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35 DAYS MOCK TEST SERIES

SCHEDULE FOR BRITISH LITERATURE

THIS IS ONE OF THE THREE SCHEDULES LISTING OUT THE IMPORTANT

AUTHORS/TOPICS FROM WHERE THE QUESTIONS FOR THE MOCK TESTS WILL BE

FRAMED FROM. THERE MIGHT BE QUESTIONS FROM DIFFERENT AREAS TO.

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# AngloSaxon literature

#The development of middle English prose and verse

#Fabliau, Lyric, Dream allegory, Ballad

#Chaucer, Langland, Wycliffe, Gower, Hoccleve,

Lydgate

#The Scottish Chaucerians

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#Malory, Skelton

#Early Tudor scene

#Spencer

#Drama from the miracle play to Marlowe

#Sackville, Sidney, Drayron, Lyly, Peele, Bacon

#More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Ascham

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#Shakespeare

#Drama from Johnson to the closing of Theatres

#Greene, Nashe, Kyd, John Foxe

#Jacobean age

#Masques, City Comedy

#Chapman, Webster, Middleton, Heywood

Dekker, Massinger, John Ford & other writers

#Renaissance poetry and prose

#Major Biblical translations

# Jonsonian and The metaphysical tradition

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#The Cavaliar poets

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#Metaphysical poets

#Donne, Crashaw, MarvellMarv, Vaughan, Lovelace &

others

#Prose in the 16 th century

#Milton

#Restoration drama

#Civil war

#Bunyan, Thomas Browne, Dryden, Butler, Pepys

#EtherageEthe, Wycherley, Vanbrugh, Farquhar etc

Enlightenment (1700-1800)

#Pope, Swift, Addison, Steele, Johnson & other

important writers

#Drama after 1737

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# Poetry after Pope

#Diarists

# Rise of novel

#Henry Fielding, Smolett, Richardson, Sterne

and other important writers

#Poetry from Thomson to Crabble

#Novel from Richardson to Austen

#Romantic period

#The novel in Romantic period

#Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats etc

#Major essayists like Lamb, De Quincey, Hazlitt

#Novels of Jane Austen

#Godwin, Sheriden, Walter Scott...

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#The Scottish regional novel

# Victorian age

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# Context

# The Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood

#Victorian thought and novels

#Dickens

# Browning, Tennyson, Rosetti

#Thackeray

# Brontee Sisters

# Carlyle

#Ruskin

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#Lady Novelists

#Novels of Hardy

# Victorian drama

# Late Vicrtorian Novels

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#Matthew Arnold

#Swinburne

# J H Newman

# Wilkie Collins and other writers

#Major poets, Essayists etc

#Major works of the period

#Modern period

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#Later Hardy

# Imagism, Georgian poetry

#Irish writing

#Context and conditions

# E M Foster, Kipling, G. B. Shaw

W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot

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# Thirties poets

#Scottish and Welsh poetry

# Irish drama

#Social context

#Popular poets

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#J.M.Synge

#Poetic drama

# The Kaliyard school

# Modernism and the novel

#Conrad, Orwell, Joyce, DH Lawrence, Huxley

#Virginia Woolf novels and essays

#Novels of the first World war

# First World War poetry

# Thirties novelists

# H. G. Wells, W. H. Auden, Owen, Housman

# Genre fiction

#Features of Modernism

# Major texts of the period

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#The twentieth century

#Poetry of the second world war

#Novel sin1945

# Features of Post modern period

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# Tolkien

#Isherwood, Doris Lessing, Tom Stoppard

Fowles, McEwain etc

# Modes of Modern Writing

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# Absurd theatre

# Martin Amis, Edward Bond, Osborne

Churchill, Ted Hughes, Larkin, Gunn Geoffrey Hill etc

#The Campus novel

# Scottish and Irish novels

#The literature of the Absurd

Kafka, Camus Ionesco, Beckett and others

#Modern and Post modern drama

#Breht, Epic theatre...

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# Major poetic devices

#Major literary terms

#Allegory, Alliteration, Anaphora, Irony, Litotes,

Prolepsis etc

#Prosody

# Famous novels in apocalyptic novels

Campus novels, Bildungsroman, Metafiction

Science fiction, Gothic novel

#Epic poetry

# Elegies

#Sonnets

#Pastoral poetry

# University wits

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Sons of Ben

# Kit Kat Club

#Graveyard poets

# Lake poets

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# Transcendentalism

# Aestheticism

#Stream of Consciousness

You could expect questions from topics related to

those mentioned in the schedule. Everyday topics on
British Literature will be shared in group on each
days.

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