Topic 1: Charles Dickens, Hard Times

[1] Charles Dickens, Hard Times

[2] Course extract: Charles Dickens

Topic 2: George Eliot, Middlemarch

[1] George Eliot, Middlemarch

[2] Course extract: George Eliot

Topic 3: W.M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair

[1] W.M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair

[2] Course extract: W.M. Thackeray

Topic 4: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

[1] Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

[2] Course extract: Charlotte Brontë

Topic 5: Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

[1] Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

[2] Course extract: Emily Brontë

Topic 6: Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervillles

[1] Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles

[2] Course extract: Thomas Hardy

Topic 7: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[1] Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[2] Course extract: Oscar Wilde

Topic 8: William Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

[1] Wilike Collins, The Woman in White

[2] Course extract: The Sensation Novel

Topic 9: Victorian Poetry

For the text of the poems, download Adrian Radu, The Palace of Art from the Course Pack. The password on Edmondo.

9a. Alfred Tennyson

[1] Course extract: Alfred Tennyson

[2] Videos based on two Tennysonean creations: “Strong Son of God” (from In Memoriam A.H.H) and the Chorus from “The Lotos Eaters”.

9b. Robert Browning

[1] Course extract: Robert Browning

[2] “How Do I Love Thee” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

9c. The Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Dante Gabriel Rossetti

[1] Course extract: The Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Dante Gabriel Rossetti

[2] D.G. Rossetti, “Nuptial Sleep”

D.G. Rossetti, “Silent Noon”

Algernon Charles Swinburne, “The Triumph of Time”

9d. Gerard Manley Hopkins

[1] Course extract: Gerard Manley Hopkins