Victorian Literature - I (Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 125
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

  

The students will:

CO21. Question the transition between the writers of the Romantic period and the Modern

CO22. Examine and critique various works by different writers against their socio-cultural, political, historical backgrounds

CO 23.  Compare and contrast different genres and modes to analyze wide range of themes  within a relevant theoretical framework

CO 24.  Examine the existing conflict between faith and science reflected in the massive literary outputs of Victorian era

CO25.  Develop skills to investigate Victorian poetry and drama, and explain intellectual currents of the Victorian era expressed in prescribed texts

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading assignments, Demonstration

Learning activities for the students:

Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Quizzes

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation

  

 

14.00
 
Matthew Arnold
 
The Buried Life
Philomela
The Scholar Gypsy
12.00

Robert Browning                                      

A Grammarian’s Funeral

Porphyria’s Lover

Andrea Del Sarto

Meeting at Night

Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

 
 

 

12.00
Alfred Tennyson
 
The Lotos Eaters 
Ulysses
The Lady of Shalott
All Things Will Die
12.00
G.M. Hopkins
 
Spring and Fall 
Pied Beauty
Carrion Comfort 
The Windhover
Felix Randall
God’s Grandeur
 
10.00
Oscar Wilde
 
A Woman of No Importance
SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

Baker, J.E.  Re-Interpretation of Victorian Literature. Russell and Russell Publications, 1962.

Chesterton, G.K..The Victorian Age in Literature. Charleston:Blbliolife, 2006.

Dobree, B., and E.C. Batho. The Victorians and After. Cresset Press, 1950.

Ellman,Richard.The Artist as Critic: The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde.Random House.2013.

Regan, Stephen, ed. The Nineteenth Century Novel: A Critical Reader. Routledge, 2001.

Swarnkar, S.K. Gerald Manley Hopkins: A Critical Study. Atlantic.2005.

 

 

e-resources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVBQaAx5OOE&t=2s (Arnold)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79eHrekn_bc (Hopkins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzTC6RlnkVs (Wilde)

 

Journals:

English studies

LIT Literature Interpretation Theory

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023