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A Brief Supplemental Reading
List
(These are just the highlights organized by topic)
Sensation Literature:
- Brooks, Peter. The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry
James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess. New Haven: Yale
UP, 1976.
- Cvetkovich, Ann. Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture,
and Victorian Sensationalism. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers
University Press, 1992.
- Hadley, Elaine. Melodramatic Tactics: Theatricalized Dissent
in the English Marketplace, 1800-1885. Stanford: Stanford
UP, 1995.
- Hughes, Winifred. The Maniac in the Cellar: Sensation Novels
of the 1860s. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980.
- Tromp, Marlene. The Private Rod: Marital Violence, Sensation,
and the Law in Victorian Britain. Charlottesville and London:
University Press of Virginia, 2000.
- Victorian Identities: Social and Cultural Formations in Nineteenth-century
Literature. Eds. Ruth Robbins and Julian Wolfreys. Houndsmill:
Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's, 1996.
- Voskuil, Lynn M. "Feeling Public: Sensation Theater, Commodity
Culture, and the Victorian Public Sphere." Victorian Studies
44.2 (Winter 2002): 245-274.
- Wynne, Deborah. The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family
Magazine. Houndsmill and New York: Palgrave, 2001.
Darwinism:
- Beer, Gillian. Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in
Darwin, George Eliot, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction. London:
Routledge, 1983.
- Burrow, J. W. Evolution and Society: A Study in Victorian
Social Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966.
- Draenos, Stan. Freud's Odyssey: Psychoanalysis and the End
of Metaphysics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
- Levine, George. Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science
in Victorian Fiction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1988.
- Lombroso, Cesare. The Man of Genius. Trans. Anonymous.
London: W. Scott Pub. Co., 1910.
- Ritvo, Harriet. The Animal Estate: The English and Other
Creatures in the Victorian Age. Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University
Press, 1987.
- Stocking, George W., Jr. Victorian Anthropology. New
York: Macmillan, 1987.
Gender:
- Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion
of Identity. New York and London: Routledge, 1990.
- Crosby, Christina. The Ends of History: Victorians and "The
Woman Question." New York: Routledge, 1991.
- Cvetkovich, Ann. Mixed Feelings : Feminism, Mass Culture,
and Victorian Sensationalism. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers
University Press, 1992.
- Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic:
The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination.
New Haven : Yale University Press, 1979.
- Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: the Ideological Work of
Gender in Mid-Victorian England. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1988.
- Showalter, Elaine. Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at
the Fin de Siècle. New York: Viking, 1990.
- Rewriting the Victorians: Theory, History, and the Politics
of Gender. Edited by Linda M.Shires. New York: Routledge,
1992.
- Tuchman, Gaye. Edging Women Out: Victorian Novelists, Publishers,
and Social Change. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
- Warhol, Robyn R. Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse
in the Victorian Novel. New Brunswick : Rutgers University
Press, 1989.
Imperialism:
- Bivona, Daniel. Desire and Contradiction: Imperial Visions
and Domestic Debates in Victorian Literature. Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 1990.
- __________. British Imperial Literature, 1870-1940: Writing
and the Administration of Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge UP,
1998.
- Brantlinger, Patrick. Rule of Darkness: British Literature
and Imperialism, 1830-1914. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988.
- Bongie, Chris. Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism,
and the Fin de Siècle. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 1991.
- David, Deirdre. Rule Britannia: Women, Empire, and Victorian
Writing. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1995.
- Hobson, J. A. Imperialism: A Study. London: George Allen
and Unwin, 1938 [1902].
- Hyam, Ronald. Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience.
Manchester: Manchester UP, 1990.
- Imperialism and Popular Culture. Ed. John M. Mackenzie.
Manchester: Manchester UP, 1986.
- Krebs, Paula M. Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire:
Public Discourse and the Boer War. Cambridge: Cambridge UP,
1999.
- McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather. New York and London:
Routledge, 1995.
- Nation and Narration. Ed. Homi K. Bhabha. New York and
London: Routledge, 1990.
- Richards, Thomas. The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the
Fantasy of Empire. London and New York: Verso, 1993.
- Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Vintage, 1979.
- __________. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Knopf,
1993.
- Sharpe, Jenny. Allegories of Empire: The Figure of Woman
in the Colonial Text. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 1993.
- Tidrick, Kathryn. Empire and the English Character. London:
I.B. Tauris and Co., 1992.
General:
- Altick, Richard D. Victorian People and Ideas. New York
and London: Norton, 1973.
- Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on
the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London and New York:
Verso, 1991.
- Harpham, Geoffrey Galt. The Ascetic Imperative in Culture
and Criticism. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press,1987.
- Hobsbawm, E. J. Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present
Day. London: Penguin, 1999.
- Poovey, Mary. A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge
in the Sciences of Wealth and Society. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press, 1998.
- __________. Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation,
1830-1864. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
- Thompson, F. M. L. The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social
History of Victorian Britain, 1830-1900. London: HarperCollins,
1988.
The Novel:
- Brooks, Peter. Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention
in Narrative. Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard UP, 1992.
- Kucich, John. Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte
Brontë, George Eliot, and Charles Dickens. Berkeley :
University of California Press, 1987.
- Litvak, Joseph. Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century
English Novel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
- Miller, D. A. The Novel and the Police. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1988.
Sexuality Studies:
- Dollimore, Jonathan. Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde,
Freud to Foucault. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
- Dowling, Linda. Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian
Oxford. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1994.
- Ellis, Havelock. The Psychology of Sex. London: W. Heinemann,
Medical Books, 1942.
- Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish. Trans. Alan
Sheridan. New York: Random House, 1979.
- __________. The History of Sexuality. Vols. 1-3. Trans.
Robert Hurley. New York: Random House, 1980.
- Freud, Sigmund. Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Trans.
James Strachey. New York: Liveright, 1950.
- __________. Civilization and Its Discontents. Trans.
James Strachey. New York: Norton, 1962 [1927].
- __________. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality.
Trans. James Strachey. New York and London: London: Imago, 1949
[1907].
- __________. Totem and Taboo. Trans. A. A. Brill. New
York: Random House, 1946 [1914].
- Kincaid, James. Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian
Culture. New York and London: Routledge, 1992.
- Malinowski, Bronislaw. Sex and Repression in Savage Society.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985 [1927].
- Marcus, Steven. The Other Victorians; a Study of Sexuality
and Pornograhy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England. New York:
Basic, 1966.
- Mason, Michael. The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes.
Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1994.
- Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Between Men: English Literature and
Male Homosocial Desire. New York: Columbia University Press,
1985.
- __________. Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1990.
- Sinfield, Alan. The Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde,
and the Queer Movement. London: Cassell, 1994.
- Sussman, Herbert. Victorian Masculinities: Manhood and Masculine
Poetics in Early Victorian Literature and Art. Cambridge ;
New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
- Weeks, Jeffrey. Against Nature: Essays on History, Sexuality,
and Identity. London: Rivers Oram, 1991.
- __________. Sex, Politics, and Society: the Regulation of
Sexuality Since 1800. London and New York: Longman, 1981
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