Modern Texts and Contexts

By arielgoodman

  • William Blake, "London"

  • William Wordsworth, "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads"

  • William Wordsworth, "London, 1802"

  • Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias"

  • John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet"

  • Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

  • Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

  • Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"

  • Emily Dickinson, "Much madness is divinest sense"

  • Emily Dickinson, "A charm invests a face"

  • Emily Dickinson, "I'm nobody! Who are you?"

  • Ocar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (first performed)

  • Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro"

  • Amy Lowell, "Preface to Some Imagist Poets"

  • H.D., "Sea Rose"

  • James Joyce, Ulysses

  • Virginia Woolf, "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown"

  • Emily Dickinson, "Tell all the truth but tell it slant"

  • Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

    Adapted from Jane Eyre

  • Ngugi wa Thiong'o et al., "On the Abolition of the English Department"

  • Hans Robert Jauss, Toward an Aesthetic of Reception

  • Ann Banfield, "Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction"

  • Judith Butler, "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution"

  • Nuruddin Farrah, Gifts

  • P.M.S. Dawson, "Poetry in an Age of Revolution"

  • Peter Childs, Modernism

  • Ellen Rooney, "A Semiprivate Room"

    Not sure the exact date this was published, but it was published here

  • Alison Bechdel, Fun Home

  • Linda Hutcheon, A Theory of Adaptation

  • Rita Felski, Uses of Literature