Nineteenth Century Prose and Fiction-I

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

The students will:

CO58.   Examine new forms of writing and style of expression used to deal with new doctrines and institutions in the 19th century England

CO59.   Investigate and evaluate literary experiments with genre and literary mode in the 19th century

CO60.   Recognize and value the transition and literary experimentation that characterized this age

CO61.   Construct logical and informed arguments relating to 19th century philosophical and scientific thought, gesturing towards a wider field.

CO62.Critique the representative literary works within the wider framework of socio-political and historical realities, vis-à-vis the themes, issues and pre-occupations 

12.00
Unit I: 

Charles Lamb                                                

In Praise of Chimney Sweepers

Oxford in the Vacation

Modern Gallantry

A Bachelor’s Complaint…

 

12.00
Unit II: 

John Ruskin                                                   

Of the Pathetic Fallacy

 

William Hazlitt                                              

On Familiar Style

On Going a Journey

 

11.00
Unit III: 

Jane Austen                                                   

Northanger Abbey

 

15.00
Unit IV: 

Charles Dickens                                            

Great Expectations

 

10.00
Unit V: 

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.

 

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

 

Journals:

South Atlantic Review

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900

 

Academic Year: 
2023-2024