ENL 3251 VICTORIAN LITERATURE
Dr. C. Snodgrass; 4336 Turlington, 392-6650, ext. 262; 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: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain
Sally Mitchell, Daily Life in Victorian England
Victorian Web, http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/index.html

CRISIS OF FAITH
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
John Pick, Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poet and Priest (biography)
Daniel A. Harris, Unbidden Inspirations: The "Terrible Sonnets" of Hopkins
Edwin M. Eigner, R. L. Stevenson and the Romantic Tradition
Vedder and Hirsch, eds., Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde After One Hundred Years

ROMANTICISM MEETS VICTORIANISM
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)
Loy D. Martin, Browning's Dramatic Monologues and the Post-Romantic Subject
John Berger, Ways of Seeing
Timothy Hilton, The Pre-Raphaelites
David Sonstroem, Rossetti and the Fair Lady
Jan Marsh, Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood
Gay Daly, Pre-Raphaelites in Love
Paula Gillett, Worlds of Art: Painters in Victorian Society
Pamela Gerrish Nunn, Problem Pictures: Women and Men in Victorian Painting
Stephen Kern, Eyes of Love: The Gaze in English and French Culture, 1840-1900

THE WOMAN QUESTION
Phillipa Levine, Victorian Feminism
Barbara Caine, Victorian Feminists
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

AESTHETICISM AND THE DECADENCE
Barbara Charlesworth (Gelpi), Dark Passages: Decadent Consciousness
Richard Dellamora, Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism
Jonathan Dollimore,Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault
John A. Lester, Jr., Journey Through Despair
Holbrook Jackson, The Eighteen Nineties
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
Epifanio San Juan, Jr., The Art of Oscar Wilde
Gagnier, Regenia, Idylls of the Marketplace: Wilde and the Victorian Public
Brigid Brophy, Beardsley and his World
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