General Editors PrefaceList of FiguresA Note on ReferencesIntroduction1. Rural to Urban 1830-1850Ⅰ. A NewWorldⅡ. The Challenge to Thinking2. NatureⅠ. Darwin and the Impact of ScienceⅡ. Cosmologies and Anthropomorphisms: Darwin,Spencer, and RuskinⅢ. Beyond Nature and After Religion: The Future in J. S. Mill and T. H. Huxley3. ReligionⅠ. 1830-1850: Evangelicalism, the Broad Church,and TractarianismⅡ. The Mid-Victorian Change4. MindⅠ.The New Psychology: Psychology as a Branchof ScienceⅡ.Psychology is pre-eminently a philosophical scienceⅢ. Psychology, the Unconscious, and Literature5. Conditions of Literary ProductionⅠ. The Literary Profession, the Book Trade and CultureⅡ. The Rise of ProseⅢ. New Voices6. The Drama7. Debatable Lands: Variety of Form and Genre in the Early Victorian NovelⅠ. Post-Aristocratic: Bulwer-Lytton, Disraeli,and KingsleyⅡ. Post-Aristocratic: Thackeray versus Dickens8. Alternative FictionsⅠ. The Sensation NovelⅡ. Fairy Tales and Fantasies9. High RealismⅠ. Two Novels of the 183os and their LegacyⅡ. Trollope and George Eliot10. Lives and ThoughtsⅠ. Life-WritingⅡ. Writings about Life11. PoetryⅠ. The Form in DifficultiesⅡ. Long Poems and Sequence PoemsⅢ. From May to September: Poetry and BeliefConclusionAuthor BibliograpbiesSuggestions for Further Reading本书迥异于一般文学史写作遵循年代顺序的模式，以对整个社会和思想观念产生深远影响的若干重大主题为线索，分析、归纳和总结了1830-1880年这一历史时期英国文学的特点及成因，此外，书的卷末附有数十位维多利亚作家小传，并介绍了其作品的可靠版本及相关的评论专著。本书史料丰富，见解独到，不仅是颇具特色的文学史，亦可作为通论维多利亚社会历史文化的专著，实为不可多得的上佳之作。摆在读者面前的这部《维多利亚人》，是牛津大学出版社为新世纪策划的十三卷英国文学史系列中的第8卷，也是最早出版的分卷之一。作者大学英文教授菲利普·戴维斯。本书打破了在我国的外国文学教学研究中常见的思维定式，以社会和文化背景为主线，分析、归纳和总结了1830-1880年这一历史时期英国文学的特点及成因。