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First published in 1959. The scope of this four volume work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with another an placing each author clearly in the setting of his time. This is the fourth volume and includes the Nineteeth Century and after (1789-1939).
Chapter 1 The Background of Revolution, Repression, and Reform: 1789–1832; Chapter 2 Romanticism; Chapter 3 William Blake; Chapter 4; Chapter 5 Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Chapter 6 Robert Southey, Walter Savage Landor, and Other Poets; Chapter 7 Reviews and -Magazines: 1802–1830; The Essayists; Chapter 8 Gothic Romance and the Novel of Doctrine; Chapter 9 Jane Austen; Chapter 10 Sir Walter Scott; Chapter 11 Lord Byron; Chapter 12 Percy Bysshe Shelley; Chapter 13 John Keats; Chapter 14 Thomas Hood, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, and Other Poets; Chapter 15 The Drama in Decline; Chapter 16 The Novel Between Scott and Dickens; Chapter 17 The Background: 1832–868 The Progress of Reform; Chapter 18 The Religious Revival and Its Expression in Literature; Chapter 19 The Theory of Evolution and Its Repercussions; Chapter 20 Thomas Carlyle; Chapter 21 Philosophy, History, and Miscellaneous Prose; Chapter 22 John Ruskin; Chapter 23 Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Charles Reade; Chapter 24 Thackeray and Trollope; Chapter 25 Other Novelists of the Mid-Century; Chapter 26 Alfred Tennyson; Chapter 27 The Brownings; Chapter 28 Matthew Arnold and Arthur Hugh Clough; Edward FitzGerald and James Thomson (“B.V.”); Chapter 29 Rossetti and His Circle; Chapter 30 William Morris; Chapter 31 Algernon Charles Swinburne; Chapter 32 The Background: The Victorian Decline (1868–1901) and the Aftermath (1901–1939); Chapter 33 George Meredith; Chapter 34 Thomas Hardy; Chapter 35 Aestheticism and “Decadence”; Chapter 36 The Novel: Naturalism and Romance; Chapter 37 The Irish Literary Renaissance; Chapter 38 Modern Drama; Chapter 39 Other Late-Victorian Poets; Chapter 40 The Modern Novel; Chapter 41 Poetry in the Twentieth Century; Chapter 42 Anthropology; Travel; History; Criticism BOOK IV: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER (1789–1939); Index;
