General Editor’s PrefaceList of FiguresA Note on ReferencesIntroduction1. Rural to Urban 1830-1850 I. A New World II. The Challenge to Thinking2. Nature I. Darwin and the Impact of Science II. Cosmologies and Anthropomorphisms: Darwin, Spencer, and Ruskin III. Beyond Nature and After Religion: The Future in J.S. Mill and T. H. Huxley3. Religion I. 1830-1850: Evangelicalism, the Broad Church, and Tractarianism II. The Mid-Victorian Change4. Mind I. 'The New Psychology': Psychology as a Branch of Science II. 'Psychology is pre-eminently a philosophical science' III. Psychology, the Unconscious, and Literature5. Conditions of Literary Production I. The Literary Profession, the Book Trade and Culture II. The Rise of Prose III. New Voices6. The Drama7. Debatable Lands: Variety of Form and Genre in the Early Victorian Novel I. Post-Aristocratic: Bulwer-Lytton, Disraeli, and Kingsley II. Post-Aristocratic: Thackeray versus Dickens8. Alterative Fiction I. The Sensation Novel II. Fairy Tales and Fantasies9. High Realism I. Two Novels of the 1830s and their Legacy II. Trollope and George Eliot10. Lives and Thoughts I. Life-Writing II. Writing about Life11. Poetry I. The Form in Difficulties II. Long Poems and Sequence Poems III. From May to September: Poetry and BeliefConclusionAuthor BibliographiesSuggestions for Further ReadingIndex