Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Introduction to Literatures in English Novel II 2 Credits Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
Syllabus for Introduction to Literatures in English - Novel - II 2 credits
The University sets this paper under Scheme III only, so your college may not run it.
Module 1
- Origin and Development of Novel
- Rise of English Novel
- Victorian Age Novel
- Romantic Age Novel
- Early Indian English Novel
- Colonial and Post-colonial Novel
- Contemporary Indian Novel
Module 2
- Any one of the following novels:
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Guide by R. K. Narayan
- Chotu: A Tale of Partition and Love by Varud Gupta and Ayushi Rastogi
Reference Books
- 1 Bakhtin, Mikhail. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Edited by Michael Holquist, translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist, University of Texas Press, 1981.
- 2 Barthes, Roland. “The Death of the Author.” Aspen, no. 5–6, 1967.
- 3 Bauman, Zygmunt. Liquid Modernity. Polity Press, 2000.
- 4 Boym, Svetlana. The Future of Nostalgia. Basic Books, 2001.
- 5 Casanova, Pascale. The World Republic of Letters. Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise, Harvard UP, 2004.
- 6 Hutcheon, Linda. A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. Routledge, 1988.
- 7 Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Duke UP, 1991.
- 8 Kettle, Arnold. An Introduction to the English Novel. Vol. 1, Hutchinson, 1974.
- 9 Legouis, Emile. A Short History of English Literature. Oxford UP, 1998.
- 10 Lodge, David. The Art of Fiction. Secker & Warburg, 1992.
- 11 Moretti, Franco. Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History. Verso, 2005.
- 12 Mundra, J. N., and S. C. Mundra. A History of English Literature. Prakash Book Depot, 1997.
- 13 Naik, M. K. A History of Indian English Literature. Sahitya Akademi, 1982.
- 14 Probyn, Clive T. English Fiction of the Eighteenth Century. Addison-Wesley Longman, 1987.
- 15 Schilling, Erik. Theorizing Literature: Literary Theory in Contemporary Novels— and Their Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
- 16 Schugar, Jordan, Chris Penny, and Hannah Glatt. The Digital Storytelling Handbook. The Pennsylvania Alliance for Design of Open Textbooks (PA- ADOPT), 2024.
- 17 Waugh, Patricia. Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction. Methuen, 1984.