Required Books

English 671: Introduction to the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Prof. Grossman

• William Godwin, Caleb Williams (Norton) ISBN 0393008614
• James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Oxford) ISBN 0192815563
• Mary Prince, The Life of Mary Prince (U Michigan press) ISBN 0472084100
• Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (Penguin) ISBN 0140430172
• Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton (Oxford) ISBN 0192817507
• Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (Oxford) ISBN 0192833626
• Thomas Hardy, Tess of D'Urbervilles (Oxford) ISBN 0192833626
• Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin) ISBN 014043187X

Books have been ordered through Rainbow Books, Main Street, Newark.

We will use the editions of the texts that are listed above. You should read endnotes and other editorial matter (appendices, notes on the text, etc.).

Required Reserve Reading
The following required readings are available on reserve in the library and at my office for 2-hour loan.

• M.M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination, pp.301-355
• Jonathan Dollimore, Sexual Dissidence, pp.3-18, 64-78
• Steven Marcus, Engels, Manchester, and the Working Class, pp.131-199
• D.A. Miller, The Novel and the Police, pp.146-191
• J. Hillis Miller, Fiction and Repetition, chapter 5
• Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain, pp.3-51
• Eve Sedgwick, Between Men, chapter 6

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