Supplementary Material: The Individual & Society (1 Viewer)

[McLake]

I am starting threads that will contain a definitive list of supplmentary material. Feel free to add to the list. NO QUESTION IN THIS THREAD PLEASE, only suggestions.

From now on all "what texts should I use?" threads will be DELETED.

The Individual & Society Supplementary Material:

NB: This list is compiled from the posts below. There is no need to read throught this whole thread.

- Links to useful websites
-- http://www.victorianweb.org/

- Novels
-- Anna & The King
-- Great Expectations (Dickens)
-- Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
-- Jane Eyre (Bronte)
-- Frankenstein (Mary Shelly)
-- Tess if the D'Urbervilles (Hardy)
-- Vanity Fair
-- Great Expectations (Dickens)
-- Persuasion (Austen)
-- Power of One (Courtney)
-- Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)
-- Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
-- The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
-- Oscar Wilde
--- The Picture of Dorian Gray
--- A Woman of No Importance

- Short Story
-- The Kiss (Kate Chopin)
-- The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Gilman)

- TV
-- Vanity Fair

- Poetry
-- The Princess (Tennyson)
-- The Patriarch (Jane Thompson)
-- To The Men Of England (Percy Shelly)
-- Christina Rossetti
--- Goblin Market (doubles as an imaginative journey, about women, sexuality and objectification)
--- No, Thankyou, John
--- In an Artist's Studio
--- The Prince's Progress

- Film
-- Anna & The King
-- Oliver! (Dickens/Bart)

- Non Fiction
-- A Woman's Thoughts About Women (Dinah Maria Mulock)
-- On Liberty (John Stuart Mill)
-- The journals of Dorothy Wordsworth
-- Cassandra (Florence Nightingale)

- Critiques
-- "Ibsen's Women" Joan Templeton
-- Darcy's Body - privileging the female gaze: Lisa Hokins (good reading and excellent for stuff on how values are presenting, etc)

 

[grk_styl]

Anna & The King (movie or novel)
Great Expectations - Dickens
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Jane Eyre - Bronte

 

[silvermoon]

how about:
Frankenstein (Mary Shelly)
Tess if the D'Urbervilles (Hardy)
To The Men Of England (Percy Shelly)

 

[clerisy]

For a change, here's some non-fiction pieces--

"A Woman's Thoughts About Women", Dinah Maria Mulock
"On Liberty", John Stuart Mill
The journals of Dorothy Wordsworth

 

[nattylee]

An interesting one to do is Ang Lee's production of Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility'. Our class is studying this as well as Hardy's 'Tess of the dUrbevilles'

 

[braindrainedAsh]

Vanity Fair (novel or TV mini series)
The Princess by Tennyson (Poem)

 

[owoodley]

Novel
Great Expectations - Dickens
Persuasion - Austen
Power of One - Courtney
North and South - Gaskell
Dolls House - Ibsen
Film
Oliver! - Dickens/Bart
Pride & Prejudice - Austen
Poem
Selected poems - R. Browning

 

[laracroft]

Poem: The Patriarch Jane Thompson
Critiques: "Ibsen's Women" Joan Templeton (dun like that 1)
Darcy's Body- privileging he female gaze: Lisa Hokins (good reading and excellent for stuff on how values are presenting, etc)

 

[Will_Sparky]

George Eliot - Mill on the Floss
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

 

[keladry]

anything by oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray is esp good

 

[silvermoon]

just a note: 'To The Men Of England' by Lord Percy Shelley is a poem, not a novel (just in case anyone was having trouble finding it)

 

[clerisy]

Some more-

'The Awakening', Kate Chopin, novel
'The Kiss', Kate Chopin, short story
'Cassandra', Florence Nightingale, non-fiction
'A Woman of No Importance', Oscar Wilde

Poems by Christina Rossetti eg
- Goblin Market (doubles as an imaginative journey, about women, sexuality and objectification)
- No, Thankyou, John
- In an Artist's Studio
- The Prince's Progress

 

[McLake]

just a note: 'To The Men Of England' by Lord Percy Shelley is a poem, not a novel (just in case anyone was having trouble finding it)

On this note, if you spot an error, then PLEASE let me know ...

 

[silvermoon]

another:
short story - 'The Yellow Wallpaper', Charlotte Gilman

 

[astro]

Hard times (Dickens)
Bleak House (Dickens)

 

[braindrainedAsh]

When I did I&S I used Bridget Jones's Diary as a related text because it is a contemporary appropriation of Pride and Prejudice..... even though you are supposed to use Victorian texts, I don't think I got marked down for it at all. My notes on Bridget Jones are on the main site, along with some stuff on Vanity Fair.

Also, another film that could be good is Picnic at Hanging Rock... it is set in 1900, so it could just scrape in to Victorian era. If you get the book "the films of Peter Weir" by Jonathan Rayner, it has a whole analysis of the film... stuff about how it represents repressed Victorian female sexuality due the patriarchy.... how the girl's escape in to the environment is a rebellion against society's rules etc.... it has really good analysis that would make the film work really well for I&S.... (I'm writing an essay on PAHR right now.... something about landscape representation and culture.... I'm procrastinating by posting this hehe).

I don't think the Vanity Fair film would work as well as the book or the miniseries though, it misses out so much stuff you couldn't analyze it in as much depth in my opinion.

 

[cuivienen]

Works by John Stuart Mill:

* On Liberty

* Utilitarianism

* The Subjection of Women

 

[Franklin]

Middlemarch- George Eliot
Locksley Hall (?)- tennyson

 

[mouldy_bread]

For one of my texts, I've chosen the Shawshank Redemption (movie, not book) as an alternate viewpoint to Retreat from the Global... because he really wants to escape and is looking at the global in a romanticised way and not reality... hmm I hope its ok to be critical of the texts

 

[akite]

For Cassandra... does anyone have the bibliography?