Nineteenth Century Prose and Fiction-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 312
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Value forms of writing and style of expression used to deal with new doctrines and institutions in the 19th century England
  • Investigate and evaluate literary experiments with genre and literary mode in the 19th century
  • Develop detailed knowledge of the transition and literary experimentation in this age
12.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Charles Lamb                                                            

In Praise of Chimney Sweepers

Oxford in the Vacation

Modern Gallantry

A Bachelor’s Complaint…

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

John Ruskin                                                                

Of the Pathetic Fallacy

 

William Hazlitt                                                         

On Familiar Style

 On Going a Journey

11.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Jane Austen                                                                

Northanger Abbey

15.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Charles Dickens                                                       

Great Expectations

10.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

R.L. Stevenson                                               

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Source Books: 

Lockitt, C.H. Ed. The Art of the Essayist. Longman, 2006.

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

Williams, Emrys. Ed. A Book of English Essays. Pelican, 1970.

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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

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

Baker, J.E. The Re-interpretation of Victorian Literature. Princeton UP, 1950.

Buckley, F.H. The Victorian Temper. Harvard UP, 1969.

Cecil, David. Early Victorian Novelists. Constable. 1934.

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

Neill, Diane S. A Short History of the English Novel. Kalyani Publishers, 1971.

Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. Trinity Press , 1999.

Thomson, D. England in the Nineteenth Century. Penguin, 1970.

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

Academic Year: 
2021-2022