2008_09
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Filologia Anglesa (2001)
 Assignatures
  LITERATURA ANGLESA DEL S. XIX
   Continguts
Tema Subtema
General overview of the rise of imperialism in the 19th Century. * The shaping of an empire.
* Transportation and industrialisation.
* The newspapers, museums, exhibitions, advertising.
* Science and Religion.
* Movements promising social reform
* Love, sex, marriage.
Nation and nationalism: a social consciousness. Carlyle, Dickens, Tennyson, Macaulay, Mary Shelley.
The Victorian Self: the construction of "normal" through emerging psychological and scientific categories. * Mary Shelley: on first and last men.
* Robert Louis Stevenson: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde".
* Charlotte Brontë: The Real Mrs Rochester.
* John Ruskin: "On Queen's Gardens".
* Oscar Wilde: on the double in Dorian Gray.
* Bram Stoker: on the threat from the east, "Dracula".
Textual and Pictorial Sense and Nonsense. * The supernatural and the spiritual.
* Dreams.
* Experiments.
* Utopias and Dystopias of the 19th Century.
Colonizers and the Colonized. * Kipling
* Macaulay
* Rider Haggard
* Chamberlain
* Conrad