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The Broadview Anthology of BRITISH LITERATURE Volume 5 The The Broadview Anthology of BRITISH LITERATURE Volume 5 The Victorian Era GENERAL EDITORS Joseph Black, University of Massachusetts Leonard Conolly, Trent University Kate Flint, Rutgers University Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta Don LePan, Broadview Press Roy Liuzza, University of Tennessee Jerome J. McGann, University of Virginia Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College Barry V. Quails, Rutgers University Claire Waters, University of California, Davis broadview press CONTENTS PREFACE xxi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxix THE VICTORIAN ERA xxxm A Growing Power xxxiv Grinding Mills, Grinding Poverty xxxvi Corn Laws, Potato Famine xxxvin "The Two Nations" XL The Politics of Gender XLII Empire XLIV Faith and Doubt XLVIII Victorian Domesticity Li Cultural Trends LIII Technology LVIII Cultural Identities LIX Realism ixm The Victorian Novel LXVI Poetry LXVII Drama LXVIII Prose Non-Fiction and Print Culture LXIX The English Language in the Victorian Era LXXI HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE AND OF PRINT CULTURE LXXV THOMAS CARLYLE 1 from Sartor Resartus 4 from Book 1 (Website) Chapter 11, Perspective from Book 2 4 Chapter 6, Sorrows of Teufelsdrockh 4 Chapter 7, The Everlasting No (Website) Chapter 8, Centre of Indifference (Website) from Book 3 8 Chapter 8, Natural Supernaturalism 8 from The French Revolution (Website) Volume 1, Book 6, Chapter 6, The Fourth Estate Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 7, Death of Mirabella Volume 3, Book 4, Chapter 7, Marie-Antoinette Volume 3, Book 7, Chapter 8, Finis from Past and Present 13 from Book 1 13 Chapter 1, Midas 13 Chapter 6, Hero-Worship 16 from Book 3 19 Chapter 1, Phenomena 19 Chapter 2, Gospel of Mammonism 23 Chapter 11, Labour 25 Chapter 13, Democracy 28 from Book 4 34 Chapter 4, Captains of Industry 34 THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 39 from The History of England 40 from Chapter 3, State of England in 1685 40 from Milton (Website) CONTEXTS: WORK AND POVERTY 47 Anonymous, "The Steam Loom Weaver" 49 from Elizabeth Bentley, Testimony before the 1832 Committee on the Labour of Children in Factories 49 from Andrew Ure, The Philosophy of Manufactures 51 from William Dodd, A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd, Factory Cripple, Written by Himself 52 from Joseph Adshead, Distress in Manchester, Chapter 3, "Narratives of Suffering" . 55 Thomas Hood, "Song of the Shirt" 57 from Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Chapter 3, "The Great Towns" 58 from Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton, Chapter 6 62 from Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, "Boy Crossing-Sweepers and Tumblers" 63 from Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Chapter 5, "The Key-Note" 65 JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN from The Idea of a University (Website) SUSANNA MOODIE 68 from Roughing It in the Bush 69 Introduction 69 Chapter 15, The Wilderness, and our Indian Friends 70 from Chapter 22, The Fire (Website) from Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush (Website) Chapter 1, Belleville Chapter 7, Camp Meetings Chapter 8, Wearing Mourning for the Dead IN CONTEXT: Sample of Susanna Moodie's 1839 Correspondence A "Crossed" Letter 76 MARY SEACOLE (Website) from Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Chapter 1, My Birth and Parentage Chapter 8,1 Long to Join the British Army Before Sebastopol Chapter 9, Voyage to Constantinople from Chapter 13, My Work in the Crimea JOHN STUART MILL 77 What is Poetry? 78 from On Liberty (Website) from Chapter 2, Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion Chapter 3, Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being from The Subjection of Women 85 Chapter 1 85 CONTEXTS: THE PLACE OF WOMEN IN SOCIETY 96 from Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Daughters of England: Their Position in Society, Character and Responsibilities 97 from Anonymous, "Hints on the Modern Governess System," Eraser's Magazine ... 99 from Harriet Taylor, The Enfranchisement of Women 101 from Coventry Patmore, The Angel in the House 104 from Eliza Lynn Linton, "The Girl of the Period," Saturday Review, March 1868. 104 - from Frances Power Cobbe, "Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors," Eraser's Magazine, December 1868 107 from "Between School and Marriage," The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. 7 109 from Emma Brewer, "Our Friends the Servants," The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. 14 ... 110 from Sarah Grand, "The New Aspect of the Woman Question," North American Review 158 111 from Mona Caird, "Does Marriage Hinder A Woman's Self-Development?" Lady's Realm 112 ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 114 The Cry of the Children 116 To George Sand: A Desire 118 To George Sand: A Recognition 118 A Year's Spinning 118 The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point 119 from Sonnets from the Portuguese 123 Sonnet 1 ("I thought once how Theocritus had sung") 123 Sonnet 7 ("The face of all the world is changed, I think") 123 Sonnet 13 ("And wilt thou have me fasten into speech") 123 Sonnet 21 ("Say over again, and yet once over again") 123 Sonnet 22 ("When our two souls stand up erect and strong") 123 Sonnet 24 ("Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife") 124 Sonnet 26 ("I lived with visions for my company") 124 Sonnet 28 ("My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!") 124 Sonnet 43 ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways") 124 from Aurora Leigh 124 Book 1 124 from Book 2 139 from Book 5 146 A Curse For A Nation 149 A Musical Instrument 150 IN CONTEXT: Books on Womanhood (Website) from Catherine Napier, Woman's Rights and Duties IN CONTEXT: Children in the Mines (Website) from Richard Hengist Home, Report of the Children's Employment Commission IN CONTEXT: The Origin of "the Finest Sonnets" (Website) from Edmund Gosse, Critical Kit-Kats IN CONTEXT: Images of George Sand (Website) ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 152 Mariana 154 The Palace of Art 155 The Lady of Shalott 160 The Lotos-Eaters 162 Ulysses 165 The Epic [Morte d'Arthur] 166 Morte d'Arthur 166 [Break, break, break] 170 Locksley Hall 170 from The Princess 176 [Sweet and Low] 176 [The Splendour Falls] 176 [Tears, Idle Tears] 176 [Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal] 176 [ComeDown, OMaid] 177 [The Woman's Cause is Man's] 177 Maud (Website) In Memoriam A.H.H 178 The Eagle 221 The Charge of the Light Brigade 222 from Idylls of the King (Website) The Holy Grail [Flower in the Crannied Wall] 222 Vastness 223 Crossing the Bar 224 IN CONTEXT: Images of Tennyson 225 from Thomas Carlyle, Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 5 August 1844 225 IN CONTEXT: Victorian Images of Arthurian Legend 226 IN CONTEXT: Crimea and the Camera 228 Roger Fenton, Selected Photographs 228 CHARLES DARWIN , 230 from The Voyage of the Beagle 231 from Chapter 10, Tierra del Fuego 231 from Chapter 17, Galapagos Archipelago 238 IN CONTEXT: Images from The Beagle 240 from On the Origin of Species 243 Introduction 243 from Chapter 3, Struggle for Existence 245 from Chapter 14, Recapitulation and Conclusion 249 from The Descent of Man 252 from Chapter 21, General Summary and Conclusion 252 IN CONTEXT: Defending and Attacking Darwin 258 from Thomas Huxley, "Criticisms on The Origin of Species" 258 from Thomas Huxley, "Mr. Darwin's Critics" 259 from Punch 260 IN CONTEXT: Social Darwinism 261 from Herbert Spencer, Social Statics: or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed 261 ELIZABETH GASKELL 264 The Old Nurse's Story 265 ROBERT BROWNING 277 Porphyria's Lover 278 Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 279 My Last Duchess 280 Home-Thoughts, from Abroad 281 The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church 282 Meeting at Night 283 Parting at Morning 284 How It Strikes a Contemporary 284 Memorabilia 285 Love Among the Ruins 286 "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" 287 Fra Lippo Lippi 290 The Last Ride Together 295 Andrea del Sarto 297 A Woman's Last Word 300 Essay on Shelley 301 Caliban upon Setebos (Website) from The Ring and the Book (Website) from Book 12 IN CONTEXT: A Parody of The Ring and the Book (Website) Charles Stuart Calverley, The Cock and the Bull Bishop Blougram's Apology (Website) CHARLES DICKENS 311 A Christmas Carol 313 Preface 313 Stave 1, Marley's Ghost 313 Stave 2, The First of the Three Spirits 323 Stave 3, The Second of the Three Spirits 331 Stave 4, The Last of the Spirits 342 Stave 5, The End of It 349 IN CONTEXT: A Victorian Christmas 353 from Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz 353 Chapter 2, A Christmas Dinner 353 IN CONTEXT: The Workhouse 356 Charles Dickens, "A Walk in the Workhouse," from Household Words 356 Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (Website) EDWARD LEAR (Website) The Owl and the Pussy-cat How pleasant to know Mr. Lear! Selected Limericks The Dong and the Luminous Nose CONTEXTS: CHILDHOOD AND CHILDREN'S LITERATURE (Website) ANTHONY TROLLOPE (Website) The Spotted Dog from An Autobiography Chapter 12, On English Novels and the Art of Writing Them GRACE AGUILAR 361 Past, Present, and Future: A Sketch 362 The Hebrew's Appeal 362 The Wanderers 364 EMILY BRONTE 366 Remembrance 367 Plead for Me 368 The Old Stoic 368 My Comforter 369 [Loud without the wind was roaring] 369 [A little while, a little while] 370 [Shall Earth no more inspire thee] 371 [No coward soul is mine] 371 Stanzas 372 [The night is darkening round me] 372 [I'm happiest when most away] 373 [If grief for grief can touch thee] 373 CONTEXTS: THE NEW ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY 374 Roger Fenton, "Proposal for the Formation of a Photographic Society" 376 from Charles Dickens, "Photography," Household Words 7 377 Photography and Immortality 381 from Elizabeth Barrett, Letter to Mary Russell Mitford 381 from Sir Frederick Pollock, "Presidential Address," Photographic Society 381 Selected
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