Nineteenth Century Prose and Fiction-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 412
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
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 writers and their individual traits.

12.00
Unit I: 

Robert Louis Stevenson
An Apology for Idlers (from Forms of English Prose)

11.00
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                                                                  

Mill on the Floss

12.00
Unit IV: 

Charlotte Bronte                                                       

Jane Eyre

13.00
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). 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.
Academic Year: 
2019-2020