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The course "Literature of the United Kingdom and Ireland" follows a chronological order and deals with the most significant features and authors, from te Middle Ages to the twenty first century: 

0. Introduction to the Literatures of the UK and Ireland

1. Late Medieval Literature

• Medieval Literature
• Arthurian Literature

2. Renaissance Literature: from Henry VIII to the “Restoration period”

• Literature during the reign of Henry VIII
• Elizabethan literature
• Restoration literatura

3. Eighteenth Century Literature – The Enlightenment

• Masters of the satire
• The rise of the novel

4. Romanticism and the Victorian era

• Romantic literature
• Victorian literature

5. The Turn of the Century and Modernism

• Modernist writers

6. 20th-21st century Literatures in the UK

• Postmodernism and Intertextuality
• A Survey of Scottish Literature

7. A Survey of Irish Literature

• Contemporary Irish Literature

Compulsory works:

• Johnson, Samuel [1759]. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (preferably Penguin Classics ed.).
• Joyce, James 2000 [1914]: “The Dead”.Story in: Dubliners (preferably Penguin Classics ed.).
• Winterson, Jeanette [1987]: The Passion (preferably Penguin Classics ed.).

Further works and excerpts to be read will we mentioned in class and will be available on Campus Virtual.

Complementary Bibliography:

• Alexandre, Michael 2000: A History of English Literature. Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan.
• Barnet, Sylvan; Berman Morton & Burto, William 1993: An Introduction to Literature. New York: Harper Collins.
• Barry, Peter 2002 [1995]: Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. Manchester: Manchester UP.
• Blamires, Harry 2005: A Short History of English Literature. London: Routledge.
• Boxall, Peter 2019: The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction: 1980-2018. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Carruthers, Gerard and Liam McIlvanney (eds.) 2012: The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 
• Coolahan, Marie-Louise 2010: Women, Writing and Language in Early Modern Ireland. Oxford: Oxford UP.
• Culler, Jonathan 2000 [1997]: Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP.
• Dean, Seamus 1992: The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. Field Day Publications.
• Donaghue, Daniel 2004: Old English Literature: A Short Introduction. Malden: Blackwell Publishers.
• Drabble, Margaret (ed.) 2000: The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP.
• English, James (ed.) 2006: A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Faulkner, Peter 1977: Modernism. London: Routledge.
• Goldie, Mathew B. 2003: Middle English Literature: A Historical Sourcebook. Malden: Blackwell.
• González Arias, Luz Mar 2000: Otra Irlanda: La estética postnacionalista de poetas y artistas irlandesas contemporáneas. Oviedo: Servicio Publicaciones Universidad de Oviedo.
• Hattaway, Michael (ed.) 2000: A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Keymer, Thomas & Mee, Jon (eds.) 2004: The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830.Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
• MacKean, Ian 2005: The Essentials of Literature in English, Post-1914. London: Hodder Arnold.
• Pierce, David 2000: Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader. Cork: Cork UP.
• Poplawski, Paul 2008: English Literature in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
• Rees Bogarad, Carley & Zlotnik Schmidt, Jan 1995: Legacies: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction. New York: Harcourt Brace.
• Sanders, Andrew 2004: The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP.
• Schoene, Berthold (ed.) 2007: The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP. 
• Shattock, Joanne 2010: The Cambridge Companion to English Literature: 1830-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Irish Women Writing and Traditions, Vols. IV & V. 2002. Cork: Cork UP.
• The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vols. I & II. 2000 [1962] (seventh edition). London: Norton.
• Walder, Dennis (ed.) 1993 [1990]: Literature in the Modern World: Critical Essays and Documents. Oxford: Oxford UP.
• Zwicker, Steven (ed.) 1998: The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1650-1740. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.