Bibliography
A Course in Victorian Literature and Culture 2015-2016
Second Year of Study, English Minor
Asist. Professor Alina Bottez, PhD
NOVELS
1. Charles Dickens: Great Expectations or Bleak House
2. Charlotte Bront: Jane Eyre
3. Emily Bront: Wuthering Heights
4. Thomas Hardy: Tess of the DUrbervilles or George Eliot: Middlemarch
5. Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland
6. O. Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray (INCLUDING Wildes Preface)
POETRY:
Alfred Tennyson: The Lady of Shalott, Mariana; Ulysses, Crossing the Bar, from In
Memoriam A. H. H. the poems anthologized in Stoiculescu, M., M. Bottez & A.
Constantinescu: An Anthology of English Literature The Victorian Age (T. U. B., 1985),
(abbreviated from now on as AELVA)
Robert Browning: My Last Duchess, Two in the Campagna, Childe Roland to the Dark
Tower Came; Fra Lippo Lippi, The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxeds Church;
Prospice
Matthew Arnold: In Harmony with Nature; The Buried Life; The Scholar Gipsy; Lines
Written in Kensington Gardens, To Marguerite: Continued, Philomela, Dover Beach
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: How Do I love Thee, When Our Two Souls
Arthur Hugh Clough: The Latest Decalogue, In the Great Metropolis
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Blessed Damozel, introductory sonnet to The House of Life,
The Woodspurge
Christina Rossetti: Rest, Echo, Remember.
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Pied Beauty, The Windhover, Binsey Poplars; Carrion
Comfort, No worst, there is none, Thou art indeed just, Lord
Algernon Charles Swinburne: The Leper, Hymn to Proserpine
Thomas Hardy: Neutral Tones, The Darkling Thrush
Rudyard Kipling: If
DRAMA:
Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
ESSAYS:
Thomas Carlyle: Chartism in A. Cartianu & Stefan Stoenescu: Proz eseistic victorian
[PEV], vol. I, pp. 103-122
John Ruskin: The Stones of Venice. Ch. VI The Nature of Gothic, AELVA pp. 63-77
John Stuart Mill: Bentham (AELVA pp. 38-61)
Matthew Arnold: from Culture and Anarchy Sweetness and Light; Hellenism and
Hebraism (PEV, vol. II, pp. 442-465; 513-525)
Walter Pater: Studies in the History of the Renaissance Preface, Conclusion (PEV, vol. III, pp.
224-228, 241-260, 324-327
Oscar Wilde: The Critic as Artist (AELVA, pp. 612-642 or 643-713)
Optional Critical and Theoretical Bibliography
Bottez, Monica: Analysing Narrative Fiction, E. U. B., 2007
Bottez, Monica: Aspects of the Victorian Novel: Recurrent Images in Dickenss Work. Bucharest:
U. B. P., 1985
Bristow, Joseph et al. (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000
Cuddon, J. A. Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, Penguin, 1992
David, Deirdre et al. (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2001
Davis, Philip. The Victorians. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Ford, Boris (gen. ed.). The Pelican Guide to English Literature, vol. 6, Harmondsworth, 1990
Lodge, David (ed.), Modern Criticism and Theory. London and New York, Longman, 1988
Lodge, David. The Art of Fiction. London: Penguin Books, 1992.
Surdulescu, Radu & Bogdan Stefanescu (eds.): Contemporary Critical Theories. A Reader.
Bucharest: U. B. P., 1998
- Where there is a slash in the Bibliography, the novel you discuss at the seminar becomes
compulsory (the option or is no longer valid)
