Contenidos teóricos y prácticos de la asignatura
1. The development of eighteenth-century women's fiction.
1.1 Fanny Burney: Evelina.
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 the D'urbervilles.
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.
5.2. Other writers: Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene.
6. Postmodernist English Fiction.
6.1. An overview of the literary scene.
6.2. Metafiction and intertextuality in Small World, by David Lodge.