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Overview of Comprehensive Examination
Period Reading Lists
Part II Primary Text(s)
British Literature: Nineteenth Century
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Anna Leticia
Barbauld, “The Mouse’s Petition,” “Epistle to William
Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing
the Slave Trade,” “Inscription for an Ice House,” “To
Dr. Priestley, Dec. 29, 1792,” “To the Poor,”
“Washing-Day,” Eighteen
Hundred and Eleven, A Poem
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William
Godwin, Caleb Williams
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William
Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical
Ballads (1798); Wordsworth, “Preface” to Lyrical
Ballads, “Michael,” “Resolution and Independence,”
“Ode: Intimations of Immortality,” “Ode to Duty”;
Coleridge, The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner (1817 with marginal notes in prose),
“Christabel”
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Jane Austen, Mansfield
Park or Persuasion
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George
Gordon, Lord Byron, Manfred
and Don Juan, Cantos 1-2
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Percy Shelley
and Keats—Shelley, Prometheus
Unbound; Keats, Lamia,
Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820) (in
Keats’s Poetry and
Prose, ed. Jeffrey N. Cox)
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Mary Shelley,
The Last Man
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John Stuart
Mill, The Autobiography
of John Stuart Mill
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Alfred
Tennyson, In Memoriam,
“The Lady of Shalott,”
“Mariana,” “Ulysses,” “The Lotus Eaters,”
“Charge of the Light Brigade,” “Morte d’Arthur,”
“St. Agnes Eve,” “Maud”
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Elizabeth
Gaskell, North and South
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Robert and
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
“The Lost Leader,”
“A Grammarian’s Funeral,” “Childe Roland to the
Dark Tower Came,” “Caliban
on Setebos,” “Meeting at Night,” “Parting at
Morning,” “Two in the Campagna,” “A Death in the
Desert,” “Sonnets from the Portuguese,” “The Cry of
the Children”
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Charles
Dickens, Oliver Twist
or Hard Times
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Emily Bronte,
Wuthering Heights
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George Eliot,
Daniel Deronda or Felix Holt
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Matthew
Arnold, Culture and Anarchy, “Dover
Beach,” “The Scholar-Gipsy,”
“Thyrsis,” “The Buried Life,” “Empedocles on
Aetna,” “Preface” [to the 1853 volume of poems]
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Dante Gabriel
and Christina Rossetti, [DR] “Jenny,”
The House of Life,
[CR] Monna
Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets, “The Convent
Threshold,” “Uphill,” “Goblin Market,” “In an
Artist’s Studio”
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Walter Pater,
The Renaissance: Studies
in Art and Poetry
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William
Morris, News from
Nowhere
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Oscar Wilde, The
Picture of Dorian Gray and Salome
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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
or The Hound of the
Baskervilles
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