Nineteenth Century Prose and Fiction-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 412
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
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
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Robert Louis Stevenson   

An Apology for Idlers (from Forms of English Prose)

11.00
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  

Mill on the Floss

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Charlotte Bronte 

Jane Eyre

13.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D’urbervilles

Source Books: 
  • The Oxford Anthology of English Literature (Vol. II) eds. Frank Kermode et.al. (OUP, London, 1973)
  • 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: 
  • Boris Ford, ed : Pelican Guide to English Literature (From Dickens to Hardy)
  • D. Thomson : England in the Nineteenth Century (Pelican)
  • J.E. Baker : The Re-interpretation of Victorian Literature
  • F.H. Buckley : The Victorian Temper
  • Hugh Walker : English Essay and Essayists
  • Diane S. Neill : A Short History of the English Novel
  • David Cecil : Early Victorian Novelists
  • Walter Allen : The English Novel – A Short Critical History (Penguin)
  • M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms
  • B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature
Academic Year: 
2014-2015