Selected Bibliography/Web Resources

English 753 X: Victorian Conversations

Selected Bibliography (some will be on Reserve in the BC Library)

Agrawai, B. ed. Mulk Raj Anand: Father of Indian English Fiction (2006).

*Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (1987)

Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities.

*Barber, Jill. Children in Victorian Times (2006).

*Darwin, Charles. Origin of Species (1859)

DiBello, Patrizia. Women’s Albums and Photography in Victorian England: Ladies, Mothers and Flirts (2007).


Gallagher, Catherine. The Body Economic: Life and Economy in the Victorian Novel (2006).

Gilbert, Pamela. Cholera and Nation: Doctoring the Social Body in Victorian England (2007).

*Marttineau, Harriet. British Rules in India: A Historical Sketch (1857).

*Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (1861)

*Mill, John Stuart. Utilitarianism (1862).

Mufi, Aamir. Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and Post-Colonial Modernity (2007).

*Phillips, Caryl. New World Order: Essays (West Indies)

Pike, David. Subterranean Cities: The World Beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945 (2005).

*Richard, Thomas. Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914 (ch.1, The Great Exhibition of 1851).

*Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives:Five Victorian Marriages (1984).

*Rosenthal, Michael. The Character Factory: Baden Powell’s Boy Scouts.

*Rushdie, Salman. Imaginary Homelands.


*Said, Edward. Orientalism.
Culture & Imperialism

Thompson, Edward. The Other Side of the Medal

*Wilson, Edmund. The Wound and the Bow (childhoods of Dickens and Kipling).

Web Resources:

*Afghan Wars (related to Kim)
http://www.bl.uk/collections/afghan/introduction.html

Dickens Page (Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Japan)

*Froude, James Anthony. “The English in the West Indies.
(WEB www.victorianprose.org)

Holmes: “Discovering Sherlock Holmes webpage;” subscribe for free and read weekly installments like a Victorian Reader
http://sherlockholmes.stanford.edu/subscribed.asp?pid=30201

*Miller, J. Hillis. “Graphic or Verbal: A Dilemma
http://www.altx.com/ebr/rbr7/7miller/index.html

*The Penny Magazine (working-class periodical) (WEB)
http://www.history.rochester.edu/pennymag/

Victorian Literature Studies Archive (concordances for authors)
Victorian.lang.nagoyu-u.ac.jp/

*Victorian Research Web. Excellent source of information on newspapers, census data, and you can join a Victorian lit discussion group.
http://victorianresearch.org/

Victorian Sensation Fiction Online (Andrew Mactavish, U of Alberta)
http://members.aol.com/MG4273/sensatio.htm

*Victorian Web (Brown University): very good reference and background information, many topics—religion, science, visual arts, history)
http://www.victorianweb.org/

Victoriana. Cultural info on the Victorian period (decorating, history, fashion etc.)
http://www.victoriana

Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3#id2751

The Workhouse (information on the Poor Laws, Work House Life)
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/

*Starred items are recommended for oral reports