Bibliography

Criminality Madness Degeneration Sexuality

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Criminality

1. Primary source readers

P. Keating (ed.), Into Unknown England, 1866-1913: Selections from the Social Explorers (London, 1976)

Vieda Skultans (ed.), Madness and Morals: Ideas on Insanity in the Nineteenth Century (London, 1975).

2. Secondary Sources

Clive Emsley, Crime and Society in England 1750-1900 (Harlow, 1989 [1987]).

Michel Foucault, Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison (1975), Alan Sheridan (trans.), Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (London, Penguin edition, 1991 [1977]).

David Garland, Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies (Aldershot, 1987 [1985]).

Michael Ignatieff, A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850 (London, 1978).

Michael Ignatieff, ‘State, Civil Society and Total Institution: A Critique of Recent Social Histories of Punishment’, in D. Sugarman (ed.), Legality, Ideology and the State (London, 1983).

S. H. Mannheim, Pioneers in Criminology (2 nd edition, Montclair, N. J., 1972 [1960]).

Daniel Pick, Faces of degeneration: A European disorder, c.1848-c.1918 (CUP, 1996 [1989]).

Leon Radzinowicz and Roger Hood, The Emergence of Penal Policy in Victorian and Edwardian England: Volume 5 of A History of English Criminal Law and its Administration from 1750 (Oxford, 1990 [1986]).

Frank M. Turner, Between Science and Religion: The Reaction to Scientific Naturalism in Late Victorian England (New Haven and London, 1974).

Martin J. Wiener, Reconstructing the criminal: Culture, law, and policy in England, 1830-1914 (CUP, 1990).

3. Websites

For Jack the Ripper see www.casebook.org

For an extensive bibliography see www.crimetheory.com

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Madness

1. Readers

Hunter, Richard A. and Ida Macalpine, eds., Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry 1535 - 1860: A History Presented in Selected English Texts (Oxford University Press, 1964)

Skultans, Vieda, English Madness - Ideas on Insanity, 1580-1890 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979)

Taylor, Jenny Bourne, and Sally Shuttleworth, eds., Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts, 1830-1890 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998)

2. Secondary Sources

Bartlett, Peter, The Poor Law of Lunacy: The Administration of Pauper Lunatics in mid-nineteenth century England Leicester University Press, 1999)

Bynum, W.F., Roy Porter and Michael Shepherd, eds., The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry, 3 vols (Tavistock Publications, 1985-8)

Digby, Anne, Madness, Morality and Medicine: A Study of the York Retreat, 1796-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985)

Doerner, Klaus, Madmen and the Bourgeoisie: A Social History of Insanity and Psychiatry, trans. by Joachim Neugroschel and Jean Steinberg (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981).

Donnelly, Michael, Managing the Mind - A Study of Medical Psychology in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain (Tavistock Publications, 1983)

Drinka, George Frederick, The Birth of Neurosis - Myth, Malady, and the Victorians (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984)

Foucault, Michel, Madness and Civilization - A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, trans. Richard Howard (Routledge, 1995)

Geller, Jeffrey L. and Maxine Harris, eds., Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945 (New York: Anchor Books, 1994)

Greenslade, William, Degeneration, Culture, and the Novel, 1880-1940 (1994)

Hughes, Winifred, The Maniac in the Cellar: Sensation Novels of the 1860s (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980)

Jones, Colin, and Roy Porter, eds., Reassessing Foucault: Power, Medicine and the Body (Routledge, 1994)

Melling, Joseph and Bill Forsythe, eds., Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914: A Social History of Madness in Comparative Perspective (Routledge, 1999)

Micale, Mark S. and Roy Porter, eds., Discovering the History of Psychiatry (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994)

Parry-Jones, William, The Trade in Lunacy: A Study of Private Madhouses in England in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972)

Porter, Roy, A Social History of Madness: The World Through the Eyes of the Insane (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987)

------, Mind-Forg’d Manacles: A History of Madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency (Athlone Press, 1987; repr. Penguin Books, 1990)

Scull, Andrew, Museums of Madness: The Social Organization of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century England (Allen Lane, 1979)

------, ed., Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Mad Men: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era (Athlone Press, 1981)

------, Social Order/Mental Disorder: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989)

------, The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain 1700-1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993)

Scull, Andrew, Charlotte MacKenzie and Nicholas Hervey, Masters of Bedlam: The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996)

Shorter, Edward, A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac (New York: John Wiley, 1997)

Showalter, Elaine, The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980 (New York: Penguin Books, 1985)

Shuttleworth, Sally, Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)

Small, Helen, Love’s Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800-1865 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996)

Smith, Leonard D., ‘Cure, Comfort and Safe Custody’: Public Lunatic Asylums in Early Nineteenth-Century England (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1999).

Smith, Roger, Trial by Medicine: Insanity and Responsibility in Victorian Trials (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1981)

Taylor, Jenny Bourne, In the Secret Theatre of Home: Wilkie Collins, Sensation Narrative, and Nineteenth-Century Psychology (Routledge, 1988)

3. Primary Sources

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, Eleanor’s Victory (Stroud, Gloucs.: Alan Sutton, 1996)

------, John Marchmont’s Legacy, 3 vols (Tinsley Bros., 1863)

------, Lady Audley’s Secret (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)

------, The Trail of the Serpent (Ward & Lock, 1861; repr. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1866)

Brontë, Charlotte, Jane Eyre. An Autobiography (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966)

Cockton, Henry, The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist (Robert Tyas, 1840; repr. Willoughby, 1848)

Collins, Wilkie, Armadale (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989)

------, The Woman in White (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994)

Dickens, Charles, The Old Curiosity Shop (Everyman, 1997)

------, Our Mutual Friend (Penguin Books, 1997)

------, A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Books, 2000)

Maudsley, Henry, Responsibility in Mental Disease (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1874)

Wood (Ellen), Mrs. Henry, St. Martin’s Eve (Tinsley, 1866; repr. Richard Bentley, 1888)

4. Websites

General:

The Victorian Web: An Overview

Very useful Victorian sites

VoS - Voice of the Shuttle

Victorian Web Sites - The Victorian Literary ...

Medical:

Victorian Psychiatry

Wellcome Library catalogue

Timeline in the Treatment of Madness

World Of Asylums

The Lunacy Commission

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Degeneration

1. Primary Sources

Cantlie, James, Degeneration Amongst Londoners. (London: Field and Tuer-The Leadenhall Press, 1885).

Dunn, Hugh Percy, ‘Is Our Race Degenerating,’ The Nineteenth Century, 36 (July-Dec 1894): pp. 301-14.

Fothergill, J. Milner, The Town Dweller: His Needs and His Wants. (London: H. K. Lewis, 1889).

Lankester, Edwin Ray, Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism. (London: Macmillan, 1880).

Lombroso, Cesare, ‘Atavism and Evolution,’ Contemporary Review, 68 (July-Dec 1895): pp. 42-9.

Nordau, Max, Degeneration. 1895. (Lincoln, Nebraska: Bison Books-The University of Nebraska Press, 1993).

Robinson, E. Kay, ‘The Man of the Future,’ The Nineteenth Century, 13 (Jan-June 1883): pp. 759-64.

Shaw, George Bernard, ‘The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate,’ 1895/1908, Major Critical Essays. (London: Penguin, 1986): pp. 309-60.

Shee, George F., ‘The Deterioration of the National Physique,’ The Nineteenth Century and After, 53 (Jan-June 1903): pp. 797-805.

Stutfield, Hugh E. M., ‘Tommyrotics,’ Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 157 (1895): pp. 833-45.

Wells, H. G., ‘Zoological Retrogression,’ 1891, in Sally Ledger and Roger Luckhurst (eds.), The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History c.1880-1914. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000): pp. 5-12.

Wells, H. G., The Time Machine. 1895. (London: Dent-Everyman, 2001).

2. Secondary Sources

Chamberlain, J. Edward, and Sander Gilman (eds.), Degeneration: The Dark Side of Progress. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985).

Greenslade, William, Degeneration, Culture, and the Novel 1880-1940. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Henkin, Leo J., Darwinism in the English Novel 1860-1910: The Impact of Evolution on Victorian Fiction. (New York: Russell and Russell, 1963).

Hurley, Kelly, The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siecle. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Morris, Andrew R., ‘Oscar Wilde and the Eclipse of Darwinism: Aestheticism, Degeneration, and Moral Reaction in Late-Victorian Ideology,’ Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 24 (1993): pp. 513-40.

Morton, Peter, The Vital Science: Biology and the Literary Imagination 1860-1900. (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984).

Pick, Daniel, Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, c.1848-c.1914. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

Soloway, Richard, ‘Counting the Degenerates: The Statistics of Race Deterioration in Edwardian England,’ Journal of Contemporary History, 17:1 (1982): pp. 137-64.

Walter, Richard, ‘What Became of the Degenerate? A Brief History of a Concept,’ Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 11 (1956): pp. 422

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Sexuality

General:

L. Bland & L. Doan (eds), Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and Desires, 1998

L. Bland & L. Doan (eds), Sexology Uncensored: the Documents of Sexual Science , 1998

J. Bourne Taylor & S. Shuttleworth (eds), Embodied Selves, 1998

M. Foucault, The History of Sexuality, 1981

M. Mason, The Making of Victorian Sexuality, 1994

J. Weeks, Sex, Politics and Society, 1981

New Woman

Elaine Showalter, ed., Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin de Siècle

L.Dowling, ‘The Decadent and the New Woman in the 1890s’, Nineteenth Century Fiction, 33, 1978 - 79

Heilmann, Ann ‘Mona Caird, ‘Wild Woman, New Women; an Early Radical Feminist Critic of Marriage and Motherhood’, Women’s History Review, vol 5, no1, 1996.

Homosexuality

H. Montgomery Hyde, The Cleveland Street Scandal (1976)

S.Rowbotham and J.Weeks, Socialism and the New Life: The Personal and Sexual Politics of Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis (1977)

R.Ellman, Oscar Wilde (1987)

M.S.Foldy, The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality and Late-Victorian Society (1997)

J.Weeks, Coming Out (1977)

M.Cook, London and the Culture of Homosexuality (2003)

Birth Control

A.McLaren, Public Debates and Private Practices: Birth Control in England, 1800-1914, (1978)

K.Soloway, Birth Control and the Population Question in England, 1977 - 1930

Sexology

R. Porter and L. Hall, The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950, 1995

F. Mort, Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-Moral Politics since 1830, 1987.

R. Nye, 'The History of Sexuality in Context: National Sexological Traditions', Science in Context, 4 (1991), 387-406.

V.Bullough, Science in the Bedroom:A History of Sex Research (1994)

Prostitution

J.Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian Society (1980)

J. Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight (1992)

L.Nead, Myths of Sexuality (1988)

Web Resources

http://65.107.211.206/victorian/gender/theory.html - links to gender material on the Victorian web

http://fates.cns.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/romanes.htm - page devoted to George Romanes

http://faculty.pepperdine.edu/cfulmer/simcox/- page devoted to Edith Simcox

http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/english/GA/GAHome.htm - pages devoted to Grant Allen

Further Victorian resources can be found at

http://etrc.lib.umn.edu/uvsota/wwwresources.htm

http://www.victorianweb.org/


Wrongful confinement

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, Lady Audley’s Secret (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)

Brontë, Charlotte, Jane Eyre. An Autobiography (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966)

Browne, W. A. F., What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1837)

Cockton, Henry, The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist (London: Robert Tyas, 1840; repr. Willoughby, 1848)

Collins, Wilkie, The Woman in White (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994)

Davis, L. Clarke, ‘A Modern Lettre de Cachet’, Atlantic Monthly, 22 (May 1868), 588-602

Etchell, Mabel, Ten Years in a Lunatic Asylum (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1868)

Lathrop, Clarissa Caldwell, A Secret Institution (New York: Bryant, 1890)

Le Fanu, Sheridan, The Rose and the Key (Stroud, Gloucs.: Alan Sutton, 1994)

Lowe, Louisa, ‘“Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?”, No. 1, Report of a Case Heard in Queen’s Bench, November 22, 1872’ (London: J. Burns, 1872-3)

------, The Bastilles of England, or, The Lunacy Laws at Work (London: Crookenden, 1883)

Lytton, Rosina, A Blighted Life (The London Publishing Office, 1880)

Monro, Henry, Articles on Reform in Private Asylums (London: John Churchill, 1852)

Mulock, Thomas, British Lunatic Asylums: Public and Private (London: Hill and Halden, 1858)

Prichard, James Cowles, A Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind (London: Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 1835)

------, On the Different Forms of Insanity, in Relation to Jurisprudence (London: Hippolyte Ballière, 1842)

Ray, Isaac, ‘An Examination of the Objections to the Doctrine of Moral Insanity’, American Journal of Insanity, 18 (1861-62), 112-138

------, ‘“A Modern Lettre de Cachet” Reviewed’, Atlantic Monthly, 22 (August 1868), 227-243

Reade, Charles, Hard Cash (London: Chatto and Windus, 1863)

‘Sane Patient, A’, My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum (London: Chatto and Windus, 1879)
134-164

‘Sensation Novels’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 91 (May 1862), 564-584

‘Sensation Novels’, Medical Critic and Psychological Journal, 3 (July 1863), 513-519

Seymour, Edward J., A Letter to the Right Honourable, the Earl of Shaftesbury, on the Laws which Regulate Private Lunatic Asylums (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1859)

‘Worse than Bastilles’, London Figaro, 26 October, 1878, 8-9

Wynter, Andrew, ‘Lunatic Asylums’, Quarterly Review, 101 (April 1857), 353-93

Berrios, G.E., ‘J.C. Prichard and the Concept of Moral Insanity’, History of Psychiatry, 10 (March 1999), 111-126

Carlson, Eric. T. and Norman Dain, ‘The Meaning of Moral Insanity’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 36 (1962), 130-140

Geller, Jeffrey L. and Maxine Harris, eds., Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945 (New York: Anchor Books, 1994)

Hervey, Nicholas, ‘Advocacy or Folly: The Alleged Lunatics’ Friend Society, 1845-63’, Medical History, 30 (1986), 245-275

Ingram, Allan, ed., Voices of Madness: Four Pamphlets, 1683-1796 (Stroud, Gloucs.: Alan Sutton, 1997)

McCandless, Peter, ‘Dangerous to themselves and Others: the Victorian Debate over the Prevention of Wrongful Confinement’, Journal of British Studies, 23 (Fall 1983), 84-104

Parry-Jones, William, The Trade in Lunacy: A Study of Private Madhouses in England in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972)

Peterson, Dale Alfred, ‘The Literature of Madness: Autobiographical Writings by Mad People and Mental Patients in England and America From 1436-1975’ (unpublished doctoral dissertation, Stanford University, 1977)

------, ed., A Mad People’s History of Madness (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982)
Porter, Roy, A Social History of Madness: The World Through the Eyes of the Insane (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987)

Rance, Nicholas, Wilkie Collins and Other Sensation Novelists: Walking the Moral Hospital (London: Macmillan, 1991)

Schwieso, Joshua John, ‘“Religious Fanaticism” and Wrongful Confinement in Victorian England: The Affair of Louisa Nottidge’, Social History of Medicine, 9 (August 1996), 159-174

Showalter, Elaine, The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980 (New York: Penguin Books, 1985)

Taylor, Jenny Bourne, In the Secret Theatre of Home: Wilkie Collins, Sensation Narrative, and Nineteenth-Century Psychology (London: Routledge, 1988)

------, and Sally Shuttleworth, eds., Embodied Selves: An Anthology of Psychological Texts, 1830-1890 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998)

Wood, Mary Elene, The Writing on the Wall: Women’s Autobiography and the Asylum (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994)

Wright, David, ‘Getting out of the Asylum: Understanding the Confinement of the Insane in the Nineteenth Century’, Social History of Medicine, 10 (April 1997), 137-155

Websites

General:
The Victorian Web: An Overview
Very useful Victorian sites
VoS - Voice of the Shuttle
Victorian Web Sites - The Victorian Literary ...

Medical:
Victorian Psychiatry
Wellcome Library catalogue
Timeline in the Treatment of Madness
World Of Asylums
The Lunacy Commission
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/4_13_TA.htm#1 [Index of Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals]

 

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