ENL 3251 VICTORIAN LITERATURE
Dr. C. Snodgrass, 4336 Turlington, 376-8362, snod@english.ufl.edu

BRIEF LIST OF POSSIBLE SECONDARY READINGS

GENERAL BACKGROUND

Walter Houghton, The Victorian Frame of Mind

D. C. Somervell, English Thought in the Nineteenth Century

Morse Peckham, Beyond the Tragic Vision

Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death

Georges Bataille, Death and Sensuality

John R. Reed, Victorian Conventions

Daniel Pool, What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew

Julia Prewitt Brown, A Reader’s Guide to the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

Michael Mason, The Making of Victorian Sexuality

Roy Porter & Lesley Hall, The Facts of Life: . . . Sexual Knowledge in Britain

Sally Mitchell, Daily Life in Victorian England

Victorian Web, http://ernie.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Victorian.html

QUESTIONING GOD, COUNTRY, AND CULTURE

J. Hillis Miller, The Disappearance of God

Robert Bernard Martin, Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart (biography)

Dwight Culler, The Poetry of Tennyson
James R. Kincaid, Tennyson’s Major Poems

David Shaw, Tennyson’s Style

Park Honan, Matthew Arnold: A Life (biography)

Dwight Culler, Imaginative Reason: The Poetry of Matthew Arnold

John Pick, Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poet and Priest (biography)

Daniel A. Harris, Unbidden Inspirations: The “Terrible Sonnets” of Hopkins

Frank McLynn, Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography

Vedder and Hirsch, eds., Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde After One Hundred Years

LOVE, MARRIAGE, AND “THE WOMAN QUESTION”

Irvine & Honan, The Book, the Ring, & the Poet: A Biography of Robert Browning

Robert Langbaum, The Poetry of Experience (Browning)

W. David Shaw, The Dialectical Temper (Browning)

John Berger, Ways of Seeing

W. J. T. Mitchell, Iconography

Timothy Hilton, The Pre-Raphaelites

David Sonstroem, Rossetti and the Fair Lady

Jan Marsh, Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood (biographies)

Gay Daly, Pre-Raphaelites in Love (biographies)

Pamela Gerrish Nunn, Problem Pictures: Women and Men in Victorian Painting

Linda Nead, Myths of Sexuality: Representations of Women in Victorian Britain

Helena Michie, The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women’s Bodies

Patricia Marks, Bicycles, Bangs, and Bloomers

Sally Mitchell, The New Girl

Sally Ledger, The New Woman: Fiction and Feminism at the Fin de Siècle

Nina Auerbach, Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth

Bram Dijkstra, Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-siècle Culture

Deborah Gorham, The Victorian Girl and the Feminine Ideal

Gilbert and Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic

Pamela Gilbert, Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women’s Popular Novels

Elizabeth Langland, Nobody’s Angels: Middle-Class Women . . . in Victorian Culture

Cynthia Russett, Sexual Science

Elaine Showalter, The Female Malady

Rita S. Kranidis, Subversive Discourse: . . . Late-Victorian Feminist Novels

LIFE, ART, AND COUNTERCULTURE

John A. Lester, Jr., Journey Through Despair

Holbrook Jackson, The Eighteen Nineties

Gail Marshall, ed, The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle

Richard Dellamora, Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism

Jonathan Dollimore, Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault

E. Chamberlin and S. Gilman, eds, Degeneration

Stephen Arata, Fictions of Loss in the Fin de Siècle

John Stokes, In the Nineties

Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde: A Biography

Gary Schmidgall, The Stranger Wilde (biography)

Epifanio San Juan, Jr., The Art of Oscar Wilde

Regenia Gagnier, Idylls of the Marketplace: Wilde and the Victorian Public

Matthew Sturgis, Aubrey Beardsley (biography)

Ian Fletcher, Aubrey Beardsley

Chris Snodgrass, Aubrey Beardsley, Dandy of the Grotesque

MISCELLANEOUS OTHER TOPICS

James B. Twitchell, The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature

Alistair Duckworth, The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen’s Novels

Deirdre David, Rule Britannia: Women, Empire, and Victorian Writing

Edward Said, Orientalism