.P. covers units 5-7). Exams and PECs require the students to be familiar with the
relevant terminology, develop the ability to close-read a literary text and to write argumentative
texts on a literary topic. It is necessary to pass both exams; students cannot have an average
grade if they have failed one of the exams.
Participation in tutorials and in online discussions and activities may be taken into account in particular cases.
You will also be able to assess yourself through:
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Exams from past years with their corresponding feedback documents, available through the
curso virtual aLF.
For further details about the assessment and an exam description, please check the section Evaluacin in
the Gua de Estudio (Parte I) or the FAQs section of the online course. Specific doubts can be clarified using
the Foro de consultas generales of the online course.
GLOSSARY
The volumes of The Norton Anthology of English Literature contain useful glossaries of literary terms for
students to look up whenever they need this kind of terminological help. Students are encouraged to create
their own glossaries individually or collectively, drawing on the basic bibliography.
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