The Restoration Age – II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
ENG 213
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
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.

 

11.00

Richard Steele

The Spectator Club

The Trumpet Club

His Account of His Disappointment in Love

The Art of Conversation

 

7.00

Joseph Addison                                                           

Sir Roger and Will Wimble

Meditations in Westminster Abbey

Labour and Exercise

Popular Superstitions 

7.00

J .Wilmot, Earl of Rochester                               

A Satire Against Mankind

(from The Oxford Anthology of English Literature)

 

10.00

Daniel Defoe                                                                 

Robinson Crusoe

 

10.00

Samuel Johnson                                                          

The Vanity of Human Wishes

 

Source Books: 

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

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

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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

Allison, Barrow, Blake. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. 3rd ed. New York: WW Norton, 1983. Print.

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

Deighton, Kenneth. Coverly Papers from The Spectator. Harvard: Macmillan, 2009. Print.

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

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