Potential Collecting Sources List

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Abbas, Ackbar. ‘‘Walter Benjamin’s Collector: The Fate of Modern Experience.’’ New Literary History 20:1 (1988): 217–37.

Adorno, Theodor. The Culture Industry. London: Routledge, 2001.

Alberti, Samuel J. M. M. "Placing Nature: Natural History Collections and Their Owners in Nineteenth-Century Provincial England." BJHS 35 (2002): 291- 311.

Altick, Richard D. The Shows of London. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1978

Ames, Winslow. Prince Albert and Victorian Taste. London: Chapman & Hall, 1967.

Anderson, R. G. W. "Connoisseurship, Pedagogy or Antiquarianism?" Journal of the History of Collections 7 (1995): 211-225.

Appadurai, Arjun, ed. The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986.

Beckwith, Alice H. R. H. Victorian Bibliomania: The Illuminated Book in 19thCentury Britain. Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1987.

Belk, Russell. Collecting in a Consumer Society. London: Routledge, 1995.

Belk, Russell W. and Melanie Wallendorf. "Of Mice and Men: Gender Identity in Collecting." Interpreting Objects and Collections. Ed. Susan M. Pearce. London: Routledge, 1994. 240-53.

Benedict, Barbara M. Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Bennett, Tony. The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics. London: Routledge, 1995.

"Bibliomania." Sharpe's London Magazine of Entertainment and Instruction for General Reading 20 (1862): 24-29.

Black, Barbara J. On Exhibit: Victorians and Their Museums. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 2000.

Carley, J. P., and C. G. C. Tite, eds. Books and Collectors 1200–1700: Essays Presented to Andrew Watson. London: British Library, 1997.

Chartier, Roger. The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe Between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994.

Cowtan, Robert. Memories of the British Museum. London: Richard Bentley, 1872.

De Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Duncan, Carol. Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums. London: Routledge, 1994.

Friedman, Stanley. "The Motif of Reading in Our Mutual Friend." Nineteenth Century Fiction 28 (1973): 38-61.

Herrmann, Frank. The English as Collectors: A Documentary Sourcebook. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press; London: John Murray, 1999.

Helgerson, Richard. ‘‘The Elizabethan Laureate: Self-Presentation and the Literary System.’’ English Literary History 46:2 (1979): 193–220.

[Horne, Richard Henry.] "A Penitent Confession." Household Words 3 (1851): 436- 45.

Hüllen, Werner. "Reality, the Museum, and the Catalogue: A Semiotic Interpretation of Early German Texts of Museology." Semiotica 80 (1990): 265-75.

Hyde, Lewis. The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property. New York: Vintage Books, 1983.

Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008.

MacGregor, Arthur. "Collectors, Connoisseurs and Curators in the Victorian Age." A. W. Franks: Nineteenth-Century Collecting and the British Museum. Ed. Marjorie Caygill and John Cherry. London: British Museum Press, 1997. 6- 33.

[Masson, David.] The British Museum: Historical and Descriptive. Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, 1850.

Maleuvre, Didier. Museum Memories: History, Technology, Art. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999.

McLaughlin, Kevin. Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1995.

Muensterberger, Werner. Collecting: An Unruly Passion: Psychological Perspectives. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1995.

Oates, J. C. T. A History of the Collection of Incunabula in the Cambridge University Library: Sandars Lectures. Cambridge, 1952.

O’Doherty, Brian. Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space, Expanded Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Pearce, Susan M. Museums, Objects, and Collections: A Cultural Study. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.

---. On Collecting: An Investigation into Collecting in the European Tradition. London: Routledge, 1995.

Pollard, A. W. ‘‘A Literary Causerie: Shakespeare in the Remainder Market.’’ Academy (1906): 528–29.

Roberts, Julian. ‘‘Extending the Frontiers: Scholar Collectors.’’ In The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, Vol. 1. Edited by Elisabeth Leedham-Green and Teresa Webber, 292–321. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Stewart, Susan. On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. Durham: Duke UP, 1993.

Stallybrass, Peter. ‘‘Little Jobs: Broadsides and the Printing Revolution.’’ In Agents of Change: Print Culture Studies After Elizabeth L. Eisenstein. Edited by Sabrina Alcorn Baron et al, 340–67. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.

Stallybrass, Peter, and Ann Blair. ‘‘Mediating Information, 1450–1800.’’ In This Is Enlightment. Edited by Clifford Siskin and William Warner, 139–63. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Swann, Marjorie. Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2001.

Vrettos, Athena. "Defining Habits: Dickens and the Psychology of Repetition." Victorian Studies 42 (2000): 399-426.

---. The Romantic Interior: The British Collector at Home, 1750-1850. New Haven: Yale UP, 1989.

Watson, Janell. Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities. Cambridge Studies in French 62. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.

Woodbridge, Linda. ‘‘Patchwork: Piecing the Early Modern Mind in England’s First Century of Print Culture.’’ English Literary Renaissance 23.1 (1993): 5–45.

Sources for these

Michael Hancock 2006, BOFFIN'S BOOKS AND DARWIN'S FINCHES: VICTORIAN CULTURES OF COLLECTING

JTK, Bound for Reading

bold = cross referenced between them (or particularly interesting)