Useful material on The Beetle includes the following books and articles (list in progress):

Stephen Arata, Fictions of Loss in Victorian Fin de Siecle Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Nicholas Daly, Modernism, romance and the fin de siecle : popular fiction and British culture, 1880-1914 Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Regenia Gagnier, "Productive Bodies, Pleasured Bodies: On Victorian Aesthetics" in Schaffer, Talia and Psomiades, Kathy Alexis (eds.) Women and British Aestheticism Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1999.

Kelly Hurley, The Gothic Body: sexuality, materialism, and degeneration at the fin de siecle Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.