Syllabus (ENGLISH)

Course Type: MAJ-5

Semester: 4

Course Code: BENGMAJ402

Course Title: History of English Literature: Romantic and Victorian period

(L-P-Tu): 4-0-1

Credit: 6

Practical/Theory: Theory

Course Objective: Will provide students valuable background information that will enable them to understand and appreciate individual works from Romantic to Victorian Age better. The syllabus will also help them develop a sense of history and the ability to organise, evaluate and present ideas from one coherent body of knowledge. It will also help them to comprehend literary productions of the period through an in depth understanding of literary types

Learning Outcome: The students will learn • How people lived during the Romantic and Victorian Age in Britain. • What sort of social and political organisations evolved there. • What kind of literature emerged out of these conditions. • Different literary forms that evolved during this period

History of English Literature: Romantic and Victorian period and
Literary Terms related to this period.

Literary types & Terms:
Mock Epic, Ode, Dramatic Monologue, Synesthesia, Negative Capability, Egotistical Sublime, Pantheism, Novel, Novel of Sensibility, Sentimental Comedy, Narrative Technique, Point of View (First/Second/Third Person Narrator),