From Dickens to Hardy

General Introduction: BORIS FORD 7

PART I
NOICS on the Victorian Scene: G. D. K LING 0 P UL OS II
The Dtnnocratic Experiment — Expansion and Its Conse-
quences — Self-help — Utílitarianism: tize Menning of
Plvson, Gradgrind, Bounderby F7 Bulstrode — The Per-
ment of Social Ideals — Liberty, Amarchy, and Culture —
Religion and the Challenge of Expansion — Reactions
againsr Liberalism ín Religion — Literacy and Humanism

PART II
The Literary Scene: G. D. KLINGOPULOS 59
Victorian Literature — The Poetry — The Novel — Other
Prose — 11w Drama

PART III
Charles Dickens: R. C. CHURCHILL II9
Society in Thackeray and Trollope: SEYMOUR BETSKY 144
The Early Victorian Social-Problern Novel:
ARNOLD KETTLE 169
The Reviews and Magazines: R. G. COX 188
The Victorian Reading Public: R. K. WEBB 205
Thc Poetry of Tennyson: ROBIN MAYHEA D 227
Robert Browning: L. G. SALINGAR 245
Thc Brouti SiStúrS and Wutherffig DEREK TRAVERSI 256
George Eliot in Middlemarch: QUENTIN ANDERSON 274


The Voice of Prophecy: Carlyle and Ruskin:
E. D. MACKERNESS 294
Matthew Arnold: J. D. JUMP 309
George Meredith: Novelist: E. N. LEES 324
Three Autobiographical Novelists: R. C. CHURCHILL 338
Pre-Raphaelite Poetry: w. w. ROBSON 352
Gcrard Manley Hopkins: F. N. LEES 371
The Last Phase: A. E. RODWAY 385
Hardy's Tales Ancien and Modern: G. D. KLINGOPuLos 406
Aspects of Victorian Architecture:
CHARLES HANDLEY-READ 420

PART W
COMPILED BY JOY GROOMBRIDGE
Appendix:
For Further Reading and Reference 443
Authors and Works 462
Index 503