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David Damrosch is Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, and has written widely on world literature from antiquity to the present. His books include What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and How to Read World Literature (2009). He is the founding general editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature, 2/e (2009) and the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009).
Kevin J. H. Dettmar is W. M. Keck Professor and Chair, Department of English, at Pomona College, and Past President of the Modernist Studies Association. He is the author of The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism and Is Rock Dead?, and the editor of Rereading the New: A Backward Glance at Modernism; Marketing Modernisms: Self-Promotion, Canonization, and Rereading; Reading Rock & Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics; the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners; and The Blackwell Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture, and co-general editor of The Longman Anthology of British Literature.
Heather Henderson is a freelance writer and former Associate Professor of English Literature at Mount Holyoke College. A specialist in Victorian literature, she is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is the author of The Victorian Self: Autobiography and Biblical Narrative. Her current interests include home-schooling, travel literature, and autobiography.
William Sharpe is Professor of English Literature at Barnard College. A specialist in Victorian poetry and the literature of the city, he is the author of Unreal Cities: Urban Figuration in Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Whitman, Eliot, and Williams. He is also co-editor of The Passing of Arthur and Visions of the Modern City. He is the recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment of the Humanities, Fulbright, and Mellon fellowships, and recently published New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography.
The Victorian Age
Illustration: Gustave Doré, Ludgate Hill 1044
THE VICTORIAN AGE AT A GLANCE 1045
INTRODUCTION 1049
VICTORIA AND THE VICTORIANS 1049
Illustration: Sunlight Soap advertisement commemorating the 1897 Jubilee of
Victoria’s reign 1050
THE AGE OF ENERGY AND INVENTION 1052
Illustration: Robert Howlett, Portrait of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and
Launching Chains of the Great Eastern, 1857 1053
THE AGE OF DOUBT 1055
Illustration: The Crystal Palace 1058
THE AGE OF REFORM 1059
THE AGE OF EMPIRE 1063
Illustration: “The Formula of British Conquest,” Pears’ Soap
advertisement 1065
THE AGE OF READING 1066
Color Plate 11: Sir John Everett Millais, Mariana
Color Plate 12: William Holman Hunt, The Awakening Conscience
Color Plate 13: Ford Madox Brown, Work
Color Plate 14: Augustus Egg, Past and Present, No. 1
Color Plate 15: Augustus Egg, Past and Present, No. 3
Color Plate 16: William Morriss, Guenevere, or La Belle Iseult
Color Plate 17: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel
Color Plate 18: James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The
Falling Rocket
Color Plate 19: John Williams Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott
Color Plate 20: Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Love Among the Ruins
THE AGE OF SELF-SCRUTINY 1068
Illustration: Cartoon from Punch magazine, 1867 1068
THOMAS CARLYLE 1074
Illustration: Julia Margaret Cameron, Thomas Carlyle, 1867 1075
Past and Present 1076
Midas [The Condition of England] 1076
from Gospel of Mammonism [The Irish Widow] 1079
from Labour [Know Thy Work] 1080
from Democracy [Liberty to Die by Starvation] 1081
Captains of Industry 1083
PERSPECTIVES
The Industrial Landscape 1088
Illustration: John Leech, Horseman pursued by a train engine named
“Time” 1089
THE STEAM LOOM WEAVER 1090
FANNY KEMBLE 1091
from Record of a Girlhood 1091
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 1092
from A Review of Southey’s Colloquies 1092
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS (“BLUE BOOKS”) 1094
Testimony of Hannah Goode, a Child Textile Worker 1095
Testimony of Ann and Elizabeth Eggley, Child Mineworkers 1095
CHARLES DICKENS 1097
from Dombey and Son 1097
from Hard Times 1098
BENJAMIN DISRAELI 1100
from Sybil 1100
FRIEDRICH ENGELS 1101
from The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 1101
Illustration: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Catholic Town in 1440 /Same
Town in 1840 1103
HENRY MAYHEW 1108
from London Labour and the London Poor 1108
Illustration: The Boy Crossing-Sweepers 1112
JOHN STUART MILL 1113
On Liberty 1115
from Chapter 2. Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion 1115
from Chapter 3. Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being 1117
The Subjection of Women 1121
from Chapter 1 1121
Statement Repudiating the Rights of Husbands 1129
Autobiography 1129
from Chapter 1. Childhood, and Early Education 1129
from Chapter 5. A Crisis in My Mental History. One Stage Onward 1132
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 1138
The Cry of the Children 1140
To George Sand: A Desire 1144
To George Sand: A Recognition 1144
A Year’s Spinning (Web)
Sonnets from the Portuguese 1145
1 (“I thought once how Theocritus had sung”) 1145
13 (“And wilt thou have me fashion into speech”) 1145
14 (“If thou must love me, let it be for nought”) 1145
21 (“Say over again, and yet once over again”) 1146
22 (“When our two souls stand up erect and strong”) 1146
24 (“Let the world’s sharpness, like a clasping knife”) 1147
28 (“My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!”) 1147
32 (“The first time that the sun rose on thine oath”) 1147
38 (“First time he kissed me, he but only kissed”) 1148
43 (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”) 1148
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point 1148
Aurora Leigh 1155
Book 1 1155
[Self-Portrait] 1155
Illustration: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, frontispiece of Aurora Leigh 1156
[Her Mother’s Portrait] 1157
[Aurora’s Education] 1158
[Discovery of Poetry] (Web)
Book 2 1162
[Woman and Artist] 1162
[No Female Christ] 1165
[Aurora’s Rejection of Romney] 1166
Book 3 1170
[The Woman Writer in London] 1170
Book 5 1171
[Epic Art and Modern Life] 1171
from A Curse for a Nation (Web)
A Musical Instrument 1174
The Best Thing in the World (Web)
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 1175
Illustration: Max Beerbohm, Tennyson Reading “In Memoriam” to his Sovereign,
1904 1178
The Kraken 1178
Mariana 1179
The Lady of Shalott 1181
Illustration: William Holman Hunt, The Lady of Shalott 1182
The Lotos-Eaters 1185
Ulysses 1189
Tithonus 1191
Break, Break, Break 1193
The Epic [Morte d’Arthur] 1194
The Eagle: A Fragment (Web)
Locksley Hall 1196
from THE PRINCESS 1201
Sweet and Low (Web)
The Splendour Falls 1201
Tears, Idle Tears 1202
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal 1202
Come Down, O Maid (Web)
[The Woman’s Cause Is Man’s] 1203
from In Memoriam A. H. H. 1204
The Charge of the Light Brigade 1235
Idylls of the King 1237
The Coming of Arthur 1237
Pelleas and Ettarre (Web)
The Passing of Arthur 1247
The Higher Pantheism 1257
RESPONSE
Algernon Charles Swinburne: The Higher Pantheism in a
Nutshell 1258h
Flower in the Crannied Wall (Web)
Crossing the Bar 1259
EDWARD FITZGERALD (Web)
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishápúr (Web)
CHARLES DARWIN 1260
Illustration: Linley Sambourne, Man is But a Worm 1261
The Voyage of the Beagle 1262
from Chapter 10. Tierra Del Fuego 1262
Illustration: Thomas Landseer, after a drawing by C. Martens, A Fuegian at
Portrait Cove 1263
from Chapter 17. Galapagos Archipelago 1269
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection 1272
from Chapter 3. Struggle for Existence 1272
The Descent of Man 1277
from Chapter 21. General Summary and Conclusion 1277
from Autobiography 1283
PERSPECTIVES
Religion and Science 1291
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 1292
from Lord Bacon 1292
CHARLES DICKENS 1293
from Sunday Under Three Heads 1293
DAVID FRIEDRICH STRAUSS 1296
from The Life of Jesus Critically Examined 1296
CHARLOTTE BRONTË 1299
from Jane Eyre 1299
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH 1301
Epi-strauss-ium 1301
The Latest Decalogue 1302
from Dipsychus 1302
JOHN WILLIAM COLENSO 1303
from The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined 1304
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN 1305
from Apologia Pro Vita Sua 1305
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 1313
from Evolution and Ethics 1313
SIR EDMUND GOSSE 1317
from Father and Son 1317
ROBERT BROWNING 1322
Illustration: Julia Margaret Cameron, Robert Browning, 1866 1322
Porphyria’s Lover 1325
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 1326
My Last Duchess 1328
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix 1330
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad 1331
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea 1332
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church 1332
Meeting at Night 1335
Parting at Morning 1336
A Toccata of Galuppi’s 1336
Memorabilia 1337
Love Among the Ruins 1338
“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” 1340
RESPONSE
Stevie Smith: Childe Rolandine 1346h
Fra Lippo Lippi 1347
The Last Ride Together 1355
Andrea del Sarto 1358
Two in the Campagna (Web)
A Woman’s Last Word 1364
Caliban Upon Setebos 1366
Epilogue to Asolando 1372
CHARLES DICKENS 1373
A Christmas Carol 1376
Illustration: Hablot K. Browne, Mr Scrooge Extinguishing the Spirit 1399
from A Walk in a Workhouse 1425
COMPANION READINGS
Dickens at Work: Recollections by His Children and Friends (Web)
Kate Field: Dickens Giving a Reading of A Christmas Carol 1430 h
POPULAR SHORT FICTION 1431
ELIZABETH GASKELL 1432
Our Society at Cranford 1432
THOMAS HARDY 1447
The Withered Arm 1448
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1466
A Scandal in Bohemia 1467
Illustration: Sidney Paget, Good-night Mr Sherlock Holmes 1480
EMILY BRONTË 1482
“High waving heather ’neath stormy blasts bending” 1484
“The night is darkening round me” 1484
“And first an hour of mournful musing” 1485
“I’m happiest when most away” 1485
“There are two trees in a lonely field” 1485
Stanzas 1485
Plead for me 1486
Stars 1487
The Prisoner (A Fragment) 1488
Remembrance 1490
“No coward soul is mine” 1491
JOHN RUSKIN 1492
Modern Painters 1493
from Definition of Greatness in Art 1493
from Of Water, As Painted by Turner 1494
The Stones of Venice 1495
from The Nature of Gothic 1495
Illustration: John Ruskin, Windows of the Early Gothic Palaces 1496
The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century 1505
Praeterita (Web)
Preface (Web)
from The Springs of Wandel (Web)
from Herne-Hill Almond Blossoms (Web)
from Schaffhausen and Milan (Web)
from The Grande Chartreuse (Web)
from Joanna’s Care (Web)
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE 1510
from Cassandra 1511
PERSPECTIVES
Victorian Ladies and Gentlemen 1520
Illustration: The Parliamentary Female, from Punch magazine, 1853 1521
FRANCES POWER COBBE 1522
from Life of Frances Power Cobbe As Told by Herself 1522
SARAH STICKNEY ELLIS 1525
from The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits 1525
CHARLOTTE BRONTË 1528
from Letter to Emily Brontë 1528
Illustration: Richard Redgrave, The Poor Teacher, 1844 1529
ANNE BRONTË 1529
from Agnes Grey 1530
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN 1531
from The Idea of a University 1531
CAROLINE NORTON 1532
from A Letter to the Queen 1533
GEORGE ELIOT 1535
Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft 1535
THOMAS HUGHES 1540
from Tom Brown’s School Days 1540
ISABELLA BEETON 1542
from The Book of Household Management 1542
JOHN RUSKIN 1544
from Sesame and Lilies 1544
Of Queens’ Gardens 1544
QUEEN VICTORIA 1547
Letters and Journal Entries on the Position of Women 1547
Illustration: Edwin Landseer, Windsor Castle in Modern Times, 1841—1845 1549
SARAH GRAND 1552
from The New Aspect of the Woman Question 1552
SIR HENRY NEWBOLT 1553
Vitaï Lampada 1554
MONA CAIRD 1554
from Does Marriage Hinder a Woman’s Self-Development? 1555
RUDYARD KIPLING 1556
If 1556
MATTHEW ARNOLD 1557
Illustration: Matthew Arnold and his wife Frances Wightman Arnold 1557
Isolation. To Marguerite 1560
To Marguerite–Continued 1561
Dover Beach 1562
RESPONSE
Anthony Hecht: The Dover Bitch 1563h
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens 1564
The Buried Life 1565
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse 1567
The Scholar-Gipsy 1572
East London 1578
West London 1579
Thyrsis 1579
from The Function of Criticism at the Present Time 1585
from Culture and Anarchy 1595
from Sweetness and Light 1595
from Doing as One Likes 1597
from Hebraism and Hellenism 1600
from Porro Unum Est Necessarium 1601
from Conclusion 1603
from The Study of Poetry 1604
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI 1611
The Blessed Damozel 1612
The Woodspurge 1615
The House of Life 1616
The Sonnet 1616
4. Lovesight 1616
6. The Kiss 1617
Nuptial Sleep 1617
The Burden of Nineveh 1618
Jenny 1622
RESPONSES
Augusta Webster: from A Castaway 1633
Thomas Hardy: The Ruined Maid 1642 h
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI 1642
Song (“She sat and sang alway”) 1644
Song (“When I am dead, my dearest”) 1644
Remember 1645
After Death 1645
A Pause 1645
Echo 1646
Dead Before Death 1646
Cobwebs 1647
A Triad 1647
In an Artist’s Studio 1647
A Birthday 1648
An Apple-Gathering 1648
Winter: My Secret 1649
Up-Hill 1650
Goblin Market 1650
Illustration: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, frontispiece to Goblin Market 1651
“No, Thank You, John” 1663
Promises Like Pie-Crust 1664
In Progress 1664
What Would I Give? 1665
A Life’s Parallels 1665
Later Life 1665
17 (“Something this foggy day, a something which”) 1665
Sleeping at Last 1666
WILLIAM MORRIS 1666
The Defence of Guenevere 1667
The Haystack in the Floods 1675
from The Beauty of Life 1679
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE 1684
The Leper 1685
The Triumph of Time 1689
I Will Go Back to the Great Sweet Mother 1689
Hymn to Proserpine 1690
A Forsaken Garden (Web)
WALTER PATER 1693
from The Renaissance 1694
Preface 1694
from Leonardo da Vinci 1697
Conclusion 1698
from The Child in the House (Web)
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS 1701
God’s Grandeur 1702
The Starlight Night 1703
Spring 1703
The Windhover 1704
Pied Beauty 1704
Hurrahing in Harvest 1705
Binsey Poplars 1705
Duns Scotus’s Oxford 1706
Felix Randal 1706
Spring and Fall: to a young child 1707
As Kingfishers Catch Fire 1707
[Carrion Comfort] 1708
No Worst, There Is None 1708
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day 1708
That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection 1709
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord 1710
from Journal [On “Inscape” and “Instress”] 1710
from Letter to R. W. Dixon [On Sprung Rhythm] 1712
LEWIS CARROLL 1713
from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 1715
Chapter 1. Down the Rabbit-Hole 1715
from Chapter 2. The Pool of Tears 1718
Illustration: John Tenniel, illustration to Alice in Wonderland, 1865 1719
You are old, Father William 1720
The Lobster-Quadrille 1721
from Through the Looking Glass 1721
Child of the pure unclouded brow (Web)
Jabberwocky 1721
[Humpty Dumpty on Jabberwocky] 1722
The Walrus and the Carpenter 1723
The White Knight’s Song (Web)
PERSPECTIVES
Imagining Childhood (Web)
CHARLES DARWIN (Web)
from A Biographical Sketch of an Infant (Web)
MORAL VERSES (Web)
Table Rules for Little Folks (Web)
Eliza Cook: The Mouse and the Cake (Web)
Heinrich Hoffmann: The Story of Augustus who would Not have any Soup (Web)
Thomas Miller: The Watercress Seller (Web)
William Miller: Willie Winkie (Web)
EDWARD LEAR (Web)
[Selected Limericks] (Web)
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (Web)
The Jumblies (Web)
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! (Web)
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (Web)
from Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (Web)
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (Web)
from A Child’s Garden of Verses (Web)
HILAIRE BELLOC (Web)
from The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts (Web)
from Cautionary Tales for Children (Web)
DAISY ASHFORD (Web)
from The Young Visiters; or, Mr Salteena’s Plan (Web)
RUDYARD KIPLING 1726
Without Benefit of Clergy 1728
from JUST SO STORIES (Web)
How the Whale Got His Throat (Web)
How the Camel Got His Hump (Web)
How the Leopard Got His Spots (Web)
Gunga Din 1742
The Widow at Windsor 1744
Recessional 1745
PERSPECTIVES
Travel and Empire 1746
Illustration: Daylight at Last! 1746
FRANCES TROLLOPE 1748
from Domestic Manners of the Americans 1748
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 1753
from Minute on Indian Education 1754
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE 1758
from Our Colonies 1758
BENJAMIN DISRAELI 1759
Illustration: New Crowns for Old 1760
from Conservative and Liberal Principles 1760
ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE (Web)
from Eothen (Web)
SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON (Web)
from A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah (Web)
ISABELLA BIRD (Web)
from A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (Web)
SIR HENRY MORTON STANLEY 1762
from Through the Dark Continent 1762
MARY KINGSLEY 1769
from Travels in West Africa 1769
RUDYARD KIPLING 1776
The White Man’s Burden 1777
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 1778
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1780
OSCAR WILDE 1818
Illustration: Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, 1893 1820
Impression du Matin 1821
RESPONSE
Lord Alfred Douglas: Impression de Nuit 1822h
The Harlot’s House 1822
Symphony in Yellow 1823
from The Decay of Lying (Web)
from The Soul of Man Under Socialism 1824
Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray 1828
The Importance of Being Earnest 1829
Aphorisms 1870
from De Profundis 1872
COMPANION READING
H. Montgomery Hyde: from The Trials of Oscar Wilde 1879h
PERSPECTIVES
Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Fin de Siècle 1885
Illustration: Aubrey Beardsley, J’ai baisé ta bouche, Iokanaan 1886
Illustration: George Du Maurier, The Six-Mark Tea-Pot 1887
W. S. GILBERT 1888
If You’re Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line 1889
JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER 1890
from Mr. Whistler’s “Ten O’Clock” 1891
“MICHAEL FIELD” (KATHARINE BRADLEY AND EDITH COOPER) 1895
La Gioconda 1896
A Pen-Drawing of Leda 1896
“A Girl” 1897
ADA LEVERSON 1897
Suggestion 1898
ARTHUR SYMONS 1903
Pastel 1903
White Heliotrope 1904
from The Decadent Movement in Literature 1904
from Preface to Silhouettes 1906
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE 1907
A Ballad of London 1907
LIONEL JOHNSON 1908
The Destroyer of a Soul 1909
The Dark Angel 1909
A Decadent’s Lyric 1911
LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS 1911
In Praise of Shame 1912
Two Loves 1912
OLIVE CUSTANCE (LADY ALFRED DOUGLAS) 1914
The Masquerade 1915
Statues 1915
The White Witch 1916
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