Pre-Romantic Poetry and Romantic Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 124
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

The students will:

CO16. Develop an understanding of Romanticism as a concept, in relation to ancillary concepts like Classicism

CO17. Examine the main characteristics of the pre-Romantic and the Romantic period

CO18. Critique the social, philosophical, intellectual and literary backgrounds, including the German and the French influence

CO19. Examine various texts against historical background for a better critical understanding of  literary texts 

CO20.  Investigate and examine texts on the basis of key themes, issues, and debates emerging in Romantic poetry, informed by philosophical and theoretical concepts constructing the literature of this age

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading assignments, Demonstration

 

Learning activities for the students:

Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Quizzes

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation

 

 

11.00
 
Thomas Gray
 
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
The Progress of Poesy
 
William Collins
 
Ode to Simplicity
Ode to Evening
13.00
Charles Lamb
 
Oxford in the Vacation
Imperfect Sympathies
Dream Children
Mackery End, in Hertfordshire
12.00
William Hazlitt
 
On Familiar Style
On Going a Journey
Common Sense
Why Distant Objects Please 
12.00
Mary Shelley
 
 
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
12.00

Jane Austen                                               

Emma

 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

Bowra, C.M. The Romantic Imagination. Oxford Paperbacks, 1961.

Ford, Boris, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: From Blake to Byron. Vols. 1-3. Penguin Books, 1999.

Hough, Graham. The Romantic Poets. Hutchinson, 1967.

Morton, Timothy, ed. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.  Routledge, 2002.

Pinion,F.B. Jane Austen Companion: A Critical Survey and Reference Book. Macmillan. 1973.

 

e-resources:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoTjbhhXNUE (Gray)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erory940xUg (Shelley)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONZGwAv8r10 (Austen)

 

Journals:

English Literary History

Rupkatha Journal

 

Academic Year: