Joe Green comps lists
updated 19 july 2004

PRIMARY FIELD: British Novel to 1945

In chronological order

1688: Oroonoko, Aphra Behn
1719: Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
1722: Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
1740: Pamela, Samuel Richardson
1742: Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding
1747-48: Clarissa, Samuel Richardson
1749: Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
1760-67: Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne
1765: The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole
1771: Humphrey Clinker, Tobias Smollett
1778: Evelina, Frances Burney
1794: Caleb Williams, William Godwin
1794: The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe
1796: The Monk, Matthew Gregory Lewis
1797: The Italian, Ann Radcliffe
1800: Castle Rackrent, Maria Edgeworth
1811: Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
1813: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
1814: Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
1815: Emma, Jane Austen
1817: Persuasion, Jane Austen
1818: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
1818: Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
1819: The Bride of Lammermoor, Sir Walter Scott
1820: Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
1824: The Private Confessions and Memoirs of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg
1837-39: Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
1847: Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
1847: Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
1847-48: Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
1848: Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell
1848: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
1849-50: David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
1852: Henry Esmond, William Makepeace Thackeray
1852-53: Bleak House, Charles Dickens
1853: Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell
1853: Villette, Charlotte Bronte
1854: Hard Times, Charles Dickens
1854-55: North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
1855: The Warden, Anthony Trollope
1857: Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope
1859: Adam Bede, George Eliot
1860: The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
1860: The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
1860-61: Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
1862: Lady Audley’s Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
1864-65: Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
1868: The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
1872: Middlemarch, George Eliot
1872: Erewhon, Samuel Butler
1874: Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
1879: The Egoist, George Meredith
1886: The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
1886: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
1890: News from Nowhere, William Morris
1891: New Grub Street, George Gissing
1891: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
1891: Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
1893: The Odd Women, George Gissing
1894: Esther Waters, George Moore
1895: The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
1896: Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
1986: The Island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells
1897: Dracula, Bram Stoker
1897: The Spoils of Poynton, Henry James
1898: The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
1898: The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
1900: Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
1901: Kim, Rudyard Kipling
1902: The Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
1903: The Ambassadors, Henry James
1903: The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
1904: Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
1904: The Golden Bowl, Henry James
1907: The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
1908: The Old Wives’ Tale, Arnold Bennett
1910: Howard’s End, E.M. Forster
1913: Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
1915: The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
1916: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
1918: The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West
1921: Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence
1922: Jacob’s Room, Virginia Woolf
1922: Ulysses, James Joyce
1924: A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
1925: Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
1927: To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
1928: Orlando, Virginia Woolf
1932: Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
1934: A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
1938: Brighton Rock, Graham Greene
1938: The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen
1939: The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
1945: Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

Secondary Works on the British Novel to 1945

Origins of the Novel & the Eighteenth Century:
Armstrong, Nancy.  (1987) Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel.
Davis, Lennard.  (1983) Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel.
Doody, Margaret.  (1996) The True Story of the Novel.
Hunter, J. Paul.  (1990) Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth Century English Fiction
McKeon, Michael.  (1987) The Origins of the English Novel: 1600-1740.
“Reconsidering the Rise of the Novel.”  Eighteenth Century Fiction.  Vol. 12, January-April 2000.
Spacks, Patricia M. (1990) Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in 18th Century English Novels.

Romantic Period:
Butler, Marilyn.  (1987)  Jane Austen and the War of Ideas.
Johnson, Claudia.  (1995)  Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s.
Johnson, Claudia.  (1988)  Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel.
Kelly, Gary.  (1989)  English Fiction of the Romantic Period, 1789-1830.
Poovey, Mary.  (1984)  The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen.
Punter, David.  (1996)  The Literature of Terror, Vol. 1.
Tomalin, Claire.  (1997) Jane Austen: A Life.

Victorian Period:
Altick, Richard.  (1957, 1998) The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass ReadingPublic, 1800-1900.
Armstrong, Nancy.  (1999) Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism.
Brantlinger, Patrick.  (1998) The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth CenturyBritish Fiction.
Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar.  (1979)  The Madwoman in the Attic.
Gregor, Ian.  (1977)  The Great Web: The Form of Hardy’s Major Fiction.
Hughes, Linda.  (1991)  The Victorian Serial.
Levine, George.  (1981)  Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley’sLover.
Miller, D.A.  (1989?)  The Novel and the Police.
Millgate, Michael.  (1982)  Thomas Hardy: A Biography.
Williams, Raymond (1970)  The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence.

Modern Novel:
Batchelor, John.  (1982) The Edwardian Novelists.
Hynes, Samuel.  (1968) The Edwardian Turn of Mind.
Leaska, Mitchell.  (1998)  Granite and Rainbow: The Hidden Life of Virginia Woolf.
Levenson, Michael.  (1991)  Modernism and the Fate of Individuality.
Newman, Herta.  (1996) Virginia Woolf and Mrs. Brown: Towards a Realism of Uncertainty.
Trotter, David.  (1993)  The English Novel in History (1895-1920).

Theory of the Novel:
Booth, Wayne C.  (1961, 1983)  The Rhetoric of Fiction.
Brooks, Peter.  (1984)  Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention as Narrative.
Jameson, Frederic.  (1981)  The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act.
Kermode, Frank.  (1966) The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction.
Lukacs, George.  (1920) Theory of the Novel.
Scholes, Robert, ed.  (1961) Approaches to the Novel.

Contemporary Statements on the Novel and on Fiction:
Besant, Walter: “The Art of Fiction” (1884)
Conrad, Joseph: Preface to Nigger of the Narcissus (1897)
Defoe, Daniel: Preface to Moll Flanders
Eliot, George: “On Realism” and “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” (1856)
Fielding, Henry: Preface to Joseph Andrews
Forster, E.M. : Aspects of the Novel (1954)
Hardy, Thomas: “The Profitable Reading of Fiction” (1888)
James, Henry: “The Art of Fiction” (1884)
Lawrence, D.H. : “Novel”
Reeve, Clara: The Progress of Romance (1785)
Richardson, Samuel: Preface to Clarissa
Stevenson, Robert Louis: “A Humble Remonstrance” (1884)
Trollope, Anthony: “Novel-Reading” (1879)
Woolf, Virginia: “Modern Fiction” and “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown”

SECONDARY FIELD: Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture

Romantic Period:

Jane Austen
Emma
Persuasion
Mansfield Park
Pride and Prejudice
Northanger Abbey
Sense and Sensibility

William Blake
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
“The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
“America"
“The Book of Thel"
“Visions of the Daughters of Albion"

George Gordon, Lord Byron
Don Juan (Dedication, Cantos I, II, & III)
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Manfred
“She Walks in Beauty"
“On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
from Biographia Literaria: Ch. XIII, XIV
"Kubla Khan"
"Christabel"
"Nightingale"
"Dejection: an Ode"
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
"Frost at Midnight"
"This Lime Tree Bower My Prison”

Erasmus Darwin
From The Botanic Garden: Canto I of "The Economy of Vegetation," Canto I of "Loves of the Plants”

Humphry Davy
From The Collected Works of Humphry Davy, Vol. II: “A Discussion Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry”

Thomas DeQuincey
Confessions of an Opium Eater

Felicia Hemans
“Indian Woman’s Death-Song”
“Joan of Arc, in Rheims”
“The Homes of England”
“The Image in Lava”
“England’s Dead”

James Hogg
The Private Confessions and Memoirs of a Justified Sinner

John Keats
“The Eve of St. Agnes"
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
“La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
“Ode to a Nightingale”
“When I Have Fears”
“Ode on Melancholy”
“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
“Ode to Psyche”
“On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”
“To Autumn”
“On Sitting Down to Read King Lear…”
“Ode on Indolence”
“Hyperion”
From Letters: To Benjamin Bailey (22 Nov 1817; 18 July 1818) To George and Tom Keats (21, 27 Dec 1817) To J.H. Reynolds (3 Feb 1818; 3 May 1818) To John Taylor (27 Feb 1818) To C.W. Dilke (21 Sept 1818) To Richard Woodhouse (27 Oct 1818) To George and Georgiana Keats (19 Feb, 19 March, 15 & 21 April 1819)

Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Monk

Charles Lyell
From Principles of Geology: Vol. I, Chpt. 1 & Chpt. 5

Ann Radcliffe
The Italian
The Mysteries of Udolpho

Sir Walter Scott
The Bride of Lammermoor
Ivanhoe

Mary Shelley
Frankenstein

Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”
“Ode to the West Wind”
“Ozymandias”
“Mont Blanc”
“To a Skylark”
Prometheus Unbound
“Defence of Poetry”

Charlotte Smith
“Beachy Head”

Mary Wollstonecraft
Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Dorothy Wordsworth
The Alfoxden Journal
Selections from The Grasmere Journals

William Wordsworth
Prefaces to Lyrical Ballads
“Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”
“Ode on Intimations of Immortality”
“Lines Written in Early Spring”
“Resolution and Independence”
“Michael”
“We Are Seven”
“The Old Cumberland Beggar”
The Prelude – (I, V, VI, VII, IX, XIII – 1805) & The Two Part Prelude
“Composed upon Westminster Bridge”
“London, 1802”
“The World Is Too Much With Us”
Lucy poems

Victorian Period:

Matthew Arnold
“Dover Beach”
“Rugby Chapel”
“The Forsaken Merman”
“The Scholar-Gypsy”
“The Strayed Reveller”
“Thyrsis”
“Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse”
“Tristram and Iseult”
“To Marguerite – Continued”
Empedocles on Etna
“Preface to Poems 1853”
“Literature and Science”
“The Function of Criticism at the Present Time”
From Culture and Anarchy: “Sweetness and Light," “Doing as One Likes,” “Hebraism and Hellenism”

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Lady Audley’s Secret

Anne Bronte
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Agnes Grey

Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
Villette

Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Aurora Leigh

Robert Browning
“Andrea del Sarto”
“Childe Roland”
“My Last Duchess”
“Fra Lippo Lippi”
“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister”
“Porphyria’s Lover”
“Love Among the Ruins”
“Two in the Campagna”
“The Bishop Orders His Tomb”
“The Laboratory”
From The Ring and the Book: “Pompelia” and “The Pope”

Samuel Butler: Erewhon The Way of All Flesh

Thomas Carlyle
from Sartor Resartus: “The Everlasting No”
“The Everlasting Yea”
“Natural Supernaturalism”
from Past and Present: “Gospel of Mammonism,” “Labour,” “Democracy,” “Captains of Industry”
On Heroes and Hero-Worship
“Signs of the Times”

Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone
The Woman in White

Charles Darwin
From The Descent of Man – “Natural Selection and Sexual Selection”
From The Origin of Species – Ch. 1-4, 15

Charles Dickens
Bleak House
Hard Times
David Copperfield
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
Our Mutual Friend

George Eliot
Adam Bede
The Mill on the Floss
Middlemarch

Elizabeth Gaskell
Cranford
North and South
Mary Barton

George Gissing
New Grub Street
The Odd Women

Thomas Hardy
“Hap”
“Neutral Tones”
“The Darkling Thrush”
“Channel Firing”
“The Convergence of the Twain”
“Drummer Hodge”
“The Ruined Maid”
“The Man He Killed”
Far From the Madding Crowd
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Jude the Obscure
Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Gerard Manley Hopkins
“As Kingfishers Catch Fire”
“Felix Randall”
“I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark”
“Spring and Fall”
“Carrion Comfort”
“The Windhover”
“No Worst, There Is None”
“Pied Beauty”
“Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord…”
“God’s Grandeur”
“The Wreck of the Deutschland”

Thomas Henry Huxley
“Agnosticism and Christianity”
from Science and Culture -- “The Values of Education in the Sciences”

Rudyard Kipling
“Tommy”
Fuzzy-Wuzzy”
“Recessional”
“The White Man’s Burden”
“The Hyenas”
“The Widow of Windsor”

Thomas Babington Macaulay
“Milton”
“Southey’s Colloquies”

Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto

George Meredith
The Egoist

George Moore
Esther Waters

John Stuart Mill
“Bentham”
“Coleridge”
from On Liberty: “Of The Liberty of Thought and Discussion,” “Of Individuality, As One of the Elements of Well-Being”
from The Subjection of Women: Ch. 1

William Morris
“The Defence of Guenevere”
“The Blue Closet”
News from Nowhere

John Henry Newman
“The Idea of a University”
from Apologia Pro Vita Sua – Ch. 3 & 5

Christina Rossetti
“Goblin Market”
“In An Artist’s Studio”

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“Jenny” “The Blessed Damozel” Sonnets from The House of Life
“The Last Confession”

John Ruskin
From Modern Painters – “A Definition of Greatness in Art,” “Of the Real Nature of Greatness of Style”
From The Stones of Venice – “The Nature of Gothic” & “The Savageness of Gothic Architecture”
“Unto This Last”
“The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century”

Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Bram Stoker
Dracula

Algernon Swinburne
“Hymn to Proserpine”
“The Garden of Proserpine”
Choruses from Atalanta in Calydon: “Ave Atque Vale,” “When the Hounds of Spring,” “Before the Beginning of the Years”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“The Charge of the Light Brigade”
“Crossing the Bar”
“The Eagle”
In Memoriam
“Flower in the Crannied Wall”
“The Lady of Shalott"
“Locksley Hall”
“The Lotos-Eaters”
“Maud”
“The Palace of Art”
“Tithonus”
“Ulysses”
from Idylls of the King: “Pelleas and Ettarre,” “The Holy Grail,” “The Passing”

William Makepeace Thackeray
Henry Esmond
Vanity Fair

Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers
The Warden

H.G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The War of the Worlds
The Time Machine

Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Picture of Dorian Gray

Secondary Works for 19th Century British Literature and Culture
(see British Novel to 1945 – Primary Area – for secondary works on the Novel)

19th Century Intellectual and Cultural Studies:
Altick, Richard. (1973) Victorian People and Ideas.
Butler, Marilyn. (1982) Romantics, Rebels, and Reactionaries: English Literature and Its Background, 1760-1830.
Chandler, James. (1998) England in 1819.
Christ, Carol, ed. (1995) Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination.
Gilmour, Robin. (1993) The Victorian Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1830-1890.
Mellor, Anne. (1993) Romanticism and Gender.
Williams, Raymond. (1973) The Country and the City.
Williams, Raymond. (1958) Culture & Society: 1780-1950.

Romantic & Victorian Poetry:
Abrams, M.H. (1971) Natural Supernaturalism.
Christ, Carol. (1984) Victorian and Modern Poetics.
Langbaum, Robert. (1957) The Poetry of Experience: The Dramatic Monologue in Modern Literary Tradition.
Liu, Alan. (1989) Wordsworth: The Sense of History.
Martin, Robert Bernard. (1991) Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life.
McGann, Jerome. (1983) The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation.
Roe, Nicholas. (1997) John Keats and the Culture of Dissent.
Slinn, Warwick. (1991) The Discourse of Self in Victorian Poetry.

Literature, Science, & Pseudo-Science:
Allen, David. (1994) Naturalist in Britain.
Desmond, Adrian. (1994) Huxley: From Devil’s Disciple to Evolution’s High Priest.
Desmond, Adrian and James Moore. (1991) Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist.
Lightman, Bernard, ed. (1997) Victorian Science in Context.
Morton, Peter. (1984) The Vital Science: Biology and the Literary Imagination (1860-1900).
Pearsall, Ronald. (1972) The Table-Rappers. Winter, Alison. (1998) Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain.