Ph. D. Reading List
Victorian Literature
The following is a fundamental reading list for doctoral candidates to use as a guide in preparing for their comprehensive examination in the field of Victorian Literature. A student is expected to have read widely in the field; to be thoroughly familiar with the major writers; and to read widely in the journal literature. The following reading list is suggestive rather than definitive, a list for the student and Committee on Studies to begin with. The list has six sections:
• Fiction
• Poetry
• Nonfiction
• Drama
• For Further Reading
o Fiction
o Poetry
o Nonfiction
o Drama
• Criticism
NOTE: ** denotes that the item can be selected by the graduate committee for master's reading list/exam.
FICTION
**Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Lady Audley’s Secret **Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre **Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights **Collins, Wilkie. The Moonstone Dickens, Charles.
**Bleak House
Great Expectations **Eliot, George. Middlemarch **Gaskell, Elizabeth. North and South **Hardy, Thomas. Tess of d’Urbervilles **Meredith, George. The Egoist **Schreiner, Olive. The Story of an African Farm. **Stoker, Bram. Dracula. **Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair **Trollope, Anthony. The Way We Live Now. **Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray.
POETRY
**Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Aurora Leigh **Browning, Robert.
"Porphyria’s Lover"
"Johannes Agricola on God"
"My Last Duchess"
"Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister"
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"Pictor Ignotus"
"The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed’s Church"
"Love among the Ruins"
"Fra Lippo Lippi"
"Andrea del Sarto"
"Bishop Blougram’s Apology”
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
"An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab
Physician"
"Cleon"
"Caliban upon Setebos"
"A Death in the Desert" **Hopkins, Gerard Manley.
"The Wreck of the Deutschland"
"Binsey Poplars"
"Carrion Comfort"
"The Windhover"
"Tom’s Garland"
"I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day"
"No Worst, There Is None"
"Pitched Past Pitch of Grief"
"As Kingfishers Catch Fire"
"Dragonflies Draw Flame"
"That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection"
"God’s Grandeur"
"Felix Randal"
"Pied Beauty"
"Spring and Fall"
"Harry Ploughman" **Rossetti, Christina.
"Goblin Market"
"The Prince’s Progress"
"Song [‘When I am dead, my dearest’]"
"In an Artist’s Studio"
"Up-Hill"
"The Convent Threshold"
"Remember"
"Winter Rain"
"My Dream"
"Winter: My Secret"
"A Better Resurrection"
"Christian and Jew: A Dialogue"
"The Iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children [Under the Rose]"
"The Lowest Room"
"A Christmas Carol [In the bleak mid-winter]"
"A Birthday" Updated 3/2003
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**Rossetti, Dante Gabriel.
"Jenny"
"The Blessed Damozel"
"Troy Town"
"Sister Helen"
"My Sister’s Sleep"
"Dante at Verona"
"The Burden of Nineveh"
"Eden Bower" **Swinburne, Algernon Charles.
"Faustine"
"Dolores"
"Hymn to Prosperpine"
"Laus Veneris"
"The Triumph of Time"
"Hermaphroditus"
"Anactoria"
"Fragoletta"
"Sapphics"
"Sestina"
"Hertha"
"Tiresias"
"To Walt Whitman in America"
"The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell"
"John Jones’s Wife"
"Ave Atque Vale" **Tennyson, Alfred.
"The Lady of Shalott"
"Tithonus"
"The Palace of Art"
"The Lotos-Eaters"
"Ulysses"
"Godiva"
"Aylmer’s Field"
In Memoriam
Maud: A Monodrama
"Lucretius"
"The Ancient Sage"
"The Coming of Arthur" (in Idylls of the King)
NONFICTION
**Arnold, Matthew. Culture and Anarchy **Carlyle, Thomas.
Sartor Resartus
Past and Present Updated 3/2003
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**Mill, John Stuart.
On Liberty
The Subjection of Women **Morris, William. "The Defence of Guenevere" **Pater, Walter. The Renaissance
**Ruskin, John.
"Of Queens’ Gardens"
"Of King’s Treasuries" (in Sesame and Lilies)
"Of Ideas of Beauty," (in Part III in Volume II of Modern Painters)
"Of Pathetic Fallacy" (in chapter XII of Part IV in Volume III of Modern Painters)
DRAMA
**Pinero, Arthur Wing. The Second Mrs. Tanqueray **Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest.
FOR FURTHER READING
FICTION
Brontë, Charlotte. Villette Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Carroll, Lewis.
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass Collins, Wilkie. The Woman in White Dickens, Charles.
David Copperfield
Hard Times
Little Dorrit Eliot, George.
Adam Bede
The Mill on the Floss Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure Meredith, George. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel Oliphant, Margaret. Salem Chapel Thackeray, William Makepeace. Henry Esmond Trollope, Anthony.
Barchester Towers
The Warden
The Last Chronicle of Barset
POETRY
Arnold, Matthew.
"Dover Beach"
"The Scholar-Gypsy"
"Thyrsis"
"To Marguerite"
Empedocles on Etna Updated 3/2003
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"Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse"
"Rugby Chapel"
"The Buried Life" Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnets from the Portuguese Browning, Robert. The Ring and the Book. Clough, Arthur Hugh.
"The Latest Decalogue"
"Is it True, Ye Gods, Who Treat Us"
"Epi-Strauss-Ism"
"Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth"
The Bothie of Tober-Na-Nuolich Wilde, Oscar. "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
NONFICTION
Carlyle, Thomas.
"Signs of the Times"
"On History"
"Shooting Niagara"
"Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question"
Characteristics Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Life of Charlotte Brontë
Huxley, Thomas Henry.
"Culture and Education"
"Science and Morals"
"Ethics and Evolution" Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "’Minute’ on Indian Education" Mill, John Stuart. Autobiography Morris, William.
"The Haystack in the Floods"
"Golden Wings"
dedicatory stanzas to The Earthly Paradise
News from Nowhere Newman, John Henry.
Apologia pro vita sua
The Idea of a University Nightingale, Florence. Casssandra Oliphant, Margaret. Autobiography Pater, Walter.
Imaginary Portraits
Marius the Epicurean Wilde, Oscar. The Critic as Artist
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DRAMA
Boucicault, Dion. The Colleen Bawn Gilbert, W. S.
Patience or Bunthorne’s Bride
Iolanthe: Or, the Peer and the Peri Wilde, Oscar. Salome
GENERAL CRITICISM
Altick, Richard D. The English Common Reader (1957) Armstrong, Isobel. Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Politics, Poetics (1993) Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction (1987) Von Arx, Jeffrey Paul. Progress and Pessimism: Religion, Politics, and History in Late Nineteenth-
Century Britain (1985) Beckson, Karl. London in the 1890s: A Cultural History (1992) Booth, Michael. Theatre in the Victorian Age (1991) Brantlinger, Patrick. Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism (1988) Chapple, J.A.V. Science and Literature in the Nineteenth Century (1986) Christ, Carol. The Finer Optic: The Aesthetic of Particularity in Victorian Poetry (1975) Culler, Dwight. The Victorian Mirror of History (1986) Edmond, Rod. Affairs of the Hearth: Victorian Narrative Poetry and the Ideology of the Domestic
(1988) Flint, Kate. The Woman Reader, 1837-1914 (1993) Gallagher, Catherine. The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction (1985) Gilmour, Robin. The Victorian Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literatures,
1830-1890 (1993) Hadfield, John. Victorian Delights: Reflections of Taste in the Nineteenth Century (1987) Helsinger, Elizabeth, Robin Lauterbach Sheets, and William Veeder. The Woman Question:
Society and Literature in Britain and America, 1837-1883, 3 vols. (1983) Himmelfarb, Gertrude. Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians: Essays (1986) Hobsbawm, E. J. The Age of Capital, 1848-1875 (1975) Houghton, Walter. The Victorian Frame of Mind (1957) Jay, Elisabeth. Faith and Doubt in Victorian Britain (1986) Jenkyns, Richard. The Victorians and Ancient Greece (1980) Levine, George and William Madden, eds. The Art of Victorian Prose (1968) Levine, Phillipa. Victorian Feminism, 1850-1900 (1987) Marcus, Steven. The Other Victorians (1966) Mitchell, Sally, ed. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia (1988) Newsome, David. The Victorian World Picture (1997) Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England
(1988) Rowell, George. The Victorian Theatre: A Survey (1967) Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism (1993) Tucker, Herbert F., ed. The Blackwell Companion to Victorian Writing (1998) Wheeler, Michael. Death and the Future Life in Victorian Literature and Theology (1990) Williams, Raymond. Culture and Society: 1780-1950 (1958)
Updated 3/2003
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