Syllabus — History of English Literature

Paper Code: 221107 — History of English Literature

Marks: 100 · Credits: 4 · Class Hours: 60

Periods to Study

1. Early and Middle English Period
2. Age of Chaucer
3. Reformation Period
4. Renaissance: Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Puritan Age
5. Restoration Period
6. Neoclassical Age
7. Romantic Age
8. Victorian Age
9. Modern Age

What to Study

• The social, historical, and intellectual background of each literary period
• Major authors, works, movements, and characteristics of every age from early English to modern times
• How each period grows out of and reacts against the one before it

References

• George Sampson — Cambridge History of English Literature
• Robert Barnard — A Short History of English Literature
• William J. Long — English Literature: Its History and Its Significance

Source: National University Four-Year B.A. Honours syllabus, Department of English, effective from session 2013–2014.