The Nineteenth-Century Novel course introduces student to the genre of the novel at its height in nineteenth-century Britain. Through a close study of the significant novels of the period the students will come to understand the nature of the plots and its complexities in relation to the social and cultural impulses of the period.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Faculty, Students of English Literature
CORE/ELECTIVE: Elective
UG/PG: UG,PG and Ph.D
PREREQUISITES: None
INDUSTRY SUPPORT: The British LibraryUS Consulate
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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Divya A is an Assistant Professor in English Literature in the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. Divya’s research interests primarily revolve around explorations in the fields of gender, domesticity, spatiality, urbanism, and the interplay between the visual and the literary arts. After obtaining her Master of Studies degree in Early Modern English Literature from the University of Oxford, Divya completed her PhD in Nineteenth- Century English Fiction at Nanyang Technological University. She has published on Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, and the Pre-Raphaelites. Her current research project traces and maps the British colonial visual culture of Nineteenth-Century India.
COURSE LAYOUT:
Week 1 : Introduction/ Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1818), Volume I, Chapters 1-6 Week 2 : Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Volume I, Chapters 7-12 Week 3 : Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Volume II, Chapters 13-18 Week 4 : Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Volume II, Chapters 19-24 Week 5 : Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Book I, Chapters 1-6, and Book II, Chapters 1-3 Week 6 : Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, Book II, Chapters 4-12 Week 7 : Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, Book II, Chapters 13-21 Week 8 : Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, Book II, Chapters 22-24 and Book III Chapters 1-6 Week 9 : Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, Book III, Chapters 7-15 Week 10 : R.L.Stevenson A Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Chapters 1-4 Week 11 : R.L.Stevenson A Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Chapters 5-7 Week 12 : R.L.Stevenson A Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Chapters 8-10
SUGGESTED READING MATERIALS:
Secondary Reading List: Desire and Domestic Fiction (Nancy Armstrong)The Dialogic Imagination (Mikhail Bakhtin)Reading for the Plot (Peter Brooks)The Novel and the Police (D.A. Miller)The Country and the City (Raymond Williams)
CERTIFICATION EXAM :
The exam is optional for a fee.
Date and Time of Exams: April 27 2019(Saturday) Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.
CERTIFICATION:
Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of Best 8 out of 12 assignments
E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras.It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
