B.A. English
5th Semester Syllabus
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MJC-08 : British Literature: 18th Century
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Unit 1: Historical overview of the period
◦Restoration
◦Glorious revolution
◦New Classicism & Enlightenment
Unit 2: Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
◦Jonathan Swift
◦Gulliver's Travels
◦UK: Oxford University Press
Unit 3: Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
◦Daniel Defoe
◦Robinson Crusoe
◦New York: Oxford University Press Inc
◦(Introduction by Thomas Keymer)
Unit 4: Thomas Gray - 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'
◦Thomas Gray
◦'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' in Palgrave's Golden Treasury
◦New York: O.U.P
Reference Books:
- Michael Alexander: History of English Literature, Houndmills: Macmillan Press Ltd., 2000.
- Ifor Evans: A Short History of English Literature, London: Penguin Books, 1990.
- David Daiches: A Critical History of English Literature, New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 1979.
- Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the
- Daniel Defoe: 'The Complete English Tradesman'(Letter XXII), 'The Great Law of Subordination Considered' (Letter IV), and 'The Complete English Gentleman', in Literature and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century England, ed. Stephen Copley, London: Croom Helm,1984.
- Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of TristramShandy, Gentleman. Worldview Publication, 2016.
- John Locke: Of Ideas in general, and their Original, Paragraphs 1-8, from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), Chap 1 Book II, ed. John Nidditch, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. pp.104-108.
- Addison and Steele: (i) Addison, Essay No. 10, Monday, March 12, 1711; (ii) Addison, Essay No. 69, on the stock-exchange, Saturday, May 19, 1711, both from The Spectator (1711-12); Eliza Haywood, Selections from The Female Spectator (1744-46), ed. Patricia Meyer Spacks,pp.7-23.
- Palgrave's Golden Treasury, New York:O.U.P.,2007.
- Ian Jack. Augustan Satire. OUP