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Bibliography Primary Texts 1. Victorian Fairy TaleCharles Dickens, "The Magic Fishbone"
It's up to you to make copies of these texts for yourself. Some online versions are also available, but be aware that it's probably more expensive to print them out than to simply photocopy them from Short Loan. The Word docs on this site should be shorter and therefore cheaper to print.Please be aware that you need to have copies of the texts with you in tutorials. 2. Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass3. Nonsense Poetry:Poems by Edward Lear will be provided as a class handout.4. Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol5. Bram Stoker: Dracula 6. H. G. Wells: The Time Machine You will need copies of the Carroll (I recommend the Wordsworth edition with both Alices, it’s cheaper!) and the three novels from the second part of the course. All of these should be available at Van Schaik or Juta. You are also likely to find the novels at second-hand bookstores (try Cafda or the Long Street ones). The actual edition is not important, as long as it's an unabridged version. (Careful, there are lots of shortened/simplified versions of Alice out there, aimed at children.) Critical Readings All material is on 3-hour loan in the Short Loan centre in the library. Articles are in the photocopy cabinets under the author’s name. The list below indicates where to find the material – ph is a photocopy, SL means the book itself is on Short Loan (under the editor’s name if it’s a collection). GENERAL Bruno Bettelheim "Fear of Fantasy" in The Uses of Enchantment (1976) Harmondsworth: Penguin (SL) Jerome H. Buckley (1952) "Victorianism" in The Victorian Temper: a study in Literary Culture. London: Allen and Unwin. (SL) Rosemary Jackson (1981) Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion London: Methuen (SL) Steven Prickett (1987) Victorian Fantasy Hassocks: Harvester Press (SL) (Chapter 2 on Dickens, Ch 4 on Lear and Ch 6 on Nesbit). Susan A. Walsh (1987) "Darling Mothers, Devilish Queens: The Divided Woman in Victorian Fantasy" Victorian Newsletter Vol. 72, 1987 (ph) http://www.victorianweb.org/ The Victorian Web, a good source of background and introductions. FAIRY TALE Charles Dickens (1853) "Frauds on the Fairies" from Household Words, October 1 1853; online version is available at The Victorian Web.) George Macdonald (1893) "The Fantastic Imagination". This is available online, see http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/fantastic_imagination.htm. Colin Manlove (1975) Modern Fantasy: Five Studies London: Cambridge University Press (SL)
Steven Prickett (1987) Victorian Fantasy Hassocks: Harvester Press (SL)
Jack Zipes (1979) Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales London: Heinemann (SL) (esp. Chapter 6, in which he disagrees violently with Bettleheim's view of fairy-tale and children)
LEWIS CARROLL Nina Auerbach(1982) "Falling Alice, Fallen Women and Victorian Dream Children" English Language Notes 20 (2) December 1982. Online via JSTOR
Florence Becker Lennon (1962) "Escape through the Looking Glass" from Aspects of Alice (1971) ed. Robert Phillips, Harmondsworth: Penguin (ph) Robert Phillips, ed.Aspects of Alice (1971)Harmondsworth: Penguin (Special Collections) Donald Rackin (1991) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: Nonsense, Sense and Meaning New York: Twayne (SL) Just for fun: Vogue's fashion shoot with an Alice theme. http://www.style.com/vogue/feature/120103/popup/slideshow1.html NONSENSE W. H. Auden's poem "Edward Lear", available at Nonsenselit.org. Thomas Dilworth (1994) "Society and the self in the limericks of Lear" The Review of English Studies, XLV (177), February 1994. (ph). Steven Prickett (1987) Victorian Fantasy Hassocks: Harvester Press (SL)
Elizabeth Sewell (1952) The Field of Nonsense London: Chatto and Windus (SL) http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/index.html Edward Lear page with a large archive of nonsense writing and drawings, plus some articles. CHARLES DICKENS Arthur P Patterson (1994) "Sponging the Stone: Transformation in A Christmas Carol" Dickens Quarterly, 11 (4), December 1994 Steven Prickett (1987) Victorian Fantasy Hassocks: Harvester Press (SL)
BRAM STOKER Fred Botting (1996) "Gothic returns in the 1890s", in Gothic. London: Routledge. (ph) Valdine Clemens (1999) The return of the repressed : Gothic horror from The Castle of Otranto to Alien. Albany : State University of New York Press. (SL) Chapter 7. Robert Mighall (1999) A Geography of Gothic Fiction: mapping history's nightmares. Oxford: Oxford UP (SL) David Punter (1996) The Literature of Terror, Volume 2: The Modern Gothic. London: Longman. (SL) Chapter 1: Gothic and Decadence. H.G. WELLS Colin Manlove (1993) "Charles Kingsley, H.G. Wells, and the Machine in Victorian fiction" Nineteenth Century Literature, 48 (2), September 1993. (ph) Patrick Parrinder (1972) H G Wells: The Critical Heritage London: Routledge and Kegan Paul (SL)
Elaine Showalter "The Apocalyptic Fables of H G Wells" in John Stokes (ed), Fin de Siecle/ Fin du Globe: Fears and Fantasies of the Late 19th Century. W. Warren Wagar (1989) "H.G. Wells and the scientific imagination". Virginia Quarterly Review, 65 (3), Summer 1989. (ph) Raymond Williams (1979) "Utopia and Science Fiction" in Parrinder, ed, Science Fiction: A Critical Guide. London: Longman. (SL)
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