Paper 104: Literature of the Victorians 

Unit 1: Charles Dickens’s Hard Times 

1. Original Text - Hard Times

2. Introduction and Video Resources

3. Plot, Character, Themes

4. Themes and Issues:

   1. Education: the head and the heart

   2. Industrialism: Masters and Workers

   3. Marriage and Divorce

5. Journal Articles

6. Utilitarianism 

7. Check your understanding: Online Test

8. Questions for Study

Unit 2: Oscar Wilde’s Importance of Being Earnest

• Original Text - Importance of Being Earnest (pdf copy) / Original Text Project Gutenberg (html-web copy)

• Download the Printable Study Material (For Dept regular students only)

• The Context - About the author Oscar Wilde and the Play

• Key Facts - Overview

• Characters

• Plot Overview

• Themes / Themes 2

• Online Test: Check Your Understanding

• Questions

Unit 3: Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure 

1. Original text - Jude the Obscure - PDF & HTML-Web Version

2. Introduction: Character, Plot, Themes

3. Articles - Jude, the Obscure

4. Sue Bridehead: The New Woman of the Feminist Movement

5. Character Analysis of Susanna 'Sue' Bridehead

6. Study Notes: Jude (Only for Dept students)

7. Check your understanding: Online test

8. Questions: Jude, the Obscure

9. Additional Video Resources

10. Research Articles

    1. THREE GENERATIONS OF UNHEALTHY FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS IN JUDE THE OBSCURE.

Unit 4: Tennyson and Browning 

1. Alfred Tennyson - His Biography and as Poet

2. Tennyson (Overview)

3. Tennyson's Poetry

4. Themes in Tennyson's Poems

5. All you need to know about Alfred Tennyson - Victorian Web

1. Robert Browning - His Biography and Legacy

2. Robert Browning's Poems

3. Themes in Browning's Poems

4. All you need to know about Robert Browning; Victorian Web

5. Grotesque Images as a one of the motifs of Browning’s poems.

6. Key facts

• Check your understanding: Online Test on Victorian Poets: Tennyson and Browning

• Question Bank