A Bibliography on Colonial Themes and Victorian Literature

General Works on Colonialism and Literature
Brantlinger, Patrick. Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914.
    Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1988. (on Reserve)
Ashcroft, Bill, Helen Tiffin, and Gareth Griffiths, eds. The Post-Colonial Studies
    Reader. London: Routledge, 1995. (SCSU)
Eagleton, Terry, Fredric Jameson, and Edward Said. Nationalism, Colonialism, and
    Literature. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1990.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. "Race," Writing, and Difference. Chicago: U of Chicago P,
    1986. (on Reserve)
Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Vintage, 1979. (my copy on Reserve)
Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage 1993.(on Reserve)

Gender Relations and Colonialism
Frawley, Mariah. A Wider Range: Travel Writing by Women in Victorian England.
    Rutherford: Farleigh Dickinson UP, 1994. (CCSU)
Barickman, Richard, Susan Macdonald, and Myra Stark. Corrupt Relations: Dickens,
    Thackeray, Trollope, Collins, and the Victorian Sexual System. New York: Columbia UP,
    1982.
Davidoff, Leonore, and Catherine Hall. Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the
    English Middle Class, 1780-1850. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987.
Munich, Adrienne Auslander. Andromeda's Chains. Gender and Interpretation in
    Victorian Literature and Art. New York: Columbia UP, 1989.
Levine, Philippa. Feminist Lives in Victorian England. London: Basil Blackwell, 1990.
Dawson, Graham. Soldier Heroes : British Adventure, Empire, and the Imagining of
    Masculinities. London: Routledge, 1994.
Green, Martin Burgess. Dreams of Adventure, Deeds of Empire. New York : Basic
    Books, 1979.
Ferguson, Moira. Colonialism and Gender Relations from Mary Wollstonecraft to
    Jamaica Kincaid. Columbia UP, 1993.
David, Deidre. Rule Britannia: Women, Empire, and Victorian Writing. Ithaca: Cornell
    UP, 1995. (on Reserve)
Sharpe, Jenny. Allegories of Empire: The Figure of Woman in the Colonial Text.
    Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1993.
Meyer, Susan. Imperialism at Home: Race and Victorian Women's Fiction. Ithaca:
    Cornell UP, 1996. (on Reserve)
Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic. New Haven: Yale
    UP, 1979.

Literature on the Indian Mutiny
Brantlinger, Patrick. "The Well at Cawnpore: Literary Representations of the Indian Mutiny of
    1857." Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914. Ithaca :
    Cornell University Press, 1988. (on Reserve)
Cohn, Bernard. "Representing Authority in Victorian India." Eric Hobsbawm and Terence
    Ranger, eds. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983. (my copy on
    Reserve)
Sharpe, Jenny. "The Civilizing Mission Disfigured." Allegories of Empire: The Figure of
    Woman in the Colonial Text. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1993.

Ireland
Cairns David and Shaun Richards. Writing Ireland: Colonialism, Nationalism and
    Culture. Manchester UP, 1988. (SCSU)
Howes, Marjorie. Yeats's Nations: Gender, Class, and Irishness. Cambridge UP, 1996.
    (Western)
Costello, Peter. The Heart Grown Brutal: The Irish Revolution in Literature from
    Parnell to the Death of Yeats, 1891-1939. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1977.
Said, Edward. "Yeats and Decolonization." Culture and Imperialism. New York:
    Vintage 1993. (on Reserve)
Fleming, Deborah. "A Man Who Does not Exist": The Irish Peasant in the Work of W.B.
    Yeats and J.M. Synge. Ann Arbor : U of Michigan P, 1995. (Western)
Yeats, WB. The Celtic Twilight. London: Colin Smythe, 1981.

The Moonstone
Coad, David. "The Other in The Moonstone and Dracula." Annales du Monde
    Anglophone 4 (Oct. 1986): 33-53.
Crooks, Robert. "Reopening the Mysteries: Colonialist Logic and Cultural Differences
    in The Moonstone and The Horse Latitudes." LIT 4.3: 215-28.
Nayder, Lillian. "Robinson Crusoe and Friday in Victorian Britain: 'Discipline,'
    'Dialogue,' and Collins's Critique of Empire in The Moonstone." Dickens Studies
    Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 21 (1992): 213-31.
Duncan, Ian. "The Moonstone, the Victorian Novel, and Imperialist Panic." Modern
    Language Quarterly 55.3 (Sept. 1994): 217-318.

Jane Eyre
Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. "A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane's
    Progress." The Madwoman in the Attic. New Haven: Yale UP, 1979. (ECSU).
Meyer, Susan. "Indian Ink': Colonialism and the Figurative Strategy of Jane Eyre. Imperialism
 at Home: Race and Victorian Women's Fiction. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996. (on Reserve)
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism."
    Critical Inquiry 12 (1985): 243-61.

The Heart of Darkness
Said, Edward. Two Visions in Heart of Darkness." Culture and Imperialism. New
    York: Vintage 1993. (on Reserve)
Achebe, Chinua. "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness." Heart of
    Darkness. Robert Kimbrough, ed. Third Edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 1988. (in our
    edition)
Hunt, Hawkins. "The Image of Racism in Heart of Darkness." Conradiana. 14.3:163-
    171.

For useful internet links, see my Victorian Syllabus webpage (but see the "Word of Advice" on using internet sources)