The Restoration Age – II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
ENG 213
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Objective : To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits

 

Unit 1 (11 Hrs.)

 

Richard Steele                                           The Spectator Club

                                                                  The Trumpet Club

                                                                  His Account of His Disappointment in Love

                                                                  The Art of Conversation

 

Unit 2 (7 Hrs.)

 

 Joseph Addison                                        Sir Roger and Will Wimble

                                                                  Meditations in Westminster Abbey

                                                                  Labour and Exercise

                                                                  Popular Superstitions

 

 

                                                                  Unit 3 (7 Hrs.)

J .Wilmot, Earl of Rochester                     A Satire Against Mankind

                                                        (from The Oxford Anthology of English Literature)

 

 

Unit 4 (10 Hrs.)

 

Daniel Defoe                                             Robinson Crusoe

 

 

 

Unit 5 (10 Hrs.)

 

Samuel Johnson                                        The Vanity of Human Wishes

Source Books: 

        Source Books:

  • Milford, Humphrey. Ed. Fifteen Poets. London: Oxford University Press, 1964.
  • Lockitt, C.H. Ed. The Art of the Essayist. Hyderabad: Longman, 2006.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

  • Ford, Boris. Ed. From Dryden to Johnson – The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vol. 4). Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1957.
  • Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Wadsworth: Macmillan, 1997.

 

Academic Year: 
2015-2016