Nineteenth Century and Victorianism

Reading List for Majors

Browning:

• "My Last Duchess"
• "Andrea del Sarto"
• "Fra Lippo Lippi"

Tennyson:

• "The Lady of Shalott"
• "Ulysses"
• "Tithonus"
• "Locksley Hall"

Arnold:

• "Dover Beach"

Bronte, E.:

• Wuthering Heights

Bronte, C.:

• Jane Eyre

Emerson:

• “The American Scholar”

Thoreau:

• Walden

Douglass:

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Hawthorne:

• The Scarlet Letter

Dickens:

• Great Expectations

Melville:

• Moby Dick
• Benito Cereno

Whitman:

• Song of Myself
• "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed”

Brent:

• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Dickinson:

• "There's a certain Slant of light"
• "After great pain a formal feeling comes--"
• "She rose to His Requirement--dropt"
• "The Brain--is wider than the Sky"
• "My Life has stood--a Loaded Gun"
• "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant"
• "Like Trains of Cars on Tracks of Plush"

Eliot:

• Middlemarch
• Adam Bede

Twain:

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Jewett:

• The Country of the Pointed Firs