The Literature of the Victorian Era (Paperback)

Introduction: 1. The new age; 2. The German influence: Thomas Carlyle; Part I. Speculative Thought: 3. Theology; 4. Philosophy; 5. Science; Part II. Creative Art; Section 1. Poetry: 6. The Interregnum in poetry; 7. The new kings: Tennyson and Browning; 8. The minor poets: earlier period; 9. Tennyson; 10. Browning; 11. The turn of the century: new influences; 12. Later developments; Section 2. Prose Fiction: 13. After Scott; 14. Dickens and Thackeray; 15. The women novelists; 16. The later fiction; Part III. Et Cetera: 17. History and biography; 18. Literary and aesthetic criticism; 19. Miscellaneous prose; Index.