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Design for Stage and Screen: Culture & Society in the 19th Century

Culture & Society in the 19th Century

◼ Benjamin, Walter. The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire. edited by Michael Jennings, translated by Howard Eiland. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2006. Call number: 841.8 BEN

◼ Bicknell & Company. Victorian Architectural Details: Designs for over 700 Stairs, Mantels, Doors, Windows, Cornices, Porches, and other Decorative Elements. Mineola NY: Dover Publications, 2005. Call number: 729.097309034 VIC

◼ King, Andrew and John Plunkett (eds.) Victorian Print Media: a Reader. Oxford, England; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Call number: 070.17 KIN. Also available as an eBook

◼ Koshar, Rudy. (ed.) Histories of Leisure. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002. Call number: 306.4812 KOS

◼ May, Trevor. The Victorian Domestic Servant. Princes Risborough [England]: Shire Publications, 2007. Call number: 640.46094 MAY

◼ McCormick, John. The Victorian Marionette Theatre. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004. eBook

◼ Nilsen, Micheline. Nineteenth-Century Photographs and Architecture: Documenting History, Charting Progress, and Exploring the World. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Call Number: 778.9409034 NIN

◼ Picker, John M. Victorian Soundscapes. New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. eBook

◼ Pool, Daniel. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist: the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. Call number: 820.9 POO

◼ Tuthill, William Burnet. Late Victorian Interiors and Interior Details. New York: Dover Publications, 2010. Call number: 729.222 TUT

◼ Williams, Gilda (ed.) The Gothic. Whitechapel, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. Call number: 700.415 GOT