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Ph.D Entrance (English)

Unlock your academic potential with our comprehensive online course for PhD Entrance in English, designed to help you secure a place in esteemed central universities like DU, JNU, BHU, HCU etc. Developed by experts, this course offers in-depth study materials, animated video lectures, and a question bank according to the latest PHD Entrance syllabus. Delve into literary theory, critical analysis, and various English literature genres. Gain a competitive edge with our detailed exam analysis and clear, concise PDF notes. Ensure your success in English Literature PhD Entrance exams to central universities. Enroll today to embark on your journey to academic excellence.
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01: Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Chapter 4 : Elizabethan Age (1550 to 1600 AD)

02: Geoffrey Chaucer
Chapter 2 : Age of Chaucer (1300 to 1400 AD)

03: The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Chapter 6 : Civil War & Interregnum (1640 to 1660)

04: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Chapter 10 : Victorian Age (1850 to 1900 AD)

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Victorian Age

01: Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Chapter 4 : Elizabethan Age (1550 to 1600 AD)

02: Geoffrey Chaucer
Chapter 2 : Age of Chaucer (1300 to 1400 AD)

03: The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Chapter 6 : Civil War & Interregnum (1640 to 1660)

04: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Chapter 10 : Victorian Age (1850 to 1900 AD)

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Pave the way for admission into esteemed central universities like Delhi University (DU), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Hyderabad Central University (HCU), Banaras Hindu University (BHU), and more through our comprehensive online course for PhD Entrance in English Literature. Crafted and designed by Dr. Arpita Karwa, a distinguished expert in English Literature, this course equips you with the study materials to excel in your PhD entrance exams for English Literature. Our course offers a thorough examination of literary theory, critical analysis, and various genres within English literature, providing a solid foundation for your PhD Entrance preparation. You’ll gain access to animated video lectures, ensuring a dynamic and engaging learning experience.Moreover, our question bank and detailed exam analysis will sharpen your test-taking skills and familiarity with PhD entrance exam patterns specific to various central universities. The course includes clear and concise PDF notes, making complex topics more accessible for your preparation. Don’t miss the opportunity to embark on your path to academic excellence. Enroll today and take the first step towards achieving your PhD dreams in English at renowned central universities across India. Enroll Now

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Course Syllabus

Module 01: British Literature

Chapter 01- Old & Middle English (500 TO 1300 AD)

Lesson 1: Lesson 01 : Introduction to Anglo Saxon Period,
Lesson 2: Lesson 02 : Important Works of Anglo Saxon, Period
Lesson 3: Lesson 03 : Introduction to Anglo Norman Literature
Lesson 4: Lesson 04 : Important Works of Anglo Norman Period

Chapter 02- Age Of Chaucer (1300 TO 1400 AD)

Lesson 5: Introduction to Age of Chaucer
Lesson 6: Geoffrey Chaucer
Lesson 7: William Langland
Lesson 8: John Wycliffe- 4.5
Lesson 9: John Mandeville
Lesson 10: John Gower
Lesson 11: Thomas Hoccleve
Lesson 12: John Lydgate
Lesson 13: John of Trevisa

Chapter 03- Age of Revival (1400 to 1550 AD)

Lesson 14: Introduction to Age of Revival
Lesson 15: Printing: William Caxton
Lesson 16: Popular Bible Translations
POETS
Lesson 17: Robert Henryson
Lesson 18: William Dunbar
Lesson 19: Thomas Wyatt
Lesson 20: Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey)
Lesson 21: Sir David Lyndsay
Lesson 22: John Skelton
Lesson 23: Roger Ascham
PROSE WRITERS
Lesson 24: Thomas More
Lesson 25: Thomas Malory
Lesson 26: Richard Tottel
Lesson 27: William Tyndale
Lesson 28: Miles Coverdale
Lesson 29: Thomas Cranmer
Lesson 30: Thomas Elyot
Lesson 31: Nicholas Udall
Lesson 32: Erasmus

Chapter 04- Elizabethan Age (1550 to 1600 AD)

Lesson 33: Introduction to Elizabethan Age
Lesson 34: History & Background of English Theatre
Lesson 35: Early Elizabethan Plays
DRAMATISTS
Lesson 36: William Shakespeare
Lesson 37: Christopher Marlowe
Lesson 38: Thomas Norton & Thomas Sackville
Lesson 39: Thomas Nashe
Lesson 40: Thomas Kyd
Lesson 41: John Lyly
Lesson 42: Robert Greene
Lesson 43: George Peele
Lesson 44: Thomas Lodge
Lesson 45: John Heywood
Lesson 46: John Still
POETS
Lesson 47: Edmund Spenser
Lesson 48: Philip Sidney
Lesson 49: George Gascoigne
Lesson 50: Michael Drayton
PROSE WRITERS
Lesson 51: Francis Bacon
Lesson 52: Richard Hooker
Lesson 53: Stephen Gosson
Lesson 54: Samuel Purchas
Lesson 55: Lewis Bayly
Lesson 56: Walter Raleigh
Lesson 57: Richard Hakluyt
Lesson 58: John Knox
Lesson 59: John Foxe
Lesson 60: William Camden
Lesson 61: Raphael Holinshed

Chapter 05- Jacobean & Caroline Age (1600 to 1640)

Lesson 62: Introduction to Jacobean & Caroline Age
PROSE WRITERS
Lesson 63: King James I
Lesson 64: Robert Burton (Democritus Junior)
Lesson 65: Robert Cawdrey
DRAMATISTS
Major Dramatists
Lesson 66: Ben Jonson
Lesson 67: John Webster
Lesson 68: Thomas Middleton
Lesson 69: Thomas Heywood
Lesson 70: Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher
Lesson 71: George Chapman
Lesson 72: Thomas Dekker
Minor Dramatists
Lesson 73: John Marston
Lesson 74: Philip Massinger
Lesson 75: James Shirley
Lesson 76: Cyril Tourneur
Lesson 77: William Rowley
Lesson 78: George Villiers
Lesson 79: John Ford
POETS
Major Poets
Lesson 80: John Donne
Lesson 81: Andrew Marvell
Lesson 82: George Herbert
Lesson 83: Abraham Cowley
Lesson 84: Henry Vaughan
Lesson 85: Thomas Carew
Lesson 86: Richard Lovelace
Lesson 87: Robert Herrick
Lesson 88: John Suckling
Lesson 89: Francis Quarles
Minor Poets
Lesson 90: William Cartwright
Lesson 91: Richard Corbet
Lesson 92: Thomas Randolph
Lesson 93: Edward Herbert (Lord Herbert of Cherbury)
Lesson 94: Richard Crashaw
Lesson 95: Sir William Davenant
Lesson 96: Edmond Waller

Chapter 06- Civil War & Interregnum (1640 to 1660)

Lesson 97: Introduction to Civil War & Interregnum Period
POETS
Lesson 98: John Milton
Lesson 99: Lucy Hutchinson
Lesson 100: Margaret Cavendish
PROSE WRITERS
Lesson 101: John Bunyan
Lesson 102: Thomas Browne
Lesson 103: Jeremy Taylor
Lesson 104: Richard Baxter
Lesson 105: Thomas Fuller
Lesson 106: Isaac Walton

Chapter 07- Restoration Age (1660 to 1700 AD)

Lesson 107: Introduction to Restoration Age
PROSE WRITERS
Lesson 108: Samuel Pepys
Lesson 109: Thomas Rymer
Lesson 110: Jeremy Collier
Lesson 111: John Evelyn
Lesson 112: William Dampier
DRAMATISTS
Lesson 113: William Congreve
Lesson 114: Aphra Behn
Lesson 115: William Wycherley
Lesson 116: George Etherege
Lesson 117: Thomas Otway
Lesson 118: John Vanbrugh
Lesson 119: George Farquhar
Lesson 120: Nahum Tate
Lesson 121: Colley Cibber
POETS
Lesson 122: John Dryden
Lesson 123: Samuel Butler
Lesson 124: John Gay
Lesson 125: John Wilmot (Earl of Rochester)

Chapter 08- Enlightenment Age (1700 to 1800 AD)

Lesson 126: Introduction to Age of Enlightenment
PROSE WRITERS
Lesson 127: Samuel Johnson
Lesson 128: Jonathan Swift
Lesson 129: Joseph Addison
Lesson 130: Richard Steele
Lesson 131: James Boswell
DRAMATISTS
Lesson 132: Oliver Goldsmith
Lesson 133: Richard Sheridan
NOVELISTS
Lesson 134: Daniel Defoe
Lesson 135: Laurence Sterne
Lesson 136: Henry Fielding
Lesson 137: Samuel Richardson
Lesson 138: Tobias Smollett
Lesson 139: William Beckford
Lesson 140: Sarah Fielding
Lesson 141: Eliza Haywood
Lesson 142: Charlotte Lennox
POETS
Major Poets
Lesson 143: William Blake
Lesson 144: Alexander Pope
Lesson 145: Thomas Gray
Lesson 146: Robert Burns
Lesson 147: James Thomson
Lesson 148: Thomas Chatterton
Lesson 149: Thomas Percy
Lesson 150: Robert Blair
Lesson 151: William Cowper
Lesson 152: William Collins
Minor Poets
Lesson 153: George Crabbe
Lesson 154: Edward Young
Lesson 155: Thomas Parnell
Lesson 156: Matthew Prior
Lesson 157: Sarah Catherine Martin
Lesson 158: James Macpherson
Lesson 159: Mark Akenside
Lesson 160: Thomas Tickell

Chapter 09- Romantic Age (1800 to 1850 AD)

Lesson 161: Introduction to Romantic Age
POETS
Major Poets
Lesson 162: William Wordsworth
Lesson 163: John Keats
Lesson 164: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lesson 165: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lesson 166: Lord Byron
Lesson 167: Robert Southey
Lesson 168: John Clare
Minor Poets
Lesson 169: John Stagg
Lesson 170: Jane Taylor & Ann Taylor
Lesson 171: William Miller
Lesson 172: Joanna Baillie
Lesson 173: Anna Yearsley
Lesson 174: Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Lesson 175: Laetitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.)
Lesson 176: Charlotte Smith
Lesson 177: Mary Robinson
Lesson 178: Felicia Hemans
PROSE WRITERS
Lesson 179: Charles Lamb (Elia)
Lesson 180: Mary Lamb (Bridget Elia)
Lesson 181: William Hazlitt
Lesson 182: Thomas De Quincey
Lesson 183: Leigh Hunt
Lesson 184: Walter Savage Landor
Lesson 185: Hannah More
NOVELISTS
Lesson 186: Jane Austen
Lesson 187: Walter Scott
Lesson 188: Mary Shelley
Lesson 189: Frances Burney (Fanny Burney)
Lesson 190: Ann Radcliff
Lesson 191: William Godwin
Lesson 192: Horace Walpole
Lesson 193: Thomas Love Peacock
Lesson 194: Maria Edgeworth
Lesson 195: Matthew Lewis
Lesson 196: Charles Maturin

Chapter 10- Victorian Age (1850 to 1900 AD)

Lesson 197: Introduction to Victorian Age
POETS
Major Poets
Lesson 198: Robert Browning
Lesson 199: Alfred Lord Tennyson
Lesson 200: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Lesson 201: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Lesson 202: Christina Rossetti
Lesson 203: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Lesson 204: A.C. Swinburne
Lesson 205: William Morris
Minor Poets
Lesson 206: Robert Buchanan
Lesson 207: Edward Carpenter
Lesson 208: Arthur Hugh Clough
Lesson 209: John Keble
Lesson 210: Alfred Austin
Lesson 211: Coventry Patmore
Lesson 212: Edward Fitzgerald
NOVELISTS
Major Novelists
Lesson 213: Charles Dickens
Lesson 214: Thomas Hardy
Lesson 215: George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)
Lesson 216: William Makepeace Thackeray
Lesson 217: Charlotte Bronte
Lesson 218: Anne Bronte
Lesson 219: Rudyard Kipling
Lesson 220: Anthony Trollope
Lesson 221: Emily Bronte (Ellis Bell)
Lesson 222: Elizabeth Gaskell
Lesson 223: William Wilkie Collins
Lesson 224: Robert Louis Stevenson
Lesson 225: Samuel Butler
Lesson 226: Benjamin Disraeli
Lesson 227: R.M. Ballantyne
Lesson 228: Bram Stoker+
Lesson 229: Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
Lesson 230: Arthur Conan Doyle
Minor Novelists
Lesson 231: George Meredith
Lesson 232: Jerome K. Jerome
Lesson 233: George Gissing
Lesson 234: Charles Kingsley
Lesson 235: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Lesson 236: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Lesson 237: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Lesson 238: Charles Reade
ESSAYISTS
Lesson 239: Matthew Arnold
Lesson 240: Thomas Carlyle
Lesson 241: John Ruskin
Lesson 242: Walter Pater
Lesson 243: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Lesson 244: John Henry Newman
Lesson 245: Henry Mayhew
Lesson 246: John Richard Green
Lesson 247: Harriet Martineau
PLAYWRIGHTS
Lesson 248: Oscar Wilde
Lesson 249: A.W. Pinero

Chapter 11- Modern Age (1900 to 1950 AD)

Lesson 250: Introduction to Modern Age
NOVELISTS
Major Novelists
Lesson 251: Virginia Woolf
Lesson 252: D.H. Lawrence
Lesson 253: James Joyce
Lesson 254: E.M. Forster
Lesson 255: Joseph Conrad
Lesson 256: George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
Lesson 257: Graham Greene
Lesson 258: Evelyn Waugh
Lesson 259: Aldous Huxley
Lesson 260: Arnold Bennett
Lesson 261: H.G. Wells
Lesson 262: Ford Maddox Ford
Minor Novelists
Lesson 263: C.S. Lewis
Lesson 264: Wyndham Lewis
Lesson 265: Elizabeth Bowen
Lesson 266: J.M. Barrie
Lesson 267: Arthur Koestler
Lesson 268: C.P. Snow
Lesson 269: L.P. Hartley
Lesson 270: Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Lesson 271: May Sinclair
Lesson 272: Nevil Shute
DRAMATISTS
Lesson 273: George Bernard Shaw
Lesson 274: John Galsworthy
Lesson 275: John Millington Synge
Lesson 276: Sean O’Casey
Lesson 277: J.B. Priestley
POETS
Major Poets
Lesson 278: T.S. Eliot (+)
Lesson 279: W.B. Yeats
Lesson 280: W.H. Auden
Lesson 281: Dylan Thomas
Lesson 282: Stephen Spender
Lesson 283: Cecil Day-Lewis
Lesson 284: Louis MacNeice
Lesson 285: Robert Graves
Lesson 286: Wilfred Owen
Lesson 287: Siegfried Sassoon
Lesson 288: Robert Bridges
Lesson 289: John Masefield
Lesson 290: A.E. Housman
Minor Poets
Lesson 291: Stevie Smith
Lesson 292: Arthur Symons
Lesson 293: Michael Roberts
Lesson 294: Sidney Keyes
Lesson 295: Alun Lewis
Lesson 296: Rupert Brooke
Lesson 297: Harriet Monroe
Lesson 298: Edward Thomas
Lesson 299: Alfred Noyes
SHORT STORY WRITERS
Lesson 300: H.H. Munro (Saki)
Lesson 301: Katherine Mansfield
PROSE WRITERS
Lesson 302: Lytton Strachey
Lesson 303: Winston Churchill
Lesson 304: John Strachey
Lesson 305: Harriet Shaw Weaver
Lesson 306: Dora Marsden

Chapter 12- Post Modern & Contemporary Age (1950 onwards)

Lesson 307: Introduction to Post Modern Age
NOVELISTS
Major Novelists
Lesson 308: William Golding
Lesson 309: Somerset Maugham
Lesson 310: Doris Lessing
Lesson 311: Kingsley Amis
Lesson 312: Ian McEwan
Lesson 313: Peter Ackroyd
Lesson 314: Malcolm Bradbury
Lesson 315: John Fowles
Lesson 316: David Lodge
Lesson 317: A.S. Byatt
Lesson 318: Jeanette Winterson
Lesson 319: Agatha Christie
Lesson 320: Christopher Isherwood
Lesson 321: Graham Swift
Lesson 322: Martin Amis
Lesson 323: John Wain
Lesson 324: Anthony Burgess
Lesson 325: Iris Murdoch
Lesson 326: Allan Sillitoe
Lesson 327: Angela Carter
Lesson 328: Eoin Colfer
Lesson 329: Roddy Doyle
Lesson 330: Beryl Bainbridge
Lesson 331: J.G. Farrell
Lesson 332: J.K. Rowling
Lesson 333: J.R.R. Tolkien
Minor Novelists
Lesson 334: Muriel Spark
Lesson 335: Sebastian Faulks
Lesson 336: J.G. Ballard
Lesson 337: Alan Hollinghurst
Lesson 338: John Banville
Lesson 339: Howard Jacobson
Lesson 340: Lawrence Durrell
Lesson 341: John Berger
Lesson 342: Joyce Cary
Lesson 343: Angus Wilson
Lesson 344: Anthony Powell
Lesson 345: John Braine
Lesson 346: Dodie Smith
Lesson 347: Irvine Welsh
Lesson 348: Marina Warner
Lesson 349: J.P. Donleavey
Lesson 350: David Storey
DRAMATISTS
Major Dramatists
Lesson 351: Harold Pinter
Lesson 352: Samuel Beckett
Lesson 353: John Osborne
Lesson 354: Tom Stoppard
Lesson 355: Arnold Wesker
Lesson 356: Caryl Churchill
Lesson 357: Joe Orton
Lesson 358: Edward Bond
Lesson 359: Brian Friel
Lesson 360: Shelagh Delaney
Lesson 361: John Arden
Lesson 362: David Hare
Minor Dramatists
Lesson 363: Noel Coward
Lesson 364: Terence Rattigan
Lesson 365: Christopher Fry
Lesson 366: Alan Ayckbourn
Lesson 367: Alan Bennett
POETS
Major Poets
Lesson 368: Philip Larkin
Lesson 369: Seamus Heaney
Lesson 370: Ted Hughes
Lesson 371: Thom Gunn
Lesson 372: Roy Fuller
Lesson 373: Geoffrey Hill
Lesson 374: J.H. Prynne
Lesson 375: Elizabeth Jennings
Lesson 376: Donald Davie
Lesson 377: Paul Muldoon
Minor Poets
Lesson 378: D.J. Enright
Lesson 379: James Fenton
Lesson 380: Roy Fisher
Lesson 381: Tony Harrison
Lesson 382: Christopher Middleton
Lesson 383: Carol Ann Duffy
Lesson 384: Patrick Kavanagh
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