Outlines of Victorian Literature (Paperback)

Part I. Carlyle and the Systematic Thinkers: 1. Carlyle; 2. The theologians; 3. The philosophers; 4. Science; Part II. Poetry: 5. Some pre-Victorian poets; 6. Tennyson; 7. Browning; 8. Minor singers; 9. The turn of the century; 10. The later Pre-Raphaelites; 11. The Celtic poets; 12. The remaining poets; Part III. Novels and Novelists: 13. The successors of Scott; 14. Dickens; 15. Thackeray; 16. Women novelists; 17. Contemporaries of Dickens and Thackeray; 18. George Meredith; 19. Other story-tellers; 20. R. L. Stevenson; 21. Stories for children; Part IV. The Historians: 22. The revolution in the writing of history; 23. Students of the origins; 24. Ancient history; 25. Hallam and Macaulay; 26. Froude; 27. The Oxford group; 28. The philosophical historians; 29. Military history; Part V. Biography and Criticism: 30. The biographers; 31. The Edinburgh critics; 32. Leigh Hunt and De Quincey; 33. Matthew Arnold; 34. Brown, Stephen and Henley; 35. The criticism of art; Part VI. The Fragments that Remain: 36. Landor and minor writers; 37. Travel and geography; 38. Oscar Wilde; Index.