Paper 105A: History of English Literature – From 1350 to 1900

Unit 1: Chaucer to Renaissance 

• The Age of Chaucer

• The Age of Revival of Learning

• The Age of Elizabeth

• Presentation with Videos: Elizabethan Age - Political Summary & Characteristics

• Edmund Spencer

• Edmund Spencer (overview)

• Shakespeare and Ben Jonson

• Prose Writers

• Drama before Shakespeare

• The Elizabethan Age (overview)

• Drama in Elizabethan Age (overview)

• Presentation: 

  • Christopher Marlowe's Contribution to English the Drama

  • The First English Dramatists

  • Shakespeare's Contemporaries and Successors in the Drama

  • The Poets of the Elizabethan Age

  • Prose Writers of the Elizabethan Age

• Check your understanding - Online Test

• Questions

Unit 2: Renaissance to Restoration 

1. Read about The Puritan Age in an Online Text

2. Read about the Restoration Age in an Online Text

3. History of the Puritan Age

4. History of the Restoration Age

5. Presentations: 

   1. Visit this blog to prepare from the Presentation on Puritan and Restoration Age

6. Check your understanding: Online Test

7. Questions - Puritan and Restoration Age

Unit 3: Neo-Classical Era 

The History of the Neoclassical Age - W. J. Long History of English Literature (Neo-Classical Period)

Neo-classical Era (Overview)

Presentation on The History of Neoclassical Era

Blog  Task on The History of Neoclassical Era

Quiz on the Neoclassical Era

Question Bank for this unit

Unit 4: Romantic and Victorian Era 

History of The Romantic Age (William J. Long)

The Romantic Age (Overview)

PPT - The Romantic Age

The influence of French Revolution on English literature

History of the The Victorian Age (William J. Long)

The Victorian Age (Overview)

Question Bank of The Romantic Age

Solved QB of The Romantic Age

Quiz on the Romantic Age

Question Bank of The Victorian Age

Solved QB of The Victorian Age

Victorian Literature (Additional)

Additional Reading Resources:

Histories of English Literature

• Andrew Sanders - English Literature

• Arthur Compton-Rickett - English Literature

• Edward Albert - English Literature

• William J Long - English Literature

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