Dryden to Samuel Johnson

Paper Code: 
24ENG223
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The Course will enable the students to gain an insight into the literary age and its salient features, to introduce the representative writers and their individual styles to the students and explain the political, economic, social and intellectual background.

 

13.00
Unit I: 

John Dryden  

Absalom and Achitophel (Part I)

 

12.00
Unit II: 

Jonathan Swift          

The Battle of the Books

 
 

 

12.00
Unit III: 

Alexander Pope                     

The Rape of the Lock

 

12.00
Unit IV: 

Samuel Johnson        

Preface to Shakespeare

 

11.00
Unit V: 

J.M. Synge     

The Playboy of the Western World

 

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.

 

Journals:

17th and 18th Century Periodicals.

 

E- resources:

The Age of Dryden by Prof.Merin Simi Raj Dept. Of Humanities & Social Sciences. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2i3Ekb4FF4.

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2024-2025
Course Outcomes: 

The students will:

CO49. Appraise the religious, socio-intellectual and cultural thoughts of the 17th and 18th centuries

CO50. Critique key themes in the representative texts of the period

CO51. Assess the genres of poetry and drama in terms of the socio-cultural contexts, use of literary devices, forms and techniques

CO52. Specify the role of literary forms and structures in shaping a text’s meaning

CO53. Develop insights into the socio-political dynamics, the structuring points of view, the dominant ideology that mediate the writing, production, reception and survival of a work

CO54.  Contribute effectively to course-specific interaction.