The Restoration Age – II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
ENG 213
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

The students will:

  1. Evaluate the unique literary and stylistic features of the Restoration prose and fiction
  2. Be familiarized with the literary aspects like themes, style and structure of the Restoration Age Essays
  3. Demonstrate a firm knowledge and infer the dominant literary forms of satire Restoration comedy
  4. Critique the similarity as well as differences in the various Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama
  5. Demonstrate an understanding of the evolution and development of Eighteenth Century drama

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Writing assignments

 

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self- learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks

 

 

Class test, Semester end examinations Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

  

 

10.00

Richard Steele

The Spectator Club

The Trumpet Club

His Account of His Disappointment in Love

The Art of Conversation

 
 

 

10.00

Joseph Addison                                            

Sir Roger and Will Wimble

Meditations in Westminster Abbey

Labour and Exercise

Popular Superstitions

 
 

 

11.00

Jonathan Swift                                             

A Modest Proposal

 
 

 

16.00

Daniel Defoe                                                 

Robinson Crusoe

 

 
 

 

12.00

Samuel Johnson                                           

Essays from The Idler:

 

No. 34 - Punch and Conversation Compared

No. 91 - Sufficiency of the English Language

 
 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Source Books:

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

Milford, Humphrey. Ed. Fifteen Poets. OUP, 1964. (Delete)

 

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.

 

 

E-Resources:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dgdNnqJ4oIc

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023