'English Fiction: Victorian' is a course offered in Third Semester of B. A. (Bachelor of Arts) English Language and Literature program at the School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus.
To introduce the students to the origin and development of English fiction; to study fiction relating it to the socio-cultural aspects of the age; to familiarize them with different strategies of reading fiction.
Unit I:
Introduction to Victorian Fiction-Characteristics-Major Writers.
Unit II:
Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility.
Unit III:
Charles Dickens: Christmas Carol.
Unit IV:
George Eliot: Silas Marner.
Unit V:
Thomas Hardy: Under the Greenwood Tree.
- Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility. Maple Press, 2014.
- Dickens, Charles:Christmas Carol. Fingerprint Publishing, 2015.
- Eliot, George: Silas Mariner. Scholastic India, 2001.
- Hardy, Thomas:Under the Greenwood Tree.Wordsworth Editions Ltd; New edition, 1994..
- David, Deirdre. (Ed). The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, CUP, London
- A Companion to the Victorian Novel, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, (Eds) Patrick Brantlinger, William Thesing, Wiley.
- The Nineteenth Century Novel: A Critical Reader, Stephen Regan, Routledge.
- Williams, Raymond. The English Novel: From Dickens to Lawrence.Vintage Digital, 2013.
- Websources.
