The Neo Classical Age
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- Synopsis
- The document The Neo-Classical Age (University of Madras, M.A. English, Paper II) is a self-learning course book designed to guide postgraduate students through the literary works of the Neo-Classical period. It covers key genres—poetry, drama, prose, and fiction—through detailed and non-detailed study of major texts such as Milton’s Paradise Lost, Pope’s Essay on Man, Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel and All for Love, Congreve’s The Way of the World, Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer, Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Battle of the Books, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Fielding’s Tom Jones, Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, and Addison + Steele’s Coverley Papers. Each unit provides introductions, objectives, summaries, character analysis, critical insights, recaps, activities, and model questions to promote independent learning. Through this structured approach, the course emphasizes the values of reason, wit, satire, and moral commentary that define the Neo-Classical Age, while fostering analytical and communicative skills in students. The material highlights the cultural and historical contexts of the period and encourages learners to critically engage with themes of order, decorum, human fallibility, and societal transformation.
- Copyright:
- 2017
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Publisher:
- Institute Of Distance Education University Of Madras
- Date of Addition:
- 08/19/25
- Copyrighted By:
- Institute Of Distance Education University Of Madras
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This book is freely available to all subject to the Creative Commons license listed inside the book.