Nineteenth Century Prose and Fiction-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 312
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Objective: 
  • 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: 
  1. The Art of the Essayist : Edited by C.H. Lockitt
  2. Penguin Book of Essays
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Boris Ford, ed : Pelican Guide to English Literature (From Dickens to Hardy)
  2. D. Thomson : England in the Nineteenth Century (Pelican)
  3. J.E. Baker : The Re-interpretation of Victorian Literature
  4. F.H. Buckley : The Victorian Temper
  5. Hugh Walker : English Essay and Essayists
  6. Diane S. Neill : A Short History of the English Novel
  7. David Cecil : Early Victorian Novelists
  8. Walter Allen : The English Novel – A Short Critical History (Penguin)
  9. M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms
  10. B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature