Victorian Literature - I (Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
24ENG125
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The Course will enable the students to value Victorian literature with respect to the representative poets of the time and their style, examine the nuances of Victorian poetry and drama and critique the selected poems and plays against the larger socio-political and religious contexts of the time.

 

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

 

11.00
Unit III: 

Alfred Tennyson

The Lotos Eaters

Ulysses

The Lady of Shalott

All Things Will Die

 

13.00
Unit IV: 

G.M. Hopkins

Spring and Fall

Pied Beauty

Carrion Comfort

The Windhover

Felix Randall

God’s Grandeur

 

10.00
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: 
2024-2025
Course Outcomes: 

The students will:

CO25. Explore the transition between the writers of the Romantic period and the Modern

CO26. Examine and critique various works by different writers against their socio-cultural, political, historical backgrounds

CO27.  Compare and contrast different genres and modes to analyze wide range of themes within a relevant theoretical framework

CO28.  Assess the existing conflict between faith and science reflected in the literary outputs of Victorian era

CO29.  Develop skills to investigate Victorian poetry and drama, and explain intellectual currents of the Victorian era expressed in prescribed texts
CO30. Contribute effectively to course-specific interaction.