Primary texts in Norton Anthology, 2 vols, 9th edn, except where otherwise indicated. The Literature Online database, ProQuest is available to all students through the University subscription.
Novels (in the editions specified):
- Jane Austen (1775—1817), Emma (1815), ed. George Justice, 4th edn (Norton Critical Edition, 2012)
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1898),
- Virginia Woolf (1882—1941), Mrs Dalloway (1925)
- Martin Amis (1949—), Money (1984), the current Vintage paperback (ISBN-13: 978-0099461883)
- Penelope Lively (1933—), Moon Tiger (1987), the current Penguin Modern Classics paperback (ISBN-13: 978-0141188317)
Short fiction:
- James Joyce (1882—1941), ‘The Dead’
- Katherine Mansfield (1888—1923), ‘The Garden Party’
- Alice Munro (1931—), ‘Walker Brothers Cowboy’
Plays:
- William Shakespeare (1564—1616), Julius Caesar, ed. S. P. Cerasano. (Norton Critical Edition, 2012) ISBN-10: 039393263X ISBN-13: 978-0393932638). (NB: Shakespeare must be read in a single-play edition—not in the many Collected Works available. The more ambitious students are encouraged to explore the various scholarly editions in the Arden, Cambridge, Oxford, and Penguin series.)
- Tom Stoppard (1937—), Arcadia (1993)
Poems:
- Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343—1400), The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
- William Shakespeare (1564—1616), sonnet 18 (‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’)
- John Donne (1572—1631), ‘The Sun Rising’; ‘Death be not proud’ (Holy Sonnets, X)
- John Milton (1608—74), from Paradise Lost: Book 1, lines 1—270, and Book 4 (entire)
- William Wordsworth (1770—1850), ‘The world is too much with us’; ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’
- John Clare, ‘Decay’, Literature Online database, ProQuest
- John Keats (1795—1821), ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844—89), ‘Pied Beauty’
- William Butler Yeats (1865—1939), ‘Easter, 1916’
- Wilfred Owen (1893—1918), ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’
- W. H. Auden (1907—73), ‘The Shield of Achilles’
- Philip Larkin (1922—1985), ‘MCMXIV’
- Anne Stevenson (1933—), ‘Arioso Dolente’ Literature Online database, ProQuest
- Tony Harrison (1937—), ‘v.’, Literature Online database, ProQuest
- Gillian Clarke (1937—), ‘Miracle on St David’s Day’ Literature Online database, ProQuest
- Seamus Heaney (1939—2013), ‘The Grauballe Man’, ‘Punishment’
- James Fenton (1949—), ‘Jerusalem’, Literature Online database, ProQuest and (James Fenton reading ‘Jerusalem’)
- Carol Ann Duffy (1955—), ‘Prayer’ (Literature Online database, ProQuest). (Gillian Clarke reading Duffy’s ‘Prayer’)
- Kathleen Jamie (1962—), ‘The Queen of Sheba’, (Literature Online database, ProQuest)
Secondary material (NB Like the secondary works, this is obligatory reading):
TEXTBOOK:
- Dominic Rainsford, Studying Literature in English: An Introduction (London: Routledge, 2014), ISBN-10: 0415699231 ISBN-13: 978-0415699235 [for purchase
- Sarah Shute, gen. ed., KnowledgeNotes ? Student Guides (Literature Online database, ProQuest) on Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales’ (NB: this electronic resource, to which the University subscribes for all UiO users, is accessible through the UiO network:)
- Sarah Shute, gen. ed., KnowledgeNotes ? Student Guides (Literature Online database, ProQuest) on John Milton’s Paradise Lost, sections relevant to Book 1, lines 1—270, and Book 4 (entire) (NB: this electronic resource, to which the University subscribes for all UiO users, is accessible through the UiO network)
- Stephen Greenblatt et al., eds., Norton Anthology of English Literature, various volume formats, 9th edn (New York: Norton, 2012). Editorial introductions to the seven periods [ca. 150 pp.] and headnotes to the individual authors on the course syllabus.
- Vol. I: The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485) (pp. 3—25)
- The Sixteenth Century (1485—1603) (pp. 531—561)
- The Early Seventeenth Century (1603—1660) (pp. 1341—1367)
- The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1600—1785) (pp. 2177—2205)
- Vol. II: The Romantic Period (pp. 3—27)
- The Victorian Age (pp. 1017—1041)
- The Twentieth Century and After (pp. 1887—1910)