Nineteenth Century Prose and Fiction-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 312
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
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
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Charles Lamb 

In Praise of Chimney Sweepers

Oxford in the Vacation

Modern Gallantry

11.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

John Ruskin   

Of the Pathetic Fallacy

 

William Hazlitt  

On Familiar Style

On Going a Journey

14.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Jane Austen   

Mansfield Park

 

14.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

11.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

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
Academic Year: 
2014-2015