- Andrea Levy, Small Island (Picador, 2005). The conjoined fortunes of two families--one Jamaican, one English--in post-WWII England.
- Kate Atkinson, Not the End of the World (Back Bay, 2004). Short stories.
- Graham Swift, The Light of Day (Vintage, 2004). A riff on the detective story.
- Richard Cronin, The Politics of Romantic Poetry: In Search of the Pure Commonwealth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000). Argues that politics and style go hand-in-hand.
- Mary Louise Kete, Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America (Duke, 2000). Expands study of sentimental literature, especially poetry, to cover the contributions of male authors.
- Brandon Taylor, Art for the Nation: Exhibitions and the London Public 1747-2001 (Rutgers, 1999). Emergence of the public museum.
- Elizabeth Prettejohn, ed., After the Pre-Raphaelites: Art and Aestheticism in Victorian England (Rutgers, 1999). "Art for art's sake" (among other things) and its influence on painting.
- Richard Dorment, James McNeill Whistler (Abrams, 1995). Exhibition catalogue.
- Anne Digby, Madness, Morality, and Medicine: A Study of the York Retreat 1796-1914 (Cambridge, 1985). History of the pioneering mental institution, which was operated by the Quakers.
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