English Department – Victorian Literature
Reading List 2011-2012 – Victorian Literature
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Fiction
George Du Maurier
Trilby
Elizabeth Gaskell
Cranford
George Eliot
Adam Bede
Poetry *
Christina Rossetti
“Cardinal Newman”
“Song (‘When I am dead, my dearest…’)”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“The Cry of the Children”
Nos. 21, 22, and 32 from Sonnets from the Portuguese
Emily Brontë
“Remembrance”
“Stars”
Robert Browning
“Andrea del Sarto”
“The Lost Leader”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Thou art indeed just, Lord”
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
“The Other Side of a Mirror”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“My Sister’s Sleep”
Michael Field
“To Christina Rossetti”
“Nests in Elms”
Rudyard Kipling
“The White Man’s Burden”
Secondary Works
Susan Brown. “The Victorian Poetess.” The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry. Ed. Joseph Bristow. Cambridge University Press, 2000. †
Philip Davis. Part II of Chapter 7 (“Debatable Lands: Variety of Form and Genre in the Early Victorian Novel”) in The Oxford English Literary History : Volume 8: 1830 – 1880: The Victorians. Oxford University Press, 2004. †
* In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Volume E: The Victorian Age. Eds. Carol T. Christ and Catherine Robson. W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.
† On reserve at Penrose Library.
