Sikkim University BA English

BA HONOURS IN ENGLISH

ENG-UG-E101: HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE Unit I: Literature from the Medieval to the Elizabethan Age Medieval Alliterative Poetry Origin and Development of British Drama in the Middle Ages Pre-Elizabethan Drama Renaissance Humanism The Elizabethan Sonnet and Sonnet sequences

Unit II: Literature from the Jacobean to the Neoclassical Age The Metaphysical movement in Poetry Jacobean Drama Restoration Drama Augustan Satire Neoclassicism The Rise of the Novel in the Eighteenth Century

Unit III: Literature from the age of sensibility to the Victorian The Age of Sensibility The Romantic Movement and the French Revolution Romantic Imagination Trends in Victorian Poetry Trends in Victorian Fiction Victorian Non-Fictional Prose

Unit IV: Literature of the modern age Georgian Poetry Literature of the Great War High Modernism and the Poets of the 1930s. Early 20th Century Poetic Drama Early Modern Fiction and the Stream of Consciousness Novel

Suggested Readings: Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. I-II.
Compton, Rickett A History of English Literature Rees, R.J. An Introduction to English Literature Abrams, M.H. A Handbook of Literary Terms Forster, E.M. Aspects of the Novel Baker,Ernest.
History of the English Novel Lodge, David.
The Art of Fiction Boas,Fredrick. Shakespeare and his Predecessors Sanders, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature Ford, Boris.
The Pelican Guide to English Literature (10 volumes)

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