II – Semester
OPTIONAL ENGLISH SYLLABUS
PAPER II-VICTORIANS TO THE PRESENT
(60 HOURS)
UNIT I (10 HOURS)
A survey of History of English Literature (Victorians to the Present 1850 onwards)
• The Victorian age (1837-1901)
• The Reform Bills
• The dawn of the twentieth century
• The effects of the world wars
• Modernism
Unit II (8 hours)
Prose
1. James Joyce: Araby
2. T S Eliot: Tradition and Individual Talent
Unit III (20 hours)
Poetry
1. Alfred Lord Tennyson: Break, Break, Break
2. Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
3. W B Yeats: The second Coming
4. Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting
5. Ted Hughes: Hawk Roosting
Unit IV (22hours)
Novels
1. Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
External References/Readings
1. An outline History of English Literature by W H Hudson
2. A history of English Literature by Edward Albert
3. A history of English Literature by Arthur Compton Rickett
4. A critical history of English Literature by David Daiches
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