Lightning Literature & Composition – British Literature, Mid-Late19th Century, 2nd ed.

Lessons cover conflict, rhyme and meter, local color, theme, genre, and sources of ideas. This Guide includes information about the authors, comprehension questions, writing exercises, discussion questions, reading lists appropriate to the period or subject, semester and full-year schedules, and a bibliography. The answers to comprehension questions are included.

Students read in this order:

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson (selected poems; text in this Guide)
• George Eliot (novel: Silas Marner)
• Charles Dickens (novel: Great Expectations)
• Lewis Carroll: (selected poems; text in this Guide)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (travelogue/essay, text in this Guide: The Silverado Squatters”)
• Oscar Wilde (play: The Importance of Being Earnest)
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (short story, text in this Guide: “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”)
• Rudyard Kipling (novel: Stalky & Co.)

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