Did anyone here ever teach Charlotte Yonge's The Heir of Redclyffe (or, conversely, take it in an undergraduate class)? I'm setting up a syllabus for "The Novel 1832-1860," and am wondering if students would be interested in it or if they would be bored to tears ( Read more... )

episodical has just been launched. This community will be used to for posting novels, a chapter at a time, to be read and discussed. Our first novel will be Jane Austen's controversial Mansfield Park, a tale of character and sensibility, marriage and class, wit and social critique. The reading will start on Monday 18 June and two or three chapters will be ( Read more... )

Dear friends,

I've just created a new community, faerie_founders, for the discussion of all fantasy literature written before the advent of WWI in 1914. I would like to formally invite all fans of L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, E. Nesbit, Bram Stoker, Carlo Collodi, George MacDonald, J. M. Barrie and their ilk to join us there to post reviews, fanfiction and ( Read more... )

shaksper_random are having another round of that celebrated game, Cliff, Shag, Marry. In this game, one person picks three characters, usually according to some sort of theme, and the next has to decide which of those s/he'd prefer to marry, which to shag, and which to throw off a cliff. When giving your answers, give three more characters, and thus the game ( Read more... )

William Morris, critiquing the Victorian realist novel, wrote that its subject was "the troubles of a middle-class couple in their struggle toward social uselessness" and its method was merely the study of social "anomalies and futilities."

Discuss.

(Cross-posted to 19thc_britlit, hardy_fans, victorian_novel)

Hi, I'm Chezzie, English-but-lives-in-Germany, going into 12th grade in a couple of weeks... my school does the IB, which requires every student to write a 4000 word essay over the summer holidays, polish it up over the next few months, and send it off in December. My topic is Tess of ( Read more... )

Other than:

Jane Eyre
Agnes Grey
The turn of the screw
Vanity Fair

what other 19th century novels are about/narrated by governesses? I can't seem to remember any others right now, I need this info for an essay so I can list/refer to a few others.

Thank you all muchly,

Gotherina

Hello, I'm new to the community and was thrilled to find it-- I'm currently working on my senior defense paper, the books I'm studying are Dickens' Bleak House and Stoker's Dracula. I'm working with the texts to determine how ideas of written v. spoken language were perceived in the Victorian novel ( Read more... )

Bram Stoker's Dracula. In real-time. Join up and read along.

Dracula is an epistolary novel (meaning that it's written as a series of documents; usually letters, here everything from letters to diary entries to newspaper clippings). On this community, they'll be appearing on the day they're dated, starting with Jonathan Harker's first journal ( Read more... )

I wish my all friends of Victorian Novel in 2006
"to survey the depths of space and time" even more deeply and
''to hold communion with other living things' even more candidly,

Igor