Still in use: older critical texts in Victorian studies (part 1 of a series)

The following is a partial list of older critical texts (1970 and earlier) that still figure in current bibliographies--as useful works in their own right, not as examples of historical trends.  Obviously, it's partial because it reflects my own scholarly interests, such as Victorian fiction; I'm sure other Victorianists can come up with additional examples (which, if they're so inclined, they can list in the comments!).  The list does not include bibliographies or catalogs, like the Sadleir and Wolff catalogs.

  • Richard D. Altick, The English Common Reader (1957)
  • ---, Lives and Letters (1965)
  • Merle Mowbray Bevington, The Saturday Review 1855-1868 (1941)
  • J. H. Buckley, The Triumph of Time (1966)
  • Vineta Colby, Singular Anomaly (1970)
  • Philip Collins, Dickens and Crime (1962)
  • George H. Ford, Dickens and His Readers (1955)
  • Kenneth Graham, English Criticism of the Novel 1865-1900 (1965)
  • Guinevere Griest, Mudie's Circulating Library and the Victorian Novel (1970)
  • John Holloway, The Victorian Sage (1953)
  • U. C. Knoepflmacher, Religious Humanism and the Victorian Novel (1965)
  • Robert Langbaum, The Poetry of Experience (1957)
  • Margaret Maison, The Victorian Vision (1962) (a.k.a. Search Your Soul, Eustace)
  • Leslie Marchand, The Athenaeum (1941)
  • J. Hillis Miller, The Form of Victorian Fiction (1968)
  • ---, The Disappearance of God (1963)
  • ---, Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels (1958)
  • William Peterson, Interrogating the Oracle (1969)
  • Kathleen Tillotson, Novels of the Eighteen-Forties (1954)