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| Introduction | 1 |
Depression after the Napoleonic struggle—Social problems—Spread of democracy—
Popular education—Rise of periodical literature—Physical science—Tractarianism—
Pre-Raphaelitism. |
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| Chapter I. Thomas Carlyle | 12 |
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| Chapter II. Poetry from 1830 to 1850. The Greater Poets: Tennyson and Browning | 36 |
| Introduction—Tennyson’s first period—Browning’s first period |
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| Chapter III. The Minor Poets, 1830 to 1850 | 52 |
Mrs. Hemans and L. E. Landon—Charles Tennyson Turner—Thomas Hood—Laman
Blanchard—Praed—Lord Houghton—R. H. Barham—Hartley Coleridge—Sara
Coleridge—William Motherwell—Henry Taylor—Philip James Bailey—R. H. Horne—
William Barnes—Mangan—Whitehead—Wade—Ebenezer Jones. |
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| Chapter IV. The Earlier Fiction | 68 |
Introduction—Maginn—Lord Lytton—Disraeli—Ainsworth—G. P. R. James—Marryat—
Michael Scott—Warren. |
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| Chapter V. Fiction: The Intermediate Period | 82 |
| Dickens—Thackeray—The BrontËs—Mrs. Gaskell. |
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| Chapter VI. The Historians and Biographers | 109 |
Introduction—Macaulay—Thomas Arnold—Thirlwall—Grote —Milman—Finlay—
Neale—Merivale—Froude—Kinglake —Buckle—Maine—Lockhart—Stanley—Minor
Historians and Biographers. |
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| Chapter VII. Theology and Philosophy | 144 |
Keble—Newman—Pusey—Wilberforce—Maurice—F. W. Robertson—Mark Pattison—
Jowett—Mill—N. W. Senior—J. E. Cairnes—Whewell—Sir W. Hamilton—Ferrier—
Mansel—Harriet Martineau—G. H. Lewes—Sir G. Cornewall Lewis—Herbert Spencer. |
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| Chapter VIII. Science | 175 |
| Introduction—Lyell—Hugh Miller—Robert Chambers—Darwin—A. R. Wallace. |
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| Chapter IX. Criticism, Scholarship, and Miscellaneous Prose | 191 |
Introduction—J. P. Collier—Mrs. Jameson—J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps—Helps—Ruskin—
Matthew Arnold—Dr. John Brown—Rands—George Borrow. |
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| Chapter X. Poetry From 1850 To 1870: the Intellectual Movement | 213 |
Introduction—Matthew Arnold—Clough—Tennyson—Robert Browning—E. B.
Browning—Edward FitzGerald. |
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Chapter XI. Poetry From 1850 To 1870: the Pre-Raphaelites; The Spasmodic School;
Minor Poets | 240 |
D. G. Rossetti—Christina Rossetti—W. E. Aytoun—Dobell—Alexander Smith—Coventry
Patmore—‘Owen Meredith’—Lord de Tabley—William Morris—Minor Poets. |
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| Chapter XII. The Later Fiction | 262 |
Introduction—George Eliot—Mrs. Henry Wood—D. M. Craik—Charles Kingsley—Anthony
Trollope—James Grant—Whyte-Melville—Wilkie Collins—G. A. Lawrence—Charles Reade—
Conclusion. |
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| Chronological Table | 279 |
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| Alphabetical List of Writers | 289 |
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| Index | 295 |
