Course Outline

Course Title: Modern Novel

Course Code: ENG-607

Credit Hours: 3(3-0)

Course Contents

Core Texts

✔ Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness (1899-1902)
✔ E. M. Forster – A Passage to India (1924)
✔ Virginia Woolf – To the Lighthouse (1927)
✔ William Golding – Lord of the Flies (1954)

Recommended Books

• Allen, Walter. The English Novel (1954).
• Baker, R. S. The Dark Historical Page: Social Satire and Historicism in the Novels of Aldous Huxley, 1921-1939 (London, 1982).
• Bedford, Sybille. Aldous Huxley (2 vols., London, 1973-74).
• Bowering, Peter. Aldous Huxley: A Study of the Major Novels (London, 1969).
• Beer, J. B. The Achievement of Forster (London, 1962).
• Burgess, Anthony. Joysprick: An Introduction to the Language of James Joyce (1973), Harcourt (March 1975).
• Caramagno, Thomas C. The Flight of the Mind: Virginia Woolf’s Art and Manic-Depressive Illness. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
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• Cavaliero, Glen. A Reading of E. M. Forster (London, 1979).
• Church, Richard. The Growth of the English Novel (1951).
• Das, G. K. & Beer, John (Eds.). E. M. Forster: A Human Exploration (London, 1979).
• Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce (Oxford University Press, 1959; revised edition, 1983).