Course Outline

History of English Literature from Augustan to Victorian Age with special emphasis on major writers.

Unit I: 

AugustanAge-Characteristics.

Major Writers of the Age.

Unit II:

Pre Romantic Age- Transition- Major Writers.

Unit III:

Early Romantics- Major writers.

Unit IV:

Late Romantic Writers – Byron, Shelley, Keats and Thomas More.

Lamb, Dequincy, Hazlitt, Southey.

Unit V:

Victorian Age – Characteristics – Socio-Political Background-Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Carlyle, Macaulay, Ruskin.

1. Legouis, Emile, Cazamian. A Short History of English Literature. OUP.
2. Ford, Boris (Ed.) The Pelican Guide to English Literature. Penguin Books.
3. Thornley, G C and Gwyneth Roberts. An Outline of English Literature, Pearson, 2011.
4. Richard Cronin, Alison Chapman, Anthony H. Harrison. Eds. A Companion to Victorian Poetry.London: Wiley-Blackwell.

1. Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature.
2. Arthur Compton-Rickett. A History of English Literature. Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.
3. Peck, John and Martin Coyle. A Brief History of English Literature. Indian Edition: Palgrave.
4. Alexander Michael. A History of English Literature. Chennai: Palgrave Macmillan.