The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 5: The Victorian Era

978 Pages·2006·351.448 MB·English

by  Joseph Black (Editor), Leonard Conolly (Editor), Kate Flint (Editor), Isobel Grundy (Editor), Don LePan (Editor), Roy Liuzza (Editor), Jerome J. McGann (Editor), Anne Lake Prescott (Editor), Barry V. Qualls (Editor), Claire Waters (Editor)

The Broadview Anthology of
BRITISH LITERATURE
Volume 5
The Victorian Era
The Broadview Anthology of British Literature
The Medieval Period
The Renaissance and the Early Seventeenth Century
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
The Age of Romanticism
The Victorian Era
The Twentieth Century and Beyond
The Broadview Anthology of
BRITISH LITERATURE
Volume 5
The Victorian Era
GENERAL EDITORS
Joseph Black, University of Massachusetts
Leonard Conolly, Trent University
Kate Flint, Rutgers University
Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta
Don LePan, Broadview Press
Roy Liuzza, University of Tennessee
Jerome J. McGann, University of Virginia
Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College
Barry V. Qualls, Rutgers University
Claire Waters, University of California, Davis
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Contents
Preface............................................................. xxi
Acknowledgments .................................................. xxix
The Victorian Era ................................................. xxxiii
A Growing Power ................................................ xxxiv
Grinding Mills, Grinding Poverty .................................... xxxvi
Corn Laws, Potato Famine ........................................ xxxviii
“The Two Nations” .................................................. xl
The Politics of Gender .............................................. xlii
Empire ..........................................................xliv
Faith and Doubt ..................................................xlviii
Victorian Domesticity .................................................li
Cultural Trends .................................................... liii
Technology .......................................................lviii
Cultural Identities ...................................................lix
Realism ......................................................... lxiii
The Victorian Novel ................................................lxvi
Poetry .......................................................... lxvii
Drama ......................................................... lxviii
Prose Non-Fiction and Print Culture ...................................lxix
The English Language in the Victorian Era...............................lxxi
History of the Language and of Print Culture ......................... lxxv
Thomas Carlyle ....................................................... 1
from Sartor Resartus ................................................... 4
from Book 1 (Website)
Chapter 11, Perspective
from Book 2 ..................................................... 4
Chapter 6, Sorrows of Teufelsdröckh ................................ 4
Chapter 7, The Everlasting No (Website)
Chapter 8, Centre of Indifference (Website)
from Book 3 ..................................................... 8
Chapter 8, Natural Supernaturalism ................................ 8
from The French Revolution (Website)
Volume 1, Book 6, Chapter 6, The Fourth Estate
Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 7, Death of Mirabella
Volume 3, Book 4, Chapter 7, Marie-Antoinette
Volume 3, Book 7, Chapter 8, Finis
from Past and Present ................................................. 13
from Book 1 .................................................... 13
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Chapter 1, Midas .............................................. 13
Chapter 6, Hero-Worship ....................................... 16
from Book 3 .................................................... 19
Chapter 1, Phenomena ......................................... 19
Chapter 2, Gospel of Mammonism ................................ 23
Chapter 11, Labour ............................................ 25
Chapter 13, Democracy ......................................... 28
from Book 4 .................................................... 34
Chapter 4, Captains of Industry .................................. 34
Thomas Babington Macaulay ........................................... 39
from The History of England ........................................... 40
from Chapter 3, State of England in 1685 .............................. 40
from Milton (Website)
Contexts: Work and Poverty .......................................... 47
Anonymous, “The Steam Loom Weaver” ................................. 49
from Elizabeth Bentley, Testimony before the 1832 Committee on the Labour of
Children in Factories .............................................. 49
from Andrew Ure, The Philosophy of Manufactures .......................... 51
from William Dodd, A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd,
Factory Cripple, Written by Himself ................................... 52
from Joseph Adshead, Distress in Manchester, Chapter 3, “Narratives of Suffering” . 55
Thomas Hood, “Song of the Shirt” ...................................... 57
from Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844,
Chapter 3, “The Great Towns” ...................................... 58
from Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton, Chapter 6 ............................ 62
from Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, “Boy Crossing-Sweepers
and Tumblers” .................................................. 63
from Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Chapter 5, “The Key-Note” ............... 65
John Henry Cardinal Newman
from The Idea of a University (Website)
Susanna Moodie ...................................................... 68
from Roughing It in the Bush ........................................... 69
Introduction .................................................... 69
Chapter 15, The Wilderness, and our Indian Friends ..................... 70
from Chapter 22, The Fire (Website)
from Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush (Website)
Chapter 1, Belleville
Chapter 7, Camp Meetings
Chapter 8, Wearing Mourning for the Dead
In Context: Sample of Susanna Moodie’s 1839 Correspondence
A “Crossed” Letter ................................................ 76
Contents ix
Mary Seacole (Website)
from Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Chapter 1, My Birth and Parentage
Chapter 8, I Long to Join the British Army Before Sebastopol
Chapter 9, Voyage to Constantinople
from Chapter 13, My Work in the Crimea
John Stuart Mill ..................................................... 77
What is Poetry? ..................................................... 78
from On Liberty (Website)
from Chapter 2, Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion
Chapter 3, Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being
from The Subjection of Women .......................................... 85
Chapter 1 ...................................................... 85
Contexts: The Place of Women in Society .............................. 96
from Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Daughters of England: Their Position in Society,
Character and Responsibilities ........................................ 97
from Anonymous, “Hints on the Modern Governess System,” Fraser’s Magazine ... 99
from Harriet Taylor, The Enfranchisement of Women ........................ 101
from Coventry Patmore, The Angel in the House ........................... 104
from Eliza Lynn Linton, “The Girl of the Period,” Saturday Review, March 1868. . 104
from Frances Power Cobbe, “Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors,” Fraser’s
Magazine, December 1868. ........................................ 107
from “Between School and Marriage,” The Girl’s Own Paper, Vol. 7 ............ 109
from Emma Brewer, “Our Friends the Servants,” The Girl’s Own Paper, Vol. 14... 110
from Sarah Grand, “The New Aspect of the Woman Question,” North American
Review 158..................................................... 111
from Mona Caird, “Does Marriage Hinder A Woman’s Self-Development?”
Lady’s Realm ................................................... 112
Elizabeth Barrett Browning .......................................... 114
The Cry of the Children ............................................. 116
To George Sand: A Desire ............................................ 118
To George Sand: A Recognition ....................................... 118
A Year’s Spinning .................................................. 118
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point ................................... 119
from Sonnets from the Portuguese ....................................... 123
Sonnet 1 (“I thought once how Theocritus had sung”) ................... 123
Sonnet 7 (“The face of all the world is changed, I think”) ................. 123
Sonnet 13 (“And wilt thou have me fasten into speech”) .................. 123
Sonnet 21 (“Say over again, and yet once over again”).................... 123
Sonnet 22 (“When our two souls stand up erect and strong”) .............. 123
Sonnet 24 (“Let the world’s sharpness, like a clasping knife”) .............. 124
Sonnet 26 (“I lived with visions for my company”) ...................... 124
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Sonnet 28 (“My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!”) ................. 124
Sonnet 43 (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”) ................ 124
from Aurora Leigh .................................................. 124
Book 1 ........................................................ 124
from Book 2 ................................................... 139
from Book 5 ................................................... 146
A Curse For A Nation .............................................. 149
A Musical Instrument ............................................... 150
In Context: Books on Womanhood (Website)
from Catherine Napier, Woman’s Rights and Duties
In Context: Children in the Mines (Website)
from Richard Hengist Horne, Report of the Children’s Employment
Commission
In Context: The Origin of “the Finest Sonnets” (Website)
from Edmund Gosse, Critical Kit-Kats
In Context: Images of George Sand (Website)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson ............................................... 152
Mariana.......................................................... 154
The Palace of Art................................................... 155
The Lady of Shalott ................................................ 160
The Lotos-Eaters ................................................... 162
Ulysses........................................................... 165
The Epic [Morte d’Arthur] ........................................... 166
Morte d’Arthur .................................................... 166
[Break, break, break] ................................................ 170
Locksley Hall...................................................... 170
from The Princess ................................................... 176
[Sweet and Low] ................................................. 176
[The Splendour Falls] ............................................. 176
[Tears, Idle Tears] ................................................ 176
[Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal] ...................................... 176
[Come Down, O Maid ] ........................................... 177
[The Woman’s Cause is Man’s] ...................................... 177
Maud (Website)
In Memoriam A.H.H................................................ 178
The Eagle ........................................................ 221
The Charge of the Light Brigade ....................................... 222
from Idylls of the King (Website)
The Holy Grail
[Flower in the Crannied Wall].......................................... 222
Vastness .......................................................... 223
Crossing the Bar ................................................... 224
In Context: Images of Tennyson ..................................... 225
from Thomas Carlyle, Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 5 August 1844 ...... 225