The Restoration Age – II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
ENG 213
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Appreciate the unique literary and stylistic features of the Restoration prose and fiction
  • Be acquainted with the literary aspects like themes, style and structure of the Restoration Age
  • Demonstrate a firm knowledge of the dominant literary forms of satire Restoration comedy
10.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Richard Steele

The Spectator Club

The Trumpet Club

His Account of His Disappointment in Love

The Art of Conversation

10.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Joseph Addison                                                         

Sir Roger and Will Wimble

Meditations in Westminster Abbey

Labour and Exercise

Popular Superstitions

11.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Jonathan Swift                                                          

A Modest Proposal

16.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Daniel Defoe                                                              

Robinson Crusoe

13.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Samuel Johnson                                                       

Essays from The Idler:

 

No. 34 - Punch and Conversation Compared

No. 91 - Sufficiency of the English Language

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.

Academic Year: 
2021-2022