UPGPFH-30-3: Literature and Culture in Britain 1885-1915
Primary Texts: Required Reading 2011-2012
(Texts are listed in teaching order. It is very important that you purchase the texts in
the suggested editions)
Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts (1880) and Hedda Gabler (1890) in Ibsen: Four Major Plays
trans. James McFarlane (OUP, 1998). ISBN 0192833871
George Gissing, The Odd Women (1893) ed. Patricia Ingham (OUP, 2000). ISBN
019283312X
George Egerton, Keynotes and Discords (1893/4) (photocopies of selected stories will
be available from the beginning of term)*
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (1895) ed. Patricia Ingham (OUP, 2002). ISBN
0192802615
H.G.Wells, The War of the Worlds (1898) ed. Patrick Parrinder (Penguin, 2005).
ISBN 0141441038
Arnold Bennett, Anna of the Five Towns (1902) intro. Frank Swinnerton (Penguin,
2001). ISBN 9780141184166
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (1907) ed. Martin Newton (Penguin,
2007). ISBN 0141441585
E.M.Forster, ‘A Story of a Panic’ (1904) (a photocopy will be available from the
beginning of term)
E.M.Forster, A Room With a View (1908) ed. Malcolm Bradbury (Penguin, 2006).
ISBN 9780141183299
D.H.Lawrence, The Rainbow (1915) ed. James Wood (Penguin, 2007). ISBN
0141441380
*The Virago, Birmingham University Press and Continuum editions of Keynotes and
Discords are currently o/p. If you are persistent you may be able to track down a
second-hand copy in one of these editions.
The following anthology is highly recommended for use through the duration of the
module:
Sally Ledger and Roger Luckhurst (eds.) The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural
History c1880-1900 (OUP, 2000). ISBN 0198742797
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All the required reading for this module can be obtained from:
Durdham Down Bookshop, 39 North View, Westbury Park, Bristol BS6 7PY.
Enquiries: shop@durdhamdownbooks.co.uk Tel: 0117-973-9095. A 10% student
discount is available on all purchase.
Primary Texts: Suggestions for Further Reading
Reference will be made to many of these texts during the course. You may like to
supplement your reading over the summer with works from this list
Grant Allen, The Woman Who Did (1895) (Broadview)
Joseph Conrad, The Heart of Darkness (1902) (Penguin)
Ménie Muriel Dowie, Gallia (1895) (Dent/Everyman)
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) (Penguin)
E.M.Forster, Howards End (1910) (Penguin)
Collected Short Stories (Penguin)
George Gissing, The Nether World (1889) (OUP)
In the Year of Jubilee (1894) (Dent/Everyman)
The Whirlpool (1897) (Dent/Everyman)
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (1908) (Methuen)
Rider Haggard, She (1887) (Penguin)
Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders (1887) (Penguin/OUP)
Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Penguin/OUP)
The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories (Penguin)
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House (1879) OUP/Methuen)
The Lady from the Sea (1888) OUP/Methuen)
Rosmersholm (1888) (OUP/Methuen)
Henry James, In the Cage (1898) (Hesperus)
James Joyce, Dubliners (1914) (OUP)
D.H.Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (1913) (OUP)
Selected Short Stories (Penguin)
William Morris, News from Nowhere (1890) (OUP)
‘Useful Work versus Useless Toil’ in Asa Briggs (ed.)
William Morris Selected Writings and Designs (Penguin)
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Arthur Morrison, A Child of the Jago (1896) (Dent/Everyman)
Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)/ Weir of Hermiston
(1896) (Penguin)
August Strindberg, Miss Julie (1888) (Penguin)
H.G.Wells, The Time Machine (1895) (Penguin)
Ann Veronica (1908) (Dent/Everyman)
Tono-Bungay (1909) (Pan)
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) (Penguin)
The Soul of Man, De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
(OUP)
Emile Zola, The Ladies Paradise (1883) (OUP)
Anthologies
You might also like to consult the following anthologies to which reference will be made
during the course:
Elaine Showalter (ed.), Daughters of Decadence (Penguin, 1993)
Angelique Richardson (ed.), Women Who Did: Stories By Men and Women 1890-1914
(Penguin, 2002)
Jenny Bourne Taylor and Sally Shuttleworth (eds.), Embodied Selves: An Anthology of
Psychological Texts 1830-1890 (Clarendon Press, 1998)
Lauren Otis (ed.), Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century (OUP, 2002)
Elleke Boehmer (ed.), Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918
(Penguin, 1998)
Mike Jay and Michael Neve (eds.), 1900: A Fin de Siècle Reader (Penguin, 1999)
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