Victorian Literature - I

Paper Code: 
ENG 125
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
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 poets and their individual traits

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Robert Browning

A Grammarian’s Funeral

Porphyria’s Lover

Andrea Del Sarto

 

12.00
Unit II: 
Alfred Tennyson

The Lotos Eaters

Ulysses

The Lady of Shalott

 

12.00
Unit III: 
G.M. Hopkins

Spring and Fall

 Pied Beauty

Carrion Comfort

The Windhover

Felix Randall

God’s Grandeur

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Oscar Wilde

A Woman of No Importance

12.00
Unit V: 
Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Re-Interpretation of Victorian Literature by J.E. Baker

•        The Victorians and After: B. Dobree

•        The Victorian Temper: F.H. Buckley

•        Literature of the Victorian Era: H. Walker

•        The Victorian Age in Literature: G.K. Chesterton

•       The Nineteenth Century Novel: A Critical Reader ed. by Stephen Regan (Routledge)

 

 

Academic Year: 
2014-2015