CCI History of English Literature

CC1- HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE– I

UNIT I

Anglo-Saxon Literature- Chaucer and his time. The end of the Middle Age and early Tudor Scene, Spenser and his time 

UNIT II 

Drama from the miracle plays to Marlow Shakespeare and his time Drama from Johnson to closing of the theatres

UNIT III 

Prose in sixteenth & seventeenth century, Poetry after Spenser (Metaphysical traditions), Milton and his milieu Restoration Age (prose, poetry & drama) 

UNIT IV 

The Augustan Age (Defoe, Swift, Pope) Novel from Richardson to Jane Austen, Eighteenth Century Prose and Miscellaneous Writings , French Revolution and English Literature: French 

Revolution, pre-Romantic era, Romantic Movement.

RECOMMENDED READING:

1. Bowden, M. A. Readers Guide to Geoffrey Chaucer. London: Thames and Hudson, 1965.

2. Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature. New York: Ronald Press Co.,1960. 

3. Hudson, W.H. An Outline History of English Literature. London: Bell, 1932.

4. Ford, Boris. A Pelican Guide to English Literature, New York: Penguin Books, 1968. 

5. Hawkins-Dady. Mark. Reader s Guide to Literature in English, London: Taylor & Francis, 1996. 

6. Sanders Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature (3rd edition). New Delhi: 

OUP, 2005.

7. Baugh, A.C. Ed. A Literary History of England (2nd ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967. 

8. History of English Literature. London: Sphere, 1971. Rev. ed. 1986. Rpt. as Penguin History of Literature. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993.