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Additional Reading > The Post-Romantic and Victorian eras
Studies of the period include Richard D. Altick, The English Common Reader, 2nd ed. (1998); Jerome Hamilton Buckley, The Victorian Temper: A Study in Literary Culture (1951, reissued 1981); Walter E. Houghton, The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830–1870 (1957, reissued 1985); Virgil Nemoianu, The Taming of Romanticism: European Literature and the Age of Biedermeier (1984); Basil Willey, Nineteenth Century Studies: Coleridge to Matthew Arnold (1949, reissued 1980); and Philip Davis, The Victorians (2002), the last being vol. 8 of the series Oxford English Literary History. Studies of special subjects are presented in Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics, and Politics (1993); P.K. Garrett, The Victorian Multiplot Novel (1980); George P. Landow, Elegant Jeremiahs: The Sage from Carlyle to Miller (1986); George Levine, The Realistic Imagination (1981), and Darwin and the Novelists (1988); George Rowell, The Victorian Theatre, 1792–1914, 2nd ed. (1978); John Sutherland, The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction (1988; also published as The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction, 1989); and Michael Wheeler, English Fiction of the Victorian Period, 1830–1890, 2nd ed. (1994).


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