Nineteenth Century Prose and Fiction-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 412
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Examine newer forms of writing and styles of expression used to deal with new doctrines and institutions in the 19th century England
  • Investigate and evaluate literary experiments with genre and literary mode in the 19th century
  • Develop detailed knowledge of the transition and literary experimentation in this age
12.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Robert Louis Stevenson                                     

An Apology for Idlers

El Dorado

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

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
Unit III: 
Unit 3

George Eliot                                                               

The Mill on the Floss

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Charlotte Bronte                                                      

Jane Eyre

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

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.

Academic Year: 
2021-2022