Victorian Material Culture

From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. This volume will look at raw materials that were handled and used by Victorians including blubber and coal.

Adelene Buckland is a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at King's College London, UK

Acknowledgments Bibliography Introduction Part 1. Animal Kingdom 1.1 Meat Headnote 1.1 1. Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist: A Parish Boy's Progress, 3 vols (London: Bentley, 1838), I: pp. 20-22 2. Arthur Lloyd, 'American Beef', in Arthur Lloyd's Song of Beef, Pork, Mutton, Written, Composed and Sung by the Author (London: Ashdown, 1882) 3. Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (New York: Doubleday, Page, 1906), pp. 108-117 4. Joseph Conrad, 'An Anarchist', in A Set of Six (London: Methuen, 1908), pp. 165-198 5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland, in The Forerunner: A Monthly Magazine, ed. By Charlotte Perkins Gilman 6.4 (April 1915), pp. 98-100. 1.2. Animal products: blubber/baleen, fur, ivory Headnote 1.2 6. Herman Melville, Moby Dick; or, The Whale (New York: Harpers, 1849), pp. 261-271 7. Elizabeth Gaskell, Syvia's Lovers (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1863), pp. 1-8, 174-181 8. William Edward Traill, Fur Trade Letters of Willie Traill: 1864-1918, pp. 28-49, 161-164 9. Pauline E. Johnson, 'The Cattle Thief' in The White Wampum (London: John Lane, 1895), p. 11-15 10. Arthur H. Neumann, Elephant-Hunting in East Equatorial Africa: Being an Account of Three Years' Ivory-Hunting Under Mount Kenia and among the Ndoorobo Savages of the Lorogi Mountains, including a Trip to the North of Lake Reudolph (London: Rowland Ward, 1898), pp. 37-51 11. Thomas Mofolo, Chaka: An Historical Romance, trans. From Sesuto by F.H. Dutton (London: Oxford University Press/Milford, 1931), pp. 129-142, 196-198 Part 2. Vegetable Kingdom 2.1 Agriculture and Trade Headnote 2.1 12. Harriet Martineau, 'Maternal Economy', from 'Cinnamon and pearls' in Illustrations of Political Economy, 9 vols (London: Fox, 1833), VII: 76-100 13. Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa (London: Macmillan, 1897, pp. 671-680 14. Joseph J. Walters, 'Sundry Experiences', in Guanya Paw: The Story of an African Princess (Cleveland, O: Lauer & Mattill, 1891), pp. 66-73 2.2 Cotton Headnote 2.2 15. Karl Marx, ''The Labor Process or the Production of Use Values' and The Production of Surplus Value', Capital (1867), I: pp. 129-36 16. Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave (Auburn, NY: Derby & Miller, 1853), pp. 163-169 17. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 'Free Labor', from Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (Pennsylvania: Merrishaw and Thompson, 1857), pp. 85-86. 18. [Unknown], 'The Mill Hand's Petition' (London: Whittaker, 1866) 19. Elizabeth Twining, A Lecture on Cotton: Given at the Working People's Rooms, Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn' (1862) 2.3 Sugar Headnote 2.3 20. James Grainger, The Sugar Cane (London: Dodsley, 1763), Book III, ll. 46-365 21. Frieda Cassin, With Silent Tread: A West Indian Novel (Antigua, 1891), pp. 35-40, 44-53, 76-78. 22. Claude McKay, 'Two-An'-Six', from Songs from Jamaica (Kingston: Gardner, 1912), pp. 86-91 2.4 Indigo, opium and tea Headnote 2.4 23. Dinabandhu Mitra, Nil Darpan; or, the Indigo Planting Mirror, a Drama, trans. Rama-chandra, ed. by James Long (London: Manuel, 1861), Act 1, Scenes 1-3, pp. 5-17 24. Zhang Changjia, 'Opium Talk', trans. by Kenneth McMahon (1878), pp. 193-97, 200-02, 205-06, 210-11. 25. Robert Fortune, A Journey to the Tea Countries of China; including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills (London: Murray, 1852), p. 19-25, 272-287. 2.5 Rubber Headnote 2.5 26. Mark Twain, King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of his Congo Rule (Boston, MA: Warren, 1905), pp. 3-17 27. E.D. Morel, Red-Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Flourishing on the Congo in the Year of Grace (London, 1906), pp. 43-58 28. W.E. Hardenburg, The Putumayo: The Devil's Paradise. Travels in the Peruvian Amazon Region and an account of the Atrocities Committed Upon the Indians Therein, ed. And with an introduction by C. Reginald Enock, Together With Extracts from the Report of Sir Roger Casement Confirming the Occurrences, (London: Fisher Unwin, n.d.) pp. 299-309 Part 3. Mineral Kingdom 3.1 Coal Headnote 3.1 29. W.S. Jevons, 'Introduction and Concluding Reflections', to The Coal Question: An Enquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of our Coal-Mines (London: Macmillan, 1865), pp. vii-xix; 344-349 30. Arabella Buckley, 'The History of a Piece of Coal', in The Fairy-Land of Science (London: Stanford, 1879), pp. 168-188. 31. Frances Hodgson Burnett, That Lass o'Lowrie's (New York: Scribner, Armstrong, 1877), pp. 1-5, 227-234 32. Joseph Skipsey, 'The Hartley Calamity', 'The Collier Lad' and 'Little Anna', in Carols from the Coal-Fields: And Other Songs and Ballads (London: Scott, 1886), pp. 21-25, 65-67, 169-170 3.2 Gold Headnote 3.2 33. Roderick Murchison, Siluria: The History of the Oldest Known Rocks Containing Organic Remains (London: Murray, 1854), pp. 449-458 34. Anthony Trollope, Australia and New Zealand, 3vols (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1873), I: pp. 31-37 35. Ellen Clacy, A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia, 1852-53. Written on the Spot (London, 1853), pp. 86-97, 116-124. 36. Charles Reade, It Is Never too Late to Mend: A Matter of Fact Romance, 3 vols (London: Bentley, 1856), II: p. 190-200, 213-218. 37. The Chinese Question in Australia, edited by L. Kong Meng, Cheok Hong Cheong, and Louis Ah Mouy (1879), pp. 3-19. 38. John Rollin Ridge [Yellow Bird], The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit, 3rd edn. (San Francisco: McRellish, 1854). 3.3 Diamonds Headnote 3.3 39. Olive Schreiner, Undine (New York and London: Harper, 1928 - first written in 1884 but not published until after Schreiner's death), pp. 280-300. 40. Cecil Rhodes, 'Confession of Faith' (1877) 41. [A.V. Alexander], 'Are South African Diamonds Worth their Cost?' (Manchester: Labour Press, (n.d.) 1897. Full pamphlet, pp. 1-20. 42. H. Rider Haggard, 'Solomon's Treasure Chamber', King Solomon's Mines (London: Cassell, 1885), pp. 299-316. Index