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Required Texts

Amazon logo Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. New York: Puffin Books, 1984. ISBN: 0140350381. (Download a version from Project Gutenberg)

Amazon logo –––. Through the Looking Glass. New York: Puffin Books, 1996. ISBN: 0140367098. (Download a version from Project Gutenberg)

Amazon logo Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. ISBN: 0192545035. (Download a version from Project Gutenberg)

Amazon logo Gaskell, Elizabeth. Mary Barton. New York: Penguin Books, 1970. ISBN: 0140430539. (Download a version from Project Gutenberg)

Amazon logo Mayhew, Henry. London Labour and the London Poor. New York: Penguin, 1986. ISBN: 0140432418. (View and download a version from the University of Virginia’s Electronic Text Center)

Amazon logo Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1956. ISBN: 0802053459. (Download a version from Bartleby.com)

Amazon logo Rossi, Alice S. Essays on Sex Equality. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1970. ISBN: 0226525465. (John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill)

Amazon logo Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Selected Poems. New York: Penguin Books, 1992. ISBN: 0140445455. (View and download Tennyson’s poems from everypoet.com)

Readings by Class Session and Reading Notes

SES #TOPICSREADINGSADDITIONAL MATERIALS
1Introduction: The Victorian PeriodVictorian England (c.1837-1901): Key Dates (PDF)
2DickensBleak House #1. (Chapters 1-4)
3Thomas Carlyle

John Ruskin
"Signs of the Times." (See also endnotes to essay.)

"The Nature of Gothic," "The Opening of the Crystal Palace …," and "Traffic."
4Thomas Carlyle (cont.)

John Ruskin (cont.)

Dickens (cont.)
"Signs of the Times."

"The Nature of Gothic," "The Opening of the Crystal Palace …," and "Traffic."

Bleak House #2. (Chapters 5-7)
5Elizabeth GaskellMary Barton.
6Elizabeth Gaskell (cont.)

Dickens (cont.)
Mary Barton.

Bleak House #3. (Chapters 8-10)
7Elizabeth Gaskell (cont.)Mary Barton.
8Elizabeth Gaskell (cont.)

Dickens (cont.)
Mary Barton.

Bleak House #4. (Chapters 11-13)
9John Stuart MillOn Liberty. Bentham and Mill Excerpts (PDF)

Duty Quote (PDF)

Mill Subjection Quotes (PDF)
10John Stuart Mill (cont.)

Dickens (cont.)
On Liberty.

Bleak House #5. (Chapters 14-16)
11John Stuart Mill (cont.)On Liberty.
12Henry Mayhew

Dickens (cont.)
London Labour and the London Poor. pp. 5-51, 56-60, 100-106, 113-122, 137-145, 155-156, 161-189, 209-218, 230-249, 257-291,295-305, 320-323, 344-345, 368-397, 418-443, 447-467, and 508-509. (About 250 pages total.)

Bleak House #6. (Chapters 17-19)
13Henry Mayhew (cont.)

Isabella Beeton
London Labour and the London Poor.

Excerpts from The Book of Household Management.
Beeton Readings (PDF)
14Henry Mayhew (cont.)

Isabella Beeton (cont.)

Dickens (cont.)
London Labour and the London Poor.

The Book of Household Management.

Bleak House #7. (Chapters 20-22)
Holmes and Dickens Quotes (PDF)
15Alfred, Lord Tennyson"Ulysses," and "Tithonus."Tennyson Excerpts (PDF)

Tennyson In Memoriam (PDF)
16Alfred, Lord Tennyson (cont.)

Dickens (cont.)
 "Ulysses," "Tithonus," "The Epic," and "Morte D'Arthur."

Bleak House #8. (Chapters 23-25)
17Alfred, Lord Tennyson (cont.)In Memoriam A. H. H.
18Alfred, Lord Tennyson (cont.)

Dickens (cont.)
In Memoriam A. H. H.

Bleak House #9. (Chapters 26-29)
Baudelaire (PDF)

Durkheim (PDF)
19Dickens (cont.)Bleak House #10. (Chapters 30-32)
20Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass.
21Lewis Carroll (cont.)Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass.
22Arthur Conan DoyleSherlock Holmes Stories and Excerpts.Sherlock Holmes Readings (PDF)
23Arthur Conan Doyle (cont.)

Rudyard Kipling
Sherlock Holmes Stories and Excerpts.

"The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes."
24Dickens (cont.)Bleak House.
25Dickens (cont.)Bleak House. Bleak House Reviews (PDF)

National Allegory Quotes (PDF)

 








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