Overview of Victorian History and Culture:

• Charles Booth's Descriptive Map of London Poverty
• Encyclopaedia of British History
• The Victorian Web (On "Social Class")
  
• The Victorian Women Writers Project
• Victorian Web Sites
• McMaster University's Archive for the History of Economic Thought
  

Bibliography:

• LITIR Victorian Database
• ASU Library Databases Accessible Without PPP [asurite ID required]
  
• Project Muse [ASU PPP or on-campus connection required]
• The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism [ASU PPP or on-campus connection required]
  
• The Best Search Engine: Google

Keyword-searchable etexts from our syllabus:

• Mansfield Park
• Bleak House
• Felix Holt, the Radical
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles
• Nostromo

Keyword-searchable etexts not on our syllabus:

• Mayhew, Henry. London Labour and the London Poor [1851, 1861-2]
  
• Literature Online (Chadwyck Healy) [ASU PPP or on-campus connection required]

Background Articles:

• General: Lauren M. E. Goodlad, "'Making the Working Man Like Me': Charity, Pastorship, and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain; Thomas Chalmers and Dr. James Phillips Kay" VS 43.4 (2001) 591-617 (online reserve).

• Austen: Jane Austen on the Victorian Web, Manners, Marriage, Money
  
• From JSTOR:
  • David Monagham, "Mansfield Park and Evangelicalism: A Reassessment" NCF 33.2 (Sept. 1978): 215-230.
  • Joseph Litvak, "The Infection of Acting: Theatricals and Theatricality in Mansfield Park." ELH 53.2 (Summer, 1986): 331-355.
  • Ruth Bernard Yeazell, "The Boundaries of Mansfield Park" Representations 7 (Summer, 1984): 133-152.
    

• Disraeli: Disraeli on the Victorian Web, The Oxford Movement, Augustus Pugin and the Gothic Revival, Chartism, The Reform Acts
  • Dan Bivona, "Disraeli's Political Trilogy and the Antinomic Structure of Imperial Desire." Novel 22.3 (Spring 1989):. 305-325. [Reprinted in Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism. Vol. 79. Detroit: Gale Research Press, 1999]. (online reserve)
    
• From JSTOR:

Catherine Gallagher, "The Politics of Culture and the Debate over Representation" Representations 5 (Winter, 1984): 115-147.

• The "Abbot Samson" chapters of Carlyle's Past and Present (1843)

 

• Dickens: Dickens on the Victorian Web, Victorian London, Social Class
• From JSTOR:
• D. A. Miller, "Discipline in Different Voices: Bureaucracy, Police, Family, and Bleak House" Representations 1 (Feb., 1983): 59-89.
• Dominick LaCapra, "Ideology and Critique in Dickens's Bleak House" Representations 6 (Spring, 1984): 116-123.

 

• Eliot: George Eliot on the Victorian Web, The Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot
  
  • From JSTOR:
    • Catherine Gallagher, "The Politics of Culture and the Debate over Representation" Representations 5 (Winter, 1984): 115-147.
  • Oliver Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village, A Poem" (1770)

   

• Arnold: Arnold on the Victorian Web

• Hardy: Hardy on the Victorian Web

• Morrison:
  
  • Tina Young Choi, "Writing the Victorian City: Discourses of Risk, Connection, and Inevitability" VS 43.4 (2001) 561-589 (online reserve)

   

• Kipling: Kipling on the Victorian Web

• Conrad: Conrad on the Victorian Web