4th Semester English Honours Syllabus Calcutta University

If you’re looking for the latest 4th Semester English Honours Syllabus of Calcutta University (CU), then you’ve reached the right place.It is also comprises of CORE COURSES (CC), Skill Enhancement Course (SEC) and Generic Elective (GE) subjects.

Core Course (CC)

• CC8 –BRITISH LITERATURE (18TH CENTURY)
• CC9 –BRITISH ROMANTIC LITERATURE
• CC10 –19TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE

Skill Enhancement Course (SEC)

• SEC-B1 – CREATIVE WRITING
• SEC-B2 – ACADEMIC WRITING AND COMPOSITION

Detailed Course (CC)

CC8 – BRITISH LITERATURE (18TH CENTURY)

POETRY :

1. Samuel Johnson, ‘London’
2. Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

DRAMA :

1. William Congreve, The Way of the World

Prose (Fiction & Non-Fiction) :

1. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
2. Joseph Addison, ‘Sir Roger at Home’ and ‘Sir Roger at Church’

Suggested Readings :

1. Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English
   Stage (London: Routledge, 1996).
2. Daniel Defoe, ‘The Complete English Tradesman’ (Letter XXII), ‘The Great
   Law of Subordination Considered’ (Letter IV), and ‘The Complete English
   Gentleman’, in Literature and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century England, ed.
   Stephen Copley (London: Croom Helm, 1984).
3. Samuel Johnson, ‘Essay 156’, in The Rambler, in Selected Writings: Samuel
   Johnson, ed. Peter Martin (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
   2009) pp. 194–7; Rasselas Chapter 10; ‘Pope’s Intellectual Character: Pope
   and Dryden Compared’, from The Life of Pope, in The Norton Anthology of
   English Literature, vol. 1, ed. Stephen Greenblatt, 8th edn (New York: Norton,
   2006) pp. 2693–4, 2774–7.

CC9 – (BRITISH ROMANTIC LITERATURE)

POETRY :

1. William Blake, ‘The Lamb’ and ‘The Tyger’
2. William Wordsworth, ‘Tintern Abbey’
3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’
4. Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Ode to the West Wind’ and ‘To a Skylark’
5. John Keats, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and ‘Ode to Autumn’

Prose (Fiction & Non-Fiction) :

1. Charles Lamb, ‘Dream Children’, ‘The Superannuated Man’
2. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Suggested Readings :

1. William Wordsworth, ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’, in D.J. Enright and Ernst D.
   Chickera eds. English Critical Texts, Delhi: OUP
2. John Keats, ‘From the Letters’, in D.J. Enright and Ernst D. Chickera eds.
   English Critical Texts, Delhi: OUP
3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ‘Preface’ to Emile or Education, tr. Allan Bloom
   (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991).
4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, BiographiaLiteraria, Chapters XIV and XVII, in D.J.
   Enright and Ernst D. Chickera eds. English Critical Texts, Delhi: OUP

CC10 – (19TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE)

POETRY :

1. Lord Tennyson, ‘Ulysses’
2. Robert Browning, ‘My Last Duchess’
3. Christina Rossetti, ‘The Goblin Market’
4. Matthew Arnold, ‘Dover Beach’

NOVEL :

1. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice OR Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
   Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist OR Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of
   Casterbridge

Suggested Readings :

1. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ‘Mode of Production: The Basis of Social
   Life’, ‘The Social Nature of Consciousness’, and ‘Classes and Ideology’, in A
   Reader in Marxist Philosophy, ed. Howard Selsam and Harry Martel (New
   York: International Publishers,1963) pp. 186–8, 190–1, 199–201.
2. Charles Darwin, ‘Natural Selection and Sexual Selection’, in The Descent of
   Man in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th edn, vol. 2, ed.
   Stephen Greenblatt (New York: Northon, 2006) pp. 1545–9.
3. John Stuart Mill, ‘The Subjection of Women’ in Norton Anthology of English
   Literature, 8th edn, vol. 2, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (New York: Norton, 2006)
   chap. 1, pp. 1061–9.

Detailed Course (SEC)

SEC-B1 – (CREATIVE WRITING)

1. What is creative writing
2. Modes of creative writing
3. Writing Short Story / Poetry
4. Preparing for publication

Suggested Readings :

1. Anjana Neira Dev et al, Creative Writing: A Beginner’s Manual, New Delhi:
   Pearson, 2009.
2. David Morley and Philip Neilsen eds., The Cambridge Companion to Creative
   Writing

SEC-B2 – (ACADEMIC WRITING AND COMPOSITION)

1. Introduction to the writing process
2. Introduction to academic writing
3. Summarising and paraphrasing
4. Citing Sources

Suggested Readings :

1. Liz Hamp-Lyons and Ben Heasley, Study writing: A Course in Writing Skills
   for Academic Purposes (Cambridge: CUP, 2006).
2. Renu Gupta, A Course in Academic Writing (New Delhi: Orient Blackswan,
   2010).

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