Victorian bibliography GOLD College Spring 2019 Zarzana
In no particular order than memory
Non-fiction and essays
Carlyle: Sartor Resartus.
John Henry Cardinal Newman: Ideals of the University.
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty and The Subjection of Women.
John Ruskin: Modern Painters and The Stones of Venice.
Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy.
William Pater: The Renaissance.
The Pre-Raphaelites collections of art.
Poetry
All the major poets we discussed:
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Matthew Arnold
Christina Rossetti
Novels
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations, Bleak House, Our Mutual Friend. (My three favorites.) A Christmas Carol as well. Pickwick Papers is a fun romp. Many readers like David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Nicholas Nickleby, Oliver Twist, and Little Dorritt.
Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.
George Eliot: Marian Evans: Middlemarch.
Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfeld Hall.
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre.
Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights.
Anthony Trollope: The Way We Live Now and The Chronicles of Barsetshire
William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair.
Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes stories.
Samuel Butler: The Way of All Flesh.
H. G. Wells: Time Machine, War of the Worlds,
Oscar Wilde: The Portrait of Dorian Gray.
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World War I and Post-War bibliography
Non-fiction and history
Robert Graves: Good-Bye to all That. Graves survived the trenches and the Battle of the Somme. Memoir.
John Keegan: The First World War. Excellent, readable history of the Great War.
Barbara W. Tuckman: The Proud Tower. Covers Europe 1890 to 1914.
Tuckman: The Guns of August. The summer of 1914 from the assassination of the Archduke to the first great battles on the Western Front.
William L. Shirer: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Essentially, the story of Adolf Hitler and his rise to power and his dictatorship of Germany through to the end of World War II. Since Hitler’s rise is impossible without the Great War, the beginning of this work gives you insights into the lasting, negative effects of the War and the bungled Treaty of Versailles.
John M. Barry: The Great Influenza. Thorough explanation of the Great Influenza: its cause, its swath of death around the world.
Poetry:
David Jones: In Parenthesis (Book length poem on World War I)
There are many individual collections of the War Poets and many collections of their work in a single volume. The most approachable are probably Siegfried Sassoon, Ivor Gurney, and Wilfred Owen. Sassoon and Gurney survived the War. Others of interest may be May Wedderburn Cannan, a nurse in the War. Also, David Jones.
Paul Fussell has an excellent overview of the British poets: The Great War and Modern Memory. Deep but informative.
The works of T.S. Eliot and W. B. Yates.
Novels:
Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front. The seminal World War I novel. An absolute classic.
Virginia Woolf: Jacob’s Room.
Katherine Anne Porter: Pale Horse, Pale Rider. About the Great Influenza
Pat [Patricia] Barker: Regeneration, Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road. Regeneration is a fictionalization of Sassoon and Owen meeting in a war hospital while suffering shell shock.
Other novels by Pat Barker: she has a second set of novels about World War I which I have not read.
Helen Simonson: The Summer before the War. One of the best novels I have read written by someone not in the war.
Jacqueline Winspear: The Maisie Dobbs mysteries. Although set after of World War I, these mysteries explore the aftermath of the trenches. The first ten or so are directly connected to the War, then the Depression. Later novels explore pre-World War II and the second war itself. If you like mysteries, excellent. Her one novel directly dealing with the War is The Care and Management of Lies. It is not a mystery, but an exploration of those who went to war and those left behind.
Charles Todd: Bess Crawford mysteries. Unlike the Maisie Dobbs stories, these are set during the War. Bess is an English nurse and uncovers many mysteries, some related to the War, others not.
Mary-Rose MacColl: In Falling Snow. Australian nurse on the Western Front.
J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis were officers in the War and it influenced their fantasy novels.
In no particular order than memory
Non-fiction and essays
Carlyle: Sartor Resartus.
John Henry Cardinal Newman: Ideals of the University.
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty and The Subjection of Women.
John Ruskin: Modern Painters and The Stones of Venice.
Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy.
William Pater: The Renaissance.
The Pre-Raphaelites collections of art.
Poetry
All the major poets we discussed:
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Matthew Arnold
Christina Rossetti
Novels
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations, Bleak House, Our Mutual Friend. (My three favorites.) A Christmas Carol as well. Pickwick Papers is a fun romp. Many readers like David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Nicholas Nickleby, Oliver Twist, and Little Dorritt.
Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.
George Eliot: Marian Evans: Middlemarch.
Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfeld Hall.
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre.
Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights.
Anthony Trollope: The Way We Live Now and The Chronicles of Barsetshire
William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair.
Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes stories.
Samuel Butler: The Way of All Flesh.
H. G. Wells: Time Machine, War of the Worlds,
Oscar Wilde: The Portrait of Dorian Gray.
*
World War I and Post-War bibliography
Non-fiction and history
Robert Graves: Good-Bye to all That. Graves survived the trenches and the Battle of the Somme. Memoir.
John Keegan: The First World War. Excellent, readable history of the Great War.
Barbara W. Tuckman: The Proud Tower. Covers Europe 1890 to 1914.
Tuckman: The Guns of August. The summer of 1914 from the assassination of the Archduke to the first great battles on the Western Front.
William L. Shirer: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Essentially, the story of Adolf Hitler and his rise to power and his dictatorship of Germany through to the end of World War II. Since Hitler’s rise is impossible without the Great War, the beginning of this work gives you insights into the lasting, negative effects of the War and the bungled Treaty of Versailles.
John M. Barry: The Great Influenza. Thorough explanation of the Great Influenza: its cause, its swath of death around the world.
Poetry:
David Jones: In Parenthesis (Book length poem on World War I)
There are many individual collections of the War Poets and many collections of their work in a single volume. The most approachable are probably Siegfried Sassoon, Ivor Gurney, and Wilfred Owen. Sassoon and Gurney survived the War. Others of interest may be May Wedderburn Cannan, a nurse in the War. Also, David Jones.
Paul Fussell has an excellent overview of the British poets: The Great War and Modern Memory. Deep but informative.
The works of T.S. Eliot and W. B. Yates.
Novels:
Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front. The seminal World War I novel. An absolute classic.
Virginia Woolf: Jacob’s Room.
Katherine Anne Porter: Pale Horse, Pale Rider. About the Great Influenza
Pat [Patricia] Barker: Regeneration, Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road. Regeneration is a fictionalization of Sassoon and Owen meeting in a war hospital while suffering shell shock.
Other novels by Pat Barker: she has a second set of novels about World War I which I have not read.
Helen Simonson: The Summer before the War. One of the best novels I have read written by someone not in the war.
Jacqueline Winspear: The Maisie Dobbs mysteries. Although set after of World War I, these mysteries explore the aftermath of the trenches. The first ten or so are directly connected to the War, then the Depression. Later novels explore pre-World War II and the second war itself. If you like mysteries, excellent. Her one novel directly dealing with the War is The Care and Management of Lies. It is not a mystery, but an exploration of those who went to war and those left behind.
Charles Todd: Bess Crawford mysteries. Unlike the Maisie Dobbs stories, these are set during the War. Bess is an English nurse and uncovers many mysteries, some related to the War, others not.
Mary-Rose MacColl: In Falling Snow. Australian nurse on the Western Front.
J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis were officers in the War and it influenced their fantasy novels.
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