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Import from Nov 18; links from June 18

Events/Conferences

NAVSA Anti-Racism Panel - August 2020
Dickens Universe - "Frances E.W. Harper in Transatlantic Context" - July 2020
Dickens Universe Anti-Racist Pedagogy Panel - "Toppling Statues: Teaching Victorian Literature in 2020" - July 2020
Roger Chartier TDS Seminar/Lecture - March 2018
V21 Summer 2018 - Sept 2018, UW
V21 Summer 2017 - Sept 2017, Seattle U
BAVS 2017 - August 2017, Lincoln
Rachel Buurma DH Seminar - TDS Spring 2017

Teaching

Exam Reading

Major Period List

Exam Lists Questions of Focus

Primary Fiction

Primary Poetry

Unless otherwise noted from The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory. Ed. Thomas J. Collins and Vivienne J. Rundle. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1999. Repr 2005. Print.

Secondary Texts

Armstrong 2005 - How Novels Think
Armstrong 1993 - Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics.
Leighton 1992 - Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart
Woloch 2003 - The One Vs. the Many

Methodology List

Anderson 1983 - Imagined Communities
Beetham 1990 - Towards a Theory of the Periodical as a Publishing Genre
Blair 2010 -- Too Much to Know
Buurma 2013
Cambridge History of Libraries in GB and Ireland
Chartier 1994
Dane 2012
De Grazia & Stallybrass 1993 - Materiality of the Shakespearean Text
Eisenstein 1979
Grafton 1980 - Review of Eisenstein
W.W. Greg
Jackson 2001 - Marginalia
Jardine & Grafton 1990 - Read for Action
Knight 2013 - Bound to Read
Knight 2015 - "Shakespeare and the Collection: Reading beyond Readers’ Marks."
McGann 1991 - The Textual Condition
McGill 2013 -
McKerrow 1928
Price 2000 - Anthology
PMLA 121_1 - The History of the Book and the Idea of Literature
Roberts 2006 - Trafficking in Literary Authority: Mudie’s Select Library and the Commodification of the Victorian Novel
St Clair 2004
Suarez 2004 - "Historiographical Problems and Possibilities in Book History and National Histories of the

Book"

Suarez 2009 - "Worldliness of Print" and "Mining the Archive"
Sutherland 1976
Turner 2010 - "Companions, Supplements, and the Proliferation of Print in the 1830s"

Special Topic List

Black 2000 - On Exhibit: Victorians and their Museums
Hack 2005 - Material Interests of the Vic Novel
Cowan 2015 - Translation, Collaboration, and Reception: Editing Caxton for the Kelmscott Press
MacGregor 1997 - Collectors, Connoisseurs and Curators in the Victorian Age
McGann 1988 - "Tennyson and the Histories of Criticism"
Piper 2009 - Dreaming in Books
Turner 2005 - Material Culture of the Victorian Novel
Underwood 2013 - Why Literary Periods Mattered

Projects

Periodized Bodies in Our Mutual Friend (RSVP 2018)
Textual metaphors in realist method
Victorian Novel Seminar Review Essay (Winter 2017)
Shirley Seriality Project (Winter 2017)
Victorian Waste/Obscene Book History (Fall 2016)
Victorian Rebinding Notes (Spring 2016)
Shakespeare Tercentenary RSVP (Fall 2015)

Notes

C19 Periodicals

Bookbinding History

Book History/Print Culture

Collecting

Potential Collecting Sources List

Cultural Studies

McClintock 1995 - Imperial Leather

Dickens

Bowen & Patten 2006 - Palgrave Advances in Dickens Studies
Carey 1973 - The Violent Effigy: A Study of Dickens' Imagination
Cheadle 2017 - "David Copperfield and Pendennis: Answering Back"
Douglas-Fairhurst 2011 - Becoming Dickens
Litvack 2015 - Dickens’s annotated All the Year Round
Tyler 2013 - Dickens's Style

Ecocriticism

Empire/Colonialism

Historicism & General History

Bowen 2009 - "Time for Victorian Studies?"
Flanders 2012 - The Victorian City
Felski 2011 - "Context Stinks!"
Gilmour

Information

Classic Information Science Texts

Intellectual History

Marxism

Moretti 1983
Sneidern 1995 - slavery complicating Marxist commodity in Wuthering Heights
Williams 1977 - Marxism & Literature
Wilson 1940

Materiality

Chappell 2013 Bleak House & Rubbish Theory
Freedgood 2006 - The Ideas in Things
Freedgood 2014 - "Ghostly Reference"
Schaffer 2011 - Novel Craft
Wynne, Material Culture Oxford Bibliography

Media

Wicke 1992 - Dracula and its Media

Reading (History of)

Altick 1957 - English Common Reader
Price 2000 - The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel
Wynne 2011 - "Readers and Reading Practices" in Oxford History of the Novel in English...
Pope Hennessy 1971 - biography of Trollope
Primary Sources on Victorian Reading

Realism

Capuano 2013 - Shirley
Jameson 2013 - Antinomies
Kornbluh 2015
Lukacs 1937 - The Historical Novel

Misc

Bibliographical

Nineteenth Century Bibliography Session (2/17/17) - UW Special Collections resources for my research
C19 Bookbinding Session (4/26/17)
Characteristics of C19 Rebindings (7/20/17)

Colophon

This project was inspired by Whitney Trettien's Whiki.

The logo image is a detail of an illustration by James McBryde for M.R. James's Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (London: Edward Arnold, 1924). British Library 012630.b.1.

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