Lecturer Dr.

Daniela Davidescu Brown

A Course in Victorian Literature
2
nd
year English A & B
BIBLIOGRAPHY
o!els
1. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (1847)
2. Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights (1847)
3. Charles Dicens: !reat Expectations (18"#$1)
4. !eor%e Eliot: Silas Marner (18"1)
5. &scar 'ilde: The icture o! "orian #ray (1$%&'
(. (homas )ardy: Tess o! the )*+r,er-illes (18*1)
Poe"s
1. Eli+a,eth Barrett Brownin% (,.18#"): -rom the volume Sonnets !ro. the ortuguese/ sonnet
4. /*Ho0 )o 1 lo-e thee2 3et .e count the 0ays*4
0. 1l-red (ennyson (,. 18#*): +lysses/ 5rossing the 6ar/ The 3a)y o! Shalott
.. 2o,ert Brownin% (,.1810): rospice/ My 3ast "uchess
4. 1rthur )u%h Clou%h (,. 181*): The 3atest "ecalogue
3. 4atthew 1rnold (,.1800): 1n Har.ony 0ith 7ature/ "o-er 6each
". Dante !a,riel 2ossetti (,. 1808): The 6lesse) "a.o8el/ Silent 7oon
7. 1l%ernon Charles 5win,urne (,. 18.7): The #ar)en o! roserpine
8. (homas )ardy (,.184#): 7eutral Tones
*. !erard 4anley )o6ins (,. 1844): The Win)ho-er7 Thou 9rt 1n)ee) Just/ 3or)
Essays
1. (homas Carlyle (,. 17*3): :n Heroes7 Hero;Worship an) the Heroic in History< The Hero as
oet
0. 8ohn 5tuart 4ill (,. 18#"): :n 3i,erty< (chapter 111' :! 1n)i-i)uality as :ne o! the Ele.ents o!
Well;Bein%
.. 8ohn 2usin (,. 181*): The Stones o! =enice< The Sa-ageness o! #othic 9rchitecture
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4. 4atthew 1rnold (,. 1800): 5ulture an) 9narchy< (chapter 4' He,rais. an) Hellenis.
3. 'alter :ater (,. 18.*): Stu)ies in the History o! the >enaissance< 3a #iocon)a
htt6:99www.archive.or%9details9renaissancestud##6ateuo-t 66.10.$10*
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All these #oe"s and essays are to $e %ound in&
The 7orton 9nthology o! English 3iterature (-ol2'
The 7orton 9nthology o! oetry
The 7e0 :x!or) 6oo? o! =ictorian =erse ,y Christo6her 2ics. &;-ord: &;-ord <niversity
:ress7 1**#
The 9nthology o! English 3iterature. The =ictorian 9ge ,y 5toiculescu7 4onica Botte+7
Constantinescu. Bucuresti: (. <. B.7 1*83
9ntologia oetilor =ictorieni (-ol. 1/ 11'. Bucuresti: <niversitatea din Bucuresti7 1*71
ro8a Eseistica =ictoriana< antologie e). ,y 9na 5artianu (-ol. 11/ 111' 6ucuresti<
+ni-ersitatea 6ucuresti/ 1%(%
O#tional critical $i$liogra#hy
1. 'a!id 'aiches( A Critical History of English Literature (vol 4)
0. An Outline of English Literature ed. by Pat Rogers. O)%ord& O)%ord *ni!ersity Press+
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.. Andre. /anders( he !hort O"ford History of English Literature. O)%ord& O)%ord
*ni!ersity Press+ ,--0
4. he Penguin History of Literature# he $ictorians ed( $y Arthur Pollard( London&
Penguin Boo1s+ ,-23
3. B( 4ord( he Pelican %uide to English Literature (vol. &)
". 5onica Botte6( Recurrent '(ages in )ic*ens+s ,ovels
7. 5onica Botte6( Analysing ,arrative -iction# Reading !trategies. Bucure7ti& Editura
*ni!ersit89ii Bucure7ti+ 2::3
8. Ioana ;irra( Contributions of the .ritish /0
th
century# he $ictorian Age( Bucuresti&
Editura *ni!ersitatii Bucuresti+ 2:::
*. he Ca(bridge Co(1anion to the $ictorian ,ovel ed( $y 'eirdre 'a!id( Ca"$ridge&
Ca"$ridge *ni!ersity Press+ 2::,
1#. he Ca(bridge Co(1anion to $ictorian Poetry ed( $y <ose#h Bristo.( Ca"$ridge&
Ca"$ridge *ni!ersity Press+ 2:::
11. 'a!id Lodge( he Art of -iction. London& Penguin Boo1s+ ,--2

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