The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana

by Jess Nevins

Bibliography 

copyright © Jess Nevins 2022

Obviously, in a work this size, hundreds of articles, monographs, book chapters and books were consulted, drawn upon, cited and (if necessary) copied from. I don’t propose to list them all here, since I’ve already listed them once, in the relevant footnotes. Instead, the resources listed below are ones I’ve repeatedly drawn upon and which proved inspirational to me or just exceedingly useful in the preparation of the second edition of the Encyclopedia and in the preparation of this, the online edition of the Encyclopedia. The many works listed in the Bibliography of the first edition of the Encyclopedia were, nearly to a work, superseded by more recent scholarly work, and whenever possible I used the most recent scholarly work available rather than the older works in the first edition’s Bibliography.

Anglo, Michael. Penny Dreadfuls and Other Victorian Horrors. London: Jupiter Books, 1977.

Billingham, Ray Allen. Land of Savagery, Land of Promise. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 1985.

Bleiler, Everett F. The Guide to Supernatural Fiction. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1983.

Bleiler, Everett F. Science-Fiction: The Early Years. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1990.

Brantlinger, Patrick. Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Bridgwater, Patrick. The German Gothic Novel in Anglo-German Perspective. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013.

Clark, Clare. Late Victorian Crime Fiction and the Shadow of Sherlock. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Clute, John, David Langford, and Peter Nicholls, eds. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/

Clute, John, and John Grant. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. http://sf-encyclopedia.uk/fe.php?id=0&nm=introduction_to_the_online_text

Cox, J. Randolph. The Dime Novel Companion. Lanham, MD: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Frank, Frederick S. The First Gothics: A Critical Guide to the English Gothic Novel. New York: Garland, 1987.

Harrison, Michael. Fanfare of Strumpets. London: W.H. Allen, 1971.

Hollingsworth, Keith. The Newgate Novel, 1830-1847. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1963.

Hyam, Ronald. Empire and Sexuality. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1992.

Jones, Daryl. The Dime Novel Western. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1978. 

Kestner, Joseph A. Sherlock’s Sisters: The British Female Detective, 1864-1913. Abingdon: Routledge, 2003.

Kirkpatrick, Robert. From the Penny Dreadful to the Ha’penny Dreadfuller. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2013.

Mitchell, Sally, ed. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, 1988.

Nevins, Jess. The Evolution of the Costumed Avenger: The 4000-Year History of the Superhero. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2017.

Panek, Leroy Lad. The Special Branch: The Spy Novel, 1890-1980. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1981.

Panek, Leroy Lad, and Mary M. Bendel-Simso. The Essential Elements of the Detective Story, 1820-1891. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017.

Praz, Mario. The Romantic Agony. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Richardson, Angelique, and Chris Willis, ed. The New Woman in Fiction and In Fact. New York: Palgrave, 2001.

Roberts, Adam C. Victorian Culture and Society: The Essential Glossary. London: Arnold, 2003.

Shpayer-Makov, Haia. “A traitor to his class: the anarchist in British fiction,” Journal of European Studies 26, no. 3 (Sept. 1996): 299-325.

Slotkin, Richard. The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1900. New York: Atheneum, 1985.

Slotkin, Richard. Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Harper Perennial, 1993.

Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1973.

Spraggs, Gillian. Outlaws and Highwaymen: The Cult of the Robber in England from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century. London: Pimlico, 2001.

Stott, Rebecca. The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale: The Kiss of Death. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989.

Turner, E.S. Boys Will Be Boys. New York: Penguin, 1975.

Western Literature Association. A Literary History of the American West. Fort Worth, TX: Texas Christian University Press, 1987.

“Westminster Detective Library.” McDaniel College, https://wdl.mcdaniel.edu

Willis, Martin. Mesmerists, Monsters, & Machines: Science Fiction and the Culture of Science in the Nineteenth Century. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2006.

Ziolkowski, Theodore. The Lure of the Arcane: The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.