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Wiki Syntax Guide

Exam Reading

Major Period List

Exam Lists Questions of Focus

Primary Texts

• Kenilworth (Walter Scott, 1821)
• Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë, 1847)
• David Copperfield (Dickens, 1850)
• Pendennis (Thackeray, 1850)
• Bleak House (1853)
• Dickens Journalism
• Villette (Charlotte Brontë, 1853)
• North and South (Gaskell, 1855)
• The Mill on the Floss (1860)
• Woman in White (Wilkie Collins, 1860)
• Great Expectations (Dickens, 1861)
• Framley Parsonage (Anthony Trollope, 1861)
• Lady Audley's Secret (ME Braddon, 1862)
• Our Mutual Friend (Dickens, 1865)
• Middlemarch (Eliot, 1872)
• The Way We Live Now (Trollope, 1875)
• The Story of an African Farm (1883)
• Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle, 1887-1927)
• The Woodlanders (Thomas Hardy, 1887)
• Jude the Obscure (Hardy, 1895)
• Dracula (Bram Stoker, 1897)
• Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad, 1900)

Secondary Texts

• McClintock 1995

Methodology List

Special Topic List

Projects

• 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

• Mussell 2012
• Routledge Guide

Bookbinding History

• Pollard 1956
• Potter 1993
• Gillespie 2004

Book History/Print Culture

• Fyfe 2012
• Houston 2014
• Leckie 2015
• Miller 2013
• Price 2012
• Sutherland 1976

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
• Tyler 2013 - Dickens's Style

Ecocriticism

• Gidal 2015
• Malm 2016
• Taylor 2016

Empire/Colonialism

• Hensley 2016
• Hofmeyr 2013
• McClintock 1995

Historicism & General History

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

Intellectual History

• Anger 2005

Marxism

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

Materiality

• Freedgood 2006 - The Ideas in Things
• Freedgood 2014 - "Ghostly Reference"
• Schaffer 2011 - Novel Craft

Media

• Wicke 1992 - Dracula and its Media

Reading (History of)

• 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

• Kornbluh 2015

Misc

• Important Victorian Legislation
• List of Victorian publishers
• Misc Reading/Writing Passages
• Misc texts to get to

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)

Events

• Rachel Buurma DH Seminar - TDS Spring 2017
• BAVS 2017 - August 2017, Lincoln
• V21 Summer 2017 - Sept 2017, Seattle U

Teaching

• Figurative language
• Strategic presentism

Colophon

This project was inspired by Whitney Trettien's Whiki.

The logo image is a detail of a hand-rubricated capital in an incunable, Nicholas de Lyra’s Moralia super totam bibliam (Mantua: Paulus de Butzbach, 1481), University of Washington Special Collections.