Victorian Literature - II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
ENG 225
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

The students will:

CO 51. Sketch a picture Victorian literature and culture

CO 52. Investigate the relevant historical and cultural contexts to know how those inform the reading of literary texts

CO 53. Critically weigh the texts with other literary critics and theorists

CO 54. Identify how the style, content and structure differ across genres

CO 55.  Develop an understanding to critically interact and analyse Victorian literature from the political, historical and sociological perspectives

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading assignments, Demonstration

Learning activities for the students:

Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Quizzes

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation

  

 

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: 

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.

 

e-resource:

English Language and Literature by Dr. Liza Das & Dr. Krishna Barua,Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,IIT Guwahati. http://nptel.ac.in.

 

Journals:

Victorian Literature and Culture by Cambridge University Press.

 

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023