Library Guides (University of Alberta, Canada)

Victorian English Literature

Handbooks and guides which provide background information on Victorian Literature include the following:

(UF STUDENTS NOTE: THESE CALL NUMBERS MAY DIFFER IN OUR LIBRARY--this list comes from the Internet)

• Cambridge history of English literature
  PR 83 C17 HSS RF, HSS

• English prose and criticism in the nineteenth century: a guide to information sources
  PR 771 N72 1981 HSS RF

• Nineteenth century English literature criticism
  PN 761 N72 1981 HSS RF, HSS

• Oxford history of English literature v.11-12
  PR 83 O98 HSS RF

• A reader's guide to the nineteenth century English novel
  PR 861 B87 1985 HSS RF

• The Stanford companion to Victorian fiction.
  PR 871 S966 1989 HSS RF

• Victorian fiction
  PR 873 S84 1978 HSS

• Victorian novelists before 1885
  PR 871 V644 1983 HSS RF

• Victorian novelists after 1885
  PR 871 V645 1983 HSS RF

• The Victorian period, excluding the novel.
  PR 105 V64 1983 HSS

• The Victorian poets
  PR 593 F27 1968 HSS

• Victorian prose
  PR 781 D34 1973 HSS

• Women and British periodicals, 1832-1867
  HQ 110 Z9 P17 1976 HSS

• Annual bibliography of English language and literature.
  PR 19 Z1 M6 1920- HSS RF

• Annual bibliography of Victorian studies.
  PR 461 A62 1976- HSS RF

• British humanities index
  AI 3 B86 1962- HSS RF

• Humanities index
  AI 1 H92 1974- HSS RF

• MLA international bibliography
  PB 1 M58 1921- HSS RF
  • also available on CD-ROM, 1963-

• Poole's index to periodical literature
  AI 3 P82 1802-1906 HSS RF

• Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals, 1824-1900
  Z 2005 W45 1966 HSS RF

Key Journals in the field include:

• LITIR newsletter of Victorian studies.
  PR 461 L77 1983- HSS PER

• Newsletter of the Victorian studies association of western Canada.
  PR 461 V64 1972- HSS PER

• Nineteenth-century fiction.
  PR 873 A1 N71 1945- HSS PER

• Victorian newsletter.
  PR 461 V636 1960- HSS PER

• Victorian studies.
  PR 1 V64 1957- HSS PER