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- Historical Period 1: British Victorian (1840-1900)
- Historical Period 2: British Modernism (1900-1945)
- Authors: Henry James and Katherine Mansfield
- Area Two: Theory
- Theories of the Commodity
- Area Three: Special Topic or Genre
Progress
Victorian
Fiction
- Charlotte Bronte
- Emily Bronte
- Wuthering Heights (1847) Notes X
- Thomas Carlyle
- Sartor Resartus (1831) Notes X
- Wilkie Collins
- The Moonstone (1868) Notes X
- The Woman in White (1859) Notes X
- Charles Dickens
- Bleak House (1852-3) Notes X
- A Christmas Carol (1843) Notes X
- David Copperfield (1849-50) Notes X
- Great Expectations (1860-1) Notes X
- Oliver Twist (1837-9) Notes X
- The Pickwick Papers (1836-7) Notes X
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- George Eliot
- Adam Bede (1859) Notes X
- Daniel Deronda (1876) Notes X
- Middlemarch (1871-2) Notes? X
- The Mill on the Floss (1860) Notes X
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Cranford (1853) Notes X
- Mary Barton (1848) Notes X
- North and South (1854-5) Notes X
- George Gissing
- New Grub Street (1891) Notes X
- Thomas Hardy
- Jude the Obscure (1895) Notes X
- The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) Notes X
- The Return of the Native (1878) Notes X
- Tess of the D’Ubervilles (1891) Notes X
- Ann Radcliflfe
- The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) Notes X
- Olive Schreiner
- The Story of an African Farm (1883) Notes X
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) Notes X
- Bram Stoker
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. (1844) Notes X
- Vanity Fair (1847-8) Notes X
- Anthony Trollope
- The Eustace Diamonds (1873) Notes X
- The Way We Live Now (1875) Notes X
- The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) Notes X
- The Time Machine (1895) Notes? X
- Oscar Wilde
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) Notes X
Poetry
- Matthew Arnold
- Dover Beach and Other Poems Notes X
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Aurora Leigh (1856) Notes X
- “A Curse for a Nation” Notes X
- “The Cry of the Children” (1843) Notes X
- “The Cry of the Human” (1842) Notes X
- “Hiram Powers’ ‘Greek Slave’” Notes X
- Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) Notes X
- “To George Sand: A Desire” (1844) Notes X
- “To George Sand: A Recognition” (1844) Notes X
- Robert Browning
- “Caliban upon Setebos” (1864) Notes X
- “Fra Lippo Lippi” (1855) Notes X
- “Home-Thoughts from Abroad”(1842) Notes X
- “Love Among the Ruins” [[Love Among|Notes] X
- “My Last Duchess” (1842) Notes X
- “Porphyrias Lover” (1842) Notes X
- “Two in the Campagna” Notes X
- Gerard Manly Hopkins (all 1918)
- “Binsey Poplars” Notes X
- “Carrion Comfort” Notes X
- “Felix Randal” Notes X
- “Gods Grandeur” Notes X
- “Inversnaid” Notes X
- [No Worst, There Is None] Notes X
- “Pied Beauty” Notes X
- “Spring and Fall” Notes X
- [Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord...] Notes X
- “The Windhover” Notes X
- A. E. Housman
- “The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux” (1922) Notes X
- “Eight O’Clock” (1922) Notes X
- “Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries” (1922) Notes X
- “Hell Gate” (1922) Notes X
- “Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now” (1896) Notes X
- “They Say My Verse Is Sad: No Wonder” (1936) Notes
- “Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff” (1896) Notes X
- “To an Athlete Dying Young” (1896) Notes X
- “When I Was One-and-Twenty” (1896) Notes X
- George Meredith
- Modern Love (1862/1892) Notes X
- Christina Rossetti (all 1862)
- Alfred Tennyson
- “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (1854) Notes X
- “The Lotos-Eaters” (1832) Notes X
- “In Memoriam A. H. H.” (1833-50) Notes X
- “The Lady of Shallott” (1833) Notes X
- “Mariana” (1833) Notes X
- “Ulysses” (1833) Notes X
Nonfiction
- Matthew Arnold
- Culture and Anarchy (1882) Notes X
- “On the Modern Element in Literature” (1869) Notes X
- Thomas Carlyle
- Auguste Comte
- from The Positive Philosophy (1830-42) Notes X
- Charles Darwin
- from The Origin of Species (1859) Notes X
- Harriet Martineau
- “Illustrations of Political Economy” Notes X
- J. S. Mill
- Principles of Political Economy (1848) Notes X
- On Liberty (1859) Notes X
- On Representative Government (1861) Notes X
- On the Subjection of Women (1869) Notes X
- Carolyn Nelson, ed
- The New Woman Reader (2000) Notes X
- Max Nordau
- “Degeneration” (1895) Notes X
- Walter Pater
- from Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873) Notes X
- John Ruskin
- from Modern Painters
- Volume 3 (1856): Essays on Landscape (Norton ed) Notes X
- Volume 4 (1856): “Of the Turnerian Picturesque” (Oxford ed) Notes X
- Volume 5 (1859): “Two Boyhoods” (Penguin ed) Notes X
- from The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849)
- “The Lamp of Memory” (Oxford ed) Notes X
- from Sesame and Lilies (1864-5)
- “Of King’s Treasuries” (Penguin ed) Notes X
- “Of Queen’s Gardens” (Oxford ed) Notes X
- from The Stones of Venice (1851-3)
- “The Nature of the Gothic” (Penguin ed) Notes X
- Oscar Wilde
- Essays and Lectures (2007) Notes X
Criticism
- Amanda Anderson
- The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment (2001) Notes X
- Nancy Armstrong
- Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (1987) Notes X
- Roland Barthes
- “The Reality Effect” (1968) Notes X
- James Buzard
- Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels (2005) Notes X
- Monica Feinburg Cohen
- Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work, and Home (1988) Notes X
- Catherine Gallagher
- The Industrial Reformation of British Fiction (1988) Notes X
- Georg Lukacs
- The Historical Novel (1937) Notes X
- Anne McClintock
- Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (1995) Notes X
- John McGowan
- Representation and Revelation: Victorian Realism from Carlyle to Yeats (1986) Notes X
- Andrew Miller
- Novels behind Glass: Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative (1995) Notes X
- Maureen Moran
- Victorian Literature and Culture (2006) Notes X
- Mary Poovey
- Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England (1988) Notes X
- Edward Said
- Culture and Imperialism (1994) Notes X
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism” (1985) Notes X
- Judith Walkowitz
- City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London (1992) Notes X
- Ian Watt
- The Rise of the Novel (1967) NotesX
- Rene Wellek
- Concepts of Criticism (1963) Notes X
British Modernism
Fiction
- Djuna Barnes
- Elizabeth Bowen
- The Death of the Heart (1936) Notes X
- The Hotel (1927) Notes X
- The House in Paris (1935) Notes X
- In the Heat of the Day (1949) Notes X
- The Last September (1929) Notes X
- To the North (1932) Notes X
- Mary Butts
- G. K. Chesterton
- The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) Notes X
- Agatha Christie
- Death on the Nile (1938) Notes X
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1916/1920) Notes X
- Peril at End House (1932) Notes X
- Joseph Conrad
- Heart of Darkness (1899) Notes? X
- The Secret Agent (1907) Notes X
- Ford Madox Ford
- The Good Soldier (1915) Notes X
- E. M. Forster
- The Longest Journey (1907) Notes X
- A Passage to India (1924) Notes? X
- A Room with a View (1908) Notes X
- Howards End (1910) Notes? X
- Where the Angels Fear to Tread (1905) Notes X
- Stella Gibbons
- Cold Comfort Farm (1933) Notes X
- Aldous Huxley
- Antic Hay (1923) Notes X
- Brave New World (1932) Notes X
- Crome Yellow (1921) Notes X
- James Joyce
- Dubliners (1914) Notes X
- The Portrait of an Artist (1916) Notes X
- Ulysses (1922) Notes X
- D. H. Lawrence
- The Fox, The Captain’s Doll, The Ladybird (1923) Notes X
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) Notes X
- Sons and Lovers (1913) Notes? X
- The Virgin and the Gypsy (1930) Notes X
- Women in Love (1920) Notes X
- Wyndham Lewis
- Wyndham Lewis et al.
- Thomas Mann
- Buddenbrooks (1901) Notes X
- Death in Venice (1911) Notes? X
- Somerset Maugham
- Cakes and Ale (1930) Notes X
- Of Human Bondage (1915) Notes X
- The Moon and Sixpence (1919) Notes X
- The Razor’s Edge (1944) Notes? X
- Iris Murdoch
- Under the Net (1954) Notes X
- Jean Rhys
- Good Morning, Midnight (1939) Notes? X
- Quartet (1929) Notes? X
- Voyage in the Dark (1934) Notes? X
- Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) Notes X
- May Sinclair
- The Life and Death of Harriet Frean (1922) Notes X
- Mary Olivier: A Life (1919) Notes X
- Evelyn Waugh
- Brideshead Revisited (1945) Notes X
- A Handful of Dust (1934) notes X
- Rebecca West
- Harriet Hume: A London Fantasy (1929) Notes X
- “Indissoluble Matrimony” (1914) Notes? X
- The Return of the Soldier (1918) Notes? X
- Virginia Woolf
- Between the Acts (1941) Notes? X
- Jacob’s Room (1922) Notes X
- Night and Day (1919) Notes X
- Orlando (1928) Notes X
- Mrs. Dalloway (1925) Notes? X
- To the Lighthouse (1927) Notes X
- The Voyage Out (1915) Notes? X
- The Waves (1931) Notes X
- The Years (1937) Notes? X
Poetry
- W. H. Auden
- Rupert Brooke
- H. D.
- T. S. Eliot
- Thomas Hardy
- T. E. Hulme
- from Selected Writings of T. E. Hulme (2003) Notes X
- D. H. Lawrence
- Mina Loy
- The Lost Lunar Baedeker Notes X
- Charlotte Mew (1869-1928)
- The Farmer’s Bride Notes X
- Wilfrid Owen (all 1920)
- Ezra Pound
- Selected Poems Notes? X
- Selections from The Cantos Notes? X
- Siegfried Sassoon
- ”’Blighters’” (1917) Notes X
- “Dreamers” (1918) Notes X
- “Everyone Sang” (1919) Notes X
- “The General” (1918) Notes X
- “Repression of War Experience” (1918) Notes X
- “To His Dead Body” (1916) Notes X
- “The Rear-Guard” (1917) Notes X
- Edith Sitwell
- “Aubade” (1923) Notes X
- “Country Dance” (1923) Notes X
- “Still Falls the Rain” (1942) Notes X
- “The Poet Laments the Coming of Old Age” (1945) Notes X
- W. B. Yeats
Nonfiction
- Charles Baudelaire
- “The Painter of Modern Life” Notes X
- Henri Bergson
- from Creative Evolution (1907) Notes X
- from The Creative Mind (1903-23) Notes X
- T. S. Eliot
- The Sacred Wood (1920) Notes X
- Ford Madox Ford
- Critical Writings of Ford Madox Ford (1964) Notes X
- E. M. Forster
- Aspects of the Novel (1927) Notes X
- Sigmund Freud
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) Notes X
- “The Wolfman” (1918) Notes X
- T. E. Hulme
- Speculations (1936) Notes X
- Mina Loy
- “Aphorisms on Futurism” (1914) Notes X
- “The Feminist Manifesto” (1914) Notes X
- “Modern Poetry” Notes X
- Georg Lukacs
- “The Ideology of Modernism” in The Meaning of Contemporary Realism (1957) Notes X
- Theory of the Novel (1920) Notes X
- Dora Marsden (1882-1960)
- G. E. Moore
- from Principia Ethica (1903) Notes X
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Genealogy of Morals (1887) X
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-5) Notes X
- Georg Simmel
- “The Metropolis and Mental Life” (1902-3) Notes X
- “The Sociology of Sociability” (1910) Notes X
- Virginia Woolf
- “Modern Fiction” (1925) Notes X
- “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” (1924) Notes X
- A Room of One’s Own (1929) X
Criticism
- Theodor Adorno
- Aesthetic Theory (1970) Notes X
- Shari Benstock
- Women of the Left Bank, 1900-1940 (1987) Notes X
- Marshall Berman
- All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity (1982) Notes X
- Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane, eds.
- Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930 (1976) Notes X
- Peter Burger
- Theory of the Avant-Garde (1984) Notes X
- Matei Calinescu
- The Five Faces of Modernity (1987) Notes X
- Cesar Caserino
- Modernity at Sea (2002) Notes X
- Ed Comentale
- Modernism, Cultural Production, and the British Avant-Garde (2004) Notes X
- Astradur Eysteinnson
- The Concept of Modernism (1990) Notes X
- Rita Felski
- The Gender of Modernity (1995) Notes X
- Andreas Huyssen
- After the Great Divide (1986) Notes X
- Robert Jensen
- Marketing Modernism in Fin de Siecle Europe (1996) Notes X
- Michael Levenson
- A Genealogy of Modernism (1986) Notes X
- Michael Levenson, ed
- The Cambridge Companion to Modernism (1999) Notes X
- Niklas Luhmann
- Observations on Modernity (1998) Notes X
- Peter Nicholls
- Modernisms: A Literary Guide (1995) Notes X
- Robert Pippin
- Modernism as a Philosophical Problem (1999) Notes X
- Lawrence Rainey
- Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture (1999) Notes X
- Michael Saler
- The Avant-Garde in Interwar England (1999) (Notes) X
- Jennifer Wicke
- Advertising Fictions: Literature, Advertisement, and Social Reading (1988) Notes X
- Raymond Williams
- The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists (2007) Notes X
Authors
Henry James
Primary
- Fiction
- The Ambassadors (1903) Notes X
- The American (1887) X
- The Aspern Papers (1888) X
- The Awkward Age (1899) X
- The Bostonians (1886) Notes X
- Daisy Miller (1887) X
- The Europeans (1878) Notes X
- The Golden Bowl (1904) Notes X
- In the Cage (1898) X
- The Outcry (1907) X
- The Portrait of a Lady (1881) Notes X
- The Spoils of Poynton (1897) X
- The Turn of the Screw (1898) X
- Washington Square (1880) X
- What Maisie Knew (1897) Notes X
- The Wings of the Dove (1902) X
- Nonfiction
- New York Edition prefaces X
Biography
- Leon Edel
- Henry James: A Life (1987) X
Katherine Mansfield
Primary
- Fiction
- In a German Pension and Other Stories (1911) Notes X
- Bliss and Other Stories (1920) Notes X
- The Garden Party and Other Stories (1922) Notes X
- The Doves’ Nest (1923) X
- Something Childish and Other Stories (1924) Notes X
- Nonfiction
- The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927) Notes X
- The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks (2002) X
- Novels and Novelists (1930) X
Biography
- Anthony Alpers
- The Life of Katherine Mansfield (1980) Notes X
- Jeffrey Meyers
- Katherine Mansfield: A Darker View (1978/2002) Notes X
- Claire Tomalin
- Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life (1987) Notes X
Theory: Growth of and Responses to the Commodity
Period Works
- Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
- Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) Notes X
- Walter Benjamin
- “Theses on the Philosophy of History” Notes X
- “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” Notes X
- Joseph Dietzgen
- “The Limits of Cognition” (1877) Notes X
- Friedrich Engels
- The Condition of the Working Class in England Notes X
- John Maynard Keynes
- from General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936) Notes X
- Georg Lukacs
- History and Class Consciousness (1923) Notes X
- Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels
- from Capital (1867-94) Notes X
- The Communist Manifesto (1848) Notes X
- A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859) Notes X
- from The German Ideology (1844-7) Notes X
- from Grundrisse (1858) Notes X
- Ezra Pound
- ABC of Economics (1933) Notes X
- John Ruskin
- Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy (1860) Notes X
- Georg Simmel
- from The Philosophy of Money (1900) Notes X
- Thornstein Veblen
- Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) Notes X
- Beatrice Webb and Sidney Webb
- The Decay of Capitalist Society (1923) Notes X
- Max Weber
- The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) Notes X
- Oscar Wilde
- The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose, ed Linda Dowling (2001) Notes X
- Virginia Woolf
- “Solid Objects” (1920) Notes X
- Three Guineas (1938) Notes X
Contemporary Works
- Arjun Appadurai
- The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (1988) Notes X
- Giovanni Arrighi
- The Long Twentieth Century (1994) Notes X
- Bill Brown
- “The Secret Life of Things (Virginia Woolf and the Matter of Modernism)” Notes X
- Russell Belk
- Collecting in a Consumer Society (1995) Notes X
- John Cooper
- Modernism and the Culture of Market Society Notes X
- Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
- Anti-Oedipus (1972) Notes X
- Roderick Floud
- The People and the British Economy (1997) Notes X
- Victoria de Grazia and Ellen Furlough, ed.
- The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective (1996) Notes X
- David Harvey
- The Condition of Postmodernity (1989) Notes X
- Fredric Jameson
- Marxism and Form (1971) Notes X
- The Political Unconscious (1981) Notes X
- Christopher Lindner
- Fictions of Commodity Culture: From Victorian to Postmodern (2003) Notes X
- Eugene Lunn
- Marxism and Modernism: An Historical Study of Lukacs, Brecht, Benjamin, and Adorno (1984) Notes X
- Douglas Mao
- Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production (1998) Notes X
- Deborah Parsons
- Streetwalking the Metropolis (2000) Notes X
- Erika Rappaport
- Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London’s West End (2000) Notes X
- Thomas Richards
- The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914 (1991) Notes X
- Lise Shapiro Sanders
- Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl (2006) Notes X
- Susan Stewart
- On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection (1993) Notes X
- Jon Stratton
- The Desirable Body: Cultural Fetishism and the Erotics of Consumption (2001) Notes X
- Raymond Williams
- Marxism and Literature (1977) Notes X
Special Topic: Modernist Leisure Spaces
- Paul C. Adams et al.
- Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies (2001) Notes X
- Theodor Adorno
- “Free Time,” from The Culture Industry (2001) Notes X
- Cara Aitchson
- Leisure and Tourism Landscapes (2000) Notes X
- Gaston Bachelard
- The Poetics of Space (1974) Notes X
- Malcolm Bradbury, ed.
- The Atlas of Literature (1996) Notes X
- Steve Bradshaw
- Cafe Society (1978) Notes X
- Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker
- Geographies of Modernist Literature, Cultures, Spaces (2005) Notes X
- Erica Carter, James Donald, and Judith Squires, eds
- Space & Place: Theories of Identity and Location (1993) Notes X
- Michel de Certeau
- The Practice of Everyday Life (1984) Notes X
- Denis Cosgrove, ed.
- The Iconography of Landscape (1989) Notes X
- Le Corbusier
- Towards a New Architecture (1923) Notes X
- Brian Cowan
- David Crouch
- Leisure and Tourism Geographies (2000) Notes X
- Alev Lytle Croutier
- Taking the Waters (1992) Notes X
- Melanie Dawson
- Laboring to Play (2005) Notes X
- Joseph Frank
- “Spatial Form in Modern Literature” (1945) Notes X
- Michel Foucault
- “On Other Spaces” Notes X
- J. B. Harley
- “Maps, Knowledge, and Power” (1988) Notes X
- David Harvey
- The Condition of Postmodernity (1989) Notes X
- Henri Lefebvre
- The Production of Space (1974, trans. 1991) Notes X
- Franco Moretti
- Atlas of the European Novel (1998) Notes X
- J. H. Plumb, with Mc Kendrick? and Brewer
- The Birth of a Consumer Society (1982) Notes X
- Chris Rojek
- Decentering Leisure: Rethinking Leisure Theory (1995) Notes X
- Victoria Rosner
- Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life (2005) Notes X
- Rob Shields
- Places on the Margin: Alternative Geographies of Modernity (1992) Notes X
- Edward Soja
- Postmodern Geographies (1989) Notes X
- Andrew Thacker
- Moving through Modernity: Space and Geography in Modernism (2003) Notes X
- W. M. Thackeray
- Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo (1846) Notes X
- Jean-Paul Urbain
- At the Beach (2003) Notes X
- John Urry
- Consuming Places (1995) Notes X
- David Foster Wallace
- “The Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” (1995) Notes X
- John K. Walton
- The British Seaside (2000) Notes X
Number of Items
- Victorian: 131 Books/Articles (125 Read)
- Fiction: 37 Books/Articles (37 Read)
- Poetry: 51 Books/Articles (50 Read)
- Nonfiction: 26 Books/Articles (22 Read)
- Criticism: 17 Books/Articles (16 Read)
- British Modernism: 138 Books/Articles (138 Read)
- Fiction: 61 Books/Articles (61 Read)
- Poetry: 31 Books/Articles (31 Read)
- Nonfiction: 25 Books/Articles (25 Read)
- Criticism: 21 Books/Articles (21 Read)
- Authors: 30 Books/Articles (30 Read)
- Henry James: 18 Books/Articles (18 Read)
- Katherine Mansfield: 12 Books/Articles (12 Read)
- Theory: Growth of and Responses to the Commodity: 42 Books/Articles (42 Read)
- Period Works: 21 Books/Articles (21 Read)
- Contemporary Works: 21 Books/Articles (21 Read)
- Special Topic: Modernist Leisure Spaces: 32 Books/Articles (32 Read)
Total Books: 373 (Read 367)