Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) History of British Literature Elizabethan to Victorian Age Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

Syllabus for History of British Literature Elizabethan to Victorian Age

Major · English · Semester 6 · TY BA · 4 credits · 100 marks · 60 hours

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1 Comedy of Manners – Features and Major Contributors
2 Heroic Drama – Features and Major Contributors
3 Sentimental Comedy and Anti-Sentimental Comedy: Characteristics and major Contributors
4 Factors responsible for the rise of the novel in the 18 th century and the contribution of the “Four Wheels of the English Novel”
5 Neo-Classical Poetry – Features and Contribution of the major poets

1 Salient Characteristics of Romanticism
2 Romantic Poetry – Characteristics and the contribution of the major Romantic Poets
3 Romantic Prose: Contribution of Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt etc.
4 Novel Writing: Features and Contribution of Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott
5 Gothic Novel: Features and contribution of major novelists

1 Literary Tendencies of the Victorian Age
2 The Rise of the Novel – Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Contribution of Bronte Sisters
3 Victorian Poetry - Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold
4 Prose Writers and their contribution – Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Macaulay, John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold and John Stuart Mill
5 The Pre-Raphaelites

1 Alpers, Paul E. Elizabethan Poetry: Modern Essays in Criticism (OUP: 1967)
2 Craig, Hardin. Ed. A History of English Literature Series. Literature of the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century 1660-1798.Vol III (London, Macmillan, 1969)
3 Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature (Secker and Warburg: London, 1960)
4 King, Bruce. Seventeenth Century English Literature (Macmillan: 1983).
5 Leggatt, Alexander. English Drama: Shakespeare to The Restoration 1590-1660 (Longman: Literature in English Series, 1988)
6 Mundra, J.N. & S.C. Mundra. A History of English Literature. (Vol. I, II, III), Bareilly: Prakash Book Depot, 1997.
7 Perfitt, George. English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century (Longman: Literature in English Series,1992)
8 Parry, Graham.The Seventeenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature. 1603-1700 (Longman: Literature in English Series, 1989)
9 Pooley, Roger. English Prose of the Seventeenth Century (Longman: Literature in English Series, 1992)
10 Ricks, Christopher. The Penguin History of English Literature Vol.3. (Penguin,1993)
11 Roston, Murray. Sixteenth Century English Literature (Macmillan, 1983)

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