G1 E3 : Victorian and Early Modern Period

Course Outcomes (COs)

CO-1.  Students will be able to describe the prominent features of Victorian and Early Modern British literature.

CO-2.  Students will be able to assess the Victorian novel through a detailed study of the prescribed fiction.

CO-3.  Students will be able to appreciate the various trends of the 19th British Drama through a detailed study of the prescribed text.

CO-4.  Students will be able to comprehend the major trends in British Short stories.

CO-5. Students will be able to interpret and critically appreciate the Victorian and Early Modern British poetry.

Syllabus:

        Unit 1. Victorian Novel: Emily Brönte- Wuthering Heights

        Unit 2. 19th Century British Drama: John Galsworthy– Justice

        Unit 3. Victorian and Early Modern Short Story (Selected Short Stories)

                    Rudyard Kipling: They

                    Joseph Conrad: The Secret Sharer

                    Robert Louis Stevenson: The Body Snatcher

                    Thomas Hardy: The Three Strangers

                    H. G. Wells: The Country of The Blind

                    Wilkie Collins: Who Killed Zebedee?

        Unit 4. Victorian and Early Modern Poetry (Selected Poems)

                   Lord Alfred Tennyson: ‘Ulysses’, ‘Charge of Light Brigade’

                   Robert Browning: ‘My Last Duchess’,

                   Dante Gabriel Rossetti: ‘The Blessed Damozel’,

                   G.M. Hopkins: ‘Pied Beauty’,

                   W.B. Yeats: ‘Sailing to Byzantium’,

            War Poets: 

                    Rupert Brook-‘The Soldier’,

                    Siegfried Sassoon ‘Christ and the Soldier’,

                     Wilfred Owen-‘Dulce et Decorum est’.

  • Reference Books:

  1. Blamiers, Harry. A Short History of English Literature. London: Routledge, 2003.
  2. Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature Vol.1-4.
  3. Carter, Ronald and John McRay. The Routledge History of Literature in English. London: Routledge, 2001.
  4. Adams, James Eli. A History of Victorian Literature. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
  5. David, Deirdre, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel. Cambridge: CUP, 2001.
  6. Glen, Heather, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Bröntes. Cambridge: CUP, 2002.
  7. Powell, Kerry, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre. Cambridge: CUP, 2004.