English 218: Studies in the Victorian Period
Fall 2021 Syllabus (in .pdf format)
Queen Victoria
Introduction to Victorian England
- "Victorian Era” Susie Steinback/ Britannica
- “What Happened During the Victorian Empire?” includes “Timeline for Victorian Empire” Royal Museums Greenwich
- “Queen Victoria”
Royal Albert Hall. Click on image to link to Royal albert Hall website
Albert Memorial. Click on image to link to Royal Parks website
Matthew Arnold.
Matthew Arnold
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold. at The Poetry Foundation
Essay on Victorian Poetry from The Poetry Foundation
"The Functions of Criticism at the Present Time" by Matthew Arnold. pdf
"The Study of Poetry" by Matthew Arnold. pdf
Thomas Carlyle.
Thomas Carlyle by Julia Margaret CameronThe Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt remarked that Carlyle’s face, “despite a shade of rickety joylessness, was one of the noblest I had ever seen.” Indeed, its sculptural quality prompted Cameron to inscribe some prints with the caption “Carlyle like a rough block of Michelangelo’s sculpture.” The author of On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841) was, for Cameron, a hero himself, whose convictions regarding the immanence of the deity and a providential order working through natural leaders were entirely in keeping with her own. Carlyle’s writings were opinionated and highly intuitive and stirred readers by antagonism rather than sympathy. He posed awkward, provocative questions and told the truth about the condition of society in clear-sighted, often scathing discourses. Yet for all his tremendous critical and analytical powers, Carlyle’s weakness was his inability to suggest or supply solutions. Anna Jameson described him with great acuity in her Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, Fancies (1854): “He is a man who carries his bright intellect as a light in a dark-lantern; he sees only the subjects on which he chooses to throw that blaze of light; those he sees vividly, but, as it were, exclusively. All other things, though lying near, are dark, because perversely he will not throw the light of his mind upon them.” by Julian Cox for The Getty Museum
Thomas Carlyle
John Ruskin. Victorian Art.
John Ruskin
Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights Family Tree article and info graphic
Emily Bronte's Introduction to Wuthering Heights
Kate Bush singing "Wuthering Heights" white dress version
Kate Bush singing "Wuthering Heights" red dress version
The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever in Atlanta. video of people dancing to "Wuthering Heights" red dress version
Lyrics to Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights"
Emily Bronte in 1833-34. Restored painting
Charles Dickens’s Hard Times
Charles Dickens
The British Library information on Hard Times, with a copy of the original manuscript.
Hard Times was originally serialized in Household Words magazine from May 1850 until May 1859. The magazine didn't give him a lot of space for his chapters, which is why this is his shortest book.
Engels and Marx
- .pdf with selections from Friedrich Engel's The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 and
- Karl Marx's and Friedrich Engels's The Communist Manifesto: Preface & chapter 1
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Charles Darwin: On The Origins of Species & Autobiography
Charles Darwin, young and older
Victorian Photography
Oscar Rejlander, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll & Lady Clementina Hawarden.
PowerPoint about Oscar Rejlander, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll & Lady Clementina Hawarden.
Oscar Reijlander
Reijlander. "What Shall I Do?" 1860
Reijlander. "Mary Constable and Her Brother."
Julia Margaret Cameron
"Julia Margaret Cameron: soft-focus photographer with an iron will." by Charlotte Higgins. The Guardian. Sept. 22, 2015
Julia Margaret Cameron. "Julia Jackson. "1867
Lewis Carroll
Alice Liddell photographed by Lewis CarrollLady Clementina Hawarden
Clementina Maude at 5 Princes Gardens, photograph by Lady Clementina Hawarden, about 1863 – 64, England. Museum no. 269-1947. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
photo of her daughters by Lady Clementina Hawarden
Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Facsimile edition in .pdf of first edition with illustrations by Tenniel
Through the Looking-Glass. Facsimile edition in .pdf of first edition with illustrations by Tenniel
Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest
PowerPoint featuring scenes from The Importance of Being Earnest on film
Oscar Wilde
(from left) Brian Bedford, Dana Ivey, David Furr and Santino Fontana in the 2011 Broadway show
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord TennysonRobert Browing and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
.pdf on Elizabeth Barrett Brownings.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningDante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti
.pdf of Christina Rossetti's poem "Goblin Market"
Dante Rossetti and Christina RossettiAnna Sewell. Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
Thomas Hardy. Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
Thomas Hardy with fox terrier
Robert Louis Stevenson. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Joseph Conard. The Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Mary Seacole. Wonderland Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands.
Link to .pdf to read for class with selections from Mary Seacole Adventures text.
cover of Mary Seacole's book.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
.pdf of Doyle's favorite Sherlock Holmes stories
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
