Syllabus

Unless otherwise stated, all texts available in the Norton Anthology of English Literature (tenth edition) Volume E.

  • Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (Norton Critical Edition, ISBN 0393979083)
  • Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (Oxford World’s Classics Edition, ISBN 0199535639)
  • Charlotte Bronte, Villette (Oxford World’s Classics Edition, ISBN 0199536651)
  • Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Oxford World’s Classics Edition, ISBN 0199558299)
  • Bram Stoker, Dracula (Oxford World’s Classics Edition, ISBN 0199564094)
  • Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
  • Rudyard Kipling, Kim (Norton Critical Edition) ISBN 978-0393966503
  • Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (extract, available on Canvas)
  • A. S. Byatt, Possession (extract, available on Canvas)
  • Sarah Waters, Fingersmith (extract, available on Canvas)

Poetry

  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘The Cry of the Children’ and ‘Grief’
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson, ‘In Memoriam’ (extracts)
  • Christina Rossetti, ‘After Death’
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins, ‘Binsey Poplars’
  • Robert Browning, ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’
  • Augusta Webster, ‘Circe’ (available on Literature Online, Proquest, through the university library subscription)
  • Rudyard Kipling, ‘The White Man’s Burden’

Prose (non-fiction)

  • Joseph Chamberlain, ‘The True Conception of Empire’ (extract)
  • Friedrich Engels, ‘The Great Towns’ (extract)
  • Henry Mayhew, ‘Jacob’s Island’ (available on Canvas)
  • Walter Besant, ‘The Queen’s Reign’ (extract)
  • Anon, ‘The Great Social Evil’
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