Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Introduction to Literatures in English Novel II Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

Module 1: Genre Specifications

• (N.B. The genre specifications in this module have to be taught with reference to the Novels prescribed in the following modules)
• Adventure Fiction and Realistic Fiction (Style)
• Gothic Fiction, Vampire Fiction, Horror Fiction
• Allegorical Novel
• Slave Narratives
• Post-Colonial Novel
• Graphic Novel

Module 2: (British Novel)

• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• Or Dracula by Bram Stoker

Module 3: (American Novel)

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Or Beloved by Toni Morrison

Module 4: (Indian Novel)

• The Guide by R. K. Narayan Or Chotu: A Tale of Partition and Love by Varud Gupta and Ayushi Rastogi

Text Books

• 1 Defoe, D. (1719). Robinson Crusoe. W. Taylor.
• 2 Gupta, V., & Rastogi, A. (2021). Chhotu: A Tale of Partition and Love. Penguin Random House India.
• 3 Hemingway, E. (1952). The Old Man and the Sea. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
• 4 Morrison, T. (1987). Beloved. Alfred A. Knopf.
• 5 Narayan, R. K. (1958). The Guide. Methuen.
• 6 Rao, R. (1938). Kanthapura. Oxford University Press.
• 7 Stoker, B. (1897). Dracula. Archibald Constable and Company.

Reference Books

• 1 Bakhtin, Mikhail. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist, University of Texas Press, 1981.
• 2 Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. Routledge, 1994.
• 3 Cassuto, Leonard, editor. The Cambridge History of the American Novel. Cambridge UP, 2011.
• 4 Eagleton, Terry. The English Novel: An Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell, 2005.
• 5 Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton UP, 1957.
• 6 Gikandi, Simon, editor. The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. Cambridge UP, 2004.
• 7 Lukács, Georg. The Historical Novel. Merlin Press, 1962.
• 8 Naik, M. K. A History of Indian English Literature. Sahitya Akademi, 1982.
• 9 Said, Edward W. Orientalism. Pantheon Books, 1978.
• 10 Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding. University of California Press, 1957.