Nineteenth Century Prose and Fiction-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 312
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative writers and their individual traits.

10.00
Unit I: 

Charles Lamb                                                                

In Praise of Chimney Sweepers

Oxford in the Vacation

Modern Gallantry

13.00
Unit II: 

 

John Ruskin                                                                   

Of the Pathetic Fallacy

 

William Hazlitt                                                            

On Familiar Style

 On Going a Journey

13.00
Unit III: 

Jane Austen                                                                    

Mansfield Park

15.00
Unit IV: 

Charles Dickens                                                          

Great Expectations

11.00
Unit V: 

R.L. Stevenson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Source Books: 

Lockitt, C.H. Ed. The Art of the Essayist. Hyderabad: Longman, 2006. Print.
Walker, Hugh. English Essay and Essayists. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1915.Print.
Williams, Emrys. Ed. A Book of English Essays. London: Pelican, 1970. Print.

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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

Allen, Walter. The English Novel – A Short Critical History.Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991. Print.

Baker, J.E. The Re-interpretation of Victorian Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950. Print.

Buckley, F.H. The Victorian Temper. Harvard:Harvard University Press, 1969. Print.

Cecil, David. Early Victorian Novelists. London: Constable. 1934. Print.

Ford, Boris. Ed. From Dickens to Hardy – The Pelican Guide to English Literature .Vol. 6. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957. Print.

Neill, Diane S. A Short History of the English Novel. New Delhi: Kalyani Publishers, 1971. Print.

Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. New Delhi: Trinity Press Publication, 1999. Print.

Thomson, D. England in the Nineteenth Century. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970. Print.

Walker, Hugh. English Essay and Essayists. London:  J.M. Dent & Sons, 1915. Print

Academic Year: 
2018-2019