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This is an online commonplace book for Matt Poland. You're welcome to use these notes and reading lists to guide you in your own studies. If you have any questions about your rights as a user, please review the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License which covers any original work produced herein.
Exam Reading
Major Period List
Primary Texts
- Kenilworth (Walter Scott, 1821)
- Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë, 1847)
- Bleak House (1853)
- Villette (Charlotte Brontë, 1853)
- The Mill on the Floss (1860)
- The Story of an African Farm (1883)
- Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle, 1887-1927)
- Dracula (Bram Stoker, 1897)
- Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad, 1900)
Secondary Texts
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
Bookbinding History
Book History/Print Culture
Ecocriticism
Empire/Colonialism
Intellectual History
Marxism
- Moretti 1983
- Sneidern 1995 - slavery complicating Marxist commodity in Wuthering Heights
- Wilson 1940
Materiality
- Freedgood 2006 - The Ideas in Things
- Freedgood 2014 - "Ghostly Reference"
Media
- Wicke 1992 - Dracula and its Media
Reading (History of)
- Pope Hennessy 1971 - biography of Trollope
Misc
Bibliographical
- Nineteenth Century Bibliography Session (2/17/17) - UW Special Collections resources for my research
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.
