Victorian Literature - II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
ENG 225
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
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: 
Unit 1

Thomas Carlyle                                               

The Hero as Poet

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

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: 
Unit 3

Emily Bronte                                                          

Wuthering Heights

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Thomas Hardy

The Return of the Native

13.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

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: 
2017-2018