ASIGNATURA / COURSE TITLE 1.1. Código / Course number 1.2

Asignatura: Literatura y cultura de los países de habla inglesa en el siglo XIX (I)
Código: 17266
Centro: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Titulación: Estudios Ingleses
Nivel: Grado
Tipo: Obligatoria
Nº de créditos: 6
ASIGNATURA / COURSE TITLE
Literatura y cultura de los países de habla inglesa en el siglo XIX I / Nineteenth
century literature and culture of the English speaking countries I
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Código / Course number
17266
1.2.
Materia / Content area
Literaturas del siglo XIX en lengua inglesa / Nineteenth century literatures in English
1.3.
Tipo / Course type
Obligatoria / Compulsory Subject
1.4.
Nivel / Course level
Grado/ Bachelor (1st cycle)
1.5.
Curso / Year
2º/ 2nd
1.6.
Semestre / Semester
1º/ 1st semester (Fall Semester)
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Número de créditos / Credit allotment
6 créditos ECTS / 6 ECTS credits
1.8.
Requisitos previos / Prerequisites
Students are expected to have a high intermediate level of English
ALL WORK ON THIS COURSE WILL BE CARRIED OUT IN ENGLISH
1.9.
Requisitos mínimos de asistencia a las sesiones
presenciales / Minimum attendance requirement
Attendance is highly recommended
Minimum attendance requirement: 60% of the sessions
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Asignatura: Literatura y cultura de los países de habla inglesa en el siglo XIX (I)
Código: 17266
Centro: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Titulación: Estudios Ingleses
Nivel: Grado
Tipo: Obligatoria
Nº de créditos: 6
1.10. Datos del equipo docente / Faculty data
Luisa Antón-Pacheco
Departamento de Filología Inglesa / Department of English Studies
Despacho /Office: 305, módulo VI bis
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras/ School of Arts
Teléfono: 91 497 4247
E-mail: luisa.anton@uam.es
Office hours: to be announced at the beginning of the course
Julia Salmerón
Departamento de Filología Inglesa / Department of English Studies
Despacho/ Office: 201-VI bis
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras / School of Arts
Teléfono: 91 497 4086
E-mail: julia.salmerón@uam.es
Office hours : to be announced at the beginning of the course
1.11. Objetivos del curso / Course objectives
E7 Become aware of the complex nature of language and literature and their
relation with other disciplines and fields of knowledge, as well as of the ways in
which social and cultural contexts have an influence on the nature of language
and meaning.
E9 Know the most relevant characteristics of each literary movement, as well
as the characteristics and evolution of each of the literary genres and
subgenres, along with their historical and cultural context.
E10 Understand how form generates content and to be aware of the role played
by context, author and audience in the creation of literary texts.
E12 To recognise and appropriately value the expressive and aesthetic
resources of literary phenomena.
E14 To be able to carry out literary and linguistic analysis of a variety of texts
in English, using the appropriate terminology and tools, and within the
theoretical frameworks studied.
E17 To develop the ability to read attentively and to perfom text analyses
through the understanding of historical and social contexts, and to develop
awareness of the historical meaning of Literature.
E20 To demonstrate an analytical/critical attitude towards Literature and the
linguistic phenomena in English language, and to critically position oneself
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Asignatura: Literatura y cultura de los países de habla inglesa en el siglo XIX (I)
Código: 17266
Centro: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Titulación: Estudios Ingleses
Nivel: Grado
Tipo: Obligatoria
Nº de créditos: 6
regarding the different theories and the different approaches to a same
problem.
T4 To be able to work collaboratively in tasks of collective negotiation and to
participate constructively in a debate
T5 To reflect on one's own learning process and know how to evaluate it.
T6 To plan one's own work and to manage time effectively.
T7 To be aware of diversity and multiculturality
Course objectives:
This is a survey course on nineteenth century British literature. By the end of the
course students should be able to write an essay on texts in the programme analysing
their formal and stylistic features,identifying their innovatory aspects and thematic
concerns,and situating them in their historical and cultural contexts.
Objectives in terms of learning outcomes:
I. To identify the formal and stylistic features of each text.
II. To situate each work in its historical and cultural context.
Objectives in terms of competences:
I. To acquire the techniques used in literary criticism: to develop the ability to
analyse the form and language of a literary text.
II. To have the skills to write essays and prepare presentations on texts in the
programme.
1.12. Contenidos del programa / Course contents
1) Poetry in the Romantic Period: Nature and novelty / Orientalism /The age of
revolution/ Medievalism and the past / Narrative poetry / Versions of the poet.
2) Fiction in the Romantic period: The novel of manners and mores (Austen´s Pride
and Prejudice) /The novel of ideas ( Mary Shelley´s Frankenstein)
3) Fiction in the Victorian age: Romance and realism / Serialisation /Didacticism /
the Bildungsroman/ Status and class relations / Gender roles / Nationhood and
empire / The sensational thriller and popular forms.
4) Victorian Poetry: Portraits of the artist / Gender roles and relations/ The
dramatic monologue and other themes, issues and forms.
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Asignatura: Literatura y cultura de los países de habla inglesa en el siglo XIX (I)
Código: 17266
Centro: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Titulación: Estudios Ingleses
Nivel: Grado
Tipo: Obligatoria
Nº de créditos: 6
1.13. Referencias de consulta / Course bibliography
At the beginning of the course the compulsory reading list will be handed out . This
list will include a selection from the following authors and texts:
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W. Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience ( “The Chimney Sweeper¨ ,
“Infant Joy”, “Infant Sorrow”, “The Lamb”, “The Tyger”, “Holy Thursday”
“London”)
R. Burns “To a Mouse”
W. Wordsworth, “We are Seven”, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above
Tintern Abbey”, extracts from the Prelude, “I Wandered Lonely as a
Cloud”, “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”
S.T. Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, “This Lime-Tree Bower My
Prison”, “Frost at Midnight” “Kubla Khan”.
J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice.
Byron, Don Juan (Canto I)
M. Shelley, Frankenstein.
P.B. Shelley,“Ode to the West Wind”, “Ozymandias”, “England 1819”
J. Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale”, “ The Eve of St Agnes”
C. Brontë, Jane Eyre
C. Dickens, Great Expectations
Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott”
R. Browning, “My Last Duchess”
R.L. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
C. Rossetti, “ After Death”, “Song”
T. Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush”, “Hap”, “Neutral Tones”
E.B. Browning, “Sonnet 21” (Sonnets from the Portuguese)
Bibliography:
Curran, S. ed., The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, 1998.
Eagleton, T., The English Novel , 2005
Kelly, G., English Fiction of the Romantic Period, 1989
Pirie, D.B. ed., The Penguin History of English Literature: The Romantic Period, 1995
Watson, J.R., English Poetry of the Romantic Period, 1985
Wu, D. ed., A Companion to Romanticism, 1998.
Bratlinger, P. ed., A Companion to the Victorian Novel, 2002
Bristol, J., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry, 2000
David, D. ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, 2001
Cronin, R., et al., A Companion to Victorian Poetry, 2001
A supplementary bibliography will be provided at the beginning of the course
Bibliografía, URL (direcciones de Internet), etc.
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Asignatura: Literatura y cultura de los países de habla inglesa en el siglo XIX (I)
Código: 17266
Centro: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Titulación: Estudios Ingleses
Nivel: Grado
Tipo: Obligatoria
Nº de créditos: 6
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Métodos docentes / Teaching methodology
Theoretical sessions:
Lectures on the texts in the programme.
Practical sessions:
Written assignments on texts in the programme.
Independent study time:
Reading, preparation of oral and written assignments.
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Tiempo de trabajo del estudiante / Student
workload
Nº de
horas
Clases teóricas
Clases prácticas
Tutorías programadas a lo largo del semestre
Seminarios
Presencial
Otros (especificar añadiendo tantas filas como
actividades se hayan incluido en la metodología
docente)
Realización del examen final
Realización de actividades prácticas
No
Estudio semanal (equis tiempo x equis semanas)
presencial
Preparación del examen
Carga total de horas de trabajo: 25 horas x 6 ECTS
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Porcentaje
42 h
2h
3h
3h
40 h
30 h
30 h
150 h
33%
(mínimo) =
50 horas
67% = 100
horas
Métodos de evaluación y porcentaje en la
calificación final / Evaluation procedures and
weight of components in the final grade
Convocatoria ordinaria:
Final exam 60%
Course work : written and oral assignments 40%
Instructions about the written assignments, dates and deadlines will be
provided by each lecturer at the beginning of the course. The instructions
given by each lecturer will be implemented during the course.
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Asignatura: Literatura y cultura de los países de habla inglesa en el siglo XIX (I)
Código: 17266
Centro: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Titulación: Estudios Ingleses
Nivel: Grado
Tipo: Obligatoria
Nº de créditos: 6
Convocatoria extraordinaria:
Exam 60%
The grades obtained for oral and written assignments during the course will
account for 40% of the final grade.
5.
Cronograma / Course calendar
A more detailed calendar will be provided by the lecturer at the beginning of
the course.
Contenido
Contents
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Introduction to the
course
Module 1
Module 1
Module 1
Module 2
Module 2
Module 2
Module 2
Module 3
Module 3
Module 3
Module 4
Module 4
Module 4
Exam
Exam
Horas presenciales
Contact hours
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Horas no
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Independent study
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NOTA: Las horas de tutorías programadas (2h) serán anunciadas al principio del
semestre
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