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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