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Contents
- 1 Exam Reading
- 2 Projects
- 3 Notes
- 3.1 C19 Periodicals
- 3.2 Bookbinding History
- 3.3 Book History/Print Culture
- 3.4 Collecting
- 3.5 Cultural Studies
- 3.6 Dickens
- 3.7 Ecocriticism
- 3.8 Empire/Colonialism
- 3.9 Historicism & General History
- 3.10 Information
- 3.11 Intellectual History
- 3.12 Marxism
- 3.13 Materiality
- 3.14 Media
- 3.15 Reading (History of)
- 3.16 Realism
- 3.17 Misc
- 4 Bibliographical
- 5 Events
- 6 Teaching
- 7 Colophon
Exam Reading
Major Period List
Primary Fiction
- 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)
- Cranford (Gaskell, 1853)
- North and South (Gaskell, 1855)
- Tale of Two Cities (1859)
- 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)
- Armadale (Collins, 1866)
- 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)
- New Grub Street (Gissing, 1891)
- Jude the Obscure (Hardy, 1895)
- Dracula (Bram Stoker, 1897)
- Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad, 1900)
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.
- Potential collections
- Matthew Arnold
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Robert Browning
- John Clare
- Arthur Clough
- Michael Field
- Thomas Hardy
- Felicia Hemans
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Thomas Hood
- George Meredith
- William Morris
- Christina Rossetti
- Algernon Swinburne
- Alfred Tennyson
- James Thomson
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
- Beetham 1990 - Towards a Theory of the Periodical as a Publishing Genre
- Cambridge History of Libraries in GB and Ireland
- Eisenstein 1979
- Grafton 1980 - Review of Eisenstein
- W.W. Greg
- Jackson 2001 - Marginalia
- Knight 2013 - Bound to Read
- Knight 2015 - "Shakespeare and the Collection: Reading beyond Readers’ Marks."
- McGill 2013 -
- 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
- Febvre & Martin 1958
- Fyfe 2012
- Houston 2014
- Leckie 2015
- Miller 2013
- Price 2012
- Sutherland 1976
- Taxes on knowledge
Collecting
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
- 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
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
Misc
- Important Victorian Legislation
- List of Victorian publishers
- Misc Reading/Writing Passages
- Misc texts to get to
- Misc theorists 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
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.
