Educational guide 2015_16 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Contenidos

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.
2. The protest tradition and the seduction theme.	2.1. Delarivier Manley's New Atlantis (1709) 2.2. Eliza Haywood's Fantomina (1725) 2.3. Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798)
3. The Gothic and the tradition of escape.	3.1. Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest (1791) and The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) 3.2. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818).
4. The didactic traditin: reforming and socialising heroines.	4.1. Fanny Burney's Evelina (1778) 4.2. Maria Edgeworth's Belinda (1801) 4.3. Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1818)
5. Victorian women novelists: passion, subversion, and social comment.	5.1. The Victorian period and novel. 5.2. Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847). 5.3. George Eliot. 5.4. Elizabeth Gaskell.