Mock-Up version of a Reading List for Field Exams for Chris O'Brien
on the assumption that he will pass the Brit Lit p. 1800 exam first
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Field:  Victorian Literature, particularly Novels.   Possible thread:  The representation of Gypsies over time, particularly in the Victorian era (items that are this specific are indicated by bold print)
Notes:
--Penultimate chapter is deconstructive to show how the Gypsy activist actually is buying into the false impressions of Gypsies as represented in popular culture, while still denying their truth.
--Ask the participants of the Gypsy Lore Society online for assistance in research.

  1. Robin Gilmour--Victorian Era
  2. Aidan Day--Romanticism  (Providing backstory information)
  3. Cambridge Victorian Reader
  4. Terry Eagleton--Literary Theory
  5. Peter Barry--Beginning Theory
  6. Hardy--Jude the Obscure
  7. Hardy--Mayor of Casterbridge
  8. Hardy--Tess of the D'Urbervilles
  9. Hardy--Far from the Madding Crowd
  10. George Eliot--Middlemarch
  11. George Eliot--Mill on the Floss
  12. George Eliot--Silas Marner
  13. George Eliot--Spanish Gypsy (Poem)
  14. Dickens--Bleak House
  15. Dickens--Hard Times
  16. Dickens--Great Expectations
  17. Dickens--Pickwick Papers
  18. Dickens--Tale of 2 Cities
  19. Butler--The Way of All Flesh
  20. Charlotte Bronte--Jane Eyre
  21. Emily Bronte--Wuthering Heights
  22. Thackeray--Vanity Fair
  23. Matthew Arnold--Culture and Anarchy
  24. Matthew Arnold--The Scholar Gypsy (Poem)  Norton p. 1376
  25. Tennyson:  Poetry (List)
  26. Browning:  Poetry (List)
  27. Stephen King (Writing as Richard Bachman):  Thinner (modern era, for use as a kind of marker of the later progress or regress of Gypsies in lit)
  28. Scott--the Black Dwarf (Gypsy lit background)
  29. Borrow:  The Zincali:  an Account of the Gypsies in Spain
  30. Borrow:  The Bible in Spain
  31. Borrow:  The Romany Rye
  32. Borrow:  Lavengro
  33. Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling by Charles Godfrey Leland
  34. The Jew, the Gypsy, and El Islam (1898) by Richard Burton, ed. by William Henry Wilkins

  35. The Influence of Darwin's "The Origin of Species" on George Eliot's writing. -- Interpretation of 3 Eliot's novels: "The Mill on the Floss", "Daniel Deronda", "Middlemarch", and one poem "Brother and Sister" within the context of Darwin's work
    By Joanna Zgadzaj, MA

  36. "Dark Mysterious Wanderers" by Toby Sonneman
  37. "Marks of Race" article about Gypsies in Literature and the Present Day
  38. DH Lawrence:  "The Virgin and the Gypsy"
  39. Roads of Destiny, by O Henry
  40. War and Peace,  chapters, by Tolstoi
  41. Notre Dame of Paris by Victor Hugo--maybe just chapters about La Esmerelda and the Gypsies


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