Syllabus/achievement requirements

Primary works:

  • Lewis Carroll (1832—98), Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871) in The Annotated Alice, ed. Martin Gardner (Penguin, 2001)

  • Oscar Wilde (1854—1900), The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), ed. Michael Patrick Gillespie (Norton Critical Edition, 2006)

Novels:

Charles Dickens (1812—70), Bleak House (1852—3), ed. George Ford and Sylvère Monod (Norton Critical Edition, 1977 [in print])

George Eliot (1819—80), Middlemarch (1871—2), ed. Bert G. Hornback, 2nd edn (Norton Critical Edition, 2000)

Charlotte Bront? (1816—1855), Jane Eyre (1847), ed. Richard J. Dunn, 2nd edn (Norton Critical Edition, 2000)

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Heart of Darkness (1899), ed. Paul B. Armstrong (Norton Critical Edition, 2005)

Poems:

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—92), In Memoriam A. H. H. (1850) ‘Prologue’ and 1, 7, 21, 34—35, 54—56, 95, 118, 124, 130; ‘The Lady of Shalott’ (1833)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61), 'Bertha in the Lane' (1844)

Robert Browning (1812-89), ‘The Bishop Orders His Tomb’ (1845)

Matthew Arnold (1822—88), ‘Dover Beach’ (1867)

Christina Rossetti (1830—94), 'Goblin Market' (1862), ‘Up-Hill’ (1862)

Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936), ‘The White Man’s Burden’, (1903), ‘If—’ (1910)

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844—89), ‘Pied Beauty’, ‘No Worst, There Is None’ (both published posthumously, 1918)

All poems in Francis O'Gorman, ed., Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell, 2004).

Secondary literature:

Robin Gilmour, The Victorian Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1830—90 (Longman Literature In English Series) (Harlow: Longman, 1993), paperback

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