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General
sites on Victorian literature and culture:
Victorian
Web Sites: Extensive listing of web sites on Victorian literature and
culture, including the homepages of scholars (Maintained by Mitsuharu Matsuoka,
Nagoya University, Japan.).
19th
Century British and Irish Authors - an equally extensive list of 19th-century
web sites, also by Matsuoka.
Victorian
Web Overview An excellent archive of texts, links, images,
at Indiana University Contains valuable, well-organized, and concise
text excerpts on Victorian cultural and political concerns (George
P. Landow, Brown University).
Voice
of the Shuttle: Victorian general resources, authors, syllabi,
criticism (Maintained by Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara.).
Victorian
Canon on-line texts, images, links, and theory archive
Victoria
Research Web VICTORIA listserv website; includes a helpful search
engine of archived discussions (Patrick Leary, Indiana University).
Victorian
Women Writers Project: huge archive of online, searchable texts
(Perry Willett, Indiana University).
Victorian
Literary Resources accessible list of web sites (Jack Lynch,
University of Pennsylvannia
LITTR
Database on Victorian Studies: Bibliography of current and forthcoming
books and articles on the period (Brahma Chaudhuri, University of Alberta.)
Victorian
Novel, 1851-1867 - Bibliographic Resources: An excellent and very extensive
bibliography of intellectual, cultural, and historical texts about the
Victorian novel. Includes specific bibliographies of secondary critical
material on Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot,
and William Thackeray.
Defining the Victorian
period:
'Victorian'
and 'Victorianism' (Brown U)
Dicken's
London - some history, and the relationship of the novel to social
reform
Historical
"Cheat Sheet" on the Age of Reform, and on The
Victorian Era: very basic historical information - extremely
general, but still useful to the uninitiated.
Victorian cultural
practices:
Introduction
to a Victorian Woman's World
English
titles in the 18th and 19th centuries: very helpful for many
of the novels we read.
Manners
and Customs in the Time of Jane Austen: Contextualizes the Regency
Period; some details here may not apply to later Victorian texts.
A
Guide to English Culture, 1660-1830: Again, note that this resource
ends covers periods predating the Victorian period.
Reception
and readership of novels:
Victorian
Reviews and Responses to Sensation Fiction
The
Economics of Publishing: lending libraries, serial publication,
periodicals, and Dickens's working methods (Brown U)
Social class:
Social
Class: what was class for the Victorians? (Brown U)
The
Gentleman (Brown U)
Money and
economics:
Victorian
coinage ('What's a Guinea?'): a very specific site
More
on Victorian money: more general
Victorian
Economics: on Victorian political economy (Brown U)
Social conditions:
-London poverty:
A
link about Mayhew: selections from Mayhew's social explorations
in London's East End.
Mayhew's
London Labour and the London Poor on the Victorian Web OV (Brown);
discusses the 'foreignness' of the poor.
The
Housing Question: on overcrowding, low lodging houses, and asylum
for the houseless poor (Deb Taft)
-Cultural debates
on poverty and capitalism
The
New Poor Law - dialogue in Victoria: on 1832 legislation concerning
poor relief and workhouses
Parliamentary
Report (Sadler Committe) on Child Labor: on the employment and
frequent exploitation of child laborers.
Chartism-
by Carlyle (e-text and introduction): Examines and decries the
"Condition of England," the absence of strong governors, and the inefficacy
of the Reform Bill.
Marx
and Engels, Selected Works (also see The
Marx/Engels Internet Archive): criticism of economic practices,
with Victorian England as their case in point.
Some political
history:
The
Reform Acts (Brown U)
The
Crimean War: Encyclopedia Britannica article
Maps and timelines:
Greenwood's
Map of London 1827: each segment of the map may be placed in
close focus.
The
London of Dickens's Our Mutual Friend (BBC): London of
the 1860s. Somewhat hard to read.
19th
Century British Timeline: key dates, with links to earlier and
later periods.
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