1. Things to Read About When Thinking About Things.
Appadurai, Arjun, ed. (1988). The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Armstrong, Isobel (2008). Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Baudrillard, Jean (2005). The System of Objects. London: Verso.
Benedict, Barbara M. (2007). ‘Encounters with the Object: Advertisements, Time, and Literary
Discourse in the Early Eighteenth-Century Thing-Poem.’ Eighteenth-Century Studies, 40, 193-207
Bennett, Jane (2004). ‘The Force of Things: Steps toward an Ecology of Matter.’ Political Theory, 32
(2004), 347-372
----------------- (2010). Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham NC: Duke University
Press.
Blackwall, Mark (2004). The Secret Life of Things: Animals, Objects, and It-Naratives in Eighteenth-
Century. Lewisburg: Associated University Presses.
Brown, Bill (2001). ‘Thing Theory’ Critical Inquiry, 28, 1-22.
-------------- (2003). A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press.
-------------- (2010). ‘Objects, Others, and Us (The Refabrication of Things)’, Critical Inquiry, 36, 183-
217.
Candlin, Fiona, and Raiford Guins, eds. (2009). The Object Reader. London: Routledge.
Connor, Steven (2010). ‘Thinking Things.’ Textual Practice, 24 (2010): 1-20. Extended version online
at http://www.stevenconnor.com/thinkingthings/thinkingthings.pdf
-------------------- (2011). Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things. London: Profile.
Coyne, Richard (2010). The Tuning of Place: Sociable Spaces and Pervasive Digital Media. Cambridge
MA: MIT Press.
Daston, Lorraine, ed. (2004). Things That Talk: Object Lessons From Art and Science. New York: Zone
Books.
Heidegger, Martin (1971). ‘The Thing.’ In Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter. New
York, Harper & Row,
Ingham, Patricia Clare (2009). ‘Little Nothings: The Squire’s Tale and the Ambition of Gadgets.’
Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 31, pp. 53-80
Keller, Kurt Dauer (2005). ‘The Corporeal Order of Things: The Spiel of Usability.’ Human Studies, 28,
173-204

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Lacan, Jacques (1992). The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan. Ed.
Jacques-Alain Miller. Book VII. Trans. Dennis Porter. London: Tavistock/Routledge,
Lamb, Jonathan (2004). ‘The Crying of Lost Things.’ ELH, 71, 949–67.
Latour, Bruno (1993). We Have Never Been Modern. Trans. Catherine Porter. New York and London:
Harvester Wheatsheaf.
---------------- (2008). Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
----------------- and Peter Weibel, ed. (2005). Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy.
Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
Markovits, Stefanie (2010). ‘Form Things: Looking at Genre through Victorian Diamonds.’ Victorian
Studies, 52 591-619
Miller, Daniel (2008). The Comfort of Things. Cambridge: Polity Press.
----------------- (2009). Stuff. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Osborne, Katherine Dunagan (2010). ‘Inherited Emotions: George Eliot and the Politics of
Heirlooms.’ Nineteenth-Century Literature, 64, 465-493.
Schwenger, Peter (2006). The Tears of Things: Melancholy and Physical Objects. Minneapolis and
London: University of Minnesota Press.
Plotz, John (2005). ‘Can the Sofa Speak? A Look at Thing Theory.’ *Review Article+. Criticism, 1, 109-
18.
------------- (2008). Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton
University Press.
Elsner, John and Roger Cardinal, eds. (1994). Cultures of Collecting. London: Reaktion.
Tenner, Edward (1996). When Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended
Consequences. New York: Knopf.
Turkle, Sherry, ed. (2007) Evocative Objects: Things We Think With. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
----------------------- (2008). The Inner History of Devices. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
----------------------- (2008). Falling for Science: Objects in Mind. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
Wall, Cynthia Sundberg (2006). The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth
Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.