Victorian/Edwardian Lit

British Literature. Wed, Oct 29th, 2008 at 10:26 am

Themes: Victorian Lit

1.  Go here.

2.  Find something cool, bring it to class tomorrow.

3.  Choose a book from this period:

• Charles Dickens’s The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1839)
• Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847)
• Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights (1847)
• George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860)
• Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (1861)
• Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
• Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1883)
• Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Grey (1890)
• Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
• H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine (1895)
• H.G. Wells’s The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896)
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897)—Flip through this before you choose. It’s better than the movies, but not the same.
• H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds (1898)
• Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1902)—More modernist than Victorian, but worth including.

6 Responses to “Victorian/Edwardian Lit”

1. james says:

   October 29, 2008 at 2:32 pm

   Victorian age = first trains

2. Josiah says:

   October 29, 2008 at 9:00 pm

   Joseph Addison on Greatness(sauce)

   By greatness I do not only mean the bulk of any single object but the largeness of a whole view considered as one entire piece. Such are the prospects of an open champaign country, a vast uncultivated desert, of huge heaps of mountains, high rocks and precipices, or a wide expanse of waters, where we are not struck with the novelty or beauty of the sight but with that rude kind of magnificence which [192/193] appears in many of these stupendous works of nature. Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at anything that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them.

3. Josiah says:

   October 29, 2008 at 9:03 pm

   I want to read

   “Oscar Wilde’s” The Picture of Dorian Grey

4. Alana says:

   October 29, 2008 at 10:15 pm

   http://www.victorianweb.org/photos/chron.html

   My printer isn’t working – Do you want me to print this out when I get to school?

5. Josiah says:

   October 30, 2008 at 3:30 pm

   hey they are going to play the original audio from the “War of the Worlds” radio broacast on it’s 70th Year anniversary.

   When: Friday (aka tomorrow)

   Where: 1170 AM KAFQ

   What time: 8-10 PM

   Be There Or be Square

6. Josiah says:

   October 31, 2008 at 2:14 pm

   oops the time for War of the Worlds is actually

   From 7-9 pm.

   sorry about that