Guia docente 2012_13 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. Victorian women writers 1: passion and subversion.	4.1. Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847). 4.2. Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847).
5. Victorian women writers 2: social comment.	5.1. Elizabeth Gaskell. 5.2. George Eliot. 5.3. Harriet Martineau.