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1 I. Victorian Literature The texts on this list are a comprehensive selection of Victorian literature and criticism with a focus on the novel. In addition to the novel, I have included poetry, non-fiction, and modern Victorian criticism and theory. While the list underscores the importance of the novel as both a major form of Victorian text and as an object, the other sections of the list claim no less importance on the period as a whole. The poetry and contemporary non-fiction texts represent key areas of discussion in the period that inform and flesh out many contexts and scenarios found within the novel. This is not to say that poetry and non-fiction fail at standing alone in providing sufficient readings of Victorian topics and debates just that this work, in this project, will be done by the novel rather than any other form of writing. The latter will be used to inform analyses on a range of contemporary social issues that more or less defined the Victorian period and thus were ultimately refracted through other kinds of writing. An obvious example is Darwin s On the Origin of Species (1859) which was and is a source of great controversy and possibly the most well known non-fiction work of the Victorian period. Others, however, such as the writings of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot on the state of various aspects of Victorian life and writing are less specifically known to a generalist audience, though no less telling of important debates in the period. For example, the progress of technology and women s place in literature are topics covered in non-fiction essays and articles that certainly impacted other writing of the period. In compiling this list my aim was to strike a balance between selections that were representative of the period as a whole, for instance many popular three volume novels, while keeping in mind the significance of the works in connection with my own interests. Novels Abbott, Edwin Abbott. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Press, Print. Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. London, England: Penguin Books, Print.

2 . Villette. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Print. Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Press, Print. Braddon, M. E. Lady Audley's Secret. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Print. Broughton, Rhoda. Not Wisely But Too Well Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, Print. Butler, Samuel, and Peter Mudford. Erewhon. Harmondsworth: Penguin, Print.. The Way of all Flesh. New York: Modern Library, Print. Collins, Wilkie. The Woman in White. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Press, Print.. The Moonstone. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Press, Print. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, Print. Corelli, Marie. The Sorrows of Satan. New York: Oxford University Press, Print. Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield. Oxford University Press, Print.. Bleak House. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Press, Print.. Great Expectations. Oxford University Press, Print.. Hard Times. New York: Norton, Print.. Little Dorrit. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, Print.. Our Mutual Friend. New York: distributed by Random House, Print. Disraeli, Benjamin. Sybil: Or, the Two Nations. London: G. Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, Print.. Tancred. London: R. Brimley Johnson, Print. Du Maurier, George. Trilby. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Print. Eliot, George. Middlemarch. New York: Modern Library, Print.. Daniel Deronda. New York: Modern Library, Print.. The Mill on the Floss. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Press, Print. Gaskell, Elizabeth. Mary Barton. New York: Oxford University Press, Print.. North and South. New York: Oxford University Press, Print.

3 Gissing, George. The Odd Women. 10. Vol. London: Blond, Print.. The Nether World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Print. Grand, Sarah. The Heavenly Twins. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, Print. Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Press, Print. Hardy, Thomas. The Return of the Native. New York: Norton, Print.. The Mayor of Casterbridge. New York: Norton, Print.. Tess of the d'urbervilles. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Press, Print.. Jude the Obscure. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Press, Print. Huysmans, Joris-Karl. Against Nature (Á Rebours). London: Penguin, Print. Kingsley, Charles. The Water-Babies. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Press, Print.. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography. New York: Oxford University Press, Print. Le Fanu, Sheridan. Carmilla. Project Gutenberg, Web.. Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh. New York: Dover, Print. Lytton, Edward Bulwer. The Coming Race. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Press, Print. Machen, Arthur. The Great God Pan. Late Victorian Gothic Tales. Ed. Roger Luckhurst. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Print. Moore, George. Esther Waters. London: J. M. Dent, Print. Morris, William. News from Nowhere and Other Writings. New York: Penguin Books, Print. Ouida [Maria Louise Ramé]. Under Two Flags: A Novel. London: Chatto and Windus, Print. Reade, Charles. Hard Cash: A Matter-of-Fact Romance. London: Collins, Print.. It is Never Too Late to Mend. London: Ward Lock, Print. Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, Print. Stevenson, Robert Louis, and John Sutherland. Treasure Island. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Editions, Print.. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Print.

4 Stoker, Bram. Dracula. New York: Palgrave, Print. Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero. London, England: Penguin Books, Print. Trollope, Anthony. The Way we Live Now. New York: Modern Library, Print. Wells, H. G. The Island of Doctor Moreau. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Editions, Print.. The Time Machine: An Invention. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Press, Print. Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Print. Wood, Henry, Mrs. East Lynne. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, Print. Zangwill, Israel. Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, Print. Contemporary Non-Fiction Arnold, Matthew. Culture and Anarchy; On the Modern Element in Literature ; The Function of Criticism at the Present Time ; Hebraism and Hellenism. Beerbohm, Max. 1880, In Defence of Cosmetics Browning, Robert. Essay on Shelley. Carlyle, Thomas. Signs of the Times ; Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question ; Latter Day Pamphlets - The Present Time, Model Prisons. Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species; The Descent of Man. Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans). Silly Novels by Lady Novelists ; The Progress of the Intellect. Lankester, Edwin Ray. Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism. Lewes, George Henry. Problems of Life and Mind. Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism; On Liberty; The Spirit of the Age. Morris, William. How We Live and How We Might Live. Oliphant, Margaret. Sensation Novels.

5 Pater, Walter. The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Literature; Marius the Epicurean. Ruskin, John. The Stones of Venice; Work. Symons, Arthur. The Symbolist Movement in Literature. Wilde, Oscar. The Soul of Man Under Socialism ; The Decay of Lying ; De Profundis Poetry Arnold, Matthew. The Buried Life ; The Scholar Gypsy ; Tristam and Iseult Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Aurora Leigh ; The Dead Pan Browning, Robert. Porphyria s Lover ; Love Among the Ruins ; A Grammarian s Funeral ; Rabbi Ben Ezra Hardy, Thomas. Selections from Wessex Poems and Other Verses: Hap ; Neutral Tones ; In A Wood ; She, To Him I - IV ; In Tenebris III ; The Darkling Thrush Hopkins, Gerard Manley. God s Grandeur ; Spring ; The Windhover ; Pied Beauty ; The Handsome Heart ; Spring and Fall ; To What Serves Mortal Beauty? ; Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves ; Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord ; The Wreck of the Deutschland Kipling, Rudyard. "Danny Deever" La Galliene, Richard, "Ballad of London" Lear, Edward. Dong With a Luminous Nose, The Jumblies Mew, Charlotte. V.R.I ; Madeleine in Church Morris, William. The Defense of Guenevere ; The Haystack in the Floods Patmore, Coventry. The Angel in the House Rossetti, Christina. The Goblin Market Swinburne, Charles Algernon. The Leper ; The Garden of Proserpine ; Before the Mirror ; A Forsaken Garden ; A Ballad of Dreamland ; Sonnet for a Picture Symons, Arthur. Selections from London Nights: White Heliotrope ; Céleste I - XI ; Variations Upon Love ; and others.

6 Tennyson, Alfred Lord. The Charge of the Light Brigade ; The Lady of Shallott ; In Memoriam ; Ulysses ; The Kraken ; "Hands All Round", "Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition" (verses on empire by the poet laureate) Yeats, William Butler. The Ballad of Father O Hart ; To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time ; The Rose of the World ; The Rose of Peace ; The Rose of Battle ; The Host of the Air ; The Autumn of the Body Modern Critical Texts Altick, Richard Daniel. The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, Columbus: Ohio State University Press, Print. Amigoni, David. The Expansion of Britain. The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature. Ed. Kate Flint. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Print. Anderson, Amanda. The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, Print. Armstrong, Isobel. Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics, and Politics. New York: Routledge, Print. Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. New York: Oxford University Press, Print. Beer, Gillian. Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction. New York: Cambridge University Press, Print. Brantlinger, Patrick. Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, Print. Carlisle, Janice. High Victorianism. The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature. Ed. Kate Flint. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Print. Gallagher, Catherine. The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction: Social Discourse and Narrative Form, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Print. Gilbert, Pamela K. The Citizen's Body: Desire, Health, and the Social in Victorian England. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, Print. Gilmour, Robin. The Victorian Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context, New York: Longman, Print. Houghton, Walter E. The Victorian Frame of Mind, New Haven: Published for Wellesley College by Yale University Press, Print.

7 Joyce, Simon. The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror. Athens: Ohio University Press, Print. Mitchell, Sally. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, Print. Poovey, Mary. Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Print. Price, Leah. How to do Things with Books in Victorian Britain. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, Print.. Victorian Reading. The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature. Ed. Kate Flint. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Print. Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, Print. Sweet, Matthew. Inventing the Victorians. London: Faber, Print.

Victorian Period Rachel Teukolsky. Novels. Elizabeth Gaskell ( ) North and South (1855) William Thackeray ( ) Vanity Fair (1847)

Victorian Period Rachel Teukolsky Novels Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) North and South (1855) William Thackeray (1811-1863) Vanity Fair (1847) Charles Dickens (1812-1870) David Copperfield (1849-50) Great