Find British Literature Books - Nineteenth-Century British Literature - Greensburg Campus

19th-Century British Literature - Greensburg Campus

This guide will assist you in developing your research topic and subsequent paper for ENGLIT 1175: 19th-Century British Literature. It will also provide you with links to helpful sites, including PittCat, online databses, and online tutorials.

According to the Pitt-Greensburg program sheet for English literature, this discipline "emphasizes the development of sophisticated reading that incorporates a complex understanding of historical and cultural contexts."

The Nietz Collection

The Nietz Collection
The Nietz Old Textbook Collection is one of several well-known collections of 19th Century schoolbooks in the United States. Among the 16,000 volumes are many titles that are rarely held and have not yet been reproduced in microform collections or reprint editions. The collection is used by Pitt faculty and students as well as visiting scholars from other colleges and universities.

Examples of British Literature Books @ Pitt

Conceptualizing cruelty to children in nineteenth-century England : literature, representation, and the NSPCC by Monica Flegel
Flegel provides an interpretive framework for understanding the formation of child cruelty popularized by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Using your research topic and search strategy, search PittCat for books. For example, you could do a search for "British literature and childhood". If you would like to use a book that is available at one of the other Pitt libraries, use the "Get It!" feature in PittCat. Here are some examples of books that might be helpful to you:

Inventing the addict : drugs, race, and sexuality in nineteenth-century British and American literature by Susan Zieger
Zieger tells the story of how the addict, a person uniquely torn between disease and desire, emerged from a variety of earlier figures such as drunkards, opium-eating scholars, vicious slave masters...
Romantic psychoanalysis : the burden of the mystery by Joel Faflak
Faflak argues that Romanticism, particularly British Romantic poetry, invents psychoanalysis in advance of Freud.
The traffic in obscenity from Byron to Beardsley : sexuality and exoticism in nineteenth-century print culture by Colette Colligan
Colligan argues that Nineteenth-century obscenity was caught up in the global cultural traffic of print technology, international trade and exoticism.
The madwoman in the attic : the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert
An analysis of Victorian women writers, this book of feminist literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar that reveals the origins of their revolutionary realization in the 1970s that "the personal was the political, the sexual was the textual."
Imagining inclusive society in nineteenth-century novels : the code of sincerity in the public sphere by Pam Morris
Using nineteenth-century novels and other Victorian literature, Pam Morris traces a dramatic transformation of British public consciousness that occurred during the brief period between the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1867.