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Tables of Contents for Victorian People and Ideas
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
The Longest Reign (1837--1901)
1
16
Romantic Heritage and Regency Twilight
1
10
The Crystal Palace and After
11
6
The Victorians: Actors and Audience
17
56
An Evolving Society
17
3
The Aristocracy
20
5
The Gentry and the Middle Class
25
8
``The Lower Orders''
33
5
Factory and Slum
38
12
``The Weaker Sex''
50
9
The Reading Public
59
5
The Power of the Press
64
9
The Spirit of the Age: Time, Place, and Change
73
41
The Coming of Railways and Cities
73
8
The Rising Tide of Democracy
81
15
The New Sense of Time
96
10
Progress?
106
8
The Utilitarian Spirit
114
51
Benthamism
114
6
Political Economy
120
8
Laissez Faire and the Sacredness of Property
128
11
The Benthamite Legacy
139
3
Socialism
142
23
The Evangelical Temper
165
38
The Middle-Class Ethos
165
9
Respectability and Other Virtues
174
5
Humanitarianism and the Reformation of Manners
179
6
Conformity and Insularity
185
5
Literature and ``Circulating Library Morality''
190
13
Religious Movements and Crises
203
35
High Church, Low Church, Broad Church
203
5
The Oxford Movement
208
11
The Higher Criticism and ``the Testimony of the Rocks''
219
7
The Darwinian Crisis
226
6
The Alternatives to Faith
232
6
Democracy, Industry, and Culture
238
31
Machines and the Spirit of Man
238
8
``The March of Mind''
246
9
Self-Help
255
4
Science in the New Society
259
3
The State and the Clerisy
262
7
The Nature of Art and Its Place in Society
269
30
Art and the Middle-Class Mind
269
9
The Victorian Artist
278
3
Society Redeemed by Art
281
7
The Pre-Raphaelites
288
3
The Primacy of Art
291
8
Progress of A Reputation
299
11
The Anti-Victorian Reaction
299
4
Recovery
303
7
Chronology
310
8
Sources of Quotations from Modern Books
318
2
Other Books to Read
320
4
Index
324