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;