HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):

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Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):

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Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

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Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):

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Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Romanticism (c.1785-1830):
bullet Romantic Literature
bullet Mid-Century & Fin de Siècle (1830-1900) Thought:
bullet 'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Analytic Philosophy
bullet Continental Theory:
bullet Idealism
bullet Marxism
bullet Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics
bullet Psychoanalysis
bullet (Post-)Structuralisms:
bullet Deconstruction
bullet Deleuzean Theory
bullet Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)
bullet Foucauldian Discourse Theory
bullet Semiology / Structuralism
bullet Structuralist Marxism
bullet Structuralist Psychoanalysis
bullet Feminist Theory
bullet Modernism, Myth & New Criticism
bullet Post-colonial Theory
bullet Pragmatism
 
bullet Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Asia
bullet East Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Europe
bullet Eastern Europe:
bullet Russia:
bullet Literature
bullet Northern Europe:
bullet Literature
bullet Southern Europe:
bullet Greece:
bullet Literature
bullet Italy:
bullet Literature
bullet Spain:
bullet Literature
bullet Western Europe:
bullet France:
bullet Literature
bullet Germany:
bullet Literature
bullet UK and Eire:
bullet Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

bullet Arabic/Islamic Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Israeli/Jewish Thought:
bullet Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature
bullet African American Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

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Architecture
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Film
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Literature:

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Audience
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Author
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Literary Form & Genre:

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Drama
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Poetry
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Prose
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Literary History, Intertextuality, Canonicity
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Metaliterature
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Representation
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Music

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

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Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, & Logic
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Rhetoric, Discourse Theory, & Argumentation Theory

 

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Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

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Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science
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Psychology

 

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Gender
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Race
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Sexuality

 

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Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

 

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY

 

MORALITY:

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Morality and Literature

 

NATURE (NATURAL SCIENCES):

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Nature and Literature

 

RELIGION:

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Religion and Literature

 

SOCIETY (SOCIAL SCIENCES):

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Anthropology
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Cultural Studies
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Economics
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Human Geography
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Law
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Politics
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Sociology

 

SPORTS
 

GENERAL

ASSOCIATIONS

CAREERS

CONFERENCES

JOURNALS

PHOTOS

PRIMARY SOURCES

SECONDARY SOURCES

TEACHING AND LEARNING

WWW GATEWAYS

 

  

MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY ('VICTORIAN') AND FIN DE SIECLE THOUGHT
(c.1830 - c.1900)
(INC. POSITIVISM)

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ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2008:

2007:

  • Victorian Secrets, Victorians Institute, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, October 26-28
  • Victorian Beginnings, Australasian Victorian Studies Association, University of Western Australia, February 7-11

2006:

  • Neo-Victorianism: the Politics and Aesthetics of Appropriation, Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Exeter, September 10-12

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2000:

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Annual:

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Seminars:

  • Fin de Siècle Seminar, 1870-1920, University of Oxford, October 12, 2006-June 30, 2007

COURSES

JOURNALS

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

In Chronological Order:

By Nationality:

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Socio-Historical Context:

      • Golby, J. M., ed.  Culture and Society in Britain, 1850-1890: a Source Book of Contemporary Writings.  Oxford: OUP, 1991.

    • Schools of Thought:

      • Positivism:

    • Topics:

      • Arts:

        • General:
          • Becker, George J., ed.  Documents of Modern Literary Realism.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1963.
        • Mid-Century ('Victorian'):
          • Collins, Thomas J., and Vivienne J. Rundle, eds.  The Broadview of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory.  Peterborough: Broadview, 1999.
          • Cunningham, Valentine, ed.  The Victorians: an Anthology of Poetry and Poetics
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          • Hoffman, Daniel G., and Samuel Hynes, eds.  English Literary Criticism: Romantic and Victorian.  London: Peter Owen, 1963.
          • Houghton, Walter, and G. Robert Stange, eds.  Victorian Poetry and Poetics. 
            • Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959.

        • Fin de Siecle (Aestheticism / Decadence / Impressionism / Symbolisme):

          • Warner, Eric, and Graham Hough, eds.  Strangeness and Beauty: an Anthology of Aesthetic Criticism, 1848-1910.  2 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 1983.
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  • Selected Individual Works:

    • General:

    • Schools of Thought:

      • Positivism:

    • Topics:

      • Arts:

        • Mid-Century ('Victorian'):
          • General:
          • Drama:
            • Strindberg, August.  "Naturalism in the Theatre."  
          • Poetry:
            • Hallam, Arthur Henry.  "On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry."  Victorian Poetry and Poetics. 
              • Ed. Walter Houghton, and G. Robert Stange.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959.  848-860.
          • Prose Fiction:
            • Balzac, Honoré de.  "Avant-Propos."  La Comédie humaine.  1842.
            • Desnoyers, Ferdinand.  "Du Réalisme."  L'Artiste December 9 (1855): 197-200. 
              • "On Realism."  Documents of Modern Literary Realism.  Ed. George J. Becker.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1963.  80-88.
            • Flaubert, Gustave.  Correspondance.  Paris: , 1926-1933. 
              • See extract entitled "On Realism."  Documents of Modern Literary Realism.  Ed. George J. Becker.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1963.  89-96.
            • Goncourt, Edmond, and Jules de Goncourt.  "Préface."  Germinie Lacerteux.  Paris: Societe des Beaux Arts, 1865.
            • Gosse, Edmund.  "The Limits of Realism in Fiction."  Forum 9 (1890): 391-400. 
              • Documents of Modern Literary Realism.  Ed. George J. Becker.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1963.  383-393.
            • Howells, William Dean.  Criticism and Fiction.  New York: Harper and Brothers, 1891.
            • Lewes, George.  "Realism in Art: Recent German Fiction."  Westminister Review 70 (1858): .

        • Fin de Siecle (Aestheticism / Decadence / Impressionism / Symbolisme):

          • France, Anatole.  1888-1893.

            • "The Adventures of the Soul."  Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.  656. 

          • Gautier, Théophile.  Preface to Mademoiselle de Maupin.  1835. 

            • The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Vincent Leitch.  New York: Norton, 2001.  753-759.

          • Symons, Arthur.  The Symbolist Movement in Literature.  London: Heinemann, 1899.

          • Symons, Arthur.  "The Decadent Movement in Literature."  1893.  First published in London Quarterly Review, January 1918. 

            • Victorian Poetry and Poetics.  Ed. Walter Houghton, and G. Robert Stange.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959.  903-909.

            • Dramatis Personae, 1926. 

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On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Socio-Historical Context:

      • Waller, Bruce, ed.  Themes in European History, 1830-1890.  London: Routledge, .

    • General:

      • John, Juliet, et al., eds.  Rethinking Victorian Culture. 
      • Levine, George, ed.  The Emergence of Victorian Consciousness.  New York: Free Press, 1967.
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    • Schools of Thought:

      • Positivism:

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    • Topics:

      • Arts:

        • General:
          • Kennedy, George A., ed.  Realism, Positivism, and Marxism.  Vol. 6 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.
        • Mid-Century ('Victorian'):

        • Fin de Siecle (Aestheticism / Decadence / Impressionism / Symbolisme):

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  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Socio-Historical Context:

      • Arata, Stephen.  "1897."  A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture.  Ed. Herbert F. Tucker.  Oxford: Blackwell, .  51-65.
      • Biddis, Michael.  "Progress, Prosperity, and Positivism: Cultural Trends in Mid-Century."  Themes in European History, 1830-1890.  Ed. Bruce Waller.  London: Routledge, .  190-212.

      • Charlton, D. G.  Positivist Thought in France, 1852-1870.  Oxford: OUP, 1959.

      • Halliday, F. E.  "Reform, Free Trade and Prosperity, 1832-1865."  England: a Concise History.  London: Thames and Hudson, 1964.  172-186.
      • Halliday, F. E.  "Gladstone and Disraeli, 1865-1886."  England: a Concise History.  London: Thames and Hudson, 1964.  187-191.
      • Halliday, F. E.  "The Conservatives and Imperialism, 1886-1905."  England: a Concise History.  London: Thames and Hudson, 1964.  192-199.
      • Harrison, Anthony H.  "1848."  A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture.  Ed. Herbert F. Tucker.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.  19-34.
      • Hobsbawm, Eric.  The Age of Capital, 1848-1875.  London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975.  Rpt. London: Abacus, 1997.
      • Hughes, Linda K.  "1870."  A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture.  Ed. Herbert F. Tucker.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.  35-50.
      • Poston, Lawrence.  "1832."  A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture.  Ed. Herbert F. Tucker.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.  3-18. 

      • Turner, Paul.  "The Spirit of the Age."  English Literature, Excluding the Novel, 1832-1890.  1-17.

      • Wilson, A. N.  The Victorians.  New York: Norton, 2004.

    • General:

      • Altick, Richard D.  Victorian People and Ideas: a Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature.  New York: Norton, 1974.

      • Burrow J. W.  The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914.  New Haven: Yale UP, 2002.

      • Gilmour, Robin.  The Victorian Period: the Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1830-90.  London: Longman, 1993.
      • Hardman, Malcolm.  Six Victorian Thinkers: Carlyle, Ruskin, Taylor, Mill, Newman, Arnold. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1991.
      • Houghton, Walter.  The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870.  
        • Oxford: OUP, 1957.
      • Jay, Elisabeth.  Faith and Doubt in Victorian Britain. 
      • Lucas, John.  England and Englishness. 
      • Marcus, Steven.  The Other Victorians. 

      • Roberts, Adam C.  Victorian Culture and Society: the Essential Glossary.  London: Hodder and Arnold, 2003.

    • Schools of Thought:

      • Positivism:

    • Topics:

      • Arts:

        • Mid-Century ('Victorian'):
          • General:
            • Bristow, Joseph.  "Reforming Victorian Poetry: Poetics after 1832."  Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry.   Cambridge: CUP, 2000.  1-24.
            • Christ, Carol.  Victorian and Modern Poetics.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1984.
            • Latané, David E.  "Literary Criticism."  A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture.  Ed. Herbert F. Tucker.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.  388-404.
            • Wellek, Rene.  A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950.  8 Vols.  New Haven: Yale UP.
              • The Later Nineteenth Century.  Vol. 4.  1965.
              • The Age of Transition.  Vol. 3.  1965.
          • Drama:
          • Poetry:
          • Prose Fiction:

        • Fin de Siecle (Aestheticism / Decadence / Impressionism / Symbolisme):

          • Aestheticism:
            • Abrams, M. H.  "Aestheticism."  A Glossary of Literary Terms.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 1993.  3.
            • Dellamora, Richard.  Masculine Desire: the Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism. 
            • Gaunt, William.  The Aesthetic Adventure.  1945.
            • Johnson, R. V.  Aestheticism. 
            • Starkie, Enid.  From Gautier to Eliot: the Influence of France in English Poetry, 1851-1939.
          • Decadence:
            • Baldick, Chris.  "Descents from Decadence: 1890-1918."  Criticism and Literary Theory: 1890 to the Present.  London: Longman, 1996.  20-63.
            • Carter, A. E.   The Idea of Decadence in French Literature, 1830-1900.  1958.
            • Dellamora, Richard.  Masculine Desire: the Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism.  Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1990.
            • Gilman, Richard.  Decadence: the Strange Life of an Epithet.  1979.
            • Praz, Mario.  The Romantic Agony.  1933.
          • Impressionism:
          • Symbolism:
            • Abrams, M. H.  "Symbolist Movement."  A Glossary of Literary Terms.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 1993.  208-210.
            • Adams, Hazard.  "Symbolist Symbolism."  Philosophy of the Literary Symbolic.  Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1983.  117-153.

            • Balakian, Anna E.  The Symbolist Movement: a Critical Appraisal.  New York: Random House, 1967.

            • Boon, James.  From Symbolism to Structuralism.  New York: Harper and Row, 1972.

            • Bowra, C. M.  The Heritage of Symbolism.  London: Macmillan, 1983.

            • Chadwick, Charles.  Symbolism.  London: Methuen, 1971.
            • Chiari, Joseph.  Symbolism from Poe to Mallarmé.  Folcroft, PA: Folcroft Library, 1956.
            • Cornell, Keith.  The Symbolist Movement.  1951.
            • Engelberg, Edward, ed.  The Symbolist Poem.  1967.
            • Harland, Richard.  "Naturalism, Symbolism and Modernism."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  96-124.
            • Harris, Wendell V.  "Symbol."  Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.  398-405.
            • Lehmann, A. G.  The Symbolist Aesthetic in France, 1885-1895.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1968.
            • Olson, Elder.  "A Dialogue on Symbolism."  Critics and Criticism.  Ed. R. S. Crane.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1952.
            • Strelka, Joseph, ed.  Perspectives in Literary Symbolism.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1968.
            • Stromberg, Roland, ed.  Realism, Naturalism and Symbolism: Modes of Thought and Expression in Europe, 1848-1914.  New York: Walker, 1968.

      • Communication:

        • Johnson, Nan.  Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric in North America.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.

        • Kitzhaber, Albert R.  Rhetoric in American Colleges, 1850-1900.  Dallas: Southern Methodist UP, 1990.

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