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Reading List for FLLD Ph.D. Candidates
June 2005
ENGLISH ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD AND MIDDLE AGES
- The Battle of Maldon
- Beowulf
- Seafarer
- Wanderer
- Dream of the Rood
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- The Second Shepherds Play
- Everyman
- Noah's Flood
- Canterbury Tales
THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD
Poetry
(Unless specified, all selections are from the current edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature)
- Sonnet and sonnet sequence
- Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey)
- Edmund Spenser: The Shepherd's Calendar
- The Faerie Queene (Books I & II)
- John Milton: Paradise Lost
- Christopher Marlowe: Hero & Leander
- Sir Thomas Wyatt
- John Donne
- Shakespeare
- John Milton
Prose
- Sir Thomas More: Utopia
Drama
- Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus
- Ben Jonson: Volpone
- John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
- William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
- Hamlet
- Othello
- Macbeth
- Twelfth Night
- King Lear
THE RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1660-1789)
Poetry
- John Dryden: MacFlecknoe
- Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock
Prose
- Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels
- Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Drama
- William Wycherley: The Country Wife
- John Dryden: All for Love
- William Congreve: The Way of the World
- Richard B. Sheridan: School for Scandal
Novel
- Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
- Samuel Richardson: Pamela
- Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Poetry
(All selections are from the current edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature)
- William Blake
- William Wordsworth
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Lord Byron
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- John Keats
- Lord Alfred Tennyson
- Robert Browning
- Mathew Arnold
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Elizabeth Barrett
Novels
- Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
- Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
- Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
- George Eliot: Middlemarch
- Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
- Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Drama
- Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
- Lord Byron: Manfred
- Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound
TWENTIETH CENTURY
Poetry
(All selections are from the current edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature)
- Thomas Hardy
- Philip Larkin
- W. H. Auden
- Dylan Thomas
- W. B. Yeats
- T. S. Eliot
Novels
- Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
- Conrad: Lord Jim
- E. M. Forster: A Passage to India
- Forster: A Room with a View
- D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love
- Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
- Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
- James Joyce: Dubliners
- Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Graham Greene: The Heart of the Matter
- George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four
- John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
- V. S. Naipaul: A Bend in the River
- Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children
- J. M. Coetzee: Life and Times of Michael K
Drama
- T. S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral
- John Synge: Riders to the Sea
- Sean O'Casey: Juno and the Paycock
- George Bernard Shaw: Major Barbara
- Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
- Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party
AMERICAN LITERATURE BEFORE 1900
Prose
- Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels
- Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Drama
- William Wycherley: The Country Wife
- John Dryden: All for Love
- William Congreve: The Way of the World
- Richard B. Sheridan: School for Scandal
Novel
- Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
- Samuel Richardson: Pamela
- Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Poetry
(All selections are from the current edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature)
- William Blake
- William Wordsworth
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Lord Byron
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- John Keats
- Lord Alfred Tennyson
- Robert Browning
- Mathew Arnold
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Elizabeth Barrett
Novels
- Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
- Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
- Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
- George Eliot: Middlemarch
- Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
- Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Drama
- Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
- Lord Byron: Manfred
- Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound
TWENTIETH CENTURY
Poetry
(All selections are from the current edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature)
- Thomas Hardy
- Philip Larkin
- W. H. Auden
- Dylan Thomas
- W. B. Yeats
- T. S. Eliot
Novels
- Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
- Conrad: Lord Jim
- E. M. Forster: A Passage to India
- Forster: A Room with a View
- D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love
- Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
- Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
- James Joyce: Dubliners
- Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Graham Greene: The Heart of the Matter
- George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four
- John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
- V. S. Naipaul: A Bend in the River
- Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children
- J. M. Coetzee: Life and Times of Michael K
Drama
- T. S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral
- John Synge: Riders to the Sea
- Sean O'Casey: Juno and the Paycock
- George Bernard Shaw: Major Barbara
- Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
- Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party
AMERICAN LITERATURE BEFORE 1900
Early American Literature
(All selections are from the current edition of The Norton Anthology of American Literature)
- Anne Bradstreet
- Edward Taylor
- Jonathan Edwards
- Thomas Paine
Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- Washington Irving: "Rip Van Winkle"
- James Fenimore Cooper: "The Last of Mohicans"
- Edgar Allan Poe: "The Fall of the House of Usher"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Nature," "Self-Reliance," "The American Scholar"
- Henry David Thoreau: Walden
- Walt Whitman: "Song of My Self"
- Herman Melville: Moby-Dick, "Bartleby the Scrivener"
- Emily Dickinson
- Samuel Clemens: The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
- Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady, Daisy Miller
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
- Jack London: The Call of the Wild
- Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage
- Kate Chopin: The Awakening
AMERICAN LITERATURE AFTER 1900
Poetry
(All selections are from the current edition of The Norton Anthology of American Literature)
- Robert Frost
- Ezra Pound
- T. S. Eliot
- William C. Williams
- E. E. Cummings
- Wallace Stevens
- Sylvia Plath
- Allen Ginsberg
- Anne Sexton
- Gary Snyder
- Robert Lowell
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Langston Hughes
- Adrienne Rich
Novels
- Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence
- Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio
- Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
- William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
- John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
- Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
- J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
- Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire
- E. L. Doctorow: The Book of Daniel
- Maxine Hong Kingston: The Woman Warrior
- Joy Kogawa: Obasan
- Silko: Ceremony
- Toni Morrison: Beloved
Drama
- Eugene O'Neill: Long Day's Journey into Night
- Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
- Thornton Wilder: Our Town
- Tennessee Williams: A Street Car Named Desire
- Edward Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Criticism and Theory
Classical Criticism and Theory
(Selections from Critical Theory since Plato, 1992 ed.)
- Plato: Republic (from Book I, Book II, Book X)
- Aristotle: Poetics
- Longinus: On the Sublime
- Sir Philip Sidney: An Apology for Poetry
- John Dryden: An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
- David Hume: "Of the Standard of Taste"
- Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism
- Edmund Burke: from A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
- Immanuel Kant: Critique of Judgment
- William Wordsworth: Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Biographical Literaria
- Matthew Arnold: Preface to the 1853 Edition of Poems, "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time", The Study of Poetry
Classical Criticism and Theory
(Selections from Critical Theory since Plato, 1992 ed.)
- Plato: Republic (from Book I, Book II, Book X)
- Aristotle: Poetics
- Longinus: On the Sublime
- Sir Philip Sidney: An Apology for Poetry
- John Dryden: An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
- David Hume: "Of the Standard of Taste"
- Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism
- Edmund Burke: from A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
- Immanuel Kant: Critique of Judgment
- William Wordsworth: Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Biographical Literaria
- Matthew Arnold: Preface to the 1853 Edition of Poems, "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time", The Study of Poetry
Modern Criticism and Theory
(Selections from The Norton Anthology: Theory and Criticism, unless marked by *)
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: from The Communist Manifesto
- Sigmund Freud: "The Uncanny," "Fetishism"
- T.S. Eliot: "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
- Antonio Gramsci: "The Formation of the Intellectuals"
- Walter Benjamin: "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
- Mikhail M. Bakhtin: "Discourse in the Novel"
- Jacques Lacan: "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience"
- Northrop Frye: "The Archetypes of Literature"
- Roman Jakobson: "The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles"
- Roland Barthes: "The Death of the Author"
- *J. Hillis Miller: "The Critic as Host" from Deconstruction and Criticism
- Raymond Williams: Marxism and Literature, Part 1. Chapter 3 "Literature"
- Frantz Fanon: "On National Culture"
- Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, Chapter 3 "What Is a Minor Literature?"
- Jean-François Lyotard: "Defining the Postmodern"
- Michel Foucault: "What Is an Author?" "Truth and Power"
- Wolfgang Iser: "Interaction Between Text and Reader"
- E. D. Hirsh JR.: "Objective Interpretation"
- Jean Baudrillard: from The Precession of Simulacra
- *Jacques Derrida: "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" from Writing and Difference, Trans Alan Bass. London; Routledge, 1978. 278-293.
- Fredric Jameson: The Political Unconscious, "Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act"
- Hélène Cixous: "The Laugh of the Medusa"
- Julia Kristeva: from Revolution in Poetic Language, Part I. "The Semiotic and the Symbolic"
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
- *Homi K. Bhabha: "Of Mimicry and Man" from The Location of Culture
- Judith Bulter: Gender Trouble, Chapter 3. "Subversive Bodily Acts"