The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 5: The Victorian Era 3rd Edition, ISBN-13: 978-1554814916

The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 5: The Victorian Era 3rd Edition, ISBN-13: 978-1554814916

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• Publisher: ‎ Broadview Press; 3rd edition (July 16, 2021)
• Language: ‎ English
• ‎1460 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 155481491X
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1554814916

Shaped by sound literary and historical scholarship, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature takes a fresh approach to many canonical authors and includes a broad selection of work by lesser-known writers. The anthology also provides wide-ranging coverage of the worldwide connections of British literature, and it pays attention throughout to matters such as race, gender, class, and sexual orientation.

Highlights of Volume 5: The Victorian Era include the complete texts of In Memoriam A.H.H., The Importance of Being Earnest, Carmilla, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as well as Contexts sections on “Work and Poverty,” “Women in Society,” “Sexuality in the Victorian Era,” “Nature and the Environment,” “The New Woman,” and “Britain, Empire, and a Wider World.” The third edition also offers expanded representation of writers of color, including Mary Prince, Mary Seacole, Toru Dutt, and Rabindranath Tagore.

Table of Contents:

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
The Victorian Era
A Growing Power
Grinding Mills, Grinding Poverty
Corn Laws, Potato Famine
“The Two Nations”
The Position of Women
Empire
Faith and Doubt
Victorian Domesticity: Life and Death
Cultural Trends
Technology
Cultural Identities
Realism
The Victorian Novel
Poetry
Drama
Prose Non-Fiction and Print Culture
The English Language in the Victorian Era
History of the Language and of Print Culture
Mary Prince
The History of Mary Prince A West Indian Slave
In Context: Mary Prince and Slavery
Mary Prince’s Petition Presented to Parliament on 24 June 1829
from Thomas Pringle, Supplement to The History of Mary Prince (1831)
The Narrative of Ashton Warner
Thomas Carlyle
from Sartor Resartus
from BOOK 3
Chapter 8—Natural Supernaturalism
from Past and Present
from BOOK 1
Chapter 6—Hero-Worship
from BOOK 3
Chapter 2—Gospel of Mammonism
Chapter 11—Labour
from BOOK 4
Chapter 4—Captains of Industry
Contexts: Urban Work and Poverty
from Elizabeth Bentley, Testimony before the 1832 Committee on the Labour of Children in Factories
from Andrew Ure, The Philosophy of Manufac- tures
from William Dodd, A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd, a Factory Cripple,
Thomas Hood, “Song of the Shirt”
from Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Work- ing Class in England in 1844
Chapter 3: The Great Towns
from Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton (1848)
Chapter 6
from Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1854)
Chapter 5: The Key-Note
from Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, “Boy Crossing-Sweepers and Tumblers”
Mary Seacole
from Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Chapter 1: My Birth and Parentage—Early Tastes and Travels—Marriage and Widowhood
Chapter 8: I Long to Join the British Army Before Sebastopol
Chapter 9: Voyage to Constantinople
from Chapter 13: My Work in the Crimea
Harriet Martineau
from Letter to the Deaf
from Retrospect of Western Travel
from Preface
from First Impressions
from Niagara
from Prisons
from First Sight of Slavery
from Life at Washington
from The Capitol
from City Life in the South
from Signs of the Times in Massachusetts
John Stuart Mill
What Is Poetry?
from The Subjection of Women
Chapter 1
Contexts: Women in Society
from Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Daughters of England: Their Position in Society, Character and Respon
from Anonymous, “Hints on the Modern Govern- ess System,” Fraser’s Magazine
from Harriet Taylor, The Enfranchisement of Women
from Coventry Patmore, The Angel in the House
The Foreign Land
from William Rathbone Greg, “Why Are Women Redundant?”
from Frances Power Cobbe, “What Shall We Do with Our Old Maids?”
from Eliza Lynn Linton, “The Girl of the Period,” Saturday Review
from Frances Power Cobbe, “Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors,” Fraser’s Magazine
from “Between School and Marriage,” The Girl’s Own Paper
from Emma Brewer, “Our Friends the Servants,” The Girl’s Own Paper
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Young Queen
The Cry of the Children
To George Sand: A Desire
To George Sand: A Recognition
A Year’s Spinning
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point
from Sonnets from the Portuguese
1
7
13
21
22
24
26
28
43
from Aurora Leigh
BOOK 1
from BOOK 2
from BOOK 5
A Curse for a Nation
Mother and Poet
A Musical Instrument
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Mariana
The Palace of Art
The Lady of Shalott
The Lotos-Eaters
Ulysses
The Epic
Morte d’Arthur
[Break, break, break]
St Simeon Stylites
Locksley Hall
from The Princess
[Sweet and Low]
[The Splendour Falls]
[Tears, Idle Tears]
[Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal]
[Come Down, O Maid]
[The Woman’s Cause Is Man’s]
In Memoriam A.H.H.
The Eagle
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Charge of the Light Brigade [1855 version]
The Charge of the Light Brigade [1856 version]
In Context: The Charge of the Light Brigade as Reported in The Times
from “The Attack on Balaklava,” The Times (13 November 1854)
[from Letter to the Duke of Newcastle from FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, Lord Raglan]
[from Letter from George Bingham, Lord Lucan]
from Editorial, The Times (13 November 1854)
from “The Cavalry Action at Balaclava,” The Times (14 November 1854)
[Flower in the Crannied Wall]
Vastness
Crossing the Bar
In Context: Images of Tennyson
from Thomas Carlyle, Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 5 August 1844
In Context: Victorian Images of Arthurian Legend
In Context: Crimea and the Camera
Charles Darwin
from The Voyage of the Beagle
from Chapter 10: Tierra del Fuego
from Chapter 17: Galapagos Archipelago
In Context: Images from The Beagle
from On the Origin of Species
Introduction
from Chapter 3: Struggle for Existence
from Chapter 14: Recapitulation and Conclusion
from The Descent of Man
from Chapter 19: Secondary Sexual Characters of Man
from Chapter 21: General Summary and Conclusion
In Context: Defending and Attacking Darwin
from Thomas Huxley, “Criticisms on The Origin of Species” (1864)
from Thomas Huxley, “Mr. Darwin’s Critics” (1871)
from Punch
In Context: Social Darwinism
from Herbert Spencer, Social Statics: or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and
Context: Nature and the Environment
from Letitia Landon, “Rydal Water and Grasmere Lake, The Residence of Wordsworth” (1838)
from Anna Atkins, Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1843)
William Wordsworth, On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway
from The Morning Post (16 October 1844)
from The Morning Post (9 December 1844)
from The Morning Post (20 December 1844)
Steamboats and Railways
Eliza Cook, Poems
“The Thames” (1836)
from Preface to Poems, Second Series (1845)
“God Hath a Voice” (1845)
“Lines Written for the Sheffield Mechanics’ Exhibi- tion” (1846)
“Song of the City Artisan” (1870)
Roger Fenton, Early Photographs
The State of the Thames
from John Snow, “On the Mode of Communica- tion of Cholera” (1849)
Michael Faraday, Letter to The Times, 7 July 1855
from Punch (21 July 1855)
from Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates (1858)
House of Commons: from 28 May 1858 debates
House of Commons: from 15 June 1858 debates
from Punch (10 July 1858)
Pre-Raphaelite Nature Painting
Adelaide Proctor, “Two Worlds” (1861)
John Ruskin, “Traffic” (1864)
from “The New Exchange Building, Bradford,” The Illustrated London News (16 March 1867)
from William Stanley Jevons, The Coal Question (1866)
from Chapter 1: Introduction and Outline
from Chapter 18: Concluding Reflections
kweiten ta //ken, “What the Maidens Do with Rooi Klip” (1874)
from Samuel Smiles, Lives of the Engineers (1874– 77)
from VOLUME 1
from Introduction
Mathilde Blind, Poems
“Entangled,” 1867
“On a Forsaken Lark’s Nest,” 1889
“Reapers,” 1889
Thomas Hardy, On Human and Non-Human Animals
from Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
from Chapter 2
“The Puzzled Game-Birds” (1902)
“On Animals’ Rights,” The Times (3 May 1910)
from Richard Jefferies, After London (1885)
from PART I: THE RELAPSE INTO BARBARISM
from Chapter 1: The Great Fore
from PART 2: WILD ENGLAND
from Chapter 5: The Lake
Air Pollution in the Victorian City
from John Ruskin, The Storm-Cloud of the Nine- teenth Century (1884)
Preface
from Lecture 1
Newspaper Reports of Ruskin’s “Storm-Cloud” Lecture
from “Mr. Ruskin at the London Institution,” The Morning Post (5 February 1884)
“Mr. Ruskin in the Clouds,” The Graphic (9 Feb- ruary 1884)
from The Liverpool Mercury (26 August 1884)
Private Land, Common Land
from Octavia Hill, “Our Common Land” (1877)
from Octavia Hill, “The Future of Our Commons” (1877)
from “Rights of Way in Lakeland: The Capture of Latrigg, by one who assisted,” Pall Mall Gazette
Henry Salt, On Humans, Nature, and Non-Human Animals
from On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills (1879, 1908)
from Chapter 7: Slag Heap or Sanctuary?
from Animals’ Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1894)
from Chapter 5: The Slaughter of Animals for Food
from Chapter 8: Lines of Reform
Tekahionwake/E. Pauline Johnson, “The Happy Hunting Grounds” (1889)
Mary Coleridge, Poems
“The Lady of Trees,” 1898
“In London Town,” 1908
Elizabeth Gaskell
Our Society at Cranford
In Context: Charles Dickens and the Publication History of “Our Society at Cranford”
Letter from Charles Dickens to Elizabeth Gaskell 31 January 1850
Letter from Charles Dickens to Elizabeth Gaskell Thursday Afternoon, 5 December 1851
Letter from Charles Dickens to Elizabeth Gaskell Sunday, 21 December 1851
Robert Browning
Porphyria’s Lover
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
My Last Duchess
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church
Meeting at Night
Parting at Morning
How It Strikes a Contemporary
Memorabilia
Love Among the Ruins
“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
Fra Lippo Lippi
The Last Ride Together
Andrea del Sarto
A Woman’s Last Word
Caliban upon Setebos Or, Natural Theology in the Island
Charles Dickens
A Walk in the Workhouse
from Oliver Twist
Preface to the Present Edition
Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla
In Context: Carmilla Illustrated
Charlotte Brontë
from Jane Eyre
Chapter 9
In Context: Brontë’s Development as a Writer
Correspondence with Robert Southey (1837)
from Elizabeth Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë, Volume 2, Chapter 1 (1857)
Grace Aguilar
Past, Present, and Future: A Sketch
The Hebrew’s Appeal
The Wanderers
Emily Brontë
Remembrance
Plead for Me
The Old Stoic
My Comforter
[Loud without the wind was roaring]
[A little while, a little while]
[Shall Earth no more inspire thee]
[No coward soul is mine]
[Often rebuked, yet always back returning]
[The night is darkening round me]
[I’ll come when thou art saddest]
[I’m happiest when most away]
[If grief for grief can touch thee]
Contexts: The New Art of Photography
Roger Fenton, “Proposal for the Formation of a Photographic Society” (1852)
from Charles Dickens, “Photography,” Household Words (1853)
Photography and Immortality
from Elizabeth Barrett, Letter to Mary Russell Mitford, 1843
from Sir Frederick Pollock, “Presidential Address,” Photographic Society (1855)
Selected Photographs
George Eliot
O, May I Join the Choir Invisible
from Brother and Sister Sonnets
Sonnet 11
from Adam Bede
Chapter 17: In Which the Story Pauses a Little
Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
from The Natural History of German Life
Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft
Contexts: Sexuality and Sexual Transgression
Sexuality and the Law
from The Trying and Pillorying of the Vere-Street Club (1810)
from Lord Meadowbank’s statements, Miss Marianne Woods and Miss Jane Pirie against Dame Helen Cumm
from Edward E. Deacon, Digest of the Criminal Law of England (1831)
from An Act to Amend the Law Relating to Divorce and Matrimonial Causes in England (1857)
from Section 2, Criminal Law Amendment Act (1885)
Love, Sex, and Friendship between Men
from William Johnson Cory, Ionica (1858)
Heraclitus
Deteriora
John Addington Symonds, “From Friend to Friend” (1880)
John Gambril Nicholson, “In Working Dress” (1892)
Lord Alfred Douglas, “Two Loves” (1894)
Love, Sex, and Friendship between Women
from Anne Lister, Diaries (1806–40)
from Edith Simcox, Autobiography of a Shirtmaker (written 1876–1900)
Edith Simcox, Letter to George Eliot, 28 March 1880
Amy Levy, “At a Dinner Party” (1889)
from Frances Power Cobbe, Life of Frances Power Cobbe, as Told by Herself (1904)
from Chapter 21
To Mary C. Lloyd Written in Hartley Combe, Liss, about 1873
Sexuality and Medical Discourse
from William Acton, The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs (1858, revised 1875)
from CHAPTER 2 MASTURBATION
from Section 2 Masturbation in the Youth and Adult
from CHAPTER 5 MARITAL EXCESSES
from James Paget, “Sexual Hypochondriasis” (1870)
from Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis (first edition 1886, English translation 1892)
from CHAPTER 3 GENERAL PATHOLOGY
Acquired Homosexuality
from CHAPTER 5 PATHOLOGICAL SEXUALITY IN ITS LEGAL ASPECTS
Lesbian Love
John Addington Symonds, letter to Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1889, 1899)
from Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds, Sexual Inversion (1897)
from General Preface
from Preface to Sexual Inversion
from Sexual Inversion in Men
Psychosexual Hermaphroditism
from Sexual Inversion in Women
from Chapter 6: The Theory of Sexual Inversion
from “Sex-Mania,” Reynolds’s Newspaper (21 April 1895)
Prostitution, Social Purity, and the Contagious Diseases Acts
Thomas Hood, “The Bridge of Sighs” (1844)
from Henry Mayhew, “Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts,” The Morning Chronicle (184
from W.R. Greg, “Prostitution,” Westminster Review (January 1850)
from The Contagious Diseases Act (1866)
from Harriet Martineau, “The Contagious Diseases Acts—II,” Daily News (29 December 1869)
from Josephine Butler, Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade (1896)
from Josephine Butler, Some Thoughts on the Present Aspect of the Crusade Against the State Regulati
from W.T. Stead, “The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon 1,” Pall Mall Gazette (6 July 1885)
from Sarah Grand, The Beth Book (1897)
John Ruskin
from Modern Painters
A Definition of Greatness in Art
Of Truth of Water
from The Stones of Venice
The Nature of Gothic
Matthew Arnold
The Forsaken Merman
Isolation. To Marguerite
To Marguerite—Continued
The Buried Life
The Scholar-Gipsy
Stanzas from The Grande Chartreuse
East London
West London
Preface to the First Edition of Poems
from The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
from Culture and Anarchy
from Chapter 1: Sweetness and Light
Mary Ann Shadd
A Plea for Emigration
Introductory Remarks
from The Provincial Freeman
Relations of Canada to American Slavery
Union
American Slavery
George Meredith
Modern Love
Ode to the Spirit of Earth in Autumn
The Lark Ascending
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Blessed Damozel
Jenny
My Sister’s Sleep
Sibylla Palmifera
Lady Lilith
Mary Magdalene at the Door of Simon the Pharisee
Sonnets and Songs, Towards a Work to Be Called “The House of Life”
Silent Noon
[A Sonnet is a moment’s monument]
In Context 1 The “Fleshly School” Controversy
from Thomas Maitland [Robert Buchanan], “The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D.G. Rossetti”
from Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Stealthy School of Criticism (1872)
Contexts: The Pre-Raphaelites
from William Michael Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti; His Family Letters, with a Memoir by William
from John Seward, “The Purpose and Tendency of Early Italian Art,” The Germ: Thoughts Toward Nat
from John Guille Millais, The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais (1899)
from Charles Dickens, “Old Lamps for New Ones,” Household Words (15 June 1850)
from The Times, “Review of the Annual Exhibition at the Royal Academy” (May 1851)
from John Ruskin, Letter to The Times (May 1851)
from John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism (1851)
from Oscar Wilde, The English Renaissance of Art (1882, 1907)
Pre-Raphaelite Models: Fanny Eaton
Christina Rossetti
Goblin Market
In Context: Illustrating Goblin Market
A Triad
Remember
A Birthday
After Death
An Apple-Gathering
Echo
Winter: My Secret
“No, Thank You, John”
A Pause of Thought
Song “She sat and sang alway”
Song “When I am dead, my dearest”
Dead before Death
Monna Innominata
Cobwebs
In an Artist’s Studio
Promises like Pie-Crust
Sleeping at Last
Lewis Carroll
Verses Recited by Humpty Dumpty
Jabberwocky
In Context: “Jabberwocky”
from Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1872)
from Chapter 1: Looking-Glass House
from Chapter 6: Humpty Dumpty
In Context: The Photographs of Lewis Carroll
Ireland, Scotland, and Wales: Literary Currents in the Long Nineteenth Century
IRELAND
Songs of ’98
Slievenamon
Carroll Malone, The Croppy Boy
William Carleton (1794–1869)
from The Black Prophet; A Tale of Irish Famine
from Chapter 6: A Rustic Miser and His Establishment
Chapter 7: A Panorama of Misery
In Context: W.B. Yeats, from Introduction to Stories from Carleton (1889)
James Clarence Mangan
The Woman of Three Cows
Kathaleen Ny-Houlahan
Dark Rosaleen
The Nameless One
Samuel Ferguson
Lament for the Death of Thomas Davis
Dear Dark Head
A Nation Once Again
Aodh Mac Domhnaill
Milleadh na bPrátaí
The Spoiling of the Potatoes
Lady Jane Wilde (Speranza)
The Famine Year
William Allingham
The Fairies (A Child’s Song)
Thomas D’Arcy McGee
The Celts
Home Thoughts
The Irish Wife
Memories
Emily Lawless
After Aughrim
Clare Coast
To _________, Aged Twenty-Two
Emigrants
from A Garden Diary
John Keegan Casey
The Rising of the Moon
Winifred M. Letts
Deirdre in the Street
The Old Wexford Woman
The Deserter
SCOTLAND
John Galt
from Annals of the Parish: or, The Chronicle of Dalmailing; during the ministry of the Rev. Micah Ba
Chapter 4: Year 1763
Chapter 5: Year 1764
Epitaph
Chapter 6: Year 1765
Janet Hamilton
Lines on the Long and Beautiful Summer of 1865, in Connection with the Cattle Plague Then Raging
Lines on the Summer of the Cattle Plague, 1865
Rhymes for the Times IV—1865
Auld Mither Scotlan
Effie—A Ballad
Samuel Smiles
from Self-Help
from Chapter 1: Self-Help—National and Individual
John A. Macdonald
from Speech on the Quebec Resolution
Eliza Ogilvy
A Natal Address to My Child, March 19th 1844
The Imprecation by the Cradle
The Portents of the Night
John Davidson
Waiting
from The Testament of an Empire Builder
WALES
Felicia Hemans
The Cambrian in America
Taliesin’s Prophecy
The Better Land
John Blackwell (Alun)
Cathl i’r Eos
Song to the Nightingale
Samuel Roberts
A Pacifist’s Credo
Evan James
Hen Wlad fy Nhadau
Old Land of My Fathers
Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen)
The End of the Year
David Lloyd George
from Speech delivered at the inaugural meeting of the Cardiff branch of the Cymru Fydd League, Octob
William Morris
The Defence of Guenevere
The Haystack in the Floods
How I Became a Socialist
In Context: William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Mystery at Fernwood
Augusta Webster
A Castaway
By the Looking-Glass
The Happiest Girl in the World
Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Triumph of Time
Itylus
Hymn to Proserpine
The Leper
A Forsaken Garden
Anactoria
The Garden of Proserpine
Walter Pater
from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
Preface
Conclusion
Thomas Hardy
The Son’s Veto
Hap
Neutral Tones
In a Wood
The Darkling Thrush
The Ruined Maid
A Broken Appointment
A Trampwoman’s Tragedy
In Context: Hardy’s Reflections on the Writing of Poetry
Gerard Manley Hopkins
God’s Grandeur
The Wreck of the Deutschland
The Windhover
Pied Beauty
Felix Randal
Spring and Fall: To a Young Child
[As kingfishers catch fire]
[No worst, there is none]
[I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day]
[Not, I’ll not, carrion comfort]
That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection
[Thou art indeed just, Lord]
In Context: The Growth of “The Windhover”
from Journal 1870–74
[“Inscape” and “Instress” ]
from Letter to Robert Bridges
from Letter to Robert Bridges
Author’s Preface
“Michael Field” Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper
Maids, Not to You My Mind Doth Change
The Magdalen
Saint Sebastian
La Gioconda
A girl
[It was deep April, and the morn]
Beloved
[Sometimes I do despatch my heart]
[She mingled me rue and roses]
[Our myrtle is in flower]
Cyclamens
Unbosoming
[When I grow old]
To Christina Rossetti
Nests in Elms
The Mummy Invokes His Soul
Old Ivories
Ebbtide at Sundown
Power in Silence
Where the Blessed Feet Have Trod
T.N. Mukharji
from A Visit to Europe
from Chapter 3 The Exhibition and Its Visitors
Robert Louis Stevenson
Requiem
from A Child’s Garden of Verses
Whole Duty of Children
Looking Forward
The Land of Nod
Good and Bad Children
Foreign Children
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Oscar Wilde
Helas!
Impression du Matin
E Tenebris
To Milton
from “The Critic as Artist”
from “The Decay of Lying”
Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Importance of Being Earnest
In Context: Wilde and “The Public”
Interview with Oscar Wilde, St. James Gazette (January 1895)
In Context The First Wilde Trial (1895)
from The Transcripts of the Trial
from De Profundis
Olive Schreiner
The Woman’s Rose
Toru Dutt
À mon Père
Sonnet.—Baugmaree
Sonnet.—The Lotus
Our Casuarina Tree
Vernon Lee
from The Handling of Words
Chapter 3: Aesthetics of the Novel
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Rabindranath Tagore
The Postmaster
A Shattered Dream
The Sunset of the Century
Tekahionwake / E. Pauline Johnson
A Cry from an Indian Wife
The Song My Paddle Sings
Kicking-Horse River
The Cattle Thief
Ojistoh
from His Sister’s Son
The Corn Husker
The Art of Alma-Tadema
The Lost Lagoon
In Context: Tekahionwake/Johnson and Print Culture
Amy Levy
Xantippe (A Fragment)
Magdalen
To Lallie
A London Plane-Tree
London in July
“Ballade of an Omnibus”
London Poets
The Old House
The Last Judgment
Cambridge in the Long
To Vernon Lee
The End of the Day
Arthur Morrison
A Street
Without Visible Means
Rudyard Kipling
Gunga Din
The Widow at Windsor
Recessional
The White Man’s Burden
If—
The Story of Muhammad Din
In Context: Victoria and Albert
In Context: The “White Man’s Burden” in the Philippines
from Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League (1899)
Contexts: Britain, Empire, and a Wider World
Indigenous Negotiations
Woollarawarre Bennelong, Letter to Mr. Phillips, 29 August 1796
from Hannah Kilham, The Claims of West Africa to Christian Instruction, through the Native Languages
from Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Minute on Indian Education” (1835)
from Report of a Speech by William Charles Wentworth, Australian Legislative Council (1844)
from Anonymous, “Australia,” North British Re- view (1846)
Eliza M., “Account of Cape Town,” King William’s Town Gazette (1863)
from Disasi Makulo, The Life of Disasi Makulo1 (c. 1940, 1983)
from Pixley Ka Isaka Seme, “The Regeneration of Africa” (1906)
Settler Colonial Perspectives
Thomas Pringle, “Afar in the Desert” (1824)
from William H. Smith, Smith’s Canadian Gazetteer (1846)
from Agnes Macdonald, “By Car and Cowcatcher,” Murray’s Magazine (1887)
Henry Lawson, “The Drover’s2 Wife” (1892)
Debating Race
from Thomas Carlyle, “Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question,” Fraser’s Magazine (1849)
from John Stuart Mill, “The Negro Question,” Fraser’s Magazine (1850)
from Charles Dickens, “The Noble Savage,”4 Household Words (1853)
from J.J. Thomas, Froudacity (1889)
from BOOK 3 The Negro as a Worker
The Great Exhibition of 1851
Prince Albert, Speech Delivered at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet, London, 1849 (as reprinted in The Ill
from The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations (1
Conservatives, Liberals, and Empire
from William Gladstone, “Our Colonies” (1855)
from Benjamin Disraeli, “Conservative and Liberal Principles” (1872)
from Joseph Chamberlain, “The True Conception of Empire” (1897)
from Cecil Rhodes, Speech Delivered in Cape Town, 18 July 1899
from David Livingstone, “Cambridge Lecture Number 1” (1858)
William Butler Yeats
Ephemera
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Into the Twilight
The Secret Rose
He Remembers Forgotten Beauty
The Travail of Passion
The Aesthetic Movement
“Michael Field”
From Baudelaire
The Poet
John Davidson
A Northern Suburb
Constance Naden
Illusions
Ernest Dowson
Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration
To One in Bedlam
Spleen For Arthur Symons
Lionel Johnson
Plato in London To Campbell Dodgson
The Dark Angel
The Darkness To the Rev. Fr. Dover, S.J.
Aubrey Beardsley
In Context: French Influences and British Views on Aestheticism
Théophile Gautier, from Preface to Mademoiselle de Maupin, A Romance of Love and Passion1 (1835)
Charles Baudelaire, “Correspondences”3 (1857)
from Walter Hamilton, Introduction to The Aesthetic Movement in England (1882)
from Arthur Symons, “The Decadent Movement in Literature,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (Nove
Contexts: The New Woman
from Grant Allen, “Plain Words on the Woman Question,” Fortnightly Review (October 1889)
from Sarah Grand, “The New Aspect of the Woman Question,” North American Review (March 1894)
from Mona Caird, “Does Marriage Hinder a Woman’s Self-Development?” Lady’s Realm (March 1899
from George Egerton, “A Cross Line” (1893)
from Julia M.A. Hawksley, “A Young Woman’s Right: Knowledge,” Westminster Review (July 1894)
from Ouida, “The New Woman,” The North American Review (May 1894)
from Alys W. Pearsall Smith, “A Reply from the Daughters, II,” The Nineteenth Century (March 189
“Donna Quixote,” Punch (April 1894)
from “Character Note: The New Woman,” Corn- hill Magazine (October 1894)
from H.E. Harvey, “The Voice of Woman,” Westminster Review (February 1896)
Cornelia Sorabji, “Love and Death” (1901)
from Olive Schreiner, Woman and Labour (1911)
Charlotte Mew
The Farmer’s Bride
Madeleine in Church
Sarojini Naidu
Indian Weavers
Indian Dancers
Nightfall in the City of Hyderabad
Street Cries
To India
Village-Song
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Sultana’s Dream
Appendices
Maps
Monarchs and Prime Ministers
Permissions Acknowledgments
Index of First Lines
Index of Authors and Titles

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