History of English Literature (B.A English)

Major ages, movements and writers of English literature from the Old English period to the modern age.

6 MonthsDuration 6Chapters28Topics

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01Unit 1: Old and Middle English Period 4 topics
  1. Old English literature: Beowulf
  2. Middle English: Chaucer, Langland, Gower
  3. Malory: Morte d'Arthur
  4. Miracle and morality plays
02Unit 2: Renaissance and Elizabethan Age 5 topics
  1. The Renaissance and its features
  2. Spenser and Sidney
  3. University Wits and Shakespeare
  4. Francis Bacon
  5. Jacobean age and the King James Bible
03Unit 3: Puritan, Restoration and Neo-classical Age 6 topics
  1. Milton and the Puritan age
  2. Restoration age: Dryden and comedy of manners
  3. Neo-classical age: Pope and Swift
  4. Periodical essay: Addison and Steele
  5. Samuel Johnson
  6. Rise of the novel
04Unit 4: Romantic Age 4 topics
  1. Features of Romanticism
  2. Lyrical Ballads (1798): Wordsworth and Coleridge
  3. Byron, Shelley and Keats
  4. Romantic prose: Lamb and Hazlitt
05Unit 5: Victorian Age 4 topics
  1. Victorian age: background and features
  2. Tennyson, Browning and Arnold
  3. Victorian novel: Dickens, Eliot, Hardy
  4. Victorian prose: Carlyle and Ruskin
06Unit 6: Modern Age 5 topics
  1. Modernism and its features
  2. T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats
  3. Joyce and Woolf
  4. War poets
  5. Modern drama: Shaw and Beckett

About

You will be able to

  • Describe the major ages of English literature with their dates and features
  • Name the major writers and works of each age
  • Explain literary movements such as the Renaissance, Neo-classicism, Romanticism and Modernism
  • Explain the social and historical background of each age
  • Answer objective and essay questions on literary history

Who it is for

  • B.A Semester 5 students with English as a major subject (UP State Universities, NEP 2020)
  • Students preparing for TGT / PGT / UGC NET English

What you need

  • English papers of Semesters 1-4

Questions

Which syllabus does this course follow?

It follows the UP State Universities NEP 2020 common minimum syllabus (MGKVP, VBSPU, Lucknow University and others) for B.A English, Semester 5. Where your own university's syllabus differs, the centre follows your university syllabus.

How will I be tested?

Unit-wise MCQ tests, short and long answer practice in university exam pattern, and a final mock paper.

How do I remember so many names and dates?

Age-wise charts of writers, works and dates are given and revised through weekly objective tests.

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