Lecturer Dr. Daniela Davidescu Brown

A Course in Victorian Literature2nd year English A & B, 2010-2011

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Novels

1. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (1847)2. Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights (1847)3. Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (1860-1) 4. George Eliot: Silas Marner (1861) 5. Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) 6. Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891)

Poems

1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (b.1806): from the volume Sonnets from the Portuguese, sonnet 43 <’How do I love thee? Let me count the ways’>

2. Alfred Tennyson (b. 1809): Ulysses, Crossing the Bar, The Lady of Shalott 3. Robert Browning (b.1812): Prospice, My Last Duchess 4. Arthur Hugh Clough (b. 1819): The Latest Decalogue5. Matthew Arnold (b.1822): In Harmony with Nature, Dover Beach 6. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (b. 1828): The Blessed Damozel, Silent Noon7. Algernon Charles Swinburne (b. 1837): The Garden of Proserpine 8. Thomas Hardy (b.1840): Neutral Tones 9. 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.155-1634. Matthew Arnold (b. 1822): Culture and Anarchy: (chapter 4) Hebraism and Hellenism5. Walter Pater (b. 1839): Studies in the History of the Renaissance: La Gioconda http://www.archive.org/details/renaissancestud00pateuoft pp.123-129

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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

1. David Daiches. A Critical History of English Literature (vol 4)2. An Outline of English Literature ed. by Pat Rogers. Oxford: Oxford University Press,

19923. Andrew Sanders. The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 19934. The Penguin History of Literature: The Victorians ed. by Arthur Pollard. London:

Penguin Books, 19875. B. Ford. The Pelican Guide to English Literature (vol. 6)6. Monica Bottez. Recurrent Images in Dickens’s Novels7. Monica Bottez. Analysing Narrative Fiction: Reading Strategies. Bucureşti: Editura

Universităţii Bucureşti, 20078. Ioana Zirra. Contributions of the British 19th century: The Victorian Age. Bucuresti:

Editura Universitatii Bucuresti, 20009. The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel ed. by Deirdre David. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 200110. The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry ed. by Joseph Bristow. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 200011. David Lodge. The Art of Fiction. London: Penguin Books, 1992

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