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- James Vernon: Hunger A Modern History (2007)
- Andrew Benjamin – Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde (1991)
- Fredric Jameson – Fables of Aggression (1979)
- Hans Blumenberg – Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality (1960)
- Wyndham Lewis – The Credentials of the Painter
- Gerhard Richter – Afterness (2012)
- Hegel – Preface to Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)
- Secondary Conrad
- Secondary Woolf
- Joseph Conrad – Nostromo (1904)
- Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead Revisited (1944)
- Rebecca West – The Return of the Soldier (1915)
- summary of Zwerdling on Dalloway
- Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children (1981)
- Bruce Robbins – The Servant’s Hand (1986)
- Hannah Arendt – The Human Condition (1958)
- William Hazlitt – “Gusto” (1816)
- On defining “Victorian”
- D.A. Miller – The Novel and the Police (1981)
- Ann Banfield – Remembrance and Tense Past (from C. Comp. 2007)
- Georg Lukács – “The Ideology of Modernism” (1962)
- Sir Walter Scott – Waverly (1814)
- Modernists on Fiction
- George Eliot – Silas Marner (1861)
- G.W.F. Hegel – Aesthetics (c. 1820)
- James Joyce – Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
- Harold Pinter – The Birthday Party (1957, performed 1958)
- George Bernard Shaw – Pygmalion (1914)
- Martin Amis – Money (1981)
- Virginia Woolf – The Waves (1931)
- Philip Larkin – Poems (1955-1974)
- Adorno – Aesthetic Theory (1970)
- Gil Anidjar – “The Meaning of Life” (2011)
- Samuel Beckett – Malone Dies (1951)
- T.S. Eliot – The Four Quartets (1936-41)
- Beginnings and Endings
- Mirror (Victorian and Modernism)
- Life (Victorian)
- The Image
- T.S. Eliot – The Waste Land (1922)
- Michael Levenson – A Genealogy of Modernism (1984)
- Michel Foucault – The Birth of Biopolitics (1978-1979)
- Adorno and Horkheimer – “The Concept of Enlightenment” (1944)
- Edmund Burke – “An Introduction on Taste,” in A Philosophic Enquiry (1759)
- William Morris – The Lesser Arts (1877, 1882)
- William Morris – News from Nowhere (1891)
- Henri Bergson – Creative Evolution (1907, trans 1911)
- W.H. Auden – Poems (1929-1948)
- Immanuel Kant – Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790, 1793)
- David Hume – Of the Standard of Taste (1757)
- David Hume – A Treatise on Human Nature (1739-40)
- Martin Heidegger – Letter on Humanism (1947)
- G.W.F. Hegel – The Philosophy of Nature (c.1820)
- Ezra Pound – Gaudier-Brezka (1916)
- T.S. Eliot – Non-fiction (1919-23)
- Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
- D.H. Lawrence – Women in love (1916, 1921)
- Samuel Beckett – Molloy (1951)
- Robert Louis Stevenson – The Master of Ballantrae (1889)
- Thomas Hardy – Jude the Obscure (1895-6)
- Virginia Woolf – Jacobs’s Room (1922)
- Lauren Berlant – “Slow Death” (2007)
- Yeats – General Comments and Themes
- Luc Ferry – Homo Aestheticus (1990)
- Charles Dickens – Great Expectations (1860-1)
- Friedrich Schiller – On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
- Hannah Arendt – Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy (1970, published 1982)
- Sianne Ngai – “Our Aesthetic Categories” (2010)
- Jane Bennett – “Edible Matter” (2007)
- Georg Lukács – The Theory of the Novel (1920, 2nd edition 1962)
- Oscar Wilde – “The Critic as Artist” (1891)
- Oscar Wilde – “The Decay of Lying” (1891)
- Christina Rossetti – “Goblin Market” (1875)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti – The Blessed Damozel (1850)
- Thomas Hardy – Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
- Roberto Esposito – “The Philosophy of Bios” from Bios (2004, trans. 2008)
- Charles Darwin – The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871)
- Charles Darwin – The Origin of Species (1859)
- Jean Rhys – Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
- Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- “Thomas Hardy,” by Penny Boumelha (2005)
- “George Eliot,” by Jill L. Matus
- Gerard Manley Hopkins – Poems
- “Charlotte Brontë,” by Patsy Stoneman
- “Thackeray,” by Nicholas Dames (2005)
- “Dickens,” by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (2005)
- Joseph Conrad – Lord Jim (1900)
- T.R. Malthus – An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
- John Ruskin
- Walter Pater – Marius the Epicurean (1885)
- Samuel Beckett – Watt (1953)
- Samuel Beckett – Murphy (1938)
- Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot (1954)
- Virginia Woolf – “Modern Fiction” (1919)
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty – The Visible and the Invisible (1964)
- Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari – A Thousand Plateaus (1980)
- James Joyce – “The Dead” (1914)
- Emmanuel Levinas – Otherwise than Being (1974)
- Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness (1899)
- Carolyn Korsmeyer – Making Sense of Taste (1999)
- Ben Highmore
- Denise Gigante – Taste (2005)
- Jane Bennett – “The Force of Things” (2004)
- E.M. Forster – Howard’s End (1910)
- E.M. Forster – A Passage to India (1924)
- Ann Banfield – Beckett’s Tattered Syntax (2004)
- Pierre Bourdieu – Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (1979, trans. 1984)
- Sigmund Freud – Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)
- Sigmund Freud – “The Return of Totemism in Early Childhood,” from Totem and Taboo (1913)
- Sigmund Freud – Mourning and Melancholia (1915-17)
- Sigmund Freud – “On Narcissism” (1913-14)
- Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemma (2006)
- Jacques Derrida – “From Restricted to General Economy: A Hegelianism without Reserve,” in Writing and Difference (1967)
- Karl Marx – Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1844)
- Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin – The Physiology of Taste (1825)
- Robert Browning – Poems
- Henry James – The Wings of the Dove (1902)
- Indirection
- Elizabeth Barret Browning – Aurora Leigh (1856)
- Tennyson – Shorter Poetry
- John Stuart Mill
- Henry James – The Ambassadors (1903)
- Nietzsche – Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
- Thomas Hardy Poems
- Friedrich Nietzsche – On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life (1874)
- Terry Eagleton – The Meaning of Life (2007)
- George Gissing – New Grub Street (1891)
- Yeats – The Circus Animals’ Desertion (1939)
- Yeats – Under Ben Bulben (1938)
- Yeats – Lapis Lazuli (1938)
- Yeats – Crazy Jane poems (1933)
- Yeats – A Dialogue of Self and Soul (1933)
- Yeats – Among School Children (1928)
- Yeats – Leda and the Swan (1928)
- Yeats – Sailing to Byzantium (1928)
- Yeats – The Second Coming (1921)
- Yeats – Easter 1916 (1921)
- Yeats – The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
- Yeats – A Coat (1914)
- Yeats – September 1913 (1914)
- Yeats – No Second Troy (1910)
- Yeats – Adam’s Curse (1904)
- Yeats – The Song of Wandering Aengus (1899)
- Yeats – Who Goes with Fergus? (1893)
- Yeats – The Lake Isle of Innisfree (1893)
- Yeats – The Song of Happy Shepherd (1889)
- Elizabeth Gaskell – North and South (1854-55)
- Elizabeth Gaskell – Mary Barton (1848)
- Key Passages – Middlemarch (1872)
- Thomas Carlyle – Heroes and Hero Worship (1840-41)
- Thomas Carlyle – Signs of the Times (1829)
- Thomas Carlyle – Sartor Resartus (1833-4)
- Charles Dickens – Tale of Two Cities (1859)
- Secondary – Bleak House
- Secondary – Our Mutual Friend
- Mill on the Floss (1860)
- Key Passages – Daniel Deronda
- Secondary – Daniel Deronda
- George Eliot – Daniel Deronda (1876)
- William M. Thackeray – Vanity Fair (1848)
- Jane Austen – Sense and Sensibility (1811)
- Jane Austen – Northanger Abbey (p. 1817)
- Charles DIckens – Oliver Twist (1836-37)
- Charles DIckens – David Copperfield (1850)
- Secondary – David Copperfield
- Matthew Arnold
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Sherlock Holmes
- Oscar Wilde – Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
- Bram Stoker – Dracula (1897)
- Henry James – Portrait of a Lady (1881)
- Thomas Hardy – Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891)
- Thomas Hardy – The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
- Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone (1868)
- Wilkie Collins – The Woman in White (1860)
- George Eliot – Mill on the Floss (1860)
- Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights (1847)
- Charlotte Brontë – Villette (1853)
- Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre (1847)
- Anthony Trollope – Barchester Towers (1857)
- Charles Dickens – Our Mutual Friend (1864-5)
- Charles Dickens – Bleak House (1852-3)
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