Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society (Hardcover)

Preface
1. Beyond the Panopticon: The Critical Challenge of a Liberal Society
2. Making the Working Man Like Me: Charity, the Novel, and the New Poor Law
3. Is There a Pastor in the House? Sanitary Reform and Governing Agency in Dickens's Midcentury Fiction
4. An Officer and a Gentleman: Civil Service Reform and the Early Career of Anthony Trollope
5. A Riddle without an Answer: Character and Education in Our Mutual Friend
6. Dueling Pastors, Dueling Worldviews
Epilogue: Social Security
Notes
Works Cited
Index