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Walter Scott

recommened biographies:

Jane Millgate, Walter Scott

John Sutherland, The Life of Walter Scott

Scott & the Historical Novel:

Georg Lukacs, The Historical Novel

James Chandler, England in 1819

Ian Duncan, Modern romance and transformations of the novel

Katie Trumpner, Bardic Nationalism

Saree Makdisi, Romantic Imperialism

Alexander Welsh, The Hero of the Waverley Novels

Avrom Fleishman, The English Historical Novel

Dickens

recommended biographies:

Fred Kaplan, Dickens: A Biography

Edgar Johnson, Charles Dickens

John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens
very very important biography written by D's close friend

Claire Tomalin, The Story of Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan
not particularly relevant to our discussion of NN, but an amazing biography about D's later affair with Ellen Ternan & his abandonment of his wife.

by request, some recommended 'old fogies' (well, pre-1970!) on Dickens:

G. K. Chesteron, Charles Dickens, the Last of the Great Men (yes, this is the real title)

Steven Marcus, Dickens: From Pickwick to Dombey

Philip Collins, Dickens and Crime

---------------, Dickens and Education (not as good as Crime book, but relevant to Nicholas Nickleby)

J. Hillis Miller, Charles Dickens: the World of his Novels (but weak on Nickleby)

Elizabeth Gaskell & Industrial Fiction

Catherine Gallagher, The Industrial Reformation in English Fiction

Hilary Schor, Scheherezade in the marketplace

Raymond Williams, Culture and Society (also a very important book for all of 19thc work)

George Eliot

biographies:

Gordon Haight, George Eliot

Rosemarie Bodenheimer, The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans

other:

Alexander Welsh, George Eliot and Blackmail

Terence Cave's "Introduction" to Silas

Wilkie Collins

best biography:

Catherine Peters, King of Inventors

helpful criticism:

D.A. Miller, The Novel and the Police (required reading for 19thc novel students)

Peter Brooks, Reading for the Plot

Lyn Pykett, Wilkie Collins

sensation fiction: the good old one is Walter Phillips, Dickens, Reade, and Collins (no Elizabeth Braddon!), otherwise, Jenny Taylor, In the Secret of the Home;Winfred Hughes, The Maniac in the Cellar; Tamar Heller, Dead Secrets.

Serialization / Victorian Publishing

Richard D. Altick, The English Common Reader

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities and The Spectre of Comparisons

Novel Form

M.M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination

---------------, Speech Genres and Other Late Essays

------------- & Medvedev, The Formal Method In Literary Scholarship

Deidre Lynch, The Economy of Character

Elizabeth Ermarth, Realism and Consensus in the English novel

Kathleen Tillotson, Novels of the 1840s (this is an old but truly terrific book)

Franco Moretti, Signs Taken For Wonder (we briefly discussed Moretti on the city)

------------------, The Way of the World: the Bildungsroman in European culture

Free Indirect Discourse

Dorrit Cohn, Transparent Minds

Roy Pascal, The Dual Voice

Ideology-theory

Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy and other essays

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish; The History of Sexuality

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Conditions of the Working Class in England

Karl Marx, The 18th Brumainer of Louis Bonaparte

Time, Periodization, Temporality

Johannes Fabian, Time and the Other

Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern

Systems Theory, Acceleration, and Speed

Paul Virilio, Speed and Politics

Nikolas Luhmann, Social Systems

Gender

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men