High Victorian Culture

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-46

3. England

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   Pages 47-121

4. The Menacing World: Dickens, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, and Thackeray

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   Pages 122-217

5. Keeping the Faith: Newman, F. D. Maurice, Tennyson and Trollope

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   Pages 218-298

6. Victorian Intellectuals and their Dilemmas: Mill, Huxley, George Eliot and Matthew Arnold

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   Pages 299-393

7. The Necessity of Art: Browning, Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites

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   Pages 394-477

8. Breaking the Silence: Collins, Meredith and Hardy

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   Pages 478-530

9. Back Matter

   Pages 531-553

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'...an illuminating survey work by a robust and powerful intelligence with an impressive grasp of a great deal of material.' Tony Tanner, The Times Literary Supplement High Victorian Culture is an in-depth study of Victorian Literature and culture in its heyday, from the accession to the throne by Queen Victoria in 1837 to her proclamation as Empress of India in 1877 - the age of Dickens, Carlyle, Mill, George Eliot, Tennyson and Browning. It is a time of growing national self-confidence and of impressive industrial, scientific and literary achievements; yet it is also an age marked by dislocation and uncertainty. Freedom of speech and openness of discussion were values on which Victorians ostensibly prided themselves, yet the actual prospect was one which high victorian culture found deeply troubling.

• Bronte
• Charles Dickens
• culture
• England
• English literature
• George Eliot
• Thomas Hardy
• British and Irish Literature

• University of Sussex, UK

  David Morse

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