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British & American Literature 1865-1914
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"We judge others according to results; how else? -- not knowing
the process by which results are arrived at" (619).
George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860)



AUTHORS
RESOURCES IN DR. MARCHBANKS'S OFFICE
building 47 (the "maze"), hallway 35, office A (available hours
)
ONLINE RESOURCES, JOURNALS & SOCIETIES
Jane
Austen
  • Elizabeth Jenkins's Jane Austen: A Biography [on audio CD]
 
the Brontë sisters
  • The Letters of Charlotte Brontë, Vol. 1, 1829-1847
  • Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857)
  • Juliet Barker's The Brontës (1994)
  • Lyndall Gordon's Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life (1994)
 
Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning
  • Robert Browning & Elizabeth Barrett: The Courtship Correspondence 1845-1846 (1989)
  • Margaret Forster's Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography (1988)
  • Robert Browning and Julie Wedgewood: A Broken Friendship as revealed in their Letters (1937)
  • Mrs. Sutherland Orr's Life and Letters of Robert Browning (1891)
  • William Irvine and Park Honan's The Book, The Ring, and the Poet (1974)
  • Julia Markus's Dared & Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning (1995)
  • Robert Langbaum's The Poetry of Experience (1957)
  • E. LeRoy Lawson's Very Sure of God: Religious Language in the Poetry of Robert Browning (1974)
  • Robert Browning: A Collection of Critical Essays (1979)
  • Donald S. Hair's Robert Browning's Language (1999)
 
Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Vol. 1 1821-1850
  • The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Vol. 2 1851-1870
  • The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Vol. 3 1871-1892
  • Robert Bernard Martin's Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart (1980)
  • Robert F. Horton's Alfred Tennyson: A Saintly Life (1973)
George Eliot
  • Rosemary Ashton's George Eliot: A Life (1996)
  • John Walter Cross's George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals, Vol. 3 (1885)
  • Alan Mintz's George Eliot & The Novel of Vocation (1978)
  • Felicia Bonaparte's The Triptych and the Cross: The Central Myths of George Eliot's Poetic Imagination (1979)
  • Alison Booth's Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf (1992)
  • Peter C. Hodgson's The Mystery Beneath The Real: Theology in the Fiction of George Eliot (2000)
  • Bernard J. Paris's Rereading George Eliot: Changing Responses to Her Experiments in Life (2003)
Henry James
  • Leon Edel's Henry James: A Life (1853-72, 1877)
  • Shelden M. Novick's Henry James: The Young Master (1996, 2007)
  • Lyndall Gordon's A Private Life of Henry James: Two Women and His Art (1998)
 
Edith Wharton
  • R. W. B. Lewis's Edith Wharton: A Biography (1985)
  • Eleanor Dwight's Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary Life (1994)
  • Sarah Bird Wright's Edith Wharton: A to Z (1998)
  • Evelyn E. Fracasso's Edith Wharton's Prisoners of Consciousness: A Study of Theme and Technique in the Tales (1994)
 
Joseph Conrad
  • Norman Sherry's Conrad (1972)
  • Jocelyn Baines's Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography (1960)
  • Zdzislaw Najder's Joseph Conrad: A Chronicle (1983)
  • Joseph Conrad: Life and Letters (2 Vols.)
  • Frederick R. Karl's A Reader's Guide to Joseph Conrad (1960, 1969)
  • Leo Gurko's Joseph Conrad: Giant in Exile (1962, 1979)
  • Heart of Darkness: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism (1989)
James
Joyce
  • Richard Ellmann's James Joyce (1959, 1982)
  • A. Nicholas Fargnoli & Michael P. Gillespie's James Joyce A-Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Writings (1995)
  • Richard Ellmann's Four Dubliners (1987)
  • Weldon Thornton's Allusions in Ulysses: An Annotated List (1961)
  • Harry Blamires's The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses (1966, 1988, 1996)
  • Weldon Thornton's Voices and Values in Joyce's Ulysses (2001)
  • Tracey Teets Schwarze's Joyce and the Victorians (2002)
D. H. Lawrence
  • John Worthen's D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912 (1991)
  • Mark Kinkead-Weekes' D. H. Lawrence: Triumph to Exile 1912-1922 (1996)
  • Michael Squires and Lynn K. Talbot's Living at the Edge: A Biography of D.H.Lawrence & Frieda von Richthofen (2002)
  • Weldon Thornton's D. H. Lawrence: A Study of the Short Fiction (1993)
Virginia Woolf
  • James King's Virginia Woolf (1994)
  • Mark Hussey's Virginia Woolf A-Z: The Essential Reference to Her Life and Writings (1995)
  • Alison Booth's Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf (1992)

 


"Christ in the Wilderness" (1872)
Ivan Kramskoi

 

 


Dr. Paul Marchbanks
pmarchba@calpoly.edu