VCE English and English as an Additional Language (EAL) guide, 2026 - units 3 & 4

Text

• Jane Eyre
  • Our library holds a number of copies including several eBooks.

Analysis

• Markley, Arnold A. "An overview of Jane Eyre." Literature Resource Center, Gale, 2023. 
• Gao, Haiyan. Reflection on feminism in Jane Eyre. Theory and Practice in Language Studies, vol. 3, no. 6, June 2013, pp. 926+.
• "Overview: Jane Eyre." Novels for Students, edited by Melissa Sue Hill and Michelle Lee, vol. 60, Gale, 2019 
• Wyatt, Jean. A Patriarch of One’s Own: Jane Eyre and Romantic Love. Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 280, Gale, 2014. (Originally published in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, vol. 4, no. 2, 1985, pp. 199-216).

Further resources

• From Gale Literature Database

Copies of the text

• Barker, P. (1996). Regeneration  Boston: Compass Press.

Overview

• Overview: Regeneration Gale Online Encyclopedia, Gale, 2021

Analysis

• Sabiniarz, Natalia. (2021) Intertextual Relations between Siegfried Sassoon’s and Wilfred Owen’s Poems and Pat Barker’s Novel Regeneration Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by Jennifer Stock, vol. 473

• Harris, G. (1998). Compulsory masculinity, Britain, and the great war: The literary-historical work of Pat Barker. Critique, 39(4), 290-304. 

• Steffens, Karolyn (2014) Communicating trauma: Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy and W.H.R. Rivers's psychoanalytic method. Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 37, no. 3, spring , pp. 36+

Reviews

• Taylor, Catherine. "Living in the past." New Statesman, vol. 147, no. 5438, 28 Sept. 2018, p. 63.
• Ross-Southall, M.  "Ghost wall". The Spectator, 6 Oct 2018
• Hagy, Alyson. "Primal State: An Obsession with the 'Original' Britain Ends in Savagery at an Iron Age Re-Enactment Retreat." New York Times 13 Jan 13 2019
• Maitzen, Rohan. "For 2,000 years." TLS. Times Literary Supplement, no. 6027, 5 Oct. 2018, p. 23.

Analysis

• 'Ghost Wall' Is An Eerie Coming-Of-Age Tale That Begs For A Second Read." Fresh Air, 15 Jan. 2019

Reviews

• The Guardian, authored by Madeleine Thien
• The Guardian, authored by Alex Clark
• A world of disappearing memories in The New York Times
• We're being watched: Dystopian novels predict a not-so-distant surveillance state in The New York Times
• The New Yorker
• NPR
• World Literature Today (2019)

Analysis

• South Central Review

Copies of the text

• My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin 
  • our Library holds multiple editions in print and online
  • editions are freely available via Project Gutenberg
  • editions are freely available via the Internet Archive

Study guides

• Miles Franklin, My brilliant career notes by P. Chessell
• Anna Ziegler's Photograph 51, Miles Franklin's My brilliant career by S. Sherman, Insight Publications
• Pair 6 - Photograph 51 and My Brilliant Career by D. Pargetter and S. Kolber, NEAP Education

Analysis

• From Australian Literary Studies (Vol. 20, Issue 4)
  • My Brilliant Career and feminism.
  • My Brilliant Career and radicalism.
  • Reading My Brilliant Career.
  • Contesting enslavement: marriage, manhood and My Brilliant Career.
  • My Brilliant Career: the career of the Career.
  • My Brilliant Career and 1890s Goulburn.
  • 'Unrelaxing fortitude': Susannah Franklin.
• Settler romances and the Australian girl by T. Dalziell

Further resources

• Gale Literary Sources
• The Oxford companion to Edwardian fiction
• Stella Miles Franklin by Jill Roe [biographical book]
• My career goes bung by Miles Franklin

Teaching resources

• 'Reading Gender: Teaching Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career' by J. Lamond in Teaching Australian and New Zealand literature

Copies of the text

• Chronicle of death foretold by Gabriel García Márquez 
  • Also available as an audiobook 

Reviews

• Murder Most Foul And Comic: CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD

Analysis

• Overview of "Chronicle of a Death Foretold"
• Garcia Marquez's New Book: Literature of Journalism?
• More Deaths Than One: 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold'

Interviews

• A Talk With Gabriel García Márquez in The New York Times
• Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69 in The Paris Review [Interview]
• Interview with Gabriel García Márquez in The UNESCO Courier

Further resources

• Gale Literary Sources

Copies of the text

• We have always lived in the castle by Shirley Jackson

Analysis

• 'House Mothers and Haunted Daughters: Shirley Jackson and Female Gothic' by Roberta Rubenstein
• 'The Establishment and Preservation of Female Power in Shirley Jackson's "We Have Always Lived in the Castle"' by Lynette Carpenter 
• 'Food Symbolism and Traumatic Confinement in "We Have Always Lived in the Castle"' by Esther Muñoz González
• Shirley Jackson: A Companion by Kristopher Woofter

Further resources

• Gale Literary Sources
• SLV catalogue

Analysis

• Cazajous-Augé, C. (2025). The Anthropocene Cosmic Sublime: Viewing the Earth from Space in Samantha Harvey’s “Orbital.” Ecozon@, 16(1), 97–115.
• Azim, Md Samiul. ( 2025) Contours of Catastrophe: Ecological and Existential Crisis in Samantha Harvey's Orbital and Amitav Ghosh's The Living Mountain Language In India, vol. 25, no. 2, Feb., pp. 120+.
• Strait, R. (2024, Dec 10). Cotton candy and the beautiful non-beauty: Samantha Harvey's Booker prize-winning novel, Orbital. University Wire