Required Books

English 338: Victorian Fiction
Prof. Grossman

• Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (Penguin) ISBN 0140430172
• Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton (Oxford) ISBN 0192817507
• George Eliot, Adam Bede (Penguin) ISBN 0140431217
• Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (Oxford) ISBN 0192815792
• Thomas Hardy, Tess of D'Urbervilles (Penguin) ISBN 0140431357
• Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin) ISBN 014043187X
• Handouts:
  • Michel Foucault, excerpts from The History of Sexuality and Discipline and Punish
  • M.M. Bakhtin,excerpt from "Discourse in the Novel"
  • D.A. Miller, "From roman policier to roman-police: Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone"
  • Edward Said, "Introduction" to Orientalism
  • Frances Power Cobbe, "Criminals, Idiots,Women, and Minors" (1868)
  • Oscar Wilde, 1895 newspaper trial reports, excerpted from The Oscar Wilde File

We will use the editions of the novels that are listed above. Several of the introductions will be assigned specifically. You should read each novel's endnotes and other editorial matter (appendices, notes on the text).

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