Literary Resources

Robert Harris
Version Date: June 1, 2001

Tools for Reading and Analysis

• Literary Continua Chart
• Types of Novel
• Elements of the Gothic Novel
• Supplementary List of Christian Classics

Reading Notes and Questions for Literary Works

• Augustine, Confessions
• Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
• Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
• G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
• Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
• Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
• T. S. Eliot, "The Idea of a Christian Society"
• Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
• Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
• Blaise Pascal, Pensees
• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
• St. Therese of Lisieux, The Story of a Soul
• Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

Ideas for Analyzing Literary Works

• Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
• Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
• Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
• Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
• Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

Texts of Literary Works

• Samuel Johnson, "The Vision of Theodore, Hermit of Teneriffe"
• Samuel Johnson, Rambler No. 4
• William Cowper, The Progress of Error