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．1830-1850: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 1830s 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

1．Francis Galton,Composites ofMembers ofa Family(Reproduced by permission of University College London Library(Galton Papers))

2．Gustave Doré,Under the Viaduct,London,1872(Reproduced from William Blanchard Jerrold,London,A Pilgrimage,1872)

3．Waterhouse Hawkins,Skeletons,1863(Reproduced from T.H.Huxley,Man's Place in Nature,1863)

4．J.M.W.Turner,Rouen from St.Catherine's Hill,c.1832(Reproduced by permission of Agnew's,London)

5．J.Buckley,Revd C.H.Spurgeon,1858(Reproduced from The New Park Street Pulpit,1858)

6．F.Bridges,'Symbolical Chart of Phrenology',c.1848(Reproduced from the Frazer Collection,Sydney Jones Library,University of Liverpool)

7．Frontispiece for The Penny Magazine,1832(Reproduced by permission of the British Library)

8．Pencil portrait of Christina Rossetti by D.G.Rossetti(Reproduced by permission of the Victoria and Albert Museum)

9．(a)Daniel Maclise,Dickens as a young man,1839;(b)R.H.Mason,Charles Dickens,1864-5(Reproduced by permission of(a)the National Portrait Gallery;(b)the Dickens House Museum)

10．John Tenniel,'Alice',1871(Reproduced from Lewis Carroll,Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There(1871),ch.1)

11．Frederic Burton,George Eliot,1865(Reproduced by permission of the National Portrait Gallery)

12．(a)Elliott and Fry,Carlyle,c.1865;(b)Ruskin,Self-Portrait,1874(Reproduced by permission of(a)the National Portrait Gallery;(b)the Ruskin Foundation(Ruskin Library,University of Lancaster))

13．Tennyson,In Memoriam 123,Trinity manuscript(Reproduced by permission of Trinity College,Cambridge)

14．W.Holman Hunt,The Lady of Shalott,1857(？Manchester Art Galleries)

15．A.W.N.Pugin,'Contrasted Crosses',1841(Reproduced from Pugin,Contrasts,1841)