Victorian Britain: Further reading

Suggested further reading

Following Clare Walker Gore’s lecture on Gaskell, North and South (1855), here is some suggested reading on ninteenth-century history and Elizabeth Gaskell

History

David Cannadine, Victorious Century: The United Kingdom 1800-1906 (Allen Lane, 2017)

Janice Carlisle, Picturing Reform in Victorian Britain (CUP, 2012)

Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, and Jane Rendall, eds., Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the British Reform Act of 1867 (CUP, 2000)

Catherine Gallagher, The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction: Social Discourse and Narrative Form 1832-1867 (University of Chicago Press, 1985)

Josephine M. Guy,The Victorian Social-Problem Novel (Macmillan, 1996)

Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Capital: 1848-1875 (1975; rpt Abacus, 2004)

Peter Keating, The Working Classes in Victorian Fiction (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971)

Raymond Williams, Culture and Society 1780-1950 (1958; Vintage, 2015)

On Elizabeth Gaskell

Jo Carruthers, ‘“The Sanctity of Our Sex”: Refiguring the Fallen Woman and the Passion of Christ in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South (1854-55)’, in The Figure of Christ in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. Elizabeth Ludlow (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

Sarah Dredge, ‘Negotiating “A Woman’s Work”: Philanthropy to Social Science in Gaskell’s North and South’, Victorian Literature and Culture 40.1 (2012)

Angus Easson, Elizabeth Gaskell (Routledge, 1979)

Angus Easson, ed., Elizabeth Gaskell: The Critical Heritage (Routledge, 1991)

Jill Matus, ed., Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell (CUP, 2007)

Patsy Stoneman, Elizabeth Gaskell (Harvester Press, 1987)

Jenny Uglow, Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories (Faber, 1993)