Unless otherwise stated, all texts available in the Norton Anthology of English Literature (tenth edition) Volume E.
- Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (Norton Critical Edition, ISBN 0393979083)
- Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (Oxford World’s Classics Edition, ISBN 0199535639)
- Charlotte Bronte, Villette (Oxford World’s Classics Edition, ISBN 0199536651)
- Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Oxford World’s Classics Edition, ISBN 0199558299)
- Bram Stoker, Dracula (Oxford World’s Classics Edition, ISBN 0199564094)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
- Rudyard Kipling, Kim (Norton Critical Edition) ISBN 978-0393966503
- Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (extract, available on Canvas)
- A. S. Byatt, Possession (extract, available on Canvas)
- Sarah Waters, Fingersmith (extract, available on Canvas)
Poetry
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘The Cry of the Children’ and ‘Grief’
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, ‘In Memoriam’ (extracts)
- Christina Rossetti, ‘After Death’
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, ‘Binsey Poplars’
- Robert Browning, ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’
- Augusta Webster, ‘Circe’ (available on Literature Online, Proquest, through the university library subscription)
- Rudyard Kipling, ‘The White Man’s Burden’
Prose (non-fiction)
- Joseph Chamberlain, ‘The True Conception of Empire’ (extract)
- Friedrich Engels, ‘The Great Towns’ (extract)
- Henry Mayhew, ‘Jacob’s Island’ (available on Canvas)
- Walter Besant, ‘The Queen’s Reign’ (extract)
- Anon, ‘The Great Social Evil’