(no subject)

[nny]

As an aside, if I ain't gonna be on teh internets...

Y'know what I could really use? Some general backgrounding on Victorians. Late, I think. Ahahahahaha and I know that's somewhat ridiculous. So some good summary-style book recs'd be good. Anything at all. The kind of things they were eating, reading, wearing, the religious background, the monarchy... whatever you know, whatever you've read that's interested you. Fiction or non, I'm not hugely bothered; if it is fiction, though, something that's been decently investigated'd be good. :)

*grins*

No reason.

Comments

[gramarye1971]

There's a book called What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by one Daniel Pool, which does an excellent job of using late Regency and Victorian fiction to illustrate aspects of nineteenth-century British society.

I'm also somewhat fond of Anthony Trollope's six book Palliser series, and Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz. ^_^

[cow.livejournal.com]

The textbook we're using for my Victorian literature senior seminar is actually really, really good: Victorian Literature, 1830-1900 by Dorothy Mermin and Herbert F. Tucker; Harcourt College Publishers, Fort Worth, TX, 2002. ISBN 0155071777.

Yeah, it's a textbook, but it's amazingly well put together. There's a lot of fiction and non-fiction from across genres, including social theory and history, religious and not, and even some things like advertisements from the period.