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
