• 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.
Thomas Carlyle
The Hero as Poet
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”)
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
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.