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Victorian Literature - II (Prose and Fiction)
The Course will enable the students to get introduced to the literature of the Victorian period, draw connections with the culture and history of the period, explain Victorian literature in relation to a range of contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of a range of terms and concepts integral to literary studies.
Thomas Carlyle
The Hero as Poet
Matthew Arnold
From Culture and Anarchy
(Chap. 1: “Sweetness and Light” & Chap. 2: “Doing as One Likes”)
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
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.
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The students will: CO61. Acquire an insight into Victorian literature and culture CO62. Investigate the relevant historical and cultural contexts to know how those inform the reading of literary texts CO63. Compare and contrast the texts with other literary critics and theorists CO64. Identify how the style, content and structure differ across genres CO65. Develop an understanding to critically interact and analyse Victorian literature from the political, historical and sociological perspectives |