Victorian Literature - I (Poetry and Drama)

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

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

14.00
Unit I: 

Matthew Arnold

The Buried Life

Philomela

The Scholar Gypsy

 

12.00
Unit II: 

Robert Browning                                       

A Grammarian’s Funeral

Porphyria’s Lover

Andrea Del Sarto

Meeting at Night

Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

 

12.00
Unit III: 

Alfred Tennyson

The Lotos Eaters

Ulysses

The Lady of Shalott

 All Things Will Die

 

12.00
Unit IV: 

G.M. Hopkins

Spring and Fall

Pied Beauty

Carrion Comfort

The Windhover

 Felix Randall

 God’s Grandeur
 

 

12.00
Unit V: 

Oscar Wilde

A Woman of No Importance

 

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: 
2023-2024