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• Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

• Literature and society -- England -- History -- 19th century

• 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
• 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)
• Scenes of Sympathy: Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2000), by Audrey Jaffe (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century British Prose (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Peter Melville Logan (HTML at UC Press)
• 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)
• London, Radical Culture, and the Making of the Dickensian Aesthetic (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Sambudha Sen (PDF at Ohio State)
• Crime in Verse: the Poetics of Murder in the Victorian Era (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Ellen L. O'Brien (PDF at Ohio State)
• Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siècle (c2008), by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (HTML at Michigan)
• The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2007), by Kurt Koenigsberger (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Psychological Element in the English Sociological Novel of the Nineteenth Century (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1927), by Sijna de Vooys (page images at delpher.nl)

• The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels (originally published 1971, revised 1994; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Alistair M. Duckworth (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Perspectives: Modes of Viewing and Knowing in Nineteenth-Century England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Linda M. Shires (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Audrey Jaffe (PDF at Ohio State)

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• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange: Aesthetics and Heterodoxy (originally published 1995; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Ronald Paulson (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Reading London: Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-century Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Erik Bond (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2007), by Kurt Koenigsberger (PDF at Ohio State)

• Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), ed. by Craig Dionne and Steve Mentz (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of England During the Thirty Years' Peace, 1816-1846 (2 volumes; London: Charles Knight, 1849-1850), by Harriet Martineau
  • Volume I (1816-1830): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1830-1846): multiple formats at archive.org
• The History of England From the Commencement of the XIXth Century to the Crimean War (4 volumes; Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1864), by Harriet Martineau
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854, With an Introduction, 1800 to 1815 (4 volumes; 1865-1866), by Harriet Martineau
  • volume I: page images at MOA
  • volume II: page images at MOA
  • volume III: page images at MOA
  • volume IV: page images at MOA
• The Constitutional History of England, From 1760 to 1860 (1882), by Charles Duke Yonge (Gutenberg text)

• Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (1902), by George Paston (Gutenberg text)
• Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (London: Grant Richards; New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1902), by George Paston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Ravenshoe (new edition; London et al.: Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1894), by Henry Kingsley, illust. by Richard Caton Woodville (Gutenberg text)

• Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1869), by Juliana Horatia Ewing (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Letters and Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thos. Byam Martin, G.C.B. (3 volumes, published out of order; London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1898-1903), by Thomas Byam Martin, ed. by R. Vesey Hamilton
  • Volume I (Before 1808): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1808-1813): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (After 1813): multiple formats at archive.org

• A Diplomatic Whistleblower in the Victorian Era: The Life and Writings of E. C. Grenville-Murray (second edition; 2015), by Geoff Berridge (PDF at diplomacy.edu)

• Memories of Forty-Eight Years' Service (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1925), by Horace Smith-Dorrien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitchener in His Own Words (London: T. F. Unwin, c1917), by Lord Kitchener, ed. by James Bacon Rye and Horace George Groser (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kitchener in His Own Words (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1917), by Lord Kitchener, ed. by James Bacon Rye and Horace George Groser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Naval History of Great Britain, From the Declaration of War by France in 1793 to the Accession of George IV (new edition with additions and notes bringing the work down to 1827; 6 volumes; London: R. Bentley and Son, 1886), by William James
  • Volume I (1488-1796): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1797-1800): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (1800-1805): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (1805-1809): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (1809-1813): multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume VI (1813-1827): multiple formats at Google; US access only
• The Naval History of Great Britain, From the Declaration of War by France in 1793 to the Accession of George IV (new edition with additions and notes bringing the work down to 1827; 6 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1902), by William James
  • Volume I (1488-1796): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1797-1800): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (1800-1805): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (1805-1809): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (1809-1913): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (1813-1827): multiple formats at archive.org
• La Campagne Maritime de 1805: Trafalgar (in French; Paris: Lib. Militaire de R. Chapelot et cie., 1907), by Edouard Desbrière
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Logs of the Great Sea Fights, 1794-1805 (2 volumes; London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1899-1900), ed. by T. Sturges Jackson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Journal of Rear-Admiral Bartholomew James (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1896), by Bartholomew James, ed. by John Knox Laughton and James Young F. Sulivan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Nelson, the Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain (2 volumes; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1897), by A. T. Mahan
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Prisoners of War in France: Being the Adventures of John Tregerthen Short and Thomas Williams, of St. Ives, Cornwall (London: Duckworth and Co., 1914), by John Tregerthen Short and Thomas Williams, ed. by Edward Hain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Selections From the Correspondence of Admiral John Markham During the Years 1801-4 and 1806-7 (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1904), by John Markham, ed. by Clements R. Markham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Types of Naval Officers, Drawn from the History of the British Navy, by A. T. Mahan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2008), ed. by Marlene Tromp (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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)
• The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Antonia Jacqueline Losano (PDF at Ohio State)

• Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by John Paul M. Kanwit (PDF at Ohio State)

• Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray (1992), by Peter L. Shillingsburg (HTML at Victorian Web)

• Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Robyn R. Warhol (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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)

• Scenes of Sympathy: Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2000), by Audrey Jaffe (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Orphaned Imagination: Melancholy and Commodity Culture in English Romanticism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998), by Guinn Batten (page images at HathiTrust)

• Masked Atheism: Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Maria LaMonaca (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Lion and the Cross: Early Christianity in Victorian Novels (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Royal W. Rhodes (PDF at Ohio State)

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