Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

"The People’s Charter" (1837)

Thomas Carlyle, “Signs of the Times”

Friedrich Engels, The Conditions of the Working Class in England Chapters 1-6, 8, 11

Henry Mayhew, from London Labour and the London Poor

Broadside Ballads, A Selection from Bodleian Literary Broadside Ballads: The Reform Bill, The Pitmen’s Union, The Collier’s Hymn, Success to the Collier Lads, The Pitman’s Dream, The Pleasures of Pay-Night, The Painful Plow/Stood Amid, The Painful Plow/I’ve Been Roaming.

Ebenezer Elliot, "The Ranter" from Corn Law Rhymes

Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

John Ruskin, “The Nature of Gothic” from The Stones of Venice

John Stuart Mill, "What is Poetry?", On Liberty

Matthew Arnold, "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"

Walter Pater, The Renaissance (selections)

William Morris, News From Nowhere, “The Lesser Arts of Life”), “The Socialist Ideal: Art”, “How I Became a Socialist”

George Gissing, New Grub Street

Oscar Wilde, "The Soul of Man Under Socialism", "The Critic as Artist"

T.W. Adorno, “Cultural Criticism and Society”

Raymond Williams, “Criticism” from Keywords (Moodle).

Susan Sontag, "Against Interpretation"

Terry Eagleton, from The Function of Criticism

Ian Small, from Conditions for Criticism

Julie Ellison, “A Short History of Liberal Guilt”

Martha C. Nussbaum, “Terror and Compassion"

Stefan Collini, "Reading the Ruins: Imagining the Future of Universities" [lecture, 1 March 2016].

Amanda Anderson, “The Cultivation of Partiality” from The Powers of Distance

John Guillory, from Professing Criticism

Rita Felski, from The Limits of Critique

Michael Clune, from A Defense of Judgment

Sarah Ahmed, Feminist Killjoy, Complaint!

Theodor W. Adorno, "The Essay as Form"

Graham Good, "The Essay as Genre."

Erving Goffman, "The Lecture"

Altieri, Charles, "The Poem as Act: A Way to Reconcile Presentational and Mimetic Theories"

Charles Bernstein, "Artifice of Absorption" from A Poetics

Hannah McGregor and Stacey Copeland, "Why Podcast? Podcasting as Publishing, Sound-Based Scholarship, and Making Podcasts Count."