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History and society
An age of industry and reforms 4
LISTENING The myth of progress 5
The British Empire 6
The American Frontier
and the Civil War 8
LISTENING The Frontier 8
SISTER ARTS Engineering The Crystal Palace
(Joseph Paxton) 9
TOWARDS FCE File 5 Victorian issues 10
Culture
The Victorian compromise 12
SISTER ARTS Biology Charles Darwin 14
• The Descent of Man 14
The literary scene
The early Victorian novel 16
The late Victorian novel 18
Victorian poetry 20
GENRES Poetry The dramatic monologue 22
• R. Browning , My Last Duchess 23
Victorian drama 25
Developments in American literature 26
Writers and texts
Charles Dickens 28
Oliver Twist 30
e1 Oliver Is Taken to the Workhouse 31
Hard Times 33
e2 A Classroom Definition of a Horse 34
e3 Coketown 36
LISTENING The industrial city 37
Emily Brontë 38
Wuthering Heights 39
e4 Catherine Marries Linton but Loves
Heathcliff 41
Charlotte Brontë 44
Jane Eyre 45
e5 “All My Heart Is Yours, Sir” 47
➤HOW TO outline a topic 50
Alfred Tennyson 51
e6 Ulysses 53
COMPARING CULTURES The Myth of Ulysses 57
Nathaniel Hawthorne 58
The Scarlet Letter 59
e7 The Woman Refuses to Speak 60
➤HOW TO go from text to context 63
COMPARING CULTURES The New England
Puritans 64
Herman Melville 65
Moby Dick 66
e8 The Chase – Third Day: the Whale
Kills the Man 68
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