Select Bibliography: Victorian Garbage

This bibliography categorizes some (but certainly not all) of the leading materials available on Victorian garbage and related topics and texts. Unless starred (*), these materials should be on reserve at the library.

General Reference

Cotsell, Michael. Companion to Our Mutual Friend

*Mitchell, Sally, ed. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. In the library’s reference section.

*Tucker, Herbert. A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture

Victorian Web: http://www.victorianweb.org

Critical/ Theoretical Approaches towards Waste/ Garbage

Bataille, Georges. Erotism: Death and Sensuality

*Brown, Norman O. Love’s Body (an influential approach towards anality published in the 1960s)

*Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger

*Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents

*Kristeva, Julia. The Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

*LaPorte, Dominic, The History of Shit

Miller, William Ian. An Anatomy of Disgust

O’Connor, Erin. Raw Material: Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture

Trotter, David. Cooking with Mud: The Idea of Mess in Nineteenth-Century Art and Fiction. Discusses several Victorian novelists and painters, including J. M. W. Turner.

Historical Accounts of Garbage

*Rathje, William. Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage

*Richardson, Ruth. Death, Dissection, and the Destitute

Strasser, Susan. Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash

Gender/ Sexuality

Anderson, Amanda. Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture. Copied chapters on reserve

*Anonymous, My Secret Life: An Erotic Diary of Victorian London

*Marcus, Steven. The Other Victorians

Nead, Lynda. Myths of Sexuality: Representations of Women in Victorian Britain. Copied chapters on reserve.

*Walkowitz, Judith. City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London. Late-Victorian street culture and prostitution.

Race/ Colonialism/ Ethnography

Herbert, Christopher. Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the Nineteenth Century. Chapter on Mayhew.

McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest

Urban Planning/ Public Life/ Sanitation

*Ackroyd, Peter. London: A Biography

Chadwick, Edwin. Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population of Great Britain

Dyos, H. J. and Michael Wolff. The Victorian City: Images and Realities (2 vols; only vol. 1 is on reserve)

Halliday, Stephen and Adam Hart-Davis. The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis

*Kay, James Phillips. The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes Employed in the Cotton Manufacture in Manchester

Nead, Lynda. Victorian Babylon: People, Streets, and Images in Nineteenth-Century London

O’Connor, Erin. “Asiatic Cholera and the Raw Material of Race,” Raw Material

Stallybrass, Peter and Allon White, The Politics and Poetics of Transgression

Reid, Donald. Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities and Representations

Simon, John, M. D. Public Health Reports. Mostly about cholera; copied sections on reserve.

Thomson, John. Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs

Trench, Richard and Ellis Hillman. London under London

*Walkowitz, Judith. City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London. Late-Victorian street culture and prostitution.

Wilson, Anthony and Kenneth Chew, eds. Victorian Science and Engineering: Portrayed in the Illustrated London News

Wohl, Anthony. Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain

*Wohl, Anthony. The Eternal Slum: Housing and Social Policy in Victorian London

Visual Art

Beaver, Patrick. The Crystal Palace: A Portrait of Victorian Enterprise

*Gage, John, ed. Turner: Rain, Steam, and Speed

*Herrmann, Luke, ed. Nineteenth-Century British Painting

*Lambourne, Lionel. Victorian Painting

McKean, John. Crystal Palace: Joseph Paxton and Charles Fox

Thomson, John. Victorian London Street Life in Historic Photographs

*Warner, Malcolm, ed. The Victorians: British Painting 1837-1901

Wilson, Anthony and Kenneth Chew, eds. Victorian Science and Engineering: Portrayed in the Illustrated London News

Specific Texts/ Authors

Cullwick/Munby and Domestic Labor

Atkinson, Diane. Love and Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick

Hudson, Derek. Munby, Man of Two Worlds: The Life and Diaries of Arthur J. Munby, 1828-1910

Kaplan, Cora. “Like a Housemaid’s Fancies’: The Representation of Working-Class Women in Nineteenth-Century Writing”

Reay, Barry. Watching Hannah: Sexuality, Horror and Bodily De-Formation in Victorian England

Stallybrass, Peter and Allon White, “Below Stairs: The Maid and the Family Romance” (Ch. 4), The Politics and Poetics of Transgression

Stanley, Liz, ed. The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick

McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest

Chadwick, Edwin

Chadwick, Edwin. Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population of Great Britain

Mary Poovey, “Domesticity and Class Formation: Chardwick’s 1842 Sanitary Report,” Making a Social Body

Schoenwald, Richard. “Training Urban Man: A Hypothesis about the Sanitary Movement.” The Victorian City: Images and Realities, Vol. 2, ed. ed. H. J. Dyos: 669-692

Dickens, Charles—Our Mutual Friend

Advertisements in the original serial parts of Our Mutual Friend (May 1864- November 1865) at the Dickens Project: http://humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/OMF/text.html

*Carey, John. The Violent Effigy: A Study of Dickens’s Violent Imagination

Cotsell, Michael. Companion to Our Mutual Friend

*David, Deirdre. Fictions of Resolution in Three Victorian Novels: North and South, Our Mutual Friend, Daniel Deronda. (On narrative closure, politics, and realism)

Gallagher, Catherine. “The Bio-Economics of Our Mutual Friend,” Fragments for a History of the Human Body, ed. Michel Feher, Part 3: 344-65

*Ginsburg, Michael Peled. “The Case against Plot in Bleak House and OMF,” ELH (English Literary History) 59: 1 (Spring 1992) 175-195. Online.

*Hayward, Jennifer. Consuming Pleasures: Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soap Opera

*House, Humphrey. The Dickens World. A 1940s classic on Dickensian style.

Hutter, Albert D. “Dismemberment and Articulation in Our Mutual Friend”

*Kucich, John. Repression in Victorian Fiction. On the mechanics of desire in OMF.

*Metz, Nancy Aycock. “The Artistic Reclamation of Waste in OMF” 19th-Century Fiction 34:1 (June 1979) 59-72. Online.

Nelson, Harland S. “Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend and Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor”

Poovey, Mary. Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864. On economic speculation in OMF.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. “Homophobia, Misogyny, and Capital: The Example of Our Mutual Friend,” Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire

*Steig, Michael. “Dickens's Excremental Vision,” Victorian Studies 13 (1970) 339-354. On novels other than OMF.

Stone, Marcus. Illustrations for the original serial parts of Our Mutual Friend (May 1864- November 1865) at the Dickens Project: http://humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/OMF/text.html

Sucksmith, Harvey Peter. “The Dust-heaps in Our Mutual Friend”

*Williams, Raymond. “Dickens and Social Ideas,” Dickens 1970, ed. Michael Slater (1970). On ‘flat’ characters and ideology.

Engels, Friedrich

*Henderson, W. O. Marx and Engels and the English Workers

Krishnamurthy, Aruna. “More than Abstract Knowledge”: Friedrich Engels in Industrial Manchester,” Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol. 28: 427-450.

Michael Levin, The Condition of England Question: Carlyle, Mill, Engels

* Lukacs, George. “Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat,” History and Class Consciousness. A classic text on alienation.

Marcus, Steven. Engels, Manchester, and the Working Class

*Nord, Deborah Epstein. Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation, and the City. On Engels’s gender politics.

Hardy, Thomas—Tess of the D’Urbervilles (NONE ON RESERVE)

*Beer, Gillian. Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and 19th-Century Fiction

*Bonica, Charlotte. "Nature and Paganism in Hardy's Tess of D," ELH (English Literary History) 49:4 (Winter 1982) 849-862. Online.

*DeLaura, David J. “The Ache of Modernism in Hardy's Later Novels,” ELH 34 (1967). Online.

*Gallagher, Catherine. “Tess of D: Hardy's Anthropology of the Novel," Tess of D, ed. Riquelme (Bedford, 1998). Influential New Historicist reading.

*Garson, Marjorie. Hardy's Fables of Integrity: Woman, Body, Text

*Gregor, Ian. The Great Web: The Form of Hardy's Major Fiction. Genre criticism.

*Higgonet, Margaret R., ed. The Sense of Sex: Feminist Perspectives on Hardy

*Lawrence, D. H. “Study of Thomas Hardy” (1936), Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence

*Lucas, John. The Literature of Change: Studies in the 19th-Century Provincial Novel (1977)

*Miller, J. Hillis. Fiction and Repetition. A post-structuralist reading.

*Nunokawa, Jeff. “Tess, Tourism, and the Spectacle of the Woman,” Rewriting the Victorians, ed. Linda Shires

*Riquelme, John Paul. Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, ed. (Bedford, 1998)—includes articles: Gallagher, “Hardy's Anthropology of the Novel”; Rooney, “Tess and the Subject of Sexual Violence,” Wicke, “Standards and Standardization in TH's Tess.”

*Scarry, Elaine. “Work and the Body in Hardy and Other 19th-Century Novelists,” Representations 3 (Summer 1983) 90-123. On-line.

*Silverman, Kaja. “History, Figuration, and Female Subjectivity in Tess of D,” Novel 18:1 (Fall 1984) 5-28.

*Williams, Raymond. The Country and the City

*Widdowson, Peter, ed. On Thomas Hardy: Late Essays and Earlier  (St. Martin's, 1998). Another helpful collection.

Related period fiction/ poetry (NONE ON RESERVE)

*Baudelaire, Charles. Les Fleurs de Mal

*Conrad, Joseph. The Heart of Darkness

*Faber, Michael. The Crimson Petal and the White

*Gaskell, Elizabeth. Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life

*Kinglsey, Charles. The Water Babies

*Stevenson, Robert. Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde

*Patmore, Coventry. The Angel in the House