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The Restoration Age – II (Prose and Fiction) [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 213
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

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

11.00
Unit I: 
Richard Steele
  • The Spectator Club
  • The Trumpet Club
  • His Account of His Disappointment in Love
  • The Art of Conversation
7.00
Unit II: 
Joseph Addison
  • Sir Roger and Will Wimble
  • Meditations in Westminster Abbey
  • Labour and Exercise
  • Popular Superstitions
7.00
Unit III: 
J .Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

A Satire Against Mankind (from The Oxford Anthology of English Literature)

10.00
Unit IV: 
Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

10.00
Unit V: 
Samuel Johnson

The Vanity of Human Wishes

Source Books: 
  • Milford, Humphrey. Ed. Fifteen Poets. London: Oxford University Press, 1964.
  • Lockitt, C.H. Ed. The Art of the Essayist. Hyderabad: Longman, 2006.
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Ford, Boris. Ed. From Dryden to Johnson – The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vol. 4). Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1957.
  • Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Wadsworth: Macmillan, 1997.
  • Bevis, Richard W. English Drama: Restoration and Eighteenth Century. London: Routledge, 1988.
  • Deighton, Kenneth. Coverly Papers from The Spectator. Harvard: Macmillan, 2009.
  • Kermode, Frank, et al. The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Vol.1. London: OUP, 1973.
  • Allison, Barrow, Blake. The Norton Anthology of Poetry 3rd Ed. New York: WW Norton, 1983.
Academic Year: 
2018-2019 [2]

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