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BLOCK 4: The Victorian Age

Unit 1 Victorian society
Unit 2 Literary developments – John Ruskin, Newman, Clare, Tennyson, Browning,
Matthew Arnold
Unit 3 Oxford movement – Liberalism, Charles Dickens
Unit 4 Late Victorian Literature – Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, G.B.Shaw

BLOCK 5: Socialist Movement and Postmodernism

Unit 1 Ideology and practice – Fabian Socialism, labour Party
Unit 2 Decolonization – thinkers – Russel, E.M. Foster, Toynbee, W.B. Yeats
Unit 3 Modernism, Postmodernism – D.H. Lawrence, W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Orwell

Unit 4 Contemporary Culture(s)

BLOCK 6: English Language Indian English Writers

Unit 1 Introduction of Western education in India
Unit 2 Indian writing in English – Toru Dutt, R.C.Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore,
Mulkraj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Kamala Das, A.K. Ramanujan, U.R. Ananda
Murthy

References:

G.M. Trevelyan. English Social History. Booksway, 2014.
E.H. Carter, Mears, et.al. A History of Britain, Stacey, 2012.
Simon Jenkins. A Short History of England. Profile, 2018.
Kenneth O Morgan (Ed). The Oxford History of Britain, Oxford UP, 2010.
Winston Churchill. A History of English-Speaking Peoples. Bloomsbury, 2014.
Robert Bucholz and Newton Key. Early Modern England, 1485-1714. Wiley, 2003.
Emilie Amt, (Ed.). Medieval England, 1000-1500: A Reader. Toronto UP, 2008.
R.E. Pritchard. Shakespeare’s England: Life in Elizabethan and
Jacobean Times. History Press, 2003.
A.L. Rowse. The Elizabethan Renaissance: The Life of the Society. Ivan, 2000.
Richard Bailey. Images of English: A Cultural History of the
Language, Cambridge UP, 2009.

Eric Brown. English History, A Concise Overview of the History of
England from Start to End. Guy, 2019.
Ania Loomba. Colonialism/ Postcolonialism. Routledge, 2016.

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