目錄
General Editor's Preface
List of Figures
A Note on References
Introduction
1. Rural to Urban 1830-1850
I. A New World
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. x 8 3 o-x 8 5 o: Evangelicalism, the Broad Church,and Tractarianism
II. The Mid-Victorian Change
4. Mind
I. 'The New Psychology': Psychology as a Branch of 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 18 3 os 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 Bibliographies
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
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