COURSE MATERIALS, VICTORIAN FAITHS AND FANTASIES

Charles L. Dodgson's photograph of Alice Liddell, the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's Alice.

1. Christina Rossetti "The Lowest Room"

2. Elizabeth Gaskell, "The Old Nurse's Story."

3. Hans Christian Andersen , "The Little Mermaid."

For a demonic inversion of Andersen's sad story and that of other watery maidens, see the story of Lilith from the Jewish Apocrapha.

4. Sheridan Le Fanu, "Green Tea."

5. Oliver Onions , "The Beckoning Fair One."

6. Joyce Carol Oates , "Accursed Inhabitants of the House of Bly."