The Restoration Age – II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
ENG 213
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • The students will be able to appreciate the unique literary and stylistic features of the Restoration prose and fiction
  • The course will acquaint them with the literary aspects like themes, style and structure of the Restoration Age
  • The students will be able to demonstrate a firm knowledge of the dominant literary forms of satire Restoration comedy

 

 

 

10.00

Richard Steele

The Spectator Club

The Trumpet Club

His Account of His Disappointment in Love

The Art of Conversation

 

11.00

Joseph Addison                                                           

Sir Roger and Will Wimble

Meditations in Westminster Abbey

Labour and Exercise

Popular Superstitions

 

13.00

J .Wilmot, Earl of Rochester                               

A Satire Against Mankind

 

 

 

13.00

Daniel Defoe                                                                 

Robinson Crusoe

 

 

 

13.00

Samuel Johnson                                                          

The Vanity of Human Wishes

 

Source Books: 

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

Milford, Humphrey. Ed. Fifteen Poets. OUP, 1964.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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

Allison, Barrow, Blake. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. 3rded. 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.

 

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