Crime, Punishment, Detection
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900. 2nd ed. London: Longman, 1996.
Gatrell, V.A.C. The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994.
Grass, Sean. The Self in the Cell: Narrating the Victorian Prisoner. New York: Routledge, 2003.
---. "Making Darkness Visible: Capturing the Criminal and Observing the Law in Victorian Photography and Detective Fiction." In Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination, edited by Carol T. Christ and John 0. Jordan, 134-168. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1995.
Joyce, Simon. Capital Offenses: Geographies of Class and Crime in Victorian London. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003.
Thomas, Ronald R. Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
Wiener, Martin. Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law, and Policy in England, 1830-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990.
Forgery Legislation and Capital Punishment
Andrew, Donna T. and Randall McGowen. The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd: Forgery and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century London. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Fauntleroy, Henry. The Trial of Henry Fauntleroy and Other Famous Trials for Forgery. Edited by Horace Bleackley. London: W. Hodge, 1924.
Hay, Douglas. "Property, Authority and the Criminal Law." In Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England, edited by Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaugh, John G. Rule, E. P. Thompson, and Cal Winslow, 17-63. New York: Pantheon, 1975.
McGowen, Randall. "Making the 'Bloody Code'? Forgery Legislation in Eighteenth-century England." Law, Crime and English Society. Edited by Norma Landau, 117-138. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.
Thesing, William B., ed. Executions and the British Experience from the 17th to the 20th Century: A Collection of Essays. London: McFarland, 1990.
The Financial System
Brantlinger, Patrick. Fictions of State: Culture and Credit in Britain, 1694-1994. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996.
Crosby, Christina. "Financial." A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture. Edited by Herbert F. Tucker, 225-243. Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 1999.
Fetter, Frank Whitson. Development of British Monetary Orthodoxy, 1797-1875. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1965.
Herbert, Christopher. "Filthy Lucre: Victorian Ideas of Money." Victorian Studies 44.2 (Winter 2002): 185-213.
Marx, Karl. Capital. 1894. Trans. David Fernbach. London: Penguin, 1991.
Poovey, Mary. "Writing about Finance in Victorian England: Disclosure and Secrecy in the Culture of Investment." Victorian Studies 45.1 (Autumn 2002): 17-41.
Roberts, Richard and David Kynaston, eds. The Bank of England: Money, Power, and Influence, 1694- 1994. Oxford: Clarendon, 1995.
Weiss, Barbara. The Hell of the English: Bankruptcy and the Victorian Novel. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1986.
Vernon, John. Money and Fiction: Literary Realism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. 1984.
The Gold Standard and Currency
Ally, Russell. Gold and Empire: The Bank of England and South Africa's Gold Producers, 1886-1926. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1994.
Ford, A.G. The Gold Standard, 1880-1914: Britain and Argentina. Oxford: Clarendon, 1962.
Wilson, Ted. Battles for the Standard: Bimetallism and the Spread of the Gold Standard in the Nineteenth Century. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000.
Wood, Naomi J. "Gold Standards and Silver Subversions: Treasure Island and the Romance of Money." Children's Literature 26 (1998): 61-65.
Worsfold, W. Basil. "The Gold Era in South Africa." The Fortnightly Review 65 (February 1896): 260- 68.
Van-Helten, Jean Jacques. "Empire and High Finance: South Africa and the International Gold Standard 1890-1914." The Journal of African History 23.4 (1982): 529-548.
Art and Literary Forgery
Baines, Paul. The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999.
Curling, Jonathan. Janus Weathercock: The Life of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, 1794-1847. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1938.
Grafton, Anthony. Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1990.
Groom, Nick. The Forger's Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of Literature. London: Picador, 2002.
Haywood, Ian. Faking It: Art and the Politics of Forgery. Brighton: Harvester, 1987.
Malton, Sara. Forgery in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture: Fictions of Finance from Dickens to Wilde. London: Macmillan, 2009.
Stewart, Susan. Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991.
Wilde, Oscar. "Pen, Pencil and Poison: A Study in Green." The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. 5th ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
Illegitimacy
Higginbotham, Ann R. "'Sin of the Age'; Infanticide and Illegitimacy in Victorian London." Victorian Scandals: Representations of Gender and Class. Edited by Kristine Ottesen Garrigan, 257-288. Athens, Ohio: Ohio UP, 1992.
Reekie, Gail. Measuring Immorality: Social Inquiry and the Problem of Illegitimacy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Rose, Lionel. The Massacre of the Innocents: Infanticide in Britain, 1800-1939. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986.
Taylor, Jenny Bourne. "Nobody's Secret: Illegitimate Inheritance and the Uncertainties of Memory." Nineteenth-Century Contexts 21 (2000): 565-592.
---. "'Received, a Blank Child': John Brownlow, Charles Dickens, and the London Foundling Hospital -Archives and Fictions." Nineteenth-Century Literature 56.3 (December 2001): 293-363.
---. "Representing Illegitimacy in Victorian Culture." Victorian Identities: Social and Cultural Formations in Nineteenth-Century Literature. Edited by Ruth Robbins and Julian Wolfreys, 119-142. London: Macmillan, 1996.
Teichman, Jenny. Illegitimacy: A Philosophical Examination. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1982.
Gender, Sexuality, The Body
Acton, William. Prostitution, Considered in its Moral, Sociai and Sanitary Aspects. London: John Churchill, 1857.
Anderson, Amanda. Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1993.
Greg. W.R. "Prostitution." Westminster Review 23 (July 1850): 448-506.
Mason, Michael. The Making of Victorian Sexuality. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994.
Matus, Jill L. Unstable Bodies: Victorian Representations of Sexuality and Maternity. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1995.
Vrettos, Athena. Somatic Fictions: Imagining Illness in Victorian Culture. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1995.
Photography, Evidence, Intellectual Property
Armstrong, Nancy. Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1999.
Christ, Carol T. and John 0. Jordan, eds. Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination. London: University of California Press, 1995.
Dingley, Robert. "The Unreliable Camera: Photography as Evidence in Mid-Victorian Fiction." Victorian Review 27.2 (2001): 42-55.
Flint, Kate. The Victorians and the Visual Imagination. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
Green-Lewis, Jennifer. Framing the Victorians: Photography and the Culture of Realism. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996.
Keep, Christopher. "Of Writing Machines and Scholar-Gipsies." English Studies in Canada 29.1-2 (March/June 2003): 55-66.
Kern, Stephen. The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1983.
Saint-Amour, Paul K. The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2003.
Welsh, Alexander. "Writing and Copying in the Age of Steam." In Victorian Literature and Society. Edited by James R. Kincaid and Albert J. Kuhn, 30-45. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1983.
Fraud and Literature
Brantlinger, Patrick. The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana UP, 1998. 166-191.
Collins, Philip. Dickens and Crime. London: Macmillan, 1962.
Dvorak, Wilfred P. ''The Misunderstood Pancks: Money and the Rhetoric of Disguise in Little Dorrit." Studies in the Novel 23.3 (1991): 339-47.
Flavin, Michael. "Will Dare, A Laodicean and Thomas Hardy's Gamblers." The Thomas Hardy Journal 27 (October 2001): 68-78.
Fothergill, Anthony. Introduction. Plays, Prose Writings and Poems by Oscar Wilde. London: J.M. Dent, 1996. xix-xl.
Holway, Tatiana M. "Imaginary Capital: The Shape of the Victorian Economy and the Shaping of Dickens's Career." Dickens Studies Annual 27 (1998): 23-43.
Ingham, Patricia. "Nobody's Fault: the Scope of the Negative in Little Dorrit." In Dickens Refigured. Bodies, Desires, and Other Histories. Edited by John Schad, 98-116. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1996.
Malton, Sara. "Illicit Inscriptions: Reframing Forgery in Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth." Victorian Literature and Culture 33.1 (Winter 2005).
Miller, D.A. The Novel and the Police. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Nenadic, Stana. "Illegitimacy, Insanity, and Insolvency: Wilkie Collins and the Victorian Nightmares." In The Arts, Literature, and Society. Edited by Arthur Marwick, 133-162. London: Routledge, 1990.
O'Toole, Tess. Genealogy and Fiction in Hardy: Family Lineage and Narrative Lines. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Pettitt, Clare. "Monstrous Displacements: Anxieties of Exchange in Great Expectations." Dickens Studies Annual 30 (2001): 243-262.
Tambling, Jeremy. Dickens, Violence and the Modern State: Dreams of the Scaffold. London: Macmillan, 1995.
Weiss, Barbara. "Secrei Pockets and Secret Breasts: Little Dorrit and the Commercial Scandals of the Fifties." Dickens Studies Annual 10 (1982): 67-76.
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