General Editor's Preface

List of Figures

A Note on References

Introduction

1. Rural to Urban 1830-1850

Ⅰ. A NewWorld

Ⅱ. The Challenge to Thinking

2. Nature

Ⅰ. Darwin and the Impact of Science

Ⅱ. Cosmologies and Anthropomorphisms: Darwin,Spencer, and Ruskin

Ⅲ. Beyond Nature and After Religion: The Future in J. S. Mill and T. H. Huxley

3. Religion

Ⅰ. 1830-1850: Evangelicalism, the Broad Church,and Tractarianism

Ⅱ. The Mid-Victorian Change

4. Mind

Ⅰ.'The New Psychology': Psychology as a Branchof Science

Ⅱ.'Psychology is pre-eminently a philosophical science'

Ⅲ. Psychology, the Unconscious, and Literature

5. Conditions of Literary Production

Ⅰ. The Literary Profession, the Book Trade and Culture

Ⅱ. The Rise of Prose

Ⅲ. New Voices

6. The Drama

7. Debatable Lands: Variety of Form and Genre in the Early Victorian Novel

Ⅰ. Post-Aristocratic: Bulwer-Lytton, Disraeli,and Kingsley

Ⅱ. Post-Aristocratic: Thackeray versus Dickens

8. Alternative Fictions

Ⅰ. The Sensation Novel

Ⅱ. Fairy Tales and Fantasies

9. High Realism

Ⅰ. Two Novels of the 183os and their Legacy

Ⅱ. Trollope and George Eliot

10. Lives and Thoughts

Ⅰ. Life-Writing

Ⅱ. Writings about Life

11. Poetry

Ⅰ. The Form in Difficulties

Ⅱ. Long Poems and Sequence Poems

Ⅲ. From May to September: Poetry and Belief

Conclusion

Author Bibliograpbies

Suggestions for Further Reading

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