Nineteenth Century Prose and Fiction-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 312
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

The students will:

  1. Examine new forms of writing and style of expression used to deal with new doctrines and institutions in the 19th century England
  2. Investigate and evaluate literary experiments with genre and literary mode in the 19th century
  3. Recognize and value the transition and literary experimentation that characterized this age
  4. Construct logical and informed arguments relating to 19th century philosophical and scientific thought, gesturing towards a wider field.
  5. Critique the representative literary works within the wider framework of socio-political and historical realities, vis-à-vis the themes, issues and pre-occupations

Approach in teaching:

Discussion, Movie screening, Interactive lectures, Audio-visual aid

 

Learning activities for the students:

Presentation, Giving tasks, Role-play, Group discussions

 

Class test, Semester end examinations Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

 

12.00

Charles Lamb                                               

In Praise of Chimney Sweepers

Oxford in the Vacation

Modern Gallantry

A Bachelor’s Complaint…

 

 

 

12.00

John Ruskin                                                 

Of the Pathetic Fallacy

 

William Hazlitt                                             

On Familiar Style

 On Going a Journey

 

 

 

11.00

Jane Austen                                                  

Northanger Abbey

 

 

 

15.00

Charles Dickens                                           

Great Expectations

 

 

 

10.00

R.L. Stevenson                                               

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

 

 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Essential Readings:

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.

 

e-Resources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH_6PxlLUKU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_H5WiAZ7OU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOrFMN6jYJ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7jRWRFj_jA

 

 

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