A Brief Supplemental Reading List
(These are just the highlights organized by topic)
Industrialism and Social Class:
- Booth, Charles. Life and Labour of the People in London. New
York: AMS, 1970 [reprint of the 1902-04 edition].
- Booth, William. In Darkest England, and the Way Out. New
York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1890.
- Braverman, Harry. Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation
of Work in the Twentieth Century. New York: Monthly Review Press,
1974.
- Cannadine, David. The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy.
New York: Doubleday, 1990.
- Cobbett, William. Rural Rides. London: J. M. Dent, 1912 [1825].
- Engels, Frederick. The Condition of the Working Class in England
in 1844. Trans. Florence Kelley Wischnewtzky. London: Allen and
Unwin, 1952 [first English translation: 1892].
- Gagnier, Regenia. Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation
in Britain, 1832-1920. New York: Oxford UP, 1991.
- Gallagher, Catherine. The Industrial Revolution of English Fiction.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
- Gaskell, Elizabeth. North and South. Ed. Dorothy Collin.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971 [1854].
- Gender and Class in Modern Europe. Edited Laura L. Frader
and Sonya Rose. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1996.
- Himmelfarb, Gertrude. The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early
Industrial Age. New York: Knopf, 1984.
- Keating, Peter J. The Working Classes in Victorian Fiction. New
York: Barnes and Noble, 1971.
- Mayhew, Henry. London Labour and the London Poor. New York:
Dover 1968 [1861-1862].
- Mearns, Andrew. The Bitter Cry of Outcast London. Edited
with introd. by Anthony S. Wohl. New York, Humanities Press, 1970
[1885].
- Perkin, Harold. The Rise of Professional Society: England Since
1880. London and New York: Routledge, 1989.
- Stallybrass, Peter and Allon White. The Politics and Poetics
of Transgression. London: Methuen, 1986.
- Stedman Jones, Gareth. The Languages of Class: Studies in English
Working Class History, 1832-1982. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983.
- __________. Outcast London: A Study in the Relationship Between
Classes in Victorian Society. Oxford: Clarendon, 1971.
- Thompson, E.P. The Making of the English Working Class. New
York: Random House, 1966.
- Thompson, F. M. L. The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social
History of Victorian Britain, 1830-1900. London: HarperCollins,
1988.
- Watt, Ian P. The Rise of the Novel. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1964.
- Webb, Beatrice. The Diary of Beatrice Webb. Edited by Norman
and Jeanne MacKenzie. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1982-1985.
- Wohl, Anthony S. The Eternal Slum: Housing and Social Policy
in Victorian London. London: E. Arnold, 1977.
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.
- Poovey, Mary. 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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