To prepare for this module, you may want to read
(or reread) some of the following primary texts:
Charlotte Brontë, Jane
Eyre
Charles Dickens, Bleak
House
Anthony Trollope, The
Warden
Mary Braddon, Lady
Audley’s Secret
George Gissing, New
Grub Street
Henry James, The Aspern Papers
Bram Stoker, Dracula
The following secondary works might also be
helpful:
The
Book History Reader, ed. David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery, 2nd edn. (2006)
David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery, An Introduction to Book History, 2nd
edn. (2013)
Richard Altick, The
English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900
(1957)
Shafquat Towheed, Rosalind Crone, and Katherine Halsey,
eds., The History of Reading (2010)
Laurel Brake, Bill Bell and David Finkelstein, eds., Nineteenth-Century Media and the
Construction of Identities (2000)
Leah Price, How to
Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (2012)
Michelle Levy and Tom Mole, eds., The Broadview Reader in Book History
(2015)