Reading List:
Victorian:
1: Christopher Marlowe- Doctor Faustus
2: Christopher Marlowe- Jew of Malta
3: William Shakespeare- Othello
4: William Shakespeare- King Lear
5: William Shakespeare- Hamlet
6: William Shakespeare- Macbeth
7: William Shakespeare- Tempest
8: Ben Jonson- Volpone
9: Thomas Middleton- Revenger's Tragedy
10: William Congreve- Way of the World
11: John Webster- Duchess of Malfi
12: Aphra Behn- Rover
13: Oliver Goldsmith- She Stoops to Conquer
British Drama: Modern & Postmodern
14: G.B Shaw- Arms & The Man
15: G.B Shaw- Pygmalion
16: T.S Eliot- Murder in the Cathedral
17: John Millington Synge- Playboy of the Western
World
18: John Millington Synge- Riders to the Sea
19: Alan Bennett: History Boys
20: Harold Pinter- Birthday Party
21: Harold Pinter- Dumb Waitor
22: Samuel Beckett- Waiting for Godot
23: Tom Stoppard- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Are Dead
24: Tom Stoppard- Arcadia
25: Terence Rattigan- Browning Vision
48: Luigi Pirandello- Six Characters in Search of an
Author
 British Drama: From Elizabethan to
26: Terence Rattigan- Windslow Boy
27: John Osborne- Look Back in Anger
28: Caryl Churchill- Top Girls
American Drama
29: Tennessee Williams- A Streetcar Named Desire
30: Tennessee Williams- The Glass Menagerie
31: Arthur Miller- All My Sons
32: Arthur Miller- Death of a Salesman
33: Eugene O'Neill- Long Day's Journey Into Night
34- Eugene O'Neill: Hairy Ape
35- Eugene O'Neill: The Emperor Jones
36- Edward Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
37- Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun
38- August Wilson: Fences
39- August Wilson: The Piano Lesson
Post-Colonial Drama
40: Wole Soyinka- The Lion & The Jewel
41: Wole Soyinka- Death & The King's Horsemen
42: Derek Walcott- Dream on Monkey Mountain
43: Derek Walcott- Pantomime
European Drama
44: Aeschylus- Agamemnon
45: Sophocles- Oedipus Rex
46: Euripides- The Bacchae
47: Aristophanes- The Clouds
49: Anton Chekhov- The Cherry Orchard
Drama 50: Anton Chekhov- Uncle Vanya
51: Goethe- Faust (Parts 1 and 2) Indian Drama
52: Bertolt Brecht- Mother Courage and Her 61: Girish Karnad- Hayavadana
Children

53: Bertolt Brecht- The Life of Galileo

54: Eugène Ionesco- The Chairs

55: Albert Camus- The Stranger

62: Vijay Tendulkar- Silence! The Court is in the
56: Albert Camus- The Plague Session
57: August Strindberg- Miss Julie

58: Henrik Ibsen- Doll's House

Drama 59: Henric Ibsen- Ghosts

60: Henric Ibsen- An Enemy of People 63: Mahesh Dattani- Dance Like A Man

64: Badal Sarkar- Evam indrajit

Fiction (Novel)

1: Utopia- Sir Thomas More 16: Charles Dickens- David Copperfield

2: Le Morte d’Arthur- Sir Thomas Malory 17: William Makepeace Thackeray- Vanity Fair

3: John Bunyan- Pilgrim Progress 18: George Eliot- Mill on the Floss

4: Jonathan Swift- Gulliver's Travels 19: George Eliot- Middlemarch

5: Daniel Defoe- Robinson Crusoe 20: Charlotte Bronte- Jane Eyre

6: Daniel Defoe- Moll Flanders 21: Emily Bronte- Wuthering Heights

7: Pamela by Samuel Richardson 22: Thomas Hardy- Tess of the d’Urbervilles

8: Lawrence Sterne- Tristram Shandy 23: Thomas Hardy- Mayor of the Casterbridge

9: Jane Austen- Pride and Prejudice 24: Thomas Hardy- Jude The Obscure

10: Jane Austen- Sense and Sensibility 25: Lewis Carroll- Alice in Wonderland

11: Jane Austen- Mansfield Park 26: Wilkie Collins- The Woman in White

12: Mary Shelley- Frankenstein

13: Horace Walpone- The Castle of Otranto British Novels: Modern & Postmodern Period
14: Fanny Burney- Evelina 27: Joseph Conrad- Heart of Darkness

28: Joseph Conrad- Lord Jim

British Novels: Victorian Period 29: George Orwell- 1984

15: Charles Dickens- Great Expectations 30: James Joyce- Ulysses

31: James Joyce- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man
32: Virginia Woolf- To the Lighthouse
33: Virginia Woolf- Orlando
34: D.H Lawrence- Sons and Lovers
35: D.H Lawrence- Women in Love
36: Aldous Huxley- Brave New World
37: Graham Greene- The Power and the Glory
38: E.M Forster- A Passage to India
39: H.G Wells- The Invisible Man
40: Rudyard Kipling- The Man Who Would Be King
41: Jeanette Winterson- Oranges Are Not the Only
Fruit
42: William Golding- Lord of the Flies
43: Martin Amis- Lucky Jim
44: John Fowles- The French Lieutenant’s Woman
45: Muriel Spark- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
American Novels
46: Herman Melville- Moby Dick
47: Louisa May Alcott- Little Woman
48: Nathaniel Hawthrone- The Scarlet Letter
49: Mark Twain- The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn
50: Mark Twain- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
51: Henry James- The Portrait of a Lady
52: Theordore Dreiser- Sister Carrie
53: William Faulkner- Sound and the Fury
54: William Faulkner- As I Lay Dying
55: Ernest Hemingway- A Farewell to Arms
56: Ernest Hemingway- The Old Man and the Sea
57: F.Scott Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby
Post Colonial Novels:
58: Toni Morrison- Beloved
59: Zora Neale Hurston- Their Eyes Are Watching
God
Novel 60: Alice Walker- The Color Purple
61: Ralph Ellison- Invisible Man
62: Jean Rhys- Wide Sargasso Sea
63: Kazuo Ishiguru- Never Let me Go
64: Salman Rushdie- Midnight's Children
65: V.S Naipaul- A House for Mr Biswas
66: Sam Selvon- Lonely Londoners
67: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie- Half of a Yellow
Sun
68: Chinua Achebe- Things Fall Apart
69: J.M Coetzee- Disgrace
70: Michael Ondaatje- The English Patient
71: Margaret Atwood- The Handmaid's Tale
72: Margaret Atwood- Surfacing
73: Shyam Selvaduria- Funny Boy
74: David Malouf- Fly Away Peter
75: Gabriel Garcia Marquez- One Hundred Years of
Solitude
European Novels
76: Fyodor Dostoesvsky- The Brothers Karamazov
77: Fyodor Dostoevsky- Crime and Punishment
78: Leo Tolstoy- Anna Karenina
79: Leo Tolstoy- War and Peace
80: Alexander Pushkin- Eugene Onegin
81: Boris Pasternak- Dr Zhivago
82: Ivan Turgenev- Fathers and Sons
83: Vladimir Nabokov- Lolita
84: Thomas Mann- Death in Venice 94: R K Narayan- The Guide

85: Franz Kafka- The Metamorphosis 95: R K Narayan- Swami and Friends

86: Franz Kafka- The Trial 96: Raja Rao- Kanthapura

87: Hermann Hesse- Siddhartha 97: Kamala Markandaya- Nectar in a Sieve

88: Günther Grass- The Tin Drum 98: Khushwant Singh- Train to Pakistan

89: Gustave Flaubert- Madame Bovary 99: Anita Desai- Fasting Feasting

90: Albert Camus- The Plague Novel 100: Kiran Desai- The Inheritance of Loss

101: Arundhati Roy- The God of Small Things

102: Jhumpa Lahiri- The Namesake

91: Albert Camus- The Stranger 103: Amitav Ghosh- The Shadow Lines

92: Alexandre Dumas- The Three Musketeers 104: Amitav Ghosh- Hungry Tide

93: Pearl S Buck- The Good Earth 105: Aravind Adiga- The White Tiger

Indian Novels

Short story
1: Edgar Allen Poe's Short Stories 14: Anton Chekhov- The Bet

2: George Orwell- Shooting an Elephant 15: Leo Tolstoy- How Much Land Does a Man
Need
3: Ray Bradbury- A Sound of Thunder
16: Jhumpa Lahiri- Interpreter of Maladies
4: Oscar Wilde- The Nightingale and the Rose
17: Henry James- The Beast in the Jungle
5: Ernest Hemingway- The Snows of Kilimanjaro
18: Nathaniel Hawthorne- The Birthmark
6: Guy de Maupassant- The Necklace
19: William Faulkner- A Rose for Emily
7: Alice Munro- The Bear Came Over the Mountain
20: Giovanni Boccaccio- The Decameron
8: Nikolai Gogol- The Overcoat

9: James Joyce- Dubliners

Non-Fiction Works (British Literature)
10: O. Henri- The Gift of the Magi
1: Francis Bacon- New Atlantis & Great
Instauration
11: Kate Chopin- The Story of an Hour
2: Robert Burton- Anatomy of Melancholy
12: Washington Irving- The Legend of Sleepy
3: Samuel Pepys- Diary of Samuel Pepys
Hollow
4: John Locke- An Essay Concerning Human
13: Charlotte Perkins Gilman- The Yellow
Understanding
Wallpaper
5: John Locke- Two Treatises of Government
6: Edmund Burke- Philosophical Enquiry Into the
Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
7: Thomas Hobbes- Leviathan
8: Jonathan Swift- A Modest Proposal
9: Bertrand Russell- A History of Western
Philosophy
10: E. M. Forster- Aspects of the Novel
11: George Orwell- Collection of Essays
12: T. S. Eliot- Selected Essays
Non-Fiction Works (American & European)
Poetry
British Poetry
1: Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
2: Beowulf
3: Geoffrey Chaucer- Canterbury Tales
4: Edmund Spenser- The Faerie Queene
5: John Donne – “Sunne Rising”, “Canonization”,
“Valediction Forbidden Mourning” & “Flea”
6- Andrew Marvell- To His Coy Mistress
7: John Milton- Paradise Lost
8: Alexander Pope- The Rape of the Lock
9: Thomas Gray- Elegy Written in Country
Churchyard
10: William Blake- Songs of Innocence &
Experience
11: William Wordsworth- “Lines Composed A Few
Miles
13: Henry David Thoreau- Civil Disobedience
14: Henry David Thoreau- Walden
15: Ralph Waldo Emerson- The American Scholar
16: Ralph Waldo Emerson- Self Reliance
17: Jean Jacques Rousseau- The Social Contract
18: Jean Paul Sartre- Existentialism Is a Humanism
19: Albert Camus- The Myth of Sisyphus
20: Niccolo Machiavelli- The Prince
21: Maya Angelou- I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings
22: Plato- The Republic
Above Tintern Abbey”, “Solitary Reaper”, “Ode to
Duty”, “London 2802” & “Prelude”
12: Samuel Taylor Coleridge- “Kubla Khan”,
“Christabel”, “Frost At Midnight”
13: Lord Byron- “She Walks in Beauty”, “Don Juan”
& “When we two parted”
14: John Keats- “Ode to a Nightingale”, “Ode to
Autumn”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, “Ode to
Melancholy” & “Ode on Indolence”
15: P B Shelley- “Ozymandias”, “Ode to the West
Wind” & “Prometheus Unbound”
British Poetry: Victorian Age to Post
Modern Age
16: Lord Alfred Tennyson- Ulysses, Lotus Eaters,
Break Break Break, The Princess
17: Robert Browning- My Last Duchess, Fra Lippo
Lippi, Porphyria's Lover & A Grammarian's Funeral
18: Christina Rossetti- Goblin Market
19: G M Hopkins- Pied Beauty
20: Matthew Arnold- Dover Beach, Scholar Gypsy 33: Allen Ginsberg- Howl & A Supermarket in
& Thyrsis California

20: W B Yeats- Sailing to Byzantium, Among School 34: Wallace Stevens- The Emperor of Ice-Cream,
Children, Leda & Swan Sunday Morning & Anecdote of the Jar

21: W H Auden- Musée des Beaux Arts, In Memory

of W.B. Yeats & September 1, 1939
Post Colonial Poetry
22: T S Eliot- The Waste Land
35: Langston Hughes- I Too, Harlem, Weary Blues
23: Wilfred Owen- Strange Meeting, Futility,
Anthem for Doomed Youth & Dulce et Decorum est 36: A.D Hope- Beware of Ruins

24: Seamus Heaney- Digging 37: Derek Walcott- Omeros

25: Ted Hughes- Pike, Hawk Roosting, View of a
Pig, Thistles & Thought Fox
26: Philip Larkin- At Grass, Wants, Church Going,
Aubade
38: Derek Walcott- Far Cry from Africa
39: Pablo Neruda- Tonight I can Write, Ars Poetica,
The Way Spain Was
40: Judith Wright- Woman to Man, The Harp &
The King

American Poetry
27: Walt Whitman- Leaves of Grass European Poetry
28: Emily Dickinson- I Felt a funeral, I heard a fly 41: Homer- The Iliad
buzz, Because I Could not stop for death & Hope is
42: Homer- The Odyssey
a thing with feathers
43: Virgil- The Aeneid
29: Robert Frost- Birches, Road Not Taken, After
Apple Picking, Stopping by Woods 44: Ovid- Metamorphoses
30: Sylvia Plath- Ariel, Lady Lazarus & Daddy 45: Dante- Divine Comedy
31: Elizabeth Bishop- Selected Poems 46: Charles Baudelaire- The Flowers of Evil
32: Robert Lowell- For the Union Dead

Language: Basic Concepts & Theories

Language: Basic Concepts & Theories: 6- Evolution of English Language: Old, Middle &
Modern Age
1- Basics of ELT & Linguistics

2- Phonology & Morphology

3- Important Terms in Linguistics

7- Popular Journals & Magazine

8- Evolution of Dictionary: Popular Dictionaries

9- Sapir Whorf Hypothesis

4- Basic English Project

5- New Bolt Report

English Language Pedagogy (Teaching 6- Total Physical Response (TPR)
Methodologies):
7- Suggestopedia
1- Grammar Translation Method
8- Silent Way Method
2- Direct Method
9- Natural Approach
3- Situational Approach
10- Task Based Language Teaching
4- Audio Lingual Method
11- Interaction Hypothesis
5- Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)

English in India: History, Evolution & Future:

1- Inception of English Education in India by East 9- Hunter Education Commission of 1882

India Company
2- Charter Act of 1813
3- Role of Missionaries in English Education
4- Demand for English Language by Indians during
Colonial Period
5- Role of Raja Ram Mohan Roy in Spreading
English
6- Role of William Bentinck & Lord Macaulay
10- Indian University Commission 1902
11- Gokhale's Bill of 1912
12- English Language during Independence
Movement
13- Role of Mahatma Gandhi in Indian English
Literature
14- Development of English during Post
Independence Period

7- Macaulay’s Minute 15- Present State of English Language in India

8- Wood’s Dispatch of 1854 16- Summary of Unit 6 (English in India)

Cultural Studies:

Major Terms: Major Theorists:

1- Defining Culture & Cultural Studies 1- Birth of Cultural Studies

2- Elements of Culture 2- Early Theorist

3- Types of Culture 3- Stuart Hall

4- Ideal vs Real Culture 4- Stephen Greenbalt

5- Cultural Globalization 5- Raymond Williams

6- Mall Culture 6- Antonio Gramsci

7- Media Culture 6- Antonio Gramsci

8- Consumer Culture 7- Louis Althrusser

8- Frederick Jameson
 Literary Criticism

Greek Critics Lesson 1- Horace

Lesson 1- Socrates Lesson 2- Longinus

Lesson 2- Plato Lesson 3- Quintilian

Lesson 3- Aristotle Middle Age Critics

Roman Critics Lesson 1- Philip Sidney

Enlightenment Age Critics Lesson 3- John Keats

Lesson 1- John Dryden

Lesson 2- Alexander Pope

Lesson 3- Samuel Johnson

Victorian Age Critics

Lesson 1- George Eliot

Lesson 2- Friedrich Nietsche

Romantic Age Critics Lesson 3- G.M Hopkins

Lesson 1- William Wordsworth Lesson 4- Henry James

Lesson 2- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lesson 5- Matthew Arnold

Lesson 6- T.S Eliot

Literary Theory

1- New Criticism 4- Post Structuralism & Deconstructionism

2- Formalism 5- Post Modernism

3- Structuralism 6- Psychoanalysis Criticism

7- Archetypal Literary Theory 11- New Historicism

8- Reader Response Theory 12- Queer Theory

9- Feminism 13- Eco Criticism

10- Marxist Criticism 14- Postcolonial Theory

Research Methodology
Research Methodology:

1- Introduction to Research & Types of Literary Research

2- Aim & Objective of Literary Research

3- Prerequisite to Literary Research

4- Materials & Tools of Literary Research

5- Method of Research: Biographical Research

6- Method of Research: Bibliographical Research

7- Method of Research: Critical Approach & Analysis

8- Difference Between Research Paper, M.Phil Thesis & Dissertation

9- How to Choose Research Topic

10- Format of Thesis Writing (Citation, Footnotes & Other Terms)

Lesson 1- Choosing Research Topic

Lesson 2- Writing Research Proposal

Lesson 3- Step By Step Guide to Write Research Paper for English Literature

Lesson 4- Mistakes Students Make While Doing Research