Nineteenth Century Prose and Fiction-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 412
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
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
 
12.00
Robert Louis Stevenson
An Apology for Idlers (from Forms of English Prose)
 
11.00
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)
 
12.00
George Eliot
Mill on the Floss
 
12.00
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
  
13.00
Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D’urbervilles
Source Books: 
  1. The Oxford Anthology of English Literature (Vol. II) eds. Frank Kermode et.al. (OUP, London, 1973)
  2. 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)
 
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Boris Ford, ed : Pelican Guide to English Literature (From Dickens to Hardy)
  2. D. Thomson : England in the Nineteenth Century (Pelican)
  3. J.E. Baker : The Re-interpretation of Victorian Literature
  4. F.H. Buckley : The Victorian Temper
  5. Hugh Walker : English Essay and Essayists
  6. Diane S. Neill : A Short History of the English Novel
  7. David Cecil : Early Victorian Novelists
  8. Walter Allen : The English Novel – A Short Critical History (Penguin)
  9. M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms
  10. B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature