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 the 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 definition.
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 liteary scene.
6.2. David Lodge. Experimentalism and metafiction in Changing Places.