The pleasure of reading

martes, 16 de agosto de 2011

New Schedule

Language and Culture III
Schedule 2011
Second Semester


August_& September

Literature:


 “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Coleridge.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly.
 “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by Keats.
 “Summer and Winter” by Shelley.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
Hard Times by Charles Dickens.
Historical context:
 Napoleonic wars.
 Congress of Vienna.
 Unification of Italy and Germany.
 Napoleon III.

October

Literature:


 “Helpstone”, “Singing in Winter”, “The Primrose” and “The Setting Sun” by John Clare
Adam Bede by George Eliot (written assignment).
The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Historical context:
 Tories ans Whigs.
 Queen Victoria.
 Palmerston.
 Crimean war.

November

Literature:


Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Historical context:
 Gladstone and Disraeli.
 Suez, Egypt.

lunes, 15 de agosto de 2011