Knowing the past: Victorian literature and culture

Introduction: Knowing the Victorians / Suzy Anger

I. Theorizing the Victorians

1. Text vs. Hypertext: Seeing the Victorian Object as in Itself It Really Is / Gerhard Joseph

2. Golden Bough and the Unknowable / Christopher Herbert

3. Daniel Deronda: A New Epistemology / George Levine

II. Victorians Theorizing

4. Walter Pater's Impressionism and the Form of Historical Revival / Carolyn Williams

5. Arnold and the Authorization of Criticism / Herbert F. Tucker

6. Aesthetics, Ethics, and Unreadable Acts in George Eliot / Jonathan Loesberg

III. Continuities

7. Structure of Anxiety in Political Economy and Hard Times / Mary Poovey

8. How to Be a Benefactor without Any Money: The Chill of Welfare in Great Expectations / Bruce Robbins

9. Tracking the Sentimental Eye / Judith Stoddart

IV. Victorian Meanings

10. Knowing and Telling in Dickens's Retrospects / Rosemarie Bodenheimer

11. Inside the Shark's Mouth: William Lovett's Struggle for Political Language / Margery Sabin

12. Knowing a Life: Edith Simcox - Sat est vixisse? / Gillian Beer.