Reading+List

You will be asked to read 5 of the following authors during this quarter. Please choose (2) novelists, (1) poet, (1) playwright and (1) critical essayist.

__Charlotte Bronte__ //Jane Eyre// **or** //Villette// __Emily Bronte__ //Wuthering Heights// __Anne Bronte__ //Agnes Grey// __Charles Dickens__ //Hard Times// **or** //Bleak House// __Wilkie Collins__ //The Woman in White// **or** //The// //Moonstone// __Mary Elizabeth Braddon__ //Lady Audley's Secret// **or** //The Doctor's Wife// __W.M. Thackeray__ //Vanity Fair// __George Eliot__ //Middlemarch// **or** //Silas Marner// __Thomas Hardy__ //Tess of the D'Urbervilles,// **or** //The Mayor of Casterbridge,// **or** //Jude the Obscure// __Bram Stoker__ //Dracula// __Rudyard Kipling__ //Kim// or //Captains Courageous// __Robert Louis Stevenson__ //Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde// __Oscar Wilde__ //The Picture of Dorian Gray//
 * Novelists**

__Matthew Arnold__ "Dover Beach"; "Memorial Verses" __Alfred Lord Tennyson__ "The Lady of Shalott"; "The Lotos-Eaters"'; "Locksley Hall" __Robert Browning__ "Porphyria's Lover"; "Calaban Upon Setebos"; "My Last Duchess" __Thomas Hardy__ "Hap"; "The Ruined Maid" __Gerard Manley Hopkins__ //The Wreck of the Deutschland// (this is a long one!) __D.G. Rossetti__ "The Blessed Damozel"; "My Sister's Sleep"; "The Last Confession" __Christina Rossetti__ "Goblin Market"; "Dream Land"; "In Progess" __William Morris__ "The Haystack in the Floods"; "The Defence of Guinevere" __Rudyard Kipling__ "Danny Deever"; "Mandalay" __Algernon Charles Swinburne__ "Hymn to Proserpine"; "The Garden of Proserpine"
 * Poets (Read all of the poems for each author)**

__Oscar Wilde__ //The Importance of Being Earnest// or //Salome// __Edward Bulwer-Lytton__ //The Lady of Lyons//
 * Playwrights**

__John Ruskin__ "On the Real Nature of Greatness in Style" from //Modern Painters// OR "The Nature of the Gothic" from //The Stones of Venice// __John Stuart Mill__ "A Crisis in My Mental History" from //Autobiography// __John Henry Cardinal Newman__ "Knowledge in Relation to Professional Skill" from //The Idea of a University// __Walter Pater__ "Leonardo Da Vinci" from //Studies in the History of the Renaissance// __Thomas Carlyle__ "Democracy" OR "Captains of Industry" from //Past and Present//
 * Criticism/Essays**