Bibliography
and Web Resources
Readings (of course, this is a tiny fraction of the readings that could be assigned here, but I have listed a few I think relevant and/or are part of the curriculum)
Henrik Ibsen A Doll’s House
Virginia Woolf “A Room of Her Own” and “Shakespeare’s Sister”
Dorothy and William Wordsworth: Dorothy is still very much in the shadow of her brother William, and debate goes on as to how much of his poetry she informed, perhaps even contributing to his most famous poem “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud.”
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (short story); “An Obstacle” (poem)
Charlotte Mew “The Farmer’s Bride”
Aphra Behn’s works (Behn was the first female professional playwright: Virginia Woolf once wrote that "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.")
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Jane Austen’s works (whichever is/are in the curriculum)
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
George Eliot’s works
Secondary Readings
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The WomaN Writer and the Nineteenth Century Imagination. Yale University Press, 1978.
Harold Bloom, The Western Canon; The Books and School of the Age
Websites
The best general literature site is “Voice of the Shuttle.”
The literature in English page is http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3.
Has hundreds of links to literary sites. Is somewhat scholarly,
but comprehensive.
http://www.edb.utexas.edu/resources/booksR4teens/
is a site that lists contemporary texts for teenagers. For
general information, book reviews etc.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/
This site lists all the literature nobel laureates, and is worth exploring in detail. Each winner has a biography, and many have written about what they themselves liked to read when they were young. It’s fascinating especially to see that all the scientists read voraciously—useful to point out to those more mathematical or science-oriented students who say they are not writers or readers!
www.victorianweb.org
This has a great section on the canon, and women’s inclusion in it.
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