Contenidos teóricos y prácticos de la asignatura
1. From the Gothic Novel to the Early Nineteenth-Century Novel.
1.1 The Gothic Novel versus the Realistic Novel.
2. The Victorian Era.
2.1. Charles Dickens and the Condition of England Novel.
2.2. Thomas Hardy. A transitional figure between the traditional and the modern. Tess of d'Urbevilles..
3. The Transition from the Nineteenth-Century Novel to Modernism.
3.1. Henry James and Joseph Conrad
3.2. Writing at the end of a tradition: Galsworthy, Wells and Bennett.
4. Modernist Fiction.
4.1. A Definiion.
4.2. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and E.M. Forster.
5. The Novel of the Thirties and Forties
5.1. George Orwell: fusing moral-political and artistic purpose: Animal Farm.
5.2. Other writers: Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene.
6. The Fifties.
6.1. The revolt against experimentalism.
6.2. The tension between revolt and conformity in Kingsley's Amis's work.
7. Postmodernist English Fiction.
7.1. An overview of the literary scene.
7.2. Metafiction and experimentalism in David Lodge's Changing Places.