Victorian Literature - II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
ENG 225
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
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
Thomas Carlyle
The Hero as Poet
12.00
Walter Pater 
From “Appreciations”: Essays on Style and Postscript
Matthew Arnold
From Culture and Anarchy (Chap. 1 : “Sweetness    and Light” and Chap. 2 : “Doing as One Likes”)
 

 

13.00
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
12.00
Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native
13.00
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Batho, Edith,and Bonamy Dobree.The Victorians and After. London: The Cresset Press, 1950. 
  • Walker, Hugh. Literature of the Victorian Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1910. 
  • Chesterton, Gilbert Kleith. The Victorian Age in Literature. London: Williams and Norgate, 1913.  
  • Regan, Stephen.The Nineteenth Century Novel: A Critical Reader. New York: Routledge,  2004.  
  • Dunn, J. Richard. Wuthering Heights: Norton Critical Edition. ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.