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Index
Contents
About the Book
About the Author
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgements
Preface
Prologue: Dr Arnold of Rugby
Part One: The Condition of England
1. The Angry Forties: Poverty, Agitation and Riot
2. Noblesse Oblige: Politics and the Aristocracy
3. The Ascent of the Bourgeoisie: Radicalism and the End of the Corn Laws
4. Chartism: The Rise of Working-class Politics
Part Two: The Victorian Mind
5. The Godly Mind: National Apostasy and the Victorian Church
6. The Doubting Mind: Struggles in the Sea of Faith
7. The Rational Mind: Intellectuals and the Growth of Secularism
8. The Political Mind: High Principle and Low Ambition
9. The Progressive Mind: The Great Exhibition and Its Legacy
10. The Heroic Mind: Albert and the Cult of the Great Man
Part Three: The Transformation of Britain
11. The Leap in the Dark: Reform and the Coming of Democracy
12. Broadening Minds: The Battle for Education
13. The End of Privilege: Inventing the Meritocracy
14. The Rights of Women: Divorce, the Vote and Education
Part Four: The Birth of the Modern
15. The Pursuit of Perfection: Victorian Intellectuals and the New Britain
16. Doing Good: Philanthropists and the Humane Impulse
17. The Way We Live Now: The Creation of the Victorian City
18. A Glimpse of the Gothic: Founding a National Style
19. The Reforming Mind: Parliament and the Advance of Civilisation
Epilogue
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Picture Acknowledgements
Picture Section
Copyright
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