English Literature - Victorians and Moderns

by James Sexton

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This is an anthology with a difference. In addition to providing annotated teaching editions of many of the most frequently-taught classics of Victorian and Modern poetry, fiction and drama, it also provides a series of guided research casebooks which make available numerous published essays from open access books and journals, as well as several reprinted critical essays from established learned journals.

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Simon Fraser University
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Humanities, Literature and Literacy
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CC BY 4.0, as LibreTexts states it
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Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1:The Victorian Era 1832–1901
  7. 1.1: Introduction
  8. Section 2:
  9. Section 3:
  10. Section 4:
  11. Section 5:
  12. Section 6:
  13. 2: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
  14. 2.1: Biography
  15. 2.2: Sonnets from the Portuguese
  16. 2.3: The Cry of the Children
  17. 2.4: Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
  18. Section 5:
  19. Section 6:
  20. 3: Robert Browning (1812–1889)
  21. 3.1: Biography
  22. 3.2: Porphyria's Lover
  23. 3.3: My Last Duchess
  24. 3.4: The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church
  25. 3.5: Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
  26. 3.6: Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
  27. 4: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
  28. 4.10: Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
  29. 4.1: Biography
  30. 4.2: The Lady of Shalott
  31. 4.3: From the Princess
  32. 4.4: The Lotos-Eaters
  33. 4.5: Ulysses
  34. 4.6: Break, Break, Break
  35. 4.7: from In Memoriam A. H. H.
  36. 4.8: The Charge of the Light Brigade
  37. 4.9: Crossing the Bar
  38. 4.10: Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
  39. 5: Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
  40. 5.1: Biography
  41. 5.2: A Christmas Carol: Stave 1
  42. 5.3: A Christmas Carol: Stave 2
  43. 5.4: A Christmas Carol: Stave 3
  44. 5.5: A Christmas Carol: Stave 4
  45. 5.6: A Christmas Carol: Stave 5
  46. 5.7: Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
  47. 6: Christina Rossetti (1830–1894)
  48. 6.1: Biography
  49. 6.2: Goblin Market
  50. 6.3: Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
  51. Section 4:
  52. Section 5:
  53. Section 6:
  54. 7: Henry James (1843–1916)
  55. 7.18: Turn of the Screw: Chapter 16
  56. 7.19: Turn of the Screw: Chapter 17
  57. 7.20: Turn of the Screw: Chapter 18
  58. 7.1: Biography
  59. 7.2: Turn of the Screw: Introduction
  60. 7.3: Turn of the Screw: Chapter 1
  61. 7.4: Turn of the Screw: Chapter 2
  62. 7.5: Turn of the Screw: Chapter 3
  63. 7.6: Turn of the Screw: Chapter 4
  64. 7.7: Turn of the Screw: Chapter 5
  65. 7.8: Turn of the Screw: Chapter 6
  66. 7.9: Turn of the Screw: Chapter 7
  67. 8: Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
  68. 8.1: Biography
  69. 8.2: The Importance of Being Earnest: Act I
  70. 8.3: The Importance of Being Earnest: Act II
  71. 8.4: The Importance of Being Earnest: Act III
  72. 8.5: Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
  73. Section 6:
  74. 9: Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)
  75. 9.1: Biography
  76. 9.2: Fuzzy-Wuzzy
  77. 9.3: Recessional
  78. 9.4: The White Man’s Burden
  79. 9.5: Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
  80. Section 6:
  81. 10: Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
  82. 10.11: Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?
  83. 10.12: Let Me Enjoy
  84. 10.13: Channel Firing
  85. 10.14: The Man He Killed
  86. 10.15: Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
  87. 10.1: Biography
  88. 10.2: Hap
  89. 10.3: Drummer Hodge
  90. 10.4: The Subalterns
  91. 10.5: The Ruined Maid
  92. 10.6: The Impercipient
  93. 10.7: Mad Judy
  94. 10.8: The Going
  95. 10.9: The Haunter
  96. 10.10: The Convergence of the Twain
  97. 11: George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
  98. 11.1: Biography
  99. 11.2: Major Barbara: Act I
  100. 11.3: Major Barbara: Act II
  101. 11.4: Major Barbara: Act III
  102. 11.5: Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
  103. Section 6:
  104. 12: Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
  105. 12.1: Biography
  106. 12.2: Heart of Darkness: Chapter 1
  107. 12.3: Heart of Darkness: Chapter 2
  108. 12.4: Heart of Darkness: Chapter 3
  109. 12.5: Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
  110. Section 6:
  111. 13: William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
  112. 13.10: Among School Children
  113. 13.11: Byzantium
  114. 13.12: Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
  115. 13.12: Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
  116. 13.13: The Circus Animals’ Desertion
  117. 13.14: Study Questions and Activities
  118. 13.1: Biography
  119. 13.2: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
  120. 13.3: No Second Troy
  121. 13.4: Easter, 1916
  122. 13.5: The Wild Swans at Coole
  123. 13.6: The Second Coming
  124. 13.7: A Prayer for My Daughter
  125. 13.8: Leda and the Swan
  126. 13.9: Sailing to Byzantium
  127. 14: A.E. Housman (1859–1936)
  128. 14.1: Biography
  129. 14.2: Loveliest of Trees
  130. 14.3: Farewell to Barn and Stack and Tree
  131. 14.4: To an Athlete Dying Young
  132. 14.5: Is My Team Ploughing?
  133. 14.6: Additional Poems
  134. 14.7: More Poems
  135. 14.8: Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
  136. 15: Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (1870–1916)
  137. 15.1: Biography
  138. 15.2: The Open Window
  139. 15.3: The Schartz-Metterklume Method
  140. 15.4: Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
  141. Section 5:
  142. Section 6:
  143. 16: World War I Poetry
  144. 16.1: Introduction
  145. Section 2:
  146. Section 3:
  147. Section 4:
  148. Section 5:
  149. Section 6:
  150. 17: Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)
  151. 17.1: Biography
  152. 17.2: Disabled
  153. 17.3: Dulce et Decorum Est
  154. 17.4: Futility
  155. 17.5: S.I.W.
  156. 17.6: Mental Cases
  157. 17.7: Smile, Smile, Smile
  158. 17.8: Anthem for Doomed Youth
  159. 17.9: The Sentry
  160. 18: Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967)
  161. 18.1: Biography Previous Next
  162. 18.2: Counter-Attack
  163. 18.3: Does it Matter?
  164. 18.4: The Death Bed
  165. 18.5: Base Details and Glory of Women
  166. 18.6: Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
  167. 19: Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918)
  168. 19.1: Biography
  169. 19.2: Returning, We Hear the Larks
  170. 19.3: Break of Day in the Trenches
  171. 19.4: Dead Man’s Dump
  172. 19.5: Study Questions and Activities
  173. 20: Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)
  174. 20.1: Biography
  175. 20.2: Oxford JISC Tutorial: Rupert Brooke
  176. 20.3: Study Questions and Activities
  177. Section 4:
  178. Section 5:
  179. Section 6:
  180. 21: Sean O’Casey (1880–1964)
  181. 21.1: Biography
  182. 21.2: Explanatory Notes to Juno and the Paycock
  183. 21.3: Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
  184. 22: Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
  185. 22.1: Biography
  186. 22.2: To the Lighthouse: Introduction
  187. 22.3: To the Lighthouse
  188. 22.4: Professions for Women
  189. 22.5: Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
  190. 23: James Joyce (1882-1941)
  191. 23.1: Biography
  192. 23.2: Dubliners: Araby
  193. 23.3: Dubliners: Eveline
  194. 23.4: Dubliners: After the Race
  195. 23.5: Dubliners: Counterparts
  196. 23.6: Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
  197. 24: D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
  198. 24.1: Biography
  199. 24.2: The Horse Dealer's Daughter
  200. 24.3: The Rocking Horse Winner
  201. 24.4: Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
  202. 25: T.S. Eliot (1888–1965)
  203. 25.1: Biography
  204. 25.2: The Hollow Men
  205. 25.3: The Journey of the Magi
  206. 25.5: The Waste Land
  207. 25.6: Study Questions, Activities, and Resources
  208. 26: Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)
  209. 26.12: The Daughters of the Late Colonel: XII
  210. 26.13: The Fly
  211. 26.14: A Cup of Tea
  212. 26.1: Biography
  213. 26.2: Miss Brill
  214. 26.3: The Daughters of the Late Colonel: I
  215. 26.7: The Daughters of the Late Colonel: VII
  216. 26.8: The Daughters of the Late Colonel: VIII
  217. 26.9: The Daughters of the Late Colonel: IX
  218. 26.10: The Daughters of the Late Colonel: X
  219. 26.11: The Daughters of the Late Colonel: XI
  220. 27: Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
  221. 27.1: Biography
  222. 27.2: Brave New World: Chapter 1
  223. 27.3: Brave New World: Chapter 2
  224. 27.8: Brave New World: Chapter 7
  225. 27.9: Brave New World: Chapter 8
  226. 27.10: Brave New World: Chapter 9
  227. 28: George Orwell (1903-1950)
  228. 28.1: Biography
  229. 28.2: Pleasure Spots
  230. 28.3: Can Socialists be Happy?
  231. Back Matter
  232. Index
  233. Glossary
  234. Detailed Licensing