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Nineteenth Century Prose and Fiction-II
The course will enable the students to:
- Comprehend newer forms of writing and styles of expression used to deal with new doctrines and institutions in the 19th century England
- Further investigate and evaluate literary experiments with genre and literary mode in the 19th century
- Gainmore detailed knowledge of the transition and literary experimentation in this age
Robert Louis Stevenson
An Apology for Idlers
El Dorado
J. H. Newman
From The Tamworth Reading Room
(Secular Knowledge Not a …)
The Idea of a University (From Knowledge viewed in …)
(from The Oxford Anthology of English Literature)
George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D’urbervilles
Source Books:
Forms of English Prose: An Anthology of English Essays, Short Stories and One-Act Plays for B.A. Students (Dept. of English & Modern European Languages, Lucknow University).
Kermode, Frank . et.al. Eds. The Oxford Anthology of English Literature (Vol. II). OUP, 1973.
Suggested Readings:
Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms7th Ed. Heinle, 1999.
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, 1951.
Cecil, David. Early Victorian Novelists. Constable. 1934.
Ford, Boris ed. Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. VI (Dickens to Hardy) Penguin, 1958.
Neill, Diane S. A Short History of the English Novel. Kalyani Publishers, 1971.
Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature.Macmillan, 1965.
Saxena, Alka&Sudhir Dixit. Hardy’s Tess of the D’urbervilles. Atlantic Publishers, 2001.