Victorian Studies - Selected Sources

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Encyclopedias & General Works

English Historical Documents

Ed. David C. Douglas

DA26 E55

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The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

60 Volumes. Available online. (Rev. Ed. of the one below )

DA28 .O95 2004

Dictionary of National Biography

Ed. Leslie Stephen

DA28 .D5 1885a

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A Companion to Nineteenth-century Britain

Ed. Chris Williams

DA530 .C76 2004

Stacks

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

Ed. Francis Ogorman

DA533 .C36 2010

(Vic Stacks)

Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era

James Eli Adams, editor in chief

DA550 .E527 2004

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The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World

Ed. Melinda Corey and George Ochoa

DA550 .E53 1996.

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Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia

Ed. Sally Mitchell

DA550 .V53 1988

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Victorian Culture and Society: the Essential Glossary

Roberts, Adam

DA550 .R597 2003

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The Victorians at War, 1815-1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History

Harold E. Raugh, Jr

DA68 .R38 2004

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Ware's Victorian dictionary of slang and phrase

Ware, J. Redding

PE3721 .W3 2013

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A Reference Guide for English Studies

Marcuse, Michael J

PR56 .M371990

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British Writers

Ed. Ian Scott-Kilvert

PR85 .B688

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The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature

Ed. (general) Dino Franco Felluga

PR451 .E553 2015

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A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture

Ed. Herbert F. Tucker

PR461 .C597 1999

Stacks

The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana

Nevins, Jess and Michael Moorcock

PR461 .N42 2005

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Victorian Poets Before 1850

Ed. William E. Fredeman and Ira B. Nadel

PR591 .V53 1984

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Victorian Prose Writers Before 1867

Ed. William B. Thesing

PR781 .V53 1987

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Victorian Prose Writers After 1867

Ed. William B. Thesing

PR781 .V52 1987

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English Fiction of the Victorian Period: 1830-1890

Michael Wheeler

PR871 .W47 1994

Stacks

Victorian Prose: A Guide to Research

Ed. David J. DeLaura

PR/785/D4

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Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists.

Second Series. Ed. George M. Johnson.

PR/863/L382/1999

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A Companion to the Victorian Novel

Ed. William Baker and Kenneth Womack

PR/871/C64/2002

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Victorian Novelists After 1885

Ed. Ira P. Nadel and William E. Fredeman

PR/871/V54/1983

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Victorian Novelists Before 1885

Ed. Ira P. Nadel and William E. Fredeman

PR/871/V55/1983

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London, 1066-1914

Vol. 2 & vol. 3. Ed. Xavier Brown.

PR/1111/L6/L66/1997

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Victorian Yellowbacks & Paperbacks, 1849-1905

Topp, Chester W

Z/1033/Y44/T67/1993

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Bibliographies of Studies in Victorian Literature for the Ten Years 1975-1984

Ed. Richard C.Tobias

Z/2013/B593/1991

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The Victorian Novel: An Annotated Bibliography

Mazzeno, Laurence W

Z/2014/F4/M39/1989

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Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1960-1879: An Annotated Bio-bibliography

Reilly, Catherine W

Z/2014/P7/R454/2002

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The Arts

Dignity and Decadence: Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritance

Jenkyns, Richard

N/6767/J46/1992

Stacks

Victorian Painting

Lambourne, Lionel

ND/467/L36/1999

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Victorian Painting

Treuherz, Julian

ND/467/T7/1993

Stacks

Victorian Painters

Wood, Christopher

ND/467/W66/1995

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Victorian Glassworlds: glass culture and the imagination 1830-1880.

TP854 .G7 A76 2008

Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema

Available Online

History and Sociology

Daily Life in Victorian England

Mitchell, Sally

DA/33/M675/1996

Stacks

How to be a Victorian: a dawn-to-dusk guide to Victorian life

Goodman, Ruth

DA533 .G527 2014

Stacks

Contesting Cultural Authority: Essays in Victorian Intellectual Life

Turner, Frank, M

DA/533/T86/1993

Stacks

Victorian Political Culture: habits of heart and mind

Hawkins, Angus

DA550 .H374 2015

Stacks

Outcast London: A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society.

Jones, Gareth Stedman.

HC/258/L6/J6/1992

Stacks

Late Victorian Britain, 1870-1901.

Harrison, J.F.C. England: Fontana Press, 1990.

HN385 .H352 1990

Stacks

Family ties in Victorian England

Nelson, Claudia

HQ615 .N45 2007

Stacks

Victorian Feminists

Caine, Barbara

HQ/1595/A3/C34/1992

Stacks

Victorian Women

Perkin, Joan

HQ/1599/E5/P47/1995

Stacks

Victorian Childhoods

Frost, Ginger S

HQ/792 .G7/F76/2009

Stacks

Victorian Cities

Briggs, Asa

HT/133/B7/1990

Stacks

That Devils Trick: hypnotism and the Victorian popular imagination

Hughes, William

PR468.M47 H84 2015

Stacks

Victorian Discourses on Sexuality and Religion

Maynard, John

PR/468/R44/M39/1993

Stacks

Victorian Cities

Briggs, Asa

HT/133/B7/1990

Stacks

That Devils Trick: hypnotism and the Victorian popular imagination

Hughes, William

PR468.M47 H84 2015

Stacks

Victorian Discourses on Sexuality and Religion

Maynard, John

PR/468/R44/M39/1993

Stacks

Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain

Tromp, Marlene, ed

QM691 .V53 2008

Stacks

Literature

Theatre in the Victorian Age

Booth, Michael R

PN2594 .B58 1991

Stacks

The Madwoman in the Attic: the Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-century Literary Imagination.

Gilbert, Sandra M

PR/115/G5 2000

Stacks

Victorian Science and Literature

Dawson, Gowan

PR149 .S4 V53 8 vols. 2011

Stacks

Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature

Frederick Burwick, Gen

PR447 .E552011 2012

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The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature

Markovits Stefanie

PR451 .M35 2006

Stacks

The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature.

PR461 .C37 2012

Stacks

The Victorian Period: the Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1830-1890

Gilmour, Robin

PR461. G55 1993

Stacks

The Pocket Guide to Victorian Writers and Poets

James, Russell

PR461 .J25 2010

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Gender and Discourse in Victorian Literature and Art

Harrison, Antony H. and Beverly Taylor

PR468 .F46 G4/1992

Stacks

Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford

Dowling, Linda

PR468 .H65 D68 1994

Stacks

Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction

Matus, Jill L

PR468 .P68 M38 2009

Stacks

Victorian Discourses on Sexuality and Religion

Maynard, John

PR/468/R44/M39/1993

Stacks

Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture

Anderson, Amanda

PR/468/W6/A53/1993

Stacks

The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

Ed. Deirdre David

PR 871 .C17 2001

Stacks

The Victorian Railway

Simmons, Jack

TF57 .S55

Stacks

Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics

Armstrong, Isobel

PR/595/H5/A76/1993

Stacks

Victorian Poetry in Context

Miles, Rosie

PR/591/M55/ 2013

Stacks

British Victorian Womens Periodicals: Beauty, Civilization and Poetry

Ledbetter Kathryn

PR595.W58 L43 2009

Stacks

The Making of Victorian Drama

Jenkins, Anthony

PR/734/S5/J46/1991

Stacks

A Reader's Guide to the Nineteenth Century English Novel

Brown, Julia Prewitt

PR/861/B76/1985

Stacks

The Victorian Novel

Horsman, Alan

PR/871/H67/1990

Stacks

The Facts On File Companion to the British Short Story

Ed. Andrew Maunder

PR829 .F33 2006

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The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel

Lee, Julia Sun-Joo

PR865 .L44 2010

Stacks

Feeling for the Poor: Bourgeois Compassion, Social Action, and the Victorian Novel

Betensky, Carolyn

PR878 .P66 B47 2010

Stacks

A Companion to the Victorian Novel

Baker, William

PR871 .C64 2002

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How to Read the Victorian Novel

Levine, George

PR871 .L48 2008

Stacks

The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction

Sutherland, John

PR/871/S86 2009 2nd Ed.

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Technologies of Power in the Victorian Period: Print Culture, Human Labor, and new Modes of Critique

Murray, John C

PR878 .S64 M87 2010

Stacks

Daughters of the House: Modes of the Gothic in Victorian Fiction

Milbank, Alison

PR/878/T3/M55/1992

Stacks

Victorian Fairy Tales

Ed. Michael Newton

PR1309 .F26 V49 2015

Stacks

Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Biographical Critical Sourcebook

Ed. Denise D. Knight

PS 217 .W64 N56 1997

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Philosophy

The Dictionary of Nineteenth-century British Philosophers.

Mander, . J. and Alan P.F. Sell.

B1561 .D53 2002

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Internet Resources

Internet Archive

Digitized texts and all other media

Available Online

Victoria Research Web

provides resources for the study of all aspects of Victorian Britain.

Available Online

Victorian Web Sites (Victorian Literary Studies Archive)

Available Online

Hyper-Concordance

for authors and their individual works (Victorian Literary Studies Archive)

Available Online

The Victorian Web

Available Online

Victorian Women Writers Project

Available Online

Voice of the Shuttle English Literature: Victorian

Available Online

Nines (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship)

Available Online

The Nineteenth-Century English Novel: Bibliographic Resources

Available Online

Victoria Research Web: Scholarly Sources for Victorian Research

by Patrick Leary

Available Online

Victorian Popular Culture: A Portal

Available Online

The Victorian Studies Bibliography

Available Online

19th Century British Pamphlets Online

Available Online

Mid-Victorian imperialists: British gentleman and the empire of the mind

(Online- title search on UofT catalogue)

Youth of darkest England: working-class children at the heart of Victorian

Boone, Troy.

(Online- title search on UofT catalogue)

Victorian print media: a reader

King, Andrew.

[electronic resource at UofT]

Victorian servants, class, and the politics of literacy

Fernandez, Jean.

[electronic resource at UofT]

The Long Nineteenth Century

Victorian History.

A Vision of Britain through Time.

A vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001. Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.

Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians

Available Online

Evolution and Victorian Culture

Lightman, Bernard V.

Available Online

Journal Databases/Indexes (UofT)

Victorian Database

1945-1999 available online

Emprie Online

Over 60,000 images of original manuscripts and printed material from 1492 to 1969. Includes historical essays and biographies.

Pooles's Index to Periodical Literaure 1893-1938.

Poole, William

*also available online in 19th Century Masterfile

AI3 .P7 1893

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Cumulative author index for Poole's Index to Periodical Literature 1802-1906

Wall, C. Edward.

AI/3/W3 1971

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Palmer's Index to The [London] Times, 1790-1905

London Low Life

Victorian London’s streets, gin palaces, brothels and East End slums: salacious ‘swell’s guides’ to scandalous broadsides and seditious posters, the material sold London’s bustling streets gives insight into its dark underworld. Children’s chapbooks, slang dictionaries and ballads ...

Available Online

Victorian Periodical Review

VPR is the only refereed journal that concentrates on the editorial and publishing history of Victorian periodicals. Its emphasis is on the importance of periodicals for an understanding of the history and culture of Victorian Britain, Ireland, and the Empire.

Available Online

MLA International Bibliography

1963- available online

Historical Abstracts

1954- available online

Periodicals Contents Index (PCI)

1770- also available online

The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900.

*also available online*

Z/2005/H6

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The Historical Index to The New York Times, 1851-1922

Historical Newspapers Online

Palmer's Full Text Online (The [London] Times), 1785-1870

The Official Index to The [London] Times, 1906-1980

The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals 1800-1900

Literature Criticism Online

Simultaneously search Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Drama Criticism and more.

Oxford Bibliographies

in Victorian Literature offers a reliable, up-to-date, and authoritative guide to the best literature in the field.

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