Victorian Literature - II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
ENG 225
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
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 a Poet

 

12.00
UNIT II: 
Walter Pater
 
From “Appreciations”: Essays on Style and Postscript
 
Mathew Arnold
Culture and Anarchy 
(Chapter 1: Sweetness and Light & Chapter 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: 
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.

 

Academic Year: 
2015-2016