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| List of Plates | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Editors' Preface | ||
| Longman Literature in English Series | ||
| Author's Preface | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| A parvenu civilisation | 1 | |
| The climate of reform | 8 | |
| The parvenu accepted | 14 | |
| Art and society | 16 | |
| Approaching the age | 19 | |
| 1 | The Sense of Time and the Uses of History | 25 |
| Time and autobiography | 25 | |
| Two versions of Victorian historiography: Carlyle and Macaulay | 31 | |
| Usable pasts | 41 | |
| Biblical history | 53 | |
| Pre-history | 58 | |
| 2 | Religion: Reform, Rejection, Reconstruction | 63 |
| Religion in society, 1830-1890 | 65 | |
| Evangelicalism and the Oxford Movement | 71 | |
| Newman and the Church | 81 | |
| The crisis of faith | 85 | |
| The challenge of modernity: Essays and Reviews and Literature and Dogma | 94 | |
| Rejection and return: agnosticism and after | 101 | |
| 3 | Science: Re-Imagining the Universe | 111 |
| Victorian science: the social and institutional framework | 112 | |
| From geology to evolution | 118 | |
| Darwin and Darwinism | 124 | |
| The spread of science | 133 | |
| Conclusion: literature and science | 142 | |
| 4 | The Life of Ideas and the Culture of Politics | 147 |
| The march of mind: Scotch knowledge and English utilitarianism | 149 | |
| John Stuart Mill: the evolution of a Victorian liberal | 155 | |
| The culture of politics | 163 | |
| Democracy, the state, and socialism | 169 | |
| Empire and Utopia | 180 | |
| The politics of gender | 188 | |
| 5 | The Arts in an Industrial Age | 197 |
| Modern Painters and early Victorian aesthetics | 199 | |
| Past and present in Victorian painting: Pre-Raphaelitism and after | 206 | |
| Photography | 218 | |
| Architecture | 223 | |
| Music | 232 | |
| The aesthetic resistance | 235 | |
| Postscript | 244 | |
| Chronology | 247 | |
| General Bibliographies | 262 | |
| Individual Authors | 274 | |
| Notes on biography, major works, and suggested further reading | 274 | |
| Index | 291 |
