To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits
10.00
Charles Lamb
In Praise of Chimney Sweepers
Oxford in the Vacation
Modern Gallantry
11.00
John Ruskin
Of the Pathetic Fallacy
William Hazlitt
On Familiar Style
On Going a Journey
14.00
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
14.00
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
11.00
R.L. Stevenson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Source Books:
The Art of the Essayist : Edited by C.H. Lockitt
Penguin Book of Essays
SUGGESTED READINGS:
Boris Ford, ed : Pelican Guide to English Literature (From Dickens to Hardy)
D. Thomson : England in the Nineteenth Century (Pelican)
J.E. Baker : The Re-interpretation of Victorian Literature
F.H. Buckley : The Victorian Temper
Hugh Walker : English Essay and Essayists
Diane S. Neill : A Short History of the English Novel
David Cecil : Early Victorian Novelists
Walter Allen : The English Novel – A Short Critical History (Penguin)
M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms
B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature