English Literature of the Victorian Age

/reading list/ – ENGLISH PHILOLOGY

NB! The reading list is a condition sine qua non for all students for a successful completion of the course!

1. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865): North and South;

 

1. Charles Dickens (1812-1870): Great Expectations; Dombey and Son, or Oliver Twist; 1 more work of the student’s own free choice (e.g. Bleak House, or David Copperfield, or The Old Curiosity Shop, or Our Mutual Friend; or Little Dorrit etc.);

 

1. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863): Vanity Fair;

 

1. Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855): Jane Eyre;

 

1. Emily Brontë (1818-1848): Wuthering Heights; poetry;

 

1. Anne Brontë (1820-1849): The Tenant of Wildfell Hall;

 

1. Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): Mariana; The Lady of Shalott; The Lotos-Eaters; Break, Break, Break; Ulysses; In Memoriam (exc.); Crossing the Bar;

 

1. Robert Browning (1812-1889): Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister; The Pied Piper of Hamelin; My Last Duchess; Porphyria’s Lover; ‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’; Fra Lippo Lippi; The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church;

 

1. Eminent Victorian Female Poets:

 

–          Elizabeth Barret Browning (1806-1861): Aurora Leigh (exc.);

–          Christina Rossetti (1830-1894): Goblin Market (exc.);

1. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): The Blessed Damozel; The House of Life (exc.);

 

1. William Morris (1834-1896): The Defence of Guenevere;

 

1. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909): The Garden of Proserpine;

 

1. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888): The Forsaken Merman; Dover Beach;

 

1. George Eliot /Mary Ann Evans/ (1819-1880): The Mill on the Floss; Silas Marner;

 

1. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): Tess of the D’Urbervilles; 1 more novel of the student’s own choice (e.g. Far From the Madding Crowd, or The Mayor of Casterbridge, or Jude the Obscure etc.);

 

1. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): The Picture of Dorian Gray;

 

1. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1994): The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde;