The PhD Oral Examination
in the
Victorian to Modern Period
(July 2018)
Choose forty authors representing various literary genres, in addition to six secondary works.
Poetry
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
Christina Rossetti (1828-1894)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
George Meredith (1828-1909)
James Thomson (1834-1882)
William Morris (1834-96)
Robert Bridges (1834-1930)
A.C. Swinburne (1837-1909)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898)
Charles Montagu Doughty (1843-1926)
Michael Field [Katherine Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913)]
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
Alice Meynell (1847-1922)
Charlotte Mew (1869-1928)
W.E. Henley (1849-1903)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
A.E. Housman (1859-1936)
Katherine Tynan (1861-1931)
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Arthur Symons (1865-1945)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)
Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)
Lionel Johnson (1867-1902)
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
Fiction
William Morris (1834-96)
Walter Pater (1839-1894)
Ouida (Mary Louise de la Ramee) (1839-1908)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
W.H. Hudson (1841-1922)
Henry James (1843-1916)
Bram Stoker (1847-1912)
Alice Meynell (1847-1922)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94)
George Moore (1852-1933)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Marie Corelli (1855-1924)
Ella Hepworth Dixon (1855-1932)
Olive Schreiner (1855-1920)
H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
Vernon Lee [Violet Paget] (1856-1935)
George Gissing (1857-1903)
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Mona Caird (1858-1932)
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
George Egerton [Mary Chavelita Bright] (1859-1945)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
H.G. Wells (1866-1946)
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
H.H. Munro (1870-1916)
Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963)
Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)
Dorothy Richardson (1873-1957)
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
James Joyce (1882-1941)
Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
Drama
W.S. Gilbert (1804-89) & Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
August Strindberg (1849-1912)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Arthur Pinero (1855-1934)
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
J.M. Barrie (1860-1937)
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)
J.M. Synge (1871-1909)
Nonfiction Prose
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
William Morris (1834-1896)
Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
Charles Doughty (1843-1926)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Alice Meynell (1847-1922)
Annie Besant (1847-1933)
Edmund Gosse (1849-1903)
Walter Pater (1839-1894)
Max Nordau (1849-1923)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94)
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Sigmund Freud 1856-1939)
Vernon Lee [Violet Paget] (1856-1935)
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Beatrice Webb (1858-1943)
Sidney Webb (1859-1947)
Havelock Ellis (1859-1939)
Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)
Arthur Symons (1865-1945)
Roger Fry (1866-1934)
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
G.E. Moore (1873-1958)
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Lytton Strachey (1880-1932)
Oswald Spengler (1880-1936)
T.E. Hulme (1873-1917)
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935)
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Rebecca West (1892-1983)
Secondary works in Victorian and Modernist Studies
Stephen Arata, Fictions of Loss
Ann Ardis, New Women, New Novels
Nina Auerbach, Woman and the Demon : The Life of a Victorian Myth
Alison Booth, Greatness Engendered
Patrick Brantlinger, Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism
Joseph Bristow, ed., The Fin-de-Siècle Poem: English Literary Culture and the 1890s
Carol Christ, Victorian and Modern Poetics
Bram Dijkstra, Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siecle Culture
Linda Dowling, Language and Decadence in the Victorian Fin de Siècle; The Vulgarization of Art
Jessica Feldman, Victorian Modernism
Rita Felski, The Gender of Modernity
Jonathan Freedman, Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism and Commodity Culture
Regenia Gagnier, Idylls of the Marketplace: Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public
Graham Hough, The Last Romantics
Andreas Huyssen, After the Great Divide
Frank Kermode, Romantic Image
Stephen Kern, The Culture of Time and Space
Michael Levenson, A Genealogy of Modernism
Laura Marcus, Dreams of Modernity
Jerome J. McGann: Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism
Perry Meisel, The Myth of the Modern
Talia Schaffer, The Forgotten Female Aesthetes
Naomi Schor, Reading in Detail: Aesthetics and the Feminine
Elaine Showalter, Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the fin de Siecle
Richard Stein, The Ritual of Interpretation
Jesse Oak Taylor, The Sky of Our Manufacture
Raymond Williams, Culture and Society, 1780-1950
Andrea Zemgulys, Modernism and the Locations of Literary Heritage