Nineteenth Century Prose and Fiction-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 412
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

The students will:

  1. Examine newer forms of writing and style of expression used to deal with new doctrines and institutions in the 19th century England
  2. Investigate and evaluate literary experiments with genre and literary mode in the 19th century
  3. Critique the transition and literary experimentation that characterized this age
  4. Interpret the concept of individualism and equality at all inclusive levels
  5. Analyze a variety of critical approaches in 19th century to perceive the paradigm shift through the critical texts

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments

 

 

 

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, presentations

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation

  

 

12.00

Robert Louis Stevenson                                     

An Apology for Idlers

El Dorado

 
 

 

12.00

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                                                  

The Mill on the Floss

 
 

 

12.00

Charlotte Bronte                                          

Jane Eyre

 
 

 

12.00

Thomas Hardy                                             

Tess of the D’urbervilles
 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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.

 

e-Resources :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FEEujkM47M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWTqcIIEQ9s

 

Journals :

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900

The North American Review

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023