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• Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (c2006), ed. by Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard (PDF at Toronto)
• Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians, Hopkins, Pater and Wilde (Brno: Masaryk University, 2006), by Michael Matthew Kaylor (PDF with commentary at mmkaylor.com)
• The Victoria Regia: A Volume of Original Contributions in Poetry and Prose (London: Emily Faithfull, 1861), ed. by Adelaide Anne Procter (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Sanitary Arts: Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Eileen Cleere (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)
• Beastly Journeys: Travel and Transformation at the Fin de Siècle (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, c2013), by Tim Youngs
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust
• Fear, Loathing, and Victorian Xenophobia (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), ed. by Marlene Tromp, Maria K. Bachman, and Heidi Kaufman (PDF at Ohio State)
• Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Jasper Albert Cragwall (PDF at Ohio State)
• Victorian Sacrifice: Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Ilana M. Blumberg (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2011), by Tamara Siroone Ketabgian (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Narrative Middles: Navigating the Nineteenth-Century British Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Caroline Levine and Mario Ortiz-Robles (PDF at Ohio State)
• Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Rebecca N. Mitchell (PDF at Ohio State)
• Imagining Minds: The Neuro-Aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Kay Young (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Age of Eclecticism: Literature and Culture in Britain, 1815-1885 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Christine Bolus-Reichert (PDF at Ohio State)
• Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman and Claudia C. Klaver (PDF at Ohio State)
• Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lise Sanders (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Stefanie Markovits (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), ed. by Diane Long Hoeveler and Jeffrey Cass (PDF at Ohio State)
• Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Martha Stoddard Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004), by Barry J. Faulk (PDF at ohioswallow.com)
• Romanticism and Ecology (2001), ed. by James C. McKusick (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and The Paradox of Homosexual Desire (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), by Christopher Lane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Another Kind of Love: Male Homosexual Desire in English Discourse, 1850-1920 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Christopher Craft (HTML at UC Press)
• Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1993), by Amanda Anderson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• A World of Possibilities: Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Clyde de L. Ryals (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Reinventing Liberty: Nation, Commerce and the British Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2016), by Fiona L. Price
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Changing the Victorian Subject (c2014), ed. by Maggie Tonkin, Mandy Treagus, Madeleine Says, and Sharon Crozier-De Rosa (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• Imperial Media: Colonial Networks and Information Technologies in the British Literary Imagination, 1857-1918 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Aaron Worth (PDF at Ohio State)
• Spellbound: The Fairy Tale and the Victorians (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Molly Clark Hillard (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)
• Primitive Minds: Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Anna Neill (PDF at Ohio State)
• Victorian Women Writers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Gail Turley Houston (PDF at Ohio State)
• Realism's Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Geoffrey Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
• Home Economics: Domestic Fraud in Victorian England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Rebecca Stern (PDF at Ohio State)
• Masked Atheism: Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Maria LaMonaca (PDF at Ohio State)
• Lost Causes: Historical Consciousness in Victorian Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Jason B. Jones (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Milk of Paradise: The Effect of Opium Visions on the Works of DeQuincey, Crabbe, Francis Thompson, and Coleridge (New York: Octagon Books, 1971), by M. H. Abrams (PDF at Cornell)
• Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England: Newman, Arnold, and Pater (1969), by David J. DeLaura (HTML at Victorian Web)
• Romanticism and Philosophy in an Historical Age (1999), ed. by Karen A. Weisman (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)
• The Chartist Imaginary: Literary Form in Working-Class Political Theory and Practice (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Margaret A. Loose (PDF at Ohio State)
• Making It Whole: A Victorian Circle and the Shape of Their World (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Diana Postlethwaite (PDF at Ohio State)
• John Thelwall: Critical Reassessments (2011), ed. by Yasmin Solomonescu (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Modernist Heresies: British literary History, 1883-1924 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Damon Franke (PDF at Ohio State)
• Romantic Psyche and Psychoanalysis (2008), ed. by Joel Faflak (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Effeminism: The Economy of Colonial Desire (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Revathi Krishnaswamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 (second edition; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Richard D. Altick, contrib. by Jonathan Rose (PDF at Ohio State)
• Feminist Narrative Ethics: Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Katherine Saunders Nash (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Sublime and Education (2010), ed. by J. Jennifer Jones (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• The Supplement of Reading: Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1990), by Tilottama Rajan (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Romanticism and Patriotism: Nation, Empire, Bodies, Rhetoric (2006), ed. by Orrin N. C. Wang (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Sullen Fires Across the Atlantic: Essays in Transatlantic Romanticism (2006), ed. by Lance Newman, Chris Koenig-Woodyard, and Joel Pace (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• The Book-Bills of Narcissus (third edition, 1895), by Richard Le Gallienne (Gutenberg text)
• Hearts of Controversy, by Alice Meynell
  • HTML at Indiana
  • Gutenberg text
• A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1918), by Henry A. Beers (Gutenberg text)
• A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) (New York and London: Macmillan, 1906), by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg text)
• Magic Casements: The Use of Poetry in the Expanding of Consciousness, by George Trevelyan (HTML with commentary at sirgeorgetrevelyan.org.uk)
• New Ways in English Literature (second edition; Chennai: Ganesh and Co., 1919), by James Henry Cousins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reviews and Critical Papers (London: E. Mathews, 1921), by Lionel Johnson, ed. by Robert Shafer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Spirit of the Age: or, Contemporary Portraits, by William Hazlitt (Gutenberg text)
• The Victorian Age in Literature, by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text)
• The Victorian Age of English Literature (2 volumes; New York: Tait, Sons and Co., c1892), by Mrs. Oliphant (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Vital Science: Biology and the Literary Imagination, 1860-1900, by Peter Morton (HTML at Google)
• Romantic Libraries (2004), ed. by Ina Ferris (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996), by Michael Galchinsky (multiple formats with commentry at wayne.edu)
• Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and the Modern Temper (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1973), by Edward Alexander
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State
• Crossing the Shadow-Line: The Literature of Estrangement (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Martin Bock (PDF at Ohio State)
• Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 (London: Percival and Co., 1890), by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg text)
• The Influence of Baudelaire in France and England (London: Constable and Company, 1913), by Gladys Rosaleen Turquet-Milnes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Peace of Mind: Essays and Reflections, August 1914-September 1917 (London: A. Melrose, 1918) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Collected Literary Essays, Classical and Modern (with a memoir of the author by Bayfield, and a commemorative address by Mackail; Cambridge: At the University Press, 1913), by A. W. Verrall, ed. by M. A. Bayfield and J. D. Duff, contrib. by J. W. Mackail
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Forty Years' Recollections, Literary and Political (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1880), by Thomas Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Influence of Gothic Literature on Sir Walter Scott (Rostock, Germany: H. Winterberg's Buchdruckerei, 1902), by Walter Freye (multiple formats at archive.org)

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