Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Drama-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 311
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

The students will:

  1. Investigate the developments in Victorian literature vis-a-vis the socio-cultural contexts
  2. Critique the representative poets and dramatists, their style and treatment
  3. Develop a comprehensive understanding of the problematic relationship between science and religion and its representation in literature
  4. Devise and sustain arguments using appropriate contextual support in academic writings
  5. Perceive connections among literary narrations to analyze their functions and their relations with historical, social and political contexts.

 

Approach in teaching:

Discussion, Movie screening, Interactive lectures, Audio-visual aid

 

Learning activities for the students:

Presentation, Giving tasks, Role-play, Group discussions

Class test, Semester end examinations Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects Observation, Presentation, Report writing

  

 

9.00

Alfred Tennyson                                          

The Lotos Eaters

Ulysses

 Break, Break, Break

 
 

 

11.00

Matthew Arnold

Dover Beach

Thyrsis

 
 

 

9.00

G. M. Hopkins                                              

Spring and Fall

The Habit of Perfection

The Sea and the Skylark

No Worst, There is None

 
 

 

8.00

Elizabeth B. Browning

           

To George Sand:

  • A Recognition
  • A Desire

 

Sonnets from the Portuguese: Nos. 21 & 22

 
 

 

8.00

Oscar Wilde                                                  

Lady Windermere’s Fan

 
 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Essential Readings:

Milford, Humphrey. Ed. Fifteen Poets. OUP, 1964.

 

Suggested Readings:

Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Macmillan, 1997.

Buckley, F.H. The Victorian Temper. Harvard UP, 1969.

Chesterton, G. K. The Victorian Age in Literature. William & Norgate, 1913.

Dobree, B.The Victorians and After.The Cresset, 1930.

Hudson, W.H. An Introduction to the Study of Literature. George. G. Harrap&  Co., 1936.

Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. Trinity Press, 1999.

Walker, Hugh. Literature of the Victorian Era.CUP, 2011.

 

e-Resources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVBQaAx5OOE&t=2s (Arnold)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FX0siL31jo (Browning)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79eHrekn_bc (Hopkins)

 

Journals:

English studies

LIT Literature Interpretation Theory

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023