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
 

11.00

Charles Dickens    
Great Expectations

11.00

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

Source Books: 
  1. Lockitt, C.H. Ed. The Art of the Essayist. Hyderabad: Longman, 2006.
  2. Walker, Hugh. English Essay and Essayists. London:  J.M. Dent & Sons, 1915.
  3. Williams, Emrys. Ed. A Book of English Essays. London: Pelican, 1970.
     
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Ford, Boris. Ed. From Dickens to Hardy – The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vol. 6). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957.
  2. Thomson, D. England in the Nineteenth Century. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970.
  3. Baker, J.E. The Re-interpretation of Victorian Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950.
  4. Buckley, F.H. The Victorian Temper. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1969.
  5. Walker, Hugh. English Essay and Essayists. London:  J.M. Dent & Sons, 1915.
  6. Neill, Diane S. A Short History of the English Novel. New Delhi: Kalyani Publishers, 1971.
  7. Cecil, David. Early Victorian Novelists London: Constable. 1934.
  8. Allen, Walter. The English Novel – A Short Critical History. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991.
  9. Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Wadsworth: Macmillan, 1997.
  10. Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. New Delhi: Trinity Press Publication, 1999.
     
Academic Year: 
2016-2017