MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY ('VICTORIAN') AND FIN DE SIECLE LITERATURE
(c.1830 - c.1900)
(INC. AESTHETICISM / DECADENCE / IMPRESSIONISM / SYMBOLISME)

SUB-PAGES

Feminist:

• 19th Century Feminist Thought / Feminist Perspectives on 19th Century Thought

Post-colonial:

• 19th Century Non-Western Thought / Post-colonial Perspectives on 19th Century Thought

ASSOCIATIONS

AUTHORS

• Eire:

  • Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

  • Shaw, George Bernard (1856 - 1950)

  • W. B. Yeats (1865 - 1939) (see also Modernism)

• France:

  • Alexandre Dumas, père (1802 - 1870)

  • Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804 - 1869)

  • Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872)

  • Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)

  • Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)

  • Edmond de Goncourt (1822 - 1896)

  • Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824 - 1895)

  • Emile Zola (1840 - 1902)

  • Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898)

  • Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)

  • Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893)

  • Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891)

• Germany:
• Italy:
• Russia:
  • Vissarion Belinsky (1811 - 1848)
  • Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
• Spain:
• UK:

  • Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)

  • Elizabeth Gaskell (1810 - 1865)

  • William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)

  • Charles Dickens (1812 - 1879)

  • Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)

  • Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)

  • Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855)

  • Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)

  • Arthur Hugh Clough (1819 - 1861)

  • George Eliot (1819 - 1890)

  • John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

  • Anne Brontë (1820 - 1849)

  • Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888)

  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)

  • William Morris (1834 - 1896)

  • Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909)

  • Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)

  • Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)

  • Shaw, George Bernard (1856 - 1950)

  • Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)

  • A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)

  • Ernest Dowson (1867 - 1900)

  • Lionel Johnson (1867 - 1902)

• USA:

  • Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

  • William Dean Howells (1837 - 1920)

  • Henry James (1843 - 1916) (see also Pragmatist Literary Theory)

CONFERENCES

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COURSES

• Beloit College: Victorian Poetry and Prose

• Buckingham University:

  • Victorian Fiction (Drew)

  • Victorian Poetry (Hawlin)

• University of Toronto: Victorian Fiction, 1832-1900 (Lamond)

• Vanderbilt University: Nineteenth-Century English Novel (Clayton)

JOURNALS

• Victorian Poetry

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Mid-Century ('Victorian'):

    • General:

      • Trilling, Lionel, and Harold Bloom, eds.  Victorian Prose and Poetry.  Vol. 5 of Oxford Anthology of English Literature.  Oxford: OUP, 1973.

      • Turner, Paul, ed.  Victorian Poetry, Drama, and Miscellaneous Prose.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1990.

    • Drama:
    • Poetry:
      • Buckler, William E., ed.  The Major Victorian Poets: Tennyson, Browning, Arnold
      . 
      • 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
      . 
      • Cunningham, Valentine, and Duncan Wu, eds.  Victorian Poetry.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
      • Houghton, Walter, and G. Robert Stange, eds.  Victorian Poetry and Poetics. 
      Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959.
      • Karlin, Daniel, ed.  The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997.
      • Negri, Paul, ed.  English Victorian Poetry: an Anthology.  New York: Dover, 1998.
      • O'Gorman, Francis, ed.  Victorian Poetry: an Annotated Anthology.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
    • Prose Fiction:

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

    • Beckson, Karl, ed.  Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s.  Chicago: Academy Chicago, 1966. 
    • Fletcher, Ian, ed.  Decadence and the 1890s.  1977.
    • Small, Ian, ed.  The Aesthetes: a Sourcebook.  1979.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Mid-Century ('Victorian'):
    • General:
    • Drama:
    • Poetry:
    • Prose Fiction:

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

On-Line:

• Mid-Century ('Victorian'):

  • General:

  • Drama:

  • Prose:

  • Poetry:

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

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Mid-Century ('Victorian'):
    • General:

      • Cruickshank, J., ed.  The Late Nineteenth Century.  Vol. 5 of French Literature and its Background.  Oxford: OUP, 1969.

      • Day, Gary, ed.  Varieties of Victorianism. 

      • Ford, Boris, ed.  Romantics to Early Victorians.  Vol. 6 of New Pelican Guide to English Literature.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990.

      • Kincaid, James, et al., eds.  Victorian Literature and Society. 
      • Langbaum, Robert.  The Modern Spirit: Essays on the Continuity of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature.  Oxford: OUP, 1970.
      • Lerner, Laurence, ed.  The Victorians
      .  The Context of English Literature.  New York: Holmes and Meier, 1978.

      • Maynard, J., and A. A. Munich, eds.  Victorian Literature and Culture.  New York: AMS, 1993.

      • Shires, Linda M., ed.  Rewriting the Victorians.  London: Routledge, 1992.

      • Stromberg, Roland, ed.  Realism, Naturalism and Symbolism: Modes of Thought and Expression in Europe, 1848-1914.  New York: Walker, 1968.

      • Tucker, Herbert F., ed.  A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.

    • Drama:

    • Poetry:
      • Armstrong, Isobel, ed.  The Major Victorian Poets: Reconsiderations
      .  Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1969.
      • Bristow, Joseph, ed.  Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry.   Cambridge: CUP, 2000.
      • Cronin, Richard, Alison Chapman, and Antony H. Harrison, eds.  A Companion to Victorian Poetry.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.
      • Faverty, Frederic, ed.  The Victorian Poets: a Guide to Research
      .  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1956.
      • Morgan, T. A., ed.  Contemporary Critics Look at Victorian Poetry.  West Virginia UP, 1991.

    • Prose Fiction:

      • Brantlinger, Patrick, and William Thesing, eds.  A Companion to the Victorian Novel.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.

      • David, Deidre, ed.  Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel.  Cambridge: CUP, 2001.

      • O'Gorman, Francis, ed.  The Victorian Novel: a Guide to Criticism.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

      • Skilton, David, ed.  The Early and Mid-Victorian Novel.  London: Routledge, 1992.

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

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Mid-Century ('Victorian'):

    • General:

      • Abrams, M. H.  "Victorian Period."  A Glossary of Literary Terms.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 1993.  153-154.
      • Brantlinger, Patrick.  The Spirit of Reform: British Literature and Politics, 1832-1867.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1977.
      • Buckley, J. H.  The Victorian Temper: a Study in Literary Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1964.
      • Bullen, J. B.  The Pre-Raphaelite Body.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1998.
      • Bullen, J. B.  Writing and Victorianism.  London: Longmans, 1997.
      • Chapple, R. A. V.  Science and Literature in the Nineteenth Century. 
      • Cox, Don Richard.  Sexuality and Victorian Literature. 
      • Crary, Jonathan.  Techniques of the Observer: on Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990.
      • Dawson, Carl.  Victorian Noon: English Literature in 1850. 
      • Langbaum, Robert.  The Modern Spirit: Essays on the Continuity of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature. 
      • Langbaum, Robert.  The Mysteries of Identity. 

      • McGowan, John P.  Representation and Revelation: Victorian Realism from Carlyle to Yeats.  Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1986.

      • Sussman, Herbert.  Victorians and the Machine: the Literary Response to Technology. 
      • Sutherland, John.  Victorian Fiction: Writers, Publishers, Readers.  London: Macmillan, 1995.
      • Tillotson, Geoffrey, et al.  Mid-Victorian Studies. 
      • Tillotson, Geoffrey.  A View of Victorian Literature. 
      • Turner, Paul.  English Literature, Excluding the Novel, 1832-1890. 

    • Drama:

      • Archer, William.  The Theatrical World (1893-97).

      • Booth, Michael.  Theatre in the Victorian Age.

      • Rowell, George.  The Victorian Theatre: a Survey.

    • Poetry:

      • General:
        • Armstrong, Isobel.  Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics.  London: Routledge, 1993.
        • Elfenbein, Andrew.  Byron and the Victorians.  Cambridge: CUP, 1995.
        • Harrison, Antony H.  Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems: Intertextuality and Ideology.  Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1990.
        • Lerner, Laurence.  "Poetry."  The Victorians.  Ed. Laurence Lerner.  New York: Holmes and Meier, 1978.
        • Mermin, Dorothy.  The Audience in the Poem: Five Victorian Poets.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1983.
        • Reilly, Catherine.  Late Victorian Poetry.  London: Mansell, 1994.
        • Richards, Bernard.  English Poetry of the Victorian Period, 1830-90.  London: Longman, 1988.
        • Slinn, E. Warwick.  "Poetry."  A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture.  Ed. Herbert F. Tucker.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.  307-322. 
        • Sussman, Herbert.  Victorian Masculinities: Manhood and Masculine Poetics in Early Victorian Literature and Art.  Cambridge: CUP, 1995.
      • Form:
        • Genre:
          • Langbaum, Robert.  The Poetry of Experience: the Dramatic Monologue in Modern Literary Tradition.  New York: , 1957.
        • Structure:
          • Armstrong, Isobel.  Language as Literary Form in Nineteenth Century Poetry.  Brighton: Harvester, 1982.
      • Metaphysical / Epistemological / Linguistic Issues:
        • Ball, Patricia M.  The Central Self: a Study in Romantic and Victorian Imagination.  London: Athlone, 1968.
        • Faas, Ekbert.  Retreat into the Mind: Victorian Poetry and the Rise of Psychiatry.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1988.

        • Shaw, W. David.  The Lucid Veil: Poetic Truth in the Victorian Age.  London: Athlone, 1987.

        • Slinn, E. Warwick.  The Discourse of Self in Victorian Poetry.  Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1991.

      • Socio-Political Issues:
        • Harrison, Antony H.  Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture: Discourse and Ideology.  Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1998.

    • Prose Fiction:

      • Ermarth, Elizabeth D.  The English Novel in History, 1840-95.  London: Routledge, 1997.

      • Fraser, Hilary, and Daniel Brown.  English Prose of the Nineteenth Century.  London: Longman, 1996.

      • Gilmour, Robin.  The Novel in the Victorian Age: a Modern Introduction.  London: Edwin Arnold, 1986.

      • Guy, Josephine.  The Victorian Social Problem Novel.  London: Macmillan, 1996.

      • Levine, George.  Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2002.

      • Miller, A. H.  Novels Behind Glass: Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative.  Cambridge: CUP, 1995.

      • Rignall, John.  Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator.  London: Routledge, 1992.

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

On-Line:

• Mid-Century ('Victorian'):

  • General:

    • Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Victorian Literature

  • Drama:

  • Poetry:

    • Lodge, Sara: Victorian Poetry, 1837-1901

    • Poet Seers: Victorian Poets

  • Prose Fiction:

    • Garside, Peter, Jacqueline Belanger, and Sharon Ragaz: British Fiction, 1800–1829

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

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