Brief Bibliography: Backgrounds to English Literature

Basic Texts about Period and Books:

• Chew, Samuel C. and Richard D. Altick. The Nineteenth Century and After. New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1967.
• Cobb, Richard and Colin Jones. Voices of the French Revolution. Topsfield, Mass.: Salem House, 1988.
• Jack, Ian. English Literature, 1815-1832. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.
• Renwick, W. L. English Literature, 1789-1815. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.
• Thomson, David. England in the 19th Century. Baltimore: Penguin, 1967.

Wordsworth:

• Byatt, A. S. Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time. London: The Hogarth Press, 1989.
• Gill, Stephen. William Wordsworth: A Life. London: Oxford University Press, 1989.
• Hartman, Geoffrey H. Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787-1814. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987.

Austen, Jane:

• Halperin, John. The Life of Jane Austen. Maryland: Johns Hopkins, 1984.
• Jenkins, Elizabeth. Jane Austen. New York: Pellegrini, 1949.
• Lane, Maggie. Jane Austen's England. London: Robert Hale, 1986.Morris, Ivor.
• Mr. Collins Considered. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987.

On the Victorian period:

• Briggs, Asa. Victorian People. Victorian Cities. New York: Harper and Colophon, 1953-5.
• Buckley, Jerome Hamilton. The Victorian Temper. New York: Vintage, 1961.
• Irvine, William. Apes, Angels, and Victorians: The Story of Darwin, Huxley, and Evolution. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955.
• Marcus, Stephen. The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth Century England.
• Mason, Michael. The Making of Victorian Sexuality. New York: Oxford 1994.
• Sutherland, John, The Stanford Guide to Victorian Fiction. California: Stanford University Press, 1989.
• Thompson, E. R. The Making of the English Working Class. New York: Vintage 1966.

On Alfred Tennyson:

• Ricks, Christopher. Tennyson.
• Thorn, Michael. Tennyson. New York: St. Martins Press, 1992.

On Trollope:

• Glendinning, Victoria. Anthony Trollope. New York:
• MacDonald, Susan Peck. Anthony Trollope. Boston: Twayne, 1987.
• Mullen, Richard with James Munson. The Penguin Guide to Trollope. New York: Penguin, 1996.
• Snow, C. P. Trollope: An Illustrated Biography.
• Stebbins, Lucy Poate and Richard Poate. The Trollopes: The Chronicle of a Writing Family. New York: Columbia University Press, 1945.

On World War One, Between the Acts, and World War Two:

• Brittain, Vera. Testament of Youth. London: Gollancz: 1933.
• Dangerfield, George. The Strange Death of Liberal England, 1910-14. London: Perigree, 1935.
• Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. New York: Oxford, 1975.
• -------------. Wartime. New York: Oxford, 1989.
• Harrisson, Tom. Living Through the Blitz. New York: Schocken, 1976.
• Hewison, Robert. Under Seige: Literary Life in London, 1939-45. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977.
• Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia. London: HBJ, 1980.
• Silkin, Jon, ed. First World War Poetry, 2nd edition. New York: Penguin, 1981.

On Robert Graves:

• Graves, Robert and Alan Hodge. The Long Weed-End: A Social History of Great Britain, 1918-1939. New York: Norton, 1963.
• Seymour-Smith, Martin. Robert Graves. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston: 1982.

On Virginia Woolf:

• Gorsky, Susan Rubinow. Virginia Woolf. Boston: Twayne, 1978.
• Hanson, Clare. Virginia Wooflf. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
• Woolf, Virgina. Between the Acts. London: Folio Society, 1974.

On Elizabeth Bowen:

• Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. New York: Avon, 1979.
• Bowen, Elizabeth. Bowen's Court. New York: Ecco Press, 1979.

On Tom Stoppard:

• Londre, Felicia. Tom Stoppard. New York: Ungar, 1981.