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19th Century Texts

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Background

Karl Beckson, Preface to Second Edition, Preface, Introduction, from Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s (1965; Chicago: Academy Chicago, 1981), vii-xliv

Chronicle of Some 19th-Century Historical Events

Facts, Themes, and Principles of Victorian Culture

A Few Dichotomies that Haunted Victorians

Sander L. Gilman and J. Edward Chamberlin, Preface, Degeneration: An Introduction, from Degeneration: The Dark Side of Progress (New York: Columbia UP, 1985), vii-xiv

Holbrook Jackson, Fin de Sicle 18901900, Personalities and Tendencies, The Decadence, The Eighteen-Nineties (London: Richards, 1913), 13-71

Sandra Siegel, Literature and Degeneration: The Representation of Decadence, Degeneration: The Dark Side of Progress, eds. J. Edward Chamberlin and Sander L. Gilman (New York: Columbia UP, 1985: 199-219

Ian Small, Introduction, from The Aesthetes: A Sourcebook (London: Routledge, 1979), ix-xxix

Some Reasons Why Americans Value the British

Grant Allen

Introduction: Grant Allen (1848-1899)

Some Plain Words on the Woman Question, Fortnightly Review, ns. 46 (1889): 448-58

Aubrey Beardsley

Introduction: Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)

Ernest Dowson

Introduction: Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)

Mark Longaker, Introduction and Notes, Stories of Ernest Dowson (1947), 1-10, 116-22

All Assigned Fiction

All Assigned Poems

A Case of Conscience (The Century Guild Hobby Horse, 1891) and Dilemmas (1895), 27-49

Selected poems from DECORATIONS (1899)
Beyond

Carthusians

Dregs

Exchanges

A Last Word

Saint Germaine-en-Laye

Transition

Venite Descendamus

The Diary of a Successful Man, (Macmillans Magazine, June 1890) and Dilemmas (1895), 1-26

The Fortunate Islands, Decorations (1899)

An Orchestral Violin, (Macmillans Magazine, August 1891) and Dilemmas (1895), 51-85

The Princess of Dreams, Decorations (1899)

Souvenirs of an Egoist, (Temple Bar, Jan. 1888) and Dilemmas (1895), 87-122

Selected poems from VERSES (1896):

Ad Domnulam Suam

Ad Manus Puellae

Amantium Irae

April Love

Beata Solitudo

Benedictio Domini

Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad

A Coronal

Epigram

Extreme Unction

Flos Lunae

The Garden of Shadow

Growth

Impenetentia Ultima

In Preface: For Adelaide

My Lady April

Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae

Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration

O Mors! Quam Amara Est Memoria

A Requiem

To One in Bedlam

Terre Promise

Vain Hope

Vain Resolves

A Valediction

Vesperal

Villanelle of His Ladys Treasures

Vita summa brevis . . .

You would have understood me had you waited

Yvonne of Brittany

Ella D’Arcy

Introduction: Ella D’Arcy (1856?57?-1939)

At Twickenham, Yellow Book 12 (Jan 1897), 313-32

The Death Mask, Yellow Book 10 (July 1896), 155-64

Irremediable, Yellow Book 1 (April 1894): [87]-108, and Monochromes (London: John Lane, Bodley Head, 1895), 87-120

The Pleasure-Pilgrim, Yellow Book 5 (April 1895) and Monochromes (1895), 165-218

George Egerton

Introduction: George Egerton [Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright] (1859-1945)

Martha Vicinus, Introduction, Keynotes & Discords, ed. Martha Vicinus (London: Virago, 1983), pp. v-xix

A Cross Line, Keynotes (London: Mathews & Lane, Bodley Head, 1893), 1-36

An Empty Frame, Keynotes (London: Mathews & Lane, Bodley Head, 1893), 115-23

The Little Gray Glove, Keynotes (London: Mathews & Lane, Bodley Head, 1893), 91-114

Virgin Soil, Discords (London: John Lane, 1894), 144-62

Wedlock, Discords (London: John Lane, 1894), 115-44

Sarah Grand [Frances Elizabeth Bellenden Clarke]

Introduction: Sarah Grand [Frances Elizabeth Bellenden Clarke] (1854-1943)

The New Aspect of the Woman Question, North American Review 158 (1894): 270-76

The New Woman and the Old, Ladys Realm (1898)

Eliza Lynn Linton

Introduction: Eliza Lynn Linton (1822-1898)

The Girl of the Period, Saturday Review (14 March 1868): 356-60

The Wild Women As Social Insurgents, Nineteenth Century 30 (October 1891): 596-605

New Woman Texts of Criticism

Introductory Note on The Angel in the House

Introductory Note on The New Woman

Sally Ledger, Introduction and Who Was the New Woman, The New Woman: Fiction and feminism at the fin de sicle (Manchester and New York: 1997), 1-34

Hugh E. M. Stutfield, Tommyrotics. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine 157.956 (June 1895): 833-45

Quida [Marie Louise de la Rame]

Introduction : Ouida [Marie Louise de la Rame] (1839-1908)

The New Woman, North American Review 158 (1894): 610-19 [a response to Grands The New Aspects of the Woman Question]

Walter Pater

Introduction: Walter Pater (1839-1894)

Child in the House, Miscellaneous Studies (1895)

Emerald Uthwart, Miscellaneous Studies (1895)

Selections from The Renaissance (1873): Preface, The Poetry of Michelangelo, Leonardo de Vinci, Conclusion

Style, Appreciations (1889)

Sebastian von Storck, Imaginary Portraits (1887)

George Romanes

Introduction: George Romanes (1848-94)

Mental Differences Between Men and Women, Nineteenth Century 21 (May 1887): 654-72

Robert Louis Stevenson

Introductions: Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850-3 December 1894) & The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Arthur Symons

Introduction: Arthur Symons (28 February 1865-22 January 1945)

 

Introduction and Conclusion, The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1896-99; London: Constable, 1908), 1-9, 170-75

 

The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1896-99; London: Constable, 1908) [entire book]

Graham R. Tomson [Rosamund Marriott Wattson]

Introduction: Graham R. Tomson [Rosamund Marriott Watson] (1860-1911)

Virginia Blain, Rosamund Marriott Watson (1860-1911)

All Assigned Poems

Selection poems:

Ballad of the Bird-Bride

A Ballad of the Were-Wolf

The Cage

Children of the Mist

Epitaph

Hic Jacet

The Moor Girls Well

Nirvana

Old Pauline

A Ruined Altar

Vespertilia

Victoria Cross [Annie Sophie Cory]

Introduction: Victoria Cross [Annie Sophie Cory] (1 October 1868-2 August 1952)

Theodora, A Fragment, The Yellow Book 4 (January 1895): [156]-188

Oscar Wilde

Introduction: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

The Critic as Artist, [published in Nineteenth Century (July and September 1890), and in Intentions (1891), [98]-224]

The Decay of Lying [published in Nineteenth Century (January 1889); Intentions (1891); and Intentions and the Soul of Man Under Socialism, Vol. 8 of The First Collected Edition of the Works of Oscar Wilde (1908-22), [1]-57]