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