B.A. English
6th Semester Syllabus
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MJC-10 : British Literature: 19th Century
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Unit 1: Historical overview of the Period
◦The importance of Romanticism
◦Origin of Victorian Poetry
◦Concept of Faith and Doubt
◦Mercantilism
◦Emergence of New Themes and Techniques
Unit 2: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
◦Jane Austen
◦Pride and Prejudice
◦London: Oxford University Press
Unit 3: Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
◦Charles Dickens
◦David Copperfield
◦Penguin Classics
◦Revised Edition, 2004
Unit 4: Poetry
◦Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses
◦Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
◦Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach
◦Thomas Hardy: To an Unborn Pauper Child
Reference Books:
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 'Mode of Production: The Basis of Social Life', 'The Social Nature of Consciousness', and 'Classes and Ideology', in A Reader in Marxist Philosophy, ed. Howard Selsam and Harry Martel, New York: International Publishers, 1963. pp. 186-8, 190-1, 199-201.
- Charles Darwin, 'Natural Selection and Sexual Selection', in The Descent of Man in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th edn, vol. 2, ed. Stephen Greenblatt, New York: Norton, 2006. pp. 1545-9.
- John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women in Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th edn, vol. 2, ed. Stephen Greenblatt, New York: Norton, 2006. chap. 1, pp. 1061-9.
- 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.
- Palgrave's Golden Treasury, New York: O.U.P., 2007.
- C.M. Bowra: Romantic Imagination, OUP/ Books World