1 Lecturer Dr.

Daniela Davidescu Brown

A Course in Victorian Literature

2nd year English A & B, 2010-2011

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Novels
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Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (1847) Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights (1847) Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (1860-1) George Eliot: Silas Marner (1861) Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) Thomas Hardy: Tess of the dUrbervilles (1891)

Poems
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (b.1806): from the volume Sonnets from the Portuguese, sonnet 43 <How do I love thee? Let me count the ways> Alfred Tennyson (b. 1809): Ulysses, Crossing the Bar, The Lady of Shalott Robert Browning (b.1812): Prospice, My Last Duchess Arthur Hugh Clough (b. 1819): The Latest Decalogue Matthew Arnold (b.1822): In Harmony with Nature, Dover Beach Dante Gabriel Rossetti (b. 1828): The Blessed Damozel, Silent Noon Algernon Charles Swinburne (b. 1837): The Garden of Proserpine Thomas Hardy (b.1840): Neutral Tones Gerard Manley Hopkins (b. 1844): The Windhover, Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord

Essays 1. Thomas Carlyle (b. 1795): On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History: The Hero as Poet 2. John Stuart Mill (b. 1806): On Liberty: (chapter III) Of Individuality as One of the Elements of Well-Being 3. John Ruskin (b. 1819): The Stones of Venice: The Savageness of Gothic Architecture http://www.archive.org/details/stonesofvenice02ruskiala pp.155-163 4. Matthew Arnold (b. 1822): Culture and Anarchy: (chapter 4) Hebraism and Hellenism 5. Walter Pater (b. 1839): Studies in the History of the Renaissance: La Gioconda http://www.archive.org/details/renaissancestud00pateuoft pp.123-129

All these poems and essays are to be found in: The Norton Anthology of English Literature (vol2) The Norton Anthology of Poetry The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse by Christopher Ricks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990 The Anthology of English Literature. The Victorian Age by Stoiculescu, Monica Bottez, Constantinescu. Bucuresti: T. U. B., 1985 Antologia Poetilor Victorieni (vol. I, II). Bucuresti: Universitatea din Bucuresti, 1971 Proza Eseistica Victoriana: antologie ed. by Ana Cartianu (vol. II, III) Bucuresti: Universitatea Bucuresti, 1969 Optional critical bibliography
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David Daiches. A Critical History of English Literature (vol 4) An Outline of English Literature ed. by Pat Rogers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992 Andrew Sanders. The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993 The Penguin History of Literature: The Victorians ed. by Arthur Pollard. London: Penguin Books, 1987 B. Ford. The Pelican Guide to English Literature (vol. 6) Monica Bottez. Recurrent Images in Dickenss Novels Monica Bottez. Analysing Narrative Fiction: Reading Strategies. Bucureti: Editura Universitii Bucureti, 2007 Ioana Zirra. Contributions of the British 19th century: The Victorian Age. Bucuresti: Editura Universitatii Bucuresti, 2000 The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel ed. by Deirdre David. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001 The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry ed. by Joseph Bristow. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000 David Lodge. The Art of Fiction. London: Penguin Books, 1992