UNIT 1
Detailed reading and critical discussion of the following essays:
Of Studies
Of Death
Of Simulation and dissimulation
Of Travel
Of Truth
UNIT 2
Of Marriage and Single Life
Of Parents and Children
Of Great Place
Of Empire
Of the True Greatness of Kingdom
UNIT 3
Bacon’s pragmatism
Renaissance influence
Machiavellian approach
UNIT 4
Gulliver’s Travels :its reading and critical analysis
UNIT 5
Satire in Gulliver’s Travels
Misanthropy in Swift’s approach
UNIT 6
Reading and critical analysis of the following essays:
Christ’s Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago
My Relations
Dream Children: A Reverie
The South Sea House
Oxford in the Vacation
New Year’s Eve
Imperfect Sympathies
UNIT 7
Romanticism of Charles Lamb
Nostalgia
Difference from Bacon, Prose style
UNIT 8
Unto This Last : its reading and critical analysis of the following essay
Ruskin as a prose writer, Religiosity
