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BS-Semester I Session 2020-2024

Class SS-B

Course Title:  History of English Literature

Course Code: ENG 103

Credit Hours: 3

Time: November 02, 2020 to February 12, 2020

Class Time: 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM , Monday-Tuesday

Instructor: Tariq Masood

Email: Proftariqmasood1 @gmail.com

DESCRIPTION& OBJECTIVES

The objective of this course is to acquaint students with the movements, literary giants and development of literary genres in the history of literature & to inform how historical, religious, economic & socio-cultural events influence literature written in English. Histories of literature by some British Literary historians will be consulted to form some socio-cultural & political cross connections. In its border spectrum, the course covers a reference to the multiple factors from economic theories to religious, philosophical & metaphysical debates that shape literature. The ultimate objective of this course is to understand that literary worlds are basically a referential product of the practice that goes back to continuous interdisciplinary interaction.

READINGS

• Compton-Rickett. A,  A History of English Literature. Thomas-Nelson & Sales 1940.
• Daiches, David, A Critical History of English Literature VOL.1-4 London: Secker & Warburg 1961.
• Evans, Ifor. A short History of English Literature. London. Penguin 1976.
• Ford, Boris. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature VOL.1-9 London Penguin 1976.
• Gillie,C. Longman, Companion to English Literature 2nd edition London Longman 1977.
• Long William English Literature: Its History & Significance for the life of English, enlarged edition 2006.
• Sanders Andrew, The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford University Press 2002.
• The Rutledge History of Literature in English, 3rd edition by Ronald Carter and John McRae published in 2016.
• Trevelyn G. M. English Social History
• Abrams M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms

However, no book can help you until and unless you self-teach.

CONTENTS

• Medieval English period (1000- 1453 AD)
• Renaissance (1453 – 1616 AD)
• Puritan Age (1616 – 1660 AD)
• Augustan Age (1660 – 1789 AD)
• Romantic Age (1789 – 1832 AD)
• Victorian Age (1835 – 1900 AD) including early & later Victorian Age
• 20th Century