Essay Instructions: I do have two questions that have to be answered each in an essay form( 4 pages each). Theses two questions are related to 19th century British Literature. To answer these questions you have to refer to primary/ literary texts as well as critical ones. I will make things easier by sending a list to use for both literary texts and critical ones.
The first question is:
Discuss narrative technique in poetry of the nineteenth century.
The second is :
Discuss the female characters as represented in 19th century poetry (Victorian and Romantic poetry as well)
To answer each question you don't have to refer to more than 4 resources( three as literary/primary) and one as critical.If you like to add one more literary or critical you can do that.
The list that I have chosen to use from while answering the questions above is;
Poetry ( The primary , literary)
1. Arnold, Matthew. "Isolation: To Marguerite." 1857.
2. ---. "To Marguerite: Continued." 1857.
3. ---. "Thyrsis." 1866.
4. ---. "Dover Beach." 1867.
5. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Aurora Leigh. 1865.
6. Browning, Robert. "Porphyria's Lover." 1836.
7. ---. "My Last Duchess." 1842.
8. Byron, Lord. "Darkness." 1816.
9. ---. Don Juan. 1819 ??" 1824.
10. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. 1798.
11. ---. Christabel. 1798, 1800.
12. ---. " Kubla Khan." 1797 / 1818.
13. Keats, John. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad." 1819.
14. ---. "Lamia." 1819.
15. ---. "Ode to a Nightingale." 1819.
16. ---. "Ode on a Grecian Urn." 1820.
17. ---. "The Eve of St. Agnes." 1820.
18. Patmore, Coventry. "Angel in the House." 1854 / 1862.
19. Rossetti, Christina. "Goblin Market." 1832.
20. ---. "The Prince's Progress." 1866.
21. Tennyson, Lord Alfred. The Idylls of the King. 1856 ??" 85.
22. ---. The Princess. 1847.
23. ---. "The Sleeping Beauty." 1830.
24. Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. 1798.
25. ---. Preface to Lyrical Ballads. 1800.
26. Yeats, William Butler. Legend Poems
The critical/ theoritical ones are:
1. de Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex.
2. Branca, Patricia. Silent Sisterhood. Middle Class Women in the Victorian Home.
3. Burstyn, Joan. Victorian Education and the Ideal of Womanhood.
4. Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.
5. Gagnier, Regenia. Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation in Britain, 1832-1920.
6. Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth ??" Century Literary Imagination.
7. Harding, Sandra. The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader: Intellectual and Political Controversies.
8. Jenkins, Ruth. Reclaiming Myths of Power: Women Writers and the Victorian Spiritual Crisis.
9. Kolodny, Annette. "Dancing Through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Practice, and Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism." The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature and Theory.
10. Moses, Claire and Claire Goldberg. French Feminism in the Nineteenth Century.
11. Foster, Shirley. Victorian Women's Fiction: Marriage, Freedom and the Individual.
12. Hoagwood, Terence Allan and Kathryn Ledbetter. "Colour'd Shadows": Contexts in Publishing, Printing, and Reading Nineteenth ??" Century British Women Writers.
12. Houghton, Walter. The Victorian Frame of Mind.
13. Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England.
14. Thompson, Nicola Diane. Victorian Writers and the Woman Questions.
As I mentioned, you pick and choose what you find suitable from the list to answer the questions in an essay form( each essay to be 4 pages long).