Guia docente 2011_12 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Contidos

Tema	Subtema
1. Introduction: the early woman writer and the novel.	1.1. Constructing women throughout history. 1.2. Prose fiction and early women writers. 1.3. The protest tradition and the seduction theme in the early 18th century.
2. Fear, escape and transgression in women’s Gothic.	2.1. The Gothic and the tradition of escape. 2.2. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818).
3. Reforming and socialising heroines.	3.1. The didactic tradition: reforming and socialising young women. 3.2. Fanny Burney and Jane Austen. 3.3. Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1818)
4. Disguise and subterfuge of women writers’ anger and complaints.	4.1. Objective social comment: Harriet Martineu. 4.2. Rebellion and rage of. childhood: Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot.
5. The expression of free individualism.	5.1. Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847). Conflict of values between nature and civilization
6. Social criticism within the novel	6.1. Reaction to the industrial conflicts: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton (1848)