19th Century

George Gordon, Lord Byron. "Manfred" (1816/17): The Romantic Self (Anastasaki)

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Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein (1818): The Gothic Novel (Bauer)

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Mary Shelley. Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818): Narration and the Problem of Truth (Hotz-Davies)

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James Fenimore Cooper. The Pioneers (1823): Writing the Nation (Clark)

George Moses Horton, "On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom" (1829): Literature and Oppression (Franke)

Henry W. Longfellow, Poems on Slavery (1842) - The Intention of the Author (Franke)

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Charles Dickens. The Chimes (1844): The Sound of Victorian Fiction (Bauer)

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Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847): Narrative between Romanticism and the Victorian Age (Hotz-Davies)

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island (1883): Victorian Fiction (Zähringer)

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Dickinson, Emily. "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" (publ. 1890): Late Nineteenth-Century Poetry (Butter)

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892): Forms and Functions of Unreliable Narration (Butter)

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Kate Chopin. The Awakening (1899): Why We Need (Feminist) Theory (Franke)