Recommended Reading:

Victorian Imperial Adventure and Fantasy

Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass

H. Rider Haggard She, King Solomon's Mines

H.G. Wells The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau

Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island

Rudyard Kipling Kim

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Vril: The Coming Race

 

 
 

 

Horror and Crime

Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; Study in Scarlet; Hound of the Baskervilles

M. R. James, Ghost Stories

George du Maurier, Trilby

Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Bram Stoker, Dracula

 

 

 

Secret Society

Edward Bulwer Lytton, Zanoni:A Rosicrucian Tale

G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who was Thursday

 

 

The Occult

H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine

Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan

J.K. Huysman, La Bas

Arthur Machen The Great God Pan

Theodor Adorno Theses Against Occultism

 

 

 

 

The New Woman

 

 

 

 

Dissident Sexuality

Oscar Wilde  The Picture of Dorian Gray; "The Portrait of Mr. W. H."

Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo) Stories Toto Told Me

Edward Carpenter Narcissus and Other Poems

Charlotte Mew

Havelock Ellis

Christina Rossetti

John Addington Symonds

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Walter Pater The Renaissance

Edith Simcox Autobiography of a Shirt Maker

Samuel Butler The Way of All Flesh

Sir Richard Burton

Marie Corelli

 

 

 
 

 

Secondary Reading

Patrick Brantlinger Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism 1830-1914

Kelly Hurley The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siècle.

Robert Mighall Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction.

Alex Owen. Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern.

Jean Pierrot.  The Decadent Imagination 1880-1900

Murray G.H. Pittock..  The Spectrum of Decadence: The Literature of the 1890s.

Elaine Showalter. Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siècle.

Klaus Theweleit Male Fantasies

 

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