ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: English and German Philology
Areas: English Philology
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
-To provide students with knowledge about the social, cultural and political context of the Romantic Movement in the British Isles and in the United States.
- To study the ideological and aesthetic innovations advanced by the Romantics.
-To learn to distinguish the main features of the Romantic Movement in the British Isles from the peculiarities of Romanticism in the United States.
-To become acquainted with the main Romantic genres and authors, and with the most representative Romantic works both in English literature and in American literature.
-To identify a series of features that would help us to describe romantic aesthetics and concerns in an artistic manifestation.
-To study alternative documents related to the development of Romanticism in America and Great Britain
-To learn to establish connections among different artistic manifestations
-To be able to apply new perspectives to the study of romantic art (gender, genre, ecocriticism, etc.)
-To learn to write academic texts (essays, reviews, etc.) on romantic artistic manifestations.
-To be able to reflect on the impact of Romanticism (form and content) on our society.
1.- Romanticism: Socio-Historical Context
2.- An Introduction to British Romanticism: The Sublime & William Wordsworth’s “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads (1800), “A Red, Red Rose”, “England in 1819” & “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
3.- The Beginning of … Satirical Magazines – The Punch
4.- The Beginning of … Feminism – Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
5.- The Beginning of … Science Fiction – Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)
6.- The Beginning of … Female Writing – Jane Austen & Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847)
7.- An Introduction to North American Romanticism: Transcendentalism VS Dark Romanticism
8.- The Beginning of … Crime Fiction – Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841)
9.- The Beginning of … Erotic Writing – Emily Dickinson’s Erotic Imagery & Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (1855)
10.- The Beginning of … (Post/Trans)Humanism – Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” (1846)
Bieber, Christina L. 2013. “Aylmer’s Moral Infancy. Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Quest for Human Perfection” in Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood. Paris: University of Notre Dame Press.
Brennan, Zoe. 2010. “Language, Style and Form” in Brontë’s Jane Eyre. London & New York: Bloomsbury.
Campos, Noemi, 2022. “Sexual Imagery: Why Does It Still Matter?” in UC Merced Undergraduate Research Journal 14(1). DOI: 10.5070/M414157335
Deresiewicz, William. 2005. “Introduction” in Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets. New York: Columbia University Press.
Klancher, Jon (ed.). 2009. A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age. Malden & Oxford: Blackwell.
Mellor, K. Anne. 2014. “The Debate on The Rights of Woman: Wollstonecraft’s Influence on the Women Writers of Her Day” in Called to Civil Existence: Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”. Leiden: Brill.
Messent, Peter. 2012. “Edgar Allan Poe: ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ (1841)” in The Crime Fiction Handbook. London & New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Messent, Peter. 2012. “Introduction” in The Crime Fiction Handbook. New York: John Wiley & Sons
Middeke, Martin, Gabriele Rippl & Hubert Zapf (eds.). 2016. Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies. Berlin & Boston: de Gruyter.
Perry, Seamus. 1999. “Romanticism: The Brief History of a Concept” in A Companion to Romanticism. London & New York: Blackwell.
Pollak, Vivian R. 2000. “Faith in Sex” in The Erotic Whitman. San Francisco: University of California Press.
Wu, Duncan (ed.). 1999. A Companion to Romanticism. Malden & Oxford: Blackwell.
BASIC COMPETENCE: CB1, CB2, CB3, CB4 e CB5
GENERAL COMPETENCE: CG1, CG8
Students will have LECTURES, will participate in INTERACTIVE SEMINARS, and in TUTORIALS (in group and individually). In the lectures, students will be introduced to the ideological, social and literary context of the period. The seminars will be devoted to oral and written exercises in which the students will be required to participate actively.
The VIRTUAL CAMPUS that USC offers to assist the teaching-learning process will be used to upload the reading material for the course and to complete a number of exercises corresponding to the continuous assessment system.
According to article 9.2.a in USC’s Estatuto do Estudante and article 36 in Ley Orgánica del Sistema Universitario, the use of electronic devices (mobile phones, tables, computers, etc.) is not allowed in class (both lectures and interactive sessions), unless expressly authorised by the lecturer in charge of the course.
Two types of assessment are offered: continuous assessment (40% + 60%) and final exam (100%). First year students will join by default the continuous assessment system, which they can lose if they do not attend a minimum number of teaching hours.
Class attendance is compulsory in order to join the continuous assessment system, which will be organised around a number of exercises that students will complete in class (40%) and partial exams that they will sit over the course (60%). Those students not attending a minimum of 80% of teaching hours will not be able to join the continuous assessment system and will have to sit the final exam with 100% of the final mark on the official date. Missing classes will not be justified under any circumstance and will be considered within the 20% margin that this teaching guide proposes. The continuous assessment system will only be applicable for the May/June call. Students will go to the July call (re-sit exam) with 100% of the final grade.
Those students who fail the continuous assessment system will be allowed to sit the final exam (100% of the final grade) on the official date.
Students re-sitting the subjects will be able to choose to join the continuous assessment system under the same circumstances of first-year students or go with 100% of their final grade to the final exam.
Students officially exempt from class attendance will have to sit the final exam in the official date.
If fraudulent practices are detected in assignments or exams of any kind, article 16 in "Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións” will apply.
Students will have to read at home literary pieces that will be commented on in the seminars and that exemplify the theoretical points explained in class.
The teachers advise their students to devote about six hours per week to prepare this subject -reading, activities, revision, etc.
Since this is an ECTS subject, the student will need 150 hours (lectures and autonomous work included) to pass the subject.
Students are encouraged to attend and participate actively and regularly in class, to revise and to complete their notes weekly, and to work in groups.
More detailed information about the subject is included in the "Guía Docente e Material Didáctico da asignatura" that the students can check in the Campus Virtual.
Maria Alonso Alonso
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- maria.alonso.alonso [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor
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| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | English | D10 |
| 05.27.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | C01 |
| 05.27.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C01 |
| 07.02.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | C01 |
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