Lecturer Dr.

Daniela Davidescu Brown

A Course in Victorian Literature
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year English A & B, 20102011
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(ovels
1. Charlotte Bronte) Jane Eyre *1+,-.
2. E/ily Bronte) Wuthering Heights *1+,-.
0. Charles Dic1ens) #reat Expectations *1+201.
,. #eorge Eliot) Silas Marner (1+21.
3. "scar 4ilde) The Picture of Dorian Gray (18!"
2. 5ho/as &ardy) Tess of the #$%r&er'illes *1+61.
%oe/s
1. Eli7a8eth Barrett Browning *8.1+02.) 9ro/ the volu/e Sonnets fro( the Portuguese) sonnet
,0 :$Ho* #o + lo'e thee, -et (e count the *ays$.
2. Al9red 5ennyson *8. 1+06.) %lysses) /rossing the 0ar) The -a#y of Shalott
0. $o8ert Browning *8.1+12.) Prospice) My -ast Duchess
,. Arthur &ugh Clough *8. 1+16.) The -atest Decalogue
3. ;atthew Arnold *8.1+22.) +n Har(ony *ith 1ature) Do'er 0each
2. Dante #a8riel $ossetti *8. 1+2+.) The 0lesse# Da(o2el) Silent 1oon
-. Algernon Charles <win8urne *8. 1+0-.) The Gar#en of Proserpine
+. 5ho/as &ardy *8.1+,0.) 1eutral Tones
6. #erard ;anley &o=1ins *8. 1+,,.) The Win#ho'er, Thou 3rt +n#ee# Just) -or#
Essays
1. 5ho/as Carlyle *8. 1-63.) 4n Heroes, Hero5Worship an# the Heroic in History6 The Hero as
Poet
2. >ohn <tuart ;ill *8. 1+02.) 4n -i&erty6 (chapter +++" 4f +n#i'i#uality as 4ne of the Ele(ents of
Well5Being
0. >ohn $us1in *8. 1+16.) The Stones of 7enice6 The Sa'ageness of Gothic 3rchitecture
htt=)??www.archive.org?details?stoneso9venice02rus1iala pp819951:;
,. ;atthew Arnold *8. 1+22.) /ulture an# 3narchy6 (chapter <" He&rais( an# Hellenis(
3. 4alter %ater *8. 1+06.) Stu#ies in the History of the =enaissance6 -a Giocon#a
htt=)??www.archive.org?details?renaissancestud00=ateuo9t ==.120126
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All these poems and essays are to be found in:
The 1orton 3nthology of English -iterature ('ol>"
The 1orton 3nthology of Poetry
The 1e* 4xfor# 0oo? of 7ictorian 7erse 8y Christo=her $ic1s. "@9ord) "@9ord Aniversity
%ress, 1660
The 3nthology of English -iterature8 The 7ictorian 3ge 8y <toiculescu, ;onica Botte7,
Constantinescu. Bucuresti) 5. A. B., 16+3
3ntologia Poetilor 7ictorieni ('ol8 +) ++"8 Bucuresti) Aniversitatea din Bucuresti, 16-1
Pro2a Eseistica 7ictoriana6 antologie e#8 &y 3na /artianu ('ol8 ++) +++" 0ucuresti6
%ni'ersitatea 0ucuresti) 1:
Optional critical bibliography
1. David Daiches. A Critical History of English Literature (vol 4)
2. An Outline of English Literature ed. by Pat Rogers. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
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0. Andre" #anders. he !hort O"ford History of English Literature. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1$
,. he Penguin History of Literature# he $ictorians ed. by Arthur Pollard. %ondon:
Penguin &oo's, 1()
3. &. *ord. he Pelican %uide to English Literature (vol. &)
2. +onica &otte,. Recurrent '(ages in )ic*ens+s ,ovels
-. +onica &otte,. Analysing ,arrative -iction# Reading !trategies. &ucure-ti: .ditura
Universit/0ii &ucure-ti, !11)
+. 2oana 3irra. Contributions of the .ritish /0
th
century# he $ictorian Age. &ucuresti:
.ditura Universitatii &ucuresti, !111
6. he Ca(bridge Co(1anion to the $ictorian ,ovel ed. by Deirdre David. 4ambridge:
4ambridge University Press, !111
10. he Ca(bridge Co(1anion to $ictorian Poetry ed. by 5oseph &risto". 4ambridge:
4ambridge University Press, !111
11. David %odge. he Art of -iction. %ondon: Penguin &oo's, 1!

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