Further Reading
- Johnson, Edgar, "A Christmas Carol Criticizes England's Economic System," Readings on Charles Dickens, edited by Clarice Swisher, San Diego, Calif.: Greenhaven Press, 1998, pp. 86-93. (Views Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol as “an attack upon both the economic behavior of the nineteenth-century businessman and the supporting theory of doctrinaire utilitarianism.”)
- Kelly, P. J., Utilitarianism and Distributive Justice: Jeremy Bentham and the Civil Law, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990, 240 p. (Begins a revisionist assessment of Bentham's moral theory that takes into account the philosopher's concern with the equal distribution of justice and other liberal values.)
- Kim, Ki Su, "John Stuart Mill's Concepts of Quality and Pedagogical Norms," The Journal of General Education 38, No. 2 (1986): 120-33. (Explores Mill's thought as it applies to the problem of quality and equality in education, and considers his influence on liberal educational theories.)
- Manning, D. J., The Mind of Jeremy Bentham, London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1968, 118 p. (An elucidation, rather than a critique, of key concepts in Bentham's thought, including his principle of utility.)
- Mulvihill, James, "The Poetics of Utility: Benthamite Literary Reviewing, 1824-1836," English Studies in Canada XV, No. 2 (June 1989): 149-61. (Investigates the application of the principles of utilitarianism to the criticism of literature in the Westminster Review.)
- Rosen, F., Bentham, Byron, and Greece: Constitutionalism, Nationalism, and Early Liberal Political Thought, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992, 332 p. (Examines Bentham's intellectual involvement in the Greek fight for independence during the 1820s.)
- Schultz, Bart, ed., Essays on Henry Sidgwick, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, 421 p. (Collection of essays by various contributors concerning Sidgwick's ethical theory and its effect on the program of utilitarianism.)
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