Victorian Literature - II (Prose and Fiction)

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

Course Objectives:

The course will enable the students to:

  • To introduce the students to the literature of the Victorian period and help them draw its connections with the culture and history of the period
  • To explain Victorian literature in relation to a range of contexts, including Victorian anxieties about modernity, madness, sexual transgression and disease
  • To demonstrate the knowledge of a range of terms and concepts integral to literary studies

 

Course Outcomes-

The students will:

  • Sketch a picture Victorian literature and culture
  • Investigate the relevant historical and cultural contexts to know how those inform the reading of literary texts
  • Critically weigh the texts with other literary critics and theorists
  • Identify how the style, content and structure differ across genres

 

11.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

Thomas Carlyle                                               

The Hero as Poet

 

13.00
Unit II: 
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”)

 

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

Emily Bronte                                                            

Wuthering Heights

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Thomas Hardy                                                         

The Return of the Native

 

Unit V: 
Unit V

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

 

Batho, Edith,and Bonamy Dobree.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: 
2021-2022