Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Rethinking the Victorians / Kelly Boyd and Rohan McWilliam
pt. 1. Periodisation
1. Should we abandon the idea of the Victorian period? / Richard Price
pt. 2. Economy
2. Can culture explain economic decline? / Martin Wiener
3. Gentlemanly capitalism / P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins
pt. 3. Consumerism and material culture
4. Women and the department store / Erika Rappaport
5. Clothing the middle-class male / Christopher Breward
pt. 4. Society and class
6. The fall of class / Patrick Joyce
7. Representing the Manchester Irish / Mary Poovey


pt. 5. Space
8. Public spaces in the Victorian city / Simon Gunn
pt. 6. Politics high and low
9. Liberalism and government / Jonathan Parry
10. Radicalism, language and class / Gareth Stedman Jones
11. Gender and radicalism / Anna Clark
pt. 7. Morality
12. In defence of the Victorians / Gertrude Himmelfarb
pt. 8. Intellectual history
13. Character and the Victorian mind / Stefan Collini
pt. 9. Religion
14. Religion, doctrine and public policy / Boyd Hilton
15. How religious was Victorian Britain? / Callum Brown
pt. 10. Science
16. Evolution before Darwin / Adrian Desmond
17. Domesticating evolution / James A. Secord
18. Darwin's imagination / Gillian Beer
19. Science and popular culture / Alison Winter


pt. 11. Gender and the family
20. Separate spheres / Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall
21. Men and domesticity / John Tosh
22. Working-class family strategies / Ellen Ross
pt. 12. Sexuality
23. Working-class sexuality / Michael Mason
24. The meaning of the prostitute / Lynda Nead
25. Jack the Ripper and the doctors / Judith Walkowitz
26. Homosexuality and late Victorian anxiety / Elaine Showalter
27. Sexuality and the pub / Peter Bailey
pt. 13. Monarchy
28. Restoring the popularity of the monarchy / John Plunkett
pt. 14. Race, empire and national identity
29. Bringing the empire back in / Catherine Hall
Index.