Victorian Literature - II

Paper Code: 
ENG 225
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

10.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

Elizabeth Barrett Browning                           Sonnet No. 14-If Thou Must Love Me…..     

        Sonnet No. 41-I Thank All Who Have Loved Me

     Sonnet No. 43- How do I love thee?                                      (from Sonnets from the Portuguese)

                                                                A Musical Instrument

 

13.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

Matthew Arnold                                                     Culture and Anarchy

(Chapter 1: Sweetness and Light and                                                Chapter 2: Doing as One Likes)

                                                       The Buried Life

                                                       Philomela

 

13.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

Emily Bronte                        Wuthering Heights

Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Thomas Hardy                                                         The Return of the Native

 

13.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

Walter Pater                             From ‘Appreciations’: Essays on Style and Postscript

J.S. Mill                                    On Liberty

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

The Victorians and After : B. Dobree

•         Literature of the Victorian Era : H. Walker

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

  • Appreciations: With an Essay on Style. Walter Pater (Macmillan, London, 1944)
  • The Nineteenth Century Novel: A Critical Reader ed. by Stephen Regan (Routledge)
  • Wuthering Heights: Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Richard J Dunn.
  • Critical Essays on Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Ed. Sandra Donaldson.

 

Academic Year: 
2014-2015