NPTEL : NOC:History of English Language and Literature (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Merin Simi Raj


Lecture 1 - Introduction : Literary History

Lecture 2 - Locating the Starting Points : The Anglo-Saxon Period

Lecture 3 - Old English period : Anglo-Saxon period

Lecture 4 - Middle English Period : English Before Chaucer

Lecture 5 - The Age of Chaucer

Lecture 6 - Middle English period after Chaucer

Lecture 7 - Middle English period after Chaucer

Lecture 8 - The Development of English Language - Tracing the Origins and Early Influences

Lecture 9 - The Development of English Language - Old English to Middle English

Lecture 10 - Introducing the Elizabethan Era - The English Reformation

Lecture 11 - The Elizabethan Age : The Beginning Of a Golden Era

Lecture 12 - Elizabethan Age : English Drama Before Shakespeare

Lecture 13 - The Emergence of Elizabethan 'Romantic' Drama

Lecture 14 - The University Wits : A Prelude to Shakespeare

Lecture 15 - The University Wits : A Prelude to Shakespeare-

Lecture 16 - William Shakespeare : The Man, the Dramatist and an Age

Lecture 17 - William Shakespeare : An Overview of his Drama

Lecture 18 - Elizabethan Theatre

Lecture 19 - Elizabethan Poetry and Prose

Lecture 20 - The Jacobean Age

Lecture 21 - The Jacobean Age (Continued...)

Lecture 22 - Jacobean Drama

Lecture 23 - Did Women Have a Renaissance?

Lecture 24 - The Caroline Period / The Age of Milton and The Interregnum

Lecture 25 - The Caroline Period / The Age of Milton and The Interregnum (Continued...)

Lecture 26 - The Age of Milton : Prose and Poetry

Lecture 27 - Changes in Language : Early Modern English

Lecture 28 - Early Modern English (Continued...)

Lecture 29 - The Age of Restoration

Lecture 30 - The Age of Dryden

Lecture 31 - The Restoration Drama

Lecture 32 - The Age of Pope / The Augustan Age

Lecture 33 - The Age of Pope : Prose (Perodicals,Essays and The Rise Of the Novel)

Lecture 34 - The Age of Pope : Prose (Perodicals,Essays and The Rise Of Novel) (Continued...)

Lecture 35 - The Age of Pope Conclusion

Lecture 36 - Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th Century

Lecture 37 - The Age of Johnson (1745 - 1798)

Lecture 38 - The Age of Johnson (Continued...)

Lecture 39 - The Rise of the Novel

Lecture 40 - The Rise of the Novel

Lecture 41 - The Rise of the Novel (Continued...)

Lecture 42 - The Rise of the Woman Writer in the 18th Century

Lecture 43 - The Revival of Romance

Lecture 44 - The Revival of Romance (Continued...)

Lecture 45 - The Revival of Romance

Lecture 46 - The Age of Romanticism: Introduction

Lecture 47 - The Age of Wordsworth

Lecture 48 - Age of Wordsworth (Continued...)

Lecture 49 - Age of Wordsworth (Continued...)

Lecture 50 - Prose in the age of Romanticism

Lecture 51 - Drama in the age of Romanticism

Lecture 52 - Novel in the age of Romanticism

Lecture 53 - Women writers in the Romantic age

Lecture 54 - The Age of Tennyson : Victorian Era

Lecture 55 - The Age of Tennyson : Victorian Poetry

Lecture 56 - The Age of Tennyson : Victorian Poetry (Continued...)

Lecture 57 - The Age of Tennyson : Victorian Poetry (Continued...)

Lecture 58 - Prose in the Victorial Age

Lecture 59 - Drama in the Victorian Age

Lecture 60 - Victorian Novel and the Late Victorian Period

Lecture 61 - The Age of Tennyson : Victorian Poetry (New)

Lecture 62 - Towards Modernism

Lecture 63 - Modernist Literature

Lecture 64 - Modernist Poetry

Lecture 65 - Modernist Prose and Fiction

Lecture 66 - Post-1945: Post-Modern Age

Lecture 67 - The Age of Restoration (New)

Lecture 68 - The Age of Tennyson: Victorial Poetry (New)