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Nineteenth Century Prose and Fiction-I [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 312
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
OBJECTIVE: 

To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative writers and their individual traits.

 

10.00
UNIT I: 
 

Charles Lamb                                                                

In Praise of Chimney Sweepers

Oxford in the Vacation

Modern Gallantry

 

13.00
UNIT II: 
 

 

John Ruskin                                                                   

Of the Pathetic Fallacy

 

William Hazlitt                                                            

On Familiar Style

 On Going a Journey

 

14.00

                                                            Unit 3 (14 Hrs.)

 

Jane Austen                                                     Mansfield Park

 

14.00

Unit 4 (14 Hrs.)

 

Charles Dickens                                              Great Expectations

 

11.00

       Unit 5 (11 Hrs.)

 

R.L. Stevenson                                                Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

 

Source Books: 

Source Books :

  • Lockitt, C.H. Ed. The Art of the Essayist. Hyderabad: Longman, 2006.
  • Walker, Hugh. English Essay and Essayists. London:  J.M. Dent & Sons, 1915.
  • Williams, Emrys. Ed. A Book of English Essays. London: Pelican, 1970.

                                                                 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings :

 

  • Ford, Boris. Ed. From Dickens to Hardy – The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vol. 6). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957.
  • Thomson, D. England in the Nineteenth Century. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970.
  • Baker, J.E. The Re-interpretation of Victorian Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950.
  • Buckley, F.H. The Victorian Temper. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1969.
  • Walker, Hugh. English Essay and Essayists. London:  J.M. Dent & Sons, 1915.
  • Neill, Diane S. A Short History of the English Novel. New Delhi: Kalyani Publishers, 1971.
  • Cecil, David. Early Victorian Novelists London: Constable. 1934.
  • Allen, Walter. The English Novel – A Short Critical History. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991.
  • Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Wadsworth: Macmillan, 1997.
  • Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. New Delhi: Trinity Press Publication, 1999.

 

Academic Year: 
2015-2016 [2]

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