Nineteenth Century Prose and Fiction-II

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

The students will:

CO83.  Examine newer forms of writing and style of expression used to deal with new doctrines and institutions in the 19th century England

CO84. Investigate and evaluate literary experiments with genre and literary mode in the 19th century

CO85. Critique the transition and literary experimentation that characterized this age

CO86. Interpret the concept of individualism and equality at all inclusive levels
CO87. Analyze a variety of critical approaches in 19th century to perceive the paradigm shift through the critical texts
12.00
Unit I: 

Robert Louis Stevenson                                     

An Apology for Idlers

El Dorado

 

12.00
Unit II: 

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: 

George Eliot                                                   

The Mill on the Floss

 

12.00
Unit IV: 

Charlotte Bronte                                           

Jane Eyre

 

12.00
Unit V: 

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.

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: 
2023-2024