A History of Victorian Literature by Adams, James Eli -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Series page Title page Copyright page Preface Note on Citations Introduction: Locating Victorian Literature

Byron is Dead Cultural Contexts The Literary Field An Age of Prose The Situation of Poetry Victorian Theater The Novel After Scott

1 “The Times are Unexampled”: Literature in the Age of Machinery, 1830–1850

Constructing the Man of Letters The Burdens of Poetry Theater in the 1830s Fiction in the Early 1830s Dickens and the Forms of Fiction Poetry after the Annuals Literature of Travel History and Heroism Social Crisis and the Novel The Domestic Ideal From Silver-Fork to Farce Poetry in the Early 1840s The Literature of Labor Medievalism “The Two Nations” “What’s Money After All?” Romance and Religion The Novel of Development Art, Politics, and Faith In Memoriam

2 Crystal Palace and Bleak House: Expansion and Anomie, 1851–1873

The Novel and Society Crimea and the Forms of Heroism Empire Spasmodics and Other Poets The Power of Art Realisms Two Guineveres Sensation Dreams of Self-Fashioning Narrating Nature: Darwin Novels and their Audiences Literature for Children Poetry in the Early 1860s Criticism and Belief The Pleasures of the Difficult The Hellenic Tradition Domesticity, Politics, Empire, and the Novel After Dickens The Persistence of Epic Poisonous Honey and Fleshly Poetry

3 The Rise of Mass Culture and the Specter of Decline, 1873–1901

Science, Materialism, and Value Twilight of the Poetic Titans The Decline of the Marriage Plot The Aesthetic Movement Aesthetic Poetry Life-Writing Morality and the Novel Romance Regionalism The Arrival of Kipling Fiction and the Forms of Belief Sex, Science, and Danger Fictions of the Artist Decadence Drama in the 1880s The New Woman in Fiction Decadent Form The Poetry of London Yeats The Scandal of Wilde Poetry After Wilde Fictions of Decline Conrad

Epilogue Works Cited Index