The student offers 10 from the list of primary texts, plus 2 of the listed works of academic criticism. At least 3 choices must be poetry, at least 3 fiction, at least 3 nonfiction prose. At least 4 choices must come from the period 1790-1850, and at least 4 from 1850-1900.
PRIMARY TEXTS
1. Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
2. Jane Austen, Emma
3. Dion Boucicault, London Assurance, The Octoroon, & The Shaughraun
4. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
5. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
6. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
7. Robert Browning, Men and Women
8. Lord Byron, Don Juan
9. Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
10. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner," "Christabel," "Kubla Khan," "Dejection," & Biographia Literaria
11. Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
12. Charles Dickens, Bleak House
13. George Eliot, Middlemarch
14. Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
15. William Godwin, Caleb Williams
16. Thomas Hardy, Tess of the Durbervilles
17. John Keats, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "When I Have Fears," "The Eve of St. Agnes," "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," "To Sleep," "Ode to Psyche," "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode on Melancholy," The Fall of Hyperion, "To Autumn," & "Bright Star"
18. Alice Meynell, "Renouncement," Christ in the Universe," "Spring on the Alban Hills," "The Shepherdess," "Singers to Come," "Symmetry and Incident" (poems) & (essays) "The Colour of Life," "The Rhythm of Life," "Woman in Grey," "Solitude," "West Wind in Winter," "The Voice of a Bird," "The Lady Poverty," "Parentage," "A Father of Women," "In February," "To Antiquity"
19. J. S. Mill, Autobiography
20. John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua
21. Walter Pater, The Renaissance
22. John Ruskin, "The Nature of Gothic," ?raffic," & Sesame and Lilies
23. Walter Scott, Waverley
24. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
25. Percy Bysshe Shelley, ? Mont Blanc ," "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," "Ozymandias," "Ode to the West Wind, "To a Skylark," Prometheus Unbound, "Adonais," & "A Defence of Poetry"
26. A.C. Swinburne, The Triumph of Time, Anactoria," "Hymn to Proserpine," "Hermaphroditus," "The Garden of Proserpine," ?ertha, ? Forsaken Garden," ?"Ave atque Vale," "On the Cliffs," "Nympholept," "The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell," "Poeta Loquitur"
27. William Thackeray, Vanity Fair
28. Alfred Tennyson, "Mariana," "The Lady of Shalott," "The Lotos-Eaters," "Morte d' Arthur," "Ulysses," & In Memoriam A.H.H.
29. Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist? & The Importance of Being Earnest
30. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
31. William Wordsworth, "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads (1800), "Anecdote for Fathers," "We Are Seven," "Expostulation and Reply," "The Tables Turned," "Lines: Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey," "Nutting," "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal," "Michael," "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," ?omposed upon Westminster Bridge " "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," "The Solitary Reaper"
ACADEMIC CRITICISM
James Eli Adams, A History of Victorian Literature
M.H. Abrams, Natural Supernaturalism
Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics, and Politics
Nancy Armstrong, Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel
Nina Auerbach, Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth
Gillian Beer, Darwin ’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin , George Eliot, and 19th Century Fiction
Alison Booth, Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers’ Shrines and Countries
Patrick Brantlinger, Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism
Karen Chase and Michael Levenson, The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family
Phillip Davis, The Victorians
Devin Griffiths, The Age of Analogy
Kate Flint, ed., Cambridge History of Victorian Literature
Susan Fraiman, Unbecoming Women
Anna-Lise Francois. Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted Experience
Elaine Freedgood, The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel
Catherine Gallagher, The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction, 1832-1867
Robin Gilmour, The Victorian Period
Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the 19 th Century Literary Imagination
Christopher Herbert, Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the Nineteenth Century
Gary Kelly, English Fiction of the Romantic Period
Robert Langbaum, The Poetry of Experience
Caroline Levine, Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network
George Levine, The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley
Sharon Marcus, Between Women: Friendship, Desire and Marriage in Victorian England
Iain McCalman, ed., An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
Jerome McGann, Byron and Romanticism
Martin Meisel, Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial, and Theatrical Arts in Nineteenth-Century England
D.A. Miller, The Novel and the Police
Tom Mole, What the Victorians Made of Romanticism
Virgil Nemoianu, The Taming of Romanticism
Terry Otten, The Deserted Stage: The Search for Dramatic Form in Nineteenth Century England
Mary Poovey, Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England
Mario Praz, The Romantic Agony
Leah Price, How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
Thomas Richards, The Commodity Culture of Victorian Britain
Alan Richardson, Literature, Education, and Romanticism
Catherine Robson, Heart Beats
Jeffrey Robinson, Unfettering Poetry: Fancy in British Romanticism
Marlon Ross, The Contours of Masculine Desire
Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism
Talia Schaffer, Romance’s Rival
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire
William St. Clair, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period
Katie Trumpener, Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire
Herbert Tucker, Epic: Britain’s Heroic Muse 1790-1910
Raymond Williams, Culture and Society, 1780-1950
Susan Wolfson, Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism
Alex Woloch, The One vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel
Duncan Wu, ed., Romanticism, A Critical Reader