Victorian Literature - II (Prose and Fiction)

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

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

 
11.00
Unit I: 

Thomas Carlyle                                                

The Hero as Poet

 
13.00
Unit II: 

Walter Pater                                        

From “Appreciations”: Essays on Style

Matthew Arnold                  

From Culture and Anarchy (Chap. 1 : “Sweetness and Light” and Chap. 2 : “Doing as One Likes”)

 
12.00
Unit III: 

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights

 
12.00
Unit IV: 

Thomas Hardy

The Return of the Native

 
12.00
Unit V: 

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield

 
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.

 

Journals:

Victorian Literature and Culture by Cambridge University Press.

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.

 

 

Academic Year: 
2023-2024