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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.

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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

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Charles Darwin: On The Origins of Species & Autobiography

selections from On the Origins of Species & Autobiography in .pdf format

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, Londonphoto of her daughters by Lady Clementina Hawarden