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Supplementary Reading and Resource List

Adams, James Eli. Dandies and desert saints : styles of Victorian masculinity (1995)

Agress, Lynne.  Women on women in Early Nineteenth-Century English Literature. (1978).

Altick, Richard.  Victorian People and Ideas  (1973)

Armstrong, Isobel.  Victorian Poetry: Poetry, poetics, and politics (1993).

Auerbach, Nina.  Woman and the Demon : The Life of a Victorian Myth (1982)

Auerback, Nina.  Private Theatricals: the Lives of the Victorians. (1990) 

Branca, Patricia.  Silent Sisterhood: Middle-Class Women in the Victorian Home (1975)

Briggs, Asa  Victorian Things (1989)

Buckley, Jerome Hamilton.  The Victorian Temper : A Study in Literary Culture (1951)

Christ, Carol T. The Finer Optic : the Aesthetic of Particularity in Victorian Poetry (1975)

Dale, Peter Allan, The Victorian critic and the idea of history : Carlyle, Arnold, Pater (1977)

Davis, Lloyd.  Virginal Sexuality and Textuality in Victorian Literature (1993)

Gallagher, Catherine.  The Industrial Reformation of the English Novel: Social

 Discourse and Narrative Form, 1832-1867 (1985)  

Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar.  The Madwoman in the Attic. (1979)

Gilmour, Robin.  The Victorian Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature 1830-1890 (1993)

Hickok, Kathleen.  Representations of Women: Nineteenth-Century British Women’s Poetry (1984)

Johnson, E. D. H. The Alien Vision of Victorian Poetry (1952)

Langbaum, Robert.  The Poetry of Experience (1957)

Leighton, Angela.  Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart (1992)

Levine, Philippa.  Victorian Feminisms 1850-1900 (1987)

Marcus, Steven. The other Victorians : A Study of Sexuality and  Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England (1977)

Mason, Michael.  The Making of Victorian Sexuality (1994)

Mill, John Stuart.  The Subjection of Women  Ed. Susan Moller Okin (1988)

Miller, J. Hillis.  The Disappearance of God (1963) 

Mitchell, Sally, ed. Victorian Britain :  An Encyclopedia (1988)

Poovey, Mary.  Making a Social Body : British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864 (1995) 

---.       Uneven Developments : The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England (1988)

Reed, John Robert, Victorian conventions  (1975)

Shaw, W. David The Lucid Veil : Poetic Truth in the Victorian Age (1987)

Showalter, Elaine. Speaking of Gender (1989)

Sinfield, Alan.  Dramatic Monologue (1977)

Trudgill, Eric.  Madonnas and Magdalens: The Origins and Development of Victorian Sexual Attitudes  (1976) 

Vicinus, Martha, ed.  Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age (1972)

Walkowitz, Judith.  Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State (1980)

Journals

English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920

Journal of Victorian Culture

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Nineteenth-century Fiction

Victorian Literature and Culture

Victorian Periodicals Review

Victorian Review

Victorians Institute Journal

Victorian Poetry

Victorian Studies

Victorian Studies Bulletin

English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920

Journal of Narrative Theory