English Literature

Unit VI: The Victorians

Week 26
Please read:

Matthew Arnold:

• "Isolation", p. 612.
• "Self-Dependence", pp. 612-613.
• "Dover Beach", pp. 613-614.

A number of other poems by Matthew Arnold can be found here a the University of Toronto poetry site, if you are interested.

George Eliot, from The Mill on the Floss, p. 600-608.

Other works by George Eliot can be found at a very well-maintained (and searchable) site at Princeton:

• Adam Bede
• The Mill on the Floss
• Middlemarch
• Silas Marner

John Stuart Mill, from The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill, pp. 618-622.

Charles Dickens, from David Copperfield, p. 576-591.

Here are some further links to works by Dickens at the Bibliomania site, if you are interested in pursuing them:

• "A Christmas Carol"
• Dombey and Son
• Great Expectations
• Martin Chuzzlewit
• Nicholas Nickleby
• The Pickwick Papers
• A Tale of Two Cities

You may like to look at G. K. Chesterton's intriguing discussion of Dickens.

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