Section outline

  • 📚 List of References

    Core bibliography and supplementary resources for the study of British Literature from Romanticism to Contemporary Writing.

    📘 1. Foundational Texts in Literary History and Periodization

    • Sanders, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2004.
    • Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature. Routledge, 2001.
    • Ford, Boris (ed.). The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Volumes 5–8). Penguin Books, various editions.
    • Alexander, Michael. A History of English Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
    • Waugh, Patricia (ed.). Literary Theory and Criticism: An Oxford Guide. Oxford University Press, 2006.

    📝 2. Selected Primary Texts by Period

    🌿 Romanticism (Week 1–3)

    • William Blake. Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794).
    • William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads (1798).
    • John Keats. Selected Odes (especially “Ode to a Nightingale”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”).
    • Percy Shelley. Ode to the West Wind.
    • Lord Byron. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.

    🏛️ Victorian Literature (Week 4–6)

    • Charles Dickens. Hard Times (1854).
    • George Eliot. Middlemarch (1871–72).
    • Alfred Tennyson. In Memoriam A.H.H.
    • Robert Browning. My Last Duchess.
    • Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890); The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).

    🌀 Modernism (Week 7–10)

    • T.S. Eliot. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915); The Waste Land (1922).
    • Virginia Woolf. Mrs. Dalloway (1925).
    • James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).
    • Gerard Manley Hopkins. Selected Poems.
    • H.G. Wells. The Time Machine (1895).

    🌍 Postmodernism and Contemporary Literature (Week 11–14)

    • John Fowles. The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969).
    • A.S. Byatt. Possession (1990).
    • Doris Lessing. The Golden Notebook (1962).

    📖 3. Critical and Contextual Studies

    • Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Blackwell, 1983.
    • Abrams, M.H. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. Oxford University Press, 1953.
    • Leavis, F.R. The Great Tradition. Chatto & Windus, 1948.
    • Gilbert, Sandra, and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic. Yale University Press, 1979.
    • Williams, Raymond. Culture and Society: 1780–1950. Columbia University Press, 1958.
    • McGann, Jerome. The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation. University of Chicago Press, 1983.

    🔗 4. Optional Supplementary Resources

    • The Cambridge Companion Series (e.g., to the Victorian Novel, to Modernism, etc.).
    • Norton Anthologies of English Literature (selected volumes, useful for excerpts and shorter texts).