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.
• 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.

Industrialism and Social Class:

• Cannadine, David. The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy. New York: Doubleday, 1990.
• Gallagher, Catherine. The Industrial Revolution of English Fiction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
• Perkin, Harold. The Rise of Professional Society: England Since 1880. London and New York: Routledge, 1989.
• Stedman Jones, Gareth. The Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History, 1832-1982. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983.
• Thompson, E.P. The Making of the English Working Class. New York: Random House, 1966.

General:

• Altick, Richard D. Victorian People and Ideas. New York and London: Norton, 1973.
• Harpham, Geoffrey Galt. The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press,1987.
• 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:

• 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. 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].
• 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.
• 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.