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Mary McCulley
April 11, 2012
19th Century British Literature and Aesthetics
Novels:
Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey. 1818. Ed. Susan Fraiman. New York: W.W. Norton and Co.,
2004. Print.
Braddon, M.E. The Doctor’s Wife. 1864. New York: Oxford UP, 1999.
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. 1847. Ed. Richard Dunn. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2000.
Print.
--. Villette. 1853. Ed. Kate Lawson. Ontario: Broadview Press, 2005. Print.
Brontë, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. 1848. Ed. Lee A. Talley, ed. Ontario: Broadview
Press, 2009. Print.
Carroll, Lewis. Alices’s Adventures in Wonderland. 1865. Ed. Richard Kelly. Ontario: Broadview
Press, 2011. Print.
Collins, Wilkie. The Woman in White. 1859-60. Eds. Maria K. Bachman and Don Richard Cox.
Ontario: Broadview Press, 2006. Print.
Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations.1860-61. Eds. Graham Law & Adrian J. Pinnington.
Ontario: Broadview Press, 1998. Print.
Eliot, George. Romola. 1862-63. New York: Oxford UP, 1994. Print.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Wives and Daughters. 1865. New York: Oxford UP, 2008. Print.
Hardy, Thomas. The Woodlanders. 1886-87. New York: Oxford UP, 2005. Print.
Oliphant, Margaret. Miss Marjoribanks. 1866. Ann Arbor: Penguin Classics, 2006. Print.
Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley. 1814. Ed. Susan Kubica Howard. Ontario: Broadview Press, 2010.
Print.
Shelly, Mary. Frankenstein. 1818. Ed. J Paul Hunter. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2012.
Print.
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. 1891. Ed. Michael Patrick Gillespie. New York: W.W.
Norton and Co., 2006. Print
Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse. 1927. New York: Oxford UP, 2008. Print.
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Poetry:
Arnold, Matthew. “Dover Beach,” “Lines Written in Kensington Gardens.”
Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and Experience.
Browning, Elizabeth. Sonnets from the Portuguese (nos. 44, 29), Aurora Leigh, "A Portrait,”
"Mother and Poet."
Browning, Robert. “My Last Duchess,” “Fra Lippo Lippi,” “Love Among the Ruins,” “Andrea del
Sarto,” “Pictor Ignotus.”
Byron, George Gordon. Manfred, “She Walks in Beauty.”
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison,” “The Aeolian Harp,” “Kubla
Kahn,” “Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.”
Field, Michael (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper). Under the Bough: A Book of Verses
(selections), “Sleeping Venus.”
Hardy, Thomas. “Neutral Tones,” “The Darkling Thrush,” “Hap,” “The Ruined Maid.”
Hopkins, Gerard. “Pied Beauty,” “God’s Grandeur” “Spring and Fall.”
Housman, A.E. "Loveliest of Trees."
Keats, John. “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “To Autumn,” "Sleep and Poetry,”
"On Seeing the Elgin Marbles,” Endymion.
Meynell, Alice. “In Early Spring,” “The Garden.”
Rossetti, Christina. Goblin Market, The Prince’s Progress, "In an Artist's Studio.”
Rossetti, Dante. “The Blessed Damozel,” House of Life (selections).
Shelley, Percy B. “Ode to the West Wind,” “To a Skylark,” “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty.”
Tennyson, Alfred. In Memoriam (sections 2, 95, 101), “The Lady of Shalott,” “Mariana,” "The
Palace of Art.”
Wordsworth, William. The Prelude (books 12-14), “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern
Abbey,” “Daffodils,” “The Tables Turned.”
NonFiction:
Arnold, Matthew. Culture and Anarchy (selections): “Function of Criticism at the Present Time,”
"Sweetness and Light.”
Hazlitt, William. Criticism on Art (selections): “On the Pleasure of Painting,” “On Originality.”
Jameson, Anna. Visits and Sketches, vol 1 & 2.
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Lee, Vernon. Laurus Nobilis: Chapters on Art and Life (selections): “The Use of Beauty,” “The
Art and the Country,” “Art and Usefulness.”
Meynell, Alice. The Colour of Life and other Essays on Things Seen and Heard. (selections).
Morris, William: Hopes and Fears for Art. (selections): “The Lesser Arts,” “The Art of the
People,” “The Beauty of Life.”
Pater, Walter: Studies in the History of the Renaissance
--. from Appreciations: “Aesthetic Poetry.”
Rossetti, Christina. Time Flies. (selections).
Ruskin, John. Modern Painters, vols. 3 & 4.
--. The Stones of Venice (selections).
Wilde, Oscar. Intentions.
Wordsworth, Dorothy: Grasmere Journals.
Secondary:
Armstrong, Isobel. Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics. New York: Routledge, 1993.
David, Philip. The Victorians. The Oxford English Literary History. vol. 8. 1830-1880. Oxford:
Oxford UP, 2002.
David, Deirdre, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge
UP, 2001.
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Victorian Novel and Its Readers, Kate Flint
Chapter 3: The Aesthetics of the Victorian Novel, Linda M. Shires
Chapter 5: Gender and the Victorian Novel, Nancy Armstrong
Ferguson, Frances. Solitude and the Sublime: Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Individuation.
New York: Routledge, 1992.
Flint, Kate. The Victorians and the Visual Imagination. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
Frederico, Annette, ed. Gilbert and Gubar’s The Madwoman in the Attic After Thirty Years.
Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2009.
Introduction
Chapter 4: Feminism to Ecofeminism: The Legacy of Gilbert and Gubar’s Reading of
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and The Last Man
Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the
Nineteenth-Century imagination. 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale Nota Bene Press, 2000.
Preface
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Introduction
Chapter 10: the Dialogue of Self and soul: Plain Jane’s Progress
Chapter 12: The Buried Life of Lucy Snowe
Helmreich. Anne. The English Garden and National Identity: The Competing Styles of Garden
Design, 1870-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.
Losano, Antonia. The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature. Columbus: Ohio State
UP, 2008
Introduction
Chapter 1: Prevailing Winds and Cross-Currents: Public Discourse and the History of
Victorian Women Painters
Chapter 2: Desire and Feminist Aesthetics in Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Chapter 3: Ekphrasis and the Art of Courtship in Jane Eyre
Chapter 4: Making a Living: Howitt, Eliot, Oliphant
Page, Judith W. and Elise L. Smith. Women, Literature, and the Domesticated Landscape:
England’s Disciples of Flora, 1780-1870. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011.
Schaffer, Talia. The Forgotten Female Aesthetes. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2000.
Chapter 1: The Women’s World of British Aestheticism
Schaffer, Talia and Kathy A. Psomiades, eds. Women and British Aestheticism. Charlottesville:
UP of Virginia, 1999.
Introduction
Chapter 8: The Aesthetic in the Natural: Gertrude Jekyll’s Garden Writing
Chapter 9: Aestheticism’s True Colors: The Politics of Pigment in Victorian Art, Criticism,
and Fashion
Shattock, Joanne, ed. Women and Literature in Britain 1800-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge UP,
2001.
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Construction of the Woman Writer
Chapter 2: Remaking the Canon
Chapter 4: Women Writing Women: Nineteenth-Century Representations of Gender and
Sexuality
Chapter 6: Women’s Writing and the Domestic Sphere
Chapter 8: Women Poets and the Challenge of Genre
Chapter 10: Women Writers and Self-Writing
Chapter 12: Women Writers and Religion
Siegel, Jonah. Desire and Excess: The Nineteenth Century Culture of Art. Princeton: Princeton
UP, 2000.
Introduction
Chapter 5: Keats: In the Library, in the Museum
Chapter 6: Outline, Collection, city: Hazlitt, Ruskin, and the Encounter with Art
Chapter 7: Vast Knowledge/Narrow Space: The Stones of Venice
Chapter 8: Modernity as Resurrection in Pater and Wilde
Teukolsky, Rachel. The Literate Eye: Victorian Art Writing and Modernist Aesthetics. Oxford:
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Oxford UP, 2009.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Picturesque Signs, Picturing Science: Ruskin in the 1840s
Chapter 2: Sublime Museum: Scripting Fine Arts at the Great Exhibition
Chapter 3: Pater’s New Republics: Aesthetic Criticism and the Victorian Avant-Garde
Chapter 4: Socialist Design at the Fin de Siѐcle: Biology, Beauty, Utopia
Thomas, Sophie. Romanticism and Visuality: Fragments, History, Spectacle. New York:
Routledge, 2008.
Introduction
Chapter 2: “Shadows of a Magnitude”: Keats, Fragments and Vision
Chapter 5: Romantic Idealism and the Interference of Sight
Woodring, Carl. Nature into Art: Cultural Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Britain.
Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1989.
Chapter 1: Nature and Art
Chapter 2: Sublime, Picturesque, Beautiful
Chapter 3: Imagination and Irony
Chapter 6: Pre-Raphaelites
Chapter 9: Aesthetes
Williams, Raymond. Culture and Society; 1780-1950. New York: Columbia UP, 1983.