Victorian Literature - II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
ENG 225
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Objective: 
The course will enable the students to:
• Get  introduced to the literature of the Victorian period and help them draw connections between Victorian prose and fiction  and the culture and history of the period
• Understand Victorian literature in relation to a range of contexts, including Victorian anxieties about modernity, madness, sexual transgression and disease
• Successfully deploy a range of terms and concepts integral to literary studies
 
Learning Outcomes-
The students will be able to:
• Gain an understanding of various aspects of Victorian literature and culture
• Get an insight into relevant historical and cultural contexts to know how those inform the reading of literary texts
• Critically engage with other literary critics and theorists 
 
11.00
Thomas Carlyle                                                
The Hero as Poet
13.00
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”)
 
12.00
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
12.00
Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native
12.00
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
Batho, Edith,andBonamyDobree.The Victorians and After. The Cresset Press, 1950. 
Chesterton, Gilbert Kleith. The Victorian Age in Literature. London: Williams and Norgate, 1913.
Dunn, J. :Richard. Wuthering Heights: Norton Critical Edition. ed.  W. W. Norton, 2002.  
Ford, Boris. Ed. From Dickens to Hardy :The Pelican Guide to English Literature. Vol. 6. Penguin, 1957. 
Meyer, Susan and Barbara Leah Harman,ed.The New Nineteenth Century.Routledge.2000.      
Regan, Stephen.The Nineteenth Century Novel: A Critical Reader. Routledge,  2004.
 
Academic Year: 
2020-2021