Some Recent Books on Victorian Literature 1830-1900:
Allen, Dennis. Sexuality in Victorian Fiction. U Oklahoma, 1993.
Armstrong, Isobel. Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics, and Politics. Routledge, 1993.
Ashton, Owen and Stephen Roberts. The Working-Class Writer. Mansell, 1999.
Berry, Laura C. The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel. U Virginia, 1999.
Bradshaw, David J. and Suzanne Ozment, eds. The Voice of Toil: Nineteenth-Century British Writings About Work. Ohio U, 1999.
Brantlinger, Patrick. Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914. Cornell, 1988.
Brooks, Chris and Peter Faulkner. The White Man’s Burdens: An Anthology of British Poetry of the Empire. U Exeter, 1996.
Buckton, Oliver S. Secret Selves: Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography. U North Carolina, 1998.
Burton, Antoinette. Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915. U North Carolina, 1994.
Cohen, Monica. Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work and Home. Cambridge, 1998.
Colley, Ann C. Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture. St. Martin’s, 1998.
Cronin, Richard, Alison Chapman and Antony Harrison. A Companion to Victorian Poetry. Blackwells, 2002.
Cross, Nigel. The Common Writer: Life in Nineteenth-Century Grub Street. Cambridge, 1985.
Dellamora, Richard, ed. Victorian Sexual Dissidence. Chicago, 1999.
-----. Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism. U N Carolina, 1990. Also, Apocalyptic Overtures: Sexual Politics and the Sense of an Ending. Rutgers, 1994.
Flint, Kate. The Woman Reader, 1837-1914. Oxford, 1993.
Frawley, Maria H. A Wider Range: Travel Writing by Women in Victorian England. Associated University Presses, 1994.
Gagnier, Regenia. Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation in Britain, 1832-1920. Oxford, 1991.
Gardner, Vivien and Susan Rutherford. The New Woman and Her Sisters: Feminism and Theatre, 1850-1914. U Michigan, 1992.
Gates, Barbara T. Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World. Chicago, 1998.
Gates, Barbara and Ann B. Shteir, eds. Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science. U Wisconsin, 1997.
Janowitz, Anne. Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition. Cambridge, 1998.
Jenkins, Ruth Y. Reclaiming Myths of Power: Women Writers and the Victorian Spiritual Crisis. Bucknell, 1995.
Joyce, Patrick. Democratic Subjects: Studies in the History of the Self and the Social in Nineteenth-Century England. Cambridge, 1994.
Judd, Catherine. Bedside Seductions: Nursing and the Victorian Imagination, 1830-1880. St. Martin’s, 1998.
Hall, Donald E. Fixing Patriarchy: Feminism and Mid-Victorian Male Novelists. NYU, 1996.
Harrison, Antony H. Gender and Discourse in Victorian Literature and Art. U Northern Illinois, 1992.
Also has published a great deal about Christina Rossetti.
-----. Victorian Poetics and the Politics of Culture: Discourse and Ideology. U Virginia, 1998.
Haywood, Ian, ed. The Literature of Struggle: An Anthology of Chartist Fiction. Scolar, 1995. Also published a critical survey of working-class fiction.
Hughes, Linda K. and Michael Lund. The Victorian Serial. U Virginia, 1991.
Kahane, Claire. Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative, and the Figure of the Speaking Woman, 1850-1915. Johns Hopkins, 1995.
Kestner, Joseph. Protest and Reform: The British Social Narrative by Women, 1827-1867. U Wisconsin, 1985.
Krasner, James. The Entangled Eye: Visual Perception and the Representation of Nature in Post-Darwinian Narrative. Oxford, 1992.
Kreilkamp, Vera. The Anglo-Irish Novel and the Big House. Syracuse, 1998.
Langland, Elizabeth. Nobody’s Angels: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Ideology in Victorian Culture. Cornell, 1995.
Lawrence, Karen R. Penelope Voyages: Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition. Cornell, 1988.
Leighton, Angela. Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart. Harvester, 1992.
Leighton, Angela and Margaret Reynolds, eds. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwells, 1995. Other recent anthologies of the subject have appeared by Isobel Armstrong and Joseph Bristow, Virginia Blaine and Margaret Higgonet.
Levine, George. Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction. Harvard, 1988.
Maidment, Brian, ed. Poorhouse Fugitives: Self-Taught Poets and Poetry in Victorian Britain. Carcanet, 1987.
Marsh, Joss. Word Crimes: Blasphemy, Culture, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England. U Chicago, 1998.
Matus, Jill L. Unstable Bodies: Victorian Representations of Sexuality and Maternity. Manchester, 1995.
Maynard, John. Victorian Discourses on Sexuality and Religion. Cambridge, 1993.
McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest. Routledge, 1995.
McGann, Jerome K. The Beauty of Inflections: Literary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory. Oxford, 1985. Also Social Values and Poetic Acts: A Historical Judgment of Literary Works, Harvard, 1998; Black Riders: The Visible Languge of Modernism, 1993. McGann heads the Rossetti archive.
----. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must Be Lost. Yale, 2000.
McKee, Patricia. Public and Private: Gender, Class and the British Novel (1764-1878). Minnesota, 1997.
Milbank, Alison. Dante and the Victorians. Manchester, 1998.
Millgate, Michael. Testamentary Acts: Browning, Tennyson, James, Hardy. Oxford, 1992.
Morgan, Thais, ed. Victorian Sages and Cultural Discourse: Renegotiating Gender and Power. Rutgers, 1990.
O’Farrell, Mary. Telling Complexions: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel and the Blush. Duke, 1997.
Peterson, Linda H. Traditions of Victorian Women’s Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing. U Virginia, 1999.
Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Victorian England. 1989.
Prins, Yopie. Victorian Sappho. Princeton, 1999.
Psomiades, Kathy Alexis. Beauty’s Body: Feminity and Representation in British Aestheticism. Stanford, 1997.
Ragussis, Michael. Figures of Conversion: ‘The Jewish Question’ and English National Identity. Duke, 1995.
Reynolds, Matthew. The Realms of Verse, 1830-1870: English Poetry in a Time of Nation-Building. Oxford, 2001.
Roberts, Adam. Romantic and Victorian Long Poems: A Guide. Ashgate, 1999.
Rogers, Helen. Women and the People: Authority, Authorship and the Radical Tradition in Nineteenth-Century England. Ashgate, 2000.
Rose, Jonathan. The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes. Yale, 2001.
Ryle, Martin. Journeys in Ireland: Literary Travellers, Rural Landscapes, Cultural Relations. Ashgate, 1999.
Schaeffer, Talia. The Forgotten Female Aesthete: Literature and Culture in Late-Victorian England. Virgina, 2000.
Sedgwick, Eve K. Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. 1985.
Silver, Carole. Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness. Oxford, 1999.
Snell, K. D. M., ed. The Regional Novel in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1990. Cambridge, 1998.
Stewart, Garrett. Dear Reader: The Conscripted Audience in Nineteenth Century British Fiction. Johns Hopkins, 1996.
Thaden, Barbara Z. The Maternal Voice in Victorian Fiction: Rewriting the Patriarchal Family. Garland, 1997.
Thompson, Nicola D. Reviewing Sex: Gender and the Representation of Victorian Novels. NYU, 1996.
Tucker, Herbert, ed. A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture. Blackwells, 1999.
Vrettos, Athena. Somatic Fictions: Imagining Illness in Victorian Culture. Stanford, 1995.
Zlotnick, Susan. Women Writing and the Industrial Revolution. Johns Hopkins, 1998.