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* Philip Meadows Taylor, Tara (1863) — first of multipart chronicle of Indian colonialism | * Philip Meadows Taylor, Tara (1863) — first of multipart chronicle of Indian colonialism | ||
* even better - Confessions of a Thug (1839) - Sutherland says best novel about Indian life before Kim | * even better - Confessions of a Thug (1839) - Sutherland says best novel about Indian life before Kim | ||
| + | * Eliza Lynn Linton, The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland (1885) —novel about the mid-Victorian literary scene. Linton also an acquaintance of Eliot’s (Ashton 50) | ||
| + | * Victoria Cross, Anna Lombard (1901) -- new woman novel set in India and Burma | ||
| + | * AR Wallace, The Malay Archipelago (1868) | ||
| + | * F. C. Burnand, Mokeanna; Or, The White Witness. Punch 44 (28 Feb. 1863) [parody of sensation fiction with illustrations by Du Maurier, Millais et al.] | ||
| + | * ME Braddon stories: "Good Lady Ducayne," "The Cold Embrace" (effective for teaching sensation fiction) | ||
| + | * LM Montgomery, "The Red Room" (rewrites the Brontes in sensational vein) | ||
| + | * Caroline Clive, Paul Ferroll (1855) (epidemic during a romance/murder plot; "a highly unusual Victorian novel" [Sutherland]; anticipates sensation fiction) | ||
| + | * Periodicals: Fortnightly Review (Trollope on board, Lewes editor); Town (1837-42, "weekly diet of gossip, innuendo and salacious stories about London personalities," ed. Renton Nicholson of Dombey and Daughter penny blood fame); | ||
| + | * Robert Macnish, The Philosophy of Sleep and The Anatomy of Drunkenness -- alternative states of being (per Menglu Gao) | ||
| + | * Flora Annie Steel, On the Face of the Waters (1896) - novel of the Indian Mutiny | ||
| + | * Benjamin Leopold Farjeon. Grif: A Story of Australian Life (1866) | ||
| + | * Mary Kingsley -- ethnographer in colonial Africa | ||
Latest revision as of 19:18, 19 January 2022
- Real Life in London, 1821 Pierce Egan
- Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life (documentary narration)
- The Wreck of the Golden Mary, Household Words Xmas 1856 (ditto)
- The Heir of Redclyffe (tractarian)
- Griffith Gaunt, Charles Reade, 1866 (controversial for sexual frankness)
- Thomas Miller, Godfrey Malvern: Or, the Life of an Author (1843) (literary London, illus. Phiz)
- A City Girl, Margaret Harkness, 1888 (Broadview 2017 ed incl Engels correspondence about its realism)
- Phoebe Junior, Margaret Oliphant, 1876 (see Schaffer 2011 abt its treatment of paper)
- Vice Versa, F. Anstey, (1882) (comic body switch)
- Ten Thousand a Year (1841) (v successful comic novel)
- Ann Radcliffe, Gaston de Blondeville (1803) - fictionalized editorial practices by editor/narrator (cf Piper 2009)
- The Broad Arrow, Caroline Leakey, 1859 —transportation to Australia, child murder (might be interesting with Olive Schreiner)
- Philip Meadows Taylor, Tara (1863) — first of multipart chronicle of Indian colonialism
- even better - Confessions of a Thug (1839) - Sutherland says best novel about Indian life before Kim
- Eliza Lynn Linton, The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland (1885) —novel about the mid-Victorian literary scene. Linton also an acquaintance of Eliot’s (Ashton 50)
- Victoria Cross, Anna Lombard (1901) -- new woman novel set in India and Burma
- AR Wallace, The Malay Archipelago (1868)
- F. C. Burnand, Mokeanna; Or, The White Witness. Punch 44 (28 Feb. 1863) [parody of sensation fiction with illustrations by Du Maurier, Millais et al.]
- ME Braddon stories: "Good Lady Ducayne," "The Cold Embrace" (effective for teaching sensation fiction)
- LM Montgomery, "The Red Room" (rewrites the Brontes in sensational vein)
- Caroline Clive, Paul Ferroll (1855) (epidemic during a romance/murder plot; "a highly unusual Victorian novel" [Sutherland]; anticipates sensation fiction)
- Periodicals: Fortnightly Review (Trollope on board, Lewes editor); Town (1837-42, "weekly diet of gossip, innuendo and salacious stories about London personalities," ed. Renton Nicholson of Dombey and Daughter penny blood fame);
- Robert Macnish, The Philosophy of Sleep and The Anatomy of Drunkenness -- alternative states of being (per Menglu Gao)
- Flora Annie Steel, On the Face of the Waters (1896) - novel of the Indian Mutiny
- Benjamin Leopold Farjeon. Grif: A Story of Australian Life (1866)
- Mary Kingsley -- ethnographer in colonial Africa
