Heather Henderson

The Victorian Age Heather Henderson

Jacket Description/Back: Responding to major shifts in literary studies over the past thirty years, "The Longman Anthology of British LIterature "was the first collection to pay sustained attention to the contexts within which literature is produced, even as it broadened the scope of that literature to embrace the full cultural diversity of the British Isles. Within its pages, canonical authors mingle with newly visible writers; English accents are heard next to Anglo-Norman, Welsh, Gaelic, and Scottish ones; female and male voices are set in dialogue; literature from the British Isles is integrated with post-colonial writing; and major works are illumined by clusters of shorter texts that bring literary, social, and historical issues vividly to life. Volume 2B focuses on the literature of the Victorian Age. Biographical Note: 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.""Table of Contents: Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The Victorian Age "Illustration: "Gustave Dore, "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 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur (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 BRONTE 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 BRONTE 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 BRONTE 1528 "from "Letter to Emily Bronte 1528 "Illustration: "Richard Redgrave, "The Poor Teacher, "1844 1529 ANNE BRONTE 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 Vitai 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)

Contributor Bio:  Henderson, Heather HEATHER HENDERSON has brought her authentic, resonant voice and a full cast of characters (from a Scots nanny to a Fargo housewife) to hundreds of projects during her 20-year career. She earned her doctorate at the Yale School of Drama, and her credits include production dramaturgy on the world premiere of August Wilson s "Fences". She has published arts features and reviews in newspapers across the U. S. and has won awards for poetry and screenwriting. What seems to impress people most, though, is that she was an extra in "Animal House". Contributor Bio:  Sharpe, William William Sharpe is an audiobook narrator whose readings include "The Training "by Tara Sue Me, "Safe Word" by Molly Weatherfield, and "Vanity Fair "by William Thackeray. Contributor Bio:  Damrosch, David David Damrosch is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He is the general editor of "The Longman Anthology of World Literature "and the founding general editor of "The Longman Anthology of British Literature". He lives in New York City. Contributor Bio:  Dettmar, Kevin J H Kevin J. H. Dettmar is W. M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and Chair in the Department of English, Pomona College, California.