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)