Dryden to Samuel Johnson

Paper Code: 
ENG 223
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • To illuminate the students with the respective literary age and its salient features
  • To introduce the representative writers and their individual styles to the students
  • To explain the political, economic, social and intellectual background so as to enable them to study the literary works as representative of the period

 

Course Outcomes -

The students will:

  • Acquire knowledge and understanding of the religious, socio-intellectual and cultural thoughts of the 17th and 18th centuries
  • Critique key themes in the representative texts of the period
  • Appreciate the genres of poetry and drama in terms of the socio-cultural contexts, use of literary devices, forms and techniques
  • Appreciate the role of literary forms and structures in shaping a text’s meaning

 

14.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

John Dryden                                                        

Absalom and Achitophel  (Part I)

 

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

Jonathan Swift                                                    

The Battle of the Books

 
 

 

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit III
 

Alexander Pope                                                             

The Rape of the Lock

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Samuel Johnson                                                 

Preface to Shakespeare               

 

10.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

J.M. Synge                                                              

The Playboy of the Western World

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

 

Clay, N.L. The English Critic: From Chaucer to Auden. Atlantic Publisher, 2001.

Ford, Boris, ed. The Pelican Guide to English Literature. 2005.

MacMillin, Scott, ed. Restoration and Eighteenth Century Comedy. W.W. Norton and Company, 1997.

Owen, Susan J, ed. A Companion to Restoration Drama.  Blackwell Publications, 2001.

Palmer,John. The Comedy of Manners.Forgotten Books.2018.

Stephen, Leslie. Alexander Pope.Macmillan, 1888.

T., Joseph, and Francis S. John Dryden: A Critical Study. Anmol Publications, 2006.

 

Academic Year: 
2021-2022