English Literature
Total Marks – 200
Paper I
Marks – 100
Detailed study of a literary age (19th Century)
The paper will cover the study of English literature from 1798 to 1900 with special reference to the works of W. Blake, Wordsworth, Shelly, Keats, Byron, Charles Lamb, Dickens, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Hardy, George Eliot, J.S. Mill, Ruskin and Oscar Wilde.
Evidence of first hand reading will be required. The paper will be designed to test not only the candidates’ knowledge of the prescribed authors but also their understanding of the main literary trends during the period. Questions having a bearing on the social and cultural background of the Period also be included.