1. Duras, M., 1987, La Vie matérielle. Translated from the French by B. Bray as Practicalities, 1990. London: Harper Collins
2. During, S., 2010. Completing secularism: the mundane in the neoliberal era. In: M. Warner, J. Van Antwerpen and C.J. Calhoun, eds. Varieties of secularism in a secular age. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
3. Dyer, G., 2010. Alan Hollinghurst: the line of beauty. Working the room: essays and reviews 1999–2010. Edinburgh: Canongate.
4. Eastman, A., 2006. Inoperative Ironies: Jamesian Aestheticism and Post-modern culture in Alan Hollinghurst’s the line of beauty. Textual Practice 20 (3), pp. 509–527.
5. Edel, L. ed., 1984. The letters of Henry James, volume 4: 1895–1916. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.