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SREENARAYANAGURU OPEN UNIVERSITY
B.A. ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

ANCILLARY COURSE

B21HS02AN
HISTORY OF BRITAIN II

(Colonialism and Postcolonial Developments)
CREDITS : 6

Course Objectives

1. To understand the history of Britain of the colonial and postcolonial periods
2. To trace the major developments in different phases in the history of Britain
3. To identify the relationship between the history of Britain and the development of
English literature
Course Outcomes

By the end of the course the learners will,
1. get exposed to the socio-cultural history of Britain during the colonial and
postcolonial periods.
2. acquire an understanding about the colonial and postcolonial experience of Britain
that provided the backdrop of English literature of the period.
3. get an idea of how the history of England and English literature are intertwined.

COURSE DETAILS

BLOCK 1: Political and Economic Revolutions

Unit 1 Impact of American and French Revolutions – Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke
Unit 2 Romantic Revival – William Blake, William Wordsworth, Keats, Walter Scott,
Jane Austen
Unit 3 Agrarian, industrial and commercial revolutions

BLOCK 2: New Economic Ideology

Unit 1 Trade unionism – Robert Owen
Unit 2 Chartism – Development of Party system
Unit 3 Laissez faire, Methodism

BLOCK 3: Consolidation of British Empire

Unit 1 Colonialism and Imperialism
Unit 2 Orientalism
Unit 3 Major trends and writings – Rudyard Kipling

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