Literary Criticism

 

 

Adams, James Eli. Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.
Anderson, Amanda. The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Armstrong, Isobel. Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetic, Politics. London: Routledge, 1993.

Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction. Oxford UP.

——. How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.

Baldridge, Cates. The Dialogics of Dissent in the English Novel. New England UP, 1994.

Bodenheimer, Rosemarie. The Politics of Story in Victorian Social Fiction. Cornell UP, 1988.

Boone, Joseph Allen. Tradition Counter Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987.

Brantlinger, Patrick. The Spirit of Reform: British Literature and Politics: 1832-1867. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1977.

——. Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988.

Buckley, Jerome Hamilton. The Victorian Temper: A Study in Literary Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1951.

Buzard, James. Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2005.

Clayton, Jay. Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth-Century in Postmodern Culture. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003.

Corbett, Mary Jean. Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790-1870: Politics, History, and the Family from Edgeworth to Arnold. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Cvetkovich, Ann. Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism. Rutgers UP, 1992.

David, Deirdre. Rule Britannia: Women, Empire, and Victorian Writing. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.

Duncan, Ian. Modern Romance And Transformations Of The Novel: The Gothic, Scott, And Dickens. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Feltes, N. N. Modes of Production of Victorian Novels. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1986.

Fraiman, Susan. Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

Gallagher, Catherine. The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction: Social Discourse and Narrative Form, 1832-1867. U of Chicago P, 1985.

——. The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006.

Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic. Yale UP, 1979.

Goodlad, Lauren. Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society. Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press,  2003.

Hadley, Elaine. Melodramatic Tactics: Theatricalized Dissent In The English Marketplace, 1800-1885. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.

Harman, Barbara Leah. The Feminine Political Novel in Victorian England. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998.

Herbert, Christopher. Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1991.

Jaffe, Audrey. Scenes of Sympathy: Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Judd, Catherine A. “Male Pseudonyms and Female Authority in Victorian England.” Literature in the Marketplace: Ninteenth-century British Reading and Publishing Practices. Ed. John O. Jordan and Robert L. Patten. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. 250-68.

Kucich, John. The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fi.ction. Cornell UP, 1994.

——. Repression in Victorian fiction: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Charles Dickens. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

Langland, Elizabeth. Nobody's Angels: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Ideology in Victorian Culture. Cornell UP, 1995.

Levine, George. Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England. Chicago: Chicago UP, 2002.

Litvak, Joseph. Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Marcus, Sharon. Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.

Meyer, Susan. Imperialism at Home: Race and Victorian Women's Fiction. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.

Michie, Elsie B. Outside The Pale: Cultural Exclusion, Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.

Miller, Andrew H. Novels Behind Glass: Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Miller, David A. The Novel and the Police. California UP, 1988.

Morris, Pam. Imagining Inclusive Society in Nineteenth-Century Novels. Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press,  2004.

Nunokawa, Jeff. The Afterlife of Property: Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel. Princeton UP, 1994.

Plotz, John. The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Poovey, Mary. A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

——. Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1995.

——. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Prins, Yopie. Victorian Sappho. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire Columbia UP, 1985.

Stewart, Garrett. Dear Reader: The Conscripted Audience in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Thomas, David Wayne. Cultivating the Victorians: Liberal Culture and the Aesthetic. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2004.

Trumpener, Katie. Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Vanden Bossche, Chris R. "The Queen in the Garden / The Woman of the Streets: The Separate Spheres and the Inscription of Gender." Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, new ser. 1:1 (1992): 1-15.

Williams, Raymond. Culture and Society, 1780-1950. 1958; rpt. Columbia UP, 1983.

——. Marxism and Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1977. Sec. I.4, "Ideology."