BIBLIOGRAPHY

Dahl, Curtis. “Benjamin Disraeli” and “Edward Bulwer-Lytton.” In Victorian Fiction: A Second Guide to Research, edited by George H. Ford, pp. 21-27 and 28-33. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1978.

Bibliographical studies of two major Silver Fork novelists.

CRITICISM

Adburgham, Alison. Silver Fork Society: Fashionable Life and Literature from 1814 to 1840. London: Constable and Company, 1983, 344p.

Examines the cultural world that the Silver Fork novels sought to portray.

Anderson, Bonnie. “The Writings of Catherine Gore.” In Journal of Popular Culture X, No. 2 (Fall 1976): 404-23.

Argues that Gore's novels are a celebration of “womanly ideology.”

Cohen, Michael. “First Sisters in the British Novel: Charlotte Lennox to Susan Ferrier.” In The Significance of Sibling Relationships in Literature, edited by JoAnna Stephens Mink and Janet Doubler Ward, pp. 98-109. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1993.

Studies the role of sisters in the plots of women's novels as a reflection of relations between women in general.

Donkin, Ellen. “Mrs. Gore gives tit for tat.” In Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, pp. 54-74. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Discusses popular and critical responses to Gore's Quid Pro Quo, first performed in 1844.

Farrell, John P. “Toward a New History of Fiction: The Wolff Collection and the Example of Mrs. Gore.” In Library Chronicle of the University of Texas, No. 37 (1986): 29-37.

Claims that Gore's Cecilencodes the modern development of the novel by anticipating “the erosion of the narrator's moral standing.”

Handwerk, Gary. “Behind Sybil's Veil: Disraeli's Mix of Ideological Messages.” In Modern Language Quarterly 49, No. 4 (December 1988): 321-41.

Reads Disraeli's Sybilas a reflection of the “dialectic of persuasion and power” that joins politics to literature and philosophy.

Jack, Ian. English Literature, 1815-1832. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963, 643p.

An extensive review of the literary climate of the age, with a brief discussion of the fashionable novels.

Levine, Susan and Stuart Levine. “‘How-to’ Satire: Cervantes, Marryat, Poe.” In Modern Language Studies XVI, No. 3 (Summer 1986): 15-26.

Examines three examples of authors who give “satirical advice” on fiction-writing, including Marryat's “How to Write a Fashionable Novel” (1833).

O’Kell, Robert. “Two Nations, or One?: Disraeli's Allegorical Romance.” In Victorian Studies 30, No. 2 (Winter 1987): 212-34.

Contends that Disraeli's Sybilcan be considered an allegorical romance in which the social problems of England are resolved through religious rejuvenation.

Weeks, Richard G., Jr. “Disraeli as Political Egotist: A Literary and Historical Investigation.” Journal of British Studies 28, No. 4 (October 1989): 387-410.

Links Disraeli's novels to his political ideals.