1. Walter Pater, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, ed. Donald L. Hill (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1980), pp. 186–7.
2. See Lyn Pykett, ‘The Material Turn in Victorian Studies’, Literature Compass, 1 (2004), 1–5.
3. Asa Briggs, Victorian Things (London: Batsford, 1988), pp. 14, 12.
4. See Thomas Richards, The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851–1914 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990);
5. Andrew Miller, Novels behind Glass: Commodity, Culture, and Victorian Narrative (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).