Nineteenth Century Prose and Fiction-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 312
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Objective: 

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

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

 

13.00

Jane Austen                                                                    

Mansfield Park

 

15.00

Charles Dickens                                                          

Great Expectations

 

11.00

R.L. Stevenson                                               

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

 

Source Books: 

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.  

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