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How to Find Materials about Victorian Literature

A Select Guide to Finding Resources

Bibliographies, Encyclopedias, and General Reference | Books | Indexes and Abstracts | Journals | Online Catalog Subject Headings

BIBLIOGRAPHIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, AND GENERAL REFERENCE MATERIALS

Buckley, Jerome H. Victorian Poets and Prose Writers. Arlington Heights: AHM Publishing Co., 1977. PR1145.Z9928 1977 REFERENCE

Cumulative Bibliography of Victorian Studies 1970-1984. Brahma Chaudhuri, ed.
Edmonton: LITIR Database, 1988. Z2091.A641 1970-1984 Vol. I and Vol. II REFERENCE

v.1 classified listings v.2 indexes.

Cumulative Bibliography of Victorian Studies: 5 Year Cumulation 1985-1989.
Edmonton: LITIR Database, 1990. Z2091.A641 1985-1989 REFERENCE

HEADINGS:
English Literature-- Bibliography
English Literature-- Research Methodology

Kunitz, Stanley. British Authors of the Nineteenth Century. New York: H.W. Wilson Co.,
1964. PR451.K8 1964 REFERENCE

Marcuse, Michael J. A Reference Guide for English Studies. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1990. PR56.M37 1990 REFERENCE

HEADINGS:
English Literature—19th century—History and criticism

Mitchell, Sally. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, 1988.
DA550.V53 1988 REFERENCE

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. L.L. Harris, ed. Detroit: Gale Research, 1981.
PN761.N5 v.1-v.53 1981 REFERENCE

HEADINGS:
Literature, Modern—19th Century

Poetry Criticism. N. Dziedzic, ed. Detroit: Gale Research, 1991.
PN1010.P499 v.1-v.14 1991 REFERENCE

HEADINGS:
Poetry—History and Criticism

Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989. PR871.S87 1989 REFERENCE

HEADINGS:
Novelists, English—19th Century—Biography
English Fiction—19th Century—History and Criticism

SOME VICTORIAN POETS

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Gerard Manley Hopkins
William Morris
Alfred Lord Tennyson

SOME VICTORIAN NOVELISTS

Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
Robert Louis Stevenson

INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS

Essay and General Literature Index. John Greenfield, ed. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1934-1995.
PN1.E7 v.1-v.12 INDEX

Expanded Academic Abstracts (InfoTrac) Information Access Co. 1981-present.
CD-ROM Library Workstations

MLA Bibliography. Modern Language Association of America. 1965-present.
Computer Workstations

The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. Walter E. Houghton, ed. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1989. PN5111.W4 v.1-v.15 1989 INDEX

ONLINE CATALOG SUBJECT HEADINGS

Austen, Jane--Criticism and interpretation
Dickens, Charles--Criticism and interpretation
English Literature—19th Century
English Literature—19th Century—Criticism textual
English Literature—19th Century---Periodicals
English Literature—19th Century----History and criticism
English Literature—19th Century----History and criticism---Bibliography
English Literature—19th Century---History and criticism---Theory etc.
English Literature—Women Authors—History and criticism
Literature and science
Socialism and literature—Great Britain

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SAMPLE JOURNALS

Explicator
Modern Drama
Modern Philology
Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Nineteenth-Century Literature
The Victorian Newsletter
Victorian Poetry
Victorian Studies

SAMPLE BOOKS

Cosslett, Tess. The "Scientific Movement" and Victorian Literature.
New York: St. Martins Press, 1982. PR468.S34 C67 1982 STACKS

Crosby, Christina. The Ends of History: Victorians and "The Woman Question".
New York: Routledge, 1991. PR878.F45 C76 1991 STACKS

HEADINGS:
Feminism and Literature—Great Britain—History—19th Century

Wheeler, Michael. Death and the Future Life in Victorian Literature and Theology
New York:Cambridge University Press, 1990. PR468.D42 W4 1990 STACKS

Winn, Sharon. The Slaughterhouse of Mammon: An Anthology of Victorian Social Protest Literature.
West Cornwall: Locust Hill Press, 1992. PR1309.S63 S57 1992 STACKS

HEADINGS:
Social Problems in Literature

Woods, George B. Poetry of the Victorian Period: Selected and Edited with Critical Notes,
Brief Biographies, and Bibliographies. Chicago: Scott Foresman, 1965. PR1223.W6 1965 STACKS

HEADINGS:
English Poetry—19th Century

The Worlds of Victorian Fiction. Jerome H. Buckley, ed.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975. PR873.W6 1975 STACKS