Gauhati University Question Papers for English 3rd Semester

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 SEMESTER III

PAPER 5

The Social and Literary Context: The Victorian World

Marks 100 (80+20) [20 Marks Internal Assessment]. Credits: 8

This paper seeks to acquaint students with the contexts of the English literary tradition as it develops in the Victorian age. Students are expected to study the social and literary history of  the Victorian world as a necessary preparation for the texts that they will encounter in Paper VI. They will answer 4 questions of  14 marks each (14×4=56) and 4 questions of  6 marks each (4x6=24) based on the themes, topics and literary movements identified below.

The literary history and its context from 1830 to the present times will be studied with special reference to the following:

    The Reform Act 1832

    ‘The Condition of England’ – Carlyle and Dickens

    Victorian fiction with reference to the works of Charles Dickens, the Bronte Sisters, George

Eliot and Thomas Hardy

    Prose: Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin

    Poetry: Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, D.G. Rossetti and Christina Rossetti, G. M. Hopkins

    The Oxford Movement and the Crisis in Religion

    The Consolidation of the British Empire

PAPER 6

Victorian Poetry and Fiction

Marks 100 (80+20) [20 Marks Internal Assessment]. Credits: 8

Students will here encounter the poetry that is characteristic of the Victorian period – forms like the dramatic monologue, the love poem, pre-Raphaelite experiments and the beginnings of modern poetic experience in Hopkins. They will also find examples of the great Victorian fiction that closely followed the social concerns of the period and experimented with narrative voice and perspective. There will be

4 questions of 14 marks each (4x14=56) that will focus on formal and thematic aspects of the poetry

and the fiction, 2 context questions from the starred poems in Section I, and 2 questions on characters and incidents from the fiction or essay in Section II (2x6 + 2x6 =24).

Section I: Poems

(2x14 + 2x6)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92):

Robert Browning (1812-89): Tears, Idle Tears*; Break, break, break

Last Ride Together*

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61): How do I love thee?

Matthew Arnold (1822-88):

D. G. Rossetti (1828-82): To Marguerite* ; Isolation

The Blessed Damozel

Christina Rossetti (1830-94): A Triad, In an Artist’s Studio.

G. M. Hopkins (1844-89): The Windhover* , Pied Beauty

Section II: Fiction

(2x14 + 2x6)

    George Eliot (1819-90):                     “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists”

    Charles Dickens (1812-70):                 A Tale of Two Cities

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928):               “The  Distracted  Preacher,” and  “The  Withered Arm” (from Wessex    Tales)