2022 COR 104

Brief Introduction: This survey course of fiction and non-fictional prose of the long eighteenth century aims to offer a representative selection of fiction and non-fictional prose practised during the period. The course proposes to be representative in two different ways. First, it proposes to introduce some of the major formal developments of prose that occurred during the long eighteenth century. Second, the course also proposes to introduce some of the major ideas in circulation in the period and the thinkers who introduced them. Therefore, the course can be partly considered a survey in both the literary as well as intellectual history of England during the long eighteenth century.

For details on text and structure read the complete description in the following document.

2022-CORE COURSE 104 (COR104) - PROSE - RESTORATION TO THE AGE OF SENSIBILITY

Following is the list of some of the accessible resources on the public domain to prepare with the basics of the course

Unit I: Sub-unit I: Oroonoko (1688) by Aphra Behn

1. The Age of Dryden by Prof Bhim Dahiya of Kurukshetra University

https://youtu.be/DtPMO_l4aD4?list=PLxUuBDlKS2oD4JZa9V6FYhESez0QRiL8J

2. The Age of Restoration by Dr. Merin Simi Raj of IIT, Madras https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOyMgDevDC4

3. The Rise of the Woman Writer in Eighteenth Century by Dr Merin Simi Raj of IIT, Madras https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO2ay8IbAS4

4. In our Time: Aphra Behn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWJFHFSKXIY

5. Early English Fiction -Aphra Behn -Lecture I - Centre for Educational Consortium, Delhi University, https://youtu.be/6sfIWA9OGS0

6. Early English Fiction -Aphra Behn -Lecture II - Centre for Educational Consortium, Delhi University https://youtu.be/6sfIWA9OGS0 

7. The Atlantic Slave Trade: Crash Course World History #24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnV_MTFEGIY

8. Oroonoko -Lecture I by Merin Simi Raj of IIT, Madras   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbwETZi5shA 

9. Oroonoko -Lecture II by Merin Simi Raj of IIT, Madras https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQnYAiyAMcc 

Unit I: Sub-unit II: Moll Flanders (1721) by Daniel Defoe

1. Rise of the Novel I by Merin Simi Raj of IIT, Madras     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_zUllPp9QE 

2. Rise of the Novel II by Merin Simi Raj of IIT, Madras https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT3NoYGdV8s 

3. Rise of the Novel III by Merin Simi Raj of IIT, Madras

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vdDDuhxtmk

4. Moll Flanders - Part 1 from The Swayamprabha Humanities Channel   https://youtu.be/UI5ETR_sCqg  

5. Moll Flanders - Part 2 The Swayamprabha Humanities Channel https://youtu.be/j7Jh1GdDGWw 

6. Crime and the Law in Early Modern England by Prof Kenneth Wrightson of Yale University https://youtu.be/X6s5q7uDg-E?list=PL18B9F132DFD967A3 

Specific Reading List with Reference to the Discussion in the respective Classes 

[They are not cited in the MLA format.]

Oroonoko

Moira Ferguson. "Oroonoko: Birth of a Paradigm". New Literary History, 23:2, 1992. pp. 339-359.

Jacqueline Pearson. "Gender and Narrative in the Fiction of Aphra Behn." The Review of English Studies, 42:165, 1991. pp. 40-56.

Adam Sills. "Surveying "The Map of Slavery" in Aphra Behn's "Oroonoko"". Journal of Narrative Theory. 36:3, 2006. pp. 314-340.

Robert L. Chibka. "Oh! Do Not Fear a Woman's Invention": Truth, Falsehood, and Fiction in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko." Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 30:4, 1988. pp. 510-537.

Anita Pacheco. "Royalism and Honor in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko" Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 34:3, 1994. pp. 491-506.

Moll Flanders

Lou Caton. "Doing the Right Thing with Moll Flanders. A Reasonable Difference between the Picara and the Penitent." CLA Journal [[The College Language Association Journal]]. Vol. 40, No. 4 (JUNE 1997), pp. 508-516.

Maximillian E. Novak (1970). "Defoe's Indifferent Monitor The Complexity of Moll Flanders." Eighteenth-Century Studies, 3(3), pp. 351–365.

Howard L. Koonce. "Moll's Muddle: Defoe's use of Irony in Moll Flanders." ELH [[English Literary History]], Vol. 30, No. 4 (Dec., 1963), pp. 377-394

Ann Louise Kibbie. "Monstrous Generation: The Birth of Capital in Defoe's Moll Flanders and Roxana." PMLA [[Periodical of the MLA]], Vol. 110, No. 5 (Oct., 1995), pp. 1023-1034. 

John Rietz. "Criminal MS-Representation: Moll Flanders and Female Criminal Biography." Studies in the Novel, 23: 2, (1991), pp. 183-195. <<Is not part of the class discussion this year, but is a very important aspect of the novel. We have touched upon some of the issues in the basic module while introducing the novel.>>

Periodical Essays

Scott Black. “Social and Literary Form in the Spectator.” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, 1999, pp. 21–42. 

Brian Cowan. “Mr. Spectator and the Coffeehouse Public Sphere.” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 37, no. 3, 2004, pp. 345–66. <<A longish essay, do not spend too much time to understand every aspect of the discussion. However, if you can read it attentively it will give you a very good grounding on fairly good number of issues.>>

Manushag N. Powell. “Eliza Haywood, Periodicalist(?).” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, vol. 14, no. 4, 2014, pp. 163–86. 

John J. Burke. “Excellence in Biography: Rambler No. 60 and Johnson’s Early Biographies.” South Atlantic Bulletin, vol. 44, no. 2, 1979, pp. 14–34. 

Carolyn W. Korsmeyer. “Hume and the Foundations of Taste.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 35, no. 2, 1976, pp. 201–15. 

R. W. Babcock. “The Idea of Taste in the Eighteenth Century.” PMLA, vol. 50, no. 3, 1935, pp. 922–26.

Check the University of Kalyani academic calendar, (LINK) 

• First Internal assessment will be held on 

  • • Date and time: 6 February, Monday, from 12 Noon to 1 PM and 1:30 to 2:30 PM 

    • Syllabus: The test will be on Unit II: Sub-unit I 

    • Format: Students will be required to explain and comment on the excerpts from the texts in this sub-unit

    • Marks: 20: Four excerpts to be explained and commented; each carrying 5 marks 

• Second Internal assessment will be held on 

  • • Date and time: 27 March, Monday, from 12 Noon to 1 PM and 1:30 to 2:30 PM (First batch (Roll 91-160) reports to test at 11:45 AM. Second batch (Roll 1-90) reports at 1:15 PM). 

    • Syllabus: The test will be on Unit II: Sub-unit II and The Female Spectator

    • Format: Students will be required to explain and comment on the excerpts from the texts in this sub-unit

    • Marks: 20: Four excerpts to be explained and commented; each carrying 5 marks