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Tables of Contents for The Nineteenth Century
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of plates
xi
List of contributors
xiii
Introduction: the United Kingdom and the Victorian century, 1815--1901
1
1
Colin Matthew
Britain's moment in world history: progress and caution
2
1
The first industrial nation: work and discipline
3
4
Commodities and ownership
7
1
1851: the achievement of balance
8
1
Free trade, civilization, and cooperation
9
2
Established churches, the parish, and welfare
11
1
London: an imperial city?
12
2
A United Kingdom: unity and pluralism
14
1
Differing views of the Union: politics and history
15
2
Disunited nationalisms and the uses of history
17
5
The weather
22
3
Photography
25
1
Political narratives
26
1
Race and the Victorians
27
2
Free movement and free speech
29
1
The empire, sport, and middle-class education
30
3
The working classes and `advancement'
33
1
Universities
34
2
The nineteenth century in perspective
36
5
Society and economic life
41
44
Martin Daunton
The `stationary state': the limits on growth in the early nineteenth century
43
5
Remaking economic policy
48
3
Breaking the bonds: growth in the second half of the nineteenth century
51
5
Consumption and recreation
56
6
Pollution and death
62
4
Marriage, sexuality, and births
66
4
Poverty and welfare
70
4
The nature of an industrial economy
74
4
Debating British economic performance
78
7
Public life and politics
85
50
Colin Matthew
Railways and a national community
85
3
Sport and national life
88
3
Reform and political integration: franchises and the political community, 1815--1901
91
7
At the limits of integration: radicals, workers, Irish, and women
98
6
The Union and the nations
104
2
`A nation of public speakers' (The Times, 23 October 1873)
106
2
Party ideologies, traditions, and governments: Tories and Whigs, 1815--52
108
4
Peelites, Liberals, Whigs, and Tories, 1852--74
112
4
Tories, Liberals, Liberal Unionists, 1874--1901
116
3
Late-Victorian politics
119
1
Monarchy and the monarchs
120
5
The Cabinet and the civil service
125
2
Government expenditure, welfare, and taxation
127
5
`A kindlier people?
132
3
The empire and the world
135
28
Andrew Porter
The pattern of expansion
136
6
Modes of imperial control
142
5
Empire and the diffusion of British culture
147
5
External challenges to the British position
152
3
The defence of Britain's position
155
8
Gender, domesticity, and sexual politics
163
32
Janet Howarth
The origins of Victorian domestic ideology
164
1
Malthusianism and sexual morality
165
2
Separate spheres and domesticity
167
3
The male-breadwinner family and women's employment
170
3
Gender and politics
173
5
The woman question and the origins of the women's movement
178
3
Family law
181
1
Education
182
3
Prostitution
185
2
Women's suffrage
187
2
Patriarchy reaffirmed?---biology and empire
189
1
Masculinity and late-Victorian sexual politics
190
5
Religious and intellectual life
195
34
Jane Garnett
Interpretative approaches
196
4
Religious and intellectual contexts
200
14
the thinking public
200
3
religious groups
203
7
education
210
4
Religious and intellectual paradigms
214
15
reason and faith: doubt and hypothesis
214
8
past, present, and future
222
7
Literature, music, and the theatre
229
26
Kate Flint
Literature: contexts, narratives, and issues of identity
230
9
Welsh, Scottish, and Irish writing
239
5
Theatre: melodrama and modernity
244
3
Music and nationhood
247
4
Subjectivity, multiplicity, and the fin-de-siecle
251
4
Cities, architecture, and art
255
38
Andrew Saint
Cities
255
2
Architecture
257
17
urban housing
257
4
public parks
261
1
classicism
262
3
the Gothic Revival
265
3
the English house
268
3
the legacy of engineering
271
3
Art
274
19
painting
274
3
history painting
277
3
painters of modern life
280
2
late-Victorian painting
282
2
patronage and museums
284
2
sculpture
286
2
the applied arts
288
5
Conclusion: fin-de-siecle
293
7
Colin Matthew
Further Reading
300
6
Chronology
306
21
Maps
327
2
Index
329