ENG 470: Victorian Children's Literature & Victorian Childhoods
Syllabus for Fall 2021 in .pdf format
Read the material before class so you are ready to discuss in class. Please bring books and .pdf materials to class.
Introduction to Victorian Children's Literature & Victorian Childhood
- Claudia Nelson’s “Growing Up: Childhood"
- Susan Naramore Maher's “Childhood"
- W. John Smith’s “Children”
- Jill Shefrin’s “Children’s Literature”
- Laura Navo’s “Elementary Education”
Jack Zipes’s Victorian Fairy Tales 
Gluck revives the young child Richard Doyle 1851 Wood-engraving Chapter V, Ruskin's The King of the Golden River
- Catherine Sinclair’s” Uncle David’s Nonsensical Story about Giants and Fairies”
- Alfred Crowquill’’s “Heinrich”
- Juliana Horatia Ewing’s “The Ogre Courting”
- John Ruskin’s The King of the Golden River
Catherine Sinclair's Holiday House
Edward Lear’s Complete Nonsense: A Book of Nonsense and More Nonsense.
Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
The British Library's virtual tour of the original manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground.
Jan Susina's interview with Martin Gardener on Annotated Alice from Five Owls. (.pdf file)
The White Rabbit by John Tenniel
Lewis Carroll Society of North America. Filled with links. Lewis Carroll home page, hosted by the LCSNA.
Lenny's Alice in Wonderland page. Good links to basic info on the book.
Victorian Website links on Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll's scrapbook from Library of Congress
Illustrations of Alice that are not by Tenniel
Florence Milner's 1903 essay explaining poems in Alice and original
Alice near the jury box, as illustrated by John Tenniel
Tim Burton talks with Johnny Depp about Alice in Wonderland and Batman in LA Times (Oct. 15, 2008)
Blog on Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland and pop culture related materials
Trailer for 1999 television version of Alice in Wonderland. YouTube 1 min.
Unusual online text version with illustrations by many artists from many books. A Bedtime Story Classic
Link to information on Jan Susina's The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature
Presentation by Nichol Brown on The "Nursery" Alice
Read from Jack Zipes’s Victorian Fairy Tales:
- Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen’s “Charlie Among the Elves”
- Jean Ingelow’s “The Princess’s Dream"
Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen’s” “Ernest” a .pdf document
Charles Dickens’s Hard Times
- Jack Zipes’s Victorian Fairy Tales: George Cruikshank’s “Cinderella”
- Charles Dickens’s “Fraud on the Fairies”
- John Ruskin’s “Fairy Stories”
- Jack Zipes’s Victorian Fairy Tales: Charles Dickens’s “The Magic Fishbone.”
Murdering the Innocent - An Adaptation of Hard Times by Audiobook
Darwin Featured Books: Illustrations: Cruikshanks Fairy Library
George Cruikshank's "The Bottle" illustrations of 8-page book
German Popular Stories by George Cruikshank
"Facts" from 1977 production. YouTube. 1:37 min
Thomas Gradgrind, animated version YT. :41
"The Changing World of Charles Dickens" clip YT 1:29
The Illustrated Hard Times, a 12 min sample video. YT
David Perdue's Hard Times page
Videos from the Manchester (U.K.) Library Theatre Co's fascinating version of Hard Times which they performed in an old mill factory that they reinvented in a space where the audience walked through the performance. Video 1: The factory space. Video 2: Rehearsals. Video 3: Mill transformed with actors. Video 4: Final rehearsals.
Hard Times was serialized in Household Words from May 1850 to May 1859.
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Horse in Victorian Literature PowerPoint by Anna Shapland
Victorian Circus
Ellen Sundermeier's PowerPoint on the Victorian Circus
Victorian Photographs of Children:
Oscar Rejlander, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll, & Lady Clementina Hawarden.
Read for class Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor: “Children Street Sellers”
"What Shall I Do?" by Oscar Rejlander
Julia Jackson by Julia Margaret Cameron
Alice Liddell by Lewis Carroll
photograph of her daughter by Lady Clementina Hawarden
Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass
- Jack Zipes’s Victorian Fairy Tales: Lewis Carroll’s “Bruno’s Revenge.”
- Lewis Carroll’s “`Alice’ on Stage.”
Late Victorian Fairy Tales.
Jack Zipes’s Victorian Fairy Tales: Mary de Morgan’s “A Toy Princess,” Mrs. Clifford’s “Wooden Tony,” Andrew Lang’'s “The Princess Nobody,” Oscar Wilde’s “The Happy Prince,” Mary Molesworth’s “The Story of a King’s Daughter,” and Kenneth Graham’s “The Reluctant Dragon.”
Christina Rossetti's Sing-Song
The Girlhood of Mary (1848-9) Dante Rossetti. Christina posed for her brother as Mary, on right
"In the Bleak Mid-Winter" sung by Shawn Colvin. YouTube video with image of CD cover YouTube video with images of winter
Vicotorian Web links to Christina Rossetti From the V-web. "Contextual Intertextuality: Dante, Petrarch, and Chrstina Rossetti" by Anthony Harrison
Pre-Raphaelite Women from Pittsburgh State State site. Detailed information and multitude of links and images about Christina Rossetti.
Jan Susina essay “ ‘More is Meant Than Meets the Ear’: Narrative Framing in the Three Versions of George MacDonald’s The Light Princess.” George MacDonald: Literary Heritage and Heirs. Ed. Roderick McGillis.
Ophelia by Arthur Hughes Wayne, PA: Zossima P, 2007: 99-112.
Pre-Raphaelite Art collection Delaware Museum of Art. Extensive collection with great, educational website on Pre-Raphaelites! Link to a full color .pdf educational guide.
Cover of Goblin Market by D. Rossetti
Beata Beatrix (1871-2) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (In the Art Institute of Chicago)
Dante Gabriel Rossettie hypermedia archive. Thorough! Many images that are catalogued are in private hands. part of the NINES, networked infrastructure for nineteenth-century electronic scholarship.
Dante Rossetti work with Christina illustrated on right
Birmingham Museum of Art (in England) massive Pre-Raphaelite collection. You can create a personalized folder from museum's collection.
Pre-Raphaelite Society webpage, dedicated to the study of the lives and art of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Six Pre-Raphaelite images that are about literature.
Christina Rossetti, by D. G. Rossetti, 1848
Link to Pre-Raphaelite show on artists and nature at the Tate Museum in 2004. Good background info.
Joyce Carol Oates Afterword to Goblin Market
Poetryanimation on YouTube. Christina Rossetti's portrait (by Dante) reading "Uphill" "Remember" Weird, but cool.
Thomas Hughes’s Tom Brown’s School Days .
Francis Hodgson Burnett’s The Little Princess:
Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty
Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter and Benjamin Bunny, on a lead.
- Frederick Warne, official pubblisher of Beatrix Potter Information on Potter, games, news, eating healthy.
- Beatrix Potter's life in Cumbria. Lots of info about her life there, many book suggestions, photographs, and info about the film Miss Potter
- "The Tale of Miss Potter" Daily Telegraph article about the film Miss Potter and her life in England. (16 Dec. 2006)
- Beatrix Potter, Fabulist. Online exhibit from Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton. Click on the images on top of the screen.
- A biography of Potter from University of Pittsburgh site.
- The Beatrix Potter Society website.
- The National Trust's homes of Beatrix Potter and links to more information about her.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island.
Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
Photos of Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson's "My First Book."
Robert Louis Stevenson website from Edinburough University. Specific information about Treasure Island with image of original map.
Robert Louis Stevenson website. Comprehensive source on all things Stevenson sposored by the British Library and the Universities of Edinburgh and Stirling and numerous other organization.
An ebook facsimile of Treasure Island with frontispiece by Wyeth and illustrations by Louis Read.
"Stevenson's 'Treasure Island': Still Avast Delight" by Jonathan Yardley writing in The Washington Post April 17, 2006
Good introduction to book that opens with map to Treasure Island. Geared for high schoolers, but interesting.
The map in Treasure Island, as drawn by Louis Read
J.M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy
E. Nesbit’s Five Children and It: (chapters 1-5).
Jack Zipes’s Victorian Fairy Tales: Edith Nesbit’s “The Last Dragon.”
Required Texts:
Jack Zipes, ed. Victorian Fairy Tales. Routledge.
Charles Dickens. Hard Times, edited by Kate Flint. Penguin
Edward Lear. Complete Nonsense. Wordsworth Children.
Lewis Carroll. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass,
edited by Hugh Haughton. Penguin.
Christina Rossetti. Sing-Song. Dover.
Thomas Hughes. Tom Brown’s School Days, edited by Andrew Sanders. Oxford World
Classics.
Anna Sewell. Black Beauty. Puffin.
Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island. edited by John Seelye. Penguin.
J.M. Barrie. Peter and Wendy, edited by Jack Zipes. Penguin.
J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie with his St. Bernard Porthos, which he walked in Kensington Gardens
Arthur Rackham's illustrations to Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, featuring images from the 1906 text. Barrie extracted the Peter Pan story from The Little White Bird
Peter Pan on stage and screen
- Brief info from Disney on its Peter Pan film (1953)
- Information on Peter Pan Broadway musical when it aired on television in March 1955
- Thoughts on the reality behind Finding Neverland film
Videos of Peter Pan versions, from YouTube
- 1960 TV version of Broadway play with Mary Martin. In this segment, Peter shows up for the first time needing his shadow sewed on. 8 min
- Cathy Rigby in updated Broadway play from 1990s. "Where Dreams are Born" and "I'm Flying." 10 min.
- Trailer for 2003 film version. 2:30 min
Peter Pan and Eros, essay from Victorian Web on the book and its Greek roots
Francis Hodgson Burnett. The Little Princess, edited by U.C. Knoepflmacher. Penguin.
Beatrix Potter. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Warne.
E. Nesbit. Five Children and It. Puffin.
Recommended Text:
Modern Language Association. MLA Handbook Ninth edition. MLA.