Chapter 1

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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The Novel of Manners

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Marriage, Money, and Social Status

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Irony and Free Indirect Discourse

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The role and education of women in the 19th Century

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Chapter 2

Victorian Fiction: Charles Dickens

Hard Times or Oliver Twist

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Utilitarianism and the Industrial Critique

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Social Realism and Caricature

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Childhood, Education, and Poverty

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Serialization and the Victorian reading public

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Chapter 3

Victorian Fiction: The Brontës

Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre

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Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights

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The Victorian Gothic and the Byronic Hero

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Female Independence, Passion, and Restraint

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Madness and the 'Madwoman in the Attic'

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Chapter 4

Victorian Poetry: Tennyson and Browning

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: 'Ulysses', 'The Lady of Shalott'

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Robert Browning: 'My Last Duchess', 'Porphyria's Lover'

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The Dramatic Monologue form

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Crisis of Faith vs Victorian Imperialism

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Art, Morality, and Psychological complexity

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Chapter 5

Late Victorian Literature

Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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Christina Rossetti: 'Goblin Market'

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Determinism, Fate, and the Fallen Woman

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Pre-Raphaelite Aesthetics

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Decadence and the transition to Modernism

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