Victorian Literature - II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
ENG 225
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
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: 

Thomas Carlyle
The Hero as Poet

12.00
Unit II: 

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
Unit III: 

Emily Bronte                                                            

Wuthering Heights

12.00
Unit IV: 

Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native

13.00
Unit V: 

Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Batho, Edith,and Bonamy Dobree.The Victorians and After. London: The Cresset Press, 1950. Print.
  • Chesterton, Gilbert Kleith. The Victorian Age in Literature. London: Williams and Norgate, 1913. Print.
  • Dunn, J. :Richard. Wuthering Heights: Norton Critical Edition. ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.Print.        Regan, Stephen.The Nineteenth Century Novel: A Critical Reader. New York: Routledge,  2004.Print.
Academic Year: 
2016-2017