Resources

Whether you’re here for a period drama and podcast, or anxious to find an article for your assignment, you will find what you need within this resource page!

This is an extended list of resources that I have put together, comprised of texts I used throughout my research, and other valuable materials. Within this resource page, you can find something enjoyable to a wide audience, from academics to interested individuals who wish to know more on seventeenth-century France, nineteenth-century England, or specific events covered within the Hedonistic Histories blog.

N.B: I have referenced everything using the Chicago 16thedition, and provided links to the materials where possible. However, you may have access issues if your institution does not have the rights to the material. I also have included some purchase links when I was not able to find free copies.

This resource page has been organised according to the type of material, and sub-organised by period and theory:

  • Articles
  • Books
  • Novels
  • Websites
  • Artwork
  • Podcasts
  • Blogs
  • Films
  • Series

Articles

Nineteenth-century elite: 
  • Adonis, A., ‘Aristocracy, Agriculture and Liberalism: the politics, finances and estates of the third Lord Carrington,’ Historical Journal, 31 (1988).
  • Althusser, Louis. Ideological State Apparatus. (NYU Press, 2001).
  • Barr, Andrew. ‘A Reply to the ATHG Symposium on Drink: A Social History’. The Social History of Alcohol Review15, no. 1–2 (1 September 2000): 33–38.
  • Bledsoe, Virginia. “A Novel with a Diva”. Tennessee State University, 2003.
  • Cannadine, D., ‘The landowner as millionaire: the finances of the dukes of Devonshire, c.1800-c.1926,’ Agricultural History Review, 25 (1977). 
  • Cannadine, D., The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (London, 1990).
  • Critcher, Clayton R., and Thomas Gilovich. ‘Inferring Attitudes From Mindwandering’. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin36, no. 9 (12 July 2010): 1255–66.
  • Daunton, M. J., ‘The political economy of death duties’ (chapter 7) in Thompson, F. M. L. Harte, N. B. and Quinault, R. (eds), Land and Society in Britain, 1700-1914: essays in honour of F. M. L. Thompson (1996). 
  • Gramsci, Antonio. “Hegemony, and Global Civil Society Networks.” Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 17, no. 4 (2006). 
  • Krasner, Stephen D. ‘State Power and the Structure of International Trade’. World Politics28, no. 3 (1976): 317–47.
  • Lawler, Stephanie. ‘Disgusted Subjects: The Making of Middle-Class Identities’. The Sociological Review (Keele)53, no. 3 (2005): 429–46.
  • Lemire, Beverly. ‘Charles Ludington. The Politics of Wine in Britain: A New Cultural History.’The American Historical Review119, no. 1 (1 February 2014): 250–51.
  • Mason, Nicholas. ‘“The Sovereign People Are in a Beastly State”: The Beer Act of 1830 and Victorian Discourse on Working-Class Drunkenness’. Victorian Literature and Culture29, no. 1 (2001): 109–27.
  • Nicholas, T., ‘Businessmen and Landownership in late nineteenth century Britain,’ Economic History Review, 53 (2000).
  • Rorabaugh, W.J. ‘Andrew Barr, Drink: A Social History of America’. The Social History of Alcohol Review15, no. 3–4 (1 June 2001): 48–50. doi:10.1086/SHAREVv15n3-4p48.
  • SCALLEN, CATHERINE B. ‘THE RISE OF A NEW ART HISTORIAN’. In Rembrandt, Reputation, and the Practice of Connoisseurship, 35–86. Amsterdam University Press, 2004. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46mx9g.6.
  • Showalter, Elaine. ‘Killing the Angel in the House: The Autonomy of Women Writers’. The Antioch Review50, no. 1/2 (1992).
  • Stephanie Lawler. ‘Introduction: Class, Culture and Identity’. Sociology (Oxford)39, no. 5 (2005): 797–806.
  • Tenbus, Eric. ‘A draught of discontentment: national identity and nostalgia in the Beerhouse Act of 1830’. Brewery History, 161, no.1 (2015). 1. http://www.breweryhistory.com/journal/archive/161/index.html.
  • Thompson, F. M. L., ‘English Landed Society in the twentieth century: I, Property: Collapse and Survival,’ Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th series, 40 (1990).
  • Thompson, F. M. L., ‘English Landed Society in the twentieth century: II: New Poor and New Rich,’ Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th series, 1 (1991).
  • Warner, Jessica. Craze : Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason, Consisting of a Tragicomedy in Three Acts in Which High and Low Are Brought Together, Much to There Mutual Discomfort, Complete with Stories, Some Witty and Some Not, Conducive to Meditation on Recent Events.London: London: Profile Books, 2003.
  • Werner, Christoph Patrick, Johanna Birkhaeuer, Cosima Locher, Heike Gerger, Nadja Heimgartner, Ben Colagiuri, and Jens Gaab. ‘Price Information Influences the Subjective Experience of Wine: A Framed Field Experiment’. Food Quality and Preference92 (1 September 2021): 104223.
  • Wolfenden, Ian. ‘Decorative Art and the Consumer: The Nineteenth Century English Glass Table Service’. Bulletin of the John Rylands Library77, no. 1 (1 March 1995): 39–48.

Books

Nineteenth-century elite: 
  • Beckett, J. and Turner, M., ‘End of the Old Order? F. M. L. Thompson, the Land Question and the burden of ownership in England, c. 1880-c. 1925,’ Agricultural History Review, 55 (2007).
  • Beckett, J. V., ‘The decline of the small landowner in England and Wales’ (Chapter 3) in Thompson, F. M. L. (ed.), Landowners, capitalists and entrepreneurs: essays for Sir John Habakkuk (1994). 
  • Black, Rachel. Alcohol in Popular Culture an Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calif: Greenwood, 2010.
  • Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. [New ed.]. London: London: Routledge, 1986.
  • Burnett, John. Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain. London: London: Routledge, 1999.
  • Bush, M., ‘An Anatomy of nobility’ (Chapter 3) in Bush, M. (ed.), Social orders and social classes in Europe since 1500: studies in social stratification (Manchester, 1992). 
  • Cannadine, D., ‘Prologue’ in Cannadine, D., The Decline and Fall of the British Landed Classes (London, 1990). 
  • Cannadine, D., Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in modern Britain (London, 1994).
  • Cannadine, D., The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (London, 1990).
  • Cragoe, M., An Anglican Aristocracy: The Moral Economy of the Landed Estate in Carmarthenshire, 1832-1895 (Oxford, 1996).
  • Devine, T. M., (ed.), Scottish Elites (Edinburgh, 1994).
  • Elias, Norbert. The Civilizing Process. Oxford: Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1978.
  • Greenaway, John. ‘The Drink Problem in Early Victorian Britain, 1830–70’. In Drink and British Politics since 1830: A Study in Policy-Making, edited by John Greenaway, 7–28. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2003.
  • Hands, Thora. Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain Beyond the Spectre of the Drunkard. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
  • Mills, F.C. The Wine Guide: Being Practical Hints on the Purchase and Management of Foreign Wines, Their History, and a Complete Catalogue of All Those in Present Use: Together with Remarks Upon the Treatment of Spirits, Bottled Beer, and Cider …Groombridge and Sons, 1861. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lipCAQAAMAAJ.
  • Purdue, O., The big house in the north of Ireland: land, power and social elites, 1878-1960(Dublin, 2009). 
  • Richards, E., The Leviathan of Wealth: the Sutherland Fortune in the Industrial Revolution (London, 1973).
  • Rubinstein, W. D., ‘Landed Wealth’ (Chapter 7) from Men of Property: the very wealthy in Britain since the Industrial Revolution (1981). 
  • Thompson, F. M. L. ‘Britain’ (Chapter 2) in Spring, D. (ed.), European Landed Elites in the nineteenth century (1977). 
  • Tindley, A., ‘They sow the wind, they reap the whirlwind:’ estate management in the post-clearance Highlands, c. 1815-c. 1900’Northern Scotland, 3 (2012).
  • Tindley, A., The Sutherland Estates, 1850-1920: aristocratic decline, estate management and land reform (Edinburgh, 2010).

Novels

Nineteenth-century elite: 
  • Trollope, A., The Way We Live Now (London, 1875). 
  • Trollope, A., Vanity Fair
  • Waters, S. The Little Stranger(London, 2009).
  • Wilde, O. The Picture of Dorian Gray

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