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| Course Syllabus: UPSC Mains English Literature
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| Course Duration: 1-Year and 2-Year Plans Subscription Plans |
| Target Exam: UPSC Mains 2026 and 2027 Exams [more details] |
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| MCQ Test Series: 25 MCQ Tests [more details] |
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| Test Series: The course package includes both MCQs and proctored live exams, so you can test your memory and build your approach and strategy. |
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UPSC Mains English Literature Syllabus
The syllabus of UPSC Mains English Literature consists of two papers – Paper 1 and Paper 2.
There are prescribed texts for Novel, Poetry and Drama. Apart from the prescribed texts, the syllabus also includes different ages in English Literature, Literary Movements, Popular Literary theories and History of Indian English Literature.
UPSC Mains English Literature Paper I Syllabus
Foundational Knowledge of the below mentioned topics:
| 1. Introduction to the Renaissance Period |
| 2. Brief History of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama |
| 3. Metaphysical Poetry: Major characteristics and Poets |
| 4. The Difference between the Epic and the Mock Epic |
| 5. Neoclassicism in Literature |
| 6. The major features and types of Satire |
| 7. The Romantic Movement and Literature |
| 8. The Rise of the Novel and 18th Century Literature |
| 9. The Victorian Age Background and Literature |
Section A – Prescribed Texts in UPSC Mains English Literature Paper I Syllabus
| 1. William Shakespeare’s King Lear |
| 2. William Shakespeare’s The Tempest |
3. John Donne’s Poems:
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| 4. John Milton’s Paradise Lost Book I, II, IV and IX. |
| 5. Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock |
6. William Wordsworth’s Poems:
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| 7. Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam |
| 8. Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House |
Section B – Prescribed Texts in UPSC Mains English Literature Paper I Syllabus
| 1. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels |
| 2. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice |
| 3. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones |
| 4. Charles Dickens’ Hard Times |
| 5. George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss |
| 6. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles |
| 7. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
UPSC Mains English Literature Paper II Syllabus
Foundational Knowledge of the below mentioned topics:
| 1. Modernism Movement and the 20th Century Literature |
| 2. Poets of the Thirties: The Auden Group Poets and their works |
| 3. The Stream of Consciousness Novel |
| 4. Absurd Drama and Background of The Theatre of Absurd |
| 5. A Brief history of Colonialism to Postcolonialism Period |
| 6. Indian Writing in English: Origin, Major Developments and Contemporary Readings |
| 7. Marxism Theory and Marxist Approach to Literature |
| 8. Psychoanalytic Theory and Psychoanalytic Approach to Literature |
| 9. Feminism Theory and Feminist Approach to Literature |
| 10. Postmodernism Movement and Literature |
Section A – Prescribed Texts in UPSC Mains English Literature Paper II Syllabus
1. William Butler’s Poems:
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2. T. S. Eliot’s Poems:
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3. W. H. Auden’s Poems:
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| 4. John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger |
| 5. Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot |
6. Philip Larkin’s Poems:
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7. A. K. Ramanujan’s Poems:
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Section B – Prescribed Texts in UPSC Mains English Literature Paper II Syllabus
| 1. Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim |
| 2. James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| 3. D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers |
| 4. E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India |
| 5. Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway |
| 6. Raja Rao’s Kanthapura |
| 7. V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas |
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