Victor Shea is Associate Professor of Humanities and English at York University, Canada. He holds degrees from University of Prince Edward Island, University of Toronto, and York University. His research interests include Victorian culture and literature, British Empire and imperialism, American Studies, and literary theory. With William Whitla, he is co-editor of Essays and Reviews: The 1860 Text and its Readings (2000) and co-author of Foundations: Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing (2^nd edition, 2005).

William Whitla is Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar in English and Humanities at York University, Canada. He holds degrees from University of Toronto, TrinityCollege, and University of Oxford. His research interests include Victorian culture and literature, literary theory, and interdisciplinary studies in medieval and Renaissance studies. He is the author of The English Handbook: A Guide to Literary Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). With Victor Shea, he is co-editor of Essays and Reviews: The 1860 Text and its Readings (2000) and co-author of Foundations: Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing (2^nd edition, 2005).

List of Plates and Illustrations xlii
Preface xlv
Abbreviations li
Introduction 1
Part one Contexts 19
The Condition of England 21
1. The Victorian Social Formation 27
2. Education and Mass Literacy 37
3. Progress, Industrialization, and Reform 18
4. Working-Class Voices 45
5. Pollution, Protection, and Preservation 61
Gender, Women, and Sexuality 49
1. Constructing Genders 56
2. The Woman Question 68
3. Sex and Sexuality 84
Literature and the Arts 81
1. Debates about Literature 87
2. Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, and Decadence 98
3. Literature and New Technologies 144
3.1 Book Publishing 144
3.2 Aural Culture 152
3.3 Photography and Cinema 161
Religion and Science 113
1. Geology and Evolution 122
2. Religious Faith and Uncertainty 196
Empire 142
1. Celebration and Criticism 148
2. Governing the Colonies 166
2.1 India 166
2.2 White Colonies and Dependencies 229
2.3 Ireland 234
2.4 Africa 245
3. Imperial Travellers 254
Part Two Authors 181
Walter Savage Landor (1775 - 1864) 183
Charlotte Elliott (1789 - 1871) 185
John Keble (1792 - 1866) 186
Felicia Hemans (1793 - 1835) 190
Janet Hamilton (1795 - 1873) 198
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) 200
Maria Smith Abdy (1797 - 1867) 210
Mary Howitt (1799 - 1888) 212
Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845) 216
Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799 - 1872) 222
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 59) 225
John Henry Newman (1801 - 90) 230
William Barnes (1801 - 86) 239
Harriet Martineau (1802 - 76) 244
L. E. L. [Letitia Elizabeth Landon] (1802 - 38) 248
Elizabeth Duncan Campbell (1804 - 78) 258
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 61) 266
John Stuart Mill (1806 - 73) 272
Caroline Norton (1808 - 77) 285
Charles Darwin (1809 - 82) 293
Edward FitzGerald (1809 - 83) 301
Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 92) 318
Robert Browning (1812 - 89) 420
Edward Lear (1812 - 88) 451
Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904) 455
Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 55) 457
Grace Aguilar (1816 - 47) 464
Edwin Waugh (1817 - 90) 467
Emily Jane Brontë (1818 - 48) 470
Eliza Cook (1818 - 89) 477
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819 - 61) 479
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) 484
Queen Victoria (1819 - 1901) 506
George Eliot (1819 - 80) 509
Anne Brontë (1820 - 49) 511
Jean Ingelow (1820 - 97) 516
Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) 518
Dora Greenwell (1821 - 82) 529
Matthew Arnold (1822 - 88) 532
Coventry Patmore (1823 - 96) 564
Sydney Dobell (1824 - 74) 572
William Topaz McGonagall (1825 - 1902) 574
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 - 1895) 578
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825 - 64) 583
Eliza Harriet Keary (1827 - 1918) 588
Samuel Laycock (1826 - 93) 591
Emily Pfeiffer (1827 - 90) 594
Ellen Johnston (c.1827 - 74) 598
George Meredith (1828 - 1909) 605
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82) 606
Gerald Massey (1828 - 1907) 628
Elizabeth Siddal (1829 - 62) 631
Christina Rossetti (1830 - 94) 634
Lewis Carroll (1832 - 98) 671
William Morris (1834 - 96) 679
James Thomson [B. V.] (1834 - 82) 700
William Schwenck Gilbert (1836 - 1911) 720
Augusta Webster (1837 - 94) 729
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909) 746
Walter Horatio Pater (1839 - 94) 759
Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) 769
Mathilde Blind (1841 - 96) 776
Violet Fane (1843 - 1905) 779
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 89) 783
Louisa Sarah Bevington (1845 - 95) 806
Marion Bernstein (1846 - 1906) 810
Michael Field [Katharine Harris Bradley (1846 - 1914) and Edith Cooper (1862 - 1913)] 815
Alice Meynell (1847 - 1922) 830
William Hurrell Mallock (1849 - 1923) 833
William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903) 836
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 94) 843
Arthur Clement Hilton (1851 - 77) 849
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) 850
John Davidson (1857 - 1909) 857
Constance Naden (1858 - 89) 861
A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936) 869
Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907) 880
Rosamund Marriott Watson (1860 - 1911) 885
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861 - 1907) 892
Amy Levy (1861 - 89) 897
Henry Newbolt (1862 - 1938) 903
Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945) 909
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) 914
Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) 918
Lionel Johnson (1867 - 1902) 926
Ernest Dowson (1867 - 1900) 929
Charlotte Mew (1869 - 1928) 934
Appendix 1: Money and Banking 503
Appendix 2: Nineteenth-Century British Timelines 504
Further Reading 505
Index of Authors and Titles 514
Index of Authors and Titles 941

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