The Cambridge Cultural History: Volume 7, Victorian Britain  19827

Part I: The Social and Cultural Setting

• The Later Victorian Age  Asa Briggs[rtoc]
  • The reign in review
    • Vantage points
    • The three parts of the reign
    • Late-Victorian
    • Victorian critics of Victorianism
    • Changing assessments
  • Tendencies and trends
    • The sense of change
    • The growth of population and wealth
    • Cities and countryside
    • The provinces
    • London
    • Communications
    • Political change
    • Cultural change
    • Education and the Forster Act
    • The arts
    • Epilogue[/rtoc]

Part II: Studies in the individual arts

1. Architecture  John Summerson[rtoc]
   • Three Gothic architects
   • Richard Norman Shaw
   • The nineties
   • Architecture, industry and commerce[/rtoc]
2. The Public Park  Jacques Carré[rtoc]
3. Literature  John Holloway
   • Charles Dickens’s later novels
   • George Eliot and the web of provincial society
   • Victorian sages and improvers
   • Robert Browning, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and the individualising imagination
   • Anthony Trollope and Henry James: invention … insight
   • Thomas Hardy and the rural tradition[/rtoc]
4. The Drama of Oscar Wilde and Arthur Wing Pinero  George Rowell[rtoc]
5. New Homes for Barons and Artisans  John Nelson Tarn
6. Fine Arts  Peter Fuller[rtoc]
   • Introduction: high and low art in the Victorian era
   • Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelites
   • George Frederick Watts: beyond Pre-Raphaelitism
   • Alfred Gilbert and the revival of Victorian sculpture
   • Revaluations: the nineteenth century in the twentieth[/rtoc]
7. The City of Glasgow  Andor Gomme
8. Design, Craft and Industry  Gillian Naylor[rtoc]
   • The spirit of improvement and the use of the machine
   • Evocations of the past
   • Augustus Pugin and ‘True Principles’
   • The Great Exhibition and the Schools of Design
   • Gottfried Semper: design as an evolutionary process
   • Christopher Dresser and commercial design
   • John Ruskin and ‘the true function of the workman’
   • William Morris and colleagues
   • The consolidation of the crafts
   • Institutionalising the crafts[/rtoc]
9. The Eisteddfod  William Price
10. Music  Michael Kennedy[rtoc]
    • Thomas Attwood Walmisley and Samuel Sebastian Wesley
    • Operas and concerts
    • August Manns and Charles Hallé
    • Arthur Sullivan’s supremacy
    • George Grove and the new College
    • Charles Villiers Stanford, Hubert Parry and Alexander Mackenzie
    • Bernard Shaw, Antonin Dvorak and Henry Wood
    • The advent of Edward Elgar[/rtoc]
11. Clowns and Augustes  Roly Bain

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