Victorian Literature - II (Prose and Fiction)

Paper Code: 
ENG 225
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
10
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Get introduced to the literature of the Victorian period and help them draw connections between Victorian prose and fiction  and the culture and history of the period
  • Understand Victorian literature in relation to a range of contexts, including Victorian anxieties about modernity, madness, sexual transgression and disease
  • Successfully deploy a range of terms and concepts integral to literary studies

 

11.00
Unit I: 

Thomas Carlyle                                                

The Hero as Poet

13.00
Unit II: 

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
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. 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.

Academic Year: 
2019-2020