The Restoration Age – II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
ENG 213
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
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.
11.00
Unit I: 

Richard Steele

The Spectator Club

The Trumpet Club

His Account of His Disappointment in Love

The Art of Conversation

7.00
Unit II: 

Joseph Addison                                                           

Sir Roger and Will Wimble

Meditations in Westminster Abbey

Labour and Exercise

Popular Superstitions

7.00
Unit III: 

J .Wilmot, Earl of Rochester                               

A Satire Against Mankind

(from The Oxford Anthology of English Literature)

10.00
Unit IV: 

Daniel Defoe                                                                 

Robinson Crusoe

10.00
Unit V: 

Samuel Johnson                                                          

The Vanity of Human Wishes

Source Books: 
  1. Lockitt, C.H. Ed. The Art of the Essayist. Hyderabad: Longman, 2006.Print.
  2. 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.
Academic Year: 
2016-2017