UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO GRADUATE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH PH.

D GENERAL EXAMINATION READING LIST PAPER TWO 2013-2014

RESTORATION/EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, Selections from The Tatler and The Spectator (in the Penguin edition, ed. Angus Ross) Aphra Behn, The Lucky Chance Frances Burney, Evelina William Congreve, The Way of the World John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel John Gay, The Beggars Opera Alexander Pope, Essay on Man Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub James Thomson, Winter from The Seasons Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman William Wycherley, The Country Wife NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Extracts from Sibylline Leaves: The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner; Ode to the Departing Year; Fears in Solitude; Fire, Famine, and Slaughter; The Eolian Harp; Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement; A Tombless Epitaph; This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison; To a Gentleman. Composed on the night after his recitation of a Poem on the Growth of an Individual Mind; The Nightingale; Frost at Midnight; Dejection: An Ode

Charles Dickens, Bleak House Emily Dickinson, Selected poetry (numbers are keyed to Thomas H. Johnson, ed., The Complete Poems) 210 The thought beneath so slight a film; 249 Wild NightsWild Nights!; 258 Theres a certain Slant of light; 341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes; 435 Much Madness is divinest Sense; 465 I heard a Fly buzz; 556 The Brain, within its Groove; 632 The Brain-- is wider than the Sky; 712 Because I could not stop for Death; 1129 Tell all the Truth but tell it slant Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass George Gordon, Lord Byron, Manfred Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warrens Profession Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head Phillis Wheatley, Preface to Poems, Copy of a Letter and To The Public; On Being Brought from Africa to America; To Mcenas; To the Right Honorable Earl of Dartmouth; To the University of Cambridge, in New England; On the Death of George Whitefield, 1770; and letters to S.M., to Arbour Tanner, and to the Rev. Sansom Occom Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband William Wordsworth, The 1805 Prelude, Books 1, 2, 6, 11, 12, 13 Zitkala-a/Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, American Indian Stories TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah W. H. Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening; Musee des Beaux Arts; In Memory of W.B. Yeats; In Memory of Sigmund Freud; In Praise of Limestone; Their Lonely Betters; The Shield of Achilles Elizabeth Bishop, Selected poetry: At the Fishhouses; Filling Station; Crusoe in England; In the Waiting Room; Sestina; One Art; The Fish; The Moose Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man Nadine Gordimer, Julys People Tomson Highway, The Rez Sisters

Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water Tony Kushner, Angels in America, Parts One and Two Jean Rhys, The Wide Sargasso Sea J. M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World Richard Wright, Native Son