A fascinating survey of Victorian literature from one of England's greatest minds Dishing out his signature brand of harsh wit, G. K. Chesterton casts a critical eye on the poets and novelists that defined the Victorian age in English literature.
This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts
An anthology of both familiar and previously unavailable primary texts that illuminate the world of nineteenth-century ideas. An expert team introduce and annotate a range of original social, cultural, political and historical documents necessary for contextualising key literary texts from the Victorian period.
This book surveys the impact of the British Empire on nineteenth-century British literature from a postcolonial perspective. It explains both pro-imperialist themes and attitudes in works by major Victorian authors, and also points of resistance to and criticisms of the Empire such as abolitionism, as well as the first stirrings of nationalism in India and elsewhere.
Refuting one-dimensional characterization, this book argues that the femme fatale comes to represent the real-life struggles of the middle-class Victorian woman who overcomes major adversities such as poverty, abusive husbands, abandonment, single parenthood, limited job opportunities, the criminal underworld, and Victorian society's harsh invective against her.
Victorian literature's fascination with the past, its examination of social injustice, and its struggle to deal with the dichotomy between scientific discoveries and religious faith continue to fascinate scholars and contemporary readers.
Welcome! This guide is intended to provide supplementary resources for your course.
Below, you can find tips for searching for books and articles about Victorian literature. Navigate to the lefthand side tabs to find resources for your Museum Project. For more resources and research tips for literature studies, visit the Literature and Literary Criticism Research Guide.
Need help? Contact your librarian, Hannah Menendez, at hmenendez@shsu.edu.
Helpful databases for Victorian literature studies:
Subject terms are designated classification terms used by the Library of Congress classification system, which is what the SHSU library uses to organize its catalog. Subject terms are particularly useful when using the "Books & Media" tab to look for books in the catalog. A search bar just for the catalog is embedded below: used the dropdown menu to select "Subject" to use subject terms.
Here are some potentially useful subject terms* for each of the topics for the Museum Project:
Cholera Epidemics
Main term: Cholera--Great Britain--History--19th century
Others: Cholera--History--19th century
19th-Century Medicine
Main term: Literature and medicine--Great Britain--History--19th century
Others: Literature and science--Great Britain--History--19th century
Gypsies (Roma/Romanies)
Main Term: Romanies--Great Britain
Others: Romanies in literature
Motherhood
Main Term: Motherhood in literature
Others: Mothers in literature
West Indies & Colonialism
Main term: Great Britain--Colonies--America--History
Others: West Indies, British--History
New Woman and the Cult of Domesticity
Main term: Domestic fiction, English--History and criticism
Others: Women in literature--Great Britain--History--19th century
domestic relations in literature--Great Britain--19th century
Alcoholism
Main term: Alcoholism in literature
alcoholism--History--Great Britain
Sex and Pornography
Main term: Sex in literature--Great Britain--19th century
Others: pornography--Great Britain--19th century
General
history and criticism--Great Britain--19th century
*Note: The dashes denote terms that can be searched separately. For instance "alcoholism in literature" is a single subject term, but "Great Britain--19th century" are two separate terms. If you aren't getting many results, try using fewer terms.
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