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. 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)
  2. Kermode, Frank et.al. Eds. The Oxford Anthology of English Literature (Vol. II).London: OUP, 1973.
     
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms 7th Ed.  Boston:  Heinle, 1999
  2. Allen, Walter. The English Novel – A Short Critical History. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991.
  3. Baker, J.E. The Re-interpretation of Victorian Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950.
  4. Buckley, F.H. The Victorian Temper. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1951
  5. Cecil, David. Early Victorian Novelists London: Constable. 1934.
  6. Ford, Boris ed. Pelican Guide to English Literature (From Dickens to Hardy)
  7. Neill, Diane S. A Short History of the English Novel. New Delhi: Kalyani Publishers, 1971.
  8. Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. Madras: Macmillan, 1965
  9. Saxena, Alka & Sudhir Dixit. Hardy’s Tess of the D’urbervilles. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2001.
  10. Thomson, D. England in the Nineteenth Century. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970.
  11. Walker, Hugh. English Essay and Essayists. London: J.M. Dent, 1923.
     
Academic Year: 
2016-2017