Nineteenth Century Prose and Fiction-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 412
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Objective: 

Objective: To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative writers 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: 

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). Print.

Kermode, Frank . et.al. Eds. The Oxford Anthology of English Literature (Vol. II).London: OUP, 1973. Print.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms 7th Ed.  Boston:  Heinle, 1999. Print.

Allen, Walter. The English Novel – A Short Critical History. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991. Print.

Baker, J.E. The Re-interpretation of Victorian Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950. Print.

Buckley, F.H. The Victorian Temper. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1951. Print.

Cecil, David. Early Victorian Novelists London: Constable. 1934. Print.

Ford, Boris ed. Pelican Guide to English Literature (From Dickens to Hardy) Print.

Neill, Diane S. A Short History of the English Novel. New Delhi: Kalyani Publishers, 1971. Print.

Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. Madras: Macmillan, 1965. Print.

Saxena, Alka & Sudhir Dixit. Hardy’s Tess of the D’urbervilles. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2001. Print.

Thomson, D. England in the Nineteenth Century. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970. Print.

Walker, Hugh. English Essay and Essayists. London: J.M. Dent, 1923. Print.

 

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