Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction “A Revolution in Female Manners”: Capital,Culture and Gender in the Victorian Novel Chapter One Body Politics and Marriage Redeemed:Spaces of Capital in Mary Barton (1848), North and South (1855), and Shirley (1849) Helen,Cenci,and Frankenstein in Mary Barton North and South:A Heroine“Walking in the City” Spaces of Utopia in Shirley Chapter Two “Between Two Worlds”: Mediating Between Culture and Capital in Felix Holt (1866) and Middlemarch (1872) Capitalist Totality and Material Culture The Man 0f Culture as the Ideal Husband “Address to Middle-Class Women,bv George Eliot” The Companionate Marriage as the Consummation ofAcCUIturation Chapter Three Marriage and Its Discontents: Invading Capital and the Failure of National Culture in The Return of the Native (1878) and Jude the Obscure (1895) Capitalist Colonization in Wessex and the Hegemony of Capitalist Patriarchy Dreams and Commodities:The Bankruptcy of Arnoldian Culture in Wessex The Return or the Native:The Heroine and the Capitalist Contract Marriage and/as Work:The Dissolution of Marriage in Jude the Obscure Coda Reading Credit and Colony as Alternative Spaces ofEngenderment in Vanity Fair(1848) Notes Wvrks Cited