The Restoration Age – II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
ENG 213
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

To familiarize the students with the literary age and its salient features (prose and fiction); the representative writers and their individual style

10.00
Unit I: 

Richard Steele

The Spectator Club

The Trumpet Club

His Account of His Disappointment in Love

The Art of Conversation

11.00
Unit II: 

Joseph Addison                                                           

Sir Roger and Will Wimble

Meditations in Westminster Abbey

Labour and Exercise

Popular Superstitions

13.00
Unit III: 

J .Wilmot, Earl of Rochester                               

A Satire Against Mankind

13.00
Unit IV: 

Daniel Defoe                                                                 

Robinson Crusoe

13.00
Unit V: 

Samuel Johnson                                                          

The Vanity of Human Wishes

Source Books: 

Lockitt, C.H. Ed. The Art of the Essayist. Hyderabad: Longman, 2006.

Milford, Humphrey. Ed. Fifteen Poets. London: Oxford University Press, 1964.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Macmillan, 1997.

Allison, Alexander W. et al. Ed. The Norton Anthology of Poetry . 3rd ed. WW Norton, 1983.

Bevis, Richard W. English Drama: Restoration and Eighteenth Century. Routledge, 1988.

Deighton, Kenneth. Coverly Papers from The Spectator. Macmillan, 2009.

Ford, Boris. Ed. From Dryden to Johnson – The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vol. 4).             Pelican, 1957.

Kermode, Frank, et al. The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Vol.1. OUP, 1973.


 

Academic Year: 
2019-2020