Bibliographic Resources

Contents

• Resources on the Web (General Victorian pages - Author pages listed under names of each novelist)
• Intellectual and Cultural Texts (1851-1867)
• Victorian Novel (General critical studies)
• Industrial Novel (Cross references)
• Sensation Fiction (Cross references)
• Historical Contexts (Emphasis on mid-nineteenth-century England)
• Commodity in Mid-Victorian Literature and Culture (Cross references)
• Great Exhibition (Cross references)
• Sexuality in Mid-Victorian Literature and Culture (Cross references)
• Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Charlotte Bronte
• Wilkie Collins
• Charles Dickens
• George Eliot
• Elizabeth Gaskell
• William Makepeace Thackeray
• Anthony Trollope

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Resources on the Web

• Victorian Web Sites (The most comprehensive list of web sites on Victorian literature. Maintained by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University, Japan.)
• Voice of the Shuttle: Victorian (The model for all academic resource pages--rigorous conceptual organization of the database. Maintained by Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara.)
• Victorian Web (Elegant web-based hypertext on Victorian literature and culture, covering topics such as Social Context, Economics, Science, Technology, Politics, Literature, and the Visual Arts. Maintained by George P. Landow, Brown University.)
• Literary Resources - Victorian British (Easy-to-use list of Victorian web sites. Maintained by Jack Lynch, University of Pennsylvania.)
• Victoria Research Web (Web site for the Victoria listserve; contains search engine for the Victoria list archive and other valuable resources.  Maintained by Patrick Leary, Indiana University, Dept. of History.)
• LITIR Database on Victorian Studies (Bibliography of current and forthcoming books and articles on the period. Maintained by Brahma Chaudhuri, University of Alberta.)
• Web-Cite (A knowledge-base of online scholarly materials relevant to literary and cultural studies, indexed by period and genre)
• General Bibliography of Nineteenth Century Theatre (Maintained by University of Washington, School of Drama.)
• E-texts of Victorian literature
• The Modern English Collection (Part of the Electronic Text Center--one of the largest and most scholarly archives of E-texts on the web. Maintained by Jerome McGann, University of Virginia.)
• British Poetry 1780-1910 (Part of the Electronic Text Center.)
• Victorian Women Writers Project (Scholarly transcriptions of numerous hard-to-find texts.  Maintained by Perry Willett, Indiana University.)
• The 19th Century London Stage (Web-based hypertext. Maintained by Jack Wolcott and Joan Robertson, University of Washington, School of Drama.)
• The Victoriana Library (Articles on Victorian material culture drawn from nineteenth-century periodicals.)
• Chronologies of the period
• A Nineteenth-Century British Timeline (Maintained by Robert Brinlee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute.)
• Literature in Great Britain, 1700 to the Present: A Chronology (Part of the Victorian Web. Maintained by George P. Landow, Brown University.)

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Intellectual and Cultural Texts (1851-1867)

• Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (1867)
• Isabella Mary Beeton, The Book of Household Management (1861)
• Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species (1859)
• Hypertext version
• Edwin M. Eigner and George J. Worth (eds.), Victorian Criticism of the Novel (1986)
• Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857)
• E-text version
• The Germ. A Hypermedia Critical Edition
• Alexander William Kinglake, The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of its Progress down to the Death of Lord Raglan (1863)
• Harriet Martineau, British Rule in India: A Historical Sketch (1857)
• Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)
• Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (1861) [cross references]
• John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University (1852)
• George R. Porter, The Progress of the Nation (1851)
• Samuel Smiles, Self-Help (1859)
• John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism (1862)
• E-text version
• Florence Nightingale, Writings
• Caroline Norton, English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century (1854)
• Hypertext version
• C. S. Roundell, England and her Subject Races, with special reference to Jamaica (1866)
• John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies (1865) [cross references]

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Victorian Novel (General Critical Studies)

• Dennis W. Allen, Sexuality in Victorian Fiction (1993) [cross references]
• Amanda Anderson, Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (1993) [cross references]
• Review by George Watt (complete text - NCL)
• Nancy Armstrong, Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (1987)
• Nina Auerbach, Communities of Women: An Idea In Fiction (1978)
• Nina Auerbach, Woman and the Demon: The Life of A Victorian Myth (1982) [cross references: Collins, Thackeray]
• J. E. Baker, The Novel and the Oxford Movement (1932)
• Richard Barickman, Susan MacDonald, and Myra Stark, Corrupt Relations: Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, Collins and the Victorian Sexual System (1982)
• Gillian Beer, Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1983)
• Patricia Beer, Reader, I Married Him: A Study of the Women Characters of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot (1974)
• Carol L. Bernstein, The Celebration of Scandal: Toward the Sublime in Victorian Urban Fiction (1991)
• Rosemarie Bodenheimer, The Politics of Story in Victorian Social Fiction (1991) [cross references: Industrial Novel, Gaskell]
• Christine van Boheemen, The Novel as Family Romance: Language, Gender, and Authority from Fielding to Joyce (1987) [cross references]
• Joseph Allen Boone, Tradition Counter Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction (1987) [cross references]
• Patrick Brantlinger, The Spirit of Reform: British Literature and Politics, 1832-1867 (1977)
• Patrick Brantlinger, Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914 (1988)
• Julia Prewitt Brown, A Reader's Guide to the Nineteenth Century English Novel (1986)
• Louis Cazamian, The Social Novel in England, 1830-50: Dickens, Disraeli, Mrs. Gaskell, Kingsley, trans. Martin Fido (1903) [cross references]
• Janice Carlisle, The Sense of An Audience: Dickens, Thackeray and George Eliot at Mid-Century (1981) [cross references]
• David Cecil, EarlyVictorian Novelists: Essays in Revaluation (1935)
• Karen Chase, Eros and Psyche: The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot (1984) [cross references]
• Kathryn Chittick, Dickens and the 1830s (1990)
• Jay Clayton, Romantic Vision and the Novel (1987)
• Paula Marantz Cohen, The Daughter's Dilemma: Family Process and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel (1992)
• Tess Cosslett, Woman To Woman: Female Friendship in Victorian Fiction (1988)
• Christopher Craft, Another Kind Of Love: Male Homosexual Desire In English Discourse, 1850-1920 (1994) [cross references]
• Christina Crosby, The Ends of History: Victorians and "the Woman Question" (1991) [cross references]
• Ann Cvetkovich, Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, And Victorian Sensationalism (1993) [cross references]
• Deirdre David, Fictions of Resolution in Three Victorian Novels: North and South, Our Mutual Friend, Daniel Deronda (1981) [cross references]
• Lloyd Davis (ed), Virginal Sexuality and Textuality in Victorian Literature (1993) [cross references]
• Ian Duncan, Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel: The Gothic, Scott, Dickens (1992)
• Elizabeth Ermarth, Realism and Consensus in the English Novel (1983)
• N. N. Feltes, Modes of Production of Victorian Novels (1986) [cross references: Commodity, Thackeray]
• N. N. Feltes, Literary Capital and the Late Victorian Novel (1993) [cross references]
• Avrom Fleishman, The English Historical Novel (1971)
• Kate Flint, The Woman Reader, 1837-1914 (1993)
• Regina Gagnier, Subjectivities: A History of Self-representation in Britain, 1832-1920 (1991)
• Catherine Gallagher, The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction: Social Discourse and Narrative Form, 1832-1867 (1985) [cross references: Industrial Novel, George Eliot, Gaskell]
• Peter K. Garrett, The Victorian Multiplot Novel: Studies in Dialogical Form (1979) [cross references]
• Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (1979) [cross references]
• Robin Gilmour, The Idea of the Gentleman in the Victorian Novel (1981)
• Robin Gilmour, The Novel in the Victorian Age (1986)
• Michal Peled Ginsburg, Economies of Change: Form and Transformation in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (1996) [cross references]
• Guinivere L. Griest, Mudie's Circulating Library and the Victorian Novel (1970)
• Josephine M. Guy, The Victorian Social-Problem Novel: The Market, the Individual and Communual Life (1996) [cross references]
• Elaine Hadley, Melodramatic Tactics: Theatricalized Dissent in the English Marketplace, 1800-1885 (1995)
• Review by James Goodwin (complete text - NCL)
• John Halperin, Egoism and Self-Discovery in the Victorian Novel (1974)
• Barbara Hardy, Forms of Feeling in Victorian Fiction (1985)
• Barbara Harman and Susan Meyer (ed.), The New Nineteenth Century: Feminist Readings of Underread Victorian Fiction (1996)
• Constance D. Harsh, Subversive Heroines: Feminist Resolutions of Social Crisis in the Condition-of-England Novel [cross references]
• John Harvey, Victorian Novelists and Their Illustrators (1971)
• Jeremy Hawthorn, The Nineteenth-Century British Novel (1986) [cross references]
• Christopher Herbert, Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the Nineteenth Century (1991)
• Michiel Heyns, Expulsion and the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Scapegoat in English Realist Fiction (1995)
• Margaret Homans, Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing (1986)
• Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund, The Victorian Serial (1991)
• Review by Rosemary T. Vanarsdel (complete text - NCL)
• Winifred Hughes, The Maniac in the Cellar: Sensation Novels of the 1860s (1980) [cross references: Sensation Novels, Braddon, Collins]
• Elizabeth Jay, The Religion of the Heart: Anglican Evangelicalism and the Nineteenth Century Novel (1979)
• P. J. Keating, The Working Classes in Victorian Fiction (1970) [cross references]
• Robert Kiely, Reverse Tradition: Postmodern Fictions and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (1993)
• U. C. Knoepflmacher, Religious Humanism and the Victorian Novel (1965)
• John Kucich, Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Charles Dickens (1987)
• John Kucich, The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction (1994)
• F. R. Leavis, The Great Tradition (1948)
• Laurie Langbauer, Women and Romance: the Consolations of Gender in the English Novel (1990)
• Review by Dianne Sadoff (complete text - NCL)
• Elizabeth Langland, Nobody's Angels: Middle-class Women and Domestic Ideology in Victorian Culture (1995)
• Review by Alison Booth (complete text - NCL)
• F. R. Leavis, The Great Tradition (1949) [cross references]
• George Levine, The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley (1981)
• George Levine, Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction (1988)
• Anita Levy, Other Women: The Writing of Class, Race, and Gender, 1832-1898 (1991)
• Joseph Litvak, Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel (1992) [cross references]
• Review by Nina Auerbach (complete text - NCL)
• Peter Melville Logan, Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose (1996)
• Tricia Lootens, Lost Saints: Silence, Gender, and Victorian Literary Canonization (1996)
• Steven Marcus, The Other Victorians (1964) [cross references]
• Robert B. Martin, The Triumph of Wit: A Study of Victorian Comic Theory (1974)
• Jill L. Matus, Unstable Bodies: Victorian Representations of Sexuality and Maternity (1995) [cross references: Sexuality, Braddon]
• Ivan Melada, The Captain of Industry in British Fiction 1821-1871 (1970) [cross references]
• Helena Michie, The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women's Bodies (1987)
• Andrew H. Miller, Novels Behind Glass: Commodity, Culture, and Victorian Narrative (1995) [cross references]
• D. A. Miller, The Novel and the Police (1988) [cross references: Sexuality, Collins, Dickens]
• J. Hillis Miller, The Disappearance of God (1963)
• J. Hillis Miller, The Form of Victorian Fiction (1968) [cross references]
• J. Hillis Miller, Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels (1982) [cross references]
• Barry Milligan, Pleasures and Pains: Opium and the Orient in Nineteenth-Century British Culture (1995)
• Steven Mintz, A Prison of Expectations: The Family in Victorian Culture (1983)
• Sally Mitchell, The Fallen Angel: Chastity, Class, and Women's Reading 1835-1880 (1981) [cross references]
• Ellen Moers, Literary Women: The Great Writers (1977)
• Susan Morgan, Sisters in Time: Imagining Gender in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (1991)
• David E. Musselwhite, Partings Welded Together: Politics and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel (1987) [cross references: Commodity, Dickens]
• Pauline Nestor, Female Friendships and Communities: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell (1985)
• Judith Lowder Newton, Women, Power and Subversion: Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860 [cross references]
• Deborah Epstein Nord, Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation, and the City (1995) [cross references]
• Jeff Nunokawa, The Afterlife of Property: Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel (1994) [cross references: Commodity, Sexuality]
• Review by Catherine Gallagher (complete text - NCL)
• Walter C. Phillips, Dickens, Reade, and Collins: Sensation Novelists (1919) [cross references: Sensation Fiction, Collins, Dickens]
• Robert M. Polhemus, Comic Faith: The Great Tradition from Austen to Joyce (1980)
• Robert M. Polhemus, Erotic Faith: Being in Love from Jane Austen to D. H. Lawrence (1990) [cross references]
• Mary Poovey, Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England (1988)
• Review by Elizabeth Helsinger (complete text - NCL)
• Mary Poovey, Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864 (1996)
• Mario Praz, The Hero in Eclipse in Victorian Fiction, trans. Angus Davidson (1956)
• Martin Price, Forms of Life: Character and Moral Imagination in the Novel (1983)
• Lyn Pykett, The "Improper" Feminine: The Women's Sensation Novel and the New Woman Writing (1992) [cross references: Sensation Novels, Braddon]
• Michael Ragussis, Acts of Naming: The Family Plot in Fiction (1986)
• Nicholas Rance, The Historical Novel and Popular Politics in Nineteenth-Century England (1975)
• Walter L. Reed, Meditations on the Hero: A Study of the Romantic Hero in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (1974)
• Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (1993)
• Dianne F. Sadoff, Monsters of Affection: Dickens, Eliot, and Bronte on Fatherhood (1982) [cross references]
• Andrew Sanders, The Victorian Historical Novel, 1840-1880 (1978) [cross references]
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985) [cross references]
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (1990) [cross references]
• Harvey E. Shaw, The Forms of Historical Fiction: Walter Scott and His Successors (1983)
• W. David Shaw, Victorians and Mystery: Crises of Representation (1990) [cross references]
• Peter L. Shillingsburg, Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray (1992)
• Elaine Showalter, A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing (1977) [cross references]
• David Simpson, Fetishism and Imagination: Dickens, Melville, Conrad (1987)
• Helen Small, Love's Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800-1865 (1996)
• Richard Stang, The Theory of the Novel in England 1850-1870 (1959)
• Garrett Stewart, Death Sentences: Styles of Dying in British Fiction (1984)
• Garrett Stewart, Dear Reader: The Conscripted Audience in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (1996)
• Kathryn Bond Stockton, God Between Their Lips: Desire Between Women in Irigaray, Bronte, and Eliot (1994) [cross references]
• Donald D. Stone, The Romantic Impulse in Victorian Fiction (1980)
• Patricia Stubbs, Women and Fiction: Feminism and the Novel, 1800-1920 (1981)
• John Sutherland, Victorian Novelists and Publishers (1976) [cross references]
• John Sutherland, The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction (1989)
• John Sutherland, Victorian Fiction: Writers, Publishers, Readers (1995)
• Geoffrey Tillotson, A View of Victorian Literature (1978)
• Kathleen Tillotson, Novels of the Eighteen-Forties (1954)
• J. Don Vann, Victorian Novels in Serial (1985)
• Martha Vicinus, The Industrial Muse: A Study of Nineteenth Century British Working Class Literature (1974) [cross references]
• John Vernon, Money and Fiction: Literary Realism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century (1984)
• Athena Vrettos, Somatic Fictions: Imagining Illness in Victorian Culture (1995) [cross references]
• Judith R. Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Night: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London (1992) [cross references]
• Robyn R. Warhol, Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel (1989)
• Ian Watt (ed.), The Victorian Novel: Modern Essays in Criticism (1971) [cross references: Industrial Novel, Collins, Dickens, George Eliot, Gaskell, Thackeray]
• Igor Webb, From Custom to Capital: The English Novel and the Industrial Revolution (1981) [cross references]
• R. K. Webb, The British Working Class Reader, 1790-1848: Literary and Social Tension (1955)
• Alexander Welsh, George Eliot and Blackmail (1985)
• Philip M. Weinstein, The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce (1984)
• Joseph Wiesenfarth, Gothic Manners and the Classic English Novel (1988)
• Merryn Williams, Women in the English Novel, 1800-1900 (1984)
• Raymond Williams, Culture and Society, 1780-1950 (1958) [cross references: Industrial Novel, George Eliot, Gaskell]
• Julian Wolfreys, Being English: Narratives, Idioms, and Performances of National Identity from Coleridge to Trollope (1994)
• Robert Lee Wolff, Gains and Losses: Novels of Faith and Doubt in Victorian England (1977)
• Ruth B. Yeazell, Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel (1991)

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Industrial Novel (Cross References)

• Rosemarie Bodenheimer
• Louis Cazamian
• Deirdre David
• Catherine Gallagher
• Constance D. Harsh
• P. J. Keating
• Henry Mayhew
• Martha Vicinus
• Igor Webb
• Raymond Williams; rpt. in Watt 142-64

Sensation Fiction (Cross References)

• Ann Cvetkovich
• Winifred Hughes
• Jonathan Loesberg
• Walter C. Phillips
• Lyn Pykett
• W. David Shaw
• Ronald R. Thomas
• see also the Braddon and Collins bibliographies

Historical Contexts

• R. D. Altick, The English Common Reader (1957)
• R. D. Altick, Victorian People and Ideas (1973)
• R. D. Altick, The Shows of London (1978)
• R. D. Altick, The Presence of the Present: Topics of the Day in the Victorian Novel (1991)
• Francois Bedarida, A Social History of England 1851-1890 (1976)
• Tony Bennett, "The Exhibitionary Complex" [cross references]
• Geoffrey Best, Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-1875 (1971)
• Asa Briggs, Victorian People: A Reassessment of Themes and People, 1851-1867 (1955) [cross references]
• Asa Briggs, The Age of Improvement (1959)
• Asa Briggs, Iron Bridge to Crystal Palace: Impact and Images of the Industrial Revolution (1979)
• Lucy Brown, Victorian News and Newspapers (1985)
• Susan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (1989) [cross references]
• Jerome Buckley, The Victorian Temper (1951)
• Jerome Buckley, The Triumph of Time: A Study of the Victorian Concepts of Time, History, Progress and Decadence (1966)
• R. L. Burn, The Age of Equipoise: A Study of the Mid-Victorian Generation (1964)
• S. G. Checkland, The Rise of Industrial Society in England 1815-1885 (1964)
• Jonathan Crary, Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century (1990)
• Mark Crinson, Empire Building: Orientalism and Victorian Architecture (1996)
• Lenore Davidoff and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850 (1987)
• H. J., Dyos, and Michael Wolff (ed.), The Victorian City, 2 vols. (1973)
• Peter Gay, The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud (1984) [cross references]
• Robin Gilmour, The Victorian Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1830-1890 (1993)
• Daniel R. Headrick, The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications And International Politics 1851- 1945 (New York: Oxford UP, 1991)
• Christopher Hibbert, The Great Mutiny: India 1857 (1978)
• Gertrude Himmelfarb, The Idea of Poverty (1984)
• E.J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital, 1848-1875 (1975)
• John Holloway, The Victorian Sage (1953)
• W. E. Houghton, The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870 (1959)
• Pat Jalland, Death in the Victorian Family (1996)
• T.A. Jenkins, The Liberal Ascendancy, 1830-1886 (1994)
• Gareth Stedman Jones, Languages Of Class: Studies In English Working Class History 1832- 1982 (1983)
• Friedrich A. Kittler, Discourse Networks 1800/1900, trans. Michael Metteer with Chris Cullens (1990)
• Neville Kirk, The Growth of Working Class Reformism in Mid-Victorian England (1985)
• Howard L. Malchow, Gentlemen Capitalists: The Social and Political World of the Victorian Businessmen (1992)
• Michael Mason, The Making of Victorian Sexuality (1994) [cross references]
• Michael Mason, The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes (1994) [cross references]
• John P. McGowan, Victorian Realism from Carlyle to Yeats (1986)
• Sally Mitchell (ed.), Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia (1992)
• Adrienne Munich, Queen Victoria's Secrets (1996)
• Jonathan Parry, The Rise and Fall of Liberal Government in Victorian Britain (1993)
• Daniel Pool, What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew (1993)
• Thomas Richards, The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914 (Stanford, CA: Stanford, 1990) [cross references]
• Murray Roston, Victorian Contexts: Literature and the Visual Arts (1996)
• G. R. Searle, Entrepeneurial Politics in Mid-Victorian Britain
• Donald Southgate, The Passing of the Whigs, 1832-1886 (1962)
• F.M.L. Thompson, The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830-1900
• James Vernon, Politics and the People: A Study in English Political Culture, c. 1815-1867
• J. R. Vincent, The Formation of the Liberal Party 1857-1868 (1966)
• Judith R. Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class and the State (1981) [cross references]
• Martin J. Wiener, English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850-1980 (1981) [cross references]
• Janet Wolff and John Seed (ed.), The Culture of Capital: Art, Power, and the Nineteenth-Century Middle Class (1988)
• G. M. Young, Victorian England: Portrait of an Age (1936)

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Commodity in Mid-Victorian Literature and Culture (Cross References)

• N. N. Feltes, Modes and Literary
• Josephine M. Guy
• Ivan Melada
• Andrew H. Miller
• David E. Musselwhite
• Jeff Nunokawa
• Thomas Richards
• Jennifer Wicke
• Martin J. Wiener

Great Exhibition (Cross references)

• Tony Bennett
• Asa Briggs, "The Crystal Palace and the Men of 1851," in Victorian People
• Asa Briggs, Iron Bridge
• Susan Buck-Morss
• Andrew H. Miller
• Thomas Richards

Sexuality in Mid-Victorian Literature and Culture (Cross References)

• Dennis W. Allen
• Amanda Anderson
• Joseph Allen Boone
• Christopher Craft
• Lloyd Davis
• Peter Gay
• Steven Marcus
• Michael Mason
• Jill L. Matus
• D. A. Miller
• Sally Mitchell
• Deborah Epstein Nord
• Robert M. Polhemus
• John Ruskin
• Dianne F. Sadoff
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men and Epistemology
• Kathryn Bond Stockton
• Judith R. Walkowitz, City and Prostitution

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

• Electronic versions of Lady Audley's Secret
• E-text (Victorian Sensationalism Online - published in Parts [under construction])
• Resources on the Web
• Victorian Sensationalism Online (Maintained by Andrew Mactavish, University of Alberta.)
• Biographies
• Robert L. Wolff, Sensational Victorian: The Life and Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1979)
• Contemporary Reviews
• Critical Books
• Articles and Chapters (on Lady Audley's Secret)
• Lynda Hart, "The Victorian Villainess and the Patriarchal Unconscious," Literature and Psychology 40:3 1994: 1-25
• Winifred Hughes
• Jonathan Loesberg, "The Ideology of Narrative Form in Sensation Fiction," Representations 13 (1986): 115-138 [cross references: Sensation Fiction, Collins]
• Jill L. Matus
• Lyn Pykett
• Articles and Chapters (on other aspects of Braddon)
• E. Arnold Bennett, "Miss Braddon," in Fame and Fiction: An Enquiry into Certain Popularities (1901)
• Patrick Brantlinger, "What is Sensational about the Sensational?" Nineteenth Century Fiction 37 (1982): 1-28
• Ronald R. Thomas
• Natalie Schroeder, "Feminine Sensationalism, Eroticism, and Self-Assertion: M. E. Braddon and Ouida," Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 7:1 (1988): 87-103
• Elaine Showalter

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Charlotte Brontë

• Electronic versions of Villette
• E-text (none available)
• Resources on the Web
• Charlotte's Web (Focuses on the juvenilia. Maintained by Susan Castellón Lunsford)
• Biographies
• Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857)
• Fanny E. Ratchford, The Brontës' Web of Childhood (1941)
• Winifred Gerin, Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of Genius (1967)
• Margot Peters, Unquiet Soul: A Biography of Charlotte Brontë (1975)
• Lyndall Gordon, Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life (1994)
• Contemporary Reviews
• Critical Books
• Carol Bock, Charlotte Brontë and the Storyteller's Audience (1992)
• Penny Boumelha, Charlotte Brontë (1990)
• W. A. Craik, The Brontë Novels
• Janet Gezari, Charlotte Brontë and Defensive Conduct: The Author and the Body at Risk (1992)
• C. A. Linder, Romantic Imagery in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë (1978)
• Robert B. Martin, Charlotte Brontë's Novels: The Accents of Persuasion (1966)
• John Maynard, Charlotte Brontë and Sexuality (1985)
• Helene Moglen, Charlotte Brontë: The Self Conceived (1976)
• Margot Peters, Charlotte Brontë: Style in the Novel (1973)
• Sally Shuttleworth, Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology (1996)
• Articles and Chapters (on Villette)
• Joseph Boone, "Depolicing Villette: Surveillance, Invisibility, and the Female Erotics of 'Heretic Narrative,'" Novel 26 (1992): 20-42
• Christina Crosby, "Charlotte Brontë's Haunted Text," Studies in English Literature 24 (1984): 713
• Nicholas Dames, "The Clinical Novel: Phrenology and Villette," Novel 29 (1996): 367-90
• Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, "The Buried Life of Lucy Snowe," ch. 12 in The Madwoman in the Attic
• Mary Jacobus, "The Buried Letter: Feminism and Romanticism in Villette," in Mary Jacobus (ed.), Women Writing and Writing about Women (1979)
• Karen Lawrence, "The Cypher: Disclosure and Reticence in Villette," Nineteenth-Century Literature 42 (1988): 448-66
• Joseph Litvak
• Brenda R. Silver, "The Reflecting Reader in Villette," in Elizbeth Abel, Marianne Hirsch, and Elizabeth Langland (ed.), The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development (1983)
• Athena Vrettos
• Articles and Chapters (on other aspects of Charlotte Brontë)
• Robert B. Heilman, "Charlotte Brontë's `New' Gothic" (1958); rpt. in The Victorian Novel: Modern Essays in Criticism, ed. Ian Watt (London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1971), pp. 165-80

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Wilkie Collins

• Electronic versions of The Woman in White
• E-text (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia - Recommended)
• E-text (Bibliomania)
• E-text (Victorian Sensationalism Online - published in Parts [under construction])
• Resources on the Web
• Victorian Sensationalism Online (Maintained by Andrew.Mactavish, University of Alberta.)
• British Sensation Fiction (Web-based hypertext on the connection between sensation fiction and the mystery novel. Maintained by Michael E. Grost, "a mystery fan who lives near Detroit, Michigan.")
• Wilkie Collins (Page of miscellaneous information. Maintained by Paul Lewis, "freelance journalist living in the U.K.")
• Wilkie Collins Appreciation Page (Page of miscellaneous information. Maintained by David R Grigg, "multimedia CD-Rom production and science fiction fanzine editor.")
• Biographies
• William M. Clarke, The Secret Life of Wilkie Collins (1988)
• Catherine Peters, The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins (1991)
• Review by Tamar Heller (NCL)
• Contemporary Reviews
• Norman Page (ed.), Wilkie Collins: The Critical Heritage (1974)
• Critical Books
• Tamar Heller, Dead Secrets: Wilkie Collins and the Female Gothic (1992)
• Sue A. Lonoff, Wilkie Collins and His Victorian Readers: A Study in the Rhetoric of Authorship (1982)
• Philip O'Neill, Wilkie Collins: Women, Property, Propriety (1988)
• Nicholas Rance, Wilkie Collins and other Sensation Novelists (1988)
• Articles and Chapters (on The Woman in White)
• Nine Auerbach, Woman and the Demon (135-43)
• Ann Cvetkovich
• Diane Elam, "White Narratology: Gender and Reference in Wilkie Collin's The Woman in White," in Davis
• Winifred Hughes
• D. A. Miller
• Walter C. Phillips
• John Sutherland (1995)
• Articles and Chapters (on other aspects of Collins)
• T. S. Eliot, "Wilkie Collins and Dickens" (1927), in Selected Essays, 1917-1932; rpt. in Watt (133-41)
• Jonathan Loesberg
• Ronald R. Thomas, "Wilkie Collins and the Sensation Novel," in The Columbia History of the British Novel, ed. John Richetti (1994) [cross references: Sensation Novel, Braddon]

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Charles Dickens

• Electronic versions of Bleak House
• E-texts (none available)
• Annotated hypertext (Under construction in Virginia Tech online course, "Bleak House and London")
• Resources on the Web
• The Dickens Page (Comprehensive site - maintained by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University, Japan.)
• The Dickens Project (Home Page of the Dickens Universe)
• Dicken on the Victorian Web (The Dickens Page of George Landow's site at Brown)
• Biographies
• John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens (1872-74)
• Edgar Johnson, Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph, 2 vols. (1952)
• Peter Ackroyd, Dickens (1990)
• Fred Kaplan, Dickens: A Biography (1988)
• Claire Tomalin, The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens (1990)
• Contemporary Reviews
• Philip Collins, ed., Dickens: The Critical Heritage (1971)
• Critical Books
• John Butt and Kathleen Tillotson, Dickens at Work (1957)
• John Carey, The Violent Effigy: A Study of Dickens's Imagination (1973)
• J. R. Cohen, Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators (1979)
• Philip Collins, Dickens and Crime (1962)
• Philip Collins, Dickens and Education (1964)
• George Ford, Dickens and His Readers: Aspects of Novel-Criticism Since 1836 (1955)
• Valerie Gager, Shakespeare and Dickens: The Dynamics of Influence (1996)
• Robert Garis, The Dickens Theater: A Reassessment of the Novels (1965)
• George Gissing, Charles Dickens: A Critical Study (1898)
• Joseph Gold, Charles Dickens: Radical Moralist (1972)
• Susan R. Horton, Interpreting Interpreting: Interpreting Dickens' "Dombey" (1979)
• Humphry House, The Dickens World (1941)
• Gail Turley Houston, Consuming Fictions: Gender, Class, and Hunger in Dickens's Novels (1994)
• Patricia Ingham, Dickens, Women and Language (1992)
• John Kucich, Excess and Restraint in the Novels of Charles Dickens (1981)
• F. R. & Q. D. Leavis, Dickens the Novelist (1970)
• R. C. Lehmann, Charles Dickens as Editor (1912)
• Steven Marcus, Dickens: From Pickwick to Dombey (1965)
• J. Hillis Miller, Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels (1959)
• Pam Morris, Dickens's Class Consciousness: A Marginal View (1991)
• Robert L. Patten, Charles Dickens and His Publishers (1978)
• Anny Sadrin, Parentage and Inheritance in the Novels of Charles Dickens (1994)
• Paul Schlicke, Dickens and the City (1978)
• Paul Schlicke, Dickens and Popular Entertainment (1985)
• Michael Slater, Dickens and Women (1983)
• Michael Steig, Dickens and Phiz (1978)
• Garrett Stewart, Dickens and the Trials of Imagination (1974)
• Harry Stone, The Night Side of Dickens: Cannibalism, Passion, Necessity (1993)
• Jeremy Tambling, Dickens, Violence, and the Modern State (1995)
• Alexander Welsh, The City of Dickens (1971)
• Alexander Welsh, From Copyright to Copperfield: The Identity of Dickens (1987)
• Articles, Chapters, and Books (on Bleak House)
• Harold Bloom (ed.), Charles Dickens's "Bleak House," (1987)
• Christine van Boheemen
• Alison Booth, "Middlemarch, Bleak House and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Novel Course," in Kathleen Blake (ed.), Approaches to Teaching Eliot's "Middlemarch" (1990)
• Dona Budd, "Language Couples in Bleak House" (complete text - NCL, September 1994)
• Karen Chase, "Bleak House: Plot Character, and the Tragic Sense" and "Family Feeling in a Bleak House," chs. 5-6 in Eros and Psyche
• Katherine Cummings, deconstructive-feminist reading of Bleak House, in Telling Tales: The Hysteric's Seduction in Fiction and Theory (1991)
• Carolyn M. Dever, "Broken Mirror, Broken Words: Autobiography, Prosopopeia, and the Dead Mother in Bleak House," Studies in the Novel 27 (1995): 42-62
• Robert Alan Donovan, "Structure and Idea in Bleak House," in Watt (83-109)
• Laura Fasick, "Dickens and Diseased Body in Bleak House," Dickens Studies Annual 24 (1996 )
• Elliot L. Gilbert (ed.), Critical Essays on Charles Dickens's "Bleak House," (1989)
• Michal Peled Ginsburg
• Helena Michie, "'Who Is This in Pain?': Scarring, Disfigurement, and Female Identity in Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend," Novel 22 (1989): 199-212
• J. Hillis Miller, "Introduction to Bleak House," Penguin Edition (1971)
• Robert Newsom, Dickens on the Romantic Side of Familiar Things: "Bleak House" and the Novel Tradition (1977)
• Robert Newsom, "Villette and Bleak House: Authorizing Women" (complete text - NCL, June 1991)
• Timothy Peltason, "Esther's Will," ELH 59 (1992): 671-91
• Allan Pritchard, "The Urban Gothic of Bleak House" (complete text - NCL, March 1991)
• Susan Shatto, The Companion to "Bleak House" (1988)
• Peter Thomas, "'The Narrow Track of Blood': Detection and Storytelling in Bleak House" (complete text - NCL, September 1995)
• Ronald R.Thomas, "Making Darkness Visible: Capturing the Criminal and Observing the Law in Victorian Photography and Detective Fiction," in Carol T. Christ and John O. Jordan (ed.), Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination (Berkeley : U of California P, 1995, 134-68)
• Alex Zwerdling, "Esther Summerson Rehabilitated," PMLA 88 (1973): 429-39
• Articles and Chapters (on other aspects of Dickens)
• Jay Clayton, "Dickens and The Genealogy Of Postmodernism" Nineteenth-Century Literature 46 (1991): 181-95 - (complete text)
• Jay Clayton, "Is Pip Postmodern? or, Dickens at the End of the Twentieth Century," in Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism: Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations," ed. Janice Carlisle (Boston: Bedford Books, 1995, 606-24)
• Jay Clayton, "Londublin: Dickens's London in Joyce's Dublin," Novel 28 (1995): 327-42
• Howard W. Fulweiler, "'A Dismal Swamp': Darwin, Design, and Evolution in "Our Mutual Friend" (complete text - NCL)
• Ned Lukacher, "Dialectical Images: Benjamin/Dickens/Freud," in Primal Scenes: Literature, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1986, 275-336)
• David E. Musselwhite, "The Commodification of the Novelist," in Partings Welded Together: Politics and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel (1987)
• Brian Rosenberg, "Character and Contradiction in Dickens" (complete text - NCL)
• Jennifer Wicke, "The Dickens Advertiser," in Advertising Fictions: Literature, Advertisement, and Social Reading (New York: Columbia UP, 1988) [cross references]
• Edmund Wilson, "Dickens: The Two Scrooges," in The Wound and the Bow (1941)

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George Eliot

• Electronic versions of Felix Holt
• E-text (Constructed by Peter Batke, Princeton University)
• Resources on the Web
• Virginia Woolf, "George Eliot" (E-text of Woolf's 1919 article. Maintained by Mary Mark Ockerbloom.)
• Biographies
• Gordon S. Haight, George Eliot, A Biography (1968)
• Ruby V. Redinger, The Emergent Self: The Life of George Eliot (1975)
• Rosemarie Bodenheimer, The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot, Her Letters and Fiction (1994)
• Review by Deirdre David (NCL)
• Letters, Essays, and Notebooks
• Gordon S. Haight (ed.), The George Eliot Letters, 9 vols. (1954-78)
• Thomas Pinney (ed.), Essays of George Eliot (1963)
• Joseph Wiesenfarth (ed.), George Eliot: A Writer's Notebook 1854-1879 and Uncollected Writings (1981)
• Contemporary Reviews
• David Carroll (ed.), George Eliot: The Critical Heritage (1971)
• Critical Books
• Dorothea Barrett, Vocation and Desire: George Eliot's Heroines (1989)
• Gillian Beer, George Eliot (1986)
• Alison Booth, Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf (1992)
• Mary Wilson Carpenter, George Eliot and the Landscape of Time: Narrative Form and Protestant Apocalyptic History (1986)
• David Carroll, George Eliot and the Conflict of Interpretations: A Reading of the Novels (1992)
• Daniel Cottom, Social Figures: George Eliot, Social History, and Literary Representation (1987)
• Philip Fisher, Making Up Society: The Novels of George Eliot (1981)
• Suzanne Graver, George Eliot and Community: A Study in Social Theory and Fictional Forms (1984)
• John Halperin, The Language of Meditation (1973)
• Barbara Hardy, The Novels of George Eliot: A Study in Form (1959)
• W. J. Harvey, The Novels of George Eliot (1961)
• Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone, The Transformation of Rage: Mourning and Creativity in George Eliot's Fiction (1994)
• U. C. Knoepflmacher, George Eliot's Early Novels: The Limits of Realism (1968)
• F. R. Leavis, The Great Tradition (1948)
• Robert Liddell, The Novels of George Eliot (1977)
• Carol A. Martin, George Eliot's Serial Fiction (1994)
• Alan Mintz, George Eliot and the Novel of Vocation (1978)
• K. M. Newton, George Eliot, Romantic Humanist: A Study of the Philosophic Structure of Her Novels (1980)
• B. J. Paris, Experiments in Life: George Eliot's Quest for Values (1965)
• Nancy L. Paxton, George Eliot and Herbert Spencer (1991)
• Bernard Semmel, George Eliot and the Politics of National Inheritance (1994)
• Sally Shuttleworth, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science: The Make-Believe of a Beginning (1984)
• Reva Stump, Movement and Vision in George Eliot's Novels (1959)
• Hugh Witemeyer, George Eliot and the Visual Arts (1979)
• Articles and Chapters (on Felix Holt)
• Alison Booth, "Not All Men Are Selfish and Cruel: Felix Holt as a Feminist Novel," in Antony H. Harrison and Beverly Taylor (ed.), Gender and Discourse in Victorian Literature and Art (1992)
• Catherine Gallagher
• Raymond Williams; rpt. in Watt 142-64
• Articles and Chapters (on other aspects of George Eliot)
• Andrew Dowling, "'The Other Side of Silence': Matrimonial Conflict and the Divorce Court in George Eliot's Fiction" - (complete text - NCL)
• F. R. Leavis

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Elizabeth Gaskell

• Electronic versions of North and South
• E-text (Maintained by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University, Japan.)
• Resources on the Web
• The Gaskell Web (Maintained by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University, Japan.)
• North and South Page (Part of the Victorian Web. Maintained by George Landow, Brown University)
• Biographies
• Winifred Gerin, Elizabeth Gaskell: A Biography (1976)
• Felicia Bonaparte, The Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester: The Life of Mrs. Gaskell's Demon (1992)
• Review by Alan Shelston (complete text - NCL)
• Jenny Uglow, Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories (1993)
• John Chapple, Elizabeth Gaskell: The Early Years (1997)
• Letters and Diaries
• Arthur Pollard and J. A. V. Chapple (eds.), The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell (1967)
• Anita C. Wilson and John Chapple (eds.), Private Voices: The Diaries of Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and Sophia Isaac Holland (1996)
• Contemporary Reviews
• Angus Easson (ed.), Elizabeth Gaskell: The Critical Heritage (1991)
• Critical Books
• Miriam Allott, Elizabeth Gaskell (1950)
• Robin B. Colby, "Some Appointed Work to Do": Women and Vocation in the Fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell (1995)
• W. A. Craik, Elizabeth Gaskell and the English Provincial Novel (1974)
• Enid L. Duthie, The Themes of Elizabeth Gaskell (1980)
• Angus Easson, Elizabeth Gaskell (1979)
• Kate Flint, Elizabeth Gaskell (1995)
• Margaret Gans, Elizabeth Gaskell: The Artist in Conflict (1969)
• A. B. Hopkins, Elizabeth Gaskell: Her Life and Work (1952)
• Coral Lansbury, Elizabeth Gaskell: The Novel of Social Crisis (1975)
• Arthur Pollard, Mrs. Gaskell: Novelist and Biographer (1965)
• Hilary M. Schor, Scheherezade in the Marketplace: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian Novel (1992)
• Jane Spencer, Elizabeth Gaskell (1993)
• Edgar Wright, Mrs. Gaskell: The Basis of Reassessment (1961)
• Terence Wright, Elizabeth Gaskell: 'We are Not Angels': Realism, Gender, Values (1995)
• Articles and Chapters (on North and South)
• Rosmarie Bodenheimer
• Deirdre David
• Dorice Williams Elliott, "The Female Visitor and the Marriage of Classes in Gaskell's North and South" (complete text - NCL)
• Catherine Gallagher
• Barbara Leah Harman, "In Promiscuous Company: Female Public Appearance in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South," Victorian Studies 31 (1988): 351-74
• Sally Minogue, "Gender and Class in Villette and North and South," in Problems for Feminist Criticism, ed. Minogue (1990)
• Judith Lowder Newton
• Raymond Williams; rpt. in Watt 142-64
• Valerie Wainwright, "Discovering Autonomy and Authenticity in North and South: Elisbeth Gaskell, John Stuart Mill, and the Liberal Ethic," Clio 23 (1994): 149-65
• Articles and Chapters (on other aspects of Gaskell)
• James Mulvihill, "Economies of Living in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford" (complete text - NCL)

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William Makepeace Thackeray

• Electronic versions of Henry Esmond
• E-text (none available)
• Resources on the Web
• William Makepeace Thackeray: A Brief Biography - Subsection of The Victorian Web
• Biography
• Gordon Ray, Thackeray: The Uses of Adversity, 1811-1846 (1955) and Thackeray: The Age of Wisdom, 1847-1863 (1958)
• Contemporary Reviews
• Geoffrey Tillotson and Donald Hawes, eds., Thackeray: The Critical Heritage (1968)
• Critical Books
• John Carey, Thackeray: Radical Genius (1977)
• Michael M. Clarke, Thackeray and Women (1995)
• R. A. Colby, Thackeray's Canvass of Humanity: An Author and His Public (1979)
• Edgar F. Harden, The Emergence of Thackeray's Serial Fiction (1979)
• Edgar F. Harden, Thackeray's English Humourists and Four Georges (1986)
• Barbara Hardy, The Exposure of Luxury: Radical Themes in Thackeray (1972)
• John Loofbourow, Thackeray and the Form of Fiction (1964)
• Michael Lund, Reading Thackeray (1988)
• Juliet McMaster, Thackeray: The Major Novels (1971)
• Jack P. Rawlins, Thackeray's Novels: Fiction That Is True (1974)
• John Sutherland, Thackeray at Work (1974)
• Deborah Thomas, Thackeray and Slavery (1993)
• Geoffrey Tillotson, Thackeray the Novelist (1954)
• Articles and Chapters (on Henry Esmond)
• Nine Auerbach, Woman and the Demon (89-101)
• Janice Carlisle, "From Henry Esmond to The Virginians: The Loss of Faith" in Carlisle
• Karen Chase, "The Kindness of Consanguinity: Family History in Henry Esmond," Modern Language Studies 16 (1986): 213-26
• Christina Crosby, "Henry Esmond and the Subject of History," in Crosby
• Laurence Lerner, "The Unsaid in Henry Esmond," Essays in Criticism 45 (1995): 141-57
• Georg Lukacs, "Making History Private: Henry Esmond," Watt (266-72)
• J. Hillis Miller, Form of Victorian Fiction (17-25)
• J. Hillis Miller, "Henry Esmond: Repetition and Irony" in Fiction and Repetition
• J. M. Rignall, "Thackeray's Henry Esmond and the Struggle against the Power of Time" in Hawthorn
• Andrew Sanders, "Clio's Heroes and Thackeray's Heroes: Henry Esmond and The Virginians" in Sanders
• Elaine Scarry, "Henry Esmond: The Rookery at Castlewood," in Literary Monographs, Vol. 7: Thackeray, Hawthorne and Melville, and Dreiser, ed. Eric Rothstein and Joseph Anthony Wittreich, Jr. (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1975)
• John Sutherland, "Henry Esmond: The Shaping Power of Contract," in Sutherland, Victorian Novelists and Publishers
• Articles and Chapters (on other aspects of Thackeray)
• Gary R. Dyer, "The 'Vanity Fair' of Nineteenth-Century England: Commerce, Women, and the East in the Ladies' Bazaar" (complete text - NCL)
• Laura Fasick, "Thackeray's Treatment of Writing and Painting" (complete text - NCL)

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Anthony Trollope

• Electronic versions of The Last Chronicle of Barset
• E-text (none available)
• Resources on the Web
• Biographies
• N. John Hall, Trollope: A Biography (1991)
• Review by Juliet McMaster (complete text - NCL)
• Victoria Glendinning, Anthony Trollope (1993)
• Review by Ruth ApRoberts (complete text - NCL)
• Contemporary Reviews
• Donald Smalley, ed., Trollope: The Critical Heritage (1969)
• David Skilton, ed., Anthony Trollope and His Contemporaries (1972)
• Critical Books
• Ruth apRoberts, The Moral Trollope (1971)
• T. E. Bareham, ed., Anthony Trollope (1980)
• Bradford A. Booth, Anthony Trollope: Aspects Of His Life And Art (1958)
• A. O. J. Cockshut, Anthony Trollope: A Critical Study (1955)
• N. John Hall, ed., The Trollope Critics (1980)
• John Halperin, Trollope and Politics (1977)
• John Halperin, ed., Trollope Centenary Essays (1982)
• Christopher Herbert, Trollope and Comic Pleasure (1987)
• Walter Kendrick, The Novel-Machine: The Theory and Fiction of Anthony Trollope (1980)
• James R. Kincaid, The Novels of Anthony Trollope (1977)
• Coral Lansbury, The Reasonable Man: Trollope's Legal Fictions (1981)
• Shirley R. Letwin, The Gentleman in Trollope: Individuality and Moral Conduct (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1982)
• Juliet McMaster, Trollope's Palliser Novels: Theme and Pattern (1979)
• Jane Nardin, He Knew She Was Right: The Independent Woman in the Novels of Anthony Trollope (Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1989)
• Robert M. Polhemus, The Changing World of Anthony Trollope (1968)
• Arthur Pollard, Anthony Trollope (1978)
• L. J. Swingle, Romanticism and Anthony Trollope: A Study in the Continuities of Nineteenth-Century Literary Thought (1990)
• R. C. Terry, Anthony Trollope: The Artist in Hiding (1978)
• Robert Tracy, Trollope's Later Novels (1978)
• Andrew Wright, Anthony Trollope: Dream and Art (1983)
• Articles and Chapters (on The Last Chronicle of Barset)
• Peter Garrett (pp. 190-203)
• Articles and Chapters (on other aspects of Trollope)

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