Semester I

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• UNIT 1: Medieval to the Renaissance

 

• Feudalism and the Medieval World

• Chaucer, Langland, Gower

• Medieval Theatre and Renaissance English Theater

• Elizabethan Poetry and Metaphysical Poetry

• The Print Revolution

• • UNIT 2: The Enlightenment to the Nineteenth Century

• The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment

• Restoration Drama

• Defoe and the Rise of the Novel

• The Industrial Revolution

• Romantic and Victorian Poetry

• Fiction in the Nineteenth Century

• UNIT 3: Modern to the Present

• The Contexts of the Modernism: Fiction, Poetry, Drama

• Literature in the Postcolonial World.

• The 'Woman' Question and Gender Studies

• Popular Culture and Literature

• Migration, Consumerism and Globalization

• Postmodern and Contemporary Literature

• UNIT 4: Terms & Themes

• The Norman Conquest

• Dream Allegory

• Courtly Love

• The University wits

• The Reformation and English Literature

• Interludes

• Moralities and Miracle Plays

• Puritanism

• Darwinism

• Suffrage Movement

• Bestsellers

• Social Media and Literature