08:332: Topics in Victorian Literature: Spring 2001
Victorian Periodicals and Their Readers

Required Texts (available at Prairie Lights)

Altick, Richard and Jonathan Rose. The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900. Ohio State University Press, 1998 ed.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own? Domesticity and Desire in the Woman's Magazine, 1800-1914. London: Routledge, 1996.

Elizabeth Gaskell. North and South. (1854) Oxford University Press, 1998.
Serialized in Household Words

Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The Doctor's Wife. (1864). Oxford University Press, 1998.
Serialized in Temple Bar (not owned by UI)

Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd. (1874). Oxford University Press, 1998.
Serialized in Cornhill Magazine. Special Collections: Leigh Hunt Collection AP4 .C8

Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray. (1890) Norton Critical Edition.
Serialized in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine July 1890 (London: Ward, Lock & Co. and simultaneously McBride’s Magazine) We have McBride’s Magazine

Recommended (if you can find a copy): Kate Flint, The Woman Reader, 1837-1914. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1993.