MA Reading List
Victorian Literature
Matthew Arnold:
“The Function of Criticism at the Present Time”
selections from Culture and Anarchy
Emily Brontë:
Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Brontë:
Jane Eyre
Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
selections from Aurora Leigh
Robert Browning:
selected poems (including “Porphyria’s Lover,” “My Last Duchess,” “The Bishop
Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church,” “Fra Lippo Lippi,” “Andrea del
Sarto,” “‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’”)
Thomas Carlyle:
selections from Past and Present
Charles Dickens:
Bleak House
George Eliot:
Mill on the Floss or Middlemarch
Christina Rossetti:
selected poems
Dante Gabriel Rossetti:
“The Blessed Damozel”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
selected poems (including “The Lady of Shalott,” “Ulysses,” “The Lotus Eaters,”
“Tithonus,” “In Memoriam A. H. H.”)
Oscar Wilde:
The Importance of Being Earnest